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At least she admits it.
"You don't even care, do you? Do you hear me? I said you don't care! Are you listening?"
Look at me, everyone! I'll show you my boobs if you do! Or I'll tell everyone you groped them if you don't!
Whatever the cost, these characters have to be the center of attention. They don't even care about embarrassing themselves. That would just get them more attention... negative or positive, as long as all eyes are on them.
But isn't this page what they want? No, this page is telling you attention is all they want, and warning you that such people in Real Life are only out for themselves. They don't really care about any side, and if you think they do, you are actually giving them what they want.
Usually an attribute of The Libby. A few Upper Class Twits do this.
See also Cam Whore.
Examples:
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- Saki from To Love Ru. It never works, as Lala keeps inadvertently upstaging her.
- Sae from Peach Girl. This is pretty much what drives her to do everything in her power to undermine Momo because she's jealous of Momo for gaining the attention of their sought after Bishonen classmates Kairi and Toji, and she wants to remain the most popular girl in school.
- Kanon the Idol Singer from The World Only God Knows is a dramatic example of this.
- Actually, for Kanon it's more (in her eyes at least) that the attention she gets shows that she has worth, rather than being the goal in and of itself.
- Asuka Langley Soryuu from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Unfortunately, one of the characters from Bitter Virgin (Daisuke's self-proclaimed girlfriend, Kazuki) combines this with Yandere and gets pretty close to saying almost exactly the quote at the top of the page. Actually, she does try to (falsely) accuse Daisuke of rape, but fortunately no one believes her.
- "I'LL BE THE HERO, OF COURSE"
- A creepy and very self-destructive version of this trope is Akito Sohma from Fruits Basket.
- The Luchadora Castor, a.k.a. Rachel Stanley, in Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple, absolutely must be the center of attention of all times. If someone is receiving more spotlight than her, no depth is too low to sink to in order to steal it back. She goes as far as to listen to Ma Kensei's advice on what to do.
- Yukari-sensei (No, not that one, though she might qualify too) from The Secret of Haruka Nogizaka is a big drunken flirt. She'll often make outrageous statements to her class and express disappointment (read: throw a tantrum) if the class doesn't react as she likes or ignores her.
- Are you sure we're not talking about that Yukari-sensei?
- Kyouka from Kyouran Kazoku Nikki who wants, no demands, to be worshiped as a god.
- One of the possible interpretations of Autor in Princess Tutu. Although he comes across as a loner, he sets up a dramatic meeting with Fakir and quickly offers him his knowledge of Drosselmeyer, seeming rather giddy about the chance to get to show off. On top of that, when he runs into Rue and is instantly attracted to her, he flirts with her by...talking about himself and how great he is. He even has several cameos showing him yelling at people in the library to be quiet, and quite possibly making even more noise than the offenders were. He seems to have an inferiority complex, which doesn't help.
- Black☆Star from Soul Eater
Comic Books
- Elixir from X-Men. He subconsciously used his powers to change his skin into a reflective golden color so he'd stand out more. Before he discovered he was a mutant, he joined an anti-mutant terrorist group because he thought it would make him more popular.
- Also, the Mimic, from earlier in the X-Men. This is about 90% of his motivation for screwing around with the X-men, showing off.
- A stereotypical prima donna is like this.
- Discworld played with this in the book Maskerade, where two performers at the opera were competing for attention in the middle of a crisis.
- One of these is one of the major side characters, who's looking to replace the other, older performer, and she does this all the time-at the first sign of trouble, she emits a little sigh, does that movie-swoon that won't hurt you when you land, and, when she comes to, looks around in bafflement and asks, "Where am I?" Lampshaded by the annoyed heroine, especially as she's just assumed to the practical type who doesn't need attention.
Live Action TV
Video Games
- Narshen in Fire Emblem 6.
- The third Phoenix Wright game features a character named Luke Atmey. So Yeah...
- The King Of All Cosmos qualifies. Also, the in-game profiles for a few of the Royal Cousins label them this; mainly Ace, Dipp, Ichigo and Peso. And considering the profiles are provided by the King himself...
- As the page quote demonstrates, after the official tests end and you escape the scheduled incineration, GLaDOS quickly degenerates and switches between childish threats and pleading, all the way begging for a relationship that doesn't really exist. It's implied that she's been doing this over and over while the subjects get closer and closer to actually getting to her.
- Shadow Rise in Persona 4 is a stripper who wants everyone to look at her and is willing to "bare it all" to ensure it. She represents hidden desires within the real Rise.
- Union Jackie in Fans! hides a narcissistic, self-obsessed craving to be the centre of all attention beneath a bubbly, perky exterior and Fake Brit accent; when she learnt that Will was interested in her, she loudly and publicly shot him down, going so far as to shamelessly flirt with another guy almost immediately afterwards. She was genuinely shocked when Will's friends told her that they didn't really like her that much as a result of this. Then, when it looked like Will had moved on and was attracted to someone else, she immediately launched a campaign to outshine her plainer rival and once more be the centre of his universe, shamelessly leading him on - this fails, however, and Will ends up with the other girl. By the end of the first run of the strip, when it seems like her self-obsession has almost doomed humanity, she eventually resolves to change her ways.
