Why does the most overly confident person always lose in anime?

Fiction and people in general like the underdogs, and self-boasting overconfident people are rarely underdogs, or if they are their confidence gets their shit kicked in.

>>161175320
>overly
that means it is too much confidence
failure is always a possibility
that's the reason,I think

>>161175320
they cant see their own weaknesses

in anime it's a "I can do this without the group" and proudly standing out thing.

You're only allowed to show the group up if you're insanely humble and nice about it.

Nips, dude.

>>161175320
underestimating your opponent is the first step to defeat

overestimating yourself is the second

It's been a theme forever. Pride goes before the fall.

For Japanese people i think Imperial Japan and the outcome of WWII has a lot to do with the theme's ubiquity in anime.

Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

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>>161175320
>Why does the most overly confident person always lose in anime?

>always

>>161175896
This. Also OP a faggot, etc

>>161175320
I'd say someone acting calmly in a death battle is the overly confident one but maybe that's just me.

>>161175320
>huuuuuuuuur why people with hubris get defeated duuuuuuuuuuuuuur

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Having the braggart big muscular guy win fights is kind of boring, even if they don't do it much nowadays. Supreme confidence requires no taunts or insults, just pure action.

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>>161175320
>he doesn't read HxH

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>>161176133
That was pretty funny, literally everyone was expecting him to lose because he was so confident but he just shat on Hisoka completely.

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>>161175320

imagine reading about satan being so full of pride that he challenges god and becomes a fallen angel and saying "i don't get it were the bible writers just beta manlets?"

>>161175320
Is that the reason Escanor is so awesome

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I don't think so.

>>161176356
Does Satan shitpost on /lit/?

>>161175320
In most cases, the over confident person drops their guard and give the enemy a chance to strike. Vegeta's fights against Freeza, 18, and Cell could've gone a lot better if he killed them in their weak forms instead of gloating.

>>161176436
he boutta get his ass beat tho

just kidding noone can defeat him, i want his image of being unbeatable to last until the very last panel

>>161176133
>inb4 he cheated though

shoo, hisocucks

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Forget that, why is it so rare to find a character who stays focused and doesn't make any stupid assumptions? It's like nobody who writes anime or their sources has ever done anything even somewhat competitive in their life.

>>161175320
Because Japan acted rashly and overconfidently in WW2 and got smoked by an apathetic US because of it.

>>161175320

Please stay in your containment threads DBfags.

>>161178503

Whoa is almost like this shows are meant to be watched by kids and teens and not by sophisticated gentleman.

>>161176133
But he lost two friends. Also Hisoka was pretty overconfident himself too.

>>161175320
It's a narrative problem. It's like, when a plan is laid out in front of you by the characters, you know it's gonna fail because otherwise there won't be tension. The overconfident guy will explain everything he's going to do before doing it, and that's how you know he's gonna fail. Being calm and collected is being overconfident in its own way. See that if a character is overconfident but he/she doesn't say why, she's more likely to win, like Saitama for example.

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>>161175320
>Why does the most overly confident person always lose in anime?

>>161175479
>weaknesses

The heart of every single Japanese trope is the classic misunderstanding. Usually you hear the character talking out the situation in their head, then you go "hmm yeah that does make sense" and then the other character explains why that was wrong, causing a misunderstanding to the viewer.