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* In ''Film/RichardJewell'', Jewell is portrayed this way, which causes the FBI to suspect him of EngineeredHeroics.
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* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Cao Cao is the descendant of the original legendary hero Cao Cao. His greatest dream is to be called a great hero himself, to the point that he gathered the descendants and reincarnations of other legendary heroes and called their group the Hero Faction. Unfortunately, none of them understand that the point of a hero is to help people. Instead, they think the point of a hero is to become famous, and are willing to commit atrocities to achieve fame. Even when the protagonists tell Cao Cao that they are acting like villains and no one would ever call them heroes after the shit they have pulled, he refuses to stop. Later, after getting beaten several times, the Hero Faction seems to finally get it and aim to atone for their crimes.
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* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'': Cao Cao is the descendant of the original legendary hero Cao Cao. His greatest dream is to be called a great hero himself, to the point that he gathered the descendants and reincarnations of other legendary heroes and called their group the Hero Faction. Unfortunately, none of them understand that the point of a hero is to help people. Instead, they think the point of a hero is to become famous, and are willing to commit atrocities to achieve fame. Even when the protagonists tell Cao Cao that they are acting like villains and no one would ever call them heroes after the shit they have pulled, he refuses to stop. Later, after getting beaten several times, the Hero Faction seems to finally get it and aim to atone for their crimes.
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* Leopold Scorpse from ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' follows the heroine out of equal parts sense of chivalry and growing feelings for her.
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* Leopold Scorpse from ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'' follows the heroine out of equal parts sense of chivalry and growing feelings for her.
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* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaMementoMori'': This is deuteragonist [[{{Salaryman}} Daigo Bushida]]'s FatalFlaw; after finding himself in the [[DeadlyGame Killing Game]], he becomes so obsessed with the idea of being the hero leading everyone else that [[MartyrWithoutACause he's willing to throw away his life]].
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* The William Burnside ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, the infamous "Commie-Smasher" Cap, was retconned into this. He was a fanboy of the original Captain America and tried to become Cap during the Korean War, going so far to surgically modify his looks and voice to resemble Steve Rogers. When America lost the Korean War, Burnside lost his chance... until the Communist Red Skull appeared and he and his young sidekick Jack Munroe donned replica costumes of Cap and Bucky and used a Nazi reverse-engineered Super Soldier Serum to save the day. Too bad the serum was missing an important component and the two went crazy in their anti-Communism attacks
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* Sonic at the beginning of ''Film/{{Sonic The Hedgehog 2|2022}}'' is seen trying to foil a bank robbery in Seattle. While he does succeed, he also causes copious property damage in the process. Even the hostage he rescued, far from feeling grateful, told Sonic how much his attempt at heroism sucked.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jaune enters Beacon Academy because he's driven by the desire to be a hero like multiple generations of his male ancestors have been. He is tormented by the idea that he's just a walking joke and that he constantly seems to fall short of what a hero is supposed to be. Being unable to save lives, including those he cares deeply about, takes an enormous toll on him. It's not until he goes through this that he begins to understand the price of being a hero is far more costly than the fairy tale depictions of them present. [[spoiler:In Volume 9, he is so tormented by his failures that he unintentionally holds the Paper Pleasers hostage for years just to experience the cheap thrill of saving lives, sabotaging his own, and even Team RWBY's, attempts to get home as a result of his misplaced fears of the Tree. Seeing the reincarnated forms of the Paper Pleasers making a beautiful sculpture out of the water that destroyed their previous forms makes him realise what he's been doing. Weiss tells him that even the greatest heroes fail; he needs to stop holding himself to impossible standards and just accept he's a brave and good person who tries his best. Finally accepting the truth enables them to travel to the Tree and locate Ruby; when he's exposed to the Tree's hallucinogenic smoke, an image of Alyx -- whom he once tried and failed to help as the Rusted Knight -- tells him that he was never the hero, but that if he does truly want to be one, then he needs to be himself and try his best. Only by accepting what everyone's been telling him about his unheroic behaviour is he able to begin the process of growing out of the trope.]]
