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''Thank God, the British journalist.''
''But seeing what the man will do,''
''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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"Papped" has become a verb for being photographed by these people.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Full Moon o Sagashite]]'', Mitsuki has to evade a reporter who could expose her secret.
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* Showing that this is a YMMV Trope, ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' OAV 8 has the character Lisa Vanette, who in her own eyes is a photojournalist and in the Knight Sabers' eyes is a paparazzo.
== [[
* 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.
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* The word "paparazzi" comes from the character Paparazzo in Federico Fellini's film ''[[La Dolce Vita]]''.
** [[Bilingual Bonus|It literally means "mosquito"]], which is rather apt...
* TV reporter Richard Thornburg in ''[[
* ''[[A Hard Day's
* 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
** He also played a papparazzi photographer in "Delirious".
* The film ''[[Spice World]]'' includes a paparazzi that stalks the Spice Girls, trying to get some story out of them. He apparently has superpowers that include being able to travel through the plumbing and emerge out of a toilet. However, he still fails to get anything until near the end, where he {{spoiler|gets pictures of the Spice Girls' friend after childbirth, prompting the girls to chase him down. Once they catch him, he becomes a whimpering moron (something they actually comment on).}}
* Freddy Lounds in ''[[
* 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 ''
* ''[[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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* 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
* 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.
== [[Live
* ''[[Adam-12]]'': The episode "Good Cop: Handle With Care" (from early in the series' second year) had a pair of rouge journalists—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—claiming they had not been read their rights, and that they had been arrested at random—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 ''[[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
* Reporter Kim hounds the [[Boy Band]] A.N.JELL looking for a scoop in the [[Korean Series]] ''[[You Are Beautiful]]''.
* Paparazzi are one of [[
* The third series of ''[[Primeval]]'' features a journalist who chases the protagonists around, trying to get proof of their work and expose it to the public. {{spoiler|He and his boss are crushed underfoot by a Giganotosaurus [[Karmic Death|while trying to film it]].}}
** Not to mention the Series Two special Through the Anomaly...
{{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
* In the episode "Ships in the Night" of ''[[NCIS]]'', the team is trying to track down the Paparazzi to see if they can confirm the alibi of a suspect. Leading to the following conversation:
{{quote|'''Gibbs:''' DiNozzo!
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Our Monsters Are Different|tengu Aya]] of ''[[Touhou]]'' is often [[Flanderization|portrayed]] in [[Fanon]] as
* 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, [[Schrödinger's Question|no matter what they were]]. [[Talk to the 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]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* After [[Shrinking Violet|Fluttershy]] of ''[[My Little Pony:
* ''[[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]] ==
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* 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.
* [[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.
** That'll teach him not to mess with [[Badass|James Bond.]]
* 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]].
** 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
** [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
* 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.]]
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