History Main / GloryHound

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': In the ''Tarnished Angel'' arc, Steeljack discovered that [[spoiler:the villain was a disgraced superhero who was out to kill small-bit villains to restore his name... which was already ruined by his attempts to engineer fame and glory]].

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7'':

* General Damon from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles''... he uses your Militia Squadron as cannon-fodder, sending you on one suicide mission after the other - and when you actually succeed, against all odds, [[StealingTheCredit he claims it as a victory for himself and the conventional army]]. While you're busy trying to save your tiny nation from being entirely overrun and/or razed by TheEmpire, he's more concerned with earning his Field Marshall star...

* The ''VideoGame/{{Dynasty Warriors}}'' series of games portray Yuan Shu this way, especially when playing under the Wu storyline. Yuan Shu's decision to delay much-needed supplies to Sun Jian, fueled entirely by gall at the idea of the latter stealing the former's glory, threatens to unravel the coalition against Dong Zhuo.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Mettaton's end goal during the Hotland arc is to steal the player's SOUL and reach the surface for himself. While he makes it clear that he wants to do this to [[spoiler: stop Asgore from exterminating humanity]], he's also completely open about the fact that he's gunning for fame and fortune among [[IntriguedByHumanity the race he's grown to love]].

* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Walter Simmons]], the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corporate CEO]] who's backing Team Kong's efforts to combat Godzilla's enigmatic attacks, is ultimately revealed to be one. [[spoiler:He's been ''knowingly'' provoking and continuing to provoke Godzilla's attacks on populated cities (disrupting a completely-beneficial truce between Godzilla and mankind in the process), not caring for the thousands to millions of innocent lives lost, all so that he can become a FakeUltimateHero when he has his lackey use [[HumongousMecha Mechagodzilla]] to kill Godzilla. Whereas Simmons' right hand [[TheDragon Ren Serizawa]] and his daughter Maia both have more [[ItsPersonal personal]] [[WellDoneDaughterGirl reasons]] for participating in his plot, Simmons is unambiguously doing all of this for the sake of his own warped {{pride}}, self-aggrandizement and [[AmbitionIsEvil ambition]]]]. The novelization notes that this isn't limited to Simmons' plot concerning Godzilla's rampage either: if Ren's internal musings are to be believed, Simmons has a habit of taking all the credit for other people's technological innovations.

* The Virus character Thrax from ''Film/OsmosisJones'' plans to kill Frank (whom in the setting is like a heavily populated city-state) within 48 hours to "get [his] ''own'' chapter in the medical books". More specifically, he is envious of big-name diseases like Ebola and AIDS, believing himself to be deadlier than they are, and wants their levels of global infamy.
* The entire plot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' is set up and driven by [[spoiler:Ernesto de la Cruz's desire for fame and the methods by which he pursues it]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Syndrome's plan is certainly reckless with people and property. His plan is to act as a Super so that he gains the admiration of the public, which involves a giant robot doing massive amounts of damage and putting lives at risk. Not to mention all the Supers he killed off.

* Itsuki of ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero''. The guy deliberately holds back during fights solely so he can get as dramatic a killing blow as possible, what more proof do you need?

** Frank Archer from [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]] is most definitely this. Sending his soldiers to their doom and being most unreasonable as Lior is "His opportunity to be a war hero".

* The older brother in the South Korean UsefulNotes/KoreanWar film ''Tae Guk Gee'' is this only so he can request for his younger brother to be sent home. [[spoiler: Because he's such a good soldier his superiors keep delaying sending his brother back; when he thinks his beloved brother has died in an attack he does a FaceHeelTurn to North Korea out of despair.]]

* Captain Amazing from ''Film/MysteryMen'' intentionally releases an evil mastermind from the Asylum and waits for him to commit an act of mass murder (i.e. blowing up the asylum) before trying to defeat him once again and revive his image.
* In ''Film/{{Kagemusha}}'', Katsuyori Takeda is a newly elevated ruler eager to claim exploits of his own and thus disregards the defensive strategy set by his deceased father and the other generals, [[GeneralFailure with catastrophic results]].
* In ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'', The Sheriff opposes Hansel and Gretel because he wants to get sole credit for defeating the witches. Of course, he and his men are absolutely no match for the witches and their troll and are slaughtered.

