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[[caption-width:352:"I don't care if he's a billboard. He's still hot, dammit!"]]

--> '''Yugi's Grandpa:''' ''Oh Black Luster Soldier. No one must ever know of our forbidden love...''
---->-YugiohTheAbridgedSeries

--> "My first love was an anime character!"
---->-Francis's security system quiz answer, ''Super PaperMario''

--> "Actually, you wouldn't believe how many people come up to me and say 'This is my fantasy: to be in bed with [[TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]] and have her say ''[[{{Squick}} "Oh more, more!"]]'' What is the matter with you people? This is sick!"
---->-Yeardley Smith

The [[SophisticatedAsHell technical]] term for a real person's attraction to a fictional character.

PerverseSexualLust originated in a reader poll during the early days of the {{webcomic}} ''[[http://www.itswalky.com It's Walky!]]''. The author wished to know the reason behind the slightly loopy church-girl character Joyce Brown's popularity, and saw this option achieve an overwhelming win. The term is now used invariably in {{Walkyverse}}-affiliated forums and is spreading through other ones.

PSL has very specific usage: one never "has" PSL for the object of affection; one "harbors" PSL.

It's somewhat justifiable in live action, especially if the character is played by a hot person, although it does raise the question of what is actually being fancied (Is a viewer fancying [[CSINewYork Lindsay Monroe]] because of Anna Belknap, the character herself, or a combination of the two?). But it gets into the seriously weird when you're dealing with animated characters. (Or not, as realists accept that their chances of being with, say, George Clooney are about the same as being with Kamina above.) Another justification that we give ourselves is that putting purely fictional characters into ''ahem'' situations has less creepy spillover to any real life people. Let's face it, a lot of {{Shipping}} would actually be ''wrong'' if we applied the same standards to RealLife. And, of course, many animated characters are ''[[FanService intended]]'' [[MsFanservice to be attractive]] [[EstrogenBrigadeBait to the viewer]] (particularly in anime, but to some extent in Western animation as well), in which case it could be argued that PSL is the response the character designers intended in the first place.

A SisterTrope to FetishFuel.

Got a thing for a fictional character that you really want to let [[strike:the world]] TV Tropes know about? Take it to [[TroperTales/PerverseSexualLust Troper Tales]]! (Be aware, this is '''very much TruthInTelevision. You have been warned.''')
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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* In ''{{Genshiken}}'', the {{Otaku}} Madarame referred to this as "2-D Complex" during an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUOvHYv3ME epic rant]] where he defended this to Saki, the DungeonmastersGirlfriend of the series. Frighteningly, he pointed out occurrences of this trope throughout ''history''.
* The first season of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' made a few jokes about "card crushes", unreasonable attraction to Duel Monsters cards. One episode had Daichi snickering over the concept... until realizing ''he'' felt that way about White Magician Pikeru (which is technically {{Lolicon}} on top of harboring). He then went a little berserk.
** Inverted by Season 3, the entire plot of which involves a Duel Monsters card (Yubel) in love with his/her former owner (Judai).
** And of course there's Yugi's Grandpa in the Abridged series, as mentioned above. It's also implied that Yugi has a thing for the Dark Magician Girl (Like grandfather like grandson?) and that's not even getting into the fact that it's suggested Kaiba likes those Blue Eyes Dragons a little TOO much. If you know what I mean.
** In the episode ''Duel Monsters Spirit Day'', all the attendees fall for what they think is a Dark Magician Girl cosplayer, but is in fact the "real" article. In all honesty, given [[{{HelloNurse}} her obvious charms]], is Sho/Cyrus' PSL all ''that'' unreasonable?
*** Not really, since the spirit seems to harbor something similar for him too. This Troper is jealous.
** It gets worse. Way worse. Supposed mathematician/genius dueler Misawa had card crushes on Thunder Nyan Nyan and Dian Keto the Cure Master. Thunder Nyan Nyan is understandable, I guess, being a {{Catgirl}} and all but [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dian_Keto_the_Cure_Master Dian K... OH MY GOD MY EYES]]
*** Those two cards were actually card crushes for Sho/Syrus and Hayato/Chumley, respectively. And the concept of the card crush appeared in the episode where Misawa was [[strike:raped]] ''forced to duel with'' Amazoness Taniya...after which, he just started falling in love with any cute lady Duel Monster he saw. In fact, possibly as LampshadeHanging of this episode, one of his decks in the ''Tag Force'' game series is built around Pikeru and its counterpart Ebon Magician Curran.
*** To be fair to Dian Keto, the card [[{{Bowdlerization}} had its art changed for the English release]]. Before, she was (to quote [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Trivia:Dian_Keto_the_Cure_Master this article]]) 'a green-haired, half-naked, plus-sized woman in a blue dress holding an Ankh', and actually didn't look that bad for her weight. Then they {{Macekre}}d it into the ambiguous-gender nightmare we now know and swap out for 'Poison of the Old Man'.
*** Take it with a grain of salt, but comparing the [[http://nereid.ocnk.net/product/1385 original]] to the [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Card_Trivia:Dian_Keto_the_Cure_Master American version]], I'd say it makes more sense, but still rates high up there in NightmareFuel.
* In ''AxisPowersHetalia'', Kiku Honda, the personification of Japan, says that he prefers 2D. He says that that your body will be clean, even though your heart will be soiled.
* This is just about the entire point of the Japanese magazine ''Megami'', which features clean (if [[{{Fanservice}} suggestive]]) official artwork and posters of the hot [[{{Anime}} anime du jour's]] [[{{Bishoujo}} female cast]]. A high percentage of ShipTease debuts here, especially where [[LesYay same sex couples]] are implied.
* When Renge first appears in OuranHighSchoolHostClub, it's because she's got a ''bad'' case of PSL for a character in her DatingSim games that looks exactly like Kyouya.
* ''FushigiYuugi'''s [[OfficialCouple supercouple]] counts; Miaka is a real person, Tamahome a character in a book.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* Let's combine this, [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]], HoYay, and FurryFandom all in one neat little package: In ''Wayne's World'', Wayne and Garth are chilling out on the hood of the Mirthmobile, when:
-->"Were you ever attracted to Bugs Bunny when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?"
-->"... No... HAHAHAHAHAHA... No."
-->"[[LikeAWeasel Oh... me neither.]]"
* This trope is the impetus for the plot of CoolWorld.
* Even the human characters in WhoFramedRogerRabbit display this for the infamous Jessica Rabbit.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* The ''RedDwarf'' discussion between Lister and the Cat on whether [[TheFlintstones Betty Rubble or Wilma Flintstone]] is more attractive. Even Lister admits it's "an insane conversation".
--> '''Lister''': Of course... she'll never leave Fred and we know it.
--> '''Cat''': I'd ''go'' with Betty, but I'd be thinking of Wilma.
* Inverted in ''TheColbertReport'', where for a long time there was a RunningGag of (fictional) Stephen Colbert having PerverseSexualLust for the very real CNN anchorwoman Soledad O'Brien.
** Completely justified since Soledad is ''fine''.
** Also, [[http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/182583/january-25-2007/right-away- this]].
** ''Working Daze'' actually had Rita - the {{Pointy Haired Boss}} of the strip harboring a giant crush on Stephen Colbert's on-screen persona (and had temporarily displaced Bill Gates). A few characters actually lampshaded this.
** Colbert can also be seen to be harbouring Perverse Sexual Lust for Sweetness, his handgun. The mind boggles.
** And Jon Stewart's on-screen persona, which is very close to his real persona, has a thing for Colbert. Judging from his signature lustful-tongue-groping gesture anyways....plus, he acts like Stephen's battered wife whenever they're together.
* Writers on TheShield acknowledged the vocal fandom that sprung up around supporting cast member Detective Ronnie Gardocki, by having one of his fellow detectives (Steve Billings) be obsessed with having a friendship with him, leading to other characters outright claiming that Billings had a "mancrush" on his coworker.

