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{{quote|'''Negi:''' You certainly seem very happy, Tosaka-san. I've never seen you like this before.

* In very early ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the very first Sailor to appear is "[[Codename: Sailor V|Sailor V]]". Usagi often acts as a V fangirl, even after becoming Sailor Moon. (In several episodes she's shown at an arcade playing the ''Sailor V'' video game!) Eventually V is revealed to be Sailor Venus, who joins the other Sailors, prompting a few star-struck moments before things settle down.

* Negi of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' tends to do this when he meets any of his father's friends.

* ''[[Galaxy Fraulein Yuna]]'': Kagurazaka Yuna is an epic [[Fan Girl]] of the Masked Maiden Polylina... who's really played by one of her friends (and former enemy), Lia. (In the game where Polylina is introduced, this started out as a full-on [[Les Yay|crush]], or at least sounded like one.)

* ''[[Transformers Energon]]''

** The [[Pre Crisis]] [[Lex Luthor]] felt this way about ''[[Albert Einstein]]''. After all, this was [[Mad Scientist]] Lex, and Einstein had been his childhood hero. Luthor would commemorate Einstein's birthday each year by traveling to some pivotal location from Einstein's life for a visit (spending one day working in Einstein's old patent office, for instance). It took Superman years to figure out why Lex was behaving so oddly, until he made the connection, at which point he was genuinely touched. Notably, Lex couldn't bring himself to do anything genuinely wicked on that day, out of respect for his hero. Notably, this story was written by [[Elliot S! Maggin]], who always treated Lex with more tragic sympathy than other writers did; and Einstein is ''Maggin's'' personal hero.

* When the [[Justice League of America]] came down on [[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]], Arrowette's first reaction was stunned surprise that the ''Justice League'' concerned themselves with ''them''. (Making it all the more dramatic when she slowly realized that they were being unjust, complaining that the young superheroes were acting young, and then turned on them, [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|telling them off in a manner that reduced them to stunned silence]]. And then stormed off into the kitchen to hyperventilate.)

* ''[[Young Avengers]]''

** In ''Dark Reign: Young Avengers'', upon meeting Norman Osborn superperson artist Coat-of-Arms has one of these moments. She (literally) lets out a "Squee!", then proceeds to go into super-fangirl mode, gushing about how she admires Norman's "works" while showing him paintings she did of some of his more infamous moments (including killing Gwen Stacey). This pisses Norman off and, for a brief moment, he loses his composure and flips out on her. The fact he "went into Green Goblin mode" makes her completely ecstatic.

 

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Koizumi acts like this towards the writer of ''[[Show Within a Show|Brave Detective Sasha]]'' novel series, [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Ryuugu Rena]]. Rena herself has [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|her typical reaction]] over Yuki cosplaying as Sasha.

* In ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]'', Medley acts like this toward [[The Heroine|Rainbow Dash]]. In a mild manner, but nonetheless.

* Ted Mallory of [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' novels ''[[The Magids|Deep Secret]]'' and ''The Merlin Conspiracy'' is a big-name fantasy author and a detective novel fanboy.

* A much more restrained than usual version of this is seen with Caspian in [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]' ''[[Prince Caspian]]''. The film less so.

 

 

** The Tenth Doctor was pretty star-struck by [[William Shakespeare]] in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S3/E02 The Shakespeare Code|The Shakespeare Code]]".

** And [[Agatha Christie]] in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S4/E07 The Unicorn and the Wasp|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]".

** The Ninth Doctor got very excited about meeting [[Charles Dickens]] in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S1/E03 The Unquiet Dead|The Unquiet Dead]]".

** The Doctor and Rose meeting Queen Victoria in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S2/E02 Tooth and Claw|Tooth and Claw]]".

** [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E10 Vincent and The Doctor|Vincent van Gogh]] can be added to the tally as of the fifth series. Eleven and Amy are no more subtle than Ten and Rose in their squeeing, much to [[Vincent van Gogh|Vincent]]'s confusion.

