"Ohh, Black Luster Soldier! No-one must ever know of our forbidden love..."
—Solomon Muto, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
"My first love was an anime character!"
—Francis's security system quiz answer, Super Paper Mario
"Remember kids: getting boners over a cartoon character is kind of weird!"
—Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content
"Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon
Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes
That make me think the wrong things."
—Barenaked Ladies, One Week
Nerd #1: You'll never be satisfied with a mortal woman, because the Elf Wenches are so beautiful, you'll spend the rest of your life searching for that same beauty again... Yes.
Nerd #2: Wow... You're an idiot!
—Rocko's Modern Life, "Canned"
"Celty and Shinra are TOTALLY doing it, so I'm afraid that ship has sailed. I totally want you, and as an added bonus, I am NOT A SWORD. Do we have a deal? "
—Karen Leslie's
"brief, but hopefully effective, plea for GARtenderly affection".
"brief, but hopefully effective, plea for GARtenderly affection"."It's alright to jerk off to cartoons"
"The Japanese do it everyday"
"So rub one out for the USA!"
"The USAAAAAAAAAA!"
—The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (The Cat Fight song)
"I want to have his animated children."
—A Tumblr user, on Prince Zuko
"MASHIRO-TAN IS MY WAIFU!"
"I WANT BLAIDD TO BREED ME I WANT HIS PUPPIES PLEASE I WANT THE LEASH I WANT THE COLLAR I'M DROOLING WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK BARK"
— Bao's infamous tweet as written, in which she... obsesses over Blaidd from Elden Ring
"Ugh, why did you have to rub it in how lovely (Asami) is? I mean, she's so pretty. She's sooo pretty and cool. Every time I see her, I get mad."
"Seriously? You make a character that's just that strangely attractive to me and she's my mom? Couldn't she have just been a Gym Leader or something so I wouldn't have felt scummy for it?"
— Chuggaaconroy, Pokémon Black and White, Episode 2
"I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional, but you can't have everything."
—Cecilia, The Purple Rose of Cairo
"My dream is to marry Jotaro-sama, and have a child with him. I think he says to me, 'yare yare daze.' And spits on me. That's my dream."
Lt. Zorin Blitz: Real quick... does anyone want to explain what we just witnessed?note
Vampire Nazi Soldier: Ah, I think that was Sonic the Hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise by Sega.
Blitz: Okay, but... why did it have a foot-long erection?
Vampire Nazi Soldier: The fanbase is... diverse.
Blitz: You mean fucking weird!
Vampire Nazi Soldier: It's a matter of perspective, really.
—Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, episode 7
Mr. Staples, I couldn't do the homework because I have spring fever. I meant to do it. But first, just to clear my mind, I watched an episode of "Riverdale". Before I knew it, I'd written twenty pages of fan fiction about a romantic interlude between myself and Betty Cooper.
"From...the company that created a whole generation of adults with virtual wives."
—Honest Trailers for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (while showing Final Fantasy VII Remake, specifically Aerith, Tifa, and Cloud)
