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Some people are thrill seekers, nothing wrong or unusual with that. Still, even Bungee jumpers wear harnesses, and Great White photographers dive inside of titanium cages. Not so with the Intrepid Reporter. While Going for the Big Scoop they will ignore, nay, actively run towards danger to find whoever or whatever is causing it. It's not that they're Too Dumb to Live — they knowingly choose to take these risks... perhaps because they know the hero will swoop in and save them if they get in enough pointless danger. Extra points if after being rescued and admonished by the hero to get to safety, the first thing they do is run towards the same danger they had to be rescued from again! Certain amount of Truth in Television; war correspondents have a bit of a reputation for being danger and adrenaline junkies. The School Newspaper Newshound can often do this in series combining high school students with high danger. If they don't have main character status, they inevitably becomes Deadline News - but any character like this will be satisfied that even if you kill them, you Can't Stop The Signal. Often, the big break in the case may come from unconventional sources... Compare Camera Fiend. See also Reckless Sidekick. Note to those putting up examples: This trope is about reporters. Only reporters. |
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Although she's clearly inspired by Lois Lane, Roxanne Ritchi in Megamind doesn't seem to Go For The Big Scoop so much as Get Dragged Into The Big Scoop since the titular supervillain keeps kidnapping her and using her as a hostage to bait his arch-nemesis. | |
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In The Spirit remake (the comic book, not the film), he rescues a reporter from horrible danger. They have to run fast and hard to escape the mooks pursuing them...who always seem to have a heads-up. Meanwhile, The Spirit is freaking out because the reporter keeps talking all weird and dramatically. Turns out the reporter had a hidden audio broadcast device which the mooks, and thankfully the police, were listening in on. The reporter then totally 'dumps on' The Spirit in an interview with others a few days later, lying and claiming she did all the work. | |
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CSI: NY: Mac's stepson, young news blogger Reed Garrett, pursues the Cabbie Killer so doggedly that he ends up getting kidnapped by the guy and barely survives getting his throat slashed. | |
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Under Fire: All three of the reporters in the movie, especially Russell, a photojournalist, are trying to track down Rafael, the leader of the rebels in the Nicaraguan Civil War. It turns out he's really dead, but Russell ends up faking a photo for the rebels to make it look as if he's really alive. | |
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What the Cat Dragged In: Nadja Chamack attempts to interview an akuma about their plans. Naturally, this results in Peacemonger trapping her in one of his suits of armor. | |
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Becky the information broker gets herself into trouble looking for exclusive info to sell several times in the first Gunsmith Cats series. | |
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Alya from Miraculous Ladybug runs the Ladyblog, the main news source on everything related to the titular heroine, so she tries to get footage of every battle she can — which, of course, means putting herself in danger for the sake of her scoop. One time, she even kept filming while an akuma was kidnapping her, and tried to interview said akuma, to boot! Ladybug, who is great friends with Alya in her civilian identity, finds this thoroughly exasperating. | |
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April O'Neil in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and the comic that spun off of it. Vernon Fenwick also does this frequently, as he's usually trying to out-scoop April. | |
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Villain Of Your Own Story: AU Alya landed herself in hot water at her old school when she posted some 'juicy exclusives' on her blog without fact-checking them first. Those tidbits turned out to be Malicious Slander, and her family was ultimately forced to move to try and give her a fresh start. Sadly, Alya insisted the problem lay with her sources, not herself. This mentality of believing it's best to throw herself into the thick of things also contributed to her decision to become this world's version of Hawk Moth after finding the Butterfly Brooch. Nooroo's Super-Empowering wasn't direct enough for her tastes, and she decided to 'pretend' to be a supervillain in order to lure out heroes with more hands-on powers, intending to steal their Miraculi and use them for her own heroic debut. |
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Community parodies this when Annie becomes the ace newshound for Greendale, investigating why the Dean only texted white students when an event was canceled. Jeff, as the editor, orders her to stop. | |
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Daniel in Sex Traffic. He makes the not-so-smart move of trying to film a transaction taking place, despite the obviously evil guys standing right next to him. Naturally, he gets beat up for the trouble. | |
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This is what gets Kinue Crossroad killed in season 1 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. | |
