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| 7 | ->''" I'' should ''want to cook ''[Mr. Belvedere]'' a simple meal. But I'' shouldn't ''want to cut into him, to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born unto new worlds where his flesh becomes my key."'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''Deranged fan of ''Series/MrBelvedere''''', ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' |
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| 10 | The Loony Fan is an obsessive fan who worships the ground another character walks on. This character often (not always) follows their heroes everywhere out of sheer admiration, either causing trouble or just creeping them out. Extreme loony fans may go to great lengths and evil deeds to [[PsychoSupporter "help" the hero they idolize]]. They take their eventual rejection very personally. Occasionally this character will really go off the deep end and attempt to replace their idol. |
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| 12 | This can also overlap with the StrawFan, TheCollector (who may form a NerdHoard), {{Yandere}}, ShipperOnDeck, PsychoSupporter, or StalkerWithACrush. Commonly known to say "ImYourBiggestFan". Compare ActorRoleConfusion, CannotTellFictionFromReality. Contrast with AscendedFanboy. |
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| 14 | Sad (and a little scary) to say, this is very much TruthInTelevision. See FanDumb. |
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| 16 | !!Examples: |
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| 18 | |
| 19 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 20 | * ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': [[TalkativeLoon Graham Spectre]] to the resident PsychoForHire, Ladd Russo. [[AxCrazy Ladd]] being [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Ladd]], he doesn't mind. |
| 21 | * ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs:'' [[NamedAfterSomeoneFamous Osamu Dazai]] takes away [[NamedAfterSomeoneFamous Ryunosuke Akutagawa]] (and presumably his sister too) from the slum, and the boy since then admires him. Akutagawa [[WellDoneSonGuy wants Dazai's approval so badly]], the first thing he does when he wakes up after Oda rescues him is ''attacking'' him because Dazai once told him he would never be as strong as that man. The main reason he hates [[TheRival Atsushi]] so many years later is that said boy easily gets Dazai's recognition without needing to undergo much of the ToughLove he once suffered from. |
| 22 | ** [[{{Irony}} Ironically]], the writers they're based on have quite the opposite situation, with RL!Dazai known for being a huge fan of RL!Akutagawa. When Akutagawa died of suicide, Dazai attempted to follow suit with the same method but failed, and then tried to kill himself for the third time when he couldn't get the literary prize named after his idol. |
| 23 | * In ''Anime/CaroleAndTuesday'', both Tuesday and [[TheRival Angela Carpenter]] have to deal with such a fan at different points. In the former case, there's the twist that the fan - Cybelle - is a fellow ''Mars' Brightest'' contestant, and upon being spurned she [[spoiler:attempts to sabotage the duo's chances by sending Tuesday a package filled with dry ice that burns her hands]]. In the latter case, the fan's behaviour escalates all the way up to ''trying to shoot Angela while she's on-stage'', and the whole thing helps kickstart Angela's TraumaCongaLine. |
| 24 | * ''Manga/DadTheBeardGorillaAndI'' has Hino, who is very obsessed with Souichi (the titular Dad) and compiles very extensive photo albums and observation notes detailing Souichi's daily activities. Of course, he denies his stalker tendencies as being a crush, and he actually doesn't mind sharing the info with (or helping out) other co-workers who do have a crush on Souichi. |
| 25 | * ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'': |
| 26 | ** Played for laughs: [[SassySecretary Kiko]] is portrayed as slightly crazy anyway, but her crush on "Li" tops all other quirks. She almost jumps on him with {{squee}}, loudly insults her "rival" Kirihara, and generally attracts unnecessary attention... which is somewhat disconcerting for her hero, as "Li" is the facade identity of a lad who ''earned'' his nickname "Black {{Shinigami}}". |
| 27 | ** Hei has another one in the {{OVA}}, Mayu, with the added bonus that she manages to connect his identities ([[BunnyEarsLawyer thereby beating out the entire police force]]) and starts [[StalkerWithACrush actively stalking him]]. |
| 28 | * [[spoiler:[[StalkerWithACrush Toto Sakigami]]]] of ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' is apparently this toward [[spoiler:the Wretched Egg]]. |
| 29 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': |
| 30 | ** [[MadLove Misa Amane]] is this to VillainProtagonist [[SerialKiller Light]] [[MagnificentBastard Yagami]], albeit a particularly dark, homicidal example; after he winds up killing the guy who killed her parents, she's more than glad to murder his enemies or endure ColdBloodedTorture to protect his identity. She's also glad to [[TheGlomp flying tackle him at unexpected intervals]], much to his dismay. A crucial part of her own backstory involves a narrow escape from a loony fan - the parallel is as lost on Misa as warnings about moral decay are on Light. |
| 31 | ** From the LightNovel ''Literature/AnotherNote'', Beyond Birthday is this to L and imitates the latter's dress and mannerisms. |
| 32 | * ''Manga/DenjinN'': Tadahiro is the biggest fan of his former classmate and now IdolSinger Misaki Kanzaki and her group. He's willing to kill off any critics of her and goes after every other idol group in Japan just to make her more popular. |
| 33 | * The fanbase for the titular ''Manga/DetroitMetalCity'' is made up mostly of loud, vulgar, and belligerent fans who can't tell that frontman Krauser II and his insane, over-the-top antics are just a persona, and often show up around Krauser when he's out of makeup and unrecognizable to cause trouble. |
| 34 | * ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': [[spoiler:Papa Shirogane]] moves his entire family to a new apartment after a fan tracks him down and tries to follow him home. Koromo and [[spoiler:Osaragi]] also mention that similar things have happened to them in the past when Iino suspects that she's being stalked. |
| 35 | * Lecto from ''Manga/MagicalXMiracle'' has a series-long obsession with Yue (as well as great admiration for Merleawe for being so close to him), to the point where things get... [[HoYay awkward]]. However, this turns out well for both of them; Lecto eventually becomes an in-series PromotedFanboy as one of Yue's top aides, and his nerdy personality quirks and stalker-like obsession settle down after Yue puts him through three years of {{Workaholic}} boot camp. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': |
| 37 | ** Stain is a huge fan of All Might. He attacks, maims, and kills other heroes that he believes have corrupted the heroic ideal that All Might has set. Because said "heroic ideal" is being a borderline MartyrWithoutACause (a thing All Might himself has come to regret), the only other hero who fulfills it to a "T" (and so gets Stain's respect) is Izuku Midoriya. |
| 38 | ** Three of the League of Villains' later recruits (Dabi, Toga, and Spinner) are all revealed to have joined due to their admiration of Stain and learning about how he associated with the League even briefly, but ''how'' they view Stain and said ideals is how they play around with this trope. |
| 39 | *** Toga plays it straight to the extreme; she doesn't even care about Stain's ideals, she just thought he was cool and was obsessed with [[KillAndReplace actually becoming him]]. In fact, once she decides she actually ''likes'' hanging around with the League that initial motivation effectively gets pushed to the wayside. |
| 40 | *** Spinner is a legitimate Stain FanBoy, to the point he decided to emulate his clothing and fighting style, but he doesn't quite "get" Stain's full philosophy. Stain wants to kill heroes he believes corrupted the ideal that All Might set, while Spinner believes any hero not personally recommended by Stain is "corrupt" and needs to die. It's implied this is because Spinner is DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife and latched on to the drive to change society rather than said ideals. [[spoiler:Eventually, Spinner undergoes CharacterDevelopment and decides he wants to follow his boss Shigaraki, who he realizes he's similar to, and see the changed society made on his ideals rather than Stain's.]] |
| 41 | *** Dabi is the aversion. Unlike the other two, he seems to be the one who truly understands and cares about Stain's ideology and makes it clear he will see it through himself. [[spoiler:And unlike the other two, he still views the League as a means to the end of achieving them rather than the comrades and even impromptu family they have.]] |
| 42 | ** Shigaraki thinking Aizawa is “cool” probably counts. |
| 43 | * Being a deconstruction of the FightingSeries PlayedForLaughs, ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' deconstructs this trope with Akihiko, who despite being abused in his childhood, has become an adult NiceGuy who is everyone’s ButtMonkey. Akihiko deeply desires to be like the Red Ranger (from the {{Sentai}} ShowWithinAShow Star Rangers) because he is always recognized for his efforts with a HundredPercentHeroismRating. Akihiko is so fond of the Red Ranger that he copies his catchphrase ''I’ll pay them back several times over'' and uses it in situations that don’t even make sense: |
| 44 | -->'''Akihiko:''' [[CannotTellFictionFromReality Just leave it to Star Ranger!]]\ |
| 45 | '''Wakana:''' ''[very confused]'' Star Ranger?\ |
| 46 | '''Akihiko:''' That Toshiyuki, I'll bring him back several times over.\ |
| 47 | '''Wakana:''' No, just once is enough. |
| 48 | * Gokudera from ''Manga/Reborn2004''. He frequently goes off to beat people up for Tsuna's sake, and [[StalkerWithACrush follows Tsuna around]] trying desperately to be his "Right Hand Man." The funny thing is that his attempt to replace the hero was actually his initial feeling and that it's ''after'' being [[DefeatMeansFriendship defeated]] by Tsuna that he becomes his loony fan. |
| 49 | * Hayashi Rintaro, also known as Rin-rin, is the local florist in ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe''. He's also a scarily obsessive fan of pandas to the point that Panda, the resident AttentionWhore, can't stand him and all the attention that Rin-rin gives him. |
| 50 | * Roma Hoito from ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', a clumsy waitress who started working at Anteiku for the chance to meet "One-Eyed Kaneki-sama". The sequel reveals her to be an even loonier fan than expected, declaring that she wants to [[spoiler: "kill" Haise because she can't stand seeing her beloved Kaneki ''happy'' and thinks he's most beautiful when his life is in ruins]]. |
| 51 | * In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', the BigBad [[spoiler:[=ZONE=]]] is revealed to be a Loony Fan of [[spoiler:Yusei]]. He admired [[spoiler:Yusei]] so much that he [[spoiler:altered his own face to look like Yusei as part of his plan to emulate Yusei as much as possible in the hopes that some of Yusei's luck would rub off on him to help his plan.]] |
| 52 | * [[spoiler: Kasaya's girlfriend Eri]] from ''Manga/{{Zetsuai 1989}}'' goes so over the edge that [[spoiler: she tries to stab her idol Kouji because he's about to go into retirement]]. |
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| 55 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 56 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 57 | ** The extradimensional imp ComicBook/BatMite in the wackier comics. |
| 58 | ** Thomas Elliot, a former childhood friend of Bruce Wayne, has been described as obsessed with Bruce Wayne to the extent that some sources have him arrange for the deaths of his own parents to imitate the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne (other sources have the accident occur before the Waynes died). After Elliot becomes a more active threat, he goes so far as to give ''himself'' plastic surgery to look like Bruce Wayne with the goal of taking Bruce's identity and wealth for himself. |
| 59 | ** On a more serious note, recent villain Matthew Warner is essentially a warped "fan" of Bruce Wayne who went so far as to insist that others call him "Master Bruce", and had his own parents killed to imitate the events that (Warner believed) gave him the "drive" to help Gotham. Warner has essentially been described as what would happen if Bruce Wayne was a Batman villain. |
| 60 | * ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': William Burnside, the Captain America of UsefulNotes/TheFifties, who injected himself with a flawed copy of Cap's SuperSerum and tried to convince the government to let him become the new Captain America. The plans fell through thanks to the Korean Armistice Agreement, but not before he got plastic surgery to look just like his idol and legally changed his name to Steve Rogers. When the second Red Skull emerged, he stepped out of the shadows along with a Bucky of his own but ultimately degenerated into a delusional racist who only ''thought'' he was doing good. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': One of [[Characters/TheFlashEobardThawne Reverse-Flash]]'s many origin stories was that he was this to [[Characters/TheFlashBarryAllen The Flash]]. He snapped when he realized he was destined to be killed by his hero, thus making it into a SelfFulfillingProphecy. [[FirstLawOfResurrection He got better]]. Interestingly, much like William Burnside above, he also got plastic surgery to resemble his hero of choice AND impersonated him as well, but where Burnside did it to help the government make the public believe he was the original, Thawne did it because he was just plain obsessed with Barry. |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': In ''Green Lantern Corps'', Iolande's brother Ragnar was so obsessed with the Corps he murdered every potential Lantern candidate in their sector so he would end up the best candidate for the position, including his brother Stentar and Soranik Natu's partner Myrrt. When Ragnar was finally exposed, captured, and set for execution, Soranik purposefully chose to reveal that Iolande would be the new Green Lantern of Sector 1417 right before Ragnar would be beheaded. To add to this moment, Ragnar made an empty admission of guilt and repentance to show he "wasn't afraid" before his execution, thinking he ''still'' had a chance to be a Lantern. The look on his face when Soranik takes out the ring, then gives it to his sister, is satisfying. |