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Jaune enters Beacon Academy because he's driven by the desire to be a hero like multiple generations of his male ancestors have been. He is tormented by the idea that he's just a walking joke and that he constantly seems to fall short of what a hero is supposed to be. Being unable to save lives, including those he cares deeply about, takes an enormous toll on him. It's not until he goes through this that he begins to understand the price of being a hero is far more costly than the fairy tale depictions of them present. [[spoiler:In Volume 9, he is so tormented by his failures that he unintentionally holds the Paper Pleasers hostage for years just to experience the cheap thrill of saving lives, sabotaging his own, and even Team RWBY's, attempts to get home as a result of his misplaced fears of the Tree. Seeing the reincarnated forms of the Paper Pleasers making a beautiful sculpture out of the water that destroyed their previous forms makes him realise what he's been doing. Weiss tells him that even the greatest heroes fail; he needs to stop holding himself to impossible standards and just accept he's a brave and good person who tries his best. Finally accepting the truth enables them to travel to the Tree and locate Ruby; when he's exposed to the Tree's hallucinogenic smoke, an image of Alyx -- whom he once tried and failed to help as the Rusted Knight -- tells him that he was never the hero, but that if he does truly want to be one, then he needs to be himself and try his best. Only by accepting what everyone's been telling him about his unheroic behaviour is he able to begin the process of growing out of the trope.]]
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* Syndrome from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', an AscendedFanboy who ended up as the BigBad -- someone willing to engage in serial murder to upgrade his HumongousMecha so that [[MonsterProtectionRacket he'd be the only one who could stop it.]]
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* Syndrome from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', an AscendedFanboy who ended up as the BigBad -- someone willing to engage in serial murder to upgrade his HumongousMecha so that [[MonsterProtectionRacket he'd be the only one who could stop it.]]
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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Umino went through a period of running around in a Tuxedo Mask costume and trying to protect Naru and be her hero so she would fall in love with him. Since he's just a wimpy geek with no fighting skills, he doesn't accomplish much, but Naru eventually falls for him anyway.
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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Umino went through a period of running around in a Tuxedo Mask costume and trying to protect Naru and be her hero so she would fall in love with him. Since he's just a wimpy geek with no fighting skills, he doesn't accomplish much, much (except for one scene where he stops Zoisite from attacking Naru just by showing up because Zoisite mistook him for the real Tuxedo Mask and retreated), but Naru eventually falls for him anyway.
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* This trope is built into the game mechanics for ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''. If you kill someone in front of a witness, their reaction will be based on their persona- Dangerous (the Student Council), Strict (Teachers) and Heroic (some students) will attempt to apprehend you themselves, Social Butterflies will run to a place with people (and call the cops), Teachers' Pets will tell their preferred teacher, Loners will run out of school and then call the cops, and Cowards will run away, but not call the police. However, certain students have others that they're particularly close to, like Saki with Kokona, Pippi with Ryuto, the Basu sisters with each other, the Photography club with each other, and anyone you've matchmade with each other. When you kill one of such a pair where the other can see you, it doesn't matter what their personality is- they're coming after you as if they had the Heroic persona. And you'd better be ready for a struggle because their strength will be maxed out, even if they were incapable of self-defense beforehand.
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* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Umino went through a period of running around in a Tuxedo Mask costume and trying to protect Naru and be her hero so she would fall in love with him. Since he's just a wimpy geek with no fighting skills, he doesn't accomplish much, but Naru eventually falls for him anyway.
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In ''The Andalite Chronicles'', Elfangor and Arbron were two rookies who eagerly joined the war hoping to become heroes. By the time they achieve this (Elfangor becoming a hero to the Andalites and Arbron becoming a hero to the Taxxons), they have learned WarIsHell and are jaded and full of regrets.
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* In ''Film/RushHour3'', Lee and Carter repeatedly run into a taxi driver named George while in France, [[FrenchJerk who at first despises the duo for being violent Americans]] and have to be strong-armed into driving them, but after ending up in a ChaseScene against Triads [[BadassDriver and doing surprisingly well]], he gets a taste for the adrenaline and ''begs'' them to get in on further "super-spy" action. The duo naturally decline since he's just a civilian, but they do take him up on his offer of chauffeuring them around for free. [[spoiler:In the PostClimaxConfrontation, just as [[BigBadDuumvirate Reynard]] appears to execute he can execute the duo, [[BigDamnHeroes George appears to save the pair by shooting the man dead]].]]
