History Main / GoingForTheBigScoop

* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'''s Frank West, who takes time out to shoot photos of the zombies trying to gnaw on his arm. For that matter, any game featuring a lot of FirstPersonSnapshooter gameplay.

* ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson is frequently guilty of this in ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', resulting in several [[StealthBasedMission stealth missions]] in which she has to sneak around armed {{mooks}} while photographing and stealing evidence of their bosses' schemes. Her insistence on throwing herself into danger contributed to her and Peter's breakup prior to the start of the game [[spoiler:but when they get back together, she justifies it by saying it's because she feels guilty about leaving him to do all the work saving New York.]]

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In classic IntrepidReporter tradition, William de Worde from ''Discworld/TheTruth'' recklessly joined an apparent suicide-jumper on a high ledge to conduct an interview. The usual BigDamnHeroes 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.

* It's become something of a MemeticMutation that if Jim Cantore of Creator/TheWeatherChannel shows up in your town, you'd better run for the hills because disaster is not far behind.

* There's a reason Comicbook/LoisLane was called an "Intrepid Reporter"; it's because she had absolutely no instinct for self-preservation... at least, if she does, she never lets it get in the way of getting that Big Scoop. Especially amusing in the 1940s serials. She ''does'' have the world's most powerful being constantly looking out for her, but she did this before Superman came to Metropolis too. Having him around just let her have free rein to take ''even more'' crazy risks. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an episode from the WesternAnimated/DCAnimatedUniverse. {{Mooks}} take Air Force One while Lois is aboard, she does something stupid and earns their ire, then they [[OhCrap panic]] upon learning she's "''That'' Lois Lane."

* There's a reason Comicbook/LoisLane was called an "Intrepid Reporter"; it's because she had absolutely no instinct for self-preservation… at least, if she does, she never lets it get in the way of getting that Big Scoop. Especially amusing in the 1940s serials. She ''does'' have the world's most powerful being constantly looking out for her, but she did this before Superman came to Metropolis too. Having him around just let her have free rein to take ''even more'' crazy risks. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an episode from the WesternAnimated/DCAnimatedUniverse. {{Mooks}} take Air Force One while Lois is aboard, she does something stupid and earns their ire, then they [[OhCrap panic]] upon learning she's "''That'' Lois Lane."

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* The reporters in FanFic/AeonNatumEngel 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.

* When your entire city is invaded by creatures from another reality there is suddenly a distinct lack of places that could be defined as "safe." Even so [[BadassNormal Hiroaki Ishida and his camera crew]] risk their lives to warn Japan and the rest of the world about what is happening in ''Fanfic/TheTeacherOfAllThings''.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', this trope got Carly Nagisa/Carmine [[spoiler:killed and brought BackFromTheDead 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 LotusEaterMachine hell]].

* Fran Doll becomes a war reporter in ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' 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.

* There's a reason Comicbook/LoisLane was called an "Intrepid Reporter"; it's because she had absolutely no instinct for self preservation… at least, if she does, she never lets it get in the way of getting that Big Scoop. Especially amusing in the 1940s serials. She ''does'' have the world's most powerful being constantly looking out for her, but she did this before Superman came to Metropolis too. Having him around just let her have free rein to take ''even more'' crazy risks. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an episode from the WesternAnimated/DCAnimatedUniverse. {{Mooks}} take Air Force One while Lois is aboard, she does something stupid and earns their ire, then they [[OhCrap panic]] upon learning she's "''That'' Lois Lane."

* In ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' 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.

* The reporters in FanFic/AeonNatumEngel 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 the humanity got it's hands full and more with existing enemies is a last thing anybody needs, including the reporters.

* Although she's clearly inspired by Lois Lane, Roxanne Ritchi in ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* This was the role of Vicki Vale in Burton's ''Film/Batman1989.'' She did such things as take 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...