* In the various ''[[Power Rangers]]'' [[Reunion Show|reunion shows]], the current team will sometimes fanboy the previous, longer-established team. In fact, the [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy|Galaxy Rangers]] even referred to the [[Power Rangers in Space|Space Rangers]] as simply "the Power Rangers" while fanboying. Of course, everyone practically ''drools'' over [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Tommy]], and [[Power Rangers Wild Force|Cole]] went even more gaga over [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|the original Red Ranger, Jason]].

** In ''[[Metal Gear]] 2'', Snake fanboys over Natasha Markova/Gustava Heffner, who was [[Real Men Wear Pink|a women's figure skater he likes]].

** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', he can't resist fanboying over Peter Stillman, either, while Raiden is having messy fangasms over the thought of meeting Snake.

* The Ouendan of the Japanese game ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]'' appear wherever they are needed, sometimes for a reason. In ''Ouendan 2'', a pop star is kidnapped, and the Ouendan are there to support fans in reclaiming him because they clearly are fans themselves.

* Ratchet of ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' is like this a few times. He reacts with awe towards a hoverboard champion and is rather excited that the spaceship he is stationed on has a gamestation in the third game.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]] gets this from time to time, since s/he's already a [[Badass]] with a rep in [[Mass Effect (video game)|the first game]]. In [[Mass Effect 2|the second]], s/he's only the savior of the entire galaxy. One could almost argue that there's less squeeing over him/her than there should be. Especially since s/he's back from the dead. Though given the memorials to the Commander on a half dozen planets, his/her home colony adopting his/her face as their official logo, and (according to one news report) raging extranet arguments about what his/her return means, we can say things are pretty Squee-ish. If you chose the Paragon ending in the first game the turian weapons dealer on the Citadel positively ''gushes'' over Shepard. Even before completing his loyalty mission, it's clear that the tankborn mega-krogan [[Blood Knight|Grunt]] has nothing but total respect for Shepard and is infuriated whenever anyone insults him/her in anyway or spits on his/her name.

== Web Comics ==

* Lisa of ''[[Mechagical Girl Lisa A.N.T.]]'', to the point of being completely oblivious that her idol Pink Flash is a [[Dark Magical Girl|dangerous foe]].

* Villainous example from ''[[Homestuck]]'': despite being an omniscient, nearly omnipotent "first guardian" of Alternia, Doc Scratch is apparently a big fan of ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff (Webcomic)|Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'', bringing up many of the same Memes that the rest of the cast does. {{spoiler|1=There is actually a very good reason for this: He was made in part from a magic cue ball and one of Bro's puppets, and Dave (who wrote SBaHJ in-universe) has a similar sense of humor to Bro.}}

* [http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/01-daddy-issues/simontrent/ Batman meeting the Grey Ghost] in ''[[Shortpacked]]''.

** In "Yam Yakkers," Ikura and Wasabi are looking forward to getting the autograph of the actor playing Aquabot-boy, and while Tako claims to be a fan of Aquabot-boy, not the actor, he still does a happy dance when he gets an autograph, too.

* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''

** The whole team drools over Val-Yor to a scary degree, trusting the stranger to the point of joining a mission of his far from Earth ''way'' too quickly. Then it turns out {{spoiler|he's [[Fantastic Racism|speciesist]] and hates Tamaraneans, allowing for an [[Anvilicious]] [[Aesop]] without going to the [[Moral Guardian]]-unfriendly level of using the actual ''black character'' for a race-relations-related episode}}.

** Also, in the flashback episode showing how the team first met, Beast Boy was very excited to meet Robin, who was, of course, already famous.

* In ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' episode "The Red Squirrel" Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico all squee over meeting and working with the legendary Special Agent Buck Rockgut. Skipper even claims to have "patterned his whole life" after Rockgut. {{spoiler|Their enthusiasm fades when he accuses first Private then Kowalski of being the villainous Red Squirrel.}}

* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003), Mikey often feels this way regarding established super-heroes, such as Silver Sentry and the Justice Force.

** There was a definite [[Broken Pedestal]] moment when he met Green Lantern John Stewart. However that was quickly resolved upon learning the Lantern Static ''thought'' he'd met was Sinestro impersonating him.

** Same with Superman in another episode, not to mention both he and Gear getting their minds blown when the Justice League itself asks for their help in their crossover episode (well, Static's help, anyway.)