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In TV Land, whenever a famous musician or actor (or any kind of celebrity really) ventures out in public, there is good chance they will be descended upon by a horde of screaming fans who will pursue, attempting to get their autographs, rip their clothes off, etc. The celebrity will probably find themselves forced to tactics such as hiding in garbage bins or donning ridiculous disguises to escape the
Very much [[Truth in Television]], versions of this trope have probably existed as long as there have been celebrities. However, it reached its apex in the 1960s and 70s as result of Beatlemania. These days it is something of a [[Dead Horse Trope]] as most celebrities have security too tight to allow anything like this to happen, and fans must content themselves with flinging their underwear at their idols and other such shows of affection.
Compare [[Instant Fanclub]]. Can become an [[Angry Mob]] if someone expresses disdain for the focus of the group's adoration. See also: [[Celeb Crush]] which can result in
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The members of Bad Luck in ''[[Gravitation]]'' tend to attract these.
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* Sakuraba in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' is frequently chased around by hordes of fangirls, much to the delight of his agent who is making a mint off merchandising.
** Hiruma Youichi once uses this to his advantage.
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* Despite not being a really "famous" person," Yuki Sohma of ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' is regularly stalked by a vast brigade of obsessive fangirls.
* Rukawa's fangirls in ''[[Slam Dunk]]''.
* In ''[[Skip Beat
* ''[[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]] ==
* Superdickery.com shows us [[Superman|Jimmy Olsen]] had [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502063759/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1060%3Amost-nonsensical-cover-ever-yes&Itemid=24#content one]... [[Time Travel|in the past]].
* ''[[The Amazing Joy Buzzards]]''.
* [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]] ==
* One of these kicks off the action in the New Zork chapter of ''[[
** Although Ringo escapes those fans by accidentally teleporting to the Plaza Hotel, he gets trapped there because it's under siege by more fans.
** 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]] ==
* ''[[Singin' in
** [[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
** Amusingly inverted in their next movie ''[[Help!]]'' -
*** A similar scene occurs in ''Confessions of a Pop Performer'', where Sid and Timmy find a rock band they want to promote, and at their first concert, have to bus in some middle aged women who have to be encouraged to scream and wave.
* ''[[The Rutles]]''. There's a rather surreal sequence at the start of the film, where they hop from limo to limo to escape the hordes of fans.
** 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
* ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]''.{{context}}
* 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''
* The [[Disney]] animated ''[[Hercules (
* ''[[Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?]]''
* 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]]''.
** Worse still, the leader of all the Groupie Brigades was essentially a stalker who had spent her spare time spying on him and is convinced she'll marry him eventually.
* 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
* After he carries a pretty hitchhiker at high speed across the country, a gang of screaming girls put themselves in the way of the Wizard in the hopes he'll do the same for them in the short film ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (short)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]''; the scene is recreated for the [[Show Within a Show|film-within-a-film]] in the [[The Wizard of Speed and Time (film)|feature-length version]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* Parodied, along with most other rock group tropes, in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* [[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.
* ''[[The Monkees (TV series)|The Monkees]]''▼
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
** 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
▲* ''[[The Monkees]]''
** One notable exception would be the documentary episode
▲** 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|Starving Artists]].
▲** One notable exception would be the documentary episode “The Monkees On Tour” and, to a much different extent, “The Monkees In Paris.”
* 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.
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* ''[[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.
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''They scream and shriek and cheer them.
''Now I know why they're such a rage,
''It's impossible to hear them.''}}
* 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.
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* The hordes of screaming bobbysoxers at [[Frank Sinatra]]'s early performances. (Years after his death, it was revealed that at least the first few appearances of these rabid fans had been actresses hired by his promoter.)
== [[Video Games]] ==
* This applies to wrestlers too, for example in the Glitz Pit in ''[[Paper Mario:
* 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]] ==
* On ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', the premise of the [[One
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', Kimiko's fanclub.
* [[Spinnerette|Very well, then.]] [http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/archive.php?date=20101001 Fangirls!]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', after running from a mob, Death disguises himself to avoid blame for Michael's death. Accidentally, [[Mistaken Identity|he gets taken for him]], and [
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Happens in ''every'' [[Official Fanfiction University]]. To ''everyone''.
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Beatles (animation)|The Beatles]]'' animated series.
* ''[[Butch Cassidy and
* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' did this.
* Needless to say, the ''[[New Kids
* ''[[Shuriken School]]'' had Eizan and his other two friends disguised as a kid singing group doing a limousine drive-by disguised as them, where they barely made it to their destination.
* I recall Frank Sinatra depicted this way in some old cartoons, with some fans actually fainting. This was [[Truth in Television]].
** See: Frank Tashlin's ''Swooner Crooner'', Tex Avery's ''Little 'Tinker''. A decade or so earlier, Bing Crosby was getting much the same treatment.
* Semi - [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[
* On ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', Rocko gets an insane squealing brigade when he becomes famed underwear model Wedgie Boy.
** Producer Ralph Bighead gets an army of psychotic fans that take pieces of his car, his clothes, and his scalp as souvenirs in "Wacky Delly."
* In ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', this (just like everything else in the series) is taken to ridiculous extremes... including the mass suicides among female fans after lead singer Nathan Explosion got a girlfriend. And then more female fans breaking out into open warfare upon hearing that he's single again.
** Dethklok's fans are easy to rile, though; The Louvre was nearly destroyed by marauding fans after Murderface said he didn't like any of the art in it. Oh, and they resort to acts of terrorism with minimal provocation, defacing Mount Rushmore and committing mass murder to persuade Dethklok to perform songs from their album Dethwater live.
** And, you know, ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' owes a lot to ''[[A Hard
* 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.
* Homer acquires one of these (made up of elderly female opera fans!) in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Homer of Seville".
* 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]]''.
* In ''[[
** And then in season three, ''Avatar'' goes meta, and [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|Zuko]] gets a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501101155/http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep49/ep49-262.png literal horde of fangirls.]
* On ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' and Noah get hysterical screaming girls kissing them and tearing off their Letterman jackets when Rex joins Noah's school table tennis team.
* [[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 [[
* A Groupie Brigade almost killed Robert Pattinson after he tried to avoid them by running out into traffic and being hit by a car. (He was okay, but he still chewed out his fans.)
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