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▲[[File:Squee_9525.png|link=Shortpacked (Webcomic)|right|Even the [[Memetic Mutation|Goddamn]] [[Batman]] can be a [[Fan Boy]].]]
{{quote|'''Negi:''' You certainly seem very happy, Tosaka-san. I've never seen you like this before.
'''Tosaka:''' ''(holding an autographed picture of [[Self-Made Man|Jack Rakan]])'' Damn right I am! What are you, stupid? To gladiators like me, he is a freakin' god, you know?! Like a goddamn deity walking the earth!|''[[
▲{{quote|'''Negi:''' You certainly seem very happy, Tosaka-san. I've never seen you like this before.<br />
▲'''Tosaka:''' ''(holding an autographed picture of [[Self-Made Man|Jack Rakan]])'' Damn right I am! What are you, stupid? To gladiators like me, he is a freakin' god, you know?! Like a goddamn deity walking the earth!|''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', ch. 256}}
Maybe you think that answering [[The Call]] and becoming a hero may put our dear protagonists in a more elevated and level-headed position, and that they should not feel the need to admire anyone. Now they have the [[Magic and Powers|power]] and the [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?|nice toys]] and even some [[Instant Fanclub|fans]] of their own.
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So, why we should be surprised that they still [[Squee]] over their idols? Given the circumstances, we should not be surprised whenever a [[Superhero]], [[Magical Girl]], [[Teen Superspy]], etc. starts acting like a [[Fan Boy]]/[[Fan Girl]] over something or someone.
Often, this is followed by [[Fan Disillusionment]] when the Hero discovers the [[Squee]] object is actually either [[Nice to
Another common plot is for the best current hero to squee and be all "I'm Your Biggest Fan!" over a childhood idol, perhaps telling him that he was the inspiration that got him where he is. The hero's fans are often quite embarrassed by the way they treated what they assumed was an insignificant elderly person.
Compare [[Audience Surrogate]], [[Fan of Underdog]], [[Like a God
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{{examples}}
== Anime & Manga ==
* The girls of ''[[
* Rena of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* In the ''[[
* In ''[[
* Judai of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (
** 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 (
** Excel and Hyatt squee before agent Key, much to Il Palazzo's displeasure.
** And of course there's Excel's (and later Elgala's) obsession with Il Palazzo, which goes well beyond platonic admiration. Hyatt on the other hand is too busy either dying or drugging herself up to squee over anyone.
* Soifon from ''[[
* Subaru over her idol, the title character of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* In very early ''[[
* Negi of ''[[
* Mink of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Mirage (the upgraded form of Tidal Wave) squees over Galvatron, to the point of cheerleading with a pink heart visible on screen with him. This is the English dub; in the Japanese original, it was a running gag of him being outright Gay for Galvatron (with lines along the lines of "nobody loves Galvatron more than I do!"). Given this information, the fact that Tidal Wave was specifically modified to be able to [[Fusion Dance|powerlink]] with Galvatron (a process that involves an intermingling of [[Our Souls Are Different|sparks]]) becomes a bit more worrisome.
** Ironhide began the series fanboying the veterans of ''[[
* In ''[[
* Princess Cornelia from ''[[
* In ''[[
* A villainous variant occurs in ''[[Fate
== Comic Books ==
* [[Captain America (comics)]]
** Cap has been shown, not ''quite'' squeeing, but when, fresh after becoming a [[Super Soldier]], he meets FDR, he seems to fanboy, just a little.
** Captain America gets these himself quite often. If you're a young supe meeting him for the first time, your knees be bucklin'.
** In ''Avengers Classic'' #11, Cap does a [[Sherlock Scan]] of [[Spider-Man]], and they get their first good talk.
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* 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
* ''[[
** Likewise, during a [[Time Travel]] story, the [[Post-Crisis]] Superman once shook FDR's hand, and got quite emotional, if only in his thought balloons.
** In the same story, Superman sees [[Doctor Fate]], Dr. Mid-Nite, [[The Spectre]], and [[The Flash|Jay Garrick]] through a skylight and spends about a page fanboying to himself and wondering if he'll really ruin the timeline that badly if he just pops in for a moment to meet them.
