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5* Lumpy Space Princess from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is one. She even tries to crash a wedding of two people she barely knows solely to be the center of attention.
6--> '''LSP:''' Everybody get ready to pay attention to me!
7* Allen in ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'' is this in full spades. Everything he does always has to draw attention to himself and everything has to be about him. (He is only 7 years old!) His father, Richard, is even worse; if the attention isn't focused on him, he will ''make'' it be on him, regardless of who it affects.
8* Roger of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' delves into this quite often.
9-->'''Roger:''' You can't do this to me! You can't leave me here! Everyone's looking! EVERYONE'S LOOKING!
10-->'''Man:''' Can you keep it down? No one's looking at you. We're trying to watch the skating here.
11-->'''Roger:''' '''''EVERYONE'S LOOKING!'''''
12* Master Shake in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' seems to have a pathological need to always be at the center of attention, and will say or do all sorts of stupid things to try to get and keep it. Tellingly, in "The Super Hero", Shake set the city on fire with the intent of getting some publicity.
13-->''"I will never get the credit that I deserve for the attention-grabbing things that I do."''
14* Seems to be a family trait for the Griplings in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''.
15* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
16** Ty Lee, with a FreudianExcuse. She is from a very large family and will do anything to make herself stand out from her many look-alike sisters. Ty Lee actually plays with this trope a bit, as at the end of the series, she seems to have a bit of off-screen CharacterDevelopment and [[spoiler:joins the Kyoshi Warriors, and she doesn't care that they all dress identically]].
17** Aang too, sometimes. Though he really just naturally finds himself at the center of attention, being [[TheChosenOne the Avatar]] and all, and likes it there. Especially when it comes to [[ShipTease Katara.]]
18-->''"Hey Katara, look what I just learned to do with earthbending!"''
19** This has a FreudianExcuse as well. Before he ran away and got frozen, his friends were starting to alienate him for being the Avatar, and the other monks wanted to send him away from Monk Gyatso, the closest thing to family he had. Since almost all his friends from his former life are dead now, and he has an entire army of people trying to kill him, he has a niggling fear of being lonely and unloved, making him more possessive and clingy of the friends he does have.
20* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Poison Ivy isn't shy about [[ProudBeauty flaunting]] her sexiness and often does it simply to [[HeadTurningBeauty turn heads]], such as in her debut episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison "Pretty Poison"]] where her [[SupermodelStrut sultry exit]] from the Rose Cafe causes every nearby guy to look on as she slinks away.
21* Bianca in ''WesternAnimation/BeverlyHillsTeens'' does everything she can to be on top, and have her way. But always loses to Larke.
22* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has quite a few of them:
23** Linda and Gene have this as SharedFamilyQuirks as the two most likely to jump in the spotlight the first chance they get. Gene in particular is rather bad, which can be chalked up to MiddleChildSyndrome, but he at least is willing to put on a performance through music or acting to earn said attention instead of demanding it for no reason. Linda was really bad with this in the first season due to acting like ItsAllAboutMe, wherein she becomes obsessed with activities that will earn her praise (running a bed and breakfast, performing in a musical she created, or forcing Bob to cater a free spaghetti dinner at school for a fundraiser) and then becomes incredibly hostile and vindictive if her efforts aren't appreciated or something stops it from happening. She's mellowed out ''considerably'' to the point when this does happen, it's more innocent than before.
24** Teddy is a special kind of AttentionWhore, in that he only wants attention from two people and that's Bob and Linda (though mostly Bob). Throughout the series, Teddy becomes increasingly hostile and nasty whenever he believes someone is taking the Belchers' attention away from him. If he ever gets the idea that Bob and Linda have other friends, especially friends they made through the restaurant like him, he acts liked a SpoiledBrat. It's reached a point that the mere presence of Mort the mortician tends to set Teddy off as Bob and Linda's second most prominent adult friend.
