Groupie Brigade: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Kamichama Karin]] Chu'''s [[Idol Singer]] Kuga Jin is often surrounded by hordes of fangirls. Karin has had to fight her way through the crowd to talk to him more than once.

* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is the originator of the trope pic, [[Idol Singer|Sheryl]] [[Ms. Fanservice|Nome]] has this group stalking her in High School. Yes she is in that room, yes that room is a shower, and yes that is a guy with a [[Panty Shot|conspicuously angled camera]].

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110074156/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/ul1-3.jpg This cover] from ''Go-Go'' has The Rotting Stumps being pursued by their groupies.

* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'': Bob's character Knuckles acquires one in-game in the "Sing For the Moment" storyline.

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

** Paul manages to lure the Groupie Brigade around the Plaza into swamping the “Hitler Youth” trying to detain him, because one of them is wearing a “Beagle” wig.

** When John leads the harveys in their peaceful protest, they're surrounded by fans, but he's protected by layer upon layer of giant rabbits.

 

== [[Film]] ==

** [[Gene Kelly]] sort of reprises this scene in the all-star comedy ''What a Way to Go!'' as a huge movie star who gets trampled to death by a stampede of crazed fans (with rogue elephant sound effects!)

* ''[[A Hard Day's Night]]''

** To be fair, there's a similar sequence in ''A Hard Day's Night''.

* At the beginning of ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery'', Austin (a ''photographer'') was being pursued by his Groupie Brigade, in a parody of ''[[A Hard Day's Night]]''.

* The movie ''Nickelodeon'' has silent movie stars being stripped naked by screaming fans ripping off their clothing for souvenirs.

* Happens in ''[[That Thing You Do]]!''.

* ''[[ABBA]]: The Movie''

* Joseph in ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'' is treated this way during the musical number "Stone the Crows", to the dismay of both him and the Pharaoh.

* Prince Char in ''[[Ella Enchanted]]''.

* Played dramatically in [[Judy Garland]]'s ''[[A Star Is Born]]'' where the movie star main character can't attend her ''dead husband's funeral'' without being torn at by a groupie mob in attendance.

* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''. While in Berlin to retrieve the Grail diary, Indy gets tangled up in a mob of Nazis who are members of Hitler's fan club.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Heralds of Valdemar|Herald Alberich]] takes advantage of one of these in ''Exile's Valor''. When he realizes that the actor Norris is trailing him, he goes into a large inn and "happens" to mention the fact that Norris is outside to a roomful of young ladies ... then dives for cover as they charge outside and mob Norris.

* In ''[[Monster Hunter International|Monster Hunter Vendetta]]'', Owen Pitt's brother (nicknamed Mosh) is a heavy metal guitarist of some renown, and is followed by a swarm of adoring orcs from the local village once he goes to the MHI compound.

 

** Although situations like these were more than plentiful in the real life mid-60’s era of Monkeemania, rarely is this trope actually seen, because, in their wacky TV show universe, the Monkees are not famous at all...in fact, they're [[Starving Artist]]s.

* Played with in ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'', in which the [[Big Bad]] casts a spell city-wide to cause this to happen, and the conveniently immune Rangers nearly get trampled to death by stampeding fans.

* An early-series ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode has a spell go wrong (as they often do) and Xander is chased by hordes of love-sick fans. Only they want to tear his flesh off, not his clothes.

* ''[[Leverage]]'': Eliot acquires one when posing as a country and western singer in "The Studio Job".

* In ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' episode "The Redcoats Are Coming," Rob tries to hide a pair of [[Captain Ersatz|British rock-and-roll idols]] in his house to keep them from being discovered by the local teenagers. Somehow word gets out, and Rob's house winds up trashed by the groupie brigade.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* Allan Sherman's song "Pop Hates The Beatles" (to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel") has a funny take on this.

* This actually still happens as a [[Truth in Television]] with some musicians. Specifically, [[Yoshiki Hayashi]] tends to have an almost [[Instant Fanclub]] variety pop up at any event he attends that is also being attended by Japanese rock fans.

* There's a bit at the start of a song by [[The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]] called "The Sound Of Music" talking about such an event.

{{quote|Life's like that, isn't it. Only the other day I was walking down the West End and suddenly I was set upon by hordes of fans and admirers who wanted to...touch my clothes. So I took sanctuary in a nearby cinema, normally, of course, I wouldn't go in, but that day I saw something that really moved me. I'd like to share this wonderful experience with you, it was...the Sound of Music.}}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* This applies to wrestlers too, for example in the Glitz Pit in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''.

* Groupies are an actual enemy in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'', working for the Hair Metal Militia. They're copies of the Razor Girls, and don't do a lot of screaming or, well, non-murderous Groupie behaviour.

 

== [[Web Animation]] ==

* In one episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', with Luke Perry IIRC.

* One episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' focused on this when Danny Phantom (by this point, a well known hero and celebrity) is on the run from screaming teenage fans; most of which come from his own school. He had to [[Secret Identity|secretly turn human]] to get away from the crazed mob.

* Checkmatey, the rapping chess master of X Middle School, has one in the ''[[Fillmore!]]!'' episode "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields".

* Carl and (C2) acquire one in the "Spotlight on Carl" two-parter in ''[[Carl Squared]]''.

* [[Donald Duck]] acquires one in the [[Classic Disney Short]] ''Donald's Dilemma'', after being hit on the head by a flowerpot and becoming a famous crooner.

* ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'': Ben has to call Gwen and Kevin to rescue him from one at the start of "Deep".

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Any rock band that has enjoyed significant mainstream popularity will have one of these. In particular, bands like [[Led Zeppelin]], [[Def Leppard]], [[Motley Crue]], and [[Guns N' Roses]] are infamous for the debauchery they have enjoyed with their groupies backstage.

 

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