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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* During the late 1980s, [[WWE/Characters/Rock N Wrestling|the Honky Tonk Man]] became the longest-reigning WWF Intercontinental Champion to that point, holding the title for nearly 15 months in 1987-1988. During promos, Honky bragged that he was the "greatest Intercontinental Champion" in history, but his claim had little to do with his actual skills; rather, he would frequently get himself disqualified or have his manager, Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart, sneak-attack his opponents to set up an easy win. When the [[Ultimate Warrior]] finally caught up with Honky at the inaugural Summer Slam in 1988, [[Squash Match|it took 30 seconds to dethrone the braggart Honky.]] Honky never did regain the title, and his bragging soon became ignored by the fans as just hot air. (In reality, the WWF was trying to play up the Ultimate Warrior (Jim Hellwig) as the [[Next Big Star]], and used his WWF Intercontinental title run as a test run for bigger and better things, but Warrior was never truly successful.)

* Mr. Kennedy (Kennedy!) appeared to embody this trope when he exploded onto the scene in the late spring of 2006, claiming to be WWE's newest sensation and harboring such a high opinion of himself that he performed his own ring entrances in authentic ring-announcer style. He would often say that he was "the man who is single-handedly changing Friday nights!" The twist was that Kennedy actually ''could'' back up his braggadocio, defeating the likes of [[Batista]] and [[The Undertaker]] (albeit by cheating, getting his opponent counted out, or by goading the other guy into dishing out [[Disproportionate Retribution]] to him and gaining a disqualification victory). In fact, the only occasions when Kennedy seemed to come up short were when actual titles were on the line.

* A meta-example: [[WWE/Characters/Brand Extension|Drew McIntyre]] was pumped up by [[Vince McMahon]] as a future World Champion upon his debut and proceeded to let it go to his head. Since then, Drew hasn't caught on with the fans (in real life) but still thinks he deserves A-list treatment (in kayfabe), becoming this trope.

* Another ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' example would be Edge, [[Final Fantasy IV]]'s [[Badass]] ninja. He flirts with the ladies quite often and likes to flaunt his over-inflated ego in a regular basis. Unfortunately for Edge, his crush {{spoiler|Rydia}} seems to be disgusted by his attitude.

* One recurring NPC in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics A2]]'', the editor of the Bonga Bugle magazine (suggested to be more of a tabloid, really, but who's counting) ''lives and breathes'' this trope. It's surprising the localization team didn't name him some variation of the name.

* ''[[Persona 4]]'' has Teddie, who, despite being an empty bear suit, thinks that he's the world's most suave ladies man. {{spoiler|He gets a [[Bishonen]] human form later on, and sadly for the other characters, his charms ''work'' on most non-story-related ladies.}}

* ''[[Persona 3]]'''s [[Idiot Hero|Junpei Iori]], who thinks of himself as [[Heroic Wannabe|an action hero]] and [[Kidanova|ladies' man]], and flaunts himself as such to anyone who will listen (or anyone who doesn't immediately berate him for it, that is.) Most infamously during the [[Beach Episode]], where his success with women is taken down a peg or ten, and he ''quickly'' becomes [[The Resenter]] when the much more efficient, and [[The Stoic|unassuming]] Main Character proves himself the real hero.

== Web Original ==

* Draco Malfoy in ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'' is this trope through [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] (although this particular trait is mainly through Flanderization of his original character and he's surprisingly more canon than [[Draco in Leather Pants]]). He's a bullying coward who believes the only thing keeping him from being the coolest kid in school is Harry and is constantly trying pose and failing ''spectacularly''. He does shape up and join the good guys later on in the show but he's still a Ted.

* [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] the character is this, berating his fans for asking his opinions on comics. Of course, out-of-character, an "I love you guys" is very quickly added.

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] also has shades of this (again, the character is an ass but his actor is lovely), and his is of the "big ego but easily - [[Break the Haughty|and often]] - shattered self-esteem" variety.