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So, you're a hero who's a fair way through your quest. You've slain [[Kill It With Fire|fire]]-[[Breath Weapon|breathing]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]], or assassinated [[The Mafia|mob bosses]], or torn apart an army base filled with hostile aliens. [[One-Man Army|You've cut a swath through the land]], [[Sociopathic Hero|slaughtering anything or anyone]] who gets in your way and [[We Do the Impossible|spit in the face of impossible odds]]. You're well on your way to finishing the job, when you need a favor. Anybody who knows who you are [[Hundred
"Go clean out my stables."
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"Go beat up this guy that's been hassling me."
"Don't you know who I am? Where's my respect?" Of course, you've [[But Thou Must!|got no choice]] but to debase yourself and comply with this humiliating request, even though you've probably gone [[From Nobody to Nightmare]] and by rights [[Combat Pragmatist|you should just]] [[Kick the Son of A Bitch|kill them]] and take what you need. Is a little empathy [[Did You Think I Can't Feel?|so hard to muster?]]
An [[Ideal Hero]] (or [[Superman (Comic Book)|blue boyscout]]) will fetch cats from trees all day long, but then again they're probably either a [[Slave to PR]] or just plain have nothing better to do between beating the tar out of villains. Expect villains, rivals, and some civilians to act like [[Ungrateful Bastard|Ungrateful Bastards]] in part because of this. The [[Glory Seeker]] ''hates'' this.
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Please restrict [[Real Life]] examples to people who have been [[Vindicated By History]] already.
Compare [[No Fame, No Wealth, No Service]], [[Hero With Bad Publicity]]. Contrast [[Famed in Story]], [[Hundred
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** And in the ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' tai ''[[Getter Robo]]'' movie, after {{spoiler|destroying the monstruous Gilgilgan}}, Tetsuya and the Getter team shook -their robots- hands, congratulating themselves for their victory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bpla65eQCE\]... and then Boss Borot's head -that was the only body part had been left of it!- stumbled between them and remembered them angrily he also took part in the battle. Tetsuya and the Getter team laughed, and the former admited their plan had worked thanks to him. Boss smiled, stating it was about time someone acknowledged his talent.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' uses this trope for drama, as well as being probably the only series in existence to ''give a name to the reason'' this happens to certain characters: [[Manipulative Bastard|Schneizel el Britannia]].
** The first victim is [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Li Xingke]], who has been in the service of the Empress for years. Then comes Schneizel to propose the marriage with his brother. Li even points out what a horrible mistake it is to let ''the guy that conquered half a continent'' run around in ''a country they're currently in at least diplomatic tensions'', and knowing Britannia's expansive ideology... (not to mention letting some Knights of Rounds accompany him, too). Well, moving on, Li is sent in their strongest armor after {{spoiler|Zero kidnaps the Empress}}. After a battle in which he risks his life, what do the Eunuchs do? They forget all his contributions and still want him executed! No wonder he ends up {{spoiler|siding with Zero to defend the Empress from them}}, and from here, they get their just desserts. Ultimately, it is revealed that the eunuchs WANTED the marriage to go through so they would gain Britannian royalty, and that they were [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|willing to kill off and replace the empress, who they saw as nothing more than a figurehead]]. When Zero [[Engineered Public Confession|publicly reveals the plan to the masses]], well, let's just say they don't take it too well, and now it's the eunuchs who are being left to dry by Schneizel, who sees [[Zero
** Then, the icing on the cake, Schneizel {{spoiler|asking a discussion with the Black Knights, after knowing Lelouch would be too emotionally damaged by the supposed death of his sister}}, '''with a bomb strapped to his mech, threatening to blow it up if anything happens to him'''. So in ''just 5 minutes of on-screen time'' (couldn't have been more than 30 minutes in their time), {{spoiler|the Black Knights}} suddenly forget how much {{spoiler|Lelouch}} helped them and ''take Schneizel's word for it'', although he has little proof on the matter except his word on it and some tapes that could have been fake. This is made worse by the fact that Schneizel is just using his [[Magnificent Bastard|charisma]] and has not, nor will he ever have, power of Geass, or even sufficient actual knowledge of it, leaving him to [[Half Truth|take any plausible liberty]] in order to [[Let's You and Him Fight|sow the seeds of discord between the core knights and their leader]].
