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''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.
This is a staple of pretty much any work of fiction dealing with celebrities - the characters will inevitably have to deal with paparazzi who are looking for a story to sell at some point, no matter how it affects the lives of the story's subjects, or what laws the paparazzi break in the process of getting the story. This can be considered the flipside or [[Evil Counterpart]] to the [[Intrepid Reporter]].
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== [[Comics]] ==
* 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|Peter Parker]]. [[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.
== [[Film]] ==
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** [[Bilingual Bonus|It literally means "mosquito"]], which is rather apt...
* TV reporter Richard Thornburg in ''[[Film/Die Hard 1|Die Hard 1]]'' and ''2''.
* ''[[A Hard Day's Night|A Hard Days 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 (film)|The Naked Truth]]''.
* In preparation for starring in and directing ''The Interview'' Steve Buscemi spent some time disguised as a papparazzi photographer.
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* In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'' William De Worde and his flock are [[Intrepid Reporter|intrepid reporters.]] In the other books they are often portrayed as this to the main characters.
* 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 Newcrews]]. 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]].
* Hallis Saper, a documentarian in ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'', is mentioned to have gotten her start in "sludgenews", [[Star Wars]]' equivalent. It did teach her some valuable lessons.
* ''[[In Death]]'': Just about every reporter, except for Nadine Furst, is this.
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* An episode of ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' featured a celebrity who was driving dangerously, due to the paparazzi chasing him.
** Which, when you think about it, might be a callback to the accusations that paparazzi were responsible for the crash of Princess Diana's car, due to them pursuing the car she was in, which went to unsafe speeds to get away from them and caused said crash.
* 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 papparazzi, who are trying to implicate him in the disappearance of a young actress. Of course we don't really blame the papparazzi because Madsen is [[Adam Westing]] in the vein of every psycho he's ever played.
* Reporter Kim hounds the [[Boy Band]] A.N.JELL looking for a scoop in the [[Korean Series]] ''[[You Are Beautiful]]''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Our Monsters Are Different|tengu Aya]] of [[Touhou]] is often [[Flanderization|portrayed]] in [[Fanon]] as Paparazzi. 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, [[
** 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]].
* After her experiences with "real ghosts" at Kurain Temple in ''[[Ace Attorney]]'', Lotta Hart switches to celebrity photography.
* 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.
* In ''[[Alan Wake]]'', the titular character once punched a paparazzi.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* After [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]] of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' became a famous model in "Green Isn't Your Color", these started hounding her wherever she went.
* ''[[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.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* 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.
* The paparazzi were involved in the deaths of Princess Diana and her then-boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed, being a factor in the occurrence of the fatal crash - according to the official inquest, anyway.
* When [[Kylie Minogue]] returned to Australia for breast cancer treatment, media and fans began to congregate outside the Minogue residence in Melbourne, prompting Victorian premier Steve Bracks to warn the media against breaching Australian privacy laws.
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** I'd question why the hell 'hero' has to be in quotes, but back then the world was pretty nutty.
* [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's 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 embarassing. It's better that everyone sees my balls." The papparazzi 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 Cloony'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.
* Once, Buzz Aldrin and his daughter were being stalked by a reporter who claimed that [[Conspiracy Theorist|the moon landings were faked]]. Aldrin was polite at first, but when the reporter started calling him a liar, Aldrin punched him in the face. Mind you, he was [[Badass Grandpa|72 years old]] at the time. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU And it's on YouTube!]
** Not only the pap was bitcing Buzz out, but he was pretty unpleasant ''towards the daughter''. [[Papa Wolf|That would teach him.]]
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