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In Alpha Protocol, Mike can contact Scarlet Lake with various stories about Halbech Inc. One initially wonders how she is able to survive doing this when the company is shown to not be above killing to protect their bottom line. It makes sense once it is realized that she was never actually going to print any of the stories she received as she was on their payroll from the beginning. It also doesn't hurt that her other job as a Professional Killer makes her a bit of a hard target regardless. | |
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Susan Rodriguez is like this in the first few The Dresden Files novels. She knows the supernatural exists and is obsessed with finding out about it and getting the truth out, to the point that she lets it override her common sense (and Harry's desperate warnings) to get the job done. Eventually, she pushes it too far, attends a vampire party that she should have stayed far away from, and ends up becoming a Red Court Vampire Refugee constantly having to suppress the urge to kill. And no, she is not Cursed with Awesome; true Red Court vamps are inhuman monsters, and the bloodlust is strong enough that she sometimes can't control it at all. Susan comes close to be a deconstruction of the trope, whether or not Butcher intended it that way, and it goes on beyond the incident at the vampire party, eventually Susan's recklessness and failure to look at the world realistically gets her killed under ghastly circumstances. Over the course of the books, we see Susan repeat the same basic error over and over, with tragic results. | |
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Discworld: In classic Intrepid Reporter tradition, William de Worde from The Truth recklessly joined an apparent suicide-jumper on a high ledge to conduct an interview. The usual Big Damn Heroes scene to follow is subverted, in that the jumper was only faking to get a free meal out of the City Watch, and wound up carrying William down after the newbie reporter nearly fainted and fell to his death. | |
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Deconstructed in Superman: Doomsday, in which Lois' grief at the death of Superman sees her begin to turn this tendency to Death Seeker levels; Perry White notes darkly at one point that she's still throwing herself recklessly into dangerous situations, but Superman isn't around to pull her chestnuts out of the fire anymore. | |
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Michael Collins' Girlfriend, Charlie of Ghost Force is a big fan of the titular team and will sometimes show up to record their battles for her blog. Coincidentally, she has a big crush on Krush (Mike's secret identity). | |
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Cheshire: This works in Alya's favor when her persistence in chasing after akuma means that she's able to capture footage of Misterbug and Pegasus attacking Cheshire right after she'd helped them defeat Newscaster. This gives Team Miraculous their questionable reputation. | |
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The Color of Distance: Analin in Through Alien Eyes isn't totally reckless, but she's so accustomed to dangerous stories that as she prepares to investigate this one she has her belongings stored elsewhere, including pillows so they won't get slashed, and goes on the run. She's got a touch of satisfaction when she finds out she's being followed. | |
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In Die Hard 2, reporter Samantha Coleman helps John chase the villains making their getaway in her news helicopter. Yes, she is revealed as a genuinely nice lady who genuinely wants to help, but the fact she is getting a spectacular exclusive of McClane stopping the villains at some personal risk is some incentive too. | |
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In Speed Grapher, had Tatsumi Saiga not snuck into a certain high-class club for the rich and wealthy from Tokyo, he would've never become the main character indeed. | |
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Mika of Yes! Pretty Cure 5 is only a middle school School Newspaper Newshound and already appears to have entirely suppressed her self-preservation instincts. Then again, it's not surprising that a character who is basically named "Mass Media-ka" would want to get a head start on her reporter tropes. | |
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Ann Gora from SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. She and her cameraman are always dangerously close to the action, just to get their scoop. | |
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Ben Bertolucci of Resident Evil 2 is another subversion. He came to Raccoon City to get the dirt on what's happening to the town, but once he learns that it's falling apart under a small-scale Zombie Apocalypse and he's trapped there, he gives up on chasing the story, locks himself in a jail cell, and refuses to leave until everything blows over. Or blows up, which he doesn't live to see anyway. | |
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Fran Doll becomes a war reporter in ∀ Gundam and travels to battle zones to take photographs, at one point facing down a mobile suit that appears to be aiming at a child and threatening it by saying she'll publicize the atrocity. Shortly after this incident, she learns that Luzianna is suppressing her work by buying up the photos but not publishing them so the public won't realize how bad it's going, but she keeps taking her pictures after reuniting with Loran and company. | |
