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Every day, people appear in the news for doing crazy things. Not things that deserve fame, but somehow they get at least 15 minutes of it anyway. So what better way to end up on TV and go down in history than to commit crimes and do horrible things? Things like arson or other such destruction of famous structures, assassination of public figures, shooting up a school, or becoming a creative Serial Killer with a distinct Calling Card. It's possible some lunatic has already done it in the name of fame. A possible Ur-Example; Herostratus burned the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus to the ground in 356 BC, hoping his act of arson would get him in the history books, and the Ephesian government failed to defeat him despite all their best efforts to Un-person him.note They caused a Streisand Effect because people had to know whose name they mustn't utter on pain of death. His name has even found its way into a phrase "herostratic fame", meaning "fame at any cost". A dark version of Attention Whore. Compare with Evil Feels Good, Evil Is Cool, Glory Seeker, Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight, No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, and Villain Cred. |
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In Infamous (2020), two young lovers rob their way across the southland, posting their exploits to social media and gaining fame and followers as a result. | |
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Batman: In Poison Ivy's first appearance, she goes public after years of successfully committing crimes without ever being noticed, simply to claim the title of "World Public Enemy #1" from three pretenders (obviously, this was before Characterization Marches On took effect and shifted Ivy from an unrepentant criminal to a mentally unstable ecoterrorist). The Joker has practically built a career on crimes designed more to spread his infamy than anything else. Perhaps his true illness is that he is an Attention Whore through and through... Similarly, Clayface sometimes commits crimes entirely to make himself famous, especially the "former actor" version of the character. Naturally, one Silver Age story set Clayface against the Joker as the two committed crimes in one another's styles entirely to enhance their own infamy and mock their other's. |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderella offers the Some Asshole Initiative in order to combat this behavior- instead of plastering the name and life story of every mass shooter and turning them into "anti-hero role models", refer to every one of them as "Some Asshole", denying them the recognition that they do not deserve. | |
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Osmosis Jones: The sentient virus Thrax hopes that killing enough humans in record time will put him in the medical textbooks. | |
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The Joker has practically built a career on crimes designed more to spread his infamy than anything else. Perhaps his true illness is that he is an Attention Whore through and through... | |
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In The Simpsons, Mr. Burns gets a Villain Song fittingly called "It's a High to be Loathed", which is essentially all about this trope. | |
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The Motherfucker's secondary motivation in Kick-Ass 2, after getting revenge on Kick-Ass, is fame. | |
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Looney Tunes: In the Bugs Bunny short "Rebel Rabbit," Bugs, offended that rabbits only have a 2-cent bounty on the grounds that they're "perfectly harmless" compared to more obnoxious and destructive animals like foxes and bears, sets out to prove that rabbits can be just as bad. As a result, Bugs becomes a Person of Mass Destruction by, among other things, attacking a guard with his own billy club, renaming Barney Baruch's private bench as "Bugs Bunny," painting barbershop-pole stripes on the Washington Monument, rewiring the lights in Times Square to read "Bugs Bunny Wuz Here," shutting down the Niagara Falls, selling Manhattan Island back to the Indians, sawing Florida off from the rest of the country, swiping the locks off of the Panama Canal, filling up the Grand Canyon, and literally tying up the railroad tracks. Bugs earns a $1 million bounty... and has all of two seconds to proudly declare himself "King of the Beasts" before the entire US army hunts him down and throws him in Alcatraz. | |
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In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Ultimatum", most of the Ultimen have just gone insane after finding out that they're not just clones, but imperfect dying clones. They decide to achieve infamy by killing the Justice League, as "If we're the ones who take down the Justice League, the world will never forget us!" | |
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In Darkwing Duck, one of Nega-Duck's appearances kicked off with his starting a crime wave in outrage that Dr. Slug, not Nega-Duck, was #1 on the "most wanted" lists. | |
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The Last Broadcast: David theorizes that the true murderer of the Fact or Fiction crew killed them specifically because the circumstances of their trip into the Pine Barrens would bring media attention and fame. Since David is the true murderer, this is his confession, and it reveals that the whole point of the main film is him exposing this in order to gain the infamy that was thrust onto assumed killer Jim Suerd instead. | |
