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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"To become a crime fighter you have to study ''[[
Some fans are a cut above the regular [[Otaku]]. For most, it's as simple as [[Promoted Fanboy|being hired to work in the industry that deals with the media you love]], but in fiction, it can take a whole new meaning. The [[Ascended Fanboy]] is that lucky one-in-a-million with a hobby based on something imaginary which doesn't stay imaginary--it turns into reality, and he becomes a part of it himself.
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See also [[I Know Mortal Kombat]], which often results in this. If the fan gets to work on a ''show'' about mecha rather than ''piloting'' a mecha, that's [[Promoted Fanboy]]. Contrast with [[Loony Fan]].
This has nothing to do with ''that'' [[Ascend to
Compare [[Promoted Fanboy]], [[The Knights Who Say Squee]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Gai Daigoji of ''[[
* Noa Izumi from ''[[
* ''[[
* Gun-otaku Kohta Hirano from ''[[
** One part of Blackwater's business is firearms and tactical training. All you have to do is pay a few thousand dollars and they'll teach anyone how to shoot military weapons like a professional. Many Japanese gun enthusiasts go on overseas trips just to go shoot guns, especially in Guam.
* The manga ''[[
* The professor from the one-man-band short film ''Negadon: Monster of Mars'' (See it, if just for the CGI alone.) After accidentally killing his daughter during a test run, he squirrels away the giant robot Miroku after the army is embarrassed by the disaster and cancels the project. Though he doesn't want to ever use the robot again because of the terrible memories, it has been kept in prime working condition, and certainly a few of its abilities couldn't have been thought up(or approved) by stuffy PR-hound regulation-happy army generals so he most likely continued work on it on his own free time. When normal military hardware proves ineffective against Negadon, he brings out the mothballed mecha. Also he looks disturbingly similar to Otakon, only 30 years older.
* {{spoiler|Mikami Teru}} of ''[[
* The protagonist of ''Forbidden Kingdom'' fits the bill perfectly. Until he decides to go home.
* Most of the cast of ''[[
* Aoba from ''[[
* The [[Genre Savvy]] Momoko/Blossom of ''[[Demashita
* Heavily subverted in ''[[
* Akio Suzuka in ''[[
* ''Anime/Gundam''
** Subverted by young Chang in ''[[
** Traigically played with in ''[[
** Even before that, we have a rather disturbing version in ''[[
* ''[[
* Subverted by Gainer Sanga of ''[[
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (
* Usagi in ''[[
* Deconstructed in ''[[
* In the "Shanghai Dragon" segment of the ''Genius Party''(2007) anthology, a snot-nosed 5-year old outcast discovers a device that can make his doodles come to life. When alien invaders attack, he remembers his favorite Sentai tv series, but I won't spoil what happens next.
* Renge from ''[[
* In the ''[[Monster Rancher (
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** Luffy's entire backstory is essentially him fanboying over Shanks, then deciding he's going to be even better than him and putting that into action. He is more likely to find his opponents' destructive powers of doom SOOOO COOL than to find it terrifying. In particular, he seems to like mechas and giant robots (a trait even his shadow-zombie Oz shared). In an ultimate ascended fanboy moment, Mr. 3 made him a wax battle suit so he could hit his poisonous opponent without ending up like he had when he'd tried punching the guy with bare fists. He practically cries from happiness at the opportunity.
** Arc villain Hodi was a huge fan of [[Big Bad]] Arlong and the Sun Pirates when he was younger.
** In a [[Real Life]] example, The Rootless, the band who created One Day, the 13th opening, wanted to do an opening for ''One Piece'' since they started.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** 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.
{{quote| '''[[Our Demons Are Different|Elsie]]:''' It's a Nekumaru Hellcat!<br />
'''Game Show Host:''' Kanon, stop saying weird things! }}
* Kirito from ''[[
* Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Wild Tiger from ''[[
* Maho from ''[[
* Cross a continent and an ocean to train as a samurai in Japan. That's what Stephanie from ''[[
* Subaru Nakajima of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (
* Hilariously averted in ''[[
* Hiroko in ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* The graphic artist and [[
* To a certain extent, Ragged Robin in Grant Morrison's ''[[The Invisibles]]'', who essentially writes herself into the story using fan fiction. King Mob also comments on how he now gets to live the crazy science fiction/espionage adventures he always dreamed of as a kid. Considering it's no secret that King Mob is just a cooler version of Morrison...