| 63 | * In the "Comic Book Carnage" story from ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', people connected with a new version of the in-story comic series ''Wunderkind'' (a blatant CaptainErsatz for ''[[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]'') are violently murdered at a convention. The murders are being committed by two Loony Fan brothers who are upset about the new version being a DarkerAndEdgier ContinuityReboot. |
| 64 | * Jimmy "Mmy" from Creator/JhonenVasquez's ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', although he is considerably less insane than [[AxCrazy Nny]]. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The Silver Age ComicBook/LexLuthor started off as one of these. He and Clark both grew up in Smallville -- Clark started his superheroics early as Superboy, and Lex became obsessed with him. Lex one day came across Superboy dying in a field from a nearby Kryptonite meteorite and rescued him, and when he took a grateful Superboy back to his home the latter discovered that Lex has built a StalkerShrine of him, with walls and benches decorated with various souvenirs from Superboy's many exploits. Superboy thanked Lex for saving him by building him a brand new state-of-the-art laboratory, and Lex decided to help Superboy by using it to find an antidote to Kryptonite poisoning. While experimenting with Kryptonite, Lex accidentally set his lab on fire, forcing Superboy to save him by using his super-breath, something that put out the fire but also wrecked the lab and caused chemicals to spill over Luthor's head, causing his hair to fall out. Luthor crazily thought that Superboy [[YoureJustJealous did this on purpose out of envy of Luthor's genius]], and Lex attempted and failed numerous times to embarrass Superboy in revenge, until he finally snapped and started plotting to outright ''kill'' him, becoming the ArchEnemy to the future Man of Steel. |
| 66 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': In the trilogy ''De Gelukbrenger'', ''De Verloren Zee'' and ''De Wraak van Nganga'' Nero is stalked by an obsessive fan of his comics, [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Wolfgang Amadeus]] [[UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev Glasnost]], who has read every album and finds everything is ''fantastic''. He does have a hidden gift that makes Nero keep him, though: he brings good luck. For instance, if he writes down the lottery numbers it will be automatically a winning combination. |
| 67 | * Creator/HarveyComics' "New Kids on the Block" had Fanny Tweetersweet, an obsessive fan who ACTUALLY developed a radar and other technologies for the sole purpose of tracking them down. |
| 68 | -->'''Linkara:''' "SEEK... PROFESSIONAL HELP" |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/TheLonelinessOfTheLongDistanceCartoonist'': Adrian gets a fan who follows him around, tracks his movements in a book, and mails said book to him. Adrian sees him outside his home and strikes up a conversation, intending to defuse the situation, only to get entitled opinions about his writing in turn. |
| 70 | * In the ''Comicbook/NewLineCinemasTalesOfHorror'' story "Copycat", the dream-stalking killer Freddy Krueger learns that the guy using his image to murder people is actually a huge fan of his, and isn't the only one. When the guy tries to force him into a partnership, Freddy employs the help of another sociopathic fan of his to get rid of the copycat. |
| 71 | -->'''Carter:''' Dude, I totally know who you are... I worship you. Please don't kill me... I'm your biggest--\ |
| 72 | '''Freddy:''' Fan, I know. Lot of that going around. What kind of fucked up world is this, anyway? |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'': Jenny comes across as this. After seeing Frank shot by the woman she is targeting, she saves him and takes him to her apartment. The scenes between them invoke ''{{Literature/Misery}}'', and Frank feels a little like her prisoner, but Jenny does nothing to stop him and the reason he can't leave is his gunshot injuries, and he patiently listens as she describes what was done to her, and sympathy for what was done to him. Jenny then has two requests: his shirt and jacket so she can become The Punisher and kill the woman who hurt her, and that he stay until she finishes it. Frank feels more and more like he's trapped, and that Jenny would stop him even if he could leave, before passing out and ending up handcuffed so Jenny can show him how to torture criminals. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/RoguesGallery'': The series focuses on a group of entitled fans of the ShowWithinAShow ''Red Rogue'', a long-running comic series that also has a live-action TV show going for eight seasons. Said fans spend all the time calling the show bullshit for not sticking closer to the source material and blaming all of its problems on Maisie Wade, the actress playing the title character. After Maisie not only acquires a signed copy of ''Red Rogue Down'' #1 and later quits the show, the show itself gets cancelled before it could adapt the ''Red Rogue Down'' storyline. That's the point the fans decide she's "ruined" things beyond repair and plan revenge by doing a home invasion to steal the comic. [[spoiler:It soon becomes clear the ringleader plans to reenact ''Red Rogue Down'' by killing Maisie's assistant, with plans to kill Maisie and her husband as well]]. |
| 75 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'': Diana has to deal with a creepy fan in "Bullets and Bracelets," a story in which she spreads her message of peace, love, and acceptance more through music rather than punching villains in the face. She's still an Amazon, so when he pulls a gun on her she folds it in half. |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/TheSupermanAdventures'': Issue 57 features an obsessive Superman fan who carries around a piece of kryptonite in hopes that doing so will help him discover Superman's secret identity, barely acknowledging that his actions would put Superman's life in danger or hinder his efforts to save the day. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': The Decepticon Justice Division is made up of the most fanatically devoted Cons this side of Cyberutopia, but their leader Tarn is a twofold example, as he's both obsessed with Decepticonism ''and'' Megatron. He wears a mask shaped like their logo, gave himself two arm-mounted fusion cannons and has a tank mode just like Megatron, quotes his writing at every possible juncture, and leads his crew in '''prayers before a statue of Megatron'''. Megatron brought him into the Decepticons to hurt Optimus, but by the time they meet up again, even Megatron thinks Tarn has gone way overboard. Tarn takes that... about as well as could be expected. |
| 78 | -->'''Megatron:''' Two fusion cannons? ''Look'' at yourself. |
| 79 | %% * ''Mad House Glads'' of Archie Comics: Fran the Fan. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 83 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In "The Walk," Penny recounts an interaction she and Bolt had at the mall with an especially strange fan of their TV show -- one who insisted on getting a swatch of hair from the dog's tail as a souvenir. They reluctantly comply with the request. |
| 84 | * In the second character of ''Fanfic/KindnesssReward'', [[SmallNameBigEgo Trixie]] accuses Fluttershy of being an obsessed fan when all Fluttershy's trying to do is help her. |
| 85 | * Limefrost Spiral in ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' is one of these towards the ice dancer Statuette, trying desperately to get her to autograph something while the latter is getting ''arrested'' for her role in a jailbreak. |
| 86 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20955017/chapters/49822208 Listen Closely, An Angel is Dying]]'' has Present Mic kidnapped and tortured by an obsessive, psychotic one who wants to kill Mic and keep him all to himself as a ghastly “Angel” artwork. Namely by torturing him to death attaching wings and stuff ''into his flesh''. He ends up on the receiving end of the ire of an extremely pissed-off Aizawa. It’s told from the villain's point of view. |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse:'' Kindle for Celestia. Even before she got out of the sun, he wasn't entirely sane, having severe difficulty distinguishing between fiction and reality. Then he learned his beloved queen was lost, and immediately ran off to join her. He's willing to do anything, ''anything'' to please her, morality or consequences be damned. |
| 88 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/136972/daring-done Daring DONE]]'' has several fans of Daring Do's author, specifically Rainbow Dash, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna, and after Twilight reveals her identity, they immediately start destroying her privacy: |
| 89 | -->DO SOMETHING.\ |
| 90 | And do it QUICKLY because Celestia is rummaging around the house looking for my latest draft, and I can't stop her because Luna won't leave me alone. She's glued to me. AND NEITHER OF THEM WILL SHUT UP.\ |
| 91 | EVER.\ |
| 92 | IT'S BEEN THREE HOURS.\ |
| 93 | LUNA HAS BEEN RAMBLING ABOUT DARING DO AND SUGAR SONG'S RELATIONSHIP FOR THREE HOURS. CELESTIA IS RUMMAGING THROUGH MY UNDERWEAR.\ |
| 94 | FIX THIS. |
| 95 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13529170/28/The-Scars-That-Make-You-Whole The Scars That Make You Whole]]'', the Cult of Avatar is described to being this way to [[Manga/FairyTail Zeref]], so much that after seeing their shrine he asks Lucy never to mention it again. |
| 96 | * ''Fanfic/SoulmateSurvey:'' Vivienne, the president of TeenIdol Adrien's fan club, goes so far as to change her name to Adrienne to match his. She’s so intense when it comes to Adrien, her energy has driven away most of the club members. [[ManipulativeBitch Lila]] uses this to her advantage by revealing that Adrien was matched up with another girl on the titular soulmate-searching app, causing Adrienne to break down and get akumatized into Fandoom, who brainwashes anyone in her path and [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe has a wedding set up for Adrien to "marry" her and his other fans]] (where [[DisproportionateRetribution she also plans to burn Marinette at the stake for being matched to him]]). |
| 97 | * ''WebVideo/StupidMarioBrothers'' has the Crazy-obsessed-stalker-who-makes-you-unable-to-sleep-at-night Fan, as evidenced by her "Let's Get Hammered" Mario T-Shirt. |
| 98 | * The above-mentioned Stain of My Hero Academia finds another hero to obsess over in the titular [[WesternAnimation/TheTick The Tick]] of ''Fanfic/TheTickvsMyHeroAcademia'', up to and including trying to imitate the Tick's speech patterns. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 102 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', the villain Syndrome was once a young Loony Fan who wanted to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick, and his rejection was one of the factors that led him to become a villain, not an AscendedFanboy, as he so desperately wanted, but a GenreSavvy bad guy. |
| 103 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' has Hal, who initially appears as a StalkerWithACrush for Roxanne. Things get worse when Megamind accidentally gives him superpowers. He thinks being a superhero will automatically make Roxanne love him, which it doesn't. |
| 104 | %%* Arguably the basis of the 1998 anime film ''Anime/PerfectBlue'' (unarguably, a Loony Fan does at least ''appear'' in the anime). |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 108 | * ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' has Max Dillon. After having his life saved by Spider-Man, a FreakLabAccident turns him into Electro causing him to become deranged and now seeking to kill Spider-Man. |
| 109 | * ''Film/{{Backstage|2005}}'' is about Lucie (Isild Le Besco), a particularly obsessed fan (to the point of CelebCrush) of a superstar singer, Lauren Waks (Creator/EmmanuelleSeigner). She manages to make her way into Lauren's inner circle and even has an affair with Lauren's ex, and from there SanitySlippage ensues. There are also entire groups of fans camping outside the hotel Lauren has a stay in (they even shout at 4am) and an unhinged mob waiting for Lauren at one point (one fan even spits at her car's window out of jealousy for Lucie). |
| 110 | * ''Film/TheBatman2022'': PlayedForHorror. [[spoiler:When Batman finally gets a chance to have a face-to-face discussion with the Riddler, he finds out Riddler actually considers them ''allies'' and idolizes Batman, [[CreateYourOwnVillain having been inspired]] by his violent crusades in Gotham's underbelly to take up his own persona and crusade. Riddler is shocked when Batman doesn't share the sentiment and instead expresses his disgust for what the Riddler's done. Unfortunately, the Riddler has gained more than a few of his own trigger-happy fans eager to continue his crusade even after he's been captured.]] |
