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== Comic Books ==

* The [[DC Comics]] character [[Booster Gold]] originally played this straight. His origin story is of a disgraced football player from the future who steals a flight ring and a super suit from a museum, then travels back to the modern day with a [[Non-Human Sidekick|reprogrammed tour guide robot]] full of old news data about disasters and the like. Though he does prove himself to be a true hero early in his career, later writers end up portraying him as a self-serving, fame-obsessed laughingstock that all of the big name heroes (save for Wonder Woman and Superman) treat like crap, even when he does stuff like facing Doomsday by himself, in order to buy Superman and his fellow JLA time to regroup.

** The current Booster Gold series takes this to a new extreme, as far as Booster being forced to throw away any and all chances of becoming a well-respected hero in order to be Rip Hunter's personal slave/super-hero, leading the guy into full-fledge [[Butt Monkey]] territory, with elements of Mildred Pierce tossed in as far as Rip revealing to Booster that Booster must forever be known as a coward and a loser of a hero, so that his son (Rip) can reap the full credit and fame of of all of Booster's work protecting the time stream. This on top of Rip purposely lying to Booster about "fixing" past tragedies, like saving Blue Beetle's life and preventing the Joker from crippling Batgirl. [[Unexplained Recovery|It doesn't, of course.]]