** It's fairly common in DC crossovers for almost every character created after 1980 to have this reaction when they meet Superman.
** The [[Pre Crisis]] [[Lex Luthor]] felt this way about ''[[Albert Einstein]]''. After all, this was [[Mad Scientist]] Lex, and Einstein had been his childhood hero. Luthor would commemorate Einstein's birthday each year by traveling to some pivotal location from Einstein's life for a visit (spending one day working in Einstein's old patent office, for instance). It took Superman years to figure out why Lex was behaving so oddly, until he made the connection, at which point he was genuinely touched. Notably, Lex couldn't bring himself to do anything genuinely wicked on that day, out of respect for his hero. Notably, this story was written by [[Elliot S! Maggin]], who always treated Lex with more tragic sympathy than other writers did; and Einstein is ''Maggin's'' personal hero.
* When the [[Justice League of America]] came down on [[Young Justice (
* In one ''[[Green Arrow]]'' story, Ollie narrates about having to restrain himself from squeeing over
* ''[[Young Avengers]]''
** In ''Dark Reign: Young Avengers'', upon meeting Norman Osborn superperson artist Coat-of-Arms has one of these moments. She (literally) lets out a "Squee!", then proceeds to go into super-fangirl mode, gushing about how she admires Norman's "works" while showing him paintings she did of some of his more infamous moments (including killing Gwen Stacey). This pisses Norman off and, for a brief moment, he loses his composure and flips out on her. The fact he "went into Green Goblin mode" makes her completely ecstatic.
** Most of the [[Young Avengers]] are total fanboys or fangirls, especially Wiccan and Hulkling.
* In ''[[Booster Gold]]'', time travellers had got [[Sinestro]] to come to Earth ahead of schedule, so that he would meet Guy Gardner and cause disaster, by telling him that he would no longer be the greatest of the Green Lanterns. Booster had to stop him. After a brief attempt at fighting, Booster tries, "[[I'm Your Biggest Fan|But I'm your greatest fan]]!" He gushes over him, tells him that he knows in his heart he can never be replaced, and convinces him that it was a plot by his enemies to find out what he feared. This meeting would go on to have a notable consequence: Sinestro asks Booster what Corps he belongs to, leading him [[Line-of-Sight Name|to make up the name]] "[[Chekhov's Gun|Sinestro Corps]]" on the spot. This gets Sinestro thinking...
* Victor Mancha of ''[[
* ''[[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.
* [[Deadpool]] literally said [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2563277.html?#cutid1 "FANBOY SQUEE!"] when he met [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]].
== Fan Works ==
* [[Fanfic]] example: In M. McGregor's ''[
* In ''[[Kyon
* In ''[[
== Films -- Animation ==
* In ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'', Po is exploding with delight over getting to hang out with the Furious Five. The Five don't quite share his enthusiasm.
* In ''[[Ice Age]]: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', Crash and Eddie (and to a lesser extent, Diego) become obsessed with the [[Crazy Survivalist]] Buck.
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'''Eddie:''' Ultra Weasel!
'''Diego:''' Diesel Weasel! }}
* In ''[[
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'', the second [[Star Trek:
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'''Cochrane:''' That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
'''Riker:''' ''You did''. Ten years from now. }}
** Barclay and Geordi are obviously the most taken with him. Barclay has to drum up the courage to ask to shake Cochrane's hand and immediately dissolves in ecstatic babbling, while Geordi waxes so eloquent about how "Zefram Cochrane" is the first chapter in the introductory text for the required warp field course at Starfleet Academy, the grand 20-foot-statue of Cochrane that was built on the launch site, etc, that Cochrane freaks out and tries to escape from the launch party because it's too much pressure.
* Lars von Trier gets to work with and even impersonate his lifetime mentor and role model Jørgen Leth in a documentary film called ''The Five Obstructions''.
* [[Big Guy|Tallahassee]] from ''[[
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* [[The Avengers (
== Literature ==
* Ted Mallory of [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' novels ''[[The Magids|Deep Secret]]'' and ''The Merlin Conspiracy'' is a big-name fantasy author and a detective novel fanboy.
