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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]] mini series ''Fatal But Not Serious'', the Angels visit a planet where a bunch of their fans are holding a big convention. Several issues involving an evil clone, a mind altering bioweapon and the star going supernova later, and all the people who were gushing over the Angels in book one are frothing at the mouth and forming lynch mobs to try and kill them.
 
 
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*** ''Zombies'' has a more dramatic example, as Brendan Surn (a member who ''did'' become a success) has an assistant who used to be a normal fan. She loved his works and wanted to become friends, but when she got to his house she found an old man with Alzheimer's who needed help, and took it upon herself to care for him. Another of the group relates a similar story from her own fandom, but says that she eventually realized that fans tend to build up authors to be more than are or are capable of being, which is a disservice to everyone involved.
* Annie Wilkes of ''[[Misery]]'' views her favorite book series, ''Misery'', and its author Paul Sheldon, with an almost religiously positive view. Unfortunately for Annie, when she happens to save her favorite author from a deadly car crash and take him to her home to heal, he turns out to be different from her zealous expectations. Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is a profoundly [[Axe Crazy]] [[Serial Killer]].
* After two novels being a literal [[Loony Fan]] [[Ascended Fanboy]] [[Up to Eleven]] of the [[Chivalric Romance]], [[Don Quixote (Literature)|Don Quixote]] must accept in the last chapter that the [[Cliché Storm]] that he read as the adventures of a [[Knight Errant]] is not [[Deconstructed Trope|as joyous as he thought it would be]]:
{{quote| "[[Bored Withwith Insanity|Good news for you, good sirs, that I am no longer Don Quixote of La Mancha, but Alonso Quixano, whose way of life won for him the name of Good]]. Now am I the enemy of [[Knight in Shining Armor|Amadis of Gaul]] [[Follow the Leader|and of the whole countless troop of his descendants]]; [[Cliché Storm|odious to me now are all the profane stories of knight-errantry;]] [[Heel Realization|now I perceive my folly]], [[The New Rock and Roll|and the peril into which reading them brought me;]] [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At Thethe Time|now, by God's mercy schooled into my right senses, I loathe them.]]"}}
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* The [[Sit ComSitcom]] ''[[Growing Pains]]'' featured an episode in which Ben, at a concert featuring his favorite singer, gets a backstage pass to the singer's dressing room... and is disgusted to find that the "wholesome" artist is having a tawdry affair.
* The British TV comedy/drama one-off ''Cruise of the Gods'' is about all of the confusions, disappointments and shattered illusions that result when the fans, writers and actors of an old science fiction series meet up at a shipboard convention.
* Joey on ''Gimme a Break'' watched a TV show starring Captain Jerk, whom he idolized. After meeting him in person he discovered the actor playing Captain Jerk was a racist, which crushed Joey. He finally confronted the actor and told him he was going to tell all his friends to stop watching Captain Jerk's show and start watching Mickey Mouse, adding "and Mickey Mouse is black!"
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