Basic Trope: Someone creates a dangerous situation in order to play The Hero in.
- Straight: Evan puts a young girl in danger so that he can "save" her and be considered a hero.
- Exaggerated: Evan almost causes The End of the World as We Know It in order to "save" the world from ending.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: Evan thinks that It's All About Me, and has a Lack of Empathy towards others - he only cares that he'll be seen as a hero.
- Inverted: Evan creates dangerous situations in order to see who will come to the rescue and become his Worthy Opponent.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Evan doesn't put anyone in danger in order to look like a hero.
- Enforced: "We should show how Evan is a Glory Hound. How about we show him putting people in danger to make himself look better?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama:
- The girl who Evan was pretending to rescue dies or is seriously injured, but since no one finds out about the fact that he put her in danger in the first place, he gets away with it.
- Someone looks up to Evan because they think he's a genuine hero, but they have a Broken Pedestal moment when they realize that he's actually putting people in danger on purpose.
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