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Announcer Sasagawa of Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head Kidou Kyuukyuu Keisatsu will always get right in the line of danger to cover a story, especially if it concerns Drive Head. This gets her into trouble when she rushes out during her vacation to cover a meteorite crash in the mountains. | |
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Discussed by Piper in Fallout 4, who believes that a reporter shouldn't consider themselves a success until they've rattled the cages enough for someone else to threaten their life. In that regard, she considers herself to be very successful. | |
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Obnoxious tabloid reporter Thomas Kemp in the monster-movie Alligator. He goes snooping around the sewer looking for "Ramon", the titular mankiller. They meet, and Kemp's recovered Apocalyptic Log photographs force the authorities to finally take the problem seriously. | |
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In the Xandri Corelel novel Tone of Voice, three reporters sneak onto the planet Song to report on what was supposed to be a classified mission. They're quickly caught and placed into custody, but they still manage to sneak off by themselves, even going for a boat ride at one point. Their boat is surrounded by Disharmonies, who bite one of them in half before help can arrive. Later it turns out that they accidentally led the Last Hope for Humanity onto Song, resulting in a bloody battle to save the planet's inhabitants. | |
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Jake Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a fiction writer at heart, but gets a job with the Federation News Service, which isn't always convenient for his dad the leading public figure. Jake also chooses to stay behind and cover the Dominion occupation of the station in spite of the risk. Although hampered by the Dominion refusing to transmit his stories, he still investigates and conducts interviews, at one point asking Kira and Odo some legitimate but uncomfortable questions. | |
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While My Pretty One Sleeps: Prior to her disappearance, Ethel had been researching the New York fashion scene for a magazine article she was writing, but she had also approached publisher Jack Campbell about a potential deal for a book exposing an "explosive" scandal about the fashion industry she'd uncovered during her research, one too big to simply summarise in an article. After Ethel's body is found, Neeve and Jack wonder if someone in the fashion industry killed Ethel to prevent her from revealing the scandal, especially given Ethel wasn't exactly subtle about her investigations, sometimes even bragging to people's faces that she'd dug up dirt on them. Ethel was indeed murdered because she intended to write an expose on Anthony della Salva's famous Pacific Reef look, revealing that he stole the design (she may also have been close to figuring out he killed the true designer). | |
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LEGO: Pippin Reed (also known as Gail Storm) from LEGO Adventurers, who traveled the world with Johnny Thunder and Dr. Kilroy, braving booby trap-filled temples and dodging criminals and thieves just to get a good story for World Magazine. J. Theano from LEGO Dino Attack, a reporter from the WDNO radio news station who braves a mutant dinosaur apocalypse to provide the latest scoop on D.I.N.O. Attack's battle against the prehistoric threat. LEGO Alien Conquest has Lotta Brix, who goes straight into the middle of an alien invasion to get the latest scoop. This leads to her abduction, of course, but she continues giving news reports even as she is brought aboard the mothership. |
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Just before the launch of Mass Effect 3, Emily Wong livetweets the Reaper invasion of Earth. This would generally constitute Going For The Big Scoop, but she displays plenty of common sense in avoiding the actual Reapers and trying to stay alive. It doesn't work - her shuttle takes a hit, wounding her and killing her team. Then she decides to ram a Reaper. | |
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Mass Effect: Just before the launch of Mass Effect 3, Emily Wong livetweets the Reaper invasion of Earth. This would generally constitute Going For The Big Scoop, but she displays plenty of common sense in avoiding the actual Reapers and trying to stay alive. It doesn't work - her shuttle takes a hit, wounding her and killing her team. Then she decides to ram a Reaper. Played straighter with Diana Allers, who could have embedded with any number of Alliance ships, but she specifically chooses the Normandy, which would promise to always be in the Reapers' crosshairs and whose predecessor was destroyed by Collectors just a couple years prior. And it pays off, as she gets front-row seats to such galactic community-shaking events as the cure of the genophage and peace between the quarians and geth. |
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Batman has his own Lois Lane in the form of Vicki Vale, a reporter for the Gotham Gazette, who in the '50s pretty much was "Lois but ginger". And with far less staying power. More modern depictions have even acknowledged the similarities to Lois by having Vicki jealous of Lois's greater success. | |