| 111 | * Edward Nygma of ''Film/BatmanForever'' was a big-time one of these for Bruce Wayne, but when Bruce turned down his offer to be a partner in his pet project (which his boss Stickley had shut down), his admiration turned to bitterness and downright loathing, turning him into the Riddler. |
| 112 | * ''Film/BigFan'' is a BlackComedy following a man whose entire life revolves around the New York Giants and in particular their star running back. He and his best friend religiously go to every game, but because they can't afford tickets they watch the game on a portable TV in the stadium parking lot. His faith is unshaken even after his idol beats him up in a nightclub. The film ends with him serving a short stint in jail for assaulting a Philadelphia Eagles fan and looking forward to being released in time for a major game. |
| 113 | * In ''Film/BladesOfGlory'', Jimmy having one of these is kind of what causes the plot to kick off, but in a surprisingly non-scary way in spite of some of the creepy things that the loony fan says to him. This particular fan of his is so obsessed with the idea of having Jimmy back on the rink and is so much the type to think about these things a lot that he manages to find a loophole in the Figure Skating Championships rulebook that Jimmy then exploits. |
| 114 | * ''Film/BobRoberts'' has a collection of {{Loony Fan}}s (including a young Creator/JackBlack) who start off as kooky religious fanatics and then quickly upgrade to outright malicious when they assault a group of protestors outside one of his concerts. [[spoiler: One of them is implied to have shot and killed Bugs Raplin, who was exposing some of Roberts' dirty secrets until Roberts faked an assassination attempt (and the paraplegia that followed) and pinned the blame on him, and when one of the fans camped outside his house catches him walking around by a window, he immediately assumes it was a miracle instead suspecting any foul play.]] |
| 115 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/Bombshell1933'', in which glamorous Hollywood star Lola Burns has a Loony Fan who keeps popping up and telling her she has to come home to take care of their babies. |
| 116 | * Harlan Rook from ''Film/TheDeadPool'' is an obsessed and legitimately insane fan of Peter Swan. Out of touch with reality, he accuses Swan of stealing ideas from him and tries to frame him with the Dead Pool murders. |
| 117 | * Creator/{{Lifetime}}'s movie ''Film/DeadlyHollywoodObsession'' has Lynette, an unhinged woman who's obsessed with hunky film star Sam Austin, to the point of holding imaginary conversations with him and trying to kidnap his son, with the suggestion that she murdered his wife as well. [[spoiler:TheReveal is that Sam actually manipulated her into killing his wife by promising to marry her if she did, and ''he'' himself is a deranged {{Yandere}} for his son's teacher]]. |
| 118 | * The 2016 Indian thriller ''Film/{{Fan|2016}}'' has Creator/ShahRukhKhan playing both an example of this trope and the actor whom he idolizes (possibly a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of [=SRK=] himself). The fan (a lookalike who is locally noted for staging impressions of the actor's films) goes to dark and dangerous lengths to try and impress the actor in question, and after being rebuffed, goes to extraordinary lengths to try and discredit him by assuming the actor's identity. |
| 119 | * Creator/RobertDeNiro's roles in ''Film/TheFan'' and ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'' fit this trope as well. In fact, the latter has two loony fans who are obsessed with the same in-universe celebrity, [=DeNiro=] just has the lead role: Rupert Pupkin mainly seems obsessed with Jerry Langford because he wants to be famous himself, while Masha (Sandra Bernhardt) is more of a traditional StalkerWithACrush type, eventually having a CaptiveDate with Langford. |
| 120 | * ''Film/TheFanatic'' is about a man with autism named Moose, played by Creator/JohnTravolta, who is obsessed with meeting his favorite actor Hunter Dunbar. |
| 121 | * From the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' series: |
| 122 | ** The radio show callers in ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers''. |
| 123 | ** Harold in ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''. |
| 124 | ** Chett in ''Film/HalloweenII2009'' (2009). |
| 125 | %%* The Kid in the ''[[Franchise/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' sequels is portrayed as a mild example of this. |
| 126 | * In ''Film/Parking1985'', Dominique Daniel runs an Orpheus fan club and trades drugs for Orpheus concert tickets, threatening Eurydice and Orpheus with blackmail and bodily harm if she doesn't get what she wants. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, she kills Orpheus over being shown the door at his final concert]]. |
| 127 | * In ''Film/Scream2022'', Ghostface [[spoiler:is a pair of extremely possessive fans of the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Stab]]'' series who believe that the films only work when they're BasedOnATrueStory. They despised the most recent film, the more experimental ''Stab 8'', so much that they staged a new murder spree in order to generate new source material and fresh ideas for a series that they thought had run out of such. They even lured Sidney, Gale, and Dewey back into the action in order to kill them, seeing them as the iconic real-life heroes of ''Stab'' who had to be included in their {{Unreboot}}.]] One character compares Ghostface here to a fanfiction writer. |
| 128 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': Played scarily straight in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' by the new antagonist, Kylo Ren. He's a fanatic of the late Darth Vader trying to live up to his legacy, even collecting his artifacts (including having procured his helmet from his funeral pyre, which he speaks to as if it was the man himself), while trying to avoid any of the redeeming features that led to [[spoiler:his grandfather's HeelFaceTurn]]. |
| 129 | * Kent from ''Film/TalkRadio'' is a massive fan of local celebrity and ShockJock Barry Champlain, and he's also a drug-addicted lunatic who barely even seems lucid most of the time and embraces Barry's {{Jerkass}} persona without understanding the legitimate social problems he uses his radio show to shed light on. |
| 130 | * The eponymous teddy bear of ''Film/{{Ted}}'' used to be a celebrity thanks to being a {{Living Toy|s}}. While he no longer has that status, he still has an obsessive fan named Donny, who wanted his own magical teddy bear when he was a kid. When his father denied him one, he vowed never to deny any similar request for his own son. Donny and his son Robert first attempt to buy Ted off from John, but when that doesn't work out, they resort to kidnapping him. |
| 131 | * ''Film/TheUnbearableWeightOfMassiveTalent'' has wealthy Javi Gutierrez. The billionaire loves Creator/NicolasCage to the point of having several memorabilia with Nick's likeness, paying a hefty fee to invite him to his birthday party, and scripting an idea for a future Nick Cage vehicle. Javi also takes movies too seriously for someone who doesn't professionally make any, as evidenced when he cries that Nick would "turn [his] back on the entire human race" if he quits acting. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 135 | * ''Literature/TheCulture'': A less technologically advanced civ, the GFCF, imitate the Culture and think that they are the best people in the galaxy. They don't do it very well, and although the Culture consider them vague allies, they don't take them seriously. This could be a mistake... |
| 136 | * OlderThanSteam: ''Literature/DonQuixote'': Sanson Carrásco presents himself as the number one fan of Don Quixote and discusses various [[SeriesContinuityError continuity errors]] with him and Sancho. However, his real goal is to help the poor, mad fool regain his sanity by following in his third quest. HilarityEnsues. |
| 137 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Colin Creevey is just about as obnoxious a fanboy as you can imagine. He gets on Harry's nerves so much that he finds Draco's mocking of Creevey to be "both cruel and accurate". |
| 138 | * In ''Literature/MakingMoney'', antagonist Cosmo Lavish is a Loony Fan of Vetinari, who [[InsaneTrollLogic seeks to replace him by becoming him]]. He wears the same style of clothes and beard, sends his henchmen to steal Vetinari's signature personal items by replacing them with replicas (they skip a step and just give ''him'' the replicas), and even has a machine to train him to [[FascinatingEyebrow raise one eyebrow]]. Cosmo actually starts off as reasonably competent, if a bit of a SmugSnake, but his obsession eventually descends into insanity and he's last seen [[spoiler: in the asylum, where he finds out he's not the only person with his problem.]] |
| 139 | * In ''Literature/MedusasWeb'', Amity Madden is obsessed with the actress Alla Nazimova (the creator and star of ''Film/Salome1923'', which Amity regularly watches on a film projector with a film copy she's owned since long before it became available on home video). The extent of her obsession only gradually becomes apparent; [[spoiler:it's eventually revealed that her ultimate goal is to use MentalTimeTravel to ''become'' Alla Nazimova]]. |
| 140 | * Creator/TEDKlein's novella "[[Literature/DarkGods Nadelman's God]]" centers around Nadelman, a former author who is repeatedly harassed by Huntoon, a crazed fan of his work who believes an EldritchAbomination he wrote about was real. Nadelman is skeptical, but it turns out Huntoon was right when he's able to summon it. However, [[spoiler:it turns out the creature would much rather take Nadelman's orders, and when it overhears him telling Huntoon to get out of his life, it obliges... [[MurderIsTheBestSolution lethally.]]]] |
| 141 | * Taken to [[DarkerAndEdgier dark extremes]] with Annie Wilkes of Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Literature/Misery}}''. Annie is a former nurse and the biggest fan of Paul Sheldon, who writes the ''Misery'' series. She saves his life when he has a car wreck and nurses him to health. Unfortunately, Paul's latest novel gets released while Paul is in her care, and Annie finds out that Misery has been killed off. Annie doesn't take this well. '''[[AxeCrazy AT ALL.]]''' |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 145 | * ''Series/TheAffair'': While Noah was in prison between seasons 2 and 3, a prison guard from his Pennsylvania hometown named John Gunther becomes obsessed with Noah and envious of his success as a writer. He regularly torments (at one point even returning Noah a picture of Alison that he previously stole [[{{Squick}} covered with semen]]) and assaults Noah in prison and continues stalking him after he gets out, culminating in an attempted murder. |
| 146 | * ''Series/TheAmandaShow'' had Penelope Taynt (played by Amanda, herself), a nerdy fangirl and webmistress of her own Amanda fan site (which actually exists!). |
| 147 | * After G'Kar's personal diary is published (without his permission, as he hadn't finished it yet) as a holy book, in the fifth season of ''Series/BabylonFive'', he is hailed by his people as a prophet, gaining a following in the hundreds of thousands. Hundreds (at a minimum) of Narns travel to the station to learn at his feet, to his utter horror. He ends up ordering the Narn who created the G'Kar religious statuettes (which he despised) to leave him be and go back home. Shortly before G'Kar leaves the station for good (to get away from his followers), Narn tries to shoot him and ends up wounding Garibaldi's fiancée by accident. |
| 148 | * [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Sheldon Cooper]] in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' ended up getting restraining orders from a lot of famous nerd celebrities for his antics, such as Creator/StanLee Creator/LeonardNimoy, Creator/CarlSagan, and Creator/BillNye. |
| 149 | * In ''Series/Charmed1998'', when their secret is finally revealed, they encounter a young witch who wants to join their coven. After she breaks into their house and is promptly shut down, she doesn't take it well and ends up shooting Piper. |
| 150 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'': In the episode "The Performer", the serial killer of the week was the insane fan of a singer with a vampire persona and a mental illness that made her desire to drink blood who got convinced by the singer's manager to commit murders in the name of her idol (the manager really hoped that [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity the spree would bring attention to the singer]] in order to bring him out of his depression. The singer, who was already sick and tired of having to pretend to be a vampire, is utterly disgusted and horrified at what the manager and the fan did; the fact that the FBI considered ''him'' a potential suspect was not really helpful, either. "TragicallyMisguidedFavor" does not even begin to describe the understatement of the situation). |
| 151 | * Jack Wilson from the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "The Shadow of Van Gogh" is a StarvingArtist who is so obsessed with Creator/VincentVanGogh that he paints a near-exact replica of "Art/TheStarryNight", grows a beard so he can look more like Creator/VincentVanGogh, and even signs one of his paintings "Vincent." Another character tells a story of Jack showing up to a party with a bandage wrapped around his head, holding a very realistic papier-mâché ear. |
