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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 ([[Myspace|unless you're on the Internet]]). In the extras on the ''[[Top Gun]]'' DVD, one of the military
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 '''Shrine to Self'''.
The superhero/villain version of this is [[Superhero Trophy Shelf]].
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== [[Comics]] ==
* A mainstay in [[Archie Comics]], particularly Reggie Mantle, as another example of his ego.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Traveller]]'', Aslan warriors keep an "honors chest" of their deeds.
== [[
* 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.▼
* 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 3-D]]'' 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 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.▼
** [[Homestuck|He must love being strong.]]▼
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* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'': [[Satan|Lucius']] mansion is filled with portriats of himself.
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▲* A bevy of dictators have done this while living, just to name a few: [[Kim Jong Il]], [[Saddam Hussein]] and [[Josef Stalin]].
▲* 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 & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story|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 3-D]]'' 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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