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* In ''Film/RushHour3'', Lee and Carter repeatedly run into a taxi driver named George while in France, [[FrenchJerk who at first despises the duo for being violent Americans]] and have to be strong-armed into driving them, but after ending up in a ChaseScene against Triads [[BadassDriver and doing surprisingly well]], he gets a taste for the adrenaline and ''begs'' them to get in on further "super-spy" action. The duo naturally decline since he's just a civilian, but they do take him up on his offer of chauffeuring them around for free. [[spoiler:In the PostClimaxConfrontation, just as [[BigBadDuumvirate Reynard]] appears to execute he can execute the duo, a hostage, [[BigDamnHeroes George appears to save the pair by shooting shoot the man dead]].]]
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* In ''Film/RushHour3'', Lee and Carter repeatedly run into a taxi driver named George while in France, [[FrenchJerk who at first despises the duo for being violent Americans]] and have to be strong-armed into driving them, but after ending up in a ChaseScene against Triads [[BadassDriver and doing surprisingly well]], he gets a taste for the adrenaline and ''begs'' them to get in on further "super-spy" action. The duo naturally decline since he's just a civilian, but they do take him up on his offer of chauffeuring them around for free. [[spoiler:In the PostClimaxConfrontation, just as [[BigBadDuumvirate Reynard]] appears to execute he can execute the duo, [[BigDamnHeroes George appears to save the pair by shooting the man dead]].]]
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* Miyamoto from the ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series is a bit player or a mere employee of a movie magazine who dresses and acts like a samurai since he watch too many history drama, and he's mocked for connecting anything with bushido and speaking old fashionly. However, unlike most of the examples, he actually has some improvements like having a FriendlyRivalry with a ninja named... [[ADogNamedDog Ninja]].
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Walburt spends the early chapters boasting to Haara about how their "noble quest" is the start of their valiant journey that will turn them into heroes of legend. Once they actually reach the Genasi mines and he witnesses the cruelty and injustices on display within (beginning with the bodies of two dead miners left to rot after suffocating on toxic fumes), he quickly sobers up and abandons that sort of lofty talk.
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* Most of Nikki Roxx's more embarrassing or horrific defeats were half TheWorfEffect and half this trope. She is a big strong wrestler but nowhere near as big or strong as she thinks she is, as seen in various runs such as All Pro, LLF and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} but none more apparent than Wrestling/{{TNA}}, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero where her efforts to be helpful]] lead to the Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople, who eventually ended Roxxi's TNA career.
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* Most of Nikki Roxx's more embarrassing or horrific defeats were half TheWorfEffect and half this trope. She is a big strong wrestler but nowhere near as big or strong as she thinks she is, as seen in various runs such as All Pro, LLF and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} but none more apparent than Wrestling/{{TNA}}, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero where her efforts to be helpful]] lead to the Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople, who eventually ended Roxxi's TNA career.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "Littlest Planeteer", a young boy named Jason is obsessed with becoming a hero and saving the day. Since he keeps charging forward without thinking, he just keeps making things worse.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "Littlest Planeteer", "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E11TheLittlestPlaneteer Littlest Planeteer]]", a young boy named Jason is obsessed with becoming a hero and saving the day. Since he keeps charging forward without thinking, thinking and trying to use things he knows nothing about (up to and including the Fire Ring), he just keeps making things worse.
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* ''Manga/MagicalCircleGuruGuru'' gives us two examples. First is main character Nike's father, who dreamed of being a Hero but was forced to give it up due to there being no evil to be Heroic at. He therefore raises Nike to become a Hero and, when evil does return, sends him out to battle it. The second example is Gale, who appears nearly OnceAnEpisode, faces the current crisis claiming himself the 'True Hero', [[TheChewToy only to get beaten down and/or humiliated immediately after.]]
