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{{trope}}
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There's people who are vain, and then there's people who are ''vain.'' The latter have such a depth of narcissism that they don't just keep a mirror handy, but fill their house floor to ceiling with mirrors, self portraits (expect a few nudes), statuary, awards (if any, no matter how minor) and sundry other them-centric paraphernalia. Any pictures will likely be exclusively of themselves, or with celebrities, royalty, and politicians. It's almost unheard of for a shrine to include family pictures.
Basically, they make their home a '''Shrine
A variant is the "shrine to a former glory", made by someone who realizes they're no longer famous and doesn't like their new situation. The [[White Dwarf Starlet]] will often fill her mansion this way. For extra tragedy, the mansion/museum will be in an advanced state of decay.
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Characters encountering the shrine (or more likely, being led to it by the owner) will usually be stunned speechless, a fact their host will take to be awe rather than disbelief at their tackiness (though the onlooker might feel both to varying degrees). This serves not just as a way to characterize someone as self centered, but also as potentially having been (or still being) important, and may in fact endear them to audience/character if they play their narcissism in an affable rather than grating manner.
[[Real Life|In the United States military and political realm an office wall with awards and pictures of the individual with famous or higher-ranking persons is known as an "I Love Me" wall]]. The etiquette is generally that your "I Love Me" Wall should be in a reasonably private location (like your house), not shoved into the face of all passers-by ([[
Compare [[Stalker Shrine]], [[House of Broken Mirrors]] and [[Kitsch Collection]]. Often a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Room Full of Crazy]]. [[Egopolis]] is basically a city or country-sized
The superhero/villain version of this is [[Superhero Trophy Shelf]].
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== [[
* A mainstay in [[Archie Comics]], particularly Reggie Mantle, as another example of his ego.
== [[Film]] ==
* One patrician widow in ''[[Midnight in
* ''[[The Incredibles]]''. The walls of Bob Parr's home office are plastered with news articles and other memorabilia of his superhero alter ego. However, the emotion driving this wall isn't so much vanity as an aching nostalgia.
* Georgette from ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' has a wall of her dog show awards and ribbons, topped by a giant oil portrait of her.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In one of [[Tom Clancy]]'s novels this is associated with upper-level bureaucrats. Awards and pictures of the individual with famous or higher-ranking persons. Known as an "I love me!" wall.
* Gilderoy Lockhart in ''[[Harry Potter and
** In the same book, the titular Chamber of Secrets built by Salazar Slytherin (and intended only for himself/his heirs) has a giant statue of... you guessed it, Salazar Slytherin! Just to lay it on thick, said statue has magical properties when you refer to Slytherin as "greatest of the Hogwarts Four".
** 12 Grimmauld Place is prominently hung with the Black family tree, portraits, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and the mounted heads of former house-elves]], as a Shrine to Family.
* The villain in the [[Dean Koontz]] novel, ''Dragon Tears'', has a serious [[A God Am I]] complex. He had every wall in his house mirrored just to admire himself.
* Ginger, the movie star in ''[[
* Miss Havisham's decaying mansion in ''[[Great Expectations]]''. All the clocks are stopped at the moment that Compeyson betrayed her, she still wears her wedding dress as a grim reminder, and the dining room table remains set with the rotten wedding feast and cake. She proposes to have her body laid out there when she dies.
== [[Live
* In volume 5 of ''[[Heroes]]'' Peter Petrelli's apartment is decorated only with newspaper clippings about the lives he has saved as a paramedic.
* (probably) Samantha of ''[[Sex and
* [[Alpha Bitch|Libby]] of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' has her bedroom wall plastered with gold-framed glamour shots of herself, plus [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|one photo of her grandma]].
* On ''[[Strangers
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series three finale, when the Master has been ruling the world for a year, we see at least one giant statue of him, and Martha mentions he's [[Rushmore Refacement|had his face put on Mt. Rushmore]].
* One [[Monster of the Week]] in ''[[Reaper]]'' was a man who was so narcissistic that he ran a sperm donor clinic, and [[Squick|gave his own sperm to anyone requesting.]] The entire time he was on-screen, he was checking himself out in strategically placed mirrors. When off-screen, Sam and his friends were incredibly disturbed by the nude self portrait that the man was in progress with.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Traveller]]'', Aslan warriors keep an "honors chest" of their deeds.
