History Main / InappropriatePride

--> '''Gareth:'''''I am Gareth Blackstock and I am a thoroughly unpleasant person! I am a bastard! My bite is much worse than my bark and my bark is ATROCIOUS!''

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* ''Webcomic/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': In ''The Long Haul'', [[DumbassTeenageSon Rodrick]] enthusiastically admits to having TP'd an elderly neighbor's house. This doesn't go over well with Susan.
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->''If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!''

Pride. It's one of the {{Seven Deadly Sins}}. [[PrideBeforeAFall It goeth before a fall]]. And it's part and parcel of the human condition.

->-- ''If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!''
--> '''General "Buck" Turgidson''', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', explaining enthusiastically that his pilot ''can'' reach his target and start a nuclear war.

* ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes: [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/06/09 Calvin proudly announces]] he's been saving the product of his sneezes so hospitals can use it for mucus transfusions. His disgusted mother tells him no one needs those, and after a {{beat}}, Calvin says he has a jar for her to wash.

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* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Monoma has a strange obsession with one-upping Class A and will take every chance he gets to mock them. At one point, he manically taunts the other students over how, while multiple people from Class A failed their exams, Class B had only a single failure- Monoma himself. Everyone is confused as to why he's proud of that.

* During a sidequest in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', Lloyd is proud to have gotten a 25 on a quiz - his [[IdiotHero best score]] ever. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when he finds out the test is out of 400, not 100.

Pride. It's one of the Seven Deadly Sins. It goeth before a fall. And it's part and parcel of the human condition.

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'': Khornate Berserkers leaving a transport vehicle will sometimes happily claim they murdered the pilot.

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* One of Ed's golden moments in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' came in "Cry Ed" when he decided to assist Eddy's WoundedGazelleGambit by picking up an entire ''house'' and dropping it on him to really sell the injury. When a panicked Edd turns and asks "WHAT IN HEAVEN'S NAME WERE YOU ''THINKING?!''", Ed casually leans against the house checking his fingernails in a self-satisfied manner and says "[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Absolutely]] ''[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder nothing]]'', [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Double-D!]]"

* One of Ed's golden moments in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' came in "Cry Ed" when he decided to assist Eddy's WoundedGazelleGambit by picking up an entire ''house'' and dropping it on him to really sell the injury. When a panicked Edd turns and asks "WHAT IN HEAVEN'S NAME WERE YOU ''THINKING?!''", Ed casually leans against the house checking his fingernails in a self-satisfied manner and says "Absolutely ''nothing'', Double-D!"

* One of Ed's golden moments in ''EdEddNEddy'' came in "Cry Ed" when he decided to assist Eddy's WoundedGazelleGambit by picking up an entire ''house'' and dropping it on him to really sell the injury. When a panicked Edd turns and asks "WHAT IN HEAVEN'S NAME WERE YOU ''THINKING?!''", Ed casually leans against the house checking his fingernails in a self-satisfied manner and says "Absolutely ''nothing'', Double-D!"

* VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Khornate Berserkers leaving a transport vehicle will sometimes happily claim they murdered the pilot.

* Webcomic/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: In ''The Long Haul'', [[DumbassTeenageSon Rodrick]] enthusiastically admits to having TP'd an elderly neighbor's house. This doesn't go over well with Susan.

No Real Life Examples Please.

However, sometimes people have pride in things that just aren't appropriate. In some cases it will be pointed out by someone else that what they're proud of isn't really apprpriate (And may be a case of CrossesTheLineTwice). Other times it's because what they're proud of is likely detrimental to everyone, including the person who is proud of it.

Often played for comedy, and a subtrope of ComicallyMissingThePoint. Sister trope to YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame, where someone else is proud of the character for the atrocities they committed.

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': In "[[Recap/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaE16CowbellOfHappiness The Cowbell of Happiness]]", Nanami is delivered a cowbell she insists is from fashion designer [[BlandNameProduct Sebastian Dior]], and starts wearing it everywhere, convinced that everyone's stares of perplexity is just envy. [[BizarroEpisode Then she starts acting like a cow and things get even weirder.]] [[spoiler:To cap it off, the cowbell was actually ordered by Anthy from the designer "Cowstian Dior" for her pet cow, also named Nanami, and the mailman just got mixed up.]]
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': Mihoshi protests that there must be some way to escape the shadow dimension aboard Kagato's battleship, and that as the inventor, Washuu ''should'' be able to find it. Washuu boasts that it's '''because''' she designed it that the trap is so perfectly inescapable (even though she herself is trapped within it). Of course, it means they're powerless to aid in the fight against Kagato.
* ''Manga/WastefulDaysOfHighSchoolGirls'': Nozumu "[[BookDumb Baka]]" Tanaka once showed Kanade "Majime" Ninomae a set of her exams with scores that were 10, 11, 12, 13,and a 1, or as Majime noted with astonishment, a numerical representation of a Royal Straight Flush. "Baka" was far more proud of that than she was concerned about the "scorched earth" (as her instructor called them) level of failing grades.

* In Creator/MarcelAyme's "The Bailiff", part of the ''Man Who Walked through Walls'' series, Malicorne proudly told Saint Peter he had plenty insolvent households removed from their housing, including widows and orphans. Saint Peter is less than pleased with this and want to send him to Hell.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': PlayedForLaughs after Ted took a step back from his friendship with Robin and Marshal told Robin Ted was doing okay. Ted quickly realized what he was doing.
--> '''Ted''': Just okay?
--> '''Marshal''': Ted, last night you ate an entire box of Cap'n Crunch in your underwear.
--> '''Ted''': I ''demolished'' an entire box of Cap'n Crunch ''totally nude''. Yeah, okay is about right.

--> '''Draco:''' My name is Draco Malfoy. I am a racist, I despise gingers and mudbloods, I hate Gryffindor House, and my parents worked for the man who killed your parents. Do you want to be my friend?

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': A cutaway gag from the episode "A Lot Going On Upstairs" has the Griffin's couch attending "Couchella", where we get this exchange:
-->(''The Griffin couch walks up next to a brown couch amongst the partying crowd'')

-->'''Brown Couch:''' (''Disgusted'') Dude, that?s not a brag!

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': After his HeelFaceTurn, Kallus was not happy about the low level assignments he was getting.
--> '''Kallus''': Why would she give me such a meaningless task? I've commanded Imperial squadrons.
--> '''Rex''': I think you just answered your own question.
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Pride. It's one of the Seven Deadly Sins. It goeth before a fall. And it's part and parse of the human condition.