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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]].
[[It's All About Me]], [[A God Am I]], [[Kneel Before Zod]], [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]], [[Grudging Thank You]] and [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]] are [[Genius Bonus|proud]] stock phrases. Proud people are also very likely to suffer from [[Moral Myopia]] (to the point of [[Knight Templar|being convinced to be the only righteous one]]). [[Come to Gawk]] is frequently uncommonly painful for the proud -- and the proud are uncommonly likely to jump to the conclusion that someone did [[Come to Gawk]]. The [[Green-Eyed Monster]] often accuses the envied person of Pride -- justly or unjustly. [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]] is a [[Sub
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{{quote| "You could bounce rocks off her pride."}}
* ''[[Farsala Trilogy]]'': This is the fatal flaw of the deghans -- they are so confident that [[The Empire|the Hrum]] could never defeat them that they fail to listen to intelligence reports or gather an army beyond the (very small) elite fighting class.
* In Andy Hoare's ''[[White Scars]]'' novel ''Hunt for Voldorius'', Kor'sarro is warned against the sin of pride while talking with the Raven Guard captain; he manages to move from [[H Divided We Fall]] to [[Teeth
* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'': In "The Hyborian Age" <ref>the [[Backstory]] to the main stories.</ref> the Aquilonian empire suffered from this.
{{quote| ''Always a rich kingdom, untold wealth had been rolled in by conquest, and sumptuous splendor had taken the place of simple and hardy living. But degeneracy had not yet sapped the kings and the people; though clad in silks and cloth-of-gold, they were still a vital, virile race. But arrogance was supplanting their former simplicity. They treated less powerful people with growing contempt, levying more and more tributes on the conquered. Argos, Zingara, Ophir, Zamora and the Shemite countries were treated as subjugated provinces, which was especially galling to the proud Zingarans, who often revolted, despite savage retaliations.''}}
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* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' has the main character with an obvious streak of pride coloring all his actions. He'd rather make and sell Meth than ask for or accept help for his family or condition. At one point it's revealed that his partner in grad school created a successful biotech company that his ideas helped create. Rather than accept a very large check that would have covered his bills and act as a late payment for his help with the company, he tears it up and goes back to making drugs to earn his own way.
* The [[Our Elves Are Better|Minbari]] of ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' is [[Planet of Hats|an entire species of this]]. Same with the Centauri, who fuss over their glorious and long-be-gone past until their planet is reduced to rubble, the Narn, who fuss over their grudges with the Centauri and the need to take a rightful place in the galaxy until, you guessed it, their planet is reduced to rubble, Vorlons and the Shadows. The last two are worst (they incite genocidal wars and run species into extinction just to prove that their tutory strategy is the best one) and they are the ones that get away relatively easy. Huh.
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