History Main / AttentionWhore

See FameThroughInfamy for this trope at its darkest.

* ''Theatre/Hamilton'': Aaron Burr shows a tendency towards this, most visible in the song 'The Schuyler Sisters':

Usually an attribute of the AlphaBitch. A few {{Upper Class Twit}}s do this. Often goes hand-in-hand with a SmallNameBigEgo. Children who are this are the BrattyHalfPint. A {{Troll}} thrives as long as this trope is in effect.

'''Aaron Burr:''' Ah, so you've discussed me.\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' "[[Recap/SouthParkS19E9TruthAndAdvertising Truth And Advertising]]"

A SisterTrope to CamWhore, DramaQueen, ShamelessSelfPromoter.

* The third ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game features a character named [[MeaningfulName Luke Atmey]]. Even better, his [[{{Leitmotif}} theme song]] is titled ''"I Just Want Love..."'', and his Japanese name is ''Aiga Hoshiidake'' which translates to ''"I just want love"''.

* Wrestling/MattHardy. Matt went into a personal ''and'' professional downward spiral after Wrestling/{{Lita}} cheated on him with Wrestling/{{Edge}}. It completely derailed his career, and the last couple of years during his WWE run had him squandering in the midcard before making attempts to get fired. It's effect on him, however, wouldn't really show up until after he was released from TNA -- Matt posted cryptic messages insinuating that he was going to commit suicide, many of whom believed that and were genuinely afraid for his safety, to the point of calling the police on him. As it turns out, it was a ''work'' to "test his fans" and advertise his "rebirth" -- there was '''massive''' backlash from this that destroyed his reputation on top of upsetting several of his friends and his sister-in-law. In fact, for many years afterwards, the previously derided drug-addled Wrestling/JeffHardy, Matt's little brother of whom Matt was always considered more professional than, ended up being considered the ''more responsible Hardy brother'', especially after Jeff took responsibility for his actions and stayed clean. This is the same Hardy who got convicted for drug trafficking. To Matt's credit, he's worked to get his life cleaned up since then and has gotten most of it out of his system.

Confused? You'll know when you're ripe\\

* Murdoc Niccals of the band Gorillaz, who is both their founder and the band's bassist, is this trope to the extreme, as he is fully willing to do practically anything and everything to get the attention he desires. This is including but not limited to ''making an actual deal with the devil'' just so that he can get more popular.

* In ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework,'' Morgan suspects that Lauren is this, and Lauren herself admits iy on her romantic path: she started dating the protagonist for the recognition of dating of celebrity, and invited Daniela to the club to take a picture of them on their first date.

* Many modern music artists have been known to feud with one another for this purpose, just to sell records...

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' gives us [[spoiler:Mikan Tsumiki. The reason she started learning medicine was because no one else would treat her injuries when she was abused, and the reason she learned enough to be considered the Ultimate Nurse was because if someone is helpless, they would depend on her absolutely. She also implies that she would rather be literally tortured than ignored.]]

** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' gives us [[spoiler:the ''entire cast'' except Ki-Bo (who was created specifically for the killing game), who willingly signed up to have their memories and identities overridden with SHSL talents and take part in a killing game for the fame and fortune one receives for winning]].

** Rather dramatically {{deconstruct|ion}}ed by [[spoiler: Sayaka Maizono]] from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. [[spoiler: Her desire for attention has a rather sad background, as she was raised by a single father who also was very {{workaholic}} and left her alone all the time. Young Sayaka spent several hours on her own in front of the TV and fell in love with the IdolSinger way of life, thinking that if she became one of these she would be given the affection and love she lacked; thus she worked hard, became a part of an idol group, and was so good at it that she became the Super High School Level IdolSinger, loved and admired by everyone in Japan. Then Monobear exploited Sayaka's massive terror at the idea of being forgotten, showing her a video of what would happen if she didn't leave Hope's Peak: that her group would be disbanded and she'd be totally abandoned by her fans... which ultimately made her snap hard enough to plan killing someone and use Naegi, her ex-classmate who had a crush on her, as a scapegoat -- and finished when she actually TRIED to kill someone [[TheCanKickedHim and ended up dead for it.]] All because Sayaka felt that, if she lost her fans's love and support, she would be literally worth NOTHING.]]

* Murdoc Niccals of the band Gorillaz, who is both their founder and the band's bassist, is this trope to the extreme, as he is fully willing to do practically anything and everything to get the attention he desires. This is including but not limited to ''making an actual deal with the devil just so that he can get more popular.''

* [[AttentionWhore/AnimatedFilms Film — Animated]]
* [[AttentionWhore/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]

While this is clearly TruthInTelevision (and a Trope that's almost synonymous with "celebrity"), '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''', as it's an Administrivia/EditWar waiting to happen. [[noreallife]]

While this is clearly TruthInTelevision (and a Trope that's almost synonymous with "celebrity") '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''', as it's an Administrivia/EditWar waiting to happen. [[noreallife]]

While this is clearly TruthInTelevision (and a Trope that's almost synonymous with "celebrity") Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, as it's an edit war waiting to happen. [[noreallife]]