History Main / GroupieBrigade

* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Very well, then. [[http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/archive.php?date=20101001 Fangirls!]]

* Despite not being a really "famous" person," Yuki Sohma of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is regularly stalked by a vast brigade of obsessive fangirls.

* An early-series ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode has a spell go wrong (as they often do) and Xander is chased by hordes of love-sick fans. Only they want to tear his flesh off, not his clothes.

* The Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} animated ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' did this.

* Music/FrankZappa: Zappa wrote countless songs about groupies and their devotion for rock stars, most notably on the albums ''Music/ChungasRevenge'', ''Music/FillmoreEastJune1971'', ''Film/TwoHundredMotels'' and album one of ''Music/JoesGarage''.
* Creator/AllanSherman's song "Pop Hates The Beatles" (to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel") has a funny take on this.
-->''When the Beatles come on the stage, They scream and shriek and cheer them. Now I know why they're such a rage, It's impossible to hear them.''
* Music/YoshikiHayashi tends to have an almost InstantFanClub variety pop up at any event he attends that is also being attended by Japanese rock fans.

* Music/NeilSedaka's song "Queen of 1964", about an old groupie who used to claim, amongst other things, that she once 'had' Mick Jagger (getting a kick and a black eye from Bianca Jagger for it).

* Music/SystemOfADown's "Psycho" is about this amongst the WordSaladLyrics.

* Music/TheBeatles' song ''She Came In Through the Bathroom Window'' was allegedly inspired by a tale told to the Beatles by Music/TheMoodyBlues' member Ray Thomas. Ray says he was awoken one night by groupies who had apparently climbed three floors up the outside of the hotel wall, to break in to his room through the bathroom window. Who were dissappointed they'd only got the flute player, when they were aiming for Justin Hayward or John Lodge. Ray said his ego was further defalted when the Beatles turned his story into a song, and he didn't get a penny of any royalties for it.

* This applies to wrestlers too, for example in the Glitz Pit in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''.

* Early in Stage 3 of the ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' game, a throng of Clash at Demonhead fans appears as a stage hazard, trampling your character if they stand at the middle part of the screen.

* In ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', Kimiko's fanclub.
* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': Very well, then. [[http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/archive.php?date=20101001 Fangirls!]]

* [[BigManOnCampus Luero]] of ''Webcomic/EarsForElves'' [[http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/689 has one.]] He ''is'' at the second-highest rank in archery.

* In ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', HeroAntagonist Captain Hammer has such a brigade, represented in the show by two {{fangirl}}s and a ''very'' CampGay {{fanboy}} who sing his praises, [[DieForOurShip despise his girlfriend]], [[StalkerWithACrush stalk him]], and openly offer to do "the weird stuff". There's a nasty bit of satire too, in that when Captain Hammer is finally defeated, they switch to worshiping Dr. Horrible.

* Chessie the Autograph Hound was this to ''WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats''.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingArthursDisasters'': Lancelot has his own little group of fangirls following him around in "Mission: Implausible" and "The Yodeling Dolphin of Kirkwall".

* The members of Bad Luck in ''{{Manga/Gravitation}}'' tend to attract these.

* Rukawa's fangirls in ''Manga/SlamDunk''. They follow him to every game, loudly cheering for him and agains his opponents (and Sakuragi). He doesn't seem to know or care.
* In ''Manga/SkipBeat'', Kyoko has to get Ren by a groupie brigade.

* Superdickery.com shows us Comicbook/JimmyOlsen had [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1060%3Amost-nonsensical-cover-ever-yes&Itemid=24#content one]]... [[TimeTravel in the past]].

* Two of them appear in ''ComicBook/BloodRedDragon''. There's the fan club and the shrine maidens.
* In ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitansGo Teen Titans Go! Volume 2]]'', the issue "Starstruck" has Starfire become a massive fan of a teen idol, so Robin attempts to become a teen idol himself in order to impress her. It works too well, as Robin becomes so popular as a teen idol that he's swarmed by a legion of fangirls (including Terra, oddly enough) everywhere he goes, which ruins his effectiveness as a crime fighter. Luckily for him, his FifteenMinutesOfFame quickly expire. Not so luckily, once everyone else moves on to the next teen idol, so does Starfire.