25** Tammy Larsen is very much this as the self-appointed AlphaBitch of Wagstaff Junior High. She walks around acting like she's the queen bee of the school and believes herself to be loved by everyone. Truthfully, the majority of the student body doesn't care about her, and the minority that knows who she is don't really like her. Even her own parents are implied to not like Tammy. Which would also turn this into a JustifiedTrope, as she's desperate for attention to compensate for being hated by everyone around her (admittedly hated because she's obnoxious and horrible, but still).
26* [=BoJack=] in ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' combines this with InferioritySuperiorityComplex. He'll do all sorts of crazy things in order to stay famous, and even as an actor, he's a LargeHam limelight hog (to the point where, when he tries to give another actor a punchline scripted for him in "That Went Well", it is a huge shock and an indication that he's really changed as a person). In reality, he hates himself and is desperately trying to find approval from anyone who'll give it to him. To give an idea, in "[[Recap/BoJackHorsemanS2E07HankAfterDark Hank After Dark]]", he advocates for ''child labor'' to be re-legalized in an effort to get the spotlight off of Diane's feud with Hank Hippopolous - whether he's doing this to take the heat off her or because he's ''that'' desperate for attention is never clarified.
27** Sarah Lynn is incredibly similar to [=BoJack=], possibly because he was her [[ParentalSubstitute primary role model]] when she was younger and she ''really did'' take his [[AntiAdvice advice]]. She stayed relevant for years past [=BoJack=], a lot of it courtesy of her generosity (boy, has that changed), but when she turned 30 and was officially proclaimed "out", [[JustAFleshWound she stabbed herself with a rusty bayonet]] in the middle of a hardware store just to call attention to her breakup with Andrew Garfield. And that was the ''first time'' she debuted on the show at her current age. Given that she's [[FormerChildStar literally always been]] [[TeenIdol in the spotlight]], it's hardly surprising. Just take this:
28-->'''Andrew Garfield:''' I wanted to [break up] in public so you wouldn't make a scene.
29-->'''Sarah Lynn:''' You think I won't make a ''scene''? Then you ''really'' don't know ''me'' at ''all''!
30* Edward from ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo''. One of the reasons they're rivals is because he's constantly trying to prove himself better than Lazlo.
31* WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. While the motivation of this trait has changed over the years, this has always been a consistent aspect of the character.
32** Also his {{Expy}} Plucky Duck in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', who always tries to gain popularity over co-stars Buster and Babs.
33** WesternAnimation/BugsBunny isn't above this, [[DependingOnTheWriter particularly]] under Creator/RobertMcKimson. "Rebel Rabbit", for example, has him cause havoc throughout the USA just to prove "that a rabbit can be more obnoxious than anybody!"
34* EvilDiva Ember [=McLain=] from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is obsessed with people knowing who she is and obsessing over her. Her FreudianExcuse is that in life she was an unpopular girl who died young and forgotten. As a ghost, she invokes this as a source of her power.
35* Quinn in ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' seems to enjoy being the center of attention a little too much.
36* WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck. His very first scene has him exiting the police station after apprehending some criminals... and disappointed that there's no press waiting for him outside.
37* Most of the ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' housemates fit this trope, but Toot Braunstein is far and away the worst of the bunch.
38* Eddy from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. [[spoiler:The root of his behavior is explained in [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow the movie]].]]
39* Kuzco from the ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' series, which seem to be parallel continuities. The movie features CharacterDevelopment, so that at the end, he becomes a very nice, likable guy. In the series, however, he still acts like an attention-loving jerk, as though the events of the movie had never happened.
40* {{Flanderization}} turned popular kid Trixie Tang from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' into one. This is best seen in an episode where Timmy wishes that he and Trixie were the only two people on Earth. It backfires when Trixie goes full-on {{Yandere}} to make up for the lack of attention she was receiving.
41* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
42** Stewie and Peter, to hilarious extremes. Meg qualifies as a more desperate and lonely version of this, though she's always played as the ButtMonkey.