| 152 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the mini-episode [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash "Time Crash"]], the Fifth and Tenth Doctors accidentally meet. Ten, delighted, immediately recognizes his former self, but Five takes him for an obsessive fan and is most annoyed. |
| 153 | * In one episode of ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'', the title organization is hired to protect a rock star from a loony fan. Echo becomes a backup singer, while another Active becomes a fan. |
| 154 | * One episode of ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' involves a {{Woobie}} loony fan. Stanley Stover has had a very hard childhood of paternal abandonment and constant bullying all through school. At a young age, superhero comics and movies offered escape, and he came to identify with these superheroes completely. He had been stealing memorabilia since late grade school, but at twenty-three, he felt driven to accelerate the pace of his thefts. By this time, he was also dressing as his own secret identity, the Crimson Crusader. At the end of the episode, it was revealed that while on probation he received psychiatric help. |
| 155 | * Mel in ''Series/FlightOfTheConchords'' -- president and sole member of the band's fan club and a relentless stalker. |
| 156 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': |
| 157 | ** Frasier visits one (with a StalkerShrine, no less) when he's trying to track down a tape of one of his past shows. |
| 158 | ** In another episode, he invites his internet fan club round to his flat, cooking an enormous buffet for them. It turns out to consist of three creepy obsessives with NoSocialSkills. |
| 159 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 160 | ** Played for laughs in an episode, where Brooke Shields portrayed a Loony Fan stalking Joey, convinced [[YourSecretsSafeWithMeSuperman he was really the character]] he played in a soap opera (they got rid of her by convincing her that Joey was actually the EvilTwin instead). |
| 161 | ** There was also the [[Series/HappyDays Fonzie]]-obsessed doctor who delivered the triplets. |
| 162 | * ''Series/GhostsUS'': In "Alberta's Fan", a jazz historian visits Woodstone Estate to do some research on Alberta. He seems normal at first, but then he smells Alberta's clothes multiple times and shows everyone the toenail clipping he bought online. Then he reveals the Alberta tattoo he has on his back. |
| 163 | * ''Series/ICarly'': |
| 164 | ** Mandy. After appearing as a guest on their web show, she followed Carly, Sam, and Freddie around constantly and even switched schools to be around them, which drove them crazy. Mandy eventually became obsessed with a band and seemingly moved on to pestering them but a more recent episode showed she was back to obsessing over iCarly. |
| 165 | ** There's Nora Dershlit, whose obsession with iCarly makes Mandy look ''sane'' by comparison. She kidnaps the iCarly crew and locks them in her basement under the delusion that they are her friends. She just gets even more AxCrazy from there... |
| 166 | * On ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Lucy has her string of this, particularly during The Hollywood arc, in which she can't help herself from acting even zanier than normal around the Movie Stars. Her actions include accidentally pieing William Holden, breaking into Cornel Wildes's suite, trying to pick a Grapefruit from Richard Widmark's backyard, and, with assistance from Ethel, stealing John Wayne's footprints from Graumen's Chinese Theater. Her reputation gets so bad, she becomes the ire of every actor in Hollywood. Eventually, it even reaches international levels as while in Paris, Charles Boyer mentions having heard of her. |
| 167 | * In ''Series/ImAlanPartridge'', Alan encounters his self-proclaimed "Biggest Fan," who starts with simple things like an autograph request and a too-long handshake and eventually reveals a Stalker Shrine filled with photos and memorabilia. He also has Alan's face tattooed across his torso. |
| 168 | * A recurring bit on ''Series/IZombie'' is Liv downing the brains of a mega-fan of everything from football to a TV series and soon exhibiting their passions to the extreme. |
| 169 | * The ''Series/JonathanCreek'' episode "Danse Macabre" featured an obsessed fan who followed a horror writer from the US to the UK and eventually [[spoiler:cut the head off her dead body and carried back to America with him]]. |
| 170 | * ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': Kazumi Sawatari is obsessed with internet idol "Mii-Tan" (who's really Misora). It's to the point where Kazumi is willing to spend money just to get a handshake with Mii-Tan and even flirts with a Mii-Tan body pillow ''right in front of the real Mii-Tan''. At the same time however, Kazumi is a pretty alright guy barring his eccentricities, and he acts nothing but respectful towards Mii-Tan herself, even if he does see her as his future wife. Sure enough, [[spoiler:they do eventually [[OfficialCouple hook up]] at the end of Kazumi's V-Cinema movie.]] |
| 171 | * One episode of ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'' had the ghost of an arsonist try to pull a GrandTheftMe on a composer he liked, having admired the man so much he wanted to literally ''become'' him. He also murdered the guy's friends and coworkers so no one would SpotTheThread. |
| 172 | * ''Series/MidnightCaller'': Angel from the first episode is convinced that she and Jack are meant to be because they both experienced their first kill of an innocent (well, relatively speaking for Angel) on the same date. |
| 173 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': Creator/SarahSilverman is the equally alliterative Marci Maven, who is like this to the point that she's furnished her house with furniture Monk threw out, and she's wearing his old pants. During a case, Marci even goes so far as to act as Monk's self-appointed social buffer, by performing his obsessive-compulsive tendencies ''for'' him, and gives a man Monk is about to question a list of "ground rules" about how not to annoy him, while all Monk has to do is stand behind and wait. Apparently, Monk also took out a restraining order against her. Amusingly this extends to minor MetaGuy traits, like referring to his cases by episode title. |
| 174 | * An episode of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' had Kermit unfortunately meet the most die-hard fan of his, Creator/GilbertGottfried, after the latter wins a contest to have dinner with him. HilarityEnsues. |
| 175 | %%* An episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' had a fan of [=McGee=]'s book series was real and start killing people that resembled his characters, who are based on people he sees. This is due to the fact he read some pages that stated were trying to kill the character [=McGee=]'s character. |
| 176 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': |
| 177 | ** The current page quote comes from a sketch about a support group for obsessive fans of ''Series/MrBelvedere''. They play a game called "Should and Shouldn't" which "helps keep the line between fantasy and reality a little less blurry": |
| 178 | --->'''Chris Farley:''' I ''should'' want to say "Hi!" to Mr. Belvedere. I ''shouldn't'' want to kidnap him and keep him in a big glass jar in my basement.\ |
| 179 | '''Tom Hanks:''' Okay, okay. That's good, we get that. But why? Why shouldn't you do that?\ |
| 180 | '''Chris Farley:''' [beat] Uh, because his breath would fog up the glass and I couldn't see him then? |
| 181 | ** They once did a direct parody of ''{{Literature/Misery}}'' featuring Roseanne Barr as Dana Carvey's biggest fan. After Carvey announces he's retiring the Church Lady character, then gets into a car accident with John Lovitz, Barr rescues him (but apparently left Lovitz to die). When she finds out he's killed off the Church Lady, she starts trying to dress him up as her, to the point of painfully shoving orthopedic shoes on his mangled legs. They get in a fight until Lovitz shows up completely unharmed, kills Barr, and [[spoiler: kills Carvey so he can steal the Church Lady character.]] |
| 182 | * An episode of music group Music/SClub7's TV series featured an annoying fan that was at first obsessed over Bradley and then later Rachel. |
| 183 | * Subverted in the ''Series/ShakeItUp'' episode "Copy Kat It Up", wherein a shy, socially awkward girl named Kat seems to have a near-stalkerish obsession with the girls, especially [=CeCe=]. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a BatmanGambit to get a spot dancing on the show]]. |
| 184 | * In the ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' episode "A Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road," country singer Sue Ann Grainger receives phone calls from a stalker who demands money, then kills random people when she doesn't pay up. It turns out he used to own a radio station and would play one of her records over and over again in the hopes that she would notice him and help him become a famous singer himself. Eventually, someone got mad about it and stabbed him in the throat, causing him to lose his voice and his job. |
| 185 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' had Becky Rosen, a parody of some of the show's more extreme fans, who wrote incest fanfiction about Sam and Dean. She later used a LovePotion supplied by a [[DealWithTheDevil crossroads demon]] to entice Sam into marrying her. She also tied him to a bed and [[TapOnTheHead knocked him out with a waffle iron]] when he tried to escape. |
| 186 | * ''Series/{{Swarm}}'': Dre's obsessive love of Ni'Jah seems to stem from a combination of wanting to be loved and wanting to be noticed. As a result, she decides to kill any person who even so much as criticizes Ni'Jah under the belief that this will prove her devotion to the singer. This is not portrayed as a good thing, and in fact leads to Dre becoming a SerialKiller on the run from the law in the process. |
| 187 | * Played with in an episode of the short-lived HBO series of ''Music/TenaciousD''. It starts with Lee, a fan who is overly obsessed with Tenacious D, but afterwards, the Tenacious D duo becomes overly obsessed with Lee, culminating with his murder. |
| 188 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "Special Service", one of John Selig's biggest fans enters the JSTV executive Arthur Spence's office through the window and tells John that she wants to have his baby or at least a lock of his hair. John just about manages to get away from her. |
| 189 | * ''Series/TheWayansBros'': The [[ShoutOut aptly titled episode]] [[Literature/{{Misery}} "Misery"]], Marlon, who in this part of the series is famous as a secondary character in a sitcom, goes to the apartment of an attractive fan and is greeted by her "homely" roommate, who offers him a glass of drugged Kool-aid. When Marlon comes to, she reveals that her "roommate's" picture is just a picture of Mariah Carey, and kidnapped him with the intent of marrying him, and threatens to kill him if he refuses. |
| 190 | * Joxer from ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' initially. Xena gets a handful of other "I've studied your every move!" (sometimes followed by "Now we must fight with knives!") type of meetups, but they're generally not the following-around kind of groupies. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 194 | * Music/{{Eminem}}: |
| 195 | ** "Stan" [[https://youtu.be/gOMhN-hfMtY is presented as a series of letters]] by the titular Loony Fan who takes Eminem's "Slim Shady" persona to be SeriousBusiness and tries to emulate him in every way possible... up to and including tying up his girlfriend, stuffing her in his trunk and killing both of them by crashing his car. The song ends with Eminem writing back (to said fan's second letter). Eminem writes in his reply that Stan should seek help because his case reminds him of a news story he saw about a man who killed his pregnant girlfriend and himself afterward, [[LateToTheRealization only to realize that Stan was the man behind the murder-suicide]]. It's since given rise to [[PersonAsVerb the term "stan" to mean an overly-committed and toxic fan]]. Over time, the term "stan" as a means of pointing out obsessive and over-the-top fan behavior has become diluted due to "stan" being used as synonymous with fandom culture regardless of toxicity. |
| 196 | *** Stan makes another appearance stalking Eminem in "Off The Wall": |
| 197 | ---->Knock wood, it's all good; thank God for vodka\ |
| 198 | 'cause with my luck, I'll probably get shot by a stalker. (Ckkk!)\ |
| 199 | Probably got a fanatic waitin' upstairs in the attic\ |
| 200 | with a automatic, callin' me up there -- ("Watch out!!")\ |
| 201 | My man, Stan, with a gat in his hand\ |
| 202 | stakin' my house out in a tan, tinted sedan |
| 203 | ** In "My Band" Eminem [[{{Groupie}} sexually exploits fangirls who squeal over him]], much to the annoyance of the other members of D12. |
| 204 | ** "Bad Guy" features a crazed ex-fan who breaks into Eminem's house, chloroforms him, and murders him in revenge for causing the death of his elder brother, Stan, and for the homophobic lyrics of his old music. [[RuleOfSymbolism And Eminem's fading stardom and increasing age]]. |
| 205 | ** In "So Far" Eminem is accosted by an irritating fan called Todd while he's stopped at a service station to take a dump. Instead of handing him an autograph, Slim takes the paper Todd is offering, uses it to wipe, then hands it back, and Todd is delighted. |
| 206 | ** Eminem casts Music/MachineGunKelly as this in his diss to him, "Killshot" -- not unreasonably, as MGK was a former fan of Eminem who still admires him, and much of MGK's diss track to which Eminem responds to is dedicated to it. |