* The protagonist of ''Film/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth'' is Joey Summerskill, a reporter is sees her big break when she witnesses the effects of the Lament Configuration on a hosptial patient and gets wrapped up Pinhead's plot.

* Susan Rodriguez is like this in the first few ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' 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, [[spoiler:attends a vampire party that she should have stayed far away from, and ends up becoming a Red Court VampireRefugee constantly having to suppress the urge to kill. And no, she is not CursedWithAwesome; 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 [[spoiler: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.

* Damien Day from ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' 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.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' with Hijiri, an occult journalist who sets his sights on [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hikawa]], whom he accuses of leading a fanatical cult obsessed with [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 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. Least unlike most examples he managed to have the sense to stay in the nice, SAFE little save points after [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 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 [[spoiler: Hijiri actually ''did'' die in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Conception]]; the Hijiri you encounter in the Vortex World is actually Hijiri's soul in a [[ArtificialHuman manikin]] body]].
* ''VideoGame/RobotAlchemicDrive'' gives us the borderline-suicidal Mika Banhara, who in a few levels decides to get a close-up of two HumongousMecha fighting. If she dies, it's a NonStandardGameOver. It's worst when she's in a van and seems to intentionally park underfoot. [[VideogameCrueltyPotential If you're feeling mean]], possibly because you [[EscortMission keep having to retry the level]], you can pick up that news van and toss it across the city.

* Aya Shameimaru from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' 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 [[BulletHell bullet patterns]], and supposedly interview them. She can get away with it because she's no slouch herself when it comes to fighting.
* Subverted in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. Just before the launch of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[IntrepidReporter Emily Wong]] [[CharacterBlog 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. [[spoiler:It doesn't work - her shuttle takes a hit, wounding her and killing her team. Then she [[DyingMomentOfAwesome decides]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]] a [[EldritchAbomination 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 [[spoiler:the cure of the genophage and peace between the quarians and geth.]]

* Ann Gora from ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats''. She and her camera man (kat?) are always dangerously close to the action, just to get their scoop.

* Inverted with Herbert Morrison, a radio reporter who in 1937 went to file [[note]]recording on special discs, not a live report[[/note]] what he thought was just going to be a routine story about the first arrival of a new German airship in New Jersey and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Fc8kIyMCo&feature=related ended up seeing the Hindenburg crash barely a few dozen feet in front of him]]. His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA live coverage of the disaster]] (which is where most references to OhTheHumanity are coming from) switches rapidly from almost-bored matter-of-factness to pure shock to genuinely distraught horror in an instant, and is all the more affecting for it. Minutes later, having taken a brief break and discovered survivors, he is almost back to normal.

* You're taking an obviously large risk if you become a military embed. Hazards include [=IEDs=], capture and torture, and getting shot. And having the CIA man you're trapped with take your communicator to call in an airstrike that turns many bad guys into giblets. No, seriously. Note that if you ''do'' have a non-null chance of being rescued or escaping, they'd sure-as-hell take it. Why kill yourself and the bad guys when you can just skip to killing the bad guys? You better ''hope'' that's a non-Elite warrior you're strapped to. Why? Because the elites know when they ain't going to be rescued and that it'd be better to die for your country and take out all those guys who captured you at the same time than it is to die a slow, painful, torturous death and leave the baddies alive. They'll call an airstrike on their own position. And doing the same thing ''unintentionally'' in the stress and confusion of battle is a sadly common phenomenon...

* Subverted in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. Just before the launch of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[IntrepidReporter Emily Wong]] [[CharacterBlog 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. [[spoiler:It doesn't work - her shuttle takes a hit, wounding her and killing her team. Then she [[DyingMomentOfAwesome decides]] [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]] a [[EldritchAbomination Reaper]].]]

It's not that they're TooDumbToLive - they knowingly [[DistressBall choose]] to take these risks... perhaps because [[HoldingOutForAHero they know the hero will swoop in and save them]] if they [[TrappedByMountainLions get in enough pointless danger]]. [[DrinkingGame 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 ''[[DamselScrappy again!]]''

