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* Paris, 1908: A Newfoundland dog rescued a drowning toddler from the River Seine, and was given a beefsteak as a reward. Two days later, the same dog rescues another child from the River Seine, and is rewarded with a beefsteak. More and more children fall into river, and are rescued by the dog. Officials feared a criminal throwing children into the river and investigated - only to find TheDogWasTheMastermind. The dog had learned rescuing a drowning child meant a beefsteak, and had been ''pushing children in'' and pulling them out for the reward.
* Some animal rescue channels on Youtube have gotten banned because it was discovered that the vid makers were deliberately putting the animals in the vids in danger or hurting them for the purpose of "rescuing" them on camera.
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* In '''Film/GreenForDanger'', [[spoiler:Sanson staged the gas "attack" and rescue of Linley to put herself above suspicion]].

** This turns out to be [[spoiler:Mysterio]]'s modus operandi in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''. The entire thing about Elementals, his acts as a hero, his backstory, basically everything [[spoiler:was faked using holographic technology he invented for Stark Industries, along with help from his crew]] in order to make him look like a superhero [[spoiler:worthy as Iron Man's successor]].

* Paris, 1908: A Newfoundland dog rescued a drowning toddler from the River Seine, and was given a beefsteak as a reward. Two days later, the same dog rescues another child from the River Seine, and is rewarded with a beefsteak. More and more children fall into river, and are rescued by the dog. Officials feared a criminal throwing children into the river and investigated - only to find TheDogWasTheMasterMind. The dog had learned rescuing a drowning child meant a beefsteak, and had been ''pushing children in'' and pulling them out for the reward.

!!Examples:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': This is Syndrome's problem. He wants to be a great and famous hero like his childhood idol Mr. Incredible but sees no problem murdering actual heroes or attacking cities in pursuit of this, not to mention [[WouldHurtAChild blowing up children]]. To do this, he creates the Omnidroid, a powerful battle robot made to be NighInvulnerable, highly intelligent, and generally strong enough so that no one else could take it on, leaving him to stop it with the help of a remote control. [[spoiler:This backfires on him when it turns out that the learning robot "got smart enough to wonder why it had to take orders", recognizing the remote as its WeaksauceWeakness and getting it off of Syndrome with a sneak attack. Syndrome goes down fairly easily after that, leaving the Incredibles and Frozone to actually defeat the thing.]]

* Some animal rescue channels on Youtube have gotten banned because it was discovered that the vid makers were deliberately putting the animals in the vids in danger or hurting them for the purpose of "rescuing" them on camera.

''Don't'' expect a real hero to react very well to people who do this

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': This is Syndrome's problem. He wants to be a great and famous hero like his childhood idol Mr. Incredible but sees no problem murdering actual heroes or attacking cities in pursuit of this, not to mention [[WouldHurtAChild blowing up children]]. To do this, he creates the Omnidroid, a powerful battle robot made to be NighInvulnerable, highly intelligent, and generally strong enough so that no one else could take it on, leaving him to stop it with the help of a remote control. [[spoiler:This backfires on him when it turns out that the learning robot "got smart enough to wonder why it had to take orders", recognizing the remote as its WeaksauceWeakness and getting it off of Syndrome with a sneak attack. Syndrome goes down fairly easily after that, leaving the Incredibles and Frozone to actually defeat the thing.]]

Compare FakeUltimateHero, GloryHound, FakeDangerGambit, and MonsterProtectionRacket. See also MinionManipulatedIntoVillainy, where the villain causes someone hardships or tragedies, so they can solve them in exchange for the person's loyalty. [[MunchausenSyndrome Munchausen by Proxy]] is also related, as the character makes another sick and weak to get the praise and sympathy for being the caretaker.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': This is Syndrome's problem, coincidence. He wants to be a great and famous hero like his childhood idol Mr. Incredible but sees no problem murdering actual heroes or attacking cities in pursuit of this, not to mention [[WouldHurtAChild blowing up children]]. To do this, he creates the Omnidroid, a powerful battle robot made to be NighInvulnerable, highly intelligent, and generally strong enough so that no one else could take it on, leaving him to stop it with the help of a remote control. [[spoiler:This backfires on him when it turns out that the learning robot "got smart enough to wonder why it had to take orders", recognizing the remote as its WeaksauceWeakness and getting it off of Syndrome with a sneak attack. Syndrome goes down fairly easily after that, leaving the Incredibles and Frozone to actually defeat the thing.]]

Compare FakeUltimateHero, GloryHound, and FakeDangerGambit. See also MinionManipulatedIntoVillainy, where the villain causes someone hardships or tragedies, so they can solve them in exchange for the person's loyalty. [[MunchausenSyndrome Munchausen by Proxy]] is also related, as the character makes another sick and weak to get the praise and sympathy for being the caretaker.

-->--'''Frost''', ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''

Compare FakeUltimateHero, GloryHound, and FakeDangerGambit. See also MinionManipulatedIntoVillainy, where the villain causes someone hardships or tragedies, so they can solve them in exchange for the person's loyalty. [[MunchausenSyndrome Munchausen By Proxy]] is also related, as the character makes another sick and weak to get the praise and sympathy for being the caretaker.

Engineered Heroics is when an individual who craves the attention and [[FamedInStory glory that comes with heroism]]...and thus, creates a catastrophe to play TheHero in.

Compare FakeUltimateHero, GloryHound. See also MinionManipulatedIntoVillainy, where the villain causes someone hardships or tragedies, so they can solve them in exchange for the person's loyalty. [[MunchausenSyndrome Munchausen By Proxy]] is also related, as the character makes another sick and weak to get the praise and sympathy for being the caretaker.

* Downplayed in ''Animation/TownMusiciansOfBremen''. The musicians disguise themselves as robbers and capture the King, only for the Troubadour as himself to free him and pretend to defeat the robbers afterwards, so that the King allows the Troubadour to marry the Princess. However, before setting the whole thing up, the musicians frighten off real outlaws who have been planning a real attack on the King.

* In ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' a little capuchin monkey complains to George that the other monkeys bully him because he's a runt. In the next scene, the monkeys are attacked by a large lion; Little Monkey steps forward, [[PrimalChestPound pounds his chest]] and yells at the lion, fending it off and earning the other monkeys' respect. The lion, hiding in the bushes, winks at George, implying that it was him arranging the whole scene.

* Occurs at the start of ''Film/{{Hitch}}'', Will Smith entices a dog away from its owner so that his client can appear to have jumped in front of a car to save it so that the client can get a date with the owner.

* Subverted in ''Film/MrDeeds'', where the girl stages the fake attack with one of her friends. The guy beats said friend up.