| 207 | ** Slim Shady is often depicted as an insane fan himself, with it being a particular trait of the ''Relapse'' incarnation of the character. "Ass Like That" and "We Made You" is dedicated to Slim leering over and [[InsultComic insulting]] female celebrities, while "Same Song And Dance" is about the murder of his idols Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. |
| 208 | * Music/{{BTS}} has a ''legendarily'' powerful stan community (mostly located on Platform/{{Twitter}}). The majority of it is fine, but there's enough toxic users in the community that many BTS [=ARMYs=] spend more time fighting other fans for their horrible behaviour than actually celebrating the band they like. |
| 209 | * Music/LadyGaga's "Paparazzi" is about such a fan. |
| 210 | * In rapper Plan B's concept album "The Defamation of Strickland Banks", Strickland has a drunken one-night stand with such a fan. When he rejects her afterward, [[WoundedGazelleGambit she tells the police that he raped her]] and he's sent to jail. |
| 211 | * Music/TheWhiteStripes song "Take, Take, Take" is an interesting version: Jack White describes meeting Rita Hayworth at a restaurant and acting like a complete fanboy. Every action of his (seeing her, standing close to her, talking to her, etc.) ends with the words "AND THAT WAS ALL THAT I NEEDED". After every time he says it's all he needed, he thinks of something else he needs from her until finally she gets up and leaves. "IT WAS AS IF SHE / COULD NOT APPRECIATE / HOW COOL I WAS BEING." |
| 212 | * Music/LemonDemon: |
| 213 | ** "Bill Watterson" is about a narrator who's fanatically devoted to Bill Watterson, the creator of ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes, and has an erotomania delusion, wherein a person believes that someone else is in love with them, usually a celebrity; in this case, it manifests in him thinking that Bill Watterson is communicating with him through the comics. |
| 214 | ---->Bill Watterson, can’t you hear me?\ |
| 215 | Bill Watterson, please don’t fear me\ |
| 216 | Don’t treat me like I have rabies\ |
| 217 | Oh, I only wanna have your babies! |
| 218 | ** The narrator of "Touch-Tone Telephone" is a ConspiracyTheorist who's obsessed with a radio show host, thinking the host is the only person who will believe them and trying to get in touch with them so they can explain their crazy theories on the air. |
| 219 | * "Martin Scorsese" by Music/KingMissile. The lyrics to the song are the singer impersonating a crazed fan of Creator/MartinScorsese, shouting profane lines about how he wants to meet the director and do various violent acts to him, basically just beating him to death (or at least to a bloody pulp) while thanking him for making the greatest films he's ever seen in his life. Since this trope is a large part of what drove the plot of ''Film/TheKingOfComedy'', Scorsese was likely not chosen at random as a subject. |
| 220 | * In the video for the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' "By the Way", Anthony Kiedis is kidnapped by a taxi driver and has to be rescued. Flea and John manage to save him, but at the end [[HereWeGoAgain Chad unknowingly takes the same cab]]... |
| 221 | ** The guy appears again in the video for "Universally Speaking", invading a Peppers concert to return a book Anthony left in his car. This time, however, the more criminal aspects are toned down. |
| 222 | * Music/TheArrogantWorms have a song dedicated to this trope, reminding her of such things as how none of their songs are about her... except for ''this'' one. Which is ''all'' about her. |
| 223 | * The video for "Lego House" by Music/EdSheeran has Creator/RupertGrint playing one. The twist is that at first, he seems to be starring ''as'' Sheeran: he mimes the song's lyrics, wanders Sheeran's trailer and house, and during the final bridge he walks up on stage to thunderous applause... at which point a security guard runs on stage and tackles him to the ground, [[TheReveal revealing him]] to be nothing more than an obsessed fan. After this, the video gets rather more disturbing (including Grint [[{{Squick}} eating Sheeran's chewing gum]]), before it ends with him being escorted out of the venue, passing the ''real'' Ed Sheeran on the way. |
| 224 | * As well as the video for Music/LilyAllen's "Who'd Have Known", where she kidnaps Music/EltonJohn. |
| 225 | * KPop group Epik High's aptly titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eINjPkO7w4M "Fan"]] is about a "sasaeng" ("extremely obsessive") fan who kidnaps an idol and keeps him imprisoned, watching him constantly from cameras she's installed in his room, giving him "baths" ''in the washing machine'', and eventually thwarting his attempt to burn himself alive when he's inevitably DrivenToSuicide. At the end of the video, she straps him to a rocket in order to "return him to the stars" (where, as a "star," she thinks he belongs) and accidentally ends up killing him in the process. The FridgeHorror kicks in when one realizes that the girl in the video is inspired by ''real'' sasaeng fans. |
| 226 | * Music/{{Rainbow}}'s "Starstruck" tells the story of a crazed fan/stalker who is desperate for "a souvenir". Everyone else seems to find it funny, but Music/RonnieJamesDio doesn't. |
| 227 | * [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Tyler, the Creator's]] song "Colossus" is a "Stan"-esque song that depicts a fan as being too inspired by him to the point of annoyance and irritation on Tyler's part. Said fan also has some DepravedHomosexual thoughts in mind. |
| 228 | * The narrator of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBr4XdG6lfA ''Toy Soldiers'']] by Marianas Trench. |
| 229 | * Music/SarahMcLachlan based the song "Possession" on real fan mail she received. A look at the lyrics of the song will tell you that these weren't ordinary, polite fan letters. One fan filed a lawsuit against her, alleging that she had plagiarized the lyrics from letters he had written. He committed suicide before the case ever went to trial. |
| 230 | * Alexander Rybak's song "Leave Me Alone" is about a very obsessed fan who stalks him. |
| 231 | * Music/TheBloodhoundGang's song "The Ballad of Chasey Lain" is about a guy who kidnaps the titular porn star because she didn't answer his fan mail with one simple request: he wanted to [[IntercourseWithYou eat her ass]]. |
| 232 | * Creator/RachelBloom's "Fuck Me, Creator/RayBradbury." Rachel portrays a fangirl who writes about her sucking his dick and jerks off to his books, singing about her lust for him, to him. |
| 233 | * The video for "My Song" by Music/JerryCantrell shows a woman physically restraining Jerry, ''collecting his DNA'', and doing other creepy things. He escapes, though. |
| 234 | * "Cinderblocks For Shoes" by Self starts with what seems like a real answering machine message Matt Mahaffey received: After the caller identifies herself as his "biggest, biggest fan", she leaves a (partially censored) phone number for him to call and claims "I know where you live and everything!" before ending with some creepy laughter. |
| 235 | * Music/{{Waterparks}}' "VIOLET!" is about a very persistent stalker of Awsten Knight's. The song directly addresses them, shifting between Awsten's stress about the stalker knowing where he lives and digs at them for believing that he's leading them on. |
| 236 | * Creator/WillSmith's "Loretta" is [[BasedOnATrueStory an autobiographical track]] about an obsessed fan of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' who stalked him while desperately trying to hand deliver a love letter she wrote to him. The song notes that she never got a chance to meet or even see him, which made her get desperate and angry, especially when she heard about his marriage to Jada Pinkett. It closes on a rather sad verse from Loretta's point-of-view where the police arrest her outside the Kodak Center, which she was sleeping outside beside a dumpster because Smith was nominated for Best Actor at the 74th Oscars which were being held there, desperately protesting her love for him is divinely ordained and Will will see the best in her. |
| 237 | * [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica South African]] singer/comedian Robbie Wessels wrote the MultilingualSong ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brC52jXDMMw Player Twenty-Three]]'' (honouring the unsung hero of the national rugby team - its greatest fan). Jan is a distinctly fat and unathletic guy who lives out his fantasies of being a great [[RugbyIsSlaughter Bokkie]] as Player Twenty-Three - the national side's uncontested greatest fan. The song charts his epic battle for the position of Player Twenty-Three with an equally fanatic Bokke fan called Elton. |
| 238 | * Music/{{Noah|Indonesia}}: The protagonist of "Kota Mati" music video is clearly a fan of the vocalist Ariel, but is so disappointed when he doesn't spot, let alone recognize, her during a concert that she goes on a killing spree. It gets worse upon realizing that the video is a prequel to "Tak Ada yang Abadi" video, which ends with a girl shooting the band. |
| 239 | [[/folder]] |
| 240 | |
| 241 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 242 | * Payton Banks started out as a crazed member of the audience, obsessed with Wrestling/BobbyRoode, till she joined [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]'s main roster after he hired her. |
| 243 | * Wrestling/MickieJames' original gimmick in Wrestling/{{WWE}} was as Wrestling/TrishStratus's creepy stalker fan[[note]]She'd written the storyline herself, intending to work with {{Wrestling/Lita}}, who she was a big fan of. Unfortunately by the time of her call-up, Lita was injured with a torn ACL, and so the storyline was given to Trish instead.[[/note]]. Oddly enough, since Trish retired, Mickie's actually developed into Trish's {{Expy}}. And in 2022, there were reportedly plans for them to do a successor to the storyline with Chelsea Green in Mickie's role as the fan, but they were scrapped when both got released. |
| 244 | * Seven years earlier, [[Wrestling/TerriPoch Tori (Terri Poch)]] was this for Wrestling/{{Sable}}. The original plan was for her to be a long-lost sister, but Sable herself kept insisting on changes to it, so they just went with an obsessed fan. However, the angle presented Sable as the heel who used Tori to win matches, and Tori eventually had enough to challenge her for the Women's Championship. |
| 245 | * Wrestling/BethPhoenix picked up one of her own with Rosa Mendez, who targeted Melina because Beth was feuding with her. Beth eventually recruited Rosa as part of her entourage, but their alliance quietly disappeared after a few months. |
| 246 | * Serena Deeb debuted on Smackdown in 2010 as an obsessed Wrestling/CMPunk fan who wanted to join his 'Straight Edge Society'. She proved her devotion to him by having her head shaved in the ring, as other people had done in the previous weeks (though they were people Punk personally selected at random rather than fans). |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 250 | * In ''Theatre/{{Fangirls}}'', Edna gradually slides from merely being a {{Fangirl}} to being a loony fan towards the end of act one when, unable to attend the concert, she concocts a scheme to abduct Harry; convinced that he will run away with her once he realises how much she understands him. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 254 | * ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'' has Ota Matsushita, a 25-year-old {{otaku}} who spends all his time and money on an 18-year-old [[GamerChick e-girl]]/IdolSinger he's [[DoggedNiceGuy friends]] with. When [[PlayerCharacter Date]] [[EstablishingCharacterMoment first meets him]] he's defending her online against his own [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet_account strawman sockpuppet accounts]] for attention from her, and he reveals himself to be willing to go to other extreme lengths to defend her. Unlike most examples, the two know each other personally and are best friends but Ota still puts her on a pedestal while she's ObliviousToLove and sees him [[PlatonicLifePartners like a big brother]]. |
| 255 | * ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey:'' One of the DLC sets has a mission where the Precursor Hecate sends the Eagle Bearer after what she claims are Persephone's loony fan club, saying they're her murderous fanatical servants. Once the Eagle Bearer gets there, they turn out to be... [[spoiler:a perfectly normal fan club, just spending all day talking about Persephone. Hecate was lying through her teeth.]] |
| 256 | * In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', Sephiroth has a devoted group of fans who know what shampoo and conditioner he uses and how much. One must assume that they know this either because they're going through his trash or breaking into his home on a regular basis. |
| 257 | * In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', [[JapanesePopMusic J-pop]] idol Blue Moon suspects she's being stalked and hires PlayerCharacter V to deal with the problem. If you fail to deduce the stalker's identity early, she corners Blue Moon with a gun intending to be TogetherInDeath with her and you're forced to quickly take her down before it's too late. |
| 258 | * ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory'': |
| 259 | ** One quest has you hunt down a hacker who betrayed two major hacking syndicates to steal backdoor access to over 10,000 {{cyberspace}} accounts, all to get people to attend his favorite IdolSinger's virtual concert. Said idol is a wannabe with only seven fans in real life but managed to nearly reach the top of the charts because of said hacker buying ''ten million'' copies of her album (presumably with stolen money), with the other six buying over 100 each. |