* [[
** Barbara Gordon, the original [[Batgirl]] ([[Canon Dis Continuity|Not counting]] the Bat-Girl from the 50's and 60's), was dressing up in a costume for a Halloween party when she stumbled into crimefighting. Prior to this, she was either disinterested in costumed adventuring, or was planning to emulate different superheroes (Different continuities give different backstories, but most at least agree that, whatever her specific plans were, they did not involve bats). That first encounter earned her the label "Batgirl" and she was automatically associated with Batman in the public consciousness. Only her subsequent refusal to stop got Batman involved in training and working with her.
** Tim Drake (the third Robin) also demonstrates this trope. In his origin story he deduces that Dick Grayson must be Robin because of a signature move they both use, spends several years of his childhood stalking and photographing Robin and Batman, and finally confronts Dick and then Bruce Wayne, insisting that "Batman needs a Robin." [Note: this only applies to the comic-book Tim Drake; the [[DCAU]] Tim Drake's backstory is modified from Jason Todd's.]
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** Batman himself is arguably an ascended fanboy, although for meta reasons. In the first Batman comic, the film he goes to see with his parents is ''The Mark of [[Zorro]]'', a character that strongly inspired his. You can [[Fan Wank]] that he ended up deliberately mimicking Zorro.
* All the [[Young Avengers]], but particularly Hulkling and Wiccan. Some are also [[Legacy Character|Legacy Characters]].
* Victor Mancha in ''[[
* Prime of ''Ultraforce'' was a superhero fan who actually became a superhero.
* Eddie Bloomberg was a fanboy of [[Blue Devil]] for most of that series, and even went as far as to create his own power suit so he could be Blue Devil's sidekick, Kid Devil. Eddie officially ascended years later when he was turned into a real devil and joined the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''.
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** As was Wally West, who dreamed of being like the Flash as a kid (helped along by a visitation from a future version of himself). Then, in an identical repetition of the accident which made Barry Allen theFlash whilst visiting his lab. And thus Kid Flash was born.
** The first Professor Zoom is retconned as one of these [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]. Eobard Thawne was a fan of Barry Allen from the future who found ways to replicate his powers, costume, and appearance all with the intention of coming back to the past to run alongside Barry. It only goes wrong when he arrives after Barry's death when Wally has already taken over the role. Addled from time travel and the discovery that he will one day become Professor Zoom, he briefly deludes himself into thinking he is Barry and fools everyone else in the process.
* ''[[
** Superboy-Prime is an odd example: a kid named Clark Kent who grew up reading DC Comics in the "real" world (or Earth-Prime, or whatever), turned out to have powers just like ''[[
** ''[[
* In the ''[[Astro City]]'' story arc "Confessional", the future Altar Boy moves to Astro City with the intention of becoming a sidekick, working in a superhero bar and a private club for heroes as part of his goal. It eventually works for him.
* Rodney Rabbit was a writer and artist for his Earth's DC Comics, particularly its top-selling superhero team title "''Just'a Lotta Animals''". After events are set into motion by visitors Superman and villain Starro the Conqueror, Rodney himself becomes a superhero and forms his own superhero team, the [[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew (Comic Book)|Zoo Crew]].
* ''[[Daredevil]]'': Maki Matsumoto became a fan of Bullseye after he inadvertently rescued her when he killed the Yakuza who were planning on selling her into sexual slavery. She would later become Lady Bullseye.
* Izzy Sinclair is a sci-fi geekette turned ''[[Doctor Who]]'' companion in the ''[[
* ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'': Faiza Hussain is a superhero fangirl who gets zapped with Skrull [[Applied Phlebotinum]] during the Secret Invasion arc and gets superpowers.
* Dan Dreiberg of ''[[Watchmen (
* To an extent, almost everyone in [[Spider-Girl (Comic Book)|Spider-Girl]]'s [[Marvel Comics 2|universe]], including Mayday herself. Most of them aren't obsessive but they do tend to fangirl/boy their heroes/teams of choice.
* Evil Version: Parker Robbins was a fan of Supervillains who later ended up becoming [[The Hood]], one of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] of the Marvel Universe.
* [[Squirrel Girl]] was an Avengers fan rejected for having the useless power of controlling squirrels. Then she ends up saving Iron Man and defeating [[Dr. Doom]]. That would be ascended enough, but then she goes on and beats Thanos, Terrax, Deadpool, Mandarin, and others. She's not only ascended, but made her way to the very top of the Marvel universe.
