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''[[Look On My Works Ye Mighty and Despair|Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!]]"''|'''Percy Shelley''', "Ozymandias"}}
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Just like alcohol, sometimes having a good opinion of yourself -- your position, your skills, your accomplishments -- can be too much. It can go to your head. It can turn you into a [[Jerkass]]. When it ''really'' gets bad, it can destroy your common sense, make you delusional, declare to the world that "[[
Take boasting for an example. In their [[Greek Mythology|myths]], the Greeks (who coined the term ''Hubris'' for such dangerous amounts of pride) were big on having a mortal [[Puny Earthlings|(un)deservedly]] [[Blasphemous Boast|boasting that they're better at something than their]] [[Jerkass Gods|highly petty and vengeful gods]], especially the one who declares oneself [[A God Am I|Above the Most High]]. Or trying to [[Bullying a Dragon|constantly bully the weirdo who has the powers to reduce you into a smear on the wall]], [[Tempting Fate|because your pride says you can]]. [[Break the Haughty|You can guess how that tended to go.]] Or (always a classic) walking right into an enemy's hands confident they'll fall just like everyone else has, despite how they seem to be [[Trash Talk|goading you]] to [[Defensive Feint Trap|stand on the big red bulls-eye.]]
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Pride is a potent driving force for [[Rule of Drama|Drama]]: Some stories begin with [[Pride Before a Fall|the proud brought low]] and their attempts to learn humility, others are driven by [[To Be a Master|prideful quests]], while others end because of an unwillingness to [[Break the Haughty|forsake said pride]].
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* ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'' - Jafar was ''this close'' to complete victory, but his refusal to accept any position other than that of the most powerful being on the face of the Earth was what ultimately undid him. To be more specific, he was already the Sultan ''and'' the most powerful sorcerer in the world as a result of his first two wishes upon capturing the Genie, but his undoing came when Aladdin tricked him into wishing to be a genie -- [[Sealed Evil in A Can|with everything that goes along with the package]].
** Thinking about it, he could have avoided the last third of the movie altogether if he hadn't wasted his first wish on, essentially, stealing the Sultan's clothes - out of pride.
* Pride is key to plot in ''[[Kung Fu Panda (Animation)|Kung Fu Panda]]''. Shifu was too proud of his [[The Gift|prized pupil]] Tai Lung, whom he valued as a son, to realize that Tai Lung was proud to the point of being arrogant. When Oogway denied Tai Lung the Dragon Scroll, he went berserk, carving a swath of devastation through the valley and trying to kill Shifu before being stopped by Oogway.<br /><br />Twenty years later, Shifu has allowed his pride and that failure to blind him to the potential of his other students, and prevents him from seriously considering that Po is the only hope of defeating Tai Lung. Meanwhile, Tai Lung has only gotten more full of himself while wasting away for twenty years, and when he finally confronts Shifu, he reveals that the motive behind everything he ever did [["Well Done, Son" Guy|was to make Shifu proud of him]]. Shifu declares that he was always proud of him, but that pride worked against him and kept him from seeing that he was setting Tai Lung up for disappointment. And once more, Tai Lung is too proud to accept this, and says he only wants the scroll.<br /><br />At the end, after getting thoroughly trounced by Po, he fails to understand the meaning of the Dragon Scroll that he had sought for so long, which is that you don't need to seek out some ultimate secret to reach your full potential: the power is already within you. His pride does not allow him to consider that he might have been wrong about everything, and he {{spoiler|dies... we think...}} refusing to accept that he had lost to, in his words, a "big, fat panda."<br />
== Literature ==
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** It should be pointed out that [[Let's Play|The Infamous Boatmurdered]] featured ''three of the above'' (and would have had {{spoiler|Hell Itself}} had {{spoiler|Hell Itself}} been part of that version of DF). It, somewhat predictably, meet its doom when the Horrific Doomsday Device, having previously converted the landscape into Mordor, misfired and demolished a chunk of the gargantuan statue (which angered the artisan who'd engraved the statue, which led rather efficiently to a [[Disaster Dominoes|lethal Tantrum spiral]].
* In ''[[Ace Combat]] Zero'', pride seems to be associated with the Knight Ace style ("[aces] who live for pride"), who refuse to cause collateral damage even when it's the surest way to victory. Your [[Wing Man]] even comments that your pride is gonna get you killed. Ironically, among the enemy boss squadrons, the one explicitly associated with pride is Detlef Fleischer's Rot Squadron, whom you face in the ''Mercenary'' route. As the epilogue shows, even ten years later, poor Detlef still cannot accept and understand how he was defeated by mere mercenaries.
* {{spoiler|The Illusive Man}} was [[Fatal Flaw|brought down by]] his own pride in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]''. His plan was [[Crazy Prepared|near-foolproof]], taking into account Shepard and the Alliance's interference, their eventual pushing back against the Reapers, as well as the eventual completion and deployment of {{spoiler|The Crucible}} (for the first time in the history of the Galaxy). He even rightly came to the conclusion that it would allow him {{spoiler|take control of the Reapers}}. However, he ''never'', even for a moment, thought he might end up {{spoiler|indoctrinated}} himself. If Shepard can make him come to realize it, he [[My God, What Have I Done?|commits suicide]].
* In ''[[Overlord]]'' Pride is the sin embodied by the Wizard, seventh member of the adventuring band of heroes that slew the old Overlord. {{spoiler|His pride kept him from realising his own vulnerability and intended role in the old Overlord's [[Thanatos Gambit]]. By the time the protagonist meets him the Wizard is nothing more than a skin coat worn by the revived Dark Lord, who subsequently inherits the downfall of pride by being destroyed by the very man he groomed to be his puppet replacement}}
* After the second credits of ''[[Solatorobo]]'', Elh claims that Red has a huge ego and {{spoiler|the reason she [[Cannot Spit It Out|won't tell him what their adventures together mean to her]] is because she}} doesn't want it to [[Acquired Situational Narcissism|get any bigger]].
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** Of course there's Megatron who make's sure that he alone is the undisputed leader of the Decepticons, and he won't allow even Unicron to command him.
* Lucius on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. He's a [[Smug Snake]] ruling an [[Egopolis]] who constantly tries to make the population love him while at the same time making them miserable. He's even [[Meaningful Name|named after]] Lucifer, the demon of pride. In fact, according to [[Word of God]], Lucius has some pretty terrifying powers, but doesn't use them strictly because his pride would be wounded if he admitted he needed them.
* Applejack has at least twice allowed her pride to cause problems in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.
** In the season one episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 E4 Applebuck Season|Applebuck Season]]", her stubborn refusal to accept help after insisting she could handle her family's orchard harvest alone combined with her trying to meet obligations to help her friends ends in nothing but disaster all over.
{{quote| '''Twilight Sparkle:''' It's over-propelled pegasus, practically poisoned plenty of ponies, and terrorized bushels of brand new bouncing baby bunnies.}}
** Meanwhile, "[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E14 The Last Roundup|The Last Roundup]]" features Applejack essentially running away from home in shame when she doesn't win as big as she and everypony else had expected her to in a big rodeo competition she'd won ten years straight.
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