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A variation is where it's imaginary to us but not in the context of the world, such as a mecha fan, in a world full of mecha, getting to pilot one.

 

 

As a side effect, they're usually [[Genre Savvy]], sometimes to the point of excess. Of course you know, he could be [[Wrong Genre Savvy|wrong]].

 

Compare [[Promoted Fanboy]], [[The Knights Who Say Squee]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Gun-otaku Kohta Hirano from ''[[High School of the Dead (Manga)|High School of the Dead]]''. Slightly subverted as he'd actually very good at handling weapons he gushes over, he just didn't expect to need these skills in real life in order to fight zombies. Is often told that some of the things he claims (like being trained by Blackwater USA during a trip to America) make him sound like a manga character.

** One part of Blackwater's business is firearms and tactical training. All you have to do is pay a few thousand dollars and they'll teach anyone how to shoot military weapons like a professional. Many Japanese gun enthusiasts go on overseas trips just to go shoot guns, especially in Guam.

* The professor from the one-man-band short film ''Negadon: Monster of Mars'' (See it, if just for the CGI alone.) After accidentally killing his daughter during a test run, he squirrels away the giant robot Miroku after the army is embarrassed by the disaster and cancels the project. Though he doesn't want to ever use the robot again because of the terrible memories, it has been kept in prime working condition, and certainly a few of its abilities couldn't have been thought up(or approved) by stuffy PR-hound regulation-happy army generals so he most likely continued work on it on his own free time. When normal military hardware proves ineffective against Negadon, he brings out the mothballed mecha. Also he looks disturbingly similar to Otakon, only 30 years older.

* {{spoiler|Mikami Teru}} of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' is a particularly disturbing example of this, being a lawyer who is overjoyed to be chosen by his "god" to ''[[Hanging Judge|kill]]'' [[Hanging Judge|those people he judges]] [[Justice Will Prevail|to be unjust]]. "SAKUJO!", indeed.

** The first Professor Zoom is retconned as one of these [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]. Eobard Thawne was a fan of Barry Allen from the future who found ways to replicate his powers, costume, and appearance all with the intention of coming back to the past to run alongside Barry. It only goes wrong when he arrives after Barry's death when Wally has already taken over the role. Addled from time travel and the discovery that he will one day become Professor Zoom, he briefly deludes himself into thinking he is Barry and fools everyone else in the process.

* ''[[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]]''

** ''[[Superman Secret Identity (Comic Book)|Superman Secret Identity]]'' is based on much the same premise, but goes in a very different direction and plays with [[This Is Reality]] for all it's worth.

* In the ''[[Astro City]]'' story arc "Confessional", the future Altar Boy moves to Astro City with the intention of becoming a sidekick, working in a superhero bar and a private club for heroes as part of his goal. It eventually works for him.

She looked into his eyes and saw truth, and her mouth dropped open in awe and trembled just a little in fear. It is one thing to dream of dragons, and quite another to know with cold certainty that someday you will be touching one. More than that; flying high above the ground on a dragon's scaly back, with empty air as high as castles beneath you, and a twisted death below should you fall. }}

* ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' features an [[Ascended Fanboy]] of {{spoiler|''[[Raising Sim|God games]]''}}. That is, of course, {{spoiler|The Elimist}}.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''

** Subverted in the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Escape Velocity''; the fanboy ''dies'', and his long-suffering girlfriend, who finds all that sci-fi stuff silly and prefers [[Jane Austen]], starts traveling in the TARDIS against her will.

** Fitz is more of a straight example -- he's more into fantasy and spy fiction than sci-fi, but it seems he won't turn his nose up at any fiction more interesting than regular existence. He's also very [[Genre Savvy]], especially in his first appearance, where he's all but a [[Fourth Wall Observer]] (he comments on which act it would be if the story were a play). Fittingly, he [[Man Child|harasses]] the poor long-suffering woman previously mentioned by [[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|repeatedly tapping his heels together and saying, "There's no place like home!"]] It's still not quite a straight example, though, as it turns out [[Cowardly Lion|he's pretty damn scared of the kind of stuff he likes reading about in real life.]]

* In ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' there is Colin Creevey who, Ron says, is likely to create a "Harry Potter fan club". For most of the story, he's not involved in anything other than the D.A. lessons. In book 7, however, he fights in the Battle of Hogwarts despite being underage, {{spoiler|and dies}}.

* [[Fredric Brown]]'s story "What Mad Universe" is about a fiction writer who reads a letter from fan. Then, a strange explosion occurs in front of him... And he is transported to an [[Alternate Universe]] where said fan is literally the [[Mary Sue]].

* ''[[Wild Cards]]'' character Kid Dinosaur was a fan of "Aces" and nuts about dinosaurs. Then he caught the Wild Card Virus, the manifestation of which is often [[Personality Powers|influenced by the subconscious]] of its victim. You can guess from his name what happened next.

* Quentyn of ''[[Tales of the Questor (Webcomic)|Tales of the Questor]]'' started out as a fan of the wonder-tales about the legendary Questors, before becoming a Questor himself. He even at one point uses his fan knowledge to find a way to defeat a plague of wights.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' has Dex, the most unkempt regular of Justin's comic shop. Upon [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-05-27 waking up] at the place he can't remember visiting and in a rather strange company he's in a "familiar" environment:

* Walter from ''[[Dubious Company (Webcomic)|Dubious Company]]'' is an ascended pirate. As a kid, he would read pirate comics during class. As an adult, he got a degree in [[Magitek]] engineering, built his own [[Cool Airship]], and became a pirate. He has [[Didn't Think This Through|increasing]] [[Attack Attack Retreat Retreat|degrees]] of [[Dark Horse Victory|success]] before the main plot built up.

* ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' has a [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=408 sad and simple creature] -- penguin Pip, [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=60 comic]- and [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=292 movie]- obsessed geek. Who has to become "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=293 PIP DANGEROUS!]". Later a bunch of [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=700 Flying Martian Trashcans] wrecks his house. While the resident [[Mad Scientist]] team followed them to orbit, he [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=712 discovers] {{spoiler|a stash of [[Space Fighter|space fighters]]}} in the basement ([[Hive Mind|Think Tank]] tend to weaponize things if left unattended) and a crowd of bored [[Adorable Evil Minions|Denizens]] around him, so... "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=719 Kick ass, boys!]"

* Static and Gear in ''[[Static Shock (Animation)|Static Shock]]'' are this; they are comic book geeks and get really excited when they finally meet the Justice League and get to visit the JL tower. They never really planned on becoming superheroes themselves until Static got his powers. Gear gives him the idea of becoming a superhero, and it's pretty much all for fun for the two of them until the Special Episodes. Gear wishes he had powers after a while, then figures out two seasons later that he had had them all this time, they just weren't as flashy as Static's. He immediately joins Static in fighting crime.

* As mentioned on the [[Loony Fan]] page, Sierra of ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' is one of these.

{{quote| '''Simon Trent:''' ''(amazed)'' So... it ''wasn't'' all for nothing.}}

* [[The Joker]] [[Didn't See That Coming|himself]] is guilty of this in ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''. To be fair, it ''was'' the father of modern, gimmicked supervillainy, so he ''had'' a good reason to [[Squee]].

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