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Space Channel 5 is all about reporters going after the big scoop and saving the galaxy. | |
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The One to Make It Stay has Marlena gently rebuke her daughter for constantly putting her life on the line chasing akumas. There's also how one of the 'big scoops' she posts involves some very selective editing, causing no end of problems for the heroes... | |
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Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army: The game's Intrepid Reporter, Tae "Kichou" Asakura. The monster Red Cape has been spotted in an abandoned factory? You wrote yourself that it "leaves behind nothing but a bloody corpse"? You have a problem with fainting under pressure or when extremely startled (and surely you must know this fact about yourself...)? You wear high heels, which, as you know, are not conducive to running for your life? Sure, no problem, you're gonna go all by yourself! Thankfully, she seems to have learned her lesson from that experience and asks someone to go with her next time she's working on a dangerous scoop. Hooray for Character Development! | |
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Erika from Medabots is always on the hunt for a big scoop, even if that involves charging blindly into the Vice District of town. Despite her being, hmmm, 12. | |
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Gundam: This is what gets Kinue Crossroad killed in season 1 of Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Fran Doll becomes a war reporter in ∀ Gundam and travels to battle zones to take photographs, at one point facing down a mobile suit that appears to be aiming at a child and threatening it by saying she'll publicize the atrocity. Shortly after this incident, she learns that Luzianna is suppressing her work by buying up the photos but not publishing them so the public won't realize how bad it's going, but she keeps taking her pictures after reuniting with Loran and company. |
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Arrow: Rebirth: After hearing about an imminent threat to Amnesty Bay, Susan Willaims promptly has her cameraman set up and does a special bulletin report right in front of where the action will take place. | |
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Circus Electrique: Amelia is completely willing to brave the streets of Steampunk London in the midst of a Vicious outbreak with only her Loyal Animal Companion Leonidas by her side. Her uncle convinces her to take some of his performers along with her for protection, but she's not thrilled about it. | |
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The reporters in Aeon Natum Engel are unambitious and do what the government tells them to do. Why they don't go searching for hidden conspiracies? Because it's stupid in their situation, where creating chaos by revealing a new enemy when humanity got its hands full and more with existing enemies is the last thing anybody needs, including the reporters. | |
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Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg because he is an intrepid photojournalist who got too close to the action and got injured as a result. He doesn't let that stop him from being an intrepid journalist during the rest of the film, as he spies on his neighbor and eventually develops the idea that the man may have murdered his wife. | |
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Lotta Hart does it all the time in the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney saga. Her photos are usually both the making and the breaking of the case against the defendant of whatever case she's gotten sucked into. Her photos that Phoenix uses for evidence are usually blurry, at odd angles, or out of focus, which makes Phoenix's cases much more difficult for him, and makes one wonder how Lotta can still be making a living as a photographer. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series fanfic Insontis, a tabloid reporter kidnaps the de-aged Kirk, heedless of the fact that 1) he was in the company of a Starfleet officer, and 2) his other guard is an extremely protective Vulcan. | |
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Thunderbirds: In "Terror in New York City", TV journalist Ned Cook is determined to cover the event of the Empire State Building being moved. Even when the operation goes wrong and the ground starts cracking up under his feet, he stays where he is, until he falls through the ground, and has to be rescued in a very difficult operation. | |
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Good Omens: The woman only known as Red (and various synonyms for the color) is an amazing wartime reporter, always being on the spot when conflict breaks out even if there was no indication of it earlier. Of course, Red is actually War of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse fame. | |
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So you see this plane come down. You go to help. They shoot you. You get out of the hospital and decide to investigate. So they leave you unconscious in a burning building and sabotage the firetrucks. After getting out of the hospital again, what do you do? Well if you're Tintin, then obviously you have to go check out their creepy isle citadel from which no one ever returns and from which strange monster howls come from. | |