** Before any of this though, we have Suzaku, who spends most of the series trying to work within Britannia to change the system. Problem is, he's a low-ranking Honorary Britannian, which has him sent for cannon fodder missions for much of season one.
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** Gus points this out in the season four finale after [[Da Chief]] calls one of Shawn's theories "nonsensical." As he says, "You know, I think our track record speaks for itself."
* It's what motivates Jimmy Ford in ''[[Leverage (TV)|Leverage]]''.
* This comes up a lot in ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'', where the eponymous character is a powerful warlock who has saved Camelot more than once and saved Arthur more times than we can count, but since magic is banned on pain of death, he has to keep it a secret. He's Arthur's manservant, and the two share a very [[Vitriolic Best Buds|vitriolic]] [[With Friends Like These...|friendship]], so he gets plenty of humiliating tasks on a regular basis. Though it's usually [[Played for Laughs]], it can be surprisingly poignant at times.
{{quote| '''Merlin:''' I just want Arthur to trust me. And to see me for who I really am.<br />
'''Gaius:''' One day, he will.<br />
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* On ''[[The X Files (TV)|The X Files]]'', every time Mulder presented Scully with his theory for what was going on in their current case, she would automatically dismiss it, even after he'd been proven right nearly every time. Most of the time Mulder was OK with this, saying that Scully's skepticism kept him on his toes. Sometimes, however, he'd get fed up with it and say something like "How often have I been wrong?"
* ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' has a combination of this and [[The Greatest Story Never Told]] as the motivation of the UnSub in {{spoiler|"Painless"}}. Held hostage by a mad gunman, he was the only one who looked him in the eye and survived... but got knocked out by an explosion. When he woke up, he [[Ungrateful Bastard|discovered another one of the others had stolen their story]] and found fame. This, combined with the formation of a clique of media-darling survivors, fuels his transformation [[From Nobody to Nightmare]].
* The original ''[[
* No matter how many times [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy]] saved Sunnydale High from not just vampires, but bug people, evil robots, invisible people, fish monsters, nightmares come alive, ghosts, reanimated corpses, werewolves, and ancient evil abominations, most of the school populace treated her as a [[Cool Loser]] at best. However, this was subverted toward the end of the third season at the prom, where the entire graduating class gave their thanks to Buffy for saving them multiples times. And this was right after saving them from some hellhounds, too.
* [[Eureka]]'s Sheriff Carter has to solve dozens of life-threatening, town-threatening, and/or ''world''-threatening scenarios before people start taking him seriously.
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** [[Lampshaded]] particularly well in Oasis Town, where the heroine directly asks what quest this town is going to give her, and the response is to 1. Collect 5 cough grass to make cold medicine, 2. gather 5 mountain grapes in a forest you have to plant, 3. kill 10 venombugs eating the mayor's garden, 4. Go pick 10 birthday flowers, 5. Light bonfires to attract firepigs, which are a nuisance, so kill 10 of them after you bring them here, and 6. collect 10 Magic Fellworts. This is just the stuff the mayor spat out at you before the princess interrupted him screaming that she's not his maid.
* [[Gaia Online|zOMG!]] actually averts this. Once your level reaches a certain point, the NPCs who give you the repeatable quests say "I should stop wasting your time here, you probably have better things to do. I'll handle the rest myself." Of course, then you can [[Willfully Weak|suppress your level]] and they'll get right back to bossing you around.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]'' twists this around in a plot heavy way. You can increase your respect (which, in game play terms amounts to how many fellow gang members you can take to assist you in a mission) by working out, dressing nice, doing missions and driving out the gangs from the city. However, {{spoiler|after a -[[Wham! Episode|certain]]- mission, you are suddenly dumped without warning into the countryside and the gangs retake the entire damn city, including your home street}}.
* ''[[Freedom Fighters (Video Game)|Freedom Fighters]]'' has this as a game play mechanic. You are a plumber thrust into fighting off a Soviet invasion of New York, so other rebels initially treat you as just another mook. However, as you destroy enemy targets and retake sections of the city, you gain the ability to lead a squad of rebels. By the end of the game, you are the de facto leader of the rebellion and can command up to twelve other soldiers in the field.
* Inverted in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'', where - as you are a ''roadie'' - you're ''supposed'' to stay the hell out of the spotlight. Not that it stops your buddies from appreciating what you do.
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