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Depressingly common in [[Real Life]], where it is called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia hybristophilia]. Compare [[Zombie Advocate]] and [[Draco in Leather Pants]] for when the fandom does it.

 

* ''[[Death Note]]'': Yagami Light founds over half his schemes on these beings. Amane Misa had some potential as a less-polished monster in her own right, as a less brilliant and histrionic psychopath instead of a genius narcissistic one, but decided to slave her entire being to his will on first meeting, and never wavered, and without that his plan to defeat L would never have begun to exist. His final big scheme also relies heavily on [[Disposable Woman]] Takeda Kiyomi, a college girlfriend turned news anchor whose response to the revelation that he is Kira is not visceral horror but infatuation.

** The rest of the Kira fans who keep him in names and faces to kill (yay fact-checking!) and cheer and all, and also his eventual right arm Mikami Teru, are a bigenderal hydra of this phenomenon stretching across the world. Even after the [[Villain with Good Publicity]] is exposed and declawed and killed, he still has a huge ''cult''. This series is founded upon existential despair.

 

** This reaches new highs of psychosis in "Father of the Bride", where fangirl Tina Vincent [[Evil Laugh|cackles maniacally]] at her own capture, and spends her interrogation alternately smiling at taunting the cops with how much ''better'' [[Serial Killer|Nate Haskell]] is than them.

* In ''[[Bones]]'', [[Serial Killer]] Howard Epps got married to one of these while in prison. Then he escaped and killed her.

* Several episodes of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', with "Riding the Lightning" and "The Angel Maker" being the most prominent examples.

* Downplayed in an episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', where Blanche sends some very explicit love letters to a prison pen pal. In this case, she does it as a hobby, figuring he won't get out anytime soon. Until she finds out he's been paroled. The ex-con eventually robs their house, leaving poor Sofia (who was unlucky enough to be the only one there at the time) [[Bound and Gagged]].

* An Inversion occurs in an episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'', where Steve's prison pen pal falls in love with ''him'', and unfortunately, he was signing his letters to her with Carl's name - he manages to warn Carl about five minutes before the now-paroled inmate shows up. This one has a happier outcome, as she backs off when Carl tells her he's married and not intersted, and he directs her to a place that is hiring ex-cons.

 

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Inque in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' had a male version. He helped her escape and suffered [[And I Must Scream]] while trying to become like her.

 

* Marriage proposals to inmates.

* The Manson Family.