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Diethard from Code Geass in Episode 4. "I want that camera right in his face!" Diethard is an interesting example of this trope, as his fascination with history in the making is a full-blown obsession, and leads him to switch sides several times. He also takes an active role in affecting events as they unfold, rather than simply observing and recording. | |
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The protagonist of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth is Joey Summerskill, a reporter who sees her big break when she witnesses the effects of the Lament Configuration on a hospital patient and gets wrapped up Pinhead's plot. | |
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Aya Shameimaru from Touhou Project is known to act like this. In fact, she has her own spin-off game series whose premise is entirely that she intentionally pisses off the bosses of all the other games in order to take pictures of their bullet patterns and supposedly interview them. She can get away with it because she's no slouch herself when it comes to fighting. | |
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Ned "Scotty" Scott in The Thing from Another World, who spends most of the movie wanting to send out a news story about the Thing and get a picture of it. | |
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Robot Alchemic Drive gives us the borderline-suicidal Mika Banhara, who in a few levels decides to get a close-up of two Humongous Mecha fighting. If she dies, it's a Non-Standard Game Over. It's worse when she's in a van and seems to intentionally park underfoot. If you're feeling mean, possibly because you keep having to retry the level, you can pick up that news van and toss it across the city. | |
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Madison Paige in Heavy Rain routinely walks into highly dangerous situations alone while investigating the Origami killer. However, in each case, she has the ability to escape from them on her own if the player makes the right movies. | |
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BoBoiBoy: The Movie: Ravi J. Jambul gets a live report on a high-speed chase by jumping onto the roof of the robbers' vehicle and interviewing them. As his catchphrase for the introduction of his program goes, "Wherever there's trouble, I'm surely there!" | |
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In Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, reporter Elena Fisher and her cameraman Jeff pursue Lazarevic, a rogue general with an entire army under his command, into a war zone by themselves, resulting in Jeff getting killed. Though Elena is armed and fairly competent with a gun, bringing some cops or security guards with them probably would have been a good idea. | |
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Mia Fey: Ace Attorney – The Fool's Turnabout: Ohya's Establishing Character Moment features her drunkenly arguing with the cops about how they won't let her pass. She's soon shown to be a highly unprofessional reporter whose credentials are questionable at best. | |
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: All the reporters in the film are risking their lives for the big scoop. | |
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The Night Flier: Richard Dees is a scummy tabloid reporter who continues to investigate a series of murders at country airports even when it seems increasingly likely that the killer is a monster of some sort. The vampire finally murders him after noting that coming face to face with a real monster is the culmination of Dees's existence. | |
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This was the role of Vicki Vale in Burton's Batman (1989). She did such things as taking a flash picture while armed goons were removing Batman's mask, fer Alfred's sake! It did serve as a handy distraction when Batman was about to be unmasked... | |
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Although April O'Neil is not a reporter in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, the Intrepid Reporter role was eventually filled by Lauren Stanton, who, as a writer for "The Bullet", investigates gangland activity in New York. In her debut appearance, she is seen infiltrating a nightclub in order to spy on the underworld's movers and shakers, and later on, she attempts to report on a deal between groups. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Partners in Crime", Penny Carter, science correspondent for the Observer, hides in the Adipose Industries building after hours to find out the secret behind their suspiciously effective diet pills. For her trouble, she is captured and tied to a chair twice, the second after the Doctor freed her and told her to Get Out! | |
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Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne with Hijiri, an occult journalist who sets his sights on Hikawa, whom he accuses of leading a fanatical cult obsessed with the end of the world into a massacre against an opposing cult. This ends up getting him caught up in the apocalypse, and he STILL insists on getting his scoop. At least unlike most examples, he managed to have the sense to stay in the nice, SAFE little save points after the city wrapped itself around a big ball of light - until Isamu manages to piss him off enough that he goes crazy. It probably doesn't hurt matters that Hijiri actually did die in the Conception; the Hijiri you encounter in the Vortex World is actually Hijiri's soul in a manikin body. | |
