History Main / HeroWorshipper

** His hero worship for Dalinar grows throughout ''Words of Radiance,'' as Dalinar is essentially an embodiment of all the virtues he prizes most--but, being Kaladin, he can't help but believe that Dalinar will fail him as all other lighteyes has, and spends much of the book looking for any reason to mistrust him. [[spoiler: He doesn't find one, of course]].

* Shingo Yabuki in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' series. The parallels between him and Sakura Kasugano (''see below'') (who debuted around the same time) are so strong he might be a DistaffCounterpart.

Often works as a stand-in for the audience, sometimes in the way of a American sidekick - but with a few notable differences.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'':
** Otacon in the first game, but he's very much a deconstruction of this too.
** Meryl was like this initially when she realized who the jerk that insulted her was.
** One of Mei Ling's first lines was her expressing delight at "being hit on by the famous Solid Snake."

* [[LittleMissBadass May Chang]] from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is a huge fangirl of Edward Elric... [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller Until she meets him]].

* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', Jill Mastrano is an admirer to both Rose and Christian, and aspires to be like her "heroes".

* Speedwagon from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' gets redeemed out of a slum by Jonathan Joestar and has been worshipping him since. Since he later becomes a billionaire oil tycoon, he's even more glateful, to the point he devotes the rest of his life (and even after) supporting Jonathan's decendents with all their heroic journeys.

* Speedwagon from ''Manga/JoJosBizaareAdventure'' gets redeemed out of a slum by Jonathan Joestar and has been worshipping him since. Since he later becomes a billionaire oil tycoon, he's even more glateful, to the point he devotes the rest of his life (and even after) supporting Jonathan's decendents with all their heroic journeys.

* Krillin in later chapters of ''Manga/DragonBall''. He's initially TheRival.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' show us that Batman idolizes his childhood hero, a TV superhero called The Gray Ghost. What makes this rather funny is that the Gray Ghost is voiced by ''SelfDemonstrating/AdamWest''.
--> '''Batman''': "The Gray Ghost was my hero...and still is".

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' show us that Batman idolizes his childhood hero, a TV superhero called The Gray Ghost. What makes this rather funny is that the Gray Ghost is voiced by ''SelfDemonstrating/Adam West''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' show us that Batman idolizes his childhood hero, a TV superhero called The Gray Ghost. What makes this rather funny is that the Gray Ghost is voiced by ''Adam West''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' show us that Batman idolizes his childhood hero, a TV superhero called The Gray Ghost. What makes this rather funny is that the Gray Ghost is voiced by Adam West.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'', there was a villain called Jin who claimed to be a Numbers Hunter who worked for Kaito. As it turned out, he had never even met Kaito, and simply idolized him. [[spoiler: When he finally did meet Kaito, he professed his loyalty, but Kaito was not impressed at all, and treated him like any other Numbers Holder.]]

** ''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' has two: Ironfist and Pyro. Ironfist is an AscendedFanboy of the title Wreckers who finds that [[WarIsHell the reality of war]] is very different from reading about it. Pyro, on the other hand, has a borderline creepy obsession with Optimus Prime... he looks like Prime, imitates Prime's motto, references Prime's opinions, fantasizes about dying in a blaze of glory while Optimus watches....

* Star to Steele from ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}''

* Subaru Nakajima from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' towards that title character. With the amount of [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] the series does, one wonders if her fair resemblance to ''Franchise/StreetFighter'''s Sakura was intentional.

* A rare non-comedic literary example occurs in the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen''. Ahlrada Ahn becomes [[DespairEventHorizon so broken by the atrocities]] he's commited while in the company of the Tiste Edur he focuses all the good he still manages to see in the world on Trull Sengar, the only Tiste Edur warrior he ever respected and admired. Ahlrada Ahn comes to basically worship Trull, convinced that the latter is dead and he himself will be soon as well. When they unexpectedly meet again, Ahlrada basically has a mental breakdown in the midst of a battle and becomes utterly focused on getting Trull's attention and begging him for forgiveness. [[KilledOffForReal It does not end well.]]

** And in the seventh book of the series it's revealed that Trull has a whole bunch of hero worshippers, which could get every single one of them executed when it becomes known. Considering the nature of worship in this series, it naturally spirals out of control. Trull Sengar himself is not amused in the least.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'': Many [[MegaCorp Hyperion]] employees revere Handsome Jack as a hero who brought greatness to the company and tried to bring law and order to the DeathWorld of Pandora. This attitude is best seen in ''TalesFromTheBorderlands'' with [[PlayerCharacter Rhys]], who models his appearance after Jack and looks back fondly on the time Jack spat on him, and Vasquez, who brags about Jack punching him in the face whenever he saw him. Of course, seeing as Jack is the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands2}}'', this is somewhat of a subversion - his employees may view him as a hero, but the atrocities he commits throughout the game prove otherwise.