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[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]

* Norwegian comic-strip [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_(comic_strip) Nemi]] has the main character harbouring PSL for not only Batman but also the Phantom Blot (yes, the Mickey Mouse antagonist). And Legolas, so very much.
** This is the same Nemi (the Goth Girl) that appears in the UK free paper ''Metro''- she too appears in hentai form.
*** Although, I hope she doesn't appear in hentai form ''in the Metro''.
*** I wish. Dear Lord, how I wish.
**** [[IncrediblyLamePun Metro-sexual]]?

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Travis Touchdown, the protagonist (though we use the word loosely) of ''NoMoreHeroes'' has the hots for the {{Lolicon}} main character of the ShowWithinAShow ''Pure White Glastonbury''. At one point near the beginning of the game, he presses himself up against a poster for the show and exclaims "MOE~!"
** [[http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3739/47f923eb2b9946d05f0bd38.jpg Logical conclusion?]]
*** Wait, does that mean that Konata has PSL for Travis? Is that possible? Is that an inversion, a subversion, ''what''?

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

* [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Chick]] doesn't make it even ten seconds into her ''{{Labyrinth}}'' review before making it incredibly obvious that she wants Jareth's junk.
**I think it would be more noteworthy to point out girls who don't.
*** [[MacPhisto Or boys]].
** The Nostalgia Critic made an [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/nostalgia-critic/34-nostalgia-critic/910-top-11-hottest-animated-women entire video]] dedicated to PSL for animated characters. He ends it with "If you were aroused by this, get help! They're not real!"
*** [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] falls into a daydream (complete with funk music) at the mention of [[{{Batman}} Harley Quinn]].

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]

* ''[[http://www.shortpacked.com Shortpacked!]]'', a spinoff of ''It's Walky!'' that regularly subverts itself, uses the name and inverts the trope when Robin, a fictional character, starts harboring PerverseSexualLust for Greg Killmaster, a real-life special effects technician for Industrial Light & Magic, because of his awesome name.
** A (more) fiction version is harbored by Amber for [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Donatello]].
* Seen and [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in [[http://loserzcomic.comicgenesis.com/d/20010822.html this strip]] from "Loserz".
* Fellow Keenspot (at the time) comic ''CollegeRoomiesFromHell'' referenced the acronym (though not the trope itself, as it's about one fictional character's lust for another) but instead claimed it stood for "Pouring Saliva, Largely".
* ''{{Candi}}'' REALLY has a thing for [[http://www.candicomics.com/d/20041015.html anime]] [[http://www.candicomics.com/d/20041018.html characters]], especially [[http://www.candicomics.com/d/20040929.html Ranma.]]
* It is widely felt that Junko's attraction to [[MetalGearSolid old man snake]] in ''{{Megatokyo}}'' is meant to indicate that she really does prefer older men even when money isn't involved. It still freaks her teacher out.
* Shakespeare in ''IrregularWebcomic'' has a bad case of this for [[HarryPotter Hermione Granger]].

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