| 260 | ** Immediately after that one, the next quest has you investigate an {{otaku}}-turned-{{hikikomori}} on behalf of his close female friend. The group learns that he's become obsessed with a different idol to the point where he's collected obscene amounts of images of her and spends all his time in {{cyberspace}} as part of her reverse harem. When confronted, the idol reveals herself to be a [[TheFairFolk Lotosmon]] in disguise who [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed the men to never leave her side]] but [[HeelFaceTurn promises to go straight after being defeated]]. However, the client's friend is still obsessed with Lotosmon and it takes [[MissionControl Erika]] [[MoreThanMindControl hacking into his files and subtly changing his pictures of her to look like the client]] to snap him out of it and the two end up engaged within a week. |
| 261 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 262 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' the Adoring Fan ([[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep no, that's his actual name]]) starts pestering you after you win the title of Arena champion. He's loud, obnoxious, and tends to flee from combat - but this is all intentional, due to him being a TakeThat to those who wanted multiplayer in the game. Unlike most examples of this trope, though, he will leave you alone if you tell him to ([[VideoGameCrueltyPotential even if you're both in]] [[{{Mordor}} Mehrunes Dagon's realm]]). |
| 263 | ** Funnily enough, Cicero from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' apparently [[ShoutOut took on this persona]] for a job early in his career... in order to assassinate the Arena Grand Champion. |
| 264 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'', Clanne and Framme act as this towards the Divine Dragon, acting more like idol fans than worshippers right down to having a dedicated fan club. The looniness is exemplified in Framme's supports with Alear which involve her accidentally annoying and unsettling Alear with the close-up gushing and fangirling until Alear learns how to delicately enforce their boundaries. |
| 265 | * In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'', a series of missions involves Tommy acting as a bodyguard for a HairMetal band, Love Fist, after an obsessed fan attempts to kill them. |
| 266 | * Nix from ''VideoGame/InFamous2'' can ''technically'' be considered this as she admits in her first encounter with Cole that she's a fan of his supposed work as "The Demon of Empire City". While not obsessive by any means, she is the TokenEvilTeammate of the group who encourages Cole to make Bad-Karma decisions. |
| 267 | * ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance'': It is mentioned in the bio for Mary Beth Wilkins in "2" that, after she rose to fame in mercenary circles due to her participation in the Metavira campaign depicted in the first game, she received a lot of attention from loony fans and stalkers, until one of them gunned her down in front of her home. |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 269 | ** Shepard gets one in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' by the name of Conrad Verner. Paragon Shepard can let him down gently, Renegade Shepard can physically assault him. If the player doesn't have enough charm or intimidate points to do either of the above, he'll run off and get killed trying to prove himself. |
| 270 | ** In [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 the sequel]] he shows up again and says that you assaulted him, due to a save error that assumes you took the Renegade option. Since that point, he's taken to dressing in a replica of your armor and acting as you did in the first game with side quests and looting. If you manage to talk him down, he'll go back to normal life; if you upset him, he'll [[UndignifiedDeath fall into a sewage treatment plant's turbines]]. [[AscendedGlitch This bug gets referenced in]] ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', where if you took the Paragon route in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', Conrad apologizes for having accused Shepard of pointing a gun at him (the Renegade option), saying he was just ''really'' stressed out at the time[[note]]For the record, the Paragon dialogue can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQd3pHKO4k here]][[/note]] |
| 271 | ** He shows up again in [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 the final game]], this time claiming that Cerberus is an ally of Shepard, and thus the galaxy. After being set straight, Conrad eventually reveals that he has a ''StalkerShrine'' dedicated to Shepard. Additionally, you get a bit of background to the guy: when Shepard sarcastically asks if Conrad can help build an ancient dark-energy powered device to stop the [[EldritchAbomination Reapers]], Conrad responds that he wrote his doctoral dissertation on xenotechnology and dark energy integration. Yes, you read that right; Conrad Verner is actually ''Dr.'' Conrad Verner. Later on, he [[TakingTheBullet Takes The Bullet]] meant for Shepard from an assassination attempt, possibly dying in the process, only surviving because another NPC that Shepard helped in the past sabotaged the gun at the last second. |
| 272 | ** In ''The Citadel'' DLC, Shepard is attacked by [[spoiler:an evil clone]]. During the final fight [[spoiler:the clone]] insists that they're better than Shepard. Shepard responds with "Are you kidding me? ''Conrad Verner'' is better at being me than you are!" |
| 273 | ** Proving that some things just run in the family, ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' has a brief (as in one non-storyline conversation) with a Miss ''Cassandra'' Verner, Conrad's sister. She claims Conrad's behavior was so irritating she had to leave the galaxy, then turns out to be crazier than he is. Conrad at least hero worships an ''actual'' hero, where Cass worships a crime lord (and for further crazy points, has a "plan" to ingratiate herself to the woman, then phone up her brother and brag about this to him. From another galaxy. Six hundred years after he would have died). |
| 274 | ** And in a non-Verner example, ''Andromeda'' also has a krogan geneticist for the late Doctor Okeer, a very infamous krogan scientist. The geneticist knew him! Well, he talked to him. Once. And Okeer told him to get lost. Said geneticist is fanboyish enough to bring what he could of Okeer's work to Andromeda and tasks Ryder with fetching it when his assistant misplaces it. |
| 275 | * PlayedForDrama in ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', in which 9S' route reveals that [[spoiler: Beauvoir was one to Jean-Paul, to the point that she became a LoveMartyr.]] |
| 276 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' gives us Kimmy Howell, a fangirl of Travis Touchdown who eventually decides the only way to prove herself worthy of her crush is to ''kill'' him. Travis gives her a back-bodydrop and tells her to get over it. Flash forward to ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', and it didn't work; she became the pop singer Kimmy Love and is '''[[WomanScorned livid]]''' over Travis having ditched her. [[spoiler:In the end, he's forced to kill her anyway.]] |
| 277 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' has Team Yell, a crazed group of fans of Marnie, a Pokémon trainer aiming to become the next Champion of the Galar region. As such, Team Yell will antagonize anyone who is competing against Marnie for the position, which includes the player. As it turns out, [[spoiler:they're actually Gym Trainers for Marnie's brother Piers and thus are supporting her in his stead (albeit overenthusiastically)]]. |
| 278 | * In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', the "Crowd Control" diversions have you protecting a celebrity from various crazy fans, who get more aggressive, more numerous, and better-armed at higher levels. |
| 279 | * ''VideoGame/TheSims'': |
| 280 | ** ''VideoGame/TheSims1'' has the Obsessed Fan, who while not quite evil can be a considerable annoyance to famous Sims, going so far as to show up at their house. |
| 281 | ** In ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', as of the ''Get Famous'' expansion, it's possible for famous Sims to get a "Stan" as a fame quirk. |
| 282 | * ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' brings us SONICMAN! He's so convinced he's the real Sonic, he ''challenges the real Sonic to a foot race!'' |
| 283 | * In ''Videogame/{{Starfield}}'', the [[Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Adoring Fan]] returns once again if the trait "Hero Worshipped" is chosen during character creation, having become obsessed with the protagonist solely upon them being recruited into Constellation (which by the time you're likely to meet him means that you just finished up the tutorial segments). He's available as a follower and can be killed if the player chooses. |
| 284 | * Sakura Kasugano was referred to by Ken as 'Ryu's stalker', and not only does she have similar moves, her alternate costume in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' has her dress almost exactly like him (she only has the gi top an, and it still has sleeves, rolled up). Frightening. ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' then goes the extra mile by giving her a perfect replica of Ryu's gi as an alternate costume. |
| 285 | ** Although, one can make a case about whether you can call her "loony" or not, since she has the potential to train herself to improvement, and is part of her own extended group of fighters (Dan, Blanka, and Karin, for starters). Even the aforementioned ''Street Fighter V'' deconstructs her passion for fighting by having her openly wonder about whether that truly is the life she wants after graduating from high school. Her [[Comicbook/StreetFighter UDON]] version, however, runs with the "Ryu #1 fangirl" characterization to the point that she follows him around the world, comes to train under him some time after the World Warrior tournament (in the games, she's perfectly fine with Dan as a pseudo-teacher/sparring partner)[[spoiler:, and goes so far as to ''succumb to the Satsui no Hado'' if it means having enough power to save Ryu from the Illuminati.]] |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 289 | * The BigBad behind the DeadlyGame in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' turns out to be one of these for [[spoiler: [[RecursiveCanon the Danganronpa franchise]]. As an employee of [[GreaterScopeVillain Team Danganronpa]], Tsumugi Shirogane will do anything in her power to continue her beloved franchise, including [[FrameUp framing Kaede for Rantaro's murder]] and [[TheHeroDies having her executed]]. She appears to value Danganronpa more than life itself, as when [[GreatDetective Shuichi]] and the remaining students try to have the game cancelled at the climax of the final trial, Tsumugi resigns herself to a SurprisinglySuddenDeath, crushed under the rubble of the crumbling Ultimate Academy.]] |
| 290 | * In ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'', an obsessive and violent stalker has a major role in two routes. |
| 291 | ** In Mika’s route, [[spoiler:the stalker takes her role in the spectacular failure of the ''Black Opera'' TV adaptation as a personal insult, and starts harassing Mika in increasingly dangerous ways (to the point of forming a posse to try and kidnap her)]]. |
| 292 | ** In Julie’s route, [[spoiler:this same stalker attempts to murder Julie in broad daylight during a public relations event because of a false sex scandal involving her and the lead singer of a boy band]]. |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 296 | * ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': Several of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX2x3ejpkDU Hiiragi's fangirls]] start leaving gifts at Kuroki and Akamatsu's apartment because they think that Hiiragi lives there because he shares the same surname with the brothers. Later, one of the fangirls, Yuzuriha, tries to break into the apartment to have Hiiragi killed after the news of his relationship with a fellow idol was announced, while also unaware that he doesn't live there. Fortunately, Yuzuriha ends up getting arrested by the police for her trouble. |
| 297 | * In ''WebAnimation/XRayAndVav'', we got Dragonface, a young kid who utterly idolizes our titular duo. So much so that they put a 50-foot restraining order on him before Season 2 started. Which got pushed up to ''500'' feet in ''episode 2''. |
| 298 | * ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss:'' [[NonIronicClown Fizzarolli]] is shown to have a ''bunch'' of them, which is one of the things that he genuinely hates about showbiz. Sometimes it's played for laughs, like the guy at one of his shows that owned four RobotMe sexbots of Fizz, and sometimes it's taken utterly seriously, like murderous StalkerWithACrush Arick. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 302 | * ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' (a comic which itself focused on fans of various sci-fi/fantasy shows) played with this concept when it introduced the character of Tim the Fanboy, a geeky stereotypical 'fanboy' who was a near-obsessive fan of the main characters. Unfortunately for them, once he realized that they weren't perfect, he felt betrayed and in turn betrayed them to become the 'fan' of a psychopathic time-traveling warlord who was doing her very best to wipe them out of existence. |
| 303 | * ''Webcomic/JackTheAmericanGhost:'' Hoo boy, Cindy is one crazed fan of Jack. Every motivation she has revolves around him. She even summons his ghost at one point. |
