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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Hyraxx De Mofiti from ''[[Buck Godot]]'' probably counts. She's a tabloid journalist that at first keeps chasing after Buck in order to find answers for such questions as what colour of clothes does the resident [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] wears and whther or not the space station is haunted by Elvis. Later on she ends up helping Buck by digging up some information he needs, tho.
* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' is known for his bad press, so naturally there have been a few:
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** He once had to deal with a rather vile and self-admitted paparazzi (and the biggest slimeball you'd ever meet) named Nick Katzenburg, a [[Fat Slob]] with absolutely no morals, who gained a high position at the Daily Bugle because J. Jonah Jameson had been replaced by the Chameleon, making the Bugle's attacks against Spider-Man into outright slander. When the real Jonah returned, Nick's claws were clipped a little, due to Jonah having some morals as a newsman, and then severely grounded when Thomas Fireheart became the owner in a hostile takeover, turning the Bugle's coverage towards him positive in order to repay a debt he felt he owed (which, sadly, was just as biased, only in reverse). Nick's slanderous ways finally came to a head when he took incriminating pictures of [[The Don| the Rose]] and published them with Peter Parker's name to protect himself; once the truth came out, he was the target of both the underworld and the police, and an attempt on his life led to a heart attack and his eventual death from lung cancer.
** Eddie Brock (as in, [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]]) became this after his reputation as a respectible reporter was ruined, a phase of his life that drove him to near suicide, making him an ideal host for the alien symbiote. In fact, he was inspired to call himself Venom due to the vile drivel he had been reduced to writing.
== [[Film]] ==
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* 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 ''[[Paparazzi (film)|Paparazzi]]'' is about an actor whose life is almost destroyed by evil paps who cause a car accident that land the actor's 9
* ''[[And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird]]'': After reporter Alice hears about Josh and Max's secret robot, she pursues the story to the point of breaking and entering and airing footage obtained from shooting through house windows.
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* Rita Skeeter from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|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.
* ''Paparazzi'', obviously.
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* James Herbert's novel ''Creed'' is about a paparazzo stumbling upon a satanic cult.
* Nearly all the media in ''[[Rewind (Terry England novel)|Rewind]]'' is portrayed like this, as they obsess over the seventeen Rewound children to the point of being [[Strawman Political|Strawmen news 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]].
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'''Ziva:''' For being everywhere, they're surprisingly difficult to track down.
'''Agent Borin:''' [[Take That|Kind of like termites or roaches.]] }}
* ''[[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]]'': A gutter press photographer who is stalking a female tennis star plays a major role, and becomes a suspect for murder, in "Game, Set, and Murder". It is later revealed that he is being paid by her major rival to harass her and throw her off her game.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==▼
* The former [[Professional Wrestling|TNA tag team]] Paparazzi Productions, consisting of Alex Shelley, Johnny Devine, a cheap digital camcorder and a complete lack of shame.▼
** Also [[World Wrestling Entertainment|MNM]] had their own personal paparazzi who would snap photos of them as they walked to the ring and sometimes stick around to take pictures of their matches as well. This was dropped for Joey Mercury while he was fired and Melina once she [[Heel Face Turn|turned Face]], while Johnny Nitro stopped it shortly after becoming John Morrison.▼
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* 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. [[It'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]].
▲== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
▲* The former [[Professional Wrestling|TNA tag team]] Paparazzi Productions, consisting of Alex Shelley, Johnny Devine, a cheap digital camcorder and a complete lack of shame.
▲** Also [[World Wrestling Entertainment|MNM]] had their own personal paparazzi who would snap photos of them as they walked to the ring and sometimes stick around to take pictures of their matches as well. This was dropped for Joey Mercury while he was fired and Melina once she [[Heel Face Turn|turned Face]], while Johnny Nitro stopped it shortly after becoming John Morrison.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** After [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]] became a famous model in "Green Isn't Your Color", these started hounding her wherever she went.
** Not even Princess Celestia is safe from paparazzi, as in the episode "Ponyville Confidential", she was photographed pigging out on cake, the photo appearing in Gabby Gump's column in the newspaper.
* ''[[Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]]'': A paparazzi named Exposa once 'flashed' Ickis, snapping his picture and attempting to reveal the existance of monsters with a front-page headline.
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* Fili Houtemann got two of these to [[Honey Trap|photograph her cavorting naked]] with Daniel Ducruet, the then-husband of Stephanie Casiraghi.
* A paparazzi once decided it would be a brilliant idea to sneak into [[Bruce Lee]]'s backyard to try and get shots of him.[[Too Dumb to Live|Unfortunately, his kids were in the yard at the time, and he terrified them]], a ''very'' angry Lee [[Papa Wolf|kicked the man with such force, it knocked him out instantly and may have killed him if Lee's foot was a bit more to the side.]]
* [[Emma Watson]] said in an interview that she encountered paparazzi lying on the ground to take pictures up her skirt on her eighteenth birthday. Apparently it was legal to do that to an adult but not a minor in 2008.<ref>A UK law has since been introduced to ban "upskirt" pictures at any age.</ref>
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