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* ''[[Kamichama Karin]] Chu'''s [[Idol Singer]] Kuga Jin is often surrounded by hordes of fangirls. Karin has had to fight her way through the crowd to talk to him more than once.
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is the originator of the trope pic, [[Idol Singer|Sheryl]] [[Ms. Fanservice|Nome]] has this group stalking her in High School. Yes she is in that room, yes that room is a shower, and yes that is a guy with a [[Panty Shot|conspicuously angled camera]].
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Superdickery.com shows us [[Superman|Jimmy Olsen]] had [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502063759/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1060%3Amost-nonsensical-cover-ever-yes&Itemid=24#content one]... [[Time Travel|in the past]].
* ''[[The Amazing Joy Buzzards]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110074156/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/ul1-3.jpg This cover] from ''Go-Go'' has The Rotting Stumps being pursued by their groupies.
* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'': Bob's character Knuckles acquires one in-game in the "Sing For the Moment" storyline.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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** Paul manages to lure the Groupie Brigade around the Plaza into swamping the “Hitler Youth” trying to detain him, because one of them is wearing a “Beagle” wig.
** When John leads the harveys in their peaceful protest, they're surrounded by fans, but he's protected by layer upon layer of giant rabbits.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Singin' in the
** [[Gene Kelly]] sort of reprises this scene in the all-star comedy ''What a Way to Go!'' as a huge movie star who gets trampled to death by a stampede of crazed fans (with rogue elephant sound effects!)
* ''[[A Hard Day's Night]]''
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** To be fair, there's a similar sequence in ''A Hard Day's Night''.
* At the beginning of ''[[Austin Powers]]: International Man of Mystery'', Austin (a ''photographer'') was being pursued by his Groupie Brigade, in a parody of ''[[A Hard Day's Night]]''.
* ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]''.{{context}}
* The movie ''Nickelodeon'' has silent movie stars being stripped naked by screaming fans ripping off their clothing for souvenirs.
* Happens in ''[[That Thing You Do]]!''.
* ''[[ABBA]]: The Movie''
* The [[Disney]] animated ''[[Hercules (1997 film)
* ''[[Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?]]''
* Joseph in ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'' is treated this way during the musical number "Stone the Crows", to the dismay of both him and the Pharaoh.
* Prince Char in ''[[Ella Enchanted]]''.
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* Played dramatically in [[Judy Garland]]'s ''[[A Star Is Born]]'' where the movie star main character can't attend her ''dead husband's funeral'' without being torn at by a groupie mob in attendance.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''. While in Berlin to retrieve the Grail diary, Indy gets tangled up in a mob of Nazis who are members of Hitler's fan club.
* After he carries a pretty hitchhiker at high speed across the country, a gang of screaming girls put themselves in the way of the Wizard in the hopes he'll do the same for them in the short film ''[[The Wizard of Speed and Time (short)|The Wizard of Speed and Time]]''; the scene is recreated for the [[Show Within a Show|film-within-a-film]] in the [[The Wizard of Speed and Time (film)|feature-length version]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* Parodied, along with most other rock group tropes, in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* [[Heralds of Valdemar|Herald Alberich]] takes advantage of one of these in ''Exile's Valor''. When he realizes that the actor Norris is trailing him, he goes into a large inn and "happens" to mention the fact that Norris is outside to a roomful of young ladies ... then dives for cover as they charge outside and mob Norris.
* In ''[[Monster Hunter International|Monster Hunter Vendetta]]'', Owen Pitt's brother (nicknamed Mosh) is a heavy metal guitarist of some renown, and is followed by a swarm of adoring orcs from the local village once he goes to the MHI compound.
* ''[[The Monkees (TV series)|The Monkees]]''▼
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* ''[[The Monkees]]''
** Although situations like these were more than plentiful in the real life mid-60’s era of Monkeemania, rarely is this trope actually seen, because, in their wacky TV show universe, the Monkees are not famous at all...in fact, they're [[Starving Artist]]s.
** One notable exception would be the documentary episode
* Played with in ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'', in which the [[Big Bad]] casts a spell city-wide to cause this to happen, and the conveniently immune Rangers nearly get trampled to death by stampeding fans.
* An early-series ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode has a spell go wrong (as they often do) and Xander is chased by hordes of love-sick fans. Only they want to tear his flesh off, not his clothes.
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* ''[[Leverage]]'': Eliot acquires one when posing as a country and western singer in "The Studio Job".
