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* Ren Sohma from ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. She's [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|beautiful]], [[Manipulative Bitch|sly, manipulative]]...and not just [[Complete Monster|despicable]], but in the end, very ''incompetent''. {{spoiler|She has to manipulate Rin to get her late husband Akira's box (and Rin then fails and is horrifyingly "punished" by its owner, Ren's much hated and abused daughter Akito), is humiliated by Shigure when he tells her he only had sex with her because she looks like an older Akito, and once her plans crumble, she's left as an [[Empty Shell]] of her former self.}}

* [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Touga Kiryuu]] ''is'' very handsome, charming and manipulative -- but ultimately, he's a horrendous [[Jerkass]] even to his sister Nanami, and he can't hold a candle to {{spoiler|the ''real'' [[Magnificent Bastard]] of the series, Akio Ohtori.}}

** Other antagonists in the series such as Saionji Kyouichi and Ruka Tsuchiya are also prime examples of this trope.

* Gouda of ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' is a quite intelligent man, but he has a massive inferiority complex which makes him quite a Smug Snake. He really likes to grate on people and put them down, and the protagonists get an idea of his plan fairly early on precisely because he's the kind of person that wants recognition of his cleverness.

* Agon of ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', the living embodiment of [[Jerk Jock]] and a one-man [[Opposing Sports Team]]. [[Brilliant but Lazy]] meets [[It's All About Me]] meets [[The Gift]] meets [[Really Gets Around]] ''and'' [[Would Hit a Girl]]. It isn't pretty.

* Head/Reiji Miyabi/{{spoiler|Tokio Tsunashi}} of ''[[Star Driver]]'' is supremely arrogant, irresponsible, childish, and pathologically self-absorbed to the extreme, but his long-term scheming, skillful manipulation of events and other people around him, and ability to back up his arrogance with displays of power that he has the good sense to keep concealed until the time is right to use it, making him at least a high functioning version of this trope. Ivrogne/Keito Niichi, {{spoiler|the East Maiden}}, is a more straightforward example.

* Head/Reiji Miyabi/{{spoiler|Tokio Tsunashi}} of ''[[Star Driver]]'' is supremely arrogant, irresponsible, childish, and pathologically self-absorbed to the extreme, but his long-term scheming, skillful manipulation of events and other people around him, and ability to back up his arrogance with displays of power that he has the good sense to keep concealed until the time is right to use it, making him at least a high functioning version of this trope. Ivrogne/Keito Niichi, {{spoiler|the East Maiden}}, is a more straightforward example, as she acts cold and superior towards almost everyone else, is fond of giving [[Psychotic Smirk|arrogant smirks]], and clearly thinks of herself as a clever schemer [[The Starscream|working to undermine Head's plans and realize her own ambitions]] but in the end she's not half as good as she thinks she is and ends up looking just like, in Head's own words, a "silly lovestruck little girl."

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' gives us more than one of these per season:

** The overly self assured yet [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|constantly failing]] Jadeite and the smarmy, underhanded cheater Zoisite in the first series.

** The insufferably arrogant Crimson Rubeus and equally insufferably arrogant Esemraude in ''R''.

** Almost all of the Witches 5 in ''S'', but ''especially'' Mimet and Tellu.

** The Amazon Trio (Tiger's Eye, Hawk's Eye, and Fish's Eye) and Grand Madame Zirconia in ''Super S''.

** Sailor Iron Mouse and Sailor Tin Nyanko in ''Stars''.

* The ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' franchise has several examples.

** Dr Clay from the OVA.