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* ''{{Dragonlance}}'': Raistlin Majere is another arrogant TallDarkAndSnarky magician who is ''really'' that good. He managed to defeat all the gods of Krynn and achieve godhood in an alternate time line, after all.
** From memory he was only beaten with his own assistance, too...

** Near [[strike: has a bit of]] ''exemplifies'' this as well: "Please don't make me repeat myself." He is really good at this trope. Especially when he does his "Look what I got from Santa!"- face.

** Near [[strike: has a bit of]] ''exemplifies'' this as well: "Please don't make me repeat myself."
** Near is really good at this trope. Especially when he does his "Look what I got from Santa!"- face.

* DocOck is particularly bad about this in ''Comicbook/SpiderMan'' especially now that he's been galavanting around as ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorSpiderMan''. Notably he scoffs at Peter's lack of scientific advancements, despite knowing he invented the advanced web shooter tech when he was fifteen, and has been too busy saving the world since then (often from Ock himself). But nope he's "Superior" to all other scientists.

* [[ThePenguinsofMadgascar Kowalski]]. Dear, sweet Newton's apple, ''Kowalski''. He is ridiculously intelligent, constantly builds things, working inventions that no human has thought of yet (A shrink ray, an invisibility ray), but the level of arrogance he displays borders on narcissism.

* ''SaturdayNightLive''[='s=] portrayal of DakotaFanning, played by AmyPoehler, in the ''Dakota Fanning Show'' skits. A RunningGag was her belittling the low-brow tastes of Reggie (Kenan Thompson), her house band leader.

** However, this trope was actually strongly ''inverted'' in the earlier few seasons, where Malcolm was extremely self-conscious about alienating his classmates and family by appearing smart and getting labeled a "freak". He therefore saw demonstrations of his intelligence as a failure to be a normal human being, as seen in "Krelboyne Picnic" where he spends the entire episode frantically trying to get out of performing astonishingly advanced mathematics in his head in front of a crowd - not because he's afraid he'll mess up, but because he knows he won't, and only does it very reluctantly to save Caroline's job and is utterly humiliated by everyone's praise. His crossing into this trope in later seasons can be viewed either as CharacterDerailment or a teenage phase (the series finale hints at the latter, as he begins accepting the responsibility his intelligence gives him).

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* Lily Moscovitz from ''ThePrincessDiaries'' is [[InformedAbility said to be brilliant]] but has absolutely no people skills. Whatsoever.

-->Steve: Big man in a suit of armor. Take that off, what are you?
-->Tony: A genius billionaire playboy philanthropist.

* The German Staffie Armin Von Roon in ''[[TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance Winds of War/War and Remembrance]]''. One cannot possibly be a Wehrmacht General Staff officer without at least the beginnings of genius. But he was most definitely insufferable.

** Sheldon's childhood also wasn't any better since, according to his mother, he alienated all the kids in the neighborhood and at school by constantly telling them how much smarter he was and how stupid everyone else was.

** Near [[strike: has a bit of]] ''exemplifies'' this as well: "please don't make me repeat myself."
** Near is really good at this trope. Especially when he does his "Look what i got from santa!"- face.

** Harry's least favourite teacher Severus Snape. He made improvements to his textbook and invented his own spells while at school, one of the few wizards capable of brewing the Wolfsbane Potion, and the only wizard other than Voldemort capable of flight. Also, in the words of his actor in the films, a very interesting character.

** It should be noted that Sheldon is completely useless in almost all other areas of life, has been fired for his snide remarks on others, and has made comparatively few scientific contributions. While still brilliant, he's nowhere near as smart as he believes (Which is more so than Sir Isaac Newton).

* ''SengokuBasara'' has Mouri Motonari, who never seems to get tired of telling everyone else how futile their attempts to either foil or understand his plans are, or how worthless and idiotic they are in comparison to him, and while his demeanour is usually cold, he can become rather smug when proved right (as he always is).

* [[IronMan Tony Stark]] from ''[[WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]'' starts out as a condescending jerk to everybody, friends and foes alike. He does have some moments of mellowing out, though. Such as when he realized an aggressive business decision he made led to rival Simon William.