* In ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' episode "The Redcoats Are Coming," Rob tries to hide a pair of [[Captain Ersatz|British rock-and-roll idols]] in his house to keep them from being discovered by the local teenagers. Somehow word gets out, and Rob's house winds up trashed by the groupie brigade.
== [[Music]] ==
* Allan Sherman's song "Pop Hates The Beatles" (to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel") has a funny take on this.
{{quote|''When the Beatles come on the stage,
''They scream and shriek and cheer them.
''Now I know why they're such a rage,
''It's impossible to hear them.''}}
* This actually still happens as a [[Truth in Television]] with some musicians. Specifically, [[Yoshiki Hayashi]] tends to have an almost [[Instant Fanclub]] variety pop up at any event he attends that is also being attended by Japanese rock fans.
* There's a bit at the start of a song by [[The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band]] called "The Sound Of Music" talking about such an event.
{{quote|Life's like that, isn't it. Only the other day I was walking down the West End and suddenly I was set upon by hordes of fans and admirers who wanted to...touch my clothes. So I took sanctuary in a nearby cinema, normally, of course, I wouldn't go in, but that day I saw something that really moved me. I'd like to share this wonderful experience with you, it was...the Sound of Music.}}
* The hordes of screaming bobbysoxers at [[Frank Sinatra]]'s early performances. (Years after his death, it was revealed that at least the first few appearances of these rabid fans had been actresses hired by his promoter.)
== [[Video Games]] ==
* This applies to wrestlers too, for example in the Glitz Pit in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''.
* Groupies are an actual enemy in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'', working for the Hair Metal Militia. They're copies of the Razor Girls, and don't do a lot of screaming or, well, non-murderous Groupie behaviour.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* On ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', the premise of the [[One-Episode Wonder|cancelled]] [[Show Within a Show|animated series]] ''[[Band Toon|Limozeen:]] [[Recycled in Space|But They're In SPACE!]]'' seemed to be based on the band spending most of their time simultaneously running from and giving backstage passes to all the screaming "babe-liens" of the galaxy.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', Kimiko's fanclub.
* [[Spinnerette|Very well, then.]] [http://www.krakowstudios.com/spinnerette/archive.php?date=20101001 Fangirls!]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', after running from a mob, Death disguises himself to avoid blame for Michael's death. Accidentally, [[Mistaken Identity|he gets taken for him]], and [
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Happens in ''every'' [[Official Fanfiction University]]. To ''everyone''.
* In ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In one episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', with Luke Perry IIRC.
* One episode of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' focused on this when Danny Phantom (by this point, a well known hero and celebrity) is on the run from screaming teenage fans; most of which come from his own school. He had to [[Secret Identity|secretly turn human]] to get away from the crazed mob.
* Homer acquires one of these (made up of elderly female opera fans!) in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Homer of Seville".
* Checkmatey, the rapping chess master of X Middle School, has one in the ''[[Fillmore!]]!'' episode "Of Slain Kings on Checkered Fields".
* Carl and (C2) acquire one in the "Spotlight on Carl" two-parter in ''[[Carl Squared]]''.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book 1/04 The Warriors of Kyoshi|The Warriors of Kyoshi]]", Aang acquires a groupie brigade of young girls on Kyoshi Island. Then he loses them when they get bored with his half-hearted attempts at showing off.
** And then in season three, ''Avatar'' goes meta, and [[Estrogen Brigade Bait|Zuko]] gets a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120501101155/http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep49/ep49-262.png literal horde of fangirls.]
* On ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Fluttershy ends up getting one after becoming a fashion model in the episode "Green Isn't Your Color".
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' and Noah get hysterical screaming girls kissing them and tearing off their Letterman jackets when Rex joins Noah's school table tennis team.
* [[Donald Duck]] acquires one in the [[Classic Disney Short]] ''Donald's Dilemma'', after being hit on the head by a flowerpot and becoming a famous crooner.
* ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'': Ben has to call Gwen and Kevin to rescue him from one at the start of "Deep".
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Any rock band that has enjoyed significant mainstream popularity will have one of these. In particular, bands like [[Led Zeppelin]], [[Def Leppard]], [[Motley Crue]], and [[Guns N' Roses]] are infamous for the debauchery they have enjoyed with their groupies backstage.
* A Groupie Brigade almost killed Robert Pattinson after he tried to avoid them by running out into traffic and being hit by a car. (He was okay, but he still chewed out his fans.)
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