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{{quote|''"Ahh, fan clubs. Sweet, innocent, restraining-order-inducing fan clubs."''|'''Strong Bad''', ''[[Homestar Runner]]''}}
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If the character is sufficiently cool this may happen practically overnight (i.e., within a few episodes of them being introduced), although the subject of admiration typically has mixed feelings about the entire affair.
If an [[The Ojou|ojou]] or an [[Alpha Bitch]] has an
Note that this is in fact an aspect of Japanese
[[I Thought It Meant|Not to be confused with]] producing a [[Paper Fan of Doom]] from [[Hammerspace]].
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Anime]]
* ''[[
* In [[Mayo Chiki]] Subaru has an all-female one. It undergoes a schism as some members don't object to Jiro's (alleged) relationship with Subaru, while others do.
* Motoko Minagawa's "Prince Yuki" Club in ''[[Fruits Basket]]''.
* Mitsuki's Fanboys in ''[[He Is My Master]]''.
* The all-male fan club that worships a pretty nurse on the Nautilus, in ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''.
* The second episode of ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', "Golden Shoes," revolves around a sixth grade boy's
* Megumi attracts an
* Lum's Stormtroopers and Mendou's army of fangirls in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''.
* The [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Zuka Club]] in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', especially Benio Amakusa ("Benibara"), have their own legion of screaming fans, who are organized, drilled, and kept disciplined (with the threat of massive violence) by officers of the Benibara Society.
** A less obvious but more prevalent example: the fans of the Host