43** Later episodes have occasionally deconstructed Brian's left-wing ethics in such a manner, claiming he only supports the less popular vote because he wants to stand out and be a contrarian. He has been shown to get particularly frustrated when he isn't appreciated and has a large tendency to boast about every activity he takes part in an excessive manner, even when the family are ignoring him completely.
44* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' has a boy named Tommy who is an artist who heavily craves attention and recognition for his work. He even falsely accuses himself of a crime so he can be in the spotlight.
45* Bloo from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', with many storylines resulting from Bloo getting jealous of the attention received by other characters, then doing something {{Jerkass}}-ish in response. Several parts of his dialogue imply that [[FreudianExcuse his greatest fear is not being loved by anyone]], a fear which Mac is shown to share sometimes. He probably even created Bloo for the sole purpose of having that NOT happen to him. Of course, Bloo's attempts to get the others to like him backfire more than just frequently.
46* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
47** Bender pulls stunts all the time so that people will pay attention to him. [[Recap/FuturamaS3E17APharaohToRemember The biggest probably being when he got a slave population to build a towering statue of him that said "Remember Me!" and then shot fire from its eyes.]]
48--->"Hey! Look at my head! Look at my head! Look at my head!"
49*** [[Recap/FuturamaS2E14MothersDay On Mom's birthday, all the robots went to celebrate with her.]] Bender started trying to draw her eye from the crowd, blithely yelling, among other things, "''I need attention''!"
50** Zoidberg, similar to the Meg example above, is the desperate ButtMonkey version of this.
51--->"Hooray! People are paying attention to me!"
52** Another example is actor Langdon Cobb in the episode "The Thief Of Baghead". [[spoiler:In fact, his species literally ''feed off it''.]]
53* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': [[ValleyGirl Tina DeVeer]] wants stardom and feels entitled to it. As a result, half of Ace's ill-fated attempts to gain her affections are helping her with whatever she wants to do in the pursuit of fame and attention. This attitude seems to be fostered by her father, a [[AmbiguouslyGay very camp]] StageDad.
54* [[NaiveNewcomer Brett Hand]] in ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'' is a RidiculouslyAverageGuy and painfully aware of it, going to extreme lengths to stand out among his peers as well as having developed a [[DesperatelyCravesAffection pathological need to be liked]]. Early on he mentions having joined ''38'' fraternities in college, and when he meets former frat brothers that don't think highly of him he doesn't hesitate to let them humiliate him in order to win their approval. [[CharacterDevelopment He gradually gets better]] through [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Reagan's influence]] as well as therapy that he claims reduced his panic attacks.
55* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'', this is Pizzazz's primary motivation. She's a [[SpoiledBrat spoiled]] RichBitch who wants to be famous and adored. Her violent hatred of Jem stems from the fact the Jem and the Holograms are more popular than the Misfits. Pizzazz has a FreudianExcuse behind it though. Her mother left when she was young and her father was distant growing up. The attention of fans is a substitute for the lack of affection she had growing up.
56* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
57** [[AlphaBitch Pretty]]. She once claimed to be DrivenToSuicide because of having a sister like Eugly ([[KickTheDog while Eugly was standing next to her]]) simply to get attention from Mr. Cat. She also has no problem with utterly humiliating Kaeloo, Stumpy, Quack Quack, and Mr. Cat to get more likes on ''Website/{{Facebook}}'' parody site "Fakebook".
58** Stumpy, especially in the later seasons. In one of the episodes, he is put on trial in court. To help him not face punishment, Mr. Cat (who is his lawyer) stages an incident so Quack Quack goes to prison instead of Stumpy; instead of being happy, Stumpy complains that Quack Quack stole the attention that he was supposed to get.
