Quest for infamy prelude serial#

The killer in the 2015 film #Horror carried out a killing spree in order to be 'remembered forever' and get revenge against her obnoxious friends.

He's stopped at ''CHA.' In the comic, the authorities scotch his plans for notoriety by blaming the singer Charo.

Parodied in both The Tick and its animated adaptation with Chairface Chippendale, who launches an elaborate scheme to write his name on the moon with a laser cannon in celebration of his birthday.

During the Ends of the Earth storyline, the dying Doctor Octopus attempts to kill off 99.92% of the Earth's population so that the remaining will remember him as the greatest monster in history.

This plan backfired pretty badly when she ran into the Superior Spider-Man, who got so angry at being humiliated that he gave her a borderline-fatal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Her entire schtick is based around the fact she films her stunts and her fights with Spider-Man which then go viral. The minor Spider-Man villain Screwball is more or less only in the villain game to get views on her blog.Len Wein reused this idea in the issue where Jarella is killed by the robot Crypto-Man the scientist who sent the robot on its rampage wanted to become infamous, but the robot's battle with the Hulk caused a power feedback that killed him and burned away all his identifying features.When his scheme to kill the Sub-Mariner with a bomb backfired on him, he was killed in an explosion that left him totally unidentifiable by the authorities.

The original Secret Empire was founded by a man who had grown tired of being a nobody and wanted to take over the world mostly in order to ensure that history would remember him.Naturally, one Silver Age story set Clayface against the Joker as the two committed crimes in one another's styles entirely to enhance their own infamy and mock their other's. Similarly, Clayface sometimes commits crimes entirely to make himself famous, especially the 'former actor' version of the character.Perhaps his true illness is that he is an Attention Whore through and through. The Joker has practically built a career on crimes designed more to spread his infamy than anything else.In Poison Ivy's first appearance, she goes public after years of successfully committing crimes without ever being noticed, simply to claim the title of 'World Public Enemy #1' from three pretenders (obviously, this was before Characterization Marches On took effect and shifted Ivy from an unrepentant criminal to a mentally unstable ecoterrorist).His name has even found its way into a phrase 'herostratic fame', meaning 'fame at any cost'. note Well, they actually did such a crappy job at that the result was the complete opposite because people had to know whose name they mustn't utter on pain of death. It's possible some lunatic has already done it in the name of fame.Ī possible Ur-Example Herostratus burned the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus to the ground in 356 BC, hoping his act of arson would get him in the history books, and the Ephesian government failed to defeat him despite all their best efforts to Unperson him.

Quest for infamy prelude serial#

So what better way to end up on TV and go down in history than to commit crimes and do horrible things? Things like arson or other such destruction of famous structures, assassination of public figures, shooting up a school, or becoming a creative Serial Killer with a distinct Calling Card. Not things that deserve fame, but somehow they get at least 15 minutes of it anyway. Every day, people appear in the news for doing crazy things.