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Two Letters: Alya's tendency to do this works against her when she investigates the new Ladybug. Circumstances lead her to show up to an akuma fight disguised as Chat Noir, hoping to provoke a reaction from Ladybug that will expose her deceptive nature. She failed to consider that she didn't have any Miraculous powers or protection; when the akuma targets her, she's forced to scream for help. The new Ladybug shields her, then exaggerates the extent of her injuries afterwards while begging the public to remember that her Secret Identity has to remain secret, and asking them not to get involved with akumas "just to get clips for social media". As a result, the public assumes that Alya was attempting to unmask their new heroine for the sake of an 'exclusive scoop' on her Ladyblog, completely tanking her reputation. | |
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In Person of Interest, one of the numbers has this as her calling in life. While her main story is HR, she also has an obsession with chasing the Man in the Suit, which makes it rather hard for Reese to protect her without exposing himself. | |
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Criminal Case: Grimsborough: Rachel Priest is at this for most of the Financial Center arc, digging around to find any major dirt on Alden Greene. Unfortunately, she dug too deep, and this gets her murdered. | |
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Polly Perkins does this annoyingly often in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). | |
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In Leave for Mendeleiev, Alya fixates on exposing Ladybug's Secret Identity, reasoning that most American superheroes don't bother with one, so Ladybug shouldn't have one, either. Unlike Canon, she and Marinette aren't friends or even classmates, so Marinette takes the threat she poses much more seriously, along with the danger she's putting herself into. | |
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Enemy Front: The Intrepid Reporter protagonist, Robert Hawkins, starts off as a volunteer who travels into the heart of Germany-occupied Poland in the middle of the World War, in order to get the latest news. | |
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Yusuke Tozawa from Witchblade anime. Inspector Nakata abhors him and calls him "Hyena" for hunting after murder scenes, and as we can see in ep. 08 with displeased security guys, it's not the first time he asks for trouble. | |
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Daphne in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Freaky things are happening that threaten herself and her friends, but at least this makes great material for her talk show! Until the footage gets lost in quicksand. | |
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Superman Returns: Lois Lane. To the extent of bringing her four-year-old son to investigate a potentially dangerous lead, without telling anyone where she went. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, this trope got Carly Nagisa/Carmine killed and brought Back from the Dead to put her love interest Jack in a lose-lose situation of either killing her again or losing to her and joining her in her Lotus-Eater Machine hell. | |
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Detective Pikachu: Meiko doesn't let a rampaging Charizard convince her to run away when she's interested in getting the latest report. | |
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Voyagers!, "Jack's Back": Nellie Bly tries to find Jack the Ripper so she can get the story on him. | |
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The War of the Worlds (1938) radio broadcast featured reporter Carl Phillips who paints a word picture for listeners of the strange cylinder that landed in Grovers Mill, New Jersey, the scary alien that creeps out of it, and the death ray that sweeps over the crowd and sets people on fire. His broadcast is suddenly cut off when he gets too close to the action. | |
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In Finder Series, his insistence on playing amateur investigator is what gets freelance photographer Takaba Akihito into trouble over and over and over throughout the plot. Though in his defense, even when he isn't trying to get a scoop, he still gets into trouble due to other factors completely outside his control. | |
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Peret em Heru: For the Prisoners: Mizumi is a downplayed example; while he doesn't rush headlong into danger, he's more than happy to accompany the tour group into the ruins despite the dangers because this gives him the chance to take some exclusive pictures, and potentially be the first to break the story. His more reckless tendencies actually lie elsewhere. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014): April is willing to put herself into dangerous situations to get the story she needs to boost her career. Unfortunately, this means she has very little self-preservation and doesn't always think things through (for instance, it doesn't occur to her that maybe going into a subway tunnel when everyone is trying to get out of it is probably not the best idea. Or that four massive turtles would probably not be very happy with her taking their picture). | |
