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* 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 ''[[52]]'' 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 the Fanservice|Poledancer]]''). Eventually, Luthor creates his own super-team populated by these heroes with Eliza Harmon, who idolized the [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]] and all things [[The Flash|speed]]. When she became Trajectory and a member of Luthor's new [[Infinity Inc]] she never stopped hoping to eventually join the Titans, and dreamed of eventually becoming the [[Legacy Character|new]] Kid Flash.
* ''[[Marvel 2099]]''
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* [[Irony]] had the last laugh on Commander Sam Vimes ''and'' Havelock Vetinari in the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud]]!''. [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] A.E. Pessimal was sent by Lord Vetinari to inspect Vimes' operations, and neither man knew Pessimal had always wanted to join the City Watch. Vimes eventually got sick of Pessimal and made him tag along to quell a potential riot, thinking it would make him [[Welcome to My World|see things from Vimes's point of view and shut him up]]. Ironically, Pessimal took to the opportunity once the shell-shock wore off, and after a display of sheer balls (trying to attack a rioting troll with his ''teeth''!) that shocked Vimes and even the usually unflappable Vetinari, Vimes decided to poach Pessimal from Vetinari, and the Ascended Fanboy got to live his dream (and do his original job simultaneously).
* Possibly the oldest fictional example is that ''[[Don Quixote]]'', though rather than waiting for the [[Call to Adventure]] to come to him, he took a much more proactive approach to living out his chivalric fantasies.
* Done by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] in 1958 in ''[[Have Space
* Mike O'Neal, Jr, from the ''[[Posleen War Series]]''.
* Ed Greenwood in ''[[Forgotten Realms|Shadows of Doom]]'' shows just how ''casually'' this may happen to any random kid around [[Canon Sue|Elminster]]... and how it feels:
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* Shingo Yabuki from ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' idolized Kyo Kusanagi so much that he vigorously trained so that he could join him in the titular tournament. While he may never shoot fire (somebody apparently never told him that Kusanagi powers are hereditary), he was strong enough to win a few tournaments ''and'' survive against Riot of the Blood Iori.
* Sakura Kasugano from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' trained to catch up to her idol Ryu, and eventually fought him. She was even able to use the Hadoken, an impressive feat for a martial arts student with no training partner. Scarily enough, in one comic continuity before she started fangirling Ryu, Sakura was a huge fan of E. Honda, the ''sumo wrestler'', and training to be like him. Including lamenting just how much weight she still had to gain. She still respects Honda, as shown in her [[Sub Boss]] fight with him in ''Alpha 3''... just not so much.
* [[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 ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]''. Almaz is a ''descended'' fanboy after his hero-idolizing tendencies gave him the wonderfully suicidal idea that he should follow in legendary hero Aurum's footsteps and go slay [[Dimension Lord|the Overlord of the Netherworld]]. No more than a couple of chapters later, he's now unwillingly serving as the lab rat of the Overlord's son, and wondering what the hell he was thinking. {{spoiler|There's also the fact that the "hero" in question is actually the [[Big Bad]] of the game.}}
* Alex from ''[[[[Lunar: The Silver Star|Lunar the Silver Star]] Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete'', who is a worshipper of the Dragonmaster Dyne, is a textbook example of this trope as he gets to be the dragonmaster and save the girl and the world.
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