* Ironfist in ''[[Transformers Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' was a major fanboy of the Wreckers team, writing extensivly about them under the name "Fisitron". Then he got to join them for their mission to Garrus-9. This did not go well.
* One of the primary plot points of the series ''[[Fifty Two]]'' was the [[Lex Luthor]] Everyman Project, which could artificially grant superpowers to normal people. This led to countless citizens gaining superpowers and creating their own hero identities (including, in one [[Splash Panel]] that included over a dozen of these new heroes, the superhero ''[[Best Known for
* ''[[Marvel 2099]]''
** Subverted by [[
** Also subverted with [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Hulk]] 2099: there's a crackpot group called the Knights of the Banner who worship the original Hulk and plan on exposing themselves to gamma radiation. And then Jon Eisenhart, who couldn't care less about Bruce Banner, comes blundering in and gets the effects.
** Played straight with [[Punisher]] 2099, who was obsessed with Frank Castle's war journal, and [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] 2099, who was a Thorite priest.
* In ''[[
== Comic Strips ==
* ''[[What's New
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[
* Erin Frame of ''[[
* The smartass artist-angel Rachael in the ''[[
* Eidolon and Shift in [[DC Nation]] are superhero-obssessed fanboys who end up being able to put on a costume and fight evil themselves. Eidolon's encyclopediac knowledge of the superhero world is the [[Badass Normal|closest thing he has to a superpower]].
* DC and Rei Tanaka from the ''[[
* OC Ace Phoenix from the Megaman fan fic"[[The Omega Chronicles]]".
* In The [[Halo]]/MassEffect [[Fusion Fic]] crossover [[
== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Syndrome:''' You sly dog. You got me ''[[Just Between You and Me|monologuing!]]''}}
* In ''[[
* Rhino the hamster from ''[[
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Alex Rogan in ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''.
* In a similar vein, Kevin Flynn from ''[[
{{quote| '''Flynn:''' I shouldn't have written all of those tank programs.}}
* And then, in ''[[Tron
* A lampshade is hung on this to some extent in ''[[
{{quote| '''Brandon:''' I just wanted to tell you I thought a lot about what you said. But I want you to know that I'm not a complete brain case, okay? I understand completely that it's just a TV show. I know there's no beryllium sphere, no digital conveyor, no ship...<br />
'''Jason Nesmith:''' ''(at the same time)'' It's okay, now listen... Hold it... Just stop for a second! It's all real.<br />
'''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.
* In the film ''[[Rockstar]]'', a passionate fanboy of fictional [[
* Mark Wahlberg characters act out this trope in at least two different movies -- not only ''Rock Star'', but also ''Invincible,'' in which a devoted Philadelphia Eagles fan Vince Papale tries out for the team and makes the roster. Not only that, both firms are based on real-life individuals.
* In [[Rocky Balboa]] one of the announcers in the Rocky vs. Mason Dixon fight said he grew up as a Rocky fan and couldn't believe he was actually calling Rocky match.
* Also, ''[[Rudy]]'', Notre Dame's biggest fan becomes one of its most famous players, just on pure determination.
* Woody Wilkins in ''[[Condorman]]'' deliberately sets out to bring fame to his eponymous comic book hero by attempting all the stunts he writes about in [[Real Life]]. He convinces his CIA buddy to let him take a "routine" courier mission and winds up involved in the [[Defector From Commie Land|defection]] of a KGB spy. In a variation of the usual trope, he is actually [[Wrong Genre Savvy]], which is where the [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[JCVD]]'', three fans meet Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays his own role.
* In ''[[American Dreamer]]'', thanks to [[Easy Amnesia]], Cathy Palmer lives out a life like her favorite novel heroine, {{spoiler|and even ends up with the author of those books}}.
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== Literature ==
* [[Irony]] had the last laugh on Commander Sam Vimes ''and'' Havelock Vetinari in the ''[[
* Possibly the oldest fictional example is that ''[[
* Done by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in 1958 in ''[[Have Space Suit - Will Travel
* Mike O'Neal, Jr, from the ''[[Posleen War Series]]''.
