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A nut who follows the main characters everywhere out of obsessive admiration, either causing trouble or just creeping them out. Extreme loony fans may go to great lengths and evil deeds to [[Psycho Supporter|"help" the hero they idolize]]. They take their eventual rejection very personally. Occasionally this character will really go off the deep end and attempt to ''replace'' their hero.
This can also overlap with the [[Straw Fan]], [[The Collector]], the [[Yandere (disambiguation)]], the [[Poisonous Friend]], and/or the [[Stalker with a Crush]]. See also [[Actor
Sad (and a little scary) to say, this is ''very'' much [[Truth in Television]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', the villain Syndrome was once a young [[Loony Fan]] who wanted to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick, and his rejection was one of the factors that led him to become a villain, not an [[Ascended Fanboy]], as he so desperately wanted, but a [[Genre Savvy]] bad guy.
* Robert DeNiro's roles in ''[[The Fan]]'' and ''The King of Comedy'' fit this trope as well.
* The Kid in the ''[[Matrix]]'' sequels is portrayed as a mild example of this.
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* [[Sarah Silverman]]'s character in ''[[Monk]]''.
* The ''[[Jonathan Creek]]'' episode "Danse Macabre" featured am obsessed fan who followed a horror writer from the US to the UK and eventually {{spoiler|cut the head off her dead body and carried back to America with him}}.
* Played with in an episode of the short-lived HBO series of Tenacious D. It starts with Lee, a fan who is overly-obsessed with Tenacious D, but afterwards the Tenacious D duo becomes overly-obsessed with Lee, culminating with his murder.
* Mel in ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' - president and sole member of the band's fan club and relentless stalker.
* Mandy from ''[[iCarly]]''. After appearing as a guest their web show, she followed Carly, Sam, and Freddie around constantly and even switched schools to be around them, which drove them crazy. Mandy eventually became obsessed with a band and seemingly moved onto to pestering them but a more recent episode showed she was back to obsessing over iCarly.
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* ''[[No More Heroes]]: Desperate Struggle'' gives us Kimmy Howell, a fangirl of Travis Touchdown who eventually decides the only way to prove herself worthy of her crush is to ''kill'' him. Travis gives her a back-bodydrop and tells her to get over it.
* Amy Rose started out as a somewhat subdued variant of this towards ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''.
* In [[Crisis Core]], Sephiroth has a devoted group of fans who know what shampoo and conditioner he uses and how much. One must assume that they know this either because they're going through his trash or breaking into his home on a regular basis.
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* Lorne, the "Friend for Life" (complete with his own musical jingle) who won't leave [[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Sam and Max]] alone.
** This gets comes to a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|darker in retrospect]] head in "Fools Die on Friday", where Lorne highjacks a Swedish blimp and tries to crash into New York City in order to attract Sam and Max' attention.
* Sierra from ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', she claims she knows everything about the cast, "Your hopes, your fears, '''your dental records!'''"
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'''s cousin Joss admired Kim so much that she dressed completely in Kim's style, had numerous pictures of Kim plastered around her room, talked about nothing except for Kim, and even accidentally made Kim fail the mission by trying to copy her in the middle of action. In the end she learned not to admire Kim that much, [[Broken Aesop|so she started admiring the sidekick Ron Stoppable instead.]]
** Frugal Lucre drove Dr. Drakken to distraction with his non-stop praise and commentary while they were sharing a prison cell. After they got out of prison, he found Drakken's lair and talked him into pulling a [[Villain Team-Up|joint caper]].
* [[Word Girl]] takes a spin on it: Glen emulates Dr. Two-Brains, completely fulfilling the trope in that he eventually tries to replace him... except that Two-Brains happens to be a villain himself.
* While most Decepticons are out for power, love fighting, or are just plain psycho or sadistic, Lugnut in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' follows Megatron because he completely idealizes him. His constant praise annoys even Megatron, who in one memorable scene actually gets a robot version of a [[Twitchy Eye]] because Lugnut won't stop talking about how glorious he is instead of actually going outside and doing his job.
* Irving is so big a fan of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' that he carries around a scrapbook of their adventures and often joins in their endeavors even if he's not invited. In an interesting case here, Irving started out as a one-off character but then began to recur, and shows signs of possibly becoming a [[Sixth Ranger]] to the boys' group of friends.
{{quote|'''Irving:''' I got in the car when your mom stopped for gas!}}
* An episode of ''[[Ka Blam!]]!'' had to do with a fan visiting the set of the show, and constantly annoying Henry and June due to his huge obsession with them. He even wears Henry's outfit, June's sweatshirt, and even has his hair blue dyed to match June's (either that or it's natural). June constantly refers to him as "Weird Ryan from school", meaning the duo already knew him.
* "Foamy" from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', who appears ''[[One-Scene Wonder|twice]]'', is one of these. His only distinguishing characteristic is how he foams at the mouth and collapses on the ground whenever Aang is nearby. Zuko also seems to have his own in "Nightmares and Daydreams"; she has to be carted off by his guards.
* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had a bunch of [[Pandaing to the Audience|pandas]] becoming these to Heloise.
* One episode of [[Robot Chicken]] has a sketch in which "Hannah Montana" gives an autograph to a crazed fan who then shoots her dead.
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** He does it again in ''The Beast With A Billion Backs''. Calculon asks outright if Bender's going to kill him, and Bender states that's not likely since in his mind they're friends.
** In the comic version, he [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|specifically denies having broken into Calculon's house at night and transfused their oils so they'd always be together]].
* Katrina Rad in ''[[The Problem Solverz]]'' episode "Magic Clock". She follows the group around everywhere so she can write a blog entry about them, but she's ''really'' [[Yandere (disambiguation)|crazy]] about Roba.
* [[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]] has Sonette, who, along with changing her name, has snuck into Sonic's room while he was sleeping and stolen merchandise from him. She also is frequently seen with a piece of Sonic's chewed gum in her mouth. <ref>Sonic had earlier claimed that he doesn't chew gum, which leads to speculation on whose gum that really is.</ref>
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