Most pretentious fictional character?

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Sometimes I think people (especially here) throw that word around more without using it correctly. *insert Inigo Montoya quote here*
Pretentious fictional characters? Hrm... Sometimes I feel that people I see in real life (politicians) are just fictional characters because of how full of shit they are. And they ARE pretentious as hell. But I'll say no more on that subject.
Fictional... Brian Griffin, because he acts so high and mighty but is mostly a procrastinating windbag who has accomplished nothing and holds true to none of his values. Yet he constantly makes scathing commentary about things he really has no business talking about. Basically the whole Quagmire rant sums up that quite nice, and is a model of the type of people I dislike.

 

[Queen Michael]

I'll try to add something original... hmm... this is a tough one... Okay, how about Adrian Mole? Anyone remember him? The fictional diarist, big in the 80s? The books are still going though, the most recent one was released not all that many years ago.

I've read the books, not the latest one but the other ones, and I agree 100%. His pretentiousness expecially shows when you read his attempts at being a novelist. Ye gods!

 

[sanquin]

Nope, it's his fault that now I know stuff I shouldn't.

Sooo...the world revolves around you? >_>

 

[Queen Michael]

Nope, it's his fault that now I know stuff I shouldn't.

Sooo...the world revolves around you? >_>

I don't see how you'd reach this conclusion from what he said.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Nope, it's his fault that now I know stuff I shouldn't.

Sooo...the world revolves around you? >_>

Dude, it's common courtesy to hide plot-relevant spoilers with tags.

 

[savageoblivi0n]

Hyacinth Bucket (that's pronounced Bouquet of course) from Keeping Up Appearances. Yeah it's a sitcom but she's pretty much a poster child of pretentiousness

Spoiler: An episode for reference for those who aren't familiar

 

[Legion]

That's arrogance. Being pretentious in particular is projecting that self image to impress others. Viserys goes around demanding everyone treat him like a king, if he was pretentious he'd just pretend they were already. He's not that oblivious.

The best pretender that comes to mind is Lockhart from the Harry Potter books. He keeps trying to look important in every situation and assumes everyone's loves him as much as he loves himself.

Spoiler: And in the end

it turns out to be a complete fraud.

Well said.

Another example would be Ben Stiller's character in Dodgeball: A True Underdog story. When Christine Taylor's character walks into his office he is carrying a dictionary to act as though he is an intellectual. That's pretentiousness. He isn't an intellectual, but wishes to appear as one.