* A much more restrained than usual version of this is seen with Caspian in [[
* Many, ''many'' characters behave this way toward Gilderoy Lockhart in ''[[Harry Potter (
* 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 ==
* In ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', Usagi is a big fan of Minako Aino, who also happens to be Sailor V's real identity, though Usagi doesn't find this out until ''very'' late on in this version.
* ''[[
** In the special "[[Doctor Who
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** ''[[Doctor Who
** The Tenth Doctor was pretty star-struck by [[William Shakespeare]] in "[[Doctor Who
** And [[
** Waaay back in the classic show's third season, Steven and Dodo literally [[
** The Ninth Doctor got very excited about meeting [[
** The Doctor and Rose meeting Queen Victoria in "[[Doctor Who
** "[[Doctor Who
** [[Doctor Who
* In the various ''[[Power Rangers]]'' [[Reunion Show|reunion shows]], the current team will sometimes fanboy the previous, longer-established team. In fact, the [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy|Galaxy Rangers]] even referred to the [[Power Rangers in Space|Space Rangers]] as simply "the Power Rangers" while fanboying. Of course, everyone practically ''drools'' over [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Tommy]], and [[Power Rangers Wild Force|Cole]] went even more gaga over [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|the original Red Ranger, Jason]].
* In ''[[
* He has to be subtle about it to avoid violating the Temporal [[Alien Non-Intervention Clause|Prime Directive]], but Ben Sisko of ''[[Star Trek
** Of course, everyone was doing some sort of squeeing over the TOS crew (or at least the big three). O'Brien was pretty proud that he lied to Captain Kirk, and even Worf said "It would be an honor to meet him" in a tone that can only be described as the Klingon equivalent to squeeing.
*** Speaking of Worf, he's met 3 of his personal heroes; Kahless, Kor, and Martok (the real one), and while Klingons don't exactly squee per se, his reaction on meeting all of them has been more of the aforementioned Klingon equivalent.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Star Trek
* ''[[
*[[JAG]]: Admiral Chegwidden keeps a portrait of Arleigh Burke who was in his day enough of a badass even to impress a Seal.
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== Video Games ==
* Dean from ''[[Wild
* In ''[[
* Numerous times in ''[[Metal Gear]]'':
** In ''[[Metal Gear]] 2'', Snake fanboys over Natasha Markova/Gustava Heffner, who was [[Real Men Wear Pink|a women's figure skater he likes]].
** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', he can't resist fanboying over Peter Stillman, either, while Raiden is having messy fangasms over the thought of meeting Snake.
** And in ''[[Super Smash Bros
* The Ouendan of the Japanese game ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'' appear wherever they are needed, sometimes for a reason. In ''Ouendan 2'', a pop star is kidnapped, and the Ouendan are there to support fans in reclaiming him because they clearly are fans themselves.
* Morgan LeFlay, Mighty Pirate Hunter in ''[[
* Ratchet of ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' is like this a few times. He reacts with awe towards a hoverboard champion and is rather excited that the spaceship he is stationed on has a gamestation in the third game.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius
* ''[[
* ''[[
* This is the reaction [[Viewtiful Joe]] has when he meets the [[
* Adell of ''[[Disgaea 2
* Altaïr, protagonist of the first ''[[Assassin's Creed
* The Player Character from [[
== Visual Novels ==
* Trucy Wright in ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
== Web Comics ==
* Lisa of ''[[Mechagical Girl Lisa
* ''[[
* Villainous example from ''[[
* [http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/01-daddy-issues/simontrent/ Batman meeting the Grey Ghost] in ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[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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== Western Animation ==
* Happens a lot on ''[[Totally Spies
* And to [[
* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]''
** Penny did this in an episode where everyone's favorite detective family has to protect a rock and roll star.
** Plus there is one where a MAD agent also happens to be Gadget's favorite actress.
* Katara of ''[[
* The ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
* ''[[Batman:
** [[Blue Beetle]] spends most of his time in awe of [[Batman]]. He's also fanboyed over previous [[Blue Beetle]] Ted Kord and [[Aquaman
** And Bats himself to [[Sherlock Holmes]], in the episode where he went back in time. At the end of that episode, Holmes asks how he knew who he was. "Everyone knows who you are. You're the world's greatest detective." (World's Greatest Detective is usually a title given to Batman.)
