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Napoleon complex

Showing up in a town you're not originally from looking to conquer it (whether it's done as a game or for your amusement, or some less lofty purpose) is more like a Napoleon complex than not.
He/she was saying/writing something about somebody else having a Napoleon complex and retaliation, though nobody else had brought up the subject of physical altercations but him/her (at least not yet).
by Solid Mantis January 8, 2021
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Michelangelo Complex

A complex where the creator of any representation of something else (Statue, drawing, etc.) believes one of their specific creations, or all of them, are so realistic that it must fulfill the role of the object it is representing. This is in reference to Michelangelo's famous episode where he carvead a statue so similar to a real person he god mad when it didn't answer him, he punched it and broke part of its knee.
That idiot got Michelangelo Complex after writing that Urban Dictionary defenition, and really expected it would become widely adopted piece of slang
by Seack May 3, 2023
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Swirl Industrial Complex

when two people of different races get together and it is seen as a bridge to end discrimination. Usually, between a white person and a black person or another person of color.

See also interracial love
All of Amma Assante's films center around the swirl industrial complex ending all the prejuidice in the world.
by Toni Knowles January 19, 2019
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Cop Complex

When a cop believes that laws don't apply to them and only the Rights that they approve of actively apply to the citizen they are encountering at the moment. They believe that qualified immunity gives them the Right to suspend a citizen's Rights during an encounter - this simply is not true and often results in horrific new headlines.

God Complex adjacent.
Citizen is LEGALLY open carrying on PUBLIC land, say a county office building parking lot, and filming in public spaces. Cop approaches citizen to question the activities because they got a call from a county employee inside. Citizen cordially refuses to answer the cop's questions, states that he is acting within the bounds of the law and Rights. Cops continue to try to escalate the situation and display very poor attitudes when they figure out this is just a citizen acting legally and there's nothing they can do to the citizen. This is how cop complex works.

As soon as they discern that the citizen is acting within the bounds of the law they should immediately bid that citizen farewell and depart cordially.

The display of attitude is often misconstrued or chalked up to racism, however, the interaction plays out the same almost every time, across the board, regardless of the citizen's racial composition. This is not a brown, white, or black issue - this is a blue issue.

Note to the reader: If you're a cop reading this, I implore you to turn every citizen interaction into an opportunity to 'protect & server' and deescalate rather than embrace this 'Us vs. Them' attitude that seems so prevalent behind the blue line.
by sixlay June 24, 2022
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complex behavior

When an AI tries too hard to be smart, resulting in hilariously dumb, repetitive, or just plain wrong actions. Think of a supposedly advanced enemy AI that gets stuck on a rock, endlessly repeats the same attack animation, or runs away from the player for no reason. Often caused by overly complicated behavior trees or state machines that the devs didn't fully test.
That boss was supposed to be a strategic genius, but his complex behavior just made him run into walls and heal me instead of attacking – total artificial stupidity!
by Emotional Cruiser October 16, 2025
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Mujaddid Complex

An unjustified feeling of superiority over traditional Islamic scholarship, coupled with a drive to create a revolution in Islamic understanding. Often driven by ignorance, arrogance, and certification from prestigious Western institutes.

It’s derived from the word mujaddid.
Person 1: Did this guy just say that the Quran doesn’t teach the virgin birth of Jesus?

Person 2: Yeah, and so explicit in the Quran and all exegetes agree that Jesus had no father. That dude is suffering from a mujaddid complex.
by SCRU FACE August 13, 2023
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