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Sam Starfall from Freefall is a fairly petty criminal, but goes to great lengths to be famous for it, trying to be the first person ever to commit particular crimes (siphoning the gas tanks of orbiting satellites, for instance) and even organizing his own angry mobs. It mostly works, if only locally, because he's on a planet where most of the population are robots and the humans are too happy to be criminals beyond artful vandalism, and thus he's technically the most infamous outlaw on the entire planet (at least until Kornada's plot is brought to light). Of course, in Sam's home culture, being famous through interesting, dramatic crime is just called "being famous", and while Sam knows intellectually that Planet Jean doesn't have the same cultural values, emotionally he tends to default to what he's most familiar with. | |
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In Risk It All, Ren's power does not care if his publicity is good or bad, only that he's famous. As a result, good press will give him as much prestige as bad press. In fact, his first big boost of prestige is when he's caught on video apparently mugging a man who held him at gunpoint earlier. | |
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Spider-Man (PS4) has its own alternate version of Screwball (mentioned above in "Comic Books") who goes way beyond what her comics version has ever done in her own attempts to create a high-ratings stream. How beyond? How about creating her own criminal gang out of prisoners that escaped from "The Raft" (the local super-max prison) and unleashing them onto New York fully expecting the potentially fatal results to make it impossible for Spidey to stay away? | |
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This is the entire point of the aptly-named web novel Tails of Fame. Rast Racklyn is so desperate to become famous and so frustrated with society that he turns to a life of crime and starts raping and killing innocent people hoping to build a reputation. Subverted at the end, where he's shot to death completing a mundane errand without the public ever finding out about his crimes. To rub further salt in the wound, his death is nearly forgotten about entirely when a famous pop star is murdered a week later. | |
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Ultimately the motive of Optimus Prime in the Transformers: Shattered Glass continuity. In his search for The Meaning of Life, he came to the conclusion that there was none and the best one could do was to be remembered by history. As a librarian named Optronix, he wouldn't be remembered, so he took up the name Optimus Prime and decided to become a world-conquering tyrant to ensure his place in the history books. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, this forms part of General Tarquin's motivation to become an Evil Overlord, even more so once he learned that his son Elan would come to oppose him. By his logic, people always think that the villains of stories are cooler than the heroes, and he believes that being the villain of a story in which a lone rebel hero defeats his father to topple a wicked empire would solidify his place in the history books. Tarquin's role in the plot so far ends with Elan defying this by refusing to kill him in what Tarquin thinks is their Final Battle and leaving him stranded alone in the desert as he focuses on getting to the real Big Bad of the comic. Tarquin gets a massive Villainous Breakdown as he sees his story being derailed. | |
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Persona 4 has Mitsuo Kubo, who's such an Attention Whore that he claims to be the Serial Killer plaguing Inaba just so people will notice him; he even goes so far as to personally murder Mr. Morooka, the Investigation Team's homeroom teacher, to this end. | |
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In one episode of Misfits, Brian, a man with the power to telekinetically control dairy products, goes public with his ability and becomes a celebrity. While it's impressive at first, the ASBO Five and others start to come forward with things like Immortality, Healing Hands, and turning back time, naturally pushing a guy who can do tricks with milk out of the spotlight. His solution? Start killing empowered people by choking them to death with dairy products. | |
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As with the comics version of the character, many of the Joker's actions in The Dark Knight are designed to publicize his creative wickedness rather than to earn money or power. | |
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The Amoeba Boys attempt to commit crimes to cement themselves as dangerous outlaws in The Powerpuff Girls (1998), however, they're incredibly bad at it, limited to jaywalking or littering. | |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: Obake wants to destroy San Fransokyo and rebuild it into a perfect city, thinking this will make the world remember him forever. | |
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The Big Finish Doctor Who story "Infamy of the Zaross" features an alien race who would rather be known across the galaxy as despotic conquerors than be vaguely remembered as a peaceful society with good pottery skills. | |