* Ed Greenwood in ''[[Forgotten Realms
{{quote| "Lord Elminster! Old Mage! Make magic for us, please! Please! A dragon flying. Only a little one, just for us!"<br />
[...]"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. }}
* ''[[
* Sam Yaeger from [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[Worldwar
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''
** Subverted in the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Escape Velocity''; the fanboy ''dies'', and his long-suffering girlfriend, who finds all that sci-fi stuff silly and prefers [[Jane Austen]], starts traveling in the TARDIS against her will.
** Fitz is more of a straight example -- he's more into fantasy and spy fiction than sci-fi, but it seems he won't turn his nose up at any fiction more interesting than regular existence. He's also very [[Genre Savvy]], especially in his first appearance, where he's all but a [[Fourth Wall Observer]] (he comments on which act it would be if the story were a play). Fittingly, he [[Man Child|harasses]] the poor long-suffering woman previously mentioned by [[The Wizard of Oz (
* In ''[[Harry Potter (
* The Alphas from ''[[
* [[Five-Man Band|The DHIs]] in ''[[The Kingdom Keepers]]'' were all fans of [[Disney]] before they were chosen to defeat the Overtakers. Although, unlike most examples, [[Resigned to
* [[Fredric Brown]]'s story "What Mad Universe" is about a fiction writer who reads a letter from fan. Then, a strange explosion occurs in front of him... And he is transported to an [[Alternate Universe]] where said fan is literally the [[Mary Sue]].
* ''[[Wild Cards]]'' character Kid Dinosaur was a fan of "Aces" and nuts about dinosaurs. Then he caught the Wild Card Virus, the manifestation of which is often [[Personality Powers|influenced by the subconscious]] of its victim. You can guess from his name what happened next.
* In ''Earthweb'' by Marc Stiegler, Earth Defense [http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/067157809X/067157809X___2.htm sponsors] an arcade game simulating the fight against the planet-bombing Shivas to find new minds fit to lead the real thing.
* In ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'', Quinn Blackwood becoming part of Lestat's coven.
* Abraham Van Helsing in the original ''[[Dracula (
* Catherine Morland believes herself to be this in ''[[
* R. J. Rummel's ''Never Again'' series of novels features a rather dark version of this trope. The main character, John Banks (who is an obvious [[Author Avatar|stand-in]] for Rummel) is a professor of twentieth-century history who gets selected as one of two people to travel to the early part of that century. The dark twist is that Banks studies wars and crimes against humanity, and volunteered to go back in time in order to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|prevent those events from happening]].
== 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:
{{quote| '''Kaito:''' I have waited a long time for a Nakamura to ascend.}}
* ''[[Stargate]]''
** Lt. Col. Mitchell from ''[[
** Really, [[Stargate (
** [[I Know Mortal Kombat|Eli Wallace]] from ''[[
* ''[[Power Rangers]]''
** Justin from ''[[Power Rangers Turbo]]'' can certainly qualify, especially considering his response to gaining the mantle of the Blue Turbo Ranger. Mack from ''Operation Overdrive'' might be a more pronounced example, with his specific love of adventure books and sneaking off with the morpher intended for his [[Adventurer Archaeologist]] father. Dustin from ''Ninja Storm'' is a less pronounced example; he's a comic book fan whose reaction to receiving the power was "[[I Knew It!]]! Power Rangers ''are'' real!" but motocross is still his major interest.
** There's more. Computer/sci-fi geek Ethan from ''Dino Thunder'' looked about to faint when he found out he'd be a Ranger, and ''Mystic Force'''s Chip has been shown to be a fan of superheroes and fantasy. The main ''Jungle Fury'' [[Power Trio]] also had big grins on their faces (or at least Theo did) when their mentor brought up the Rangers, just before they were presented with their own morphers. Subverted in ''SPD'', where fanboy Boom is almost the only one who ''doesn't'' get a morpher at some point.
* From [[Super Sentai]] we have Gai Ikari/Gokai Silver from ''[[
** And now we have ''[[
* Detective Kate Beckett in ''[[Castle]]'' is a (closet) fan of the mystery novels of Richard Castle, who as a result of their 'partnership' has found herself the basis for Detective Nikki Heat, the protagonist of his latest novels.
* Macy on ''[[Jonas]]'' is Jonas's biggest fan and runs their fan club. And luckily she goes to school with them and is best friends with their stylist. As a result she goes from acting like a buffoon around them to becoming one of their closest friends.
