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  • Darla Dimple, a Corrupted Character Copy of Shirley Temple, from Cats Don't Dance. She's the biggest star in Hollywood at the time protagonist Danny rolls into town, and when he puts way more effort into a performance than necessary, briefly upstaging her at a rehearsal, she works to ruin his life and the lives of anyone he comes into contact with.
  • Coco: Ernesto joins Imelda in singing "La Llorona" to stop her from taking Héctor's photo, but then quickly gets swept up in the attention and literally takes over singing the rest of the song. Unfortunately for him, this gives Imelda the opportunity to steal the photo back again.
  • Despicable Me:
    • Gru doesn't want to be a villain. He wants to be the number one supervillain. Doctor Nefario assures him he is still number one when he talks to him. His minions are there only to give him the attention his mother denied him in his childhood.
    • Vector doesn't want to be a villain either. He wants to be the number one supervillain. His attempts to get attention are even more pathetic:
      Margo: Four boxes of Mini-Mints, two Toffee-Totes, two Caramel Clumpies, and... fifteen boxes of Coconutties.
      Vector: Exactly! I'd like to see somebody else order that many cookies! Not likely! Name one person who would order more cookies than me!
      Margo: That'll be $52.
  • Marie from The Aristocats loves getting her mother's attention, much to the annoyance of Toulouse and Berlioz. She even calls her Duchess whenever Berlioz or Toulouse start messing with her or when they do something very mischievous.
  • Turbo from Wreck-It Ralph. He was the main character of a popular racing game, Turbo Time. When another racing game, RoadBlasters, upstaged him, he got jealous and left his game to invade it. This resulted in both games being declared defective and being unplugged. Turbo's story has become a cautionary tale in the arcade, and "going Turbo" has become general lingo for abandoning one's game. After crashing that, he invaded a new racing game, Sugar Rush, and attempted to delete the game's main character, Vanellope Von Schweetz. When that failed, he just modified her into a glitch and locked away everyone's memories of her as he became King Candy, having the citizens shun Vanellope. And it stayed that way until Ralph accidentally crash-landed in the game.
  • Bobby from A Goofy Movie and An Extremely Goofy Movie takes every opportunity he can to draw attention to himself, even if doing so would be a fundamentally bad idea (such as shouting "a little smokeage!" and howling during the "Stand Out" stunt, at which they did not at all want to be caught.) His friends Max and PJ have both given him weird looks for some of his attempts—Max for his badly timed "Leaning Tower of Cheesa" pun, PJ for putting spoons and straws all over his body ostensibly to impress the Gammas, and both for his loudly declared guzzling of spray cheese straight from the can in the middle of the high school hallway. Bobby does tend to get attention, but it's usually not of the positive variety—people find him to be weird or annoying or a loser or a loudmouth, depending on their relationship to him and the situation.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks:
    • The Dazzlings have shades of this, given that their songs have lyrics like:
      We will be adored!
      Tell us that you want us
      We won't be ignored!
      It's time for our reward!
    • Also Trixie's main motivation; she wants to impress the CHS students and loves to show off. Notable when she photobombs Photo Finish's shoot during the song "Better Than Ever".


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