Smug Snakes in Comic Books.
The following have their own pages:
Other Comics:
- AIQ Squared in All Fall Down is this to absolutely everyone.
- Kadir of Black Science is sneering and dismissive toward everyone at the lab and everyone he meets in their travels... so, everyone. As the liaison from their financial backer Mr Block he does have ostensible authority over them. He's also got a secret plan that he believes gives him the long-term high ground.
- Roque Ja/Rock Jaw from Bone. He hates rat creatures, dragons, and the valley people, and insists on knowing what side of the war the Bones are on, saying everyone must be on one side, even though he appears not to be on a side himself. When asked about this, he just tells them, "You are hardly in a position to be asking questions..." and in his first appearance, appears to be a villain since he is taking the Bones to Kingdok and the Hooded One just because he expects a reward. But, then, Kingdok humiliates him for no reason, prompting Rock Jaw to attack him to the point where everyone thinks he's dead. Then, he acts like a villain again, but this time it's only because he has made a deal with the Hooded One that benefits him. In his final appearance, he is one of Thorn, Fone, and Bartelby's obstacles on their way to The Crown of Horns. However, he ultimately lets them go by uninterrupted this time, probably because he might actually want them to end the war and stop the Lord of the Locusts. This, and the fact that the Hooded One has already freed the Locust herself, meaning there would be no reward and therefore no reason for turning them in. So, yeah, he hates everyone and only acts for his own interests.
- Cerebus the Aardvark: Po admits that both Astoria and Cirin are experts in guile and trickery, but he also accuses them of being overconfident to the point where they have both dangerously underestimated Cerebus.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Gladstone Gander, as created by Carl Barks. Though not actively evil, he is the biggest douchebag in the Disney comics
◊ and openly embraces the opinion that his improbably high luck makes him better than anyone else in the world. He especially loves deriding his cousin Donald Duck, taunting him into contests that Donald can't win and often stealing Daisy away by making him look look bad in the process. It's only a very rare, deliberate attempt to use his luck to help others that save him from being a total rat's ass, and we can tell he's doing it largely so those others will admire him. - Morlish Veed of Legacy is a brilliant military leader, but his political skills leave a lot to be desired (largely due to overconfidence brought on from aforesaid military victories). Lucky for him that his girlfriend is a genuine Magnificent Bastard - or maybe not, if she ever decides she doesn't need him anymore.
- Actually, they turned on each other. Later, as Morrigan Corde, she stunned him, told him that Nyna Calixte sends her regards, and fired a killing shot point-blank in his head. What a major relief that was.
- Dr. Anthony Rune from The Maze Agency. Convinced he is everyone's intellectual superior, his downfall when Gabe and Jen unravel his plot to murder his wife is particularly satisfying.
- Star Wars:
- Star Wars: Darth Vader: Jabba, naturally acts his usual arrogant self when surrounded by his bodyguards... then comes round when Vader defeats all of them single-handedly.
- Straddling the line between Comics and Literature, Ysanne Isard of the X-Wing Rogue Squadron comics and X-Wing Series novels. She's not quite as good as a Magnificent Bastard, she's quite manipulative, she's the head of Imperial Intelligence and aware of the various things being planned, and many of her plans seem to hinge on letting the New Republic win an Imperial planet. Brentaal IV, she put a hopelessly incompetent admiral in charge so that opinion would turn against Sate Pestage and she could have him assassinated; in the process the planet was lost and the best Imperial pilot since Vader switched sides. Coruscant, she infected with a nasty virus and left to the New Republic. The New Republic found a cure. Then, well, here's a passage where another of her people defects.
"Madam Director Ysanne Isard, I regret not being able to bring you this message personally, but not that much. In the time I have been associated with you I have found you to be sociopathically self-centered, prone to irrational and impulsive reactions to situations, and prey to a preference for appearance over substance. I have no doubt these affectations were seen as skills by the late Emperor, and indeed may have enhanced your ability to comply with his orders, but by no means are these traits that make for great, or even adequate leadership."
- The cure was the whole idea. She planned for that, hoping to bleed the New Republic for the cure, and conquered the planet with the cure! She just failed to anticipate the New Republic beating her out, and the plan to bleed them out.. being a Gambit Roulette in itself.
- Vampirella:
- Le Fanu is constantly owned by Vampirella despite her overwhelming confidence.
- Herr Schuld recovers from his coma to try to recruit Vampirella, which gets him killed.
- Zipi y Zape: Peloto, a particularly repulsive one.
