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** Admittedly if you do enough notable things NPCs will start to sing your praises, and once you've helped somebody their dialogue will generally be friendly to you, but that won't stop everybody else demanding you fetch them [[Twenty Bear Asses]].
** Not as bad in the new Cataclysm zones from the third expansion. Characters will generally recognise you as a great hero and faction leaders frequently show up and make it clear that they know who you are and what you're capable of. They still want you to collect bear asses, but they have more flattering ways of justifying it. The rewritten early quests also tend to try to make you feel less anonymous.
** Historical records seem to play the Trope straight, as the players rarely get much credit for major battles. It is stated that C'thun (the [[Final Boss]] of Vanilla) was slain by "a group of adventurers", but since then, the players never get first-billing. For example, in ''Cataclysm'', Thrall and "his allies in the Wrymcrest Accord" (that group includes the players) slew Deathwing, while in ''Wrath'', Tirion and "his champions" are given credit for the defeat of the LLich King, and so on. The players are always second-stringers for someone else in the annals of history.
* Sort of subverted in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'', when you initially step in front of Alliance Arms Inn in Port Llast, a group of watchmen will confront you and try to kill you because of {{spoiler|you're the butcher of Ember, but you're framed for this}}. You can intimidate them that {{spoiler|you've slaughtered orcs invading Old Owl Well}}. If you succeed intimidate check, they'll back off, but if you fail, they will attack you anyway, and get slaughtered.
** Regardless, random City Watch ''will'' still be all "I'm busy. Find another people to chat up." Wonderful thing to say to a ''Knight and member of Nine'', you bastard. Well, at least they are nameless.
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* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[The Spellcasting Series]]'', as hero Ernie Eaglebeak saves the world on a yearly basis and gets nothing but a trophy for his troubles. With his name [[Kick the Dog|misspelled on it.]]
* While the first ''[[The Godfather (video game)|The Godfather]]'' subverted this by causing you to become increasingly respected as you advanced through the plot and ranks, the sequel plays this particularly straight. Both Michael and others belittle you even when you've proven yourself capable of mowing down whole enemy Families.
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