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* ''Manga/MagicalCircleGuruGuru'' gives us two examples. First is main character Nike's father, who dreamed of being a Hero but was forced to give it up due to there being no evil to be Heroic at. He therefore raises Nike to become a Hero and, when evil does return, sends him out to battle it. The second example is Gale, Gail, who appears nearly OnceAnEpisode, faces the current crisis claiming himself the 'True Hero', [[TheChewToy only to get beaten down and/or humiliated immediately after.]]
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* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': Cao Cao is the descendant of the original legendary hero Cao Cao. His greatest dream is to be called a great hero himself, to the point that he gathered the descendants and reincarnations of other legendary heroes and called their group the Hero Faction. Unfortunately, none of them understand that the point of a hero is to help people. Instead, they think the point of a hero is to become famous, and are willing to commit atrocities to achieve fame. Even when the protagonists tell Cao Cao that they are acting like villains and no one would ever call them heroes after the shit they have pulled, he refuses to stop. Later, after getting beaten several times, the Hero Faction seems to finally get it and aim to atone for their crimes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'': When the Teen Titans demand to know why nobody respects them or acknowledges them as heroes, Superman points out that they actually have to do something heroic first, but the Titans keep goofing off and acting selfish and irresponsible. By the end, the Titans get their act together and save the world.
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A specific form of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism and the WideEyedIdealist. A Heroic Wannabe is a person so intent on the idea of becoming a hero that that person is willing to do just about anything, and can tend not to think about what being a "hero" really means or what you have to do to become one. Darker cases may suffer from BlackAndWhiteInsanity, or more seriously from being a HeroismAddict.
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A specific form of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism and the WideEyedIdealist. A Heroic Wannabe is a person so intent on the idea of becoming a hero that that person is willing to do just about anything, and can tend not to think about what being a "hero" really means or what you have to do to become one. Darker cases may suffer from BlackAndWhiteInsanity, or more seriously from being a HeroismAddict.
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* ''Manga/FrankenFran'' has an extremely disturbing example, even by this series' standards. One of the Sentinels literally gets a high from pursuing vengeance, so whenever he gets in a fight [[HeroismAddict he arranges for the maximum amount of collateral damage]]. Then he swears to the dead that he will avenge them and starts off anew.
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* ''Manga/FrankenFran'' has an extremely disturbing example, even by this series' standards. One of the Sentinels literally gets a high from pursuing vengeance, so whenever he gets in a fight [[HeroismAddict [[EngineeredHeroics he arranges for the maximum amount of collateral damage]]. Then he swears to the dead that he will avenge them and starts off anew.
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* ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': Kouki Amanogawa is summoned to another world to be a hero and he takes his role with gusto, but while he is powerful, he is so stupid, naive, hypocritical, and suffering from major ego and BlackAndWhiteInsanity problems that he becomes a liability and a nuisance.
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* ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': Kouki Amanogawa is summoned to another world to be a hero and he takes his role with gusto, but while he is powerful, he is so stupid, naive, hypocritical, and egotistical, suffering from major ego and BlackAndWhiteInsanity problems problems, and constantly underestimates his opponents and overestimates his strength that he becomes a liability and a nuisance.
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* ''Manga/MagicalCircleGuruGuru'' gives us two examples. First is main character Nike's father, who dreamed of being a Hero but was forced to give it up due to there being no evil to be Heroic at. He therefore raises Nike to become a Hero and, when evil does return, sends him out to battle it. The second example is Gale, who appears nearly OnceAnEpisode, faces the current crisis claiming himself the 'True Hero,' [[TheChewToy only to get beaten down and/or humiliated immediately after.]]
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass''
Interestingly, it's strongly implied that [[DarkMessiah Lelouch Lamperouge]] is this, as indicated by several in- and out-of-universe factors. For example, he's a fan of {{Tokusatsu}} and WordOfGod says that his voice actors[[note]]Creator/JunFukuyama, who is practically typecast as TheHero, and Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, best known for being a [[Franchise/PowerRangers Power Ranger]][[/note]] were chosen in order to show that Lelouch is trying very hard to be something that he's not.
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** Interestingly, it's strongly implied that [[DarkMessiah Lelouch Lamperouge]] is this, as indicated by several in- and out-of-universe factors. For example, he's a fan of {{Tokusatsu}} and WordOfGod says that his voice actors[[note]]Creator/JunFukuyama, who is practically typecast as TheHero, and Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, best known for being a [[Franchise/PowerRangers Power Ranger]][[/note]] were chosen in order to show that Lelouch is trying very hard to be something that he's not.