* Major Man from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' at first appears to be a kind and selfless superhero. In reality, he's a con artist who deliberately causes crises when nobody's watching so that [[EngineeredHeroics he can show up and save the day]]. After he's exposed as a fraud, he admits that he only became a superhero so that people would admire him.

* Dr. James Whitman in ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'' is an archaeologist who is obsessed with having fame and glory for himself. Whitman's reality TV show based on his discoveries had dwindled greatly and he resorted to more general reality TV elements that don't pertain to what he does for a living. Whitman was so used to glamorous parties, fine dining, and the attention being focused on him that he was willing to do anything to get his glory back. When Whitman and the rest of the crew get shipwrecked on Yamatai, he becomes so fascinated by the crazed cult and the Sun Queen that he focuses on trying to study them so he has a story to sell to the media and barely even bothers helping Lara Croft and the others find a way to escape from the island. [[spoiler: At one point, Whitman kidnaps Lara's best friend, Sam, and hands her over to the BigBad (whom he had planned to use the girl as a vessel to restore the Sun Queen's soul) just so that he could make his story bigger for the media after he witnessed what would happen to Sam during the ritual. LaserGuidedKarma bites Whitman in the ass hard as he gets killed by a pair of undead Japanese samurais.]]

** Col. [=McKinsey=], the leader of the Osean 444th "Spare" Penal Fighter Squadron, shows absolutely no respect for the pilots under his command. He also takes credit for what the pilots have done, rather than acknowledging their merits. One of the Spare Squadron's pilots called him out during one of the briefings on this trope. Being TheNeidermeyer Col. [=McKinsey=] is, he promptly ordered the pilot who truthfully snarked at him to be taken to solitary confinement.

->''"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte'''

%%* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Syndrome's plan is certainly reckless with people and property.

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* Lord Rust in ''{{Literature/Jingo}}!'' marches an army to war with little preparation and starting the invasion at the worst possible place because the enemy ''would never suspect anyone to do so''. Indeed, this is the basic outline of all military thinking on the Sto Plains. The important part of war is that you took part and there were Glorious Casualties. Actually winning is a minor, inconsequential detail, and keeping one's troops alive is seen as irrelevant at best, outright ''cheating'' at worse.

Compare AttentionWhore and WellDoneSonGuy, which often overlaps. Contrast MilesGloriosus, who will often try to steal credit after the fact, but is far too much of a DirtyCoward to actually seek out any actually glorious situation.

** Col. [=McKinsey=], the leader of the Osean 444th "Spare" Penal Fighter Squadron, shows absolutely no respect for the pilots under his command. He also takes credit for what the pilots have done, rather than acknowledging their merits. One of the Spare Squadron's pilots called him out during one of the briefings on this trope. Being TheNeidermeyer Col. [=McKinsey=] is, he promptly ordered the pilot who truthfully-snarked at him to be taken to solitary confinement.

* General Damon from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles''... he uses your Militia Squadron as cannon-fodder, sending you on one suicide-mission after the other - and when you actually succeed, against all odds, [[StealingTheCredit he claims it as a victory for himself and the conventional army]]. While you're busy trying to save your tiny nation from being entirely overrun and/or razed by TheEmpire, he's more concerned with earning his Field Marshall star...

* Ratchet from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' is a bit like this. His main motivation is the fame and fortune that comes from his adventures. But by game three, he has become jaded when Clank gets his own secret agent series that has Ratchet as his chauffeur, constantly annoyed that Qwark and Clank keep getting credit for his work.

* General Lee Oliver of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', whose strategy against Caesar's Legion is for one big ol' slaughterfest at Hoover Dam, hoping that it'll be big and glorious enough to outshine Chief Hanlon's more tactical defeat of Joshua Graham.

