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* In ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'', [[The Ojou|Mint]] [[Fan Girl|fangirls]] over [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Zakuro]].
* Judai of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' started {{spoiler|fanboying over Yugi when they met in the final episodes of ''GX''. At that point he'd just beaten the embodiment of darkness and was one of the strongest forces in the universe, probably.}} Of course, in terms of the card game, {{spoiler|Yugi}} is still a freaking ''legend''.
** Not just Judai, of course. {{spoiler|In a first season episode, when Yugi's deck is put on display in a museum, Judai and Sho go out to get a look at it early, and run into Misawa, who wanted to do the same thing. In the second part, Kaiser, Asuka, and a ''lot'' of other students show up, having had the same idea.}}
* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]''
** Excel and Hyatt squee before agent Key, much to Il Palazzo's displeasure.
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* Soifon from ''[[Bleach]]'' towards [[Les Yay|Yoruichi]], when the [[Broken Pedestal]] deal is resolved. "Oooooh, Yoruichi-sama!"
* Subaru over her idol, the title character of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''.
* ''[[One Piece]]:'' [[Dojikko|Major Sergeant Tashigi]] is pretty much fangirling on the inside over Zoro [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110151207/http://read.mangashare.com/One-Piece/chapter-097/page018.html on this page]. There's kind of a double-subversion going on, though. She immediately presumed he was a bad person upon finding out he was a pirate, but doesn't realize that Zoro is still a good guy, and is still all what she was squeeing over earlier and far, far more. To clarify a couple of key points: First, she thought Zoro was a bad guy even before finding out he was a pirate ([[Idiot Ball|because bounty hunters clearly are only slightly less reprehensible than pirates]]). Second, at that point in the story, ''she didn't know that the guy buying swords was Zoro''. Yeah...
** Also, the entire Straw Hat crew is shocked and excited when they find out the coating mechanic they hired is none other than [[Retired Badass|"Dark King" Silvers Raylegh]] the First Mate of Gol. D Roger himself. Robin most of all, as she has spent her whole life studying the Void Century, something Roger (and it seems, Raylegh) knew quite a bit about.
* Subverted in ''[[Death Note]]''. When Misa meets L, (giving Light the chance to get L's real name) at first he just stares at her thoughtfully and then, when he recognizes her, starts acting all fanboy-ish over the idol, drawing the attention of everyone around. It turns out that {{spoiler|he was suspicious of Misa beforehand and everything [[Batman Gambit|was part of a plan]] to steal her cellphone, thwarting Light's attempts to get his name and at the same time raising his suspicions about Light}}.
* In very early ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the very first Sailor to appear is "[[Codename: Sailor V|Sailor V]]". Usagi often acts as a V fangirl, even after becoming Sailor Moon. (In several episodes she's shown at an arcade playing the ''Sailor V'' video game!) Eventually V is revealed to be Sailor Venus, who joins the other Sailors, prompting a few star-struck moments before things settle down.
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* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', Wild Tiger/Kotetsu T. Kaburagi is a rather vocal fan of Sternbild's first superhero, Mr. Legend. Ends up on a Broken Pedestal when Kotetsu is told that {{spoiler|once Legend's powers began to fade, the 'crimes' he foiled were actually set up by the TV show. One wonders what his reaction would be if he found out how ''bad'' Legend [[Alcoholic Parent|really]] [[Abusive Parents|got]].}}
* A villainous variant occurs in ''[[Fate/Zero]]''; Uryuu, the demented serial killer, accidentally summons Caster, and soon goes into total fanboy mode when he discovers that Caster is even more [[Complete Monster|enamored with disturbing violence]] than he is, and has various superpowers to assist in his creatively horrific mutilations.
== Comic Books ==
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{{quote|'''Spidey:''' Plus it's, like, you're standing there and I'm nerding out on the inside. [...] Permission to freak out openly...?}}
* And there's also another [[Captain America (comics)]] and Spider-Man Team Up, where it is very easy to believe that Spidey is not just squeeing at Cap, but crushing.
* Spidey also regarded [[Batman]] like this (in a more dignified way) in the first Batman/Spider-Man inter-company crossover, calling him "a legend"; in fact, when Batman told him to leave Gotham and let him handle Joker and Carnage himself, Spidey was seriously considering doing so, only deciding to stay when Batman changed his mind.
* Spidey has got this treatment himself a few times. Mattie Franklin (one of the [[Spider-Woman|Spider-Women]]) was a total Spidey fangirl.
* ''[[Superman]]''
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* Victor Mancha of ''[[Runaways]]'' got really excited about meeting the X-Men. Strangely, he was much calmer about meeting Spider-Man, who he cited as his favorite superhero in his very first appearance.
