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{{quote|''"You cannot hope to bribe or twist,''<br />

''Thank God, the British journalist.''<br />

''But seeing what the man will do,''<br />

''Unbribed, there's no occasion to."''|'''Humbert Wolfe''', }}

While some newspaper publishers use the term "'''Paparazzi'''" to cover all photographers, the word usually takes on more negative connotations - those of gutter journalism and invasions of privacy.

* In ''[[Full Moon Oo Sagashite]]'', Mitsuki has to evade a reporter who could expose her secret.

* The main characters in the [[Boys Love]] series ''[[Haru wo Daiteita]]'' are both television and movie actors who constantly weather the [[Tabloid Melodrama]], and are chased by "freelance journalist" [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Urushizake]] on his motor scooter.

* ''[[The Idolmaster (Animeanime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - A Paparazzi is hired by Kuroi to dig up dirt on the 765PRO Idols.

** [[Spider Man|Peter Parker]] himself. [[Protagonist Centred Morality|Yes, he has been this.]] In his first meeting with Doctor Octopus he catches the man holding some hospital staff hostage. All fine and well...but the only reason Peter was ''at'' that hospital in the first place was that the police and the hospital had refused to let the press in to take photos of Octopus, who at the time was little more than the victim of a horrible lab accident. In other words, Peter broke into a hospital to secretly take pictures of an injured man. He's totally nonchalant about it too and made a remark along the lines of [[Completely Missing the Point|"I've never heard of a hospital keeping people ''out'']] with regards to his plan to sneak in.

* TV reporter Richard Thornburg in ''[[Film/Die Hard 1|Die Hard 1]]'' and ''Die Hard 2: Die Harder''.

* ''[[A Hard Days Night (Film)|A Hard DaysDay's Night]]'' deals with this during the press conference scene. At one point, a photographer fills a reel of film with George Harrison making faces into the camera.

* The main character of ''[[The Naked Truth (Filmfilm)|The Naked Truth]]''.

* In preparation for starring in and directing ''The Interview'' [[Steve Buscemi]] spent some time disguised as a papparazzipaparazzi photographer.

* Freddy Lounds in ''[[TheRed Silence ofDragon the(2002 Lambsfilm)|Red Dragon]]''. He [[Karmic Death|gets his.]]

* The rare paparazzi hero: Leon Bernstein (played by [[Joe Pesci]]) in ''[[The Public Eye]]''. Based on the real life photog Weegee.

* In ''[[That Old Feeling]]'', [[Bette Midler]] plays a movie star who is frequently chased by a certain paparazzo.

* The film ''Papparazzi[[Paparazzi (film)|Paparazzi]]'' is about an actor who'swhose life is almost destroyed by evil paps who cause a car accident that land the actor's 9 -year -old son in the hospital in intensive care, break into his home, harrassharass and terrify the rest of his family, etc. He then spends the rest of the movie murdering all the paparazzi that wronged him.

* Rita Skeeter from ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]''. Though technically she's not a photographer herself, the rest of her characterization fits and she generally strings one (named "Bozo") along with her.

* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/The Truth|The Truth]]'' William De Worde and his flock are [[Intrepid Reporter|intrepid reporters.]]s. In thelater other''[[Discworld]]'' books, they are often portrayed as this to the main characters.

* Nearly all the media in ''[[Rewind (LiteratureTerry England novel)|Rewind]]'' is portrayed like this, as they obsess over the seventeen Rewound children to the point of being [[Strawman Political|Strawmen Newcrewsnews crews]]. Starts with ABC and NBC reporters [[Cluster F -Bomb|cussing each other out]] while fighting for a good position to film from, and just [[It Got Worse|goes downhill from there]].

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Adam-12]]'': The episode "Good Cop: Handle With Care" (from early in the series' second year) had a pair of rouge journalists -- onejournalists—one armed with a camera, their car outfitted with a police radio) -- targeting cops to fish for a police brutality story; eventually, officers Reed and Malloy become their marks. Throughout the course of the episode, the "journalists" use many of the tactics associated with the paparazzi as they harass the officers as they respond to a dead body call and deliver a death message to a woman. The main incident sees the pair take incriminating pictures of the officers as they deal with a stoned suspect; while taking him in for booking, the suspect began shaking uncontrollably and hit his nose against the seat frame of the car while Reed was trying to control him – the "reporter" half of the duo makes it out to be a case of police brutality. In the end, the journalists show up as Reed and Malloy are trying to take three bank robbery suspects into custody; Malloy tells them to leave, but they insist on staying and -- claimingand—claiming they had not been read their rights, and that they had been arrested at random -- provokerandom—provoke one of the criminals into shooting an innocent bystander (who later dies). The journalists are deeply remorseful as Malloy tells them, "Now you know (they really were robbers)."

* An episode of ''[[Law and Order]]'' had the victim of the week get chased into oncoming traffic by a paparazzo who wanted her opinion on her husband's affair. Once he was found to not be complicit in her death, [[Vigilante Execution|he got shot]]; when his death is announced at a restaurant frequented by the rich and powerful, everyone applauds.

* The mockumentary ''Being Michael Madsen'' is basically Michael Madsen vs. the papparazzipaparazzi, who are trying to implicate him in the disappearance of a young actress. Of course we don't really blame the papparazzipaparazzi because Madsen is [[Adam Westing]] in the vein of every psycho he's ever played.

* Paparazzi are one of [[BillThe O 'Reilly Factor|Bill O'Reilly]]'s major targets. Which is made doubly hilarious because he is a huge fan of ambush interviews and ''made his name working for '''Inside Edition''', a Live Actionlive-action Tabloidtabloid''. ''[[The Daily Show]]'' played a clip where he transitioned from an ambush interview on a bus to an exasperated condemnation of Paparazzipaparazzi without pausing.