59** Nombril is an interesting variant. She will do anything to get attention, including endangering herself. In most episodes she's depicted as only wanting the attention of one specific person, her older brother Stumpy, to the point where her catchphrase is "Stumpy, do you see me?" However it is suggested that she'll take attention from anyone, and she does things like standing first in line when her sisters line up at the train station so everyone on the train will see her entering first and she'll grab their attention.
60* Bill Dauterive in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is this whenever he does something successful or is liked and adored by others and continues to put time and effort on whatever he is doing until it eventually ruins him.
61* The Equalist promoter in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is said to be one, according to the official website.
62* A possible tragic example of this trope is Clay Puppington, the self-centered father of ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' This is especially apparent in the third season episode where we see his past. [[spoiler:He thought himself the center of his mother's world, and was distraught when he learned he had several older siblings who were miscarried due to his mother's blithe ignorance of proper activities to do while pregnant (knitting: yes. going on roller coasters and trampolines: no). This caused the accidental death of his mother when he pretended to have died and gave her a heart attack. When his father ignored him after this, he deliberately and repeatedly goaded the man into hitting him, and now with his own son associates beatings with affection.]]
63%%** Joe is this as well.
64* Jake Spidermonkey from ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey''.
65-->'''"I NEED ATTENTION''' '''''TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY!!!!!"'''''
66* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
67** Hooty, although similar to [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg]] or [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Zoidberg,]] he is the ButtMonkey variant. King once even lampshaded it.
68-->'''King:''' With my love of mayhem and Hooty’s desperate need for attention, this’ll be a cakewalk.
69** Emperor Belos seems very much so. It's not enough for Belos to delude himself into thinking he's the hero, but he desperately wants everyone else to believe it too and shower him with admiration for it. He presents himself as a messianic figure to the Boiling Isles so he can get the worship he desires, but he longs even more to be admired by his fellow humans for what he sees as a noble crusade. While he's perfectly willing to murder Luz, he also frequently tries to convince her that he's the hero so he can finally have the admiration he craves - and lashes out when she refuses to buy into his bigotry and wounds his ego by calling him out on his crimes.
70* Otto Rocket from ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' certainly qualifies for this trope. As if being a competitive, arrogant jerk wasn't enough, he's a complete show-off who always wants everyone to notice him for his skate moves. He's at his worst with this in "Reggie's Big (Beach) Break''.
71* Angelica from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' is a SpoiledBrat of the first order, frequently pushing away the rest of the babies when she thinks the spotlight is being taken off of her. While the babies are the most frequent targets of her wrath, Angelica's craving for attention can even extend to being mean to adults, such as screaming at the host of a talent show when she thinks she hasn't been given enough time. This is often shown to be the result of her pushover parents giving Angelica everything she wants without ever disciplining her for anything.
72* Vana in ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' likes to be the center of attention and won't accept that someone else is getting more attention than her.
73* Bart from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is very much this.
74** Epitomized in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E14LisaVsMalibuStacy Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy]]", where his suggestions for (unflattering) names for Lisa's doll made to compete against Malibu Stacy fall on deaf ears, he drops all pretenses, leaving him desperately crying out for attention and demanding everyone to look at him.
75** It's also emphasized heavily in the non-canon story in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII Treehouse of Horror II]]":
76-->'''Dr. J. Loren Pryor:''' The way I see it, Bart, you crave attention. Am I right?
77-->'''Bart:''' Hell, yes!
78-->'''Pryor:''' The problem is, you don't care whether it's ''good'' attention, like getting good grades in school, or ''bad'' attention, like, oh say, turning your father into a jack-in-the-box.
79** Lisa also has shades of this. Lisa has an almost pathological need for approval, and resents Bart's status as firstborn, the son of the family, and how even his minor accomplishments are given more attention than anything she does, because as a ChildProdigy, she's expected to excel at everything. As a consequence there are quite a handful of episodes where Bart is succeeding at life, but Lisa will grow jealous/resentful and the episode will end with Bart giving up what he loves to make her happy.
80** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror VI]]", specifically "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores", the ad company executive claims this is true of the giant advertising mascots ''and'' advertisements in general, and that they need attention to live; if people stop paying attention to them, they lose their power. (And indeed, isn't that how advertising works?) Of course, it's hard for the townsfolk ''not'' to give attention to a group of monsters destroying the city, but Lisa and Paul Anka are able to convince everyone to ignore them.
81* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
82** [[Characters/SouthParkEricCartman Eric Cartman]] is depicted as a SpoiledBrat who wants attention focused on him at all times. Unfortunately for everyone else, he doesn't care if this attention is bad attention, so he frequently acts like a {{Jerkass}} to keep the focus on him.
83*** He has a habit of interrupting class just to say outrageous or ridiculous things, simply because it puts the spotlight on him. He'll insult Kenny and his family for being poor, call Stan's sister a slut, and insult Kyle for being Jewish, all while his teachers rarely punish him.
84*** He ends up PlayingTheVictimCard when he gets into a relationship with a girl named Heidi, threatening to kill himself if she breaks up with him. When she breaks up with him anyway, [[PaperTiger Cartman does nothing]]. It's shown that he only wanted Heidi around not because he particularly cared about her, but because it kept the focus just on him.
85*** In ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkPostCovidTheReturnOfCovid'', Butters says that Cartman's life as a miserable hobo in the new future is karma for all the heinous things he's done in his childhood. However, Cartman's marriage to Yentl really brought out the best in him, because she convinced Cartman to help Stan and Kyle despite the risk of losing his life's happiness. This is further evident by Cartman's depiction in the new timeline, where he becomes an alcoholic hobo spending his days yelling profanities at anyone that's slightly better off than him. Without Yentl's influence, Cartman never grew past being a hateful attention-grabbing bigot who blamed everyone but himself for his own misery, all so that he could keep PlayingTheVictimCard forever, all because it got him any kind of attention.
86** "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E12TheFWord The F Word]]" deals with a bunch of attention-grabbing Harley-riding bikers so loud and obnoxious that ''[[EveryoneHasStandards Cartman]]'' was the first to call them out.
87* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
88** When Squidward's not keeping himself to himself, he's going around demanding people's attention by displaying interpretive dancing or playing his clarinet ''really'' loudly.
89** Spongebob is a more indirect example. Often he is not so much narcissistic as he is demanding of other people's company and enthusiasm, making him very clingy and completely refusing to believe anyone could not want to hang around him.
90* James the Red Engine from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. He always wants to show that he's the best, and his accidents just seem to be a bit... more ridiculous than those that the other engines got into.
91* Michelangelo from the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2K3 TMNT cartoon]] is a friendly version of this.
92* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
93** The theme song lampshades it quite well.
94--> "You asked me what I wanted to be, now I think the answer is plain to see: I wanna be famous."
95** Chris definitely counts as one, it's made even funnier whenever [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Justin]] is on screen stealing the spotlight:
96---> '''Chris:''' (to the campers who are all staring dreamily at Justin) Hey! Stop looking at the gorgeous man-candy! Focus more on ''[[ItsAllAboutMe me]]!''
97*** It's hilariously worse in ''World Tour''. One of the teams features an AscendedFangirl who names the team Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot. Chris is proud.
98** Most of, if not all of the contestants definitely qualify (they are reality TV stars, after all), but the biggest examples are [[HomeSchooledKids Ezekiel]], [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Justin]], [[CuteandPsycho Izzy]], [[GoGetterGirl Courtney]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Duncan]], [[AlphaBitch Heather]], [[StalkerWithACrush Sierra]], [[SmugSnake Blaineley]], [[BadLiar Staci]], [[BigSisterBully Amy]], [[AscendedFanboy Topher]], [[HarmlessVillain Max]], [[FatBitch Sugar]] and ESPECIALLY [[DramaQueen Dakota]], whose label is "The Fame-monger,". It's decontructed with her though as Dawn [[AuraVision reads her aura]] and claims it's actually [[IJustWantToBeLoved a repressed cry for love]], which Dakota's reaction hints she's correct.