!Examples:

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--> '''Terrorist''': Lane? ''Lois'' Lane? The one Superman always saves?
--> '''Lois''': 'Fraid so.

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* In classic IntrepidReporter tradition, William de Worde from ''Discworld/TheTruth'' recklessly joined an apparent suicide-jumper on a high ledge to conduct an interview. The usual BigDamnHeroes 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.
* Denn Dur, a Sullustan from the [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse 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 TrueCompanions are usually there, although he complains even more, since he's not even getting paid now.
* Susan Rodriguez is like this in the first few ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' 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, [[spoiler:attends a vampire party that she should have stayed far away from, and ends up becoming a Red Court VampireRefugee constantly having to suppress the urge to kill. And no, she is not CursedWithAwesome; 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 [[spoiler: 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.
* Analin in ''[[Literature/TheColorOfDistance 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.

* Including, but not limited to, ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s Lois Lane. They pretty much all do this to some extent. In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', though, she 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 [[spoiler: 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..."
* A {{deconstruction}} appears in season 5 of ''Series/TheWire'' - a reporter angling for a Pulitzer tries to act this role, along with making up sources and just plain lying, to get the perfect angle on a serial killer story. ''We'' know he never did anything remotely brave, and his personal communications with the "killer" are entirely fictitious... but [[KarmaHoudini everyone else seems to buy it]].

* ''Series/{{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.

* Jake Sisko in ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'' 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 [[ArmorPiercingQuestion legitimate but uncomfortable questions]].
* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', one of the numbers has this as her calling in life. While her main story is [[DirtyCop HR]], she also has an obsession with chasing the [[VigilanteMan Man in the Suit]], which makes it rather hard for Reese to protect her without exposing himself.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' when Lou gets the idea of having a cameraman ride along in a police car to film an arrest as it happens. And then nothing on that patrol route happens for ''days''.

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* His insistence on playing amateur investigator is what gets freelance photographer Takaba Akihito into trouble over and over and ''over'' throughout the Manga/FinderSeries.

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* Madison Paige in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' routinely walks into highly dangerous situations alone while investigating the Orgami killer. However, in each case she has the ability to escape from them on her own if the player makes the right movies.

* Played four laughs in ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'' when Lou gets the idea of having a cameraman ride along in a police car to film an arrest as it happens. And then nothing on that patrol route happens for ''days''.

* This was the role of Vicki Vale in Burton's ''Film/{{Batman}}.'' She did such things as take 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...

* Inverted with Herbert Morrison, a radio reporter who in 1937 went to file what he thought was just going to be a routine story about the first arrival of a new German airship in New Jersey and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Fc8kIyMCo&feature=related ended up seeing the Hindenburg crash barely a few dozen feet in front of him]]. His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA live coverage of the disaster]] (which is where most references to OhTheHumanity are coming from) switches rapidly from almost-bored matter-of-factness to pure shock to genuinely distraught horror in an instant, and is all the more affecting for it.
* Creator/{{CNN}}'s Creator/AndersonCooper has a habit of a) hearing about some sort of disaster, war zone, or other crisis where people are dying, and b) getting on a plane to go there as soon as humanly possible. This man spends ''a lot'' of time running around in a bulletproof vest, and has spent the last two decades reporting from every major disaster area, civil uprising, flat-out war, or humanitarian crisis ''on the planet''. He got his start in journalism by obtaining a faked press pass and ''sneaking into Burma to cover the civil revolution'', for God's sake! He was also nearly decapitated by a flying street sign during Hurricane Katrina, reported from Baghdad with bombs exploding behind him, got punched repeatedly on the streets of Cairo, and at one point reported on the Egyptian revolution during the Arab Spring from an undisclosed location because he might be ''killed'' if anti-revolutionaries found out where he was.

* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', Mike can contact [[HotScoop Scarlet Lake]] with various stories about [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Halbech]] [[MegaCorp 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. [[spoiler: It makes sense once it is realized that she was never actually going to print any of the stories she received as she [[TheMole was on their payroll from the beginning.]] It also doesn't hurt that her other job as a ProfessionalKiller makes her a bit of a hard target regardless.]]

* Alya from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' 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!

Some people are [[InHarmsWay 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 IntrepidReporter. While Going For The Big Scoop they will ignore, nay, ''actively run towards'' danger to find whoever or ''what''ever is causing it.

* Including, but not limited to, ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s Lois Lane. They pretty much all do this to some extent. In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', though, she starts to get at least a little GenreSavvy 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 [[spoiler: 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..."

->''"This is great! I [[RevealingCoverup must really be onto something hot]] if they're trying to kill me!"''

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', this trope got Carly Nagisa/Carmine [[spoiler:killed and brought BackFromTheDead 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 LotusEaterMachine hell.]]

* There's a reason Comicbook/LoisLane was called an "Intrepid Reporter"; it's because she had absolutely no instinct for self preservation… at least, if she does, she never lets it get in the way of getting that Big Scoop. Especially amusing in the 1940s serials. She ''does'' have the world's most powerful being constantly looking out for her, but she did this before Superman came to Metropolis too. Having him around just let her have free rein to take ''even more'' crazy risks. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in an episode for the DCAU. {{Mooks}} take Air Force One while Lois is aboard, she does something stupid and earns their ire, then they [[OhCrap panic]] upon learning she's "''That'' Lois Lane."

* In the recent ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' 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.

* In ''Film/DieHard2'', 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 a spectacular exclusive of [=McClane=] stopping the villains at some personal risk is some incentive too.

* ''Fil/WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot'': All the reporters in the film are risking their lives for the big scoop.

* Susan Rodriguez is like this in the first few ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' 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, [[spoiler:attends a vampire party that she should have stayed far away from, and ends up becoming a Red Court VampireRefugee constantly having to suppress the urge to kill. And no, she is not CursedWithAwesome; true Red Court vamps are inhuman monsters, and the bloodlust is strong enough that she sometimes can't control it at all.]]

* Including, but not limited to, ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s Lois Lane. They pretty much all do this to some extent. In ''Series/LoisAndClark'', though, she starts to get at least a little GenreSavvy 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 [[spoiler: 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..."

* ''Series/{{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.
* ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'', "Recap/VoyagersS1E20JacksBack Jack's Back]]": Nellie Bly tries to find Jack the Ripper so she can get the story on him.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' with Hijiri, an occult journalist who sets his sights on [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hikawa]], whom he accuses of leading a fanatical cult obsessed with [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 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. Least unlike most examples he managed to have the sense to stay in the nice, SAFE little save points after [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt 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 [[spoiler: Hijiri actually ''did'' die in [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Conception]]; the Hijiri you encounter in the Vortex World is actually Hijiri's soul in a [[ArtificialHuman manikin]] body.]]

* In AlphaProtocol, Mike can contact [[HotScoop Scarlet Lake]] with various stories about [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Halbech]] [[MegaCorp 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. [[spoiler: It makes sense once it is realized that she was never actually going to print any of the stories she received as she [[TheMole was on their payroll from the beginning.]] It also doesn't hurt that her other job as a ProfessionalKiller makes her a bit of a hard target regardless.]]

* Lois Lane in the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age]] [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Superman cartoon shorts]]. ''Always''. She's not much different in the Franchise/{{DCAU}} either. Deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'', in which Lois' grief at the death of Superman sees her begin to turn this tendency to DeathSeeker 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.

* Edward R. Murrow, although there were others, made sure he got on a London rooftop to cover the action of the Battle of Britain in UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo for his radio network even as the bombs were falling around him.