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Godzilla (1998): Cameraman "Animal" Palotti reacts to Godzilla arriving in Manhattan by grabbing his camera and chasing after the monster even as his wife is screaming at him to come back and everyone else is running very fast in the opposite direction. He ends up being the first person to get close-up footage of the kaiju after almost getting stepped on. | |
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In Lois & Clark, though, Lois Lane starts to learn a few seasons in. A few days before her wedding to Clark, she starts freaking out because "anytime we're happy, something terrible happens!" Naturally, on the day of the wedding she's kidnapped by Lex Luthor and replaced with a clone. Oh, and then she gets amnesia for a few episodes and believes herself to be a character from her secret romance novel, and Luthor to be "Kent", her love. Should've taken that honeymoon a little early after all. Or just not investigated that "one little story..." | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: What does Rinko do to pursue the case of kidnapped athletes for her magazine? Track down and approach Kojiro, an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy in the middle of busting dojos, who thankfully isn't the one behind it but no less a dangerous situation to charge into. She follows with the hero team even after they start fighting against man-sized alien dragonflies, creatures of the shadow world, or Half-Human Hybrid karate criminals to keep on the story. | |
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Kylie Koopa from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time goes to great lengths to gather information regarding the Shroob Invasion which is then published in a book titled Fungicide: The Epic Battle for the Mushroom Kingdom. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Denn Dur, a Sullustan from the MedStar Duology, explicitly goes running for trouble to report on, although he complains about doing so and is very cynical about hero types. In Coruscant Nights he's not really a reporter anymore, but he still does it, because his True Companions are usually there, although he complains even more, since he's not even getting paid now. | |
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Kazumi Asakura from Negima! Magister Negi Magi. She actually manages to mostly avoid the whole Damsel in Distress aspect; the one time she gets captured by an enemy it has nothing to do with her attempts to get a story. She gradually loses this trait. Of course, this probably has something to do with invariably winding up keeping every big scoop a secret after finding out it would probably be a bad idea to get her teacher/longshot romantic interest fired. She's now more of The Trickster, with her Cute Ghost Girl best friend as a sidekick. (She can manage to look like an Expy of Mitsune while doing it.) | |
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Damien Day from Drop the Dead Donkey probably counts. (He's also willing to endanger, or at least frighten other people for a story). He was later revealed to be a virgin who channeled his sexual drive into his work but then had a brief fling with a similarly inclined female reporter which was built around having sex in dangerous places. He also always carried a bloodstained teddy bear in his briefcase, in case there weren't any sufficiently shocking images available at the disaster scene. At one disaster scene he wanted to film with a crying child, but the only child in the vicinity was perfectly happy. So Damien slapped him. His cameraman suffers greatly for this; Damien at one point asks another member of the office to call his cameraman's wife after he's been hurt, noting that "she tends to get hysterical when she hears my voice on the phone." |
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Transmetropolitan, Spider Jerusalem. He will do anything to himself and the rest of the world for The Truth. "Sometimes I think that if I let my brain know what my gut was propelling me into, it'd chuck itself out my ear." | |
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Dead Rising's Frank West, who takes time out to shoot photos of the zombies trying to gnaw on his arm. In fact, he came to the zombie-overrun mall the game takes place in by choice, so he could cover the story up close. | |
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Feralnette AU: Alya's desire to secure 'exclusive content' for her Ladyblog leads her into direct conflict with Ladybug when she posts one of Lila's claims and attracts a crowd of gawkers -- and Hawkmoth's attention — to what was meant to be a nice event for children. When she accidentally reveals that she knows about Lila's 'lying disease', Ladybug calls her out on her Skewed Priorities and blacklists the Ladyblog until she proves she's capable of researching her claims. Alya then escalates her behavior, having dramatically missed the point of Ladybug's ultimatum and convincing herself that the best way to prove herself is by gathering live footage. Felix confronts her over this, coming to the conclusion that Alya is dead set not just on 'proving herself', but on 'proving' that Ladybug was wrong, not her. It's also shown that Alya sees nothing wrong with filming others without their permission, and takes for granted the notion that "Ladybug always saves the day", even complaining when those rescues don't take the form she prefers. |
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