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** Misaimed fandom often results from the viewer's failure to grasp certain subtleties, but this could be the opposite; because the Plastics are caricatures, their real life equivalents may not see themselves reflected in them.
** On the flipside, awareness of the Regina George archetype may be contributing to its downfall.
* If ''[[Scarface]]'' isn't the epitome of a film doomed for misaimed fandom, nothing is. Brian De Palma intended for this movie to be a dark, unrelenting look at the downfall of a gangster who quickly climbed to the top of the drug trade world, only to become addicted to coke and alienate those around him. Instead, rappers sample Tony Montana's quotes, admire him for being all gangster, and have a bunch of their fans and misled teens suddenly become fans or the film without seeing what the point of the film was at all. Brian De Palma isn't happy about this ''at all''.
** A frakkin' VIDEO GAME of the movie was made too. Which was a ''sequel'' to the movie, dictated that Tony Montana somehow SURVIVED the ending of the film, and has him go about his business with no negative consequences. Takes misaimed fandom up to eleven.
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** Also, most of the Marines are cheering for those movies because they think they're ''funny'', not because they feel inspired by. War movies, especially the specific ones named here, largely come across to real servicemembers as parodies.
* Similarly, many current or former military (or people who are staunch military supporters) are also fans of ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''.
** This is likely due to the fact it was very close, just a touch over-the-top, of 'nam era training, just ask most any vet from around that time. Plus if you ever watched Mail Call, [[R. Lee Ermey]] is that way IN REAL LIFE, so [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] himself is a case of
** - Ermy was brought in initially as an adviser, when he showed the crew how a drill was done, he reportedly scared Kubrick so much that Kubrick decided to just use him in the movie instead of getting an actor. Just rewind a little there- he scared Stanley "Complete Lunatic" Kubrick. Wow.
* There are fans of the film version of ''[[Battle Royale]]'' who seem to wish that they could enter The Program, with their classmates. This isn't helped by the in-film character who signed up "for fun" and seems to be having the psychotic time of his life.
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* Many tween-age girls completely missed the point of ''[[Clueless]]'' -- a vapid and shallow girl realizes how meaningless that sort of life is -- and instead attempted to ape the fashion and attitude of the characters from the beginning of the film.
** Cher starts out a very funny [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] who's got [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|loads of friends]], unlimited time and money to [[Unlimited Wardrobe|buy new clothes]], and gets to call most of the shots in her social circle, making her one hell of an [[Escapist Character]]. After the plot gets going, [[First Law of Tragicomedies]] kicks in and the story is forced to become more serious. [[It Was His Sled|Just like in]] [[Emma|the book it was based on]], the protagonist starts submitting to the advice of her heavy-handed, older male friend, {{spoiler|even hooking up with him}}. [[Coming of Age Story|She matures, but also undergoes]] [[Chickification]], [[Coming of Age Story|becoming]] [[Unfortunate Implications|less proactive and outspoken]].
* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' Galactic Empire [[Rooting for the Empire|has almost as much fandom]] as the Rebellion, due in no small part to having the most recognizable characters in the series.
* ''[[The Elite Squad]]'' is the best example in Brazil, where Captain Nascimento is hailed as a "true Brazilian hero", despite it being obvious that the director's was portraying him as [[Anti-Hero|very deeply flawed at best]], and a [[Complete Monster]] at worst.▼
▲** Not so surprising given the massive [[Freudian Excuse]] that forms the reason for this "woobieness" (his name means fricking "Great Dragon!"), and that [[Never Say "Die"]] means that the extent of his crimes could not be depicte, leaving his [[Complete Monster]] status at [[Offstage Villainy]] levels. Without that, he comes out as arrogant and misguided rather than the intended near nihilistically murderous.
▲* ''[[The Elite Squad]]'' is the best example in Brazil, where Captain Nascimento is hailed as a "true Brazilian hero", despite it being obvious that the director's was portraying him as [[Anti-Hero|very deeply flawed at best]], a [[Complete Monster]] at worst.
* "Das Millionenspiel" is a German movie from 1970 about a (fake) game show, which is about a group of people hunting and trying to kill the competitor, who will win one million Deutschmarks if he survives for 7 days. The film was pretty intense for its time and some people even thought it was a real game show. But that's not the point. Besides people who were complaining in indignation, there were also people who attended for becoming competitor, or even one of the hunters.
* Characters like [[Nightmare On Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]], [[Halloween (film)|Michael Myers]] and [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason Voorhees]] (all brutal serial killers) have huge fanbases, with many a teenage girl proclaiming their undying love for one or the other.
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** Speaking of Gaston, there's a number of fans who think that he's a fantastic guy who Belle was a bitch for not marrying. This is skating over the fact that he attempted murder, bribed the asylum owner to commit Maurice, and heavily implied that if/when he got Belle to marry him, he'd be forcing her to be the kind of woman he approved of.
* Supposedly, the graphic rape in ''[[I Spit on Your Grave]]'' was supposed to be [[Fan Disservice|shocking and horrifying]]. When [[Roger Ebert]] reviewed it, he listened to what his fellow audience members said regarding it, and "if they seriously believed the things they were saying, they were vicarious sex criminals."
* With some people, [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|movies that try to discourage eating
* After the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] movie ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' was released, [[Robert Davi]], who played drug lord [[Big Bad|Franz]] [[Complete Monster|Sanchez]], was taken to meet with an actual drug lord in South America. Apparently, he loved his portrayal of Sanchez.
* [[The Silence of the Lambs|Dr. Hannibal Lecter]] attracts a lot of fandom despite being a European aristocrat by birth with strong intellectual leanings who still displays snobbish elitism and who has little tolerance for poor taste. Oh, and did we mention he's also a maladjusted serial killer who eats his victims?
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