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* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' has a combination of this and [[The Greatest Story Never Told]] as the motivation of the UnSub in {{spoiler|"Painless"}}. Held hostage by a mad gunman, he was the only one who looked him in the eye and survived... but got knocked out by an explosion. When he woke up, he [[Ungrateful Bastard|discovered another one of the others had stolen their story]] and found fame. This, combined with the formation of a clique of media-darling survivors, fuels his transformation [[From Nobody to Nightmare]].
* The original ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series has this to the point of nausea. No matter how many times the Doctor would save planets, galaxies, and even the very fabric of reality, no-one thought of him as anything other than a meddling madman, if they had even heard of him at all. Even UNIT, who have extensive knowledge of the dozens of times the Doctor has pulled their butts form the metaphorical fire, treat him like a walking hazard ([[Walking Disaster Area|which he is]], but still), while his fellow Time Lords consider him to be just as dangerous as renegades like [[Evil Counterpart|the Master]]. Indeed, one of the major ways the new series departs from the original is going in the precise ''opposite'' direction, with the Doctor regarded throughout time and space as a [[Shrouded in Myth]] [[Person of Mass Destruction]] who can make a sapient, carnivorous swarm retreat simply by ''telling it who he is''.
* No matter how many times [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]] saved Sunnydale High from not just vampires, but bug people, evil robots, invisible people, fish monsters, nightmares come alive, ghosts, reanimated corpses, werewolves, and ancient evil abominations, most of the school populace treated her as a [[Cool Loser]] at best. However, this was subverted toward the end of the third season at the prom, where the entire graduating class gave their thanks to Buffy for saving them multiples times, granting her (through write-in ballots) the award of Class Protector, with a fancy parasol for a trophy. And this was right after saving them from some hellhounds, too.
* [[Eureka]]'s Sheriff Carter has to solve dozens of life-threatening, town-threatening, and/or ''world''-threatening scenarios before people start taking him seriously.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s lack of respect even extends to the lighthearted shorts on ''[[The Electric Company]]''. On one of them, he's just trying to take the day off at the Mets game when lameass villain The Wall crashes the game and attacks a player, and ''then'' attacks the umpire who tries to kick him out. Spidey manages to intervene and web the villain, only for the same umpire to order him to leave and take the Wall with him, which Spidey meekly does. ("Lucky I didn't slap him with a $50 fine, I can be pretty stupid when I want to be!") Of course, in Spidey's defense, who ''wouldn't'' be intimidated by an angry [[Morgan Freeman]]?
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