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': [[TeamPrimaDonna Mothiva]] is primarily motivated by fame and glory, and is willing to get it by any means possible, no matter unethical. She is even willing to attack other exploration teams if she interprets them as a threat to her own popularity, in hopes of stealing their missions to complete by herself to gain all the fame, and even went as far as to attempt to [[spoiler:beat Team Snakemouth, the main rivals of her team, on Colosseum to prove that her team is stronger so that Queen Elizant II would have to bring her along to defeat the Wasp King. She is so blinded by her pursuit of fame that she doesn't even acknowledge the possibility that her actions might doom all of Bugaria, because if Team Snakemouth loses in the Colosseum, it would ruin the negotiation with the Termite Kingdom royalty who would use Team Snakemouth's defeat as a way to discredit the validity of Elizant's warning about the Wasp King, or that Mothiva's team might turn out to be not strong enough to defeat the Wasp King by themselves, both factors she [[SelectiveObliviousness willfully ignores]].]]

* Captain Falco from Creator/JohnHemry's ''Literature/TheLostFleet'' makes himself out to be the hero of the Alliance even though his victories are all but indistinguishable from his defeats. [[spoiler:This ends up blowing up in his face spectacularly when he persuades a chunk of the titular Fleet to go haring off on a [[AttackAttackAttack glorious headlong charge]]... [[RealityEnsues straight into an enemy ambush.]] When we next see Falco, [[HeroicBSOD his mind has cracked completely]].]]

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': In the ''Tarnished Angel'' arc, Steeljack discovered that [[spoiler:the villain was a disgraced superhero who was out to kill small-bit villains to restore his name... which was already ruined by his attempts to engineer fame and glory]].
* Pyro in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers''. He refuses to take a particular HeroicSacrifice because it's ''not cool enough'' for his tastes and insists that Ironfist [[KickTheDog make the sacrifice instead]]. [[spoiler:He later reconsiders and says just dying for your friends is good enough. He does.]]

** Col. [=McKinsey=], the leader of the Osean 444th "Spare" Penal Fighter Squadron, shows absolutely no respect for the pilots under his command. He also takes credit for what the pilots have done, rather than acknowledging their merits. One of the Spare Squadron's pilots called him out during one of the briefings on this trope. Being TheNeidermeyer Col. [=McKinsey=] is, he promptly ordered the pilot who snarked at him to be taken to solitary confinement.

SubTrope of GlorySeeker, who is also after glory but doesn't have to do anything discreditable to get it. However, there is an important distinction between the two: A {{Glory Seeker}} [[InHarmsWay would happily get themselves]] [[MartyrdomCulture killed in pursuit of glory]], while a Glory Hound would [[WeHaveReserves happily get others killed in pursuit of glory]] ([[TheSociopath often with no remorse]]), [[ColonelKilgore loves bloodshed]], tends to steal the glory others have legitimately earned, casts DisproportionateRetribution on those opposing their plans, or engages in {{chronic backstabbing disorder}}.

SubTrope of GlorySeeker, who is also after glory but doesn't have to do anything discreditable to get it. However, there is an important distinction between the two: A {{Glory Seeker}} [[InHarmsWay would happily get themselves]] [[MartyrdomCulture killed in pursuit of glory]], while a Glory Hound would [[WeHaveReserves happily get others killed in pursuit of glory]] ([[TheSociopath often with no remorse]]), [[ColonelKilgore loves bloodshed]], tends to steal the glory others have legitimately earned, casts {{disproportionate retribution}} on those opposing their plans, or engages in {{chronic backstabbing disorder}}.

* General Damon from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles''... he uses your Militia Squadron as cannon-fodder, sending you on one suicide-mission after the other - and when you actually succeed, against all odds, he claims it as a victory for himself and the conventional army. While you're busy trying to save your tiny nation from being entirely overrun and/or razed by TheEmpire, he's more concerned with earning his Field Marshall star...