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== Music ==
* Perhaps the ultimate music example was at the opening concert of [[
* [[
* Once upon a time, a high school student posted [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|trap]] covers of [[
* After the [[Author Existence Failure|death]] of original [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] guitarist Hillel Slovak, the band auditioned new guitarists until they discovered John Frusciante, a teenager who knew how to play every single one of their songs and was quite skilled on his own. He joined the band and was an integral member for many years before leaving to work on his solo career. Today, he is hailed as one of the greatest guitarists in the history of music.
== Video Games ==
* Travis Touchdown of ''[[
* ''[[
** [[Subverted]] with Otacon, a lonely [[Otaku]] who is determined to become one of these by building himself a real life [[Humongous Mecha]] like in the [[Anime]] he loved -- of course, it turns out that the mecha is going to be a new type of nuclear weapons platform and he'd let his desire to live in fiction overshadow his logic. And then it's [[Double Subverted]] when Otacon ends up becoming the sidekick of an action hero-esque soldier and ends up living the otaku fantasy after all.
** Otacon's the most obvious, but this actually applies to most of the cast. Ocelot is a [[Spaghetti Western]] [[Otaku]] who was [[Comic Book Fantasy Casting|modelled after]] [[Lee Van Cleef]], can do ridiculous gunplay tricks with his revolver and pull off complicated [[Man With No Name]]-style backstabbing [[Batman Gambit]], and wears spurs all the time. Major Zero is a [[James Bond]] fanboy who is also a British spy going by an intitial codename ("O") and ends up masterminding a [[Cold War]] assassination gambit to kill another superspy. Snake makes various references to movies throughout the games, even giving his name as Iroquois ([[Meaningful Name|meaning "rattlesnake"]]) [[Escape
* ''[[
** Ryusei Date is a [[Humongous Mecha]] otaku who pilots the machines he's admired so much. In ''Original Generation'', he gains an [[Evil Counterpart]], Tenzan Nakajima.
** [[Top wo Nerae Gunbuster|Noriko]] usually joins him in squeeing over all the Super Robots the heroes are carting around. And then she pilots the [[
** ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'' gives us a rare villainous one in the form of {{spoiler|THE Edel Bernal}}.
* Shingo Yabuki from ''[[
* Sakura Kasugano from ''[[
* [[Viewtiful Joe]] is Captain Blue's biggest fan, and grew up watching Blue's movies and collecting his action figures. Needless to say, he hogged Captain Blue when those were offered to him. And let's not even get started on his [[Squee]] at meeting the ''[[Tatsunoko Productions|Tatsunoko]]'' heroes in ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[
* Alex from ''[[[[Lunar:
* ''[[
** Between the 9th and 10th games, Kieran (the most patriotic character in the series, ''including'' the ones who fall under [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]) is promoted to 2nd in command of the Royal Knights (one of Criema's highest military positions).
** In the fourth game, one of the substitute characters is a pegasus knight named Femina. The girl had been raised hearing stories about the amazing knight Sigurd and his companion Ferry; she doesn't get to work with her idols {{spoiler|since they're dead}}, but becomes one of the companions of Sigurd's son Celice.
* The Engine 001 action RPG ''Voyage for Vengeance'' has a man in one of the cities who loves Shadowrun so much that he started his own shadow running organization which the player can eventually work for.
* Cloud Strife from ''[[
* According to [[All There in the Manual|the Ultimania guide]], as a child Seifer Almasy from ''[[
* Morgan LeFlay from ''[[
* Liberty Lad from ''[[Freedom Force]]'' starts off as an obnoxious [[Loony Fan]] that follows the heroes around and needs to be protected in a [[Escort Mission|quasi-escort mission]]. Eventually he ends up {{spoiler|taking a bullet for his hero that possesses superhuman endurance and is largely immune to bullets, gets a [[Deus Ex Machina|magical operation]], and}} turns into Liberty Lad.
* Stephanie Morgan of ''[[
* Jann Lee from ''[[
* ''[[
** ''[[
** Kasumi as well. Cerberus tried to find her and when she found out she did some investigating to find out they have Shepard brought [[Back From the Dead]], and from there she offered a fee, introduced herself to Shepard as a fan, left the emotional baggage other crew members have behind and only asked that Shepard consider helping her on a heist to recover her lover's grey box.