* When an exploratory team from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' visits [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Earth]] in crossover work ''FanFic/TheManyWorldsInterpretation'', this happens to Ponder Stibbons. Talked into dressing up for a cosplay night at Stuart Bloom's Comic Book Store, the nerdy and self-conscious young wizard realises that on Earth, his physical and facial resemblence to an older Creator/DanielRadcliffe combined with being dressed as an imagined Earth [[Literature/HarryPotter Wizard]] draws attention.[[note]]Penny and Bernadette spotted it first. They insist he dresses up ''exactly'' this way, in exactly ''these'' sortta clothes.[[/note]] On Earth, Ponder also speaks with an educated British accent. Much to the discomfort of Ponder's actual girlfriend [[note]]in the fics of Creator/AAPessimal, he ''does'' get a love interest[[/note]]. Ponder is mobbed by an admiring crowd. Who ring their friends to come along. Stuart is ecstatic: there have never been this many chicks in the store before.
-->I'm tellin' you, hon, it's Daniel Radcliffe!

* ''Film/SinginInTheRain''. Poor Don is simply trying to get to a party, yet he must climb onto a streetcar in order to escape his fangirls, [[DoomedNewClothes ruining his clothes]] in the process.
** Creator/GeneKelly sort of reprises this scene in the all-star comedy ''Film/WhatAWayToGo'' as a huge movie star who gets [[CrushParade trampled to death]] by a [[ThunderingHerd stampede of crazed fans]] (complete with rogue elephant sound effects/stock footage!)

* ''Music/TheRutles''. There's a rather surreal sequence at the start of the film, where they hop from limo to limo to escape the hordes of fans. To be fair, there's a similar sequence in ''A Hard Day's Night''.

* At the beginning of ''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'', Austin (a ''photographer'') was being pursued by his Groupie Brigade, in a parody of ''Film/AHardDaysNight''.

* ''Music/{{Abba}}: The Movie''
* The Franchise/{{Disney|AnimatedCanon}} animated ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' did this.

* Joseph in ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'' is treated this way during the musical number "Stone the Crows", to the dismay of both him and the Pharaoh.
* Prince Char in ''Film/EllaEnchanted''. Worse still, the leader of all the Groupie Brigades was essentially a stalker who had spent her spare time spying on him and is convinced she'll marry him eventually.
* Played dramatically in the Creator/JudyGarland remake of ''Film/{{A Star Is Born|1954}}'' where Vicki Lester can't attend ''her husband's funeral'' without being torn at by a groupie mob in attendance.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. While in Berlin to retrieve the Grail diary, Indy gets tangled up in a mob of Nazis who are members of Hitler's fan club.
* ''Film/TheCalamariWrestler'': Calamari gets them, and how! Swarms of women rush him for autographs in restaurants and on the streets of the city.

%%* The Bowenists who follow the botanical artist Mae Bowen in ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch]]''.
* ''Literature/AuntJuliaAndTheScriptWriter'': Tons of women show up in the radio when Lucho Gatica pays a visit. They practically maim him trying to touch him.
* ''Literature/IFunny'': In the beginning of the third book in the series, "I Totally Funniest", Jamie has become so famous in his school for winning multiple comedy competitions that he is now popular with girls, as he is surrounded by screaming fangirls who all want his autograph, to the dismay of his friends. One of Jamie's rivals, Ben the Italian Scallion, has hordes of screaming female groupies as well.
* In ''Literature/ABoyMadeOfBlocks'', Emma mentions that when they were younger, Dan had a fan club of girls following him everywhere. She compares him to Music/JustinTimberlake.

* ''Series/TheMonkees'':
** Although situations like these were more than plentiful in the real life mid-60s era of Monkeemania, rarely is this trope actually seen, because, in their wacky TV show universe, the Monkees are not famous at all... in fact, they're [[StarvingArtist Starving Artists]].
** One notable exception would be the documentary episode "The Monkees On Tour" and, to a much different extent, "The Monkees In Paris".
* Played with in ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', in which the BigBad casts a spell city-wide to cause this to happen, and the conveniently immune Rangers nearly get trampled to death by stampeding fans.

* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is the Creator/SylvesterStallone episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' where Sly's fan club manages to get backstage and wreaks havoc. Kermit refers to them as as Sly's "groupie brigade".

* As does Series/HannahMontana in her show; it's worth noting that they also play with it a bit at times, and one character was even smart enough to use her popularity as a way to escape by loudly yelling that she was there to a lobby-full of people who had just been to her concert.
* In the live-action adaptation of ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}'', the UFO Club is depicted as this for Aoi Mutou.

* In ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' episode "The Redcoats Are Coming," Rob tries to hide a pair of [[CaptainErsatz British rock-and-roll idols]] in his house to keep them from being discovered by the local teenagers. Somehow word gets out, and Rob's house winds up trashed by the groupie brigade.

