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* Graham Specter from ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' is the No. 1 Ladd Russo fanboy.

* Syndrome of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' used to be this for Mr. Incredible. He didn't take rejection well.

* In ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'', 16-year-old Cesare Borgia is the biggest Creator/DanteAlighieri fan in his class at Pisa University. He schools the others on the historical situation Dante was writing things, and essentially takes over the class from the famous professor everyone was excited to hear from somewhat justified since that professor wouldn't call on any students besides Giovanni de'Medici, who gave canned, superficial, proper answers. Cesare, on the other hand, acknowledges the side of Dante and his writing that the Florentines would rather cover up (see ''Monarchia'' on Dante's page). This is all shown as Cesare hearing the voice of the poet in his mind, and even singing duets with him (in which they debate, and eventually, Dante tells Cesare to go forth and become the emperor he believes Italy needs).

In Japanese, the term {{Otaku}} is synonymous with this, but implies an almost stalker-like attitude as well. The original (very pejorative) meaning got lost when it was adopted by English-language fans of {{Anime}}.

The term used for obsessive fans of a particular activity that goes a bit too far onto the creepy side. Unlike {{fangirl}}s (which usually refers to women obsessed with characters and their relationships with either other characters or themselves to the exclusion of the rest of the elements of the canon), the term "fanboy" is usually reserved for antisocial people with a self-inflated ego over their knowledge and/or mastery of the topic in question, often parading it around and belittling those around him. They are to fandoms what StopHavingFunGuys are to tournament rules. Other times, the term is used to describe people who overzealously defend the perceived objective quality of the object of their obsession.

* Wrestling/{{Abyss}} is a Mick Foley mark, which wasn't entirely obvious aside from his ring gear resembling Foley's Mankind gimmick. That was until Abyss began to work for Wrestling/{{TNA}}, which saw him slowly transition from WrestlingMonster to GarbageWrestler in the vein of Foley and going from TheStoic to lots of verbalization that even sounded like Mankind. Then TNA brought in Foley himself, who wasn't very impressed with Abyss's imitation of him. This didn't stop Abyss from getting his own version of Foley's {{named weapon|s}} [[WeaponOfChoice of choice]] "Barbie" in "Janice".

* The [[ShowWithinAShow fictional TV show]] ''Steel Samurai'' in the ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' games has a few of these, as well as its spin-offs like the Nickle Samurai and the Pink Princess and rival show Jammin' Ninja. Maya is a huge fan of all of these and is always dragging Phoenix into the mix, and in the third case of the first game, we meet Cody Hackins, a kid who obsesses over the show so much that he photographs all of the Steel Samurai's finishing moves and refuses to believe that the Steel Samurai would lose a fight/get murdered. Cody's Japanese name, Kyuuta Ootaki, is a similar to that of {{Otaku}}.
** The biggest Steel Samurai fanboy in the series, however, is Miles Edgeworth. It's subtle enough in the other games, but it's {{exaggerated|Trope}} in Edgeworth's own spin-off game. At one point he even tells someone they're not fit to call themselves a true fan of the Steel Samurai because [[spoiler: they claim to have gone to the bathroom during the climactic scene of the play.]]
*** And oh, does the {{hilarity ensue|s}} when Edgeworth finds out [[spoiler: the guy under the Steel Samurai costume who he's been fanboying all evening is Larry Butz.]]
* Francis in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''.

* Sonjay Dutt, Chris Sabin and Wrestling/JayLethal were given a ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' fanboy gimmick in TNA during 2006 to help promote an upcoming ''Jackass'' movie. Unfortunately the fans who had came to see pro wrestling did not find it very endearing. Much better liked was Lethal's fan boy imitations of pro wrestling legends Wrestling/RandySavage and Wrestling/RicFlair.

* In spite of his Jujitsu gimmick, which would seemingly put them at odds, Kyle O'Reilly of reDRagon is a huge Wrestling/KazushiSakuraba fanboy, as revealed during Wrestling/RingOfHonor's talent exchange with Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling. He frequently [[IgnoredEnemy forgot]] all about Sakuraba's partner, Gedo, when happily telling everyone who would listen Sakuraba was challenging him and Fish for ROH's TagTeam Title belts.
* Mike Bennett of The Kingdom turned XPacHeat into good heat at Ring Of Honor shows by acting as one to Wrestling/CMPunk and using all of the moves Punk was known for in ROH.

* Matt Taven is a fan boy of Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi, openly admitting that he thinks Tanahashi is cooler than any of his stablemates in The Kingdom. By Taven's own account it also drove him to stay up at night wondering why Tanahashi chose Michael Elgin as a TagTeam partner, as he would rant about while on the shelf with an injury.

** Tony Stark is a fan of Bruce Banner for the latter's work on anti-electron collisions, also [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers he claims that he is a huge fan of the way]] Bruce [[UnstoppableRage loses control and]] [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk turns into an enormous green rage monster]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgd5S-X-_dQ The Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation]] was created to help these people.

* Yosuke Shibazaki, from ''Manga/UncleFromAnotherWorld'', is a hardcore UsefulNotes/{{Sega}} fanboy. When he awakens from his coma[=/=]returns from his {{Isekai}} adventures, the news that Sega had been out of the console industry for years hits him hard.

* In ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'', Kakyoin is a big fan of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' and he's a huge enthusiast of portable games, as he cried when his DS and PSP were broken.

* Fanbot from ''Series/VRTroopers''. Although mostly comic relief with his Hollywood fanboy personality and proved to be a bit clumsy, he was actually [[NotSoHarmlessVillain the most powerful monster of the week they faced all season]]. Before fighting the Troopers, he was assigned to destroy a traitorous ally's super powerful robot, which he did [[CurbStompBattle fairly easily]]. JB's normal finishing move (the laser lance) was so ineffective that be it impalement, slashing, you name it, it only tickled to the point where he made a joke about it. JB actually had to hit him with the techno-bazooka to defeat him, [[NighInvulnerable a weapon used against multiple aircraft]] (but repowered his laser lance and attacked the already defeated robot for some reason). His personality was lampshaded when JB said during the battle "sorry, no autographs" and "there's nothing worse than an angry fan". He actually wasn't a fanboy by designed but a giant industrial fan (he killed the other robot by sucking his parts through his blades), so his name was a [[IncrediblyLamePun pun on fan]].

** The biggest Steel Samurai fanboy in the series, however, is Miles Edgeworth. It's subtle enough in the other games, but it's TurnedUpToEleven in Edgeworth's own spin-off game. At one point he even tells someone they're not fit to call themselves a true fan of the Steel Samurai because [[spoiler: they claim to have gone to the bathroom during the climactic scene of the play.]]

* Eugene from ''Webcomic/WeakHero'' is a self-described 'delinquent fan', hence his extensive knowledge on all the ones that Gray comes across.

* [[FanNickname Fan-named]] Frothy on ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' counts, although personality-wise he's almost more of a male fangirl.

* Melllvar from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is a ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fan[[strike: boy]]-energy-cloud-thing. To the point of hosting his own ''Franchise/StarTrek'' convention, complete with MarySue fanfic, and being pissed that Fry's a bigger fanboy than him.

* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29718888/chapters/73088673 Timeless Academia]] shows that [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku Midoriya's]] admiration of heroes extents to ones of the the historical and mythological kinds, to the point where he keeps an autograph book at Chaldea with signatures of the heroic spirits he summons. It's also to the point where from Olga Marie Animusphere's point of view, this trope sets him apart from other Masters, as instead of treating the Spirits as tools, he at worst treats them with immense respect and as equals.