- Mentioned in-continuity by said rival, in fact, when they faced down a horde of mechanical spiders that caused them all to be mentally consumed by their worst fears/personal versions of hell.
Shana: Jeezum, Crow, it really is all about you, isn't it? (As she was trying to snap Will out of his own fugue-state)
- Bonus points: This was the exact point Jackie started her campaign, and did it in a truly underhanded manner. She hypnotized him with certain triggers that were supposed to push him further towards her.
- Cosplay Girl from Ghastly's Ghastly Comic (shown above).
- Monique of Sinfest is prone to striking provocative poses while exclaiming "gimme attention!" or the equivalent. Male lead Slick once comments "I feel so used" after obliging her.
Western Animation
- Eddy from Ed Eddn Eddy.
- Angelica from Rugrats.
- Bloo from Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, with many storylines resulting from Bloo getting jealous of the attention received by other characters, then doing something Jerkass-ish in response.
- However, it's partly justified: Several parts of his dialogue imply, that his greatest fear is not beeing loved by anyone. A fear, which Mac is shown to share some times, he probably even created Bloo for the sole purpose of having that NOT happen to him. Of course, Bloo's tries to get the others to like him backfire more than just frequently.
- Most of the Drawn Together housemates fit this trope, but Toot Braunstein is far and away the worst of the bunch.
- Stewie and Peter on Family Guy, to hilarious extremes. Meg qualifies as a more desperate and lonely version of this, though she's always played as the Butt Monkey.
- A possible tragic example of this trope is Clay Puppington, the self-centered father of Moral Orel. This is especially apparent in the third season episode where we see his past. 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.
- Bender pulls stunts all the time so that people will pay attention to him. The biggest probably being when he got a slave population to build a towering statue of him that spoke: "Remember Me!" and then shot fire from its mouth.
- Kuzco from the The Emperor's New Groove/School series. Even after his Character Development at the end of the movie, he still acts like a attention-loving jerk.
- Daffy Duck.
- Darkwing Duck... when did this become an Animal Stereotype?
- Ty Lee from Avatar The Last Airbender.
Real Life
- This is why a lot of users Troll the Internet.
- Wanting attention is always a part of trolling, though not always the biggest part. Sometimes it's just to piss people off.
- The power the troll feels when he pisses people off is part of being an attention whore.
- Encyclopedia Dramatica calls it Unwarranted Self-importance
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- Ann Coulter. One time, on an episode of Hannity & Colmes, the hosts were talking to another guest for about a minute on the topic on which that guest was an expert. Coulter threw a fit, and actually told people to change the channel if they were going to ignore her. Also take into consideration that Coulter more likes to brag about getting people to argue with her more than she actually discusses what the arguments are about.
- Yoshiki Hayashi. The man defines "attention whore."
- Jack Thompson was one of these, as he used to attach himself to a case only if it'll get his name mentioned in the newspapers or on television. Fortunately people wised up to how incompetent he was and took away his licence to practice law. Australian readers note-not 'that' Jack Thompson - ok.
- Paris Hilton, Janice Dickinson, Anna Nicole Smith... in fact we could probably flood this page with Real Life examples with very little effort. It would be easier to list those celebrities and/or pseudocelebs with rich daddies who don't personify this trope. When you get right down to it, if they weren't attention whores, they wouldn't pursue celebrity in the first place.
- Special mention goes to Spencer and Heidi Pratt (of The Hills) for their antics on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here...And they're laughing all the way to the bank.
- Madonna.
- See your Madonna, raise you a David Bowie and Iggy Pop singing together.
- See your David Bowie y Iggy Pop and raise you Levi Johnson and KANYE WEST!!!
- Some people think that Thomas Beatie is one of these. Not only did he get pregnant, but he got pregnant again about four months after his daughter had been born, and wrote a book and made a documentary about his first pregnancy. Some FtM's want to hide under a rock because of him.
- Some animals can be prone to this (at least cats can be).
- Cats are an animal example that demonstrate this trope least. They're more characterized as aloof compared to dogs, who have much higher needs for affection.
- In popular portrayals maybe. Cats that want attention are shameless. First they pointedly ignore you, then make noise (scratching a chair or meowing) then climbing on you, standing on what you're working on, rubbing up against you... This troper's cat will listen for him going to bed then ambush him and basically sit on his face until he gets the attention he feels he deserves.
- And they do it in such a sneakily adorable way that you can't stand mad at them. This troper's cat has a tendency of sitting on her keyboard. Usually while's she's using it.
- Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis. On the cover of Every Other British Music Mag, with their potty-mouths and Holier Than Thou snarky opinions on everything. A certain Beatles news site somehow thinks there's a connection between them and the Beatles and continues publishing news about them every time Liam is "possessed by the spirit of John Lennon" or something. Probably a lot less justified with the declining quality of Oasis' albums, but still...
- The Guardian newspaper even commented on this recently, saying how it would save a lot more time to compile a list of people Noel Gallagher hasn't had a go at in the past year.
- Babies. No, seriously. They can still wither and die if only physical needs are met.
- Kanye West. Used to be forgivable due to his musical genius, but now that the well's apparently run dry, he's quickly becoming just another annoying real-life troll.
- Tara Strong. Always willing to do a monologue, even when no one asks her to.
- Jon and Kate Gosselin.
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