* ''[[
* Raz, the protagonist of ''[[
* Goombario from the first ''[[Paper Mario (
* According to the [[All There in the Manual|collector's edition strategy guide]] for ''[[Fallout
* 9-volt and 18-volt from ''[[
* The player Loganius from ''[[
* Luke Triton, in the ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* {{spoiler|Sol}} and Kei in ''[[
* Thoroughly deconstructed in ''[[Fans]]'', where all of the heroes (and several of the villains) were of this type. It was most poignantly subverted with a character actually known in-story as [http://www.graphicsmash.com//comics/fans.php?view=archive&chapter=5649&name=fans Tim the Fanboy], who had become a fan of the ''previous'' heroic fans, {{spoiler|only to turn on them when he felt they had let him down}}.
* Parson Gotti from ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[http://emi-art.com/twtyh/ The Way to Your Heart]''
** Ultra-fanboy Eizo gets many encounters with his idols in the band Orochi thanks to his friendship with Yumi, leading up to him flying with the band to Hawaii for the wedding of Shuya and Musashi and even sharing a hotel room with the band members... albeit drooling and tied up to keep him under control.
** Yumi herself goes from knowing nothing about visual kei, to adoring Orochi's music, to dating the drummer. Quite an ascension!
* Subverted in ''[[
* Quentyn of ''[[
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Dex:''' A [[Half-Human Hybrid|furry]]... A black mage... And... haven't I seen you cosplaying as Chun-Li?}}
* Walter from ''[[
* ''[[Sequential Art (
* Euryale of ''[[
* {{spoiler|uranianUmbra}} of ''[[
* Sage Freehaven became one in ''[[Las Lindas (Webcomic)|Las Lindas]]'' and became the cannon love interest to the lepord woman with the biggest breasts in the comic.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Red Panda Adventures]]'' has Kit Baxter starting out as a fan and his chauffeur, than blackmailed her way into becoming his sidekick, {{spoiler|and now his wife}}
* ''[[
* Warrick Kaine of ''[[
* Stereo, Phono and Minijack, the appropriately named FanBoyz, are the three biggest fans of the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, a group their classmates are sure doesn't exist. They post dance videos of themselves on the internet in an effort to get the LXD's attention, hoping to join them. Imagine their surprise when they each recive an invitation to join.
* ''[[
* Many Agents of the [[Anti Cliche and Mary Sue Elimination Society]] started out as simple fans of the Society before deciding to join.
* Paolo emailed Harvey Morenstein asking for advice on how to do his own epic meal. The cast and crew of ''[[
* Several current contributors on ''[[That Guy With
* On the video game music podcast ''[[Nitro Game Injection]]'', Suraida, the newest co-host, was originally a dedicated listener. She ended up being invited onto the show for episode #142 to fill in for one of the other hosts, returning for a few more episodes before popular demand from fans led her to becoming a semi-regular co-host.
* A number of characters in ''[[
* [[The Guild]]: {{spoiler|Codex gets a job with the creator of The Game}} at the end of season 5.
* ''[[RWBY]]'': Ruby, who geeks out over huntsmen and huntresses, and manages to get into Beacon Academy years before she normally would be old enough on the basis of both skill and overwhelming enthusiasm.
== Western Animation ==
* This is basically the entire premise of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Codename
* ''[[
* From the ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (
* [[Blow You Away|Wind Dragon]], Samurai's [[Captain Ersatz]] in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''.
* Static and Gear in ''[[
* 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
{{quote| '''Simon Trent:''' ''(amazed)'' So... it ''wasn't'' all for nothing.}}
* [[The Joker]] [[Didn't See That Coming|himself]] is guilty of this in ''[[Batman:
* Princess Morbucks from ''[[
* This is the entire concept of the 80s cartoon series ''[[Captain N:
* In ''[[
* An episode of [[South Park]] featured Kenny playing a video game, only to find out the game was created by angels so they could find out who would be the best person in the world at leading their army against Satan.
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* Let's just say anyone who [[One of Us|frequents this very wiki]] who gets their own page, or even a mention on another page (some examples being [http://www.desudesbrigade.com/ the D2 Brigade], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDmAA3k6fA Brain Scratch Coms], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUknc-uHao Trask Nari], and [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/fbv Film Brain] to name a few).
* Many of the first astronauts and rocket scientists said they were inspired by science fiction novels and comics they read as children. Wernher von Braun and the VfR may be a particularly straight, if dark, example.
* The first female black astronaut in space credits Uhura from ''[[Star Trek:
** Likewise, when another ''[[
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