History Main / CrowdPleaser

->''"Boy, being back at the coliseum, back in the arena...\\
...and with the crowds and they're just cheering...\\
...it's gonna be like...It's gonna be like heaven.''"

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician.

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* ''Literature/ThatIrresistiblePoison'' by AlessandraHazard: Seyn attends a lot of parties, travels to other planets, and enjoys the praise and attention from his admirers.
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* ''Film/LegendOfTheDrunkenMaster'': Jackie Chan's Character is subject of a derogatory remark that his DrunkenBoxing exists solely as a show-off martial arts style geared for crowd pleasers who can't do proper martial arts. He proceed to prove the might of his ConfusionFu in the subsequent fight. Funnily inverted later, when Jackie's stepmother is subject to an attempted robbery, and Jackie steps in, prompting his stepmother to announce that there's going to be an exhibition match showing off the Drunken Boxing style.
* {{Film/Gladiator}}: Proximo, now a lanista with his own gladiator school, was originally a gladiator himself. As he recalls it, nothing could ever compare to the thrill of slaying an opponent and basking in the applause of 50,000 spectators. He tells Maximus that if he wants to stand before the emperor, he will have to learn to do as he did:
--> I wasn't the best because I killed quickly; I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd, and you'll win your freedom.
* Spinner from Film/DeathToSmoochy is a retired boxer ManChild who suffered brain damage during his career. He tells Sheldon about his boxing career and how he loved the crowds cheering around him.

* Beowulf from ''{{VideoGame/Skullgirls}}'', at least before the beginning of his story mode.

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* Proximo from the {{Film/Gladiator}} hints at being this during his years as a gladiator himself.

...it's gonna be like...It's gonna be like heaven.''"\\
-- '''Spinner Dunn''', ''Film/DeathToSmoochy''

...it's gonna be like...It's gonna be like heaven."\\

-->-- '''Spinner Dunn''', ''Film/DeathToSmoochy''

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* Gideon from {{ComicBook/Scott Pilgrim}}, who takes his pride too far.

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* Jackie Chan's Character in LegendOfTheDrunkenMaster is subject of a derogatory remark that his DrunkenBoxing exists solely as a show-off martial arts style geared for crowd pleasers who can't do proper martial arts. He proceed to prove the might of his ConfusionFu in the subsequent fight. Funnily inverted later, when Jackie's stepmother is subject to an attempted robbery, and Jackie steps in, prompting his stepmother to announce that there's going to be an exhibition match showing off the Drunken Boxing style.

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* Beowulf from {{VideoGame/Skullgirls}}, at least before the beginning of his story mode.

* Spinner from {{Film/DeathToSmoochy}} is a retired boxer ManChild who suffered brain damage during his career. He tells Sheldon about his boxing career and how he loved the crowds cheering around him.

In a world where GladiatorGames are a preferred form of entertainment, the Crowd Pleaser will find his adoring crowds much more easily, and thrive under the deafening roars rising from the spectators. Fighting a CrowdPleaser may be signing up for a DeathOfAThousandCuts, as they'll be [[JustToyingWithThem more likely to draw blood and prolong a battle]] to get the crowd worked up for the eventual kill with their [[FinishingMove signature style]], prompting the crowd's approval to FinishHim

In a world where GladiatorGames are a preferred form of entertainment, the Crowd Pleaser will find his adoring crowds much more easily, and thrive under the deafening roars rising from the spectators. Fighting a CrowdPleaser may be signing up for a DeathOfAThousandCuts, as they'll be more likely to draw blood and prolong a battle to get the crowd worked up for the eventual kill with their [[FinishingMove signature style]], prompting the crowd's approval to FinishHim

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician. Fighting a CrowdPleaser may be signing up for a DeathOfAThousandCuts, as they'll be more likely to draw blood and prolong a battle to get the crowd worked up for the eventual kill with their [[FinishingMove signature style]], prompting the crowd's approval to FinishHim

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician. Fighting a CrowdPleaser may be signing up for a DeathOfAThousandCuts, as they'll be more likely to draw blood and prolong a battle to get the crowd worked up for the eventual kill, prompting the crowd's approval to FinishHim

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician. Fighting a CrowdPleaser may be signing up for a DeathOfAThousandCuts, as they'll be more likely to draw blood and prolong a battle to get the crowd worked up for the eventual kill, prompting the crowd's approval to FinishHim.

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician. Fighting a CrowdPleaser may be signing up for a DeathOfAThousandCuts, as they'll be more likely to draw blood and prolong a battle to get the crowd worked up for the eventual kill.

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician. Fighting a CrowdPleaser may be signing up for a DeathofaThousandCuts, as they'll be more likely to draw blood and prolong a battle to get the crowd worked up for the eventual kill.

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician.

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. More often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician.

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* Gideon from {{ComicBook/ScottPilgrim}}, who takes his pride too far.

A character whose motivation is public approval and praise - he lives solely to bask in the adulation of the cheering spectators, to hear the roaring applause rise up as he performs. Most often than not a (former) prizefighter or another competition sport persona, or a musician.