| 304 | * The fan who [[http://www.loadingartist.com/comic/my-first-convention/ wouldn't let go]] from ''Webcomic/LoadingArtist''. |
| 305 | * Piro and Largo's characters in the [[ShowWithinAShow Endgames]] videogame world of ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' acquire a loony fan; Largo promptly throws him off a cliff. As for the regular world...most of the main female characters have vast legions of stalking fans at varying levels of creepiness (some are just obsessive, others are obsessive about collecting {{panty shot}}s of their idols). |
| 306 | * Isabelle of ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' is one of Zii (and to a lesser extent her rock band). She dresses and styles her hair exactly like Zii, wants to be called "Izz", and for some reason thinks Zii is way more rich and famous than she actually is. She also displays a lot of StalkerWithACrush tendencies, and at one point admitted to Zii's face that IJustWantToBeYou (before quickly {{Verbal Backspac|e}}ing it to "be ''like'' you"). |
| 307 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': |
| 308 | ** Seymour, an ultra-religious character who goes around chiding people for not being pious enough. God [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2000-04-28 refers to him]] as his "loony fanboy." |
| 309 | ** The devil [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2001-02-01 thinks God needs a better representation]] and likes to [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-10-28 make fun of him]]. He has [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2002-10-23 his own lame-ass fanboy]], L'il Evil, as well. Who writes "[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-09-08 Devil Fanfics]]". |
| 310 | *** Since [[IdentityAmnesia drinking from Lethe]], L'il E seems to have dropped the Loony Fan tendencies, and in fact is [[IHatePastMe sort of creeped out by his old self.]] |
| 311 | ** Monique [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2006-09-18 tried to play]] a crazy fangirl, but wasn't ready to go far enough to be believable, so she... ''outsourced'' this. |
| 312 | ** A third fanboy was recently introduced for the third creator figure--the AuthorAvatar ("[[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-08-17 Will you sign my face?]]"). |
| 313 | ** Sinfest now has the first [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2011-12-15 loony fangirl]] in a 'Nique's It-Girl persona's fangirl. Though, she is revealed to be a more benign example than the others after a chat with Monique. |
| 314 | * Mike from ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' before his redemption. His stunts include trying to steal a tuft of Gary Gygax's beard, breaking into Nichelle Nichols's hotel room and begging her to marry him, and somehow setting fire to Steve Jackson. |
| 315 | * ''Webcomic/TheSwordInterval'': The antagonist of the first arc [[spoiler:turns out to be a teenage fanboy of experienced monster hunter David Shimizu, who's recently retired. The kid summons a dangerous monster to try and get Shimizu to come out of retirement. It ends up working, but not in the way the kid wanted -- David and heroine Fall end up saving the kid from the monster he summoned. The kid is then arrested.]] |
| 316 | [[/folder]] |
| 317 | |
| 318 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 319 | * In WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's review of the ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' game, he gets kidnapped by a crazed fan and Leatherface. |
| 320 | * ''Podcast/TheBrianAndJillShow'' had Jill portraying "Superfan Diane", a Loony Fan of Brian's from his KLOS radio show. |
| 321 | * Jim Sterling has taken some time in ''The WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' to show some of the more... out there gifts that their fans have sent them. Such things include a rubber replica of a pornstar's fist, a dragon tongue dildo, and a gay furry porn comic book. The sex toys have been used for various jokes, but the comic was [[BrainBleach a bit]] ''[[BrainBleach too]]'' [[BrainBleach loony]]. |
| 322 | * The antagonists of ''WebVideo/MidgarSyndromeTheFinalFantasyHouse'' are a group of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fans who believe that they are reincarnated characters from the game and have built an entire lifestyle around 'soul-bonding' with their past lives, whether it be listening to game music or practicing 'magic' from the game. And they're based on a real group of fans who actually behaved like this, as the film is a dramatization of one fan's experience with them. |
| 323 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Douchey [=McNitpick=], a "fan" that watched all his videos 37 times solely to find all of the Critic's mistakes and harshly call him out on them. Ironically, both are played by Creator/DougWalker. |
| 324 | ** The reboot had Hyper Fangirl, stalking the Critic with the intent to make him love her, culminating in her holding him hostage and forcing him at gunpoint to be her boyfriend and review a movie with her. |
| 325 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation:'' SCP-[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7105 7105]] actively preys on fans like these, seeking out the most obsessive devotees of singer Sophia Alvarez and roping them in with the promise of a private meeting - in which they will be brutally murdered by SCP-7105-1, a HumanoidAbomination masquerading as the ''real'' Sophia Alvarez. And they ''have'' to be the most obsessive fans, because nobody else would be stupid or desperate enough to accept a shady offer from an unverified email address. In the example given, victim Robert Boies not only attempted to invite Sophia Alvarez to his birthday party but owned a StalkerShrine consisting of more than 523 photographs of her and several dolls in her likeness. In fact, he was so obsessed with Sophia Alvarez that, after managing to escape SCP-7105-1's initial assault with just an [[EyeScream eye injury]], ''he went right back into the house just to let it kill him.'' |
| 326 | * ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub''''s'' version of ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' has Black Doom remade as The Devil ("from the Bible") who constantly nags shadow, trying to get him to do evil and go to Hell, and just constantly follows him. Multiple times The Devil recalls Shadow taking him to ''Creator/ChuckECheese'' and him getting a prize. By the end of the dub, it is revealed that Shadow [[spoiler:was genetically engineered by Gerald Robotnik to be The Devil's best friend and was Shadow's first subscriber on Platform/{{Twitch}}. In The Devil's mind, this justifies his obsession as Shadow owes him attention and friendship ala parasocial relationship. Unfortunately for him, [[EtTuBrute Gerald deliberately changed Shadow's programming at the last second as a joke]]]]. |
| 327 | * ''WebVideo/WonderQuest'' Episode 17, "Cave One's Bacon", features guest star [=LDShadowLady=] being one to Heinous and his terrible, ''[[CannotTellAJoke terrible]]'' jokes, to the point that Heinous persuades Stampy and Keen to take her with them on their side quest to rescue Barnaby from [[BumblingHenchmenDuo Flunky and Lackey]]. |
| 328 | [[/folder]] |
| 329 | |
| 330 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 331 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': |
| 332 | ** Jimmy Neutron's hyperactive best pal Sheen is ''totally'' obsessed with Ultra Lord. He's got tons and tons of Ultra Lord merchandise, wrote the whole Ultra Lord website, and firmly believes in Ultra Lord, even as a god. |
| 333 | ** However, in the ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' episode "Cutting the Ultra Lord", Sheen goes mental after being away from Ultra Lord for so long. When he rescues Nesmith and Doppy from a monster, he realizes that he doesn't need Ultra Lord anymore because on Zeenu, he's [[CallBack ULTRA SHEEN]]! |
| 334 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': Lorne, the "Friend for Life" (complete with [[{{Leitmotif}} his own musical jingle]]) is a nerd who won't leave Sam and Max alone. This comes to a [[CerebusRetcon darker in retrospect]] head in "Fools Die on Friday", where Lorne highjacks a Swedish blimp and tries to crash into New York City in order to attract Sam and Max's attention. |
| 335 | * ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': |
| 336 | ** Amaryllis from "Impopstar" is a CreepyChild who is increasingly obsessive over Zillon Brax. She makes a shrine dedicated to him in an old mannequin warehouse, keeps everything he throws away in a locket of his, and when she finds Cricket pretending to be him, holds him hostage and forces him to be her singing partner forever. |
| 337 | ** Emma and the Till-ites from "Little Buddy" are a cult who worship Tilly and everything she does, to the point they wish to be just like her and learn her every move and follow her all over the place until she's driven mad. |
| 338 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has Ruth Anne Litzenberger as his stalker when he was a sought-after Lacrosse player. Just before she was about to seduce him, she shoots Archer and jumps out the window. |
| 339 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 340 | ** The foaming mouth guy, who appears ''[[OneSceneWonder twice]]'', is one of these. His only distinguishing characteristic is how he foams at the mouth and collapses on the ground whenever Aang is nearby. Or at the very least thinks Aang is nearby; when Sokka and Katara go back to Kyoshi Island without Aang he winds up embarrassing himself and walks off in shame. |
| 341 | ** Zuko also seems to have his own in "Nightmares and Daydreams"; she has to be carted off by his guards. |
| 342 | * Linda Belcher of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has repeatedly demonstrated a very odd fixation with their town's mayor. Unlike many of the examples listed here, Linda's obsession with the mayor is entirely innocent, just very odd and confusing. Bob asks her in "I Bob Your Pardon" why she likes the mayor so much, and Linda spends most of the episode pissed off at Deputy Mayor Cunningham just for being there. During "Hawk and Chick," Linda is shocked when informed Tina is getting to dub lines for the mayor in the "Hawk and Chick" movie, repeatedly trying to read the lines herself when Tina tells her to back off. |
| 343 | ** She plays this trope straight in "Mother Author Laser Pointer" when Bea Cromwell, creator of the "Snail & Newt" books, arrives at the restaurant waiting for a tow truck. In this case, Linda's feeling overwhelmed by the thought of the kids going to college and repeatedly badgers Bea about the prospect of writing a new "Snail & Newt" so Linda can relive when she read to the kids when they were little. Her actions escalate to cancelling Bea's tow truck to keep her at the restaurant, and when Bea finds out she grows terrified for her safety thinking Linda's trying to kidnap her. Linda only acts more erratic, stealing Bea's car keys and chasing her to Mort's mortuary, until Bea puts her in a headlock and refuses to let go until the tow arrives. |
| 344 | * Chessie the Autograph Hound will go to any lengths to get the autographs of WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats. |
| 345 | * Being a Loony Fan on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' is dangerous. In an episode where Creator/LucyLawless appeared as a guest commentator, several loony teenage fans came to the arena, including an overeager fangirl dressed like the ones in Comic-Con who got into the announcing booth; she was quickly catapulted out of it with a device installed just for that purpose, impaling the popcorn guy as she landed. Later, during the Music/{{TLC}} / Music/DixieChicks match, the same fangirl excitedly volunteered when Lucy asked for help to decide which team got to choose ring theme; the decision was made by the two groups grabbing the poor fangirl by the arms and legs, then pulling until she was torn in half, then measuring the two pieces. |
| 346 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' has one of these in a direct parody of ''Literature/{{Misery}}'' -- she's eventually beaten [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard by one of her own collectibles]], which Jay triggered by clapping]]. |
| 347 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'': The appropriately titled episode, "Doug's Fan Club," revolves around an 8-year-old kid named Todd looking up to Doug for a change after his impression of Doug's magic tricks. He even goes as far as dressing up as Doug and changing his name to Doug as well. His obsession eventually ends up getting on Doug's nerves, and the latter calls Todd out on it. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Doug later regrets his actions]] and finally finds Todd to let him know he had been trying to get everyone else's attention as well, which causes the two to make up in the end. |
| 348 | * Guaca in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool''. "Kuzco RULES!" |
| 349 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' had Vicky be one to Chip Skylark, kidnapping him and pulling AndNowYouMustMarryMe. Chip implies this is a common experience. |
| 350 | * Fan Boy of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' is another example played for laughs. |
| 351 | * Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "That's Lobstertainment" when Bender becomes the ''official'' stalker to robot actor Calculon. He does it again in ''The Beast with a Billion Backs''. Calculon asks outright if Bender's going to kill him, and Bender states that's not likely since in his mind they're friends. In the comic version, he [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial specifically denies having broken into Calculon's house at night and transfused their oils so they'd always be together]]. |
