History Main / FanBoy

->''"It's true that it is always the [[WrittenByTheWinners winners that write history]]. But it is the losers that do the Transformers Wikipedia entry."''

* During the "iStart A Fan War" episode of ''Series/ICarly'', there is one fanboy for the Sam/Freddie 'Seddie' {{Shipping}} couple who is a textbook version of this. He stands up and shouts "SEDDIE!" over and over. For those with knowledge of the fandom, he's obviously based on one specific BigNameFan who became well known for those antics on the creators blog and websites.

* Dragon Shynron, ACH and Mr. 450 are fan boys of ''Manga/DragonBall'', the former two even [[TagTeam team]] together as "FusionDance". Unlike most depictions of fan boys, they're also ''awesome''. 450 eventually toned down the ''Dragon Ball'' elements of his gimmick when he decided to turn his "Mecha Wolf" Playstation tag into a gimmick, but ACH has since gone on to reference other comics like ''Manga/OnePiece''.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'':
** Seymour to God.
** Lil' E to Satan.
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-15 And Monique has just acquired a fan girl.]]

->''"It's true that it is always the [[WeittenByTheWinners winners that write history]]. But it is the losers that do the Transformers Wikipedia entry."''

->''"It's true that it is always the winners that write history. But it is the losers that do the Transformers Wikipedia entry."''

* [[{{Adorkable}} Ironfist]] is an ''enormous'' nerd for [[BadassCrew the Wreckers]], including writing tons of data files on them, buying memorabilia, and knowing all sorts of minutae that would only interest hardcore fans of the team (the Transformers Wiki even notes "Oh dear lord, he's ''us!''"). He [[AscendedFanboy ascends]] to join the team he idolizes in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers''. Flashbacks reveal he has ''always'' been like this--before the Wreckers came into being, he geeked out over the Primal Vanguard, an early Cybertronian peacekeeping detachment.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Skins}}'' Jordan and Rabbit are huge geeks despite being hardened supernatural soldiers. Jordan is enough of nerd to cosplay as [[spoiler: Commander Shepard]] and Rabbit attends the costume party as [[spoiler:Dante]] and [[http://lj-phillips.deviantart.com/art/Under-My-Skin-4-Say-My-Name-374116884 refuses to even answer Jordan unless she addresses him as such! ]]

** Seymour to God
** Lil' E to Satan

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Nanase and Ellen [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-05-31 gain one]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2013-06-03 in Elijah]] due to [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?arcid=107 their mystery solving adventures.]]
* ''Webcomic/BlasterNation'' is heavy on this, especially Matt and the Fort Shadaloo group

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Colin Creevey is Harry Potter's very eager fanboy.

* The film ''Film/{{Fanboys}}''. Duh.

* [[AffectionateParody Affectionately parodied]] in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' with the character Brandon, played by Justin Long.

* Hiro (of ''Disney/BigHero6'') is a huge [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] fan in ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3212093/chapters/8076183 Magnets for Trouble]]''; after meeting him unexpectedly, Hiro nearly starts hyperventilating.

* In ''Disney/BigHero6'', Hiro Hamada is shown to be a mild fanboy of Professor Callaghan, complete with a small gush moment when he meets him.

* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' Believe it or not, CountDracula is this for his own homeland. When Jonathan asks him about the history of his people, Dracula happily regales him in a long story about his people's badassery back in the day.

* 1900-30s wrestler Ed "Strangler" Lewis didn't actually have a reputation for using any strangleholds and gave himself the name because he was a fanboy of 1890s wrestler Evan "Strangler" Lewis. This was fairly obvious to crowds in the US but utterly confused the fans and promoters in France, who mistakenly called his sleeper hold a "strangle hold" despite it being a much safer blood choke that does not actually restrain the airway.

* In Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Jimmy Yang's gimmick was that of a ''Film/TheLastDragon'' fanboy, to the extent that Wrestling/RingOfHonor, and later, Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Vendetta brought in ''The'' Bruce [=LeRoy=] to serve as his manager(in the former) and avenge a loss he suffered to Jimi Mayhem(in the latter).

* Wrestling/TommyDreamer was a fanboy of the Puerto Rican version of the World Wrestling Council, as well as it's rival IWA PR and IWA PR's predecessor IWA Japan. He missed his chance to work for WWC and IWA Japan during his first trip through Puerto Rico but readily capitalized on another to work in WWC during 2010, when he showed up during the thirty seventh Aniversario tour to gush about all his favorite wrestlers who worked there before him, before he got beat up by Black Pain, then showed up the next night of the tour again before being taken out by [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam Shelton Benjamin.]] ECW portrayed him in a much more flattering light during his feud with one of his IWA Japan idols Wrestling/MickFoley, though it also showed Dreamer being more ignorant than he really was in order to make him look like that much more of a Foley fan.

* If you ever wondered why a three hundred sixty five pound football player like Moose walked away from the NFL to do drop kicks to the rope(not from, ''[[LightningBruiser to]]'' those on it), it's because he's a fanboy of Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada. To that end he turned down offers from several larger promotions to follow Okada's path through Wrestling/DragonGate and thought his manager Stokley Carmichael was just joking when he told Moose he'd been booked against Okada at an ROH/NJPW cross promotional show. Okada(and Gedo) took a liking to Moose and recruited him as a TagTeam partner.
* Much to Dalton Castle's surprise, The Boys who wait on him hand and foot are also huge fans of Kazuchika Okada. Okada himself had no idea what to make of them but eventually drug them into the ring in order to pose with him [[UnderestimatingBadassery when he thought he had Castle dead to rights]].

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', Goth Kid becomes quickly enamored with both La Muerte and Xibalba. [[spoiler:He ''faints'' when La Muerte waves goodbye to him and the others]].

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* The character of "Whizzkid" in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowintheGalaxy}} The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]" is widely-seen as a demonstration of how the show's creators at the time regarded fanboys. Especially his rapid and horrible death.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* Darth on ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' is a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fanboy. He wears a cape and a Darth Vader helmet, carries a red lightsaber, and is part of the Jedi Knights club. Oddly, one of the "clones" (mean girls) is also in the Jedi Knights club, AnAesop about how you shouldn't label people.

* Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter is one to Masahiro Chono, to the point he basically became Chono, while wrestling under a mask in Wrestling Retribution Project. After Nosawa Rongai brought him in New Japan, as a replacement for himself in Kojima gun, Porter became one to that very Wrestling/SatoshiKojima, being the only remaining member of the stable to remain loyal to him when Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki took it over. He set out to beat wrestlers Kojima lost to, such as Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi and still followed him after succeeding!
* Chinese wrestler Jun Hado uses a Japanese ring name on the account of being a fan boy of Wrestling/TheGreatMuta. It's also why he teams with The Great Akuma(not to be confused with Gran Akuma), a Japanese wrestler and Muta imitator[[note]]That's {{the gimmick}}. He was told he'd make more money in North America acting Japanese, on account of there being few Chinese wrestlers with any fan followings there, until Wrestling/{{Sabu}} told him otherwise[[/note]].