== [[
* In ''[[The Warriors (
* A bevy of dictators have done this while living, just to name a few: [[Kim Jong Il]], [[Saddam Hussein]] and [[Josef Stalin]].▼
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser's]] entire set of castles has this all over the place, from the huge paintings of himself on the walls, the endless rooms of statues of himself (some of which either breathe fire or shoot laser beams), his face in the wall decorations, his face on the front door, and even giant, fire breathing statues of himself that move around and try to blow up intruders.▼
* Apsley house, Lord Wellington's home in London, is now a museum where you can see all his trophies from the Napoleonic Wars, including medals, ceremonial swords, a vast collection of commemorative porcelain plates, and a ''[[Foe Yay|giant nude marble statue of Napoleon]]''. Yeah.▼
** Fawful in ''[[Mario
** That was more a way of mocking Napoleon for the fact that he'd had a double-scale statue of himself dressed like a Greek god commissioned in the first place.▼
* Nemesis from ''[[Catacomb
*** [[Fridge Logic|But Greek gods are typically depicted nude already.]]▼
* The whole mansion of Conroy Bumpus, in ''[[Sam and Max]] Hit the Road''.▼
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Precisely!]]▼
* In ''[[Guild Wars]]'', it's a way of gaining non-combat rewards in the sequel by adding titles, minipets, elite armour sets, etc. to the Hall of Monuments in the first game.▼
* New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez is known to have commissioned a heroic portrait of himself AS A CENTAUR for his bedroom.▼
* Caudecus's manor in ''[[Guild Wars 2]]'' is explored in the living world episode "The Head of the Snake" and his personal quarters have prominent flattering portraits of himself and even a mirror on the ceiling above his bed, and a secret room only he knows about is covered with massive murals of his own face.
** [[Homestuck|He must love being strong.]]▼
{{quote|'''Countess Anise''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Are you kidding me? The ego on this man.]]
'''Lady Valette Wi''': This is his "inner sanctum". Every time he came back from here, he was slightly more unbalanced.
[[Snark Knight|'''Canach''']]: How do you think the conversation with he sculptor went when he ordered these? "I need at least six reliefs of my face. No, no, bigger. Like eight feet tall. Something that really captures my essence: a catastrophically misguided, swagger-sodden plague sore."}}
== Web Original ==
* A running gag in ''[[
* In [[
* ''[[RWBY]]'': The focus of Jacques Schnee's personal office in his home is a large painting of himself when he was younger, hung prominently above and behind his desk. It is the single brightest object in the room, immediately draws the eye, and is the first thing someone entering the room sees.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Bitsy Bears]]'' one-shot pilot, the villain, Bramble, spends all of her days taking Polaroids of herself.
* Squidward Tentacles in ''[[
** And painted or sculpted all of them himself. He's his own favorite, and apparently ''only'', artistic subject. Even when confronted with a perfectly sculpted statue, he says "You got the nose all wrong!" and slaps a clay copy of his nose onto the statue, then proclaims "''Now'' it's art!"
* In ''[[Storm Hawks]]'', while briefly in charge of Cyclonia, Snipe had the walls and roof of the throne chamber covered end to end in murals of himself.
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* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': [[Satan|Lucius']] mansion is filled with portriats of himself.
== [[
▲* A bevy of dictators have done this while living
▲* In ''[[The Warriors (Video Game)|The Warriors]]'' video game, Chatterbox, the leader of the Hi-Hats, has a private gallery filled with self-portraits. They're all based on more famous works, the ugliest of which is a nude statue of him as a Christ figure, being crucified on a neon cross. When you discover the gallery, you're given the task of vandalizing it using a convenient supply of spray paint and sledgehammers.
▲* Apsley house, Lord Wellington's home in London, is now a museum where you can see all his trophies from the Napoleonic Wars, including medals, ceremonial swords, a vast collection of commemorative porcelain plates, and a ''[[Foe Yay|giant nude marble statue of Napoleon]]''. Yeah.
▲* [[Super Mario Bros|Bowser's]] entire set of castles has this all over the place, from the huge paintings of himself on the walls, the endless rooms of statues of himself (some of which either breathe fire or shoot laser beams), his face in the wall decorations, his face on the front door, and even giant, fire breathing statues of himself that move around and try to blow up intruders.
▲** That was more a way of mocking Napoleon for the fact that he'd had a double-scale statue of himself dressed like a Greek god commissioned in the first place.
▲** Fawful in ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story (Video Game)|Mario And Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' effectively one-upped Bowser in this department. Everything under his possession bears his likeness, from the [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] [[Mooks]] under his control to the places he had taken over. [[Sigil Spam|He even slapped his big, swirly glasses onto the king koopa's statues in his keep after turning the place in a theater to himself]]. [[Serial Escalation|And then he redecorated the statues in Peach's castle so they can now display his toothy grin.]]
▲*** [[Fridge Logic|But Greek gods are typically depicted nude already.]]
▲* Nemesis from ''[[Catacomb Abyss]]'' and its sequels likes to decorate the Catacombs of Despair with statues and paintings of himself before letting the hero in to battle his way through them. In ''Abyss'', it seems the only purpose of both the Catacomb and Crypt of Nemesis (neither of which he lies or resides in) is to be shrines to him. In ''Catacomb Apocalypse'', there are also depictions of him in a pharaoh's headdress. Some of these are enemies rather than decorations, and among the most dangerous in the game.
▲*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Precisely!]]
▲* The whole mansion of Conroy Bumpus, in ''[[Sam and Max]] Hit the Road''.
▲* New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez is known to have commissioned a heroic portrait of himself AS A CENTAUR for his bedroom.
▲* In ''[[Guild Wars]]'', it's a way of gaining non-combat rewards in the sequel by adding titles, minipets, elite armour sets, etc. to the Hall of Monuments in the first game.
▲** [[Homestuck|He must love being strong.]]
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