* In ''[[Justice League (
* ''[[Sushi Pack]]''
** The members of the Sushi Pack fall into this occasionally. In "The World's Tastiest Heroes", Ikura fanboys over all the superheroes on [[Show Within a Show|"The World's Biggest Heroes"]] and even gets backstage passes to the show. The superheroes all turn out to be [[Pride Before a Fall|horrible braggers]] and just laugh at the Pack when Ikura introduces them as heroes, too.
** In "Yam Yakkers," Ikura and Wasabi are looking forward to getting the autograph of the actor playing Aquabot-boy, and while Tako claims to be a fan of Aquabot-boy, not the actor, he still does a happy dance when he gets an autograph, too.
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** Raven and Starfire basically dissolve into a puddle of gently [[Squee
** The whole team drools over Val-Yor to a scary degree, trusting the stranger to the point of joining a mission of his far from Earth ''way'' too quickly. Then it turns out {{spoiler|he's [[Fantastic Racism|speciesist]] and hates Tamaraneans, allowing for an [[Anvilicious]] [[Aesop]] without going to the [[Moral Guardian]]-unfriendly level of using the actual ''black character'' for a race-relations-related episode}}.
** Also, in the flashback episode showing how the team first met, Beast Boy was very excited to meet Robin, who was, of course, already famous.
** The whole team save Beast Boy squeed hard when BB received a letter from the Doom Patrol, a famous (in-series) and established team of superheroes. They stop squeeing and start asking themselves questions when BB reveals he had been in the team before getting fired.
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** Ben squeals like a fangirl when he sees a commercial for a new live-action "Sumo Slammers" movie.
** Also in a more recent episode, Ben's girlfriend said the reason she didn't get jealous when a movie star kissed Ben was because "he's gotta bigger crush on [[Broken Pedestal|Captain Nemesis]] than he does on Jennifer Nocturne".
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* ''[[Static Shock]]'': Static is quite excited every time he [[Crossover|meets another superhero]]. No [[Broken Pedestal]] for him,
** There was a definite [[Broken Pedestal]] moment when he met Green Lantern John Stewart. However that was quickly resolved upon learning the Lantern Static ''thought'' he'd met was Sinestro impersonating him.
** Same with Superman in another episode, not to mention both he and Gear getting their minds blown when the Justice League itself asks for their help in their crossover episode (well, Static's help, anyway.)
* The ''[[Legion of Super
* Early in ''[[
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* 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.
* ''[[
** 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 ==
* Allegedly, Gabe and Tycho of ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' and [[Karen Traviss]] (best known for her ''[[Wess Har]]'' books and ''[[Republic Commando]]'' novels) reacted this way to one another when they read each other's blogs and found out they were fans of one another.
* When [[Mark Hamill]] and [[Maurice
* In the 1993 NHL playoffs, the Los Angeles Kings eliminated the Vancouver Canucks in the second round. During the team handshake, [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|up-and-coming]] young Canuck star Petr Nedved asked his idol, the Kings' Wayne Gretzky, for his stick as a souvenir. Needless to say, [[What the Hell, Hero?|Vancouver fans were not amused]] at the antics. For [[Money, Dear Boy|completely]] [[It's All About Me|different]] [[Green-Eyed Monster|reasons]], this actually turned out to be his final act as a Canuck.
* Reportedly, one of the New York firefighters doing rescue work in the wake of the 9/11 attacks had a complete fanboy moment upon discovering that one of the volunteers serving them food and water was none other than Kevin Conroy of ''[[Batman:
* Similarly, more than one volunteer helping out after the Kanto Earthquake/Tsunami of 2011 apparently had had similar reactions when they found out that the famous seiyuu [[Norio Wakamoto]] (who actually was a policeman before becoming a voice actor) was among them.
* Tim Allen and Buzz Aldrin mutually fanboyed each other when they had an opportunity to meet.
* French comedian [
* Any institution for providing protection(military, constabulary, disaster relief, whatever), will if it has gone on for a few generations acquire a veritable valhalla of heroes.
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