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A previous edition of Dungeons & Dragons had a species of linnorm (a type of Always Chaotic Evil snake-like dragons) called rain linnorms which deliberately commit atrocities and brag about them just for notoriety, not caring that everyone fears and hates them. | |
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Disturbed calls out the media for unintentionally propagating this in "Legion of Monsters". By reporting about a Serial Killer and plastering his name in every headline (not once naming any of his victims), they're inspiring future killers to follow his example to get their own fifteen minutes of fame. | |
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During the Ends of the Earth storyline, the dying Doctor Octopus attempts to kill off 99.92% of the Earth's population so that the remaining will remember him as the greatest monster in history. | |
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Destinies of Remnant: This is the High Priest's ultimate goal in The Black Night. He doesn't care whether he's remembered as a vigilante or a villain; all he cares about is being remembered. As of I'm Not Your Sacrifice, it would appear he failed, as he's not even mentioned once. | |
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Assassin Among Heroes: Ritsu began gaining notoriety as an Assassin after a video was leaked of him forcing a Pro Hero to confess about their involvement in a child-trafficking ring. Then he set the Pro Hero on fire as punishment for his crimes. | |
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One of the killers in Scream 2 is motivated by a desire to have a "Trial of the Century" in which he'll blame violent movies for making him a killer, turning himself and his crimes into a hot-button political issue that pundits and politicians will be forced to take sides on. | |
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Scream 4 was similar, but with a twist. The killers' motive was to become famous not as killers, but by posing as the Sole Survivors of the massacre they carried out, in a combination of this trope and Engineered Heroics. They had witnessed how the murders from the first film had become national news and a pop-culture touchstone thanks to Gale Weathers' True Crime books and sought to top that by filming their massacre and uploading it to the internet. Jill specifically was motivated by jealousy of her cousin Sidney, who became famous as a result of her repeated ordeals in the prior films. | |
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In Bravely Default, during the third time loop, DeRosa, Profiteur, and Dr. Qada discuss their plans for a Poison and Cure Gambit. Qada created both the disease and the cure but has a hard time deciding which one he wants to be made famous for: as the heroic doctor who saved everyone with his miracle cure or as the diabolical Mad Scientist who created the deadliest disease the world has ever known and unleashed it upon mankind. He seems to be leaning towards the latter. | |
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The Death Note prequel Another Note has such an example with Beyond Birthday. Having been born with Shinigami Eyes, allowing him to see and know when exactly someone is going to die, he used this ability to become a Serial Killer, choosing his victims and then killing them on the exact day they were supposed to die, all to surpass L by becoming the world's greatest criminal. | |
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NCIS: A one-shot Serial Killer (the CiberVid Killer) goes around raking a large body count with elaborate killing methods, filming said kills, and leaving clues on videos on a YouTube Expy for the NCIS team to try to find him. Once he's captured (and escalated to attempted murder of a Federal agent while he's at it), he mentions that he did it to become famous and taunts Jethro Gibbs by telling him "see you on the news". NCIS gets the last laugh by making the man's spree (and his identity) classified information under "suspected terrorist connections". | |
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Parodied in both The Tick and its animated adaptation with Chairface Chippendale, who launches an elaborate scheme to write his name on the moon with a laser cannon in celebration of his birthday. He's stopped at ''CHA." In the comic, the authorities scotch his plans for notoriety by blaming the singer Charo. | |
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My Hero Academia: Gentle Criminal wanted to become a famous supervillain, but his refusal to commit more serious crimes in a world filled with superpowered terrorists resulted in him being seen as not much more than a minor nuisance in comparison. His Evil Plan in the arc he was featured in wasn't even evil; he just wanted the Villain Cred for breaking into U.A. without actually hurting anyone there, though it would have had equally harsh consequences for the student body if Midoriya hadn't stopped him. All For One is revealed to have this as one of his primary motivations. He intends to rule the world as an immortal demigod, but he measures his success as a villain more in just how much he makes himself hated and feared than any tangible goals. |
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Fantômas commits horrifying and elaborate crimes mostly because he enjoys being the most feared and infamous man in France. | |
