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* Normally reserved for actors and filmmakers, the Hollywood Walk of Fame features stars for several fictional characters, including WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]], WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Franchise/WinnieThePooh, [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]], WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}, and Franchise/TheMuppets (Kermit got his own star several years previously).

* In the second movie version of ''Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'', corporal Himmelstoß is decorated with an Iron Cross (2nd class) by Wilhelm II himself.

* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': Tahani's improbably successful sister Kamilah has (at least) an Olympic gold medal, a BAFTA, and a Grammy.
** Tahani actually met her demise while crashing Kamilah's party following her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. We're specifically told that the Hall waived their "twenty-five years in music" requirement to induct Kamilah right away.

-->"I won this bronze damn Olympic medal in UsefulNotes/{{Beijing}}, China! I had noodles with the president, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a threesome with Michael Phelps]]."

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* In ''VideOGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'', the player is able to find a computer in the back of the room the main menu is set in, through which they can access email accounts for the player character Alex Mason (among others). One of the emails reveals that Mason competed in the Wimbledon Cup and took first place in the 1953 competition.

* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Ross is taken aback to learn that, until him, his HotScientist girlfriend Charlie has only dated Nobel Prize winners. One of them appears in a later episode and wins her back (a case of ArtisticLicenseAwards, since the man is a paleontologist, and there's no Nobel Prize in that field).

* ''Series/MythicQuestRavensBanquet'': head game writer C.W. Longbottom, a washed-up sci-fi writer, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1973. (In reality, the award was given to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves''.)

* Jack Frost in ''Series/ATouchOfFrost'' is another George Cross recipient. In this instance, it's an important plot point since a lot of his more questionable behaviour is tolerated as a result of him being a decorated hero, effectively giving him UltimateJobSecurity.

* ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'': In both the anime and the manga, the character Best Jeanist is noted as having won the "Best Jeanist" award several years in a row. This is an actual award in Japan, awarded to people who either look the best in jeans, or promote the wearing of them, for a given year.

** The plot of the season 17 finale "The Arizona" centers on the actions of a 95-year-old man who claims he was stationed aboard the ''USS Arizona'' during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and wants the Navy to guarantee his remains will be interned at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial memorial dedicated to the ship]] upon his death.

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* President Bartlet on ''Series/TheWestWing'' has a Nobel for economics.

* A late episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' reveals that the Professor has a Nobel Prize... ForScience He tosses it aside to make room for a trophy he won in a chili cook-off.

** Det. Mac Taylor, a former Marine, has all of his commendation awards, including a Silver Star, displayed in his office at the Crime Lab.

* Variant: Creator/SteveMartin, as faded actor Charles Haden-Church, makes an offhand reference to having lost a Golden Globe to ''Series/DoogieHowserMD''.[[note]]Which never actually won any Golden Globes.[[/note]]

* Michael ComicBook/{{Morbius}} won a Nobel Prize for his blood-related research.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': Lois Lane is almost always introduced as a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. Clark Kent himself is often written as getting one later in his career. Jimmy Olsen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer too. The Daily Planet has one hell of a team.
* PlayedForLaughs in an issue of ''Totally Awesome Hulk'', in which ComicBook/AmadeusCho met with ComicBook/BlackPanther. Apparently, T'Challa has twice been named "Person of the Year" by ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'', and has been named "Sexiest Man Alive" by ''People Magazine'' six times.
* ''Franchise/XMen'' supporting character Moira [=MacTaggert=] is a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist.

* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'', swim coach Roz Washington won the Olympic bronze medal in synchronized swimming. Not only will she let everyone know, but she wears it everywhere she goes:

* In her epilogue in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework, [[spoiler:Rachel wins an Olympic bronze medal]].

* Normally reserved for actors and filmmakers, the Hollywood Walk of Fame features stars for several fictional characters, including (as of this writing) WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]], WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, Franchise/WinnieThePooh, [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]], WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}, and Franchise/TheMuppets (Kermit got his own star several years previously).