Entitled to This Index - TV Tropes
- ️Fri Jul 23 2021
Here is a list of tropes about characters believing they are entitled to something or everything.
Compare Ego Tropes, Selfishness Tropes, and Prideful Tropes. Contrast Humility Tropes.
Tropes:
- All Take and No Give: A dysfunctional relationship where an entitled character wants the benefits from another character without giving any in return.
- Attention Whore: A character feels entitled to the attention from others.
- Bratty Food Demand: A kid character who demands to be given the foods they want.
- Beauty Breeds Laziness: A beautiful character feels that their beauty entitles them to be lazy.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Children who are rude, bratty and troublesome have a huge sense of entitlement.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Teenage daughters have a huge sense of entitlement.
- Bridezilla: A bride who has an entitled attitude.
- But Not Too Challenging: A character feels entitled to a victory despite also desiring a challenge.
- Choosy Beggar: Someone who keeps complaining and making demands despite not being in a position to do so.
- Control Freak: An entitled character always dictates how things should go.
- Egocentrically Religious: A religious character who expects special treatment from their deity.
- Entitled Bastard: A character who mistreats another, yet expects them to help them.
- Entitled to Have You: The character who believes they deserve sex or a relationship from another.
- Experience Entitlement: A character who feels entitled to everything because they're more experienced than others.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: A parent who is entitled to control every aspect of their children's lives.
- Homework Slave: Bullying someone else into doing your homework for you.
- Isolation-Induced Infatuation: A character believes someone is obligated to fall in love with them as they did with them because they're the only two people in proximity of eachother.
- It's All About Me: Entitled characters always care about themselves.
- My Way or the Highway: A Stock Phrase entitled characters use to get their way.
- Narcissist: A character who believes the world revolves around them can believe they're entitled to everything.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: An entitled privileged woman who annoys all her peers with her demanding attitude.
- Offended by an Inferior's Success: Someone feels that another person isn't entitled to their success.
- Playing the Age Card: A character feels that their age entitles them to respect from younger people.
- Playing the Family Card: A character thinks family ties entitles them to receiving assistance from their relatives.
- The Prima Donna: An overbearing, egotistical, and entitled actor/actress.
- Prima Donna Director: An overbearing, egotistical, and entitled film director.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: An character feels entitled to be rude to others because they're an elder.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: A character feels entitled to get away with anything because of their good looks.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: A character with superpowers feels entitled to get away with their crimes.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Famous!: A character feels entitled to use their fame to get away with anything.
- Spoiled Brat: A selfish and arrogant character (usually, but not always, a child) who demands to be given everything and will usually throw a tantrum if they don't get them.
- Royal Brat: A spoiled, rich kid in a position of power who demands to be given everything and abuses their power.
- Too Proud for Lowly Work: A character feels entitled to not do work they feel is "beneath them."
- Unsatisfiable Customer: An entitled customer who belittles and mistreats service staff.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: A character expects to be rewarded for living up to minimal standards of civilized conduct.