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** Keima Katsuragi, though he hates it because real girls are inferior to 2D ones.

** Later on, Elsie, who is a fan of the [[Idol Singer|pop-idol]] Kanon, has to take her place when the real girl is {{spoiler|put into a coma by Vintage}}. Luckily Elsie has a magic robe that can change her appearance and has memorized all of Kanon's songs and dances, but there are still a few...inconsistencies.

'''Game Show Host:''' Kanon, stop saying weird things! }}

* Kirito from ''[[Sword Art Online]]''. He was a gamer and after he got trapped in and escaped the virtual reality game SAO. The skills he learned from the game allowed him to beat up the guy that kidnapped his girlfriend.

== Films -- Animation ==

* ''[[The Incredibles]]'': After Buddy Pine is rejected as a sidekick by Mr. Incredible, [[Loony Fan|he becomes Syndrome,]] the [[Big Bad]] super-villain of the film. He proves to be frighteningly competent, largely from being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]], though this proves in part to be his undoing. Even as a [[Super Villain]], Syndrome continues to talk about Mr. Incredible as though he were a character in a favorite comic book, critiquing his actions in terms that will be very familiar to anybody who has ever been in a comic book store.

* In ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'', Po only wants to see his heroes, the Furious Five, compete for the Dragon Scroll. He doesn't imagine that {{spoiler|he will be chosen to receive it himself}}.

* Rhino the hamster from ''[[Bolt]]''. To an even greater extent, Rhino's voice actor. Mark Walton, a storyboard artist, laid down a temporary "scratch voice" for the character of Rhino, with the assumption that a professional voice actor would later take the role. As the film moved further along, big-name actors were cast like John Travolta, Malcolm [[Mc Dowell]], and Miley Cyrus. But they couldn't find a professional actor who made a better Rhino than Walton; in the end, Disney ended up calling him back to record the lines professionally, resulting in one of the funniest breakout Disney characters of the decade.

* Alex Rogan in ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''.

* In a similar vein, Kevin Flynn from ''[[Tron]]''. He was a video-game programmer who ran his own arcade, then gets zapped into the games themselves...

* And then, in ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' his son grows up with bedtime stories about the stuff his dad did on the other side of the screen, even having action figures of Tron and Clu on his bookshelf. Twenty years later....

* A lampshade is hung on this to some extent in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]''; early in the film, Tim Allen, as the star of a ''[[Star Trek]]''-styled TV show, yells at an enthusiastic fan asking questions about minutiae of the show: "It's not real! None of it is real!" Later on, when it all turns out to be real, their lives are saved by calling on the fan's knowledge.

'''Brandon:''' Oh my God, I knew it. I knew it! I knew it! }}

* The unhappy main character in Takashi Miike's Sentai parody/homage ''[[Zebraman]]'' dresses up like the title hero of his favourite cancelled TV show as a form of escapism, but eventually does battle aliens.

* Mike O'Neal, Jr, from the ''[[Posleen War Series]]''.

* Ed Greenwood in ''[[Forgotten Realms|Shadows of Doom]]'' shows just how ''[[Kudzu Plot|casually]]'' this may happen to any random kid around [[Canon Sue|Elminster]]... and how it feels:

[...]"Nay, be not downcast, Jhaleen. I see some things, know ye, in my dreams. Things I know will come to pass, in summers still to come." He leaned close to her, and whispered for her ears alone, "I've seen thee -- much taller than now, and stern -- [[Dragon Rider|riding a dragon]]."<br />

She looked into his eyes and saw truth, and her mouth dropped open in awe and trembled just a little in fear. It is one thing to dream of dragons, and quite another to know with cold certainty that someday you will be touching one. More than that; flying high above the ground on a dragon's scaly back, with empty air as high as castles beneath you, and a twisted death below should you fall. }}

== Live-Action TV ==

* Hiro Nakamura of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has been a comic book junkie for years when he discovers he has superpowers of his own. It's a bit of a surprise he hasn't put together his own costume yet. He certainly ''wants'' to. He also always wanted to be his childhood hero Takezo Kensei and kiss the princess he saves. He got the chance in season 2. Hiro is also a ''literal'' [[Ascended Fanboy]], according to his father:

* ''[[Stargate]]''

** Lt. Col. Mitchell from ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' can be considered such and is sometimes actually referred to as Lt. Col. Fanboy in fannish circles. He has memorized all their mission reports and will occasionally recite passages at top speed. He is known to have had the dream of joining SG-1 to learn from them, but was instead given leadership of said team after being shot down saving their lives, and Major General Jack O'Neill, the original leader of SG-1, promising Mitchell any command he wants if he's successful in his physical therapy. Partially subverted in that when Lt. Col. Mitchell first received command of SG-1 he merely inherited the group's name and its TO&E, all the original members which he idolized had moved on to other things at that point. He managed to convince most of them to come back though. Which is probably why the other SG-1 members didn't mind him taking over the team (not that Jackson or Teal'c, being non-military, could've been put in command anyway, and Lt. Col. Carter didn't return to the team until months after Mitchell arrived). In addition, the job isn't quite perfect as Daniel and Teal'c are often annoyed by his relative inexperience. Said inexperience has also led to him receiving more than his fair share of scaths during his time on the team.

* Quentyn of ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'' started out as a fan of the wonder-tales about the legendary Questors, before becoming a Questor himself. He even at one point uses his fan knowledge to find a way to defeat a plague of wights.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has Dex, the most unkempt regular of Justin's comic shop. Upon [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-05-27 waking up] at the place he can't remember visiting and in a rather strange company he's in a "familiar" environment:

* Walter from ''[[Dubious Company]]'' is an ascended pirate. As a kid, he would read pirate comics during class. As an adult, he got a degree in [[Magitek]] engineering, built his own [[Cool Airship]], and became a pirate. He has [[Didn't Think This Through|increasing]] [[Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!|degrees]] of [[Dark Horse Victory|success]] before the main plot built up.

* ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' has a [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=408 sad and simple creature] -- penguin Pip, [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=60 comic]- and [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=292 movie]- obsessed geek. Who has to become "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=293 PIP DANGEROUS!]". Later a bunch of [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=700 Flying Martian Trashcans] wrecks his house. While the resident [[Mad Scientist]] team followed them to orbit, he [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=712 discovers] {{spoiler|a stash of [[Space Fighter|space fighters]]}} in the basement ([[Hive Mind|Think Tank]] tend to weaponize things if left unattended) and a crowd of bored [[Adorable Evil Minions|Denizens]] around him, so... "[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=719 Kick ass, boys!]"

* As mentioned on the [[Loony Fan]] page, Sierra of ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' is one of these.

* Batman ''himself'' is revealed to be one in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' episode "Beware The Gray Ghost". As a kid, Bruce used to watch episodes of the superhero TV series called ''The Gray Ghost'' with his father, and this was an influence on his decision to become a superhero. Batman reveals this to the actor who played Gray Ghost (voiced by [[Adam West]]), who expresses relief that the show did some good in the world.

* [[The Joker]] [[Didn't See That Coming|himself]] is guilty of this in ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''. To be fair, it ''was'' the father of modern, gimmicked supervillainy, so he ''had'' a good reason to [[Squee]].

* Princess Morbucks from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was a huge fan of the Powerpuffs who was jealous that they wouldn't let her join their group. She responded by using her money to get her own suit built with the same powers, and became a super-villain dedicated to defeating the Powerpuff Girls. She's been a pretty formidable opponent in some episodes.