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* Murdoc Niccals from the band [[Gorillaz]]
* [[Esham]] strongly exhibits this in his lyrics, going as far as to call himself "Black Hitler" at one point. According to some of his fans and former associates, he exhibits this in real life as well.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Mr.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1ncADC9KM Douchebag.]
 
== [[Mythology]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Warhammer 40 K40000]] is subject to [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] this trope, namely the Marines Malevolent, who are all a bunch of arrogant, prideful bunch that doesn't care for the lives of the average imperial citizen, claiming they are superior to these citizens. And they are loyalists, too. Needless to say, that kind of behavior triggered the Salamanders' [[Berserk Button]] during the Second War for Armageddon.
* [http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/v5748dyo5lb9f#discuss This] is what the ''[[Pathfinder]]'' blog has to say about Alain the cavalier.
* In the ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering]]'' fandom, this is how many, many people view blue decks (and many partially blue ones as well). Given that a large part of blue magic is built around counterspells ("yeah, that cool spell? No."), this was perhaps inevitable.
* In ''Shadowrun'' we have Clockwork, a hobgoblin rigger and probably the most hate-filled, paranoid jackass on Jackpoint. At least his paranoia (the kind that isn't shared by every other Shadowrunner, of course) is relatively contained to technomancers, but it still was enough to make him try to sell [[Net Cat]] (a technomancer and fellow Jackpoint user) to the megacorps when he knew they'd perform horrific experiments on her and was practically freaking out when he learnt she was pregnant. When he mentions the child's eye colour at one point, [[Net Cat]], Slamm-0! (the child's father) and their friends are suitably disturbed.
 
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* Bertram, Count of Rousillon, in ''[[Shakespeare|All's Well That Ends Well]]''. Because he is married to a peasant girl (in the [[Distaff Counterpart]] of the [[Standard Hero Reward]]), he rebuffs her, saying he will only bed her when she can prove he has gotten her pregnant. Then he goes off to fight in one of the wars between Italian states.
* Oh, '''''Henry Higgins''''' from ''[[Pygmalion]]!'' So very, very much! To wit: when he first meets [[The Hero|the heroine]] Eliza he insults her accent even as she's trying to scrape enough money just to pay her rent; and he's endlessly patronizing and insulting to her when she comes to him for speech lessons. He makes no bones about the fact that other people annoy and bore him; and most of his interactions with other characters involve him insulting them, bullying them, challenging them, complaining about how bored with them he is, or else just bluntly identifying their accents. What's satisfying, though, is that the characters ''do'' notice this, and every single one of them [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] it when they remind him to have better manners.
** In a potential case of [[Misaimed Fandom]], the musical version ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' actually makes him something of a [[He-Man Woman Hater]] ([[Misaimed Fandom]] because a key point of his personality in the original play is that he ''doesn't'' at all discriminate in his treatment of anyone-- he's just horrible to everybody around him)! The musical also attempted to soften him into something of a [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]] [[Fan -Preferred Couple|in an attempt to make romantic overtures between him and Eliza okay....]]
* Stanley in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
 
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