%%* Parodied, along with most other rock group tropes, in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/SoulMusic''.

* In ''Manga/AyashiNoCeres'' (manga version only), the main character, Aya, goes to see the band [=GeSANG=] (which consists of two AmbiguouslyGay {{Bishounen}} [[spoiler:... one of whom is really a SweetPollyOliver]]) and is literally trampled by a horde of crazed fangirls.

* Parodied, along with most other rock group tropes, in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/SoulMusic''.

* The Bowenists who follow the botanical artist Mae Bowen in ''[[Literature/AuntDimity Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch]]''.

* ''Series/TheMonkees''
** Although situations like these were more than plentiful in the real life mid-60’s era of Monkeemania, rarely is this trope actually seen, because, in their wacky TV show universe, the Monkees are not famous at all... in fact, they're [[StarvingArtist Starving Artists]].
** One notable exception would be the documentary episode “The Monkees On Tour” and, to a much different extent, “The Monkees In Paris.”

* ''Theatre/ByeByeBirdie'' has the Conrad Birdie Fan Clubs, who can always be counted on to [[IncessantChorus sing extra choruses of "We Love You, Conrad"]] and cultivate the Conrad Birdie Scream. The character was inspired by Music/ElvisPresley, who had similar experiences.

* ''Literature/IFunny'': In the beginning of the third book in the series, "I Totally Funniest", Jamie has become so famous in his school for winning multiple comedy competitions that he is now popular with girls, as he is surrounded by screaming fangirls who all want his autograph, to the dismay of his friends. One of Jamie's rivals, Ben the Italian Scallion, has hordes of screaming female groupies as well.

* ''Film/SinginInTheRain''. Poor Don is simply trying to get to a party, yet he must climb onto a streetcar in order to escape his fangirls, [[DoomedNewClothes ruining his clothes]] in the process. Creator/GeneKelly sort of reprises this scene in the all-star comedy ''Film/WhatAWayToGo'' as a huge movie star who gets [[CrushParade trampled to death]] by a stampede of crazed fans (with rogue elephant sound effects!)

* In ''Film/WhatAWayToGo'', one of these turns into a ThunderingHerd and tramples Creator/GeneKelly's character to death.

* Played dramatically in the Creator/JudyGarland remake of ''Film/AStarIsBorn'' where Vicki Lester can't attend ''her husband's funeral'' without being torn at by a groupie mob in attendance.

Compare InstantFanClub. May overlap with OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople. Can become an [[TorchesAndPitchforks Angry Mob]] if someone expresses disdain for the focus of the group's adoration. See also: CelebCrush which can result in Groupie Brigades. See also {{Paparazzi}}. For groupies as characters, see {{Groupie}}.

Compare InstantFanClub. May overlap with OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople. Can become an [[TorchesAndPitchforks Angry Mob]] if someone expresses disdain for the focus of the group's adoration. See also: CelebCrush which can result in Groupie Brigades. See also {{Paparazzi}}.

* Played dramatically in the Creator/JudyGarland remake of ''Film/AStarIsBorn'' where the movie star main character can't attend her ''dead husband's funeral'' without being torn at by a groupie mob in attendance.

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---> "Well, let's get rid of Sakuraba at least, using a simple missile."

--> ''Life's like that, isn't it? Only the other day I was walking down the West End and suddenly I was set upon by hordes of fans and admirers who wanted to...touch my clothes. So I took sanctuary in a nearby cinema, normally, of course, I wouldn't go in, but that day I saw something that really moved me. I'd like to share this wonderful experience with you, it was... the Sound of Music''.

-->'''Chet:''' ''But your [[ShoutOut money for nothing and your chicks for free]]?''
-->'''Mark:''' ''Well... them groupie girls ain't what they're cracked up to be. ...Not all of them, anyway!''

* In ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitansGo Teen Titans Go! Volume 2]]'', one issue has Starfire become a massive fan of a teen idol, so Robin attempts to become a Teen Idol himself in order to impress her. It works too well, as Robin becomes so popular as a teen idol that he's swarmed by a legion of fangirls (including Terra, oddly enough) everywhere he goes, which ruins his effectiveness as a crime fighter. Luckily for him, his FifteenMinutesOfFame quickly expire. Not so luckily, once everyone else moves on to the next Teen Idol, so does Starfire.

* Happens in ''Film/ThatThingYouDo''.

* [[BigManOnCampus Luero]] of ''Webcomic/EarsForElves'' [[http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/689 has one]]. He ''is'' at the second-highest rank in archery.