Chronic Hero Syndrome: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Supermegatopia]]'''s ''Weasel Boy'' series theorizes that heroism is "an instinct that makes people do good things before they can even begin to think about the consequences." Weasel Boy himself suffers from this in spades, even getting himself killed because he tries rescuing a little girl from a burning building just after being hit with a fast-acting poison.

* Mr. Mighty from ''[[Everyday Heroes]]''. On the first day with his new team, he helped a little old lady fix a flat tire, retrieved a truckload of chickens that were blocking traffic, saved a [[Bus Full of Innocents|bus load of orphans]] from a speeding freight train, and foiled a bank robbery... all before he even got to the office. His biggest worry was being an hour late to work.

* The title character of ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' can be counted on to do his even best to help anyone he encounters who's in serious trouble, whether that means facing off against a [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060617.html giant space monster] or [[Save the Villain|rescuing]] a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080902.html from herself.] (Other incidents like stopping the [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090609.html bigfoot war] don't quite count, since the threats endangered him, too.) His one attempt at being a [[Knight Errant]] when he got super powers [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070303.html went badly.]

* Elysia from ''[[Rumors of War]]'' exhibits symptoms of Chronic Hero Syndrome, going out of her way to help a young woman who's misplaced her lover. Of course, [[Deconstruction|it's shown that]] her [[Refusal of the Call|initial reluctance]] to help out meant she was unable to prevent [[It Got Worse|a chain of events]] that culminated in {{spoiler|the girl's disappearance, the torture of a (presumably) innocent (if somewhat creepy) man, and a violent confrontation with the girl's father}}.

* ''[[Freefall]]'': Florence Ambrose has a case of this; it almost got her killed at one point, in a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] incident at that. Of course, her grand objective is to prove that her species is too valuable to be allowed to go extinct, so it's probably a good thing, assuming she survives future heroism and doesn't get on the wrong side of the company that created her. (The company, Ecosystems Unlimited, is a [[Mega Corp]] which would reach positively [[Final Fantasy VII|Shinra]] levels of villainousness if they could only find their rear with both hands, so this may be harder than it looks.)

* [http://oglaf.com/sircoffee/1/ Sir Coffee] from ''[[Oglaf]]'' is a play on this. (WARNING: Sir Coffee's comic is worksafe. [[NSFW|The rest of the comic is not]].)