99** All of the original 22 become this in the ''Action'' special. When Chris seems intent on throwing them away for a new show, they band up to stop Chris from making it happen because none of them want to lose their 15 minutes of fame and have to go back to their ordinary lives.
100--->'''Chris:''' Their dream is to claw their way back to fame no matter what it takes! Cheating! Shameless self-promotion! Sabotage! I LOVE THOSE KIDS!
101*** Despite Chris' quote, the cast seems to have learned their lesson after ''World Tour'', as their appearances in ''Revenge of the Island'' and ''All-Stars'' show them all being very annoyed with having to appear on the show for even a cameo. It's evident none of them want anything to do with Chris or ''Total Drama'' anymore and would much prefer to pursue different things than deal with the very sources of their fame.
102** The [[BigBad Ice Dancers]] of the SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' keep this going, although they sometimes get the wrong kind of attention when someone recalls them as the Ice Dancers who lost the Olympics.
103* ''WesternAnimation/TripTank'' has a recurring sketch called ''Suicidal Attention Whore Chicken'' which is...well about a chicken who nearly kills himself just to be the center of attention.
104* This is a big plot point of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder''. A race of Viking-expy anthropomorphic sheep-men are being besieged by a {{Troll}}, an actual troll with all the behaviors of a dreaded Internet troll. The troll attacks their great hall and feeds off of the anger he incites with his insults, making him grow to enormous size. Wander doesn't even attack him, and completely blows off his insults, weakening him. Soon Sylvia and the sheep-men realize what Wander is doing, i.e., "don't feed the troll", and ignore the troll as well. He shrinks back down to the small-rodent-size he originally was and Wander simply covers him with a teacup to drown out his cries for attention.
105* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'':
106** Stella is one. While she is a good person at heart, she always wants her friends to say how good she is. At one point she makes fake emergency calls to her friends so that they can attend her make-shift fashion show.
107** Lorelei in ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfWinx'' was hired to replace Bloom as co-host. Unfortunately for the other Winx, Lorelei is a pushy GenkiGirl who sees herself as a star.
108* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
109** Rainbow Dash can slip into becoming a real attention horse at times, up to the point that in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E8TheMysteriousMareDoWell The Mysterious Mare Do Well]]", she puts everypony in danger by insisting on shouting her new catchphrase instead of saving them from accidents. It's later shown that her personality stems from having two overly supportive parents who always cheer her on and call her the best at everything she does, no matter how mundane.
110** Rarity spent all of the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]" attempting to [[AcquiredSituationalNarcissism get more attention than her mystically-created butterfly wings already did]], culminating in her going too close to the Sun and doing an impression of [[IcarusAllusion Icarus]].
111** Even Pinkie Pie will slip into this if anyone dares to ignore her or reject her friendship. ''There are two episodes dedicated to this'', where Pinkie uses copious amounts of CartoonPhysics and borderline [[RealityWarper reality warping]] to mercilessly chase them all over Ponyville.
112** Trixie Lulamoon has turned this kind of behavior [[StageMagician into an income source]].
113** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E24EquestriaGames Equestria Games]]''; Ms. Harshwhinny assumes Spike is one for wanting to do "something really worthy of the Crystal Empire's admiration," when he's just attempting to make up for what he sees as a failure in the torch lighting ceremony.
114* Bradley Nicholson from ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' is envious of all the attention the main character gets, [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity notwithstanding the fact that he gets that attention by being]] TheJinx.
115* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Due to his implied competitive upbringing and [[BigBrotherBully bully of a younger brother]], Face 9000 gets jealous easily and is desperate for attention. He always wants his owners to like him. In one episode, he takes up comedy just so that they would pay attention to him ''for once''. Made depressingly ironic by the fact that he got less focus over the course of the show.

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