{{quote| "Don't you just ''hate'' the Paparazzi?" *click* [sighs and shakes head]}}

* An annoying guy who seems determined to annoy the protagonist is a recurring character in ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', once FOLLOWING''following HERher HOMEhome'' to find out where she lived. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] when Miley is forced to pretend that her brother is her boyfriend.

{{quote| '''Gibbs:''' DiNozzo! <br />

'''Tony:''' Checking into the paparazzi, boss. <br />

'''Ziva:''' For being everywhere, they're surprisingly difficult to track down. <br />

** Michael Jackson actually had made several songs reflecting on or inspired by his relationship with the media, such as "Scream", "D.S.", and "Stranger in Moscow" from his ''[[HI StoryHistory]]'' album.

* [[Xzibit]] laments "sellout rappers" encouraging media attention and scrutiny in his 1996 breakout song "Paparazzi".

* [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Paparazzi" has some picture-taking lyrics ("Got my flash on it's true, need that picture of you"), but is more about [[Loony Fan|stalking fans]].

* [[Lindsay Lohan]] - "Rumors"

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "TMZ" starts out as a song about how paparazzi harass celebrities, then halfway through changes to pointing out that a number of things that celebrities do in view of the press are ''really'' stupid.

* Before landing his [[Instant Book Deal]], Michael of ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' wrote for a newspaper. What catapults him into this trope is his reaction upon witnessing a car accident: while his friend Weed wanted to try and help, Michael saw this as a chance to further his career with an 'exclusive story' and started snapping photos. [[ItsIt's All About Me|Being a self-centered]] [[Protagonist -Centered Morality|Patterson]], [[Lack of Empathy|he saw nothing wrong with this]]. Even finding out his childhood friend Deanna had been in the wreck only caused him a brief shock at learning "bad things don't just happen to strangers"... [[Completely Missing the Point|before insisting that the accident must have been "fate" bringing them back together]].

* The [[Our Monsters Are Different|tengu Aya]] of ''[[Touhou]]'' is often [[Flanderization|portrayed]] in [[Fanon]] as Paparazzia paparazzo. It seems to extend to canon in Double Spoiler, where Reimu reveals she's developed several spellcards specifically to counter the camera.

* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series, you get cornered by a reporter in both games. In [[Mass Effect 1|the first one]], she asks you about your mission, but soon tries to make you look bad. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|You can punch her out.]] In [[Mass Effect 2|the second game]], she attacks your decisions at the end of the first game, [[SchrodingersSchrödinger's Question|no matter what they were]]. [[Talk to Thethe Fist|You can punch her out again]], but if you didn't the first time, [[Player Character|Shepard]] says, "[[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|I should have done that the first time we met!]]"

** That or Shepard can deliver an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|speech calling her out]].

** She returns again in the third game. Renegades can punch her out again ,<ref>but be quick on the right trigger: she'll [[Genre Savvy|dodge]] the first time and knock ''you'' out if you mess up the second interrupt</ref>, while Paragons get [[Cooldown Hug|an interrupt]] [[Heartwarming Moments|of their own]].

* Paparazzi are common enemies in the second stage of the [[Scott Pilgrim]] game. [[Goddamned Bats|They are as annoying as their real life counterparts]] due to the jerks' ability to stun lock you, allowing other mooks to gang upon you.

** After [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]] of ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' became a famous model in "Green Isn't Your Color", these started hounding her wherever she went.

* The pioneer of the method was Ron Galella, who had a rough deal: [[Marlon Brando]] broke his jaw and knocked out four of his teeth, Brigitte Bardot enlisted some friends to soak him with a hose, and Richard Burton's bodyguards beat him up and had him tossed in a Mexican jail.

* [[Pierce Brosnan]] (of ''[[Remington Steele]]'' and ''[[James Bond]]'' fame) and his family were hounded by a photographer. Feeling that enough was enough, he walloped the fellow.

* Another rare "hero" case, though not at first. While not a photographer, 1930s nigh universally maligned celebrity reporter [[Walt Winchell]] stunned the US by taking on his publisher, William Randolph Hearst, then using his precious little radio time to do something almost no other reporter had done... speak out against the Holocaust and [[Adolf Hitler]].

* [http://www.celebmasters.blogspot.com/2007/09/cindy-crawford-nudenakeddesnuda.html Cindy Crawford was often sunbathing topless][[NSFW]] when she was photographed by the paparazzi. In 1997 she was on the beach at St. Martin topless with her boyfriend Rande Gerber who was naked. In one of those pictures, Cindy and Rande were walking on the beach with his arm around her shoulder and her'shers around his waist. A nude Rande was shown with an erection in another. In the ''Globe'' tabloid, a Speedo was painted on him. Rande told ''New York'' magazine "To look like I wear one is even more embarassingembarrassing. It's better that everyone sees my balls." The papparazzipaparazzi pics later appeared uncensored in ''High Society''. [http://www.drunkenstepfather.com/index.php/2008/08/06/cindy-crawfords-topless-on-the-yacht-of-the-day Later on she was photographed while sunbathing topless on George CloonyClooney's yacht.][[NSFW]] [http://www.tmz.com/2008/08/18/cindys-man-slugs-over-crawfords-naked-jugs Her husband, Rande Gerber slugged a paparazzo when they were asked about Cindy's topless photos.]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OszeLI-ebIc The paparazzi also videotaped a coked up Cindy Crawford performing a lapdance.] Two packets of cocaine were sticking out of the top to her bikini.

** Not only the pap was bitcingbitching Buzz out, but he was pretty unpleasant ''towards the daughter''. [[Papa Wolf|That would teach him.]]

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