following anecdotal discussion between the author/artist of Ranma ½ and a random fan at a convention: Which just about sums up 90% of these examples. Cheers...
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Subtrope of Audience Surrogate. Compare Promoted Fanboy, Even Heroes Have Heroes. Examples of Ascended Fanboy include: Gai Daigoji of Martian Successor Nadesico...
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the fan has creative control and is Running the Asylum. Compare Ascended Fanboy (a fan In-Universe), Big Name Fan (the ones most likely to be promoted)...
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action figures with Fanboy and Chum Chum, but they have such random rules that Kyle quits out of frustration. Camera Abuse: In "Fanboy in the Plastic Bubble"...
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girl from New Jersey. The comic artist Pat Lee used a Katakana font to put random Japanese letters beneath his name in a header for his website. The problem:...
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include: Graham Aker from Gundam 00 is a Japanese culture fanboy. A VERY Badass Japanese fanboy who manages to avoid being an Occidental Otaku if only by...
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to "You're A Meanie, Nasty Lobe". Fanboy and Mark Hamill doing the famous Luke, I Am Your Father scene, with Fanboy as Vader, of course. Hula and Luaus:...
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/y/, the board dedicated to it. Yuri Fanboy: On the other hand, a lot of the Moe show threads are full of fanboys who'd like to see girls French kiss each...
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Osborn. Ironfist from Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers is an Ascended Fanboy and Audience Surrogate, as well as being very sympathetic and very cutely...
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feature of Rosa's work is his unveiling of the Duck Family Tree, based on random Remember the New Guy? characters from Barks' stories. As of 2009, due to...
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would just be a Shout-Out. Can be an in-joke for an Ascended Fanboy character, or a Promoted Fanboy who makes sure it'll be in the show. Can also be a result...
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the most insanely random thing Transformers has ever done. Bad dubbing takes it from random to incomprehensible and insanely random. In Superlink, this...
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Pratfall: There's a random chance of pratfalling whenever the control stick is hit, discouraging excessive dashing and pivoting. Random Drop: the Pokéballs...
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Kaguro in Kekkaishi Markus Vaughn in Trauma Center Yamato and Pain in Naruto Random Army Rangers in Modern Warfare 2 Jetfire in Transformers: War for Cybertron...
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Dragonball Z Kai Edgar and Ellen El Tigre the Adventures of Manny Rivera Fanboy and Chum Chum Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes Glenn Martin, DDS...
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Afro: Miror B.'s massive, Poké Ball-colored afro. He even has an aspiring fanboy in the form of Mirakle B., who may be a Loony Fan. Heel Face Turn: Wes has...
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whose dialogue is randomly generated. A sample: In Baroque, the Horned Girl at first appears to be a Talkative Loon, saying random things, like accusing...
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also seems to fart out her eggs rather than laying them. Also, one of the random facts about Gruntilda the player can learn is that her party trick is "blowing...
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Decimal System category except for Philosophy. In addition, he was a Promoted Fanboy; he started reading the pulp sci-fi magazines sold in his family's candy...
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Lorenzo's mother, and Phil asked if he could set her verses to music. Promoted Fanboy: See: One of Us above. Real Life Writes The Song: See: Dark and Troubled...
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