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The Scream films: One of the killers in Scream 2 is motivated by a desire to have a "Trial of the Century" in which he'll blame violent movies for making him a killer, turning himself and his crimes into a hot-button political issue that pundits and politicians will be forced to take sides on. The original script for Scream 2 (before it was leaked, forcing Kevin Williamson to change the ending and The Reveal) had the killers be an Outlaw Couple seeking to use their murder spree to become famous, demonstrate their nihilistic philosophy to the world, and cash in with book and movie deals and by selling the "home footage" they made of their murders. One of them name-drops Natural Born Killers as inspiration. Scream 4 was similar, but with a twist. The killers' motive was to become famous not as killers, but by posing as the Sole Survivors of the massacre they carried out, in a combination of this trope and Engineered Heroics. They had witnessed how the murders from the first film had become national news and a pop-culture touchstone thanks to Gale Weathers' True Crime books and sought to top that by filming their massacre and uploading it to the internet. Jill specifically was motivated by jealousy of her cousin Sidney, who became famous as a result of her repeated ordeals in the prior films. Defied at the end of Scream (2022). Gale decides that her next book is going to be a tribute to her slain former lover Dewey, not a True Crime book about the latest Woodsboro killing spree. She already made enough killers famous, and she'd rather let the ones who killed Dewey languish in obscurity. Unfortunately, Scream VI reveals that she went back on her word, much to the fury of Sam and Tara, who blame her for not only the new wave of murders but also the Conspiracy Theorists claiming that Sam herself was the real killer and that the actual culprits were framed. |
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Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal (2022): While they're imprisoned, Ziggy and Silly learn that they've become more popular than ever due to their villainy. | |
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In Despicable Me, villainous mastermind Gru plans to steal the moon in order to cement his name as the greatest criminal in history, as well as to avoid the new-coming villain Vector taking that title instead. | |
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In the Malazan Book of the Fallen, Scabandari Bloodeye is best known for causing Andarist so much grief that the latter surrendered himself completely to his own grief, and for being instrumental in the sundering of the realm of Kurald Emurlahn, from which he then heroically led his followers to another world. In the prologue of Midnight Tides he is shown to relish that first infamy but is unhappy about how Silchas Ruin calls him out on the second. Played With when the prequel trilogy reveals that Scabandari had never betrayed Andarist, meaning he used his supposed involvement in that incident to bolster his reputation as a miscreant. | |
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In Moonwalker, Frankie Lideo is attempting to push drugs on the world (and he later even tries to personally inject a little girl) because that way, his name would go down in history books. He even insists they'd better spell his name right. | |
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In Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch, this is given as Jack the Ripper's motivation: he wanted to commit crimes so heinous that the story of him would live on forever. | |
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Spider-Man: Mysterio's obsessed with being famous, and at first he tried to gain it honestly, through working in Hollywood. After his acting career failed to get off the ground, he decided to become a criminal for the notoriety. Screwball is more or less only in the villain game to get views on her blog. Her entire schtick is based around the fact she films her stunts and her fights with Spider-Man which then go viral. This plan backfired pretty badly when she ran into the Superior Spider-Man, who got so angry at being humiliated that he gave her a borderline-fatal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. During the Ends of the Earth storyline, the dying Doctor Octopus attempts to kill off 99.92% of the Earth's population so that the remaining will remember him as the greatest monster in history. |
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The Incredible Hulk: Len Wein used this idea in The Incredible Hulk (1968) #205 when Jarella is killed by the robot Crypto-Man; the scientist who sent the robot on its rampage wanted to become infamous, but the robot's battle with the Hulk caused a power feedback that killed him and burned away all his identifying features. | |
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Telefon: This is one of the possible reasons that are tossed In-Universe about why Nicholai Dalchimsky stole the titular list of Sleeper Agents (while Dalchimsky never personally provides an explanation, the fact that he's activating the Telefon agents in an order that is spelling out Dalchimsky's name lends some credibility to it). | |
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Spree: After several failed attempts to become a viral sensation, Kurt comes up with "The Lesson" — a livestream of him killing people with the intention of gaining as many followers as he can. | |
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In The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Graham begins poisoning all of his coworkers just for minor annoyances, killing two and injuring dozens more, before revealing that he will eventually try to kill all of them in one go in his bid to be remembered for eternity. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has Fabius Bile, who believes that "Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy." | |