** Interestingly, it's strongly implied that [[DarkMessiah Lelouch Lamperouge]] is this, as indicated by several in- and out-of-universe factors. For example, he's a fan of {{Tokusatsu}} and WordOfGod says that his voice actors[[note]]Creator/JunFukuyama, who is practically typecast as TheHero, and Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, best known for being a [[Franchise/PowerRangers Power Ranger]][[/note]] were chosen in order to show that Lelouch is trying very hard to be something that he's not.
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass''
Interestingly, it's strongly implied that [[DarkMessiah Lelouch Lamperouge]]of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is this, as indicated by several in- and out-of-universe factors. For example, he's a fan of {{Tokusatsu}} and WordOfGod says that his voice actors[[note]]Creator/JunFukuyama, who is practically typecast as TheHero, and Creator/JohnnyYongBosch, best known for being a [[Franchise/PowerRangers Power Ranger]][[/note]] were chosen in order to show that Lelouch is trying very hard to be something that he's not.not.
** His best friend [[TheFettered Suzaku Kururugi]] is also this -- Suzaku has the heroic motivation of making things better for his people, does not believe that the ends justify the means, and tries to sort things out diplomatically with his enemies in the hopes of getting them to see his point of view and end conflict peacefully. The problem is that he's in service of TheEmpire, which does not care about his people at all and fights tooth and nail to avoid being changed. His claims that the ends do not justify the means prove hypocritical because the empire he's supporting is complicit in such evils as ''genocide'' and any attempts to be an InternalReformist are hampered by the fact that said empire could not care less about him. In fact, he often comes off as ''worse'' than Lelouch, due to his views occasionally dipping into BlackAndWhiteInsanity. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that this is because Suzaku killed his own father to avoid the latter getting Japan wiped out when Britannia first invaded. Suzaku harbors immense guilt not only for killing his father, but never being punished for it. While he does believe his rhetoric to some degree, his real motivation is to die in battle to atone for his sins]].
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** His best friend [[TheFettered Suzaku Kururugi]] is also this -- Suzaku has the heroic motivation of making things better for his people, does not believe that the ends justify the means, and tries to sort things out diplomatically with his enemies in the hopes of getting them to see his point of view and end conflict peacefully. The problem is that he's in service of TheEmpire, which does not care about his people at all and fights tooth and nail to avoid being changed. His claims that the ends do not justify the means prove hypocritical because the empire he's supporting is complicit in such evils as ''genocide'' and any attempts to be an InternalReformist are hampered by the fact that said empire could not care less about him. In fact, he often comes off as ''worse'' than Lelouch, due to his views occasionally dipping into BlackAndWhiteInsanity. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that this is because Suzaku killed his own father to avoid the latter getting Japan wiped out when Britannia first invaded. Suzaku harbors immense guilt not only for killing his father, but never being punished for it. While he does believe his rhetoric to some degree, his real motivation is to die in battle to atone for his sins]].
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* ReluctantMadScientist Dr. Hedo in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'' idolized superheroes to the point he wore a costume under his lab coat, and wanted to create the UltimateLifeForm to protect Earth. To that end, he created the {{sentai}}-styled Gamma twins with his funding from TheRemnant of the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Red Ribbon Army]].
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* In ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'', despite his abrasive nature, it's established that Johnnie Cochran genuinely wants to be a hero for the Los Angeles community and tries to use the trial of O.J. Simpson as a means to showcase his ideals of fighting discrimination. After winning Simpson's freedom, however, his rival Chris Darden lets him know that he'll only ever be remembered as the man who helped a wealthy, well-connected man beat a murder charge. Cochran is left in painful StunnedSilence after that.
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* ''Fanfic/SpectacularSeven'': Moondancer sees herself as the hero of her story, but her arrogance, need for attention, and jealousy at Sunset for "stealing" Twilight from her clouds her judgment. [[spoiler: She is so obsessed with getting her way, she would risk the world and release Tirek for a chance at glory]].
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