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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[SHUFFLE!]]'' parodies this rather sharply. The fanclubs have even [[Serious Business|carried over into real life]], with all the seriousness of [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] - their object of affection might be a [[
* In [[Mayo Chiki]] Subaru has an all-female one. It undergoes a schism as some members don't object to Jiro's (alleged) relationship with Subaru, while others do.
* Motoko Minagawa's "Prince Yuki" Club in ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.
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* Fakir and Mytho of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' also have been mentioned to have their own fan clubs. Pique is part of Fakir's fanclub and Lilie is presumably part of Mytho's group.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Silver Age]], [[Superman|Jimmy Olsen]] had a club of bowtie-wearing dweebs who hung on his every word. As creepy as it sounds.
** Besides the Jimmy Olsen Fan Club, there was also (in [[Bronze Age]] comics) the ''Clark Kent'' Fan Club, consisting of female fans of Clark (from his WGBS evening newscasts).
* Also pre-Crisis, [[Batman|Robin]], whilst attending Hudson University as Dick Grayson, had his own on-campus fan-club, and occasionally attended meetings of the self named (at least one hopes so) Robin-Rooters, whose members were mostly female, but not exclusively so. They even designed new costumes for him, which they then had made up for him to wear, which he did.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfic ''[[Girl Days]]'' has fun with this. When Ranma starts attending Furinkan High as a girl as part of the Girl Days training, a bunch of fan clubs almost immediately break out. One, the Ranma-chan club, is a group of girls devoted to Ranma remaining a girl; another, the Ranma-kun club, are girls who want their male Ranma back, no matter the cost. A third, a group of guys, have deluded themselves into thinking Ranma will go out on a date with them. Ranma and her friends simply call this club 'The Idiots'. And once Shampoo starts
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▲* The ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfic ''[[Girl Days]]'' has fun with this. When Ranma starts attending Furinkan High as a girl as part of the Girl Days training, a bunch of fan clubs almost immediately break out. One, the Ranma-chan club, is a group of girls devoted to Ranma remaining a girl; another, the Ranma-kun club, are girls who want their male Ranma back, no matter the cost. A third, a group of guys, have deluded themselves into thinking Ranma will go out on a date with them. Ranma and her friends simply call this club 'The Idiots'. And once Shampoo starts attend school as well, she gets her own fan club.
* This is the function that the Blue Blaze Irregulars serve in [[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]].
* [[Deconstructed]] in ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''—the mob of kids who follow Bernardo O'Reilly around everywhere {{spoiler|end up [[Stop Helping Me!|getting him killed]] as they wander out into a gunfight and he tries to get them into cover.}}
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'': "You have saved our lives! We are eternally grateful!"
▲== Live Action TV ==
* A one-episode character of ''[[The 4400]]'' gets an ''extreme'' version of a fan club, who actually worship him, as part of being the [[Monster of the Week]].
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' combines this with several other tropes but the cult of Saxon is dedicated to resurrect their former prime-minister through human sacrifices.
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** Even worse, {{spoiler|since this is the Nega World, all the fangirls are actually monsters in human form, which makes the cold and jealous way they glare at Natsumi when Tsukasa says he knows her all the more scary.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' featured this with Quistis Trepe, the youngest instructor in the history of the school. In the American translation they are called "Trepies."
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' has two senpais in the main cast. Akihiko, the male senpai, is shown early on to attract squealing hordes of fangirls with minimal effort (or desire). Mitsuru Kirijo's otaku are a lot more subtle, but the player can find any number of NPCs that all fantasize about attracting her attention, especially one that just plain fantasizes about anything Mitsuru does or could potentially do to her.
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* [[Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica]] provides something just a touch more realistic. It takes time for Reine to build the Cloche fanclub but otherwise they fit perfectly. They tell people how great Cloche is, protect her in battle, and provide the energy for [[Combined Energy Attack|Replakia.]]
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'''s Kimiko suddenly acquires an enormous horde of fanboys when she mouths off on public radio in their defense. Erika also has a fanclub so obsessed that they stay loyal to her even after she disappears from the public eye for years. The series goes deeper into exploring the phenomenon than just using it for comedy, portraying the fanboys as [[You Suck|everything from sympathetic losers (Piro) to immoral, pathetic perverts (Kuro)]].
* Shion [http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2003-12-09&comic=ExCoKo gets one of these] in ''Experimental Comic Kotone''.
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* In ''[[Taiki: The Webcomic]]'', Kai has one.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* In the [[Whateley Universe]], teenager Fey is horrified to find out that she has a fan club of girls her own age. Her teammates on her super-team tease her about it now and then.
* In [[Survival of the Fittest]] V4, Reiko Ishida got one of these due to her success in ice skating, often referred to as her "entourage". Bit of a subversion, though, as, unlike most characters that have found themselves in this trope, she's actually quite close friends with them.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* The Three Js (Joey, Jeffy and Jamie) who hung on Quinn Morgendorfer's every word in ''[[Daria]]''.
* Supergirl attracts one of these during a trip to Japan in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Chaos at the Earth's Core", which makes Stargirl extremely jealous.
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** Aang gets one when he visits Kiyoshi village for the first time.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The faculty at Whitwell Middle School wanted to teach the students about tolerance, so they decided to start a project on the Holocaust. The students then took it ''[[Up to Eleven]]'' by deciding to collect six million paper clips to represent the Jewish people killed in the concentration camps. Once word got out, the school was flooded with paper clips, and a rail car from Germany was brought to the school and turned into a permanent memorial.
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