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Natural Born Killers is a satire of this trope and how the tabloid press fuels it. Mickey and Mallory Knox are a pair of ruthless murderers who carry out a cross-country killing spree, always leaving one victim alive at every stop to tell of their crimes and build their legend, and Wayne Gale, host of a Hard Copy-esque True Crime "trash TV" program called American Maniacs, eagerly obliges for the sake of ratings. | |
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The Joker's motivation in Batman is to become "the world's first fully-functioning homicidal artist" and he causes mass murder and mayhem across Gotham to get headlines on every news front. In fact, his hatred of Batman stems from the Dark Knight "stealing" the limelight from him, which he views to be a bigger slight than Bats accidentally disfiguring Joker (then Jack Naiper) at the Axis Chemicals plant. | |
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There's a film called 15 Minutes, starring Robert De Niro, in which the two bad guys murder people and record it to go viral on the Internet. | |
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The Boogie Man: The titular antagonist's goal is to use his planned massacre of the inhabitants and tourists in Livingstone Castle to become a feared killer throughout the world. | |
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Criminal Minds: At the very least, there's been two or three Homicidal Maniacs of the Week who can be pretty destructive (ex. Jason Clark Battle (the guy who shot Garcia) and before him some crazy-ass ex-Army Ranger-turned-nurse that became a copycat of the Beltway Sniper (although not compared In-Universe to the Beltway Sniper)). And then there are psychos like The Boston Reaper, who being It's All About Me, really like to draw attention by doing such things as shooting up a bus full of people and drawing with their blood. | |
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Ripper Street: Claxton in "The King Came Calling" is a Master Poisoner who creates a poison combining antimony and ergot and uses it to contaminate the flour supply in an attempt to become more famous than Jack the Ripper. | |
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Someone With The Skills To Intervene A Coreline Story: After a group of Death Eaters stage an attack, this is brought up as one of their potential motivations. In order to defy this, the press decides not to release any personal information about them, referring to them purely as "morons". | |
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Barney Miller: A gang member is in the cage and a couple of his buddies come in pretending to be lawyers (briefly) before pulling out guns and insisting that he be let out. When Barney points out that they're in a police station surrounded by cops and have no chance of escape, they admit that they're a new gang and need the street cred the rescue would give them. Barney assures them that their escapade will make the paper ("most guys don't even make it this far"), so they more-or-less willingly give up and are arrested themselves. | |
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The Black Arachnid in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines decides to become famous as a master thief, but only stealing from horrible people who deserve to be exposed for what they are. Also, he tries to encourage his childhood friend, an Officer Jenny, to become a great police officer and live up to a promise they made when they were children. | |
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Peace's Apprentice: While Stain refuses to join the League of Villains, Giran convinces Shigaraki to let the holier-than-thou Hero Killer continue his murder spree by pointing out that Stain doesn't actually need to work with them. Not only is he still indirectly aiding them by killing Pro Heroes, society will inevitably link them together regardless, inspiring other potential villains to join them. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: A combination of this and For the Evulz is Angelus' entire motive. Motivated by his human self's daddy issues, he's determined to prove his father wrong and that he can be something great: in this case, the most sadistic, brutal vampire in history. | |
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In Poison Ivy's first appearance, she goes public after years of successfully committing crimes without ever being noticed, simply to claim the title of "World Public Enemy #1" from three pretenders (obviously, this was before Characterization Marches On took effect and shifted Ivy from an unrepentant criminal to a mentally unstable ecoterrorist). | |
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In The Brotherhood of the Black Flag, this was what drove Captain Reynard during his days as a pirate, before he reformed. It's also the motivation for his scheme to overthrow the Hanoverian Dynasty and restore the Stuarts. | |
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Basil Karlo in The Batman is a washed-up actor who becomes the second incarnation of Clayface, and relishes the chance to use super-villainy to gain the fame that he couldn't get from his acting career. | |
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