main character syndrome
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
36
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The phenomenon of the protagonist of a show or movie receiving unrealistic special treatment from the worldbuilders.
Uncountable
noun
The phenomenon of thinking of oneself as the protagonist in the "movie" of reality (and, thus, usually as unrealistically important or distinguished).
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Furthermore, Goku is still the main character of the series, and thus by the rules of the main character syndrome, no one on the same side of the main character shall surpass the main character, and the main character will always (eventually) save the day."
- "What I suffered from is this idea I call the Main Character Syndrome. I know the name is ridiculous, but it sounds like what it is. Main Character types see themselves as a Hero-Savior and everybody else as a secondary prop. The Main Character feels more real than everyone else. It's the same way that infants don't have object permanence: if I don't see it, it doesn't exist. In the case of adults, I count and you don't. I matter more than you."
- "[…], than try to do something actually useful for humanity with that hypercapitalism exploitation money, like save the climate or solve world hunger or erase extreme poverty Or fucking help trafficked children, lmao. But that wouldn't stroke their massive egos enough, I guess. Main Character Syndrome much? I'd rather have hundreds of multi-millionaires than one billionaire lmao. Greedy, narcissistic, sociopathic fucks. Cuz that's not even 'being rich,' that's fucking Smaug-levels of money-hoarding."