* ''[[Batman]]''
** Batman himself calls ''[[The Shadow]]'' his greatest influence when they meet in ''Batman #253''. He also seemed rather excited to see [[Sherlock Holmes]] (from ''Detective Comics #572''), another large influence.
** Tim Drake (the third Robin) was more-or-less an ascended [[Batman]] fanboy. An amateur detective, he deduced the secret identities of Batman and the first Robin, Dick Grayson. Following Jason Todd (the second Robin)'s death, he forced Batman into making him Robin, believing that Batman needed a sidekick to keep him stable. A later issue of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' showed that Tim was also a huge fan of (the second) [[Blue Beetle]].
** Similarly, Dick Grayson, the first Robin, first Nightwing, and second Batman, has been shown, both in and outside of current canon, to be a huge Superman fanboy, more outwardly so when he was still Robin.
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== Fan Works ==
* [[Fanfic]] example: In M. McGregor's ''[
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Koizumi acts like this towards the writer of ''[[Show Within a Show|Brave Detective Sasha]]'' novel series, [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Ryuugu Rena]]. Rena herself has [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|her typical reaction]] over Yuki cosplaying as Sasha.
* In ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', Medley acts like this toward [[The Heroine|Rainbow Dash]]. In a mild manner, but nonetheless.
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* Many, ''many'' characters behave this way toward Gilderoy Lockhart in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] and the Chamber of Secrets'', to the point where Harry—the actual hero of the series—gets forced to spend a detention helping the man answer his fan mail. Lockhart's general incompetence, though, implies that he doesn't deserve his fame; he eventually reveals that {{spoiler|he made a career out of finding people who did impressive things, [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|wiping their memories]], and claiming he did those things himself. Right afterward, in a fit of irony, Lockhart [[Hoist by His Own Petard|blanks his own memory while trying to blank Ron and Harry's memories]]}}. Bizarrely, Ron and Harry never seem to mention his secret to anyone, so Lockhart's fame is mostly intact....
* In [[Honor Harrington]] the hero of the Royal Manticoran Navy is Saginami. The Grayson's hero is naturally the founder of their religion whose opinions affect them even in baseball rules(such as a deep prejudice against allowing designated hitters). Honor Harrington herself naturally admires numerous naval heroes.
* In ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', we see Dante completely forgetting the fact that he's somehow ended up in Hell because ohmygosh, ''[[Virgil| it's Virgil!]]'' A few stanzas later, he has a similar reaction to seeing his other heroes, [[Homer]], [[Ovid]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace Horace], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan| Lucan.] These writers readily accept Dante as one of their own - there is a reason many view the overall poem as a "biblical fanfiction" that is also a [[Self-Insert Fic]]. Later, in Purgatorio, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statius Statius] is also excited to meet Virgil.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* [http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/01-daddy-issues/simontrent/ Batman meeting the Grey Ghost] in ''[[Shortpacked]]''.
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-81/ Max to Captain Victory].
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has a rather amusing scene with [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20180314 Gilgamesh Wulfenbach and Trelawney Thorpe].
== Web Original ==
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* Early in ''[[Gargoyles]]'', Lexington is excited to meet [[Show Within a Show|The Pack]]... [[Fan Disillusionment|until they try to kill him]].
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Rainbow Dash is a very skilled flier, winner of many awards, and bearer of the Element of Loyalty, but she's still a total [[Fan Girl]] of the Wonderbolts and hopes to join them someday
* In the ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' cartoon, Lydia is a big fan of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and [[William Shakespeare]], and is thrilled to meet both (in separate episodes) in the Netherworld. Unfortunately, both have really bad writers’ block, and she has to help them regain their spark. Also, her favorite Netherworld director Hack Torso and her “absolute most-favorite” horror movie star, Wormy Squirmer. (“Movie stars get all the good names,” grumbles Beetlejuice.) Much like the two authors, Wormy is in something of a career slump until Lydia helps him get his confidence back.
* ''[[Wakfu]]''
** Sadlygrove Percedal greatly idolizes his mentor Goultard. Though ironically back when the two met, Sadlygrove was the only person not to know Goultard in a town populated by fanatic fans of the legendary warrior.
** Amalia Sheran Sharm, despite being herself an heroine and a princess, can easily turn into a complete [[Fan Girl]] around renowned people, like the Justice Knight or the Masked Gobbowler.
* ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]''; the heroine worships pop princess Clara Nightingale the way most any teenager would, but squees even harder when she finds out Clara is herself [[Loves My Alter Ego| a Ladybug admirer.]]
== Real Life ==
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