| 352 | ** Bender is this to alien celebrity chef Elzar, too. |
| 353 | --->'''Bender:''' [[NoodleIncident Just once I'd like to eat dinner with a celebrity who isn't bound and gagged]]. |
| 354 | * In the "Cold Slither" episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', Scarlet, Cover Girl, and Lady Jaye ''disguised'' themselves as Loony Fans of the band to get close to them, and managed to slug the rather surprised Dreadnoks into submission when they did. |
| 355 | * Sebastian in the ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' episode "Rock My World". Attempts to force his favorite band back to its original roots and, when that fails, tries to kill them. |
| 356 | * ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'': Kate and Allie are Grojband's biggest (and, perhaps, only) fans, who the band calls their {{Groupie}}s. They are completely obsessed with Grojband. In "Group Hug", they kidnap Corey and hold him prisoner in their Grojband shrine until he writes a song about them. |
| 357 | * Played for laughs in an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'', "Dis-Harmony", where Ami and Yumi find themselves being followed everywhere (and we do mean ''[[TheCatCameBack everywhere]]'') by a crazy fangirl named Harmony, who would constantly remind them "I'm your #1 fan!" |
| 358 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' had a dark example in an episode where the protagonist puts some serious effort into finding Ba Nee's missing father. The Loony Fan in question was one of the three men who fit the profile (a red-haired man of a certain age who was a veteran) who was a fan of Jem and a gambling addict. He was definitely ''not'' Ba Nee's father, but learning his idol was looking for such a man caused him to shift to a {{Yandere}}-type, kidnapping Ba Nee with blackmail on his mind. (Eventually resulting in another of the three suspects - her ''actual'' father - showing up with PapaWolf intentions; it ended badly for said Loony Fan.) |
| 359 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' had a bunch of pandas becoming these to Heloise. |
| 360 | ** Jimmy and Beezy are this to Miseryville's soccer star Wreckem, to the point of interfering with his match against Lucius' team in order to get hoofprints from him, which ends up costing Wreckem the game. |
| 361 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' had to do with a fan visiting the set of the show, and constantly annoying Henry and June due to his huge obsession with them. He even wears Henry's outfit, June's sweatshirt, and even has his hair blue dyed to match June's (either that or it's natural). June constantly refers to him as "Weird Ryan from school", meaning the duo already knew him. |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': |
| 363 | ** Kim Possible's cousin Joss admires Kim so much that she dresses completely in Kim's style, has numerous pictures of Kim plastered around her room, talks about nothing except for Kim, and even accidentally makes Kim fail the mission by trying to copy her in the middle of the action. In the end, she learns not to admire Kim that much, [[BrokenAesop so she starts admiring the sidekick Ron Stoppable instead.]] |
| 364 | ** Frugal Lucre drove Dr. Drakken to distraction with his non-stop praise and commentary while they were sharing a prison cell. After they got out of prison, he found Drakken's lair and talked him into pulling a [[VillainTeamUp joint caper]]. |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 366 | ** Rainbow Dash in a fourth season episode follows around [[spoiler:Daring Do/A.K. Yearling]], babbling constantly while the latter is trying to maintain a low profile and prevent a disaster, despite it being made quite clear that her assistance and attention are very much not wanted. The saner members of the group try to get her to leave her idol alone, but she just flies off and continues stalking her hero. By the end of the episode, she manages to get over the loony aspect of her fandom, and the two become genuine friends. |
| 367 | ** Rainbow Dash herself has two in her parents (combined with AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents). |
| 368 | ** Scootaloo starts to border on this in the seventh season, following Rainbow Dash's parents all over the place. Her scrapbook already contains a lock of Rainbow's mane, and she adds a chunk of a sandwich made with Rainbow's favorite recipe and one of her (used?) diapers over the course of the episode. |
| 369 | ** The Mane Six all get a wave of them after Twilight's old Friendship Journal is published in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E14FameAndMisfortune "Fame And Misfortune"]]. Fluttershy is harassed for supposedly having AesopAmnesia about assertiveness, Rarity breaks down when she overhears fans badmouthing her, and her boutique gets boycotted, the Apples can't get any work done because they're swamped continually hosting AJ's fans who take her "your family is your friends" lesson too literally, Rainbow Dash can't go anywhere without her fans fawning over how awesome she is (even if she agrees, hearing it constantly is annoying), Pinkie Pie can't say anything without everypony laughing over how funny she is (even when she isn't going for comedy), and Twilight is quite miffed at how fans complain about her "character development" in the Journal and think that she was better before she got wings and should have stayed in Canterlot (completely ignoring the fact that the Journal is nonfiction[[note]]OK, nonfiction as far as the world of Equestria is concerned [[/note]] and that she's an actual pony). |
| 370 | ** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E21OnceUponAZeppelin "Once Upon A Zeppelin"]] Twilight and her family go on a cruise together, only to soon learn that the entire cruise is princess themed and all the other passengers are big fans of her and Cadance. Twilight agrees to do all the activities asked of her as long as her family can do the activities they want to do, and soon she is forced to deal with overbearing fans cheering for her, sign autographs, and deal with a fan named Star Tracker, who won a raffle gets to spend the day with her as an [[AscendedFan honorary member of her family]], but is constantly [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace getting too close to her]]. Once Twilight politely but firmly asserts herself though and asks to spend the rest of the cruise relaxing with her family, all the passengers immediately agree to give her some space and actually become mad at Iron Will once they learn he swindled her into spending time with them. |
| 371 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'', the Sons of Garmadon introduced in Season 8 are loony fans of the late Lord Garmadon. What makes it worse is that they idolize him for his power and none of his redeeming qualities which they believe held him back. [[spoiler:Their plan is to use the Oni Masks to bring Garmadon back from the dead devoid of said redeeming qualities. By the end of the season, they succeed.]] |
| 372 | * Irving is so big a fan of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' that he carries around a scrapbook of their adventures and often joins in their endeavors even if he's not invited. In an interesting case here, Irving started out as a one-off character but then began to recur, and shows signs of possibly becoming a SixthRanger to the boys' group of friends. |
| 373 | -->'''Irving:''' I got in the car when your mom stopped for gas! |
| 374 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' had fat geek Lenny Baxter, who after buying every piece of Powerpuff Girls merchandise decided to kidnap the girls ''themselves'' and seal them inside action figure packages! Dick Hardly was even ''worse'' as he was so obsessed with them that he created [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct knock off clones of them for profit.]] |
| 375 | * Katrina Rad in ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'' episode "Magic Clock". She follows the group around everywhere so she can write a blog entry about them, but she's ''really'' [[{{Yandere}} crazy]] about Roba. |
| 376 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a sketch in which "Hannah Montana" gives an autograph to a crazed fan who then shoots her dead. |
| 377 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 378 | ** Melody Juniper in the episode "Flaming Moe". |
| 379 | --->'''Melody:''' ''[to Bart]'' I can't believe I'm playing video games with Bart Simpson. I sketched you so many times in my dream journal. |
| 380 | ** There's also Julia, a fan of Homer's in the episode where he [[ItMakesSenseInContext becomes an opera singer]]. She [[WoundedGazelleGambit threatens to tell the police that Homer attacked her]] [[StalkerWithACrush unless he sleeps with her]], then when Homer point-blank rejects her, [[IfICantHaveYou she turns flat-out]] {{Yandere}}. |
| 381 | ** Although not used often, it's a RunningGag that Patty and Selma are this for ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}''. Some of the more prominent examples include: |
| 382 | *** Beating up [[WesternAnimation/TheCritic Jay Sherman]], stripping him down to his underpants and [[{{Wedgie}} hanging him by said underpants from the gutter of the roof]] for claiming that Richard Dean Anderson is gay. |
| 383 | *** Selma, who at the time was passionately in love with Sideshow Bob, almost declaring the wedding is off because he hates Macgyver. |
| 384 | *** Upon meeting Richard Dean Anderson in "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bangalore", they harass him incessantly, talking about how much they loved Macgyver but hated ''Series/StargateSG1'' until he snaps and confesses that he ''hated'' working on Macgyver and only did it for the money. They respond by kidnapping him and tying him to a chair, though this ends up a case of GoneHorriblyRight for them. |
| 385 | ** In the "Treehouse Of Horror X" segment "Desperately Xeeking Xena", Comic Book Guy is shown as a hammy supervillain named "The Collector" who kidnaps Creator/LucyLawless along with other pop culture icons before Bart and Lisa intervene. |
| 386 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 387 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' has Sonette, who, along with changing her name, has snuck into Sonic's room while he was sleeping and stolen merchandise from him. She also is frequently seen with a piece of Sonic's chewed gum in her mouth.[[note]]Sonic had earlier claimed that he doesn't chew gum, which leads to speculation on whose gum that really is.[[/note]] |
| 388 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': Mark from "The Biggest Fan" is more than a little obsessed with Sonic and friends, to the point he writes "spicy" [[PortmanteauCoupleName SonAmy]] fan fiction and ''tries to hold an injured Sonic captive'' a la ''Literature/{{Misery}}''. |
| 389 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 390 | ** [=SpongeBob=] is like this toward famous jellyfish hunter Kevin the Sea Cucumber in the episode "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic," repeatedly invading his personal space until Kevin finally gives in to letting [=SpongeBob=] go jellyfish hunting with him and his friends. Kevin turns out to be an egotistical {{Jerkass}} who delights in humiliating [=SpongeBob=], only to have his ass handed to him when [=SpongeBob=] unexpectedly attracts the elusive King Jellyfish. |
| 391 | ** He and his pal Patrick are also this to their superheroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. |
| 392 | --->'''Barnacle Boy:''' Holy sea cow, it's that Sponge-kid!\ |
| 393 | '''Mermaid Man:''' Quick lad, to the invisible boatmobile! Away! |
| 394 | * In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', there's a student at Echo Creek Academy known only as [=StarFan13=] who is, as her name would suggest, a huge fan of Star. She also ships Star with Marco and writes fanfiction about the two, and she passes out when [[spoiler:Star admits to Marco that she has a crush on him right before she leaves Earth]]. WordOfGod says that she was initially supposed to have one appearance, but the crew liked her so much that she was made a recurring character. |
| 395 | * Rosie from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' was this to the titular character in the episode "Thomas And The Birthday Mail". She tries blowing off steam and whistles the way Thomas does, which didn't sit well with him. |
| 396 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Sierra, especially when it comes to Cody. She claims she knows everything about the cast, "Your hopes, your fears, '''your dental records!'''" It's apparently hereditary, as Sierra mentions several times that her mother is similarly obsessed with Chris. According to her, her mom's even made their guest room into a Chris museum. |
| 397 | * While most Decepticons are out for power, love fighting, or are just plain psycho or sadistic, Lugnut in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' follows Megatron because he completely idealizes him. His constant praise annoys even Megatron, who in one memorable scene actually gets a robot version of a TwitchyEye because Lugnut won't stop talking about how glorious he is instead of actually going outside and doing his job. |
| 398 | * ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' takes a spin on it: Glen emulates Dr. Two-Brains, completely fulfilling the trope in that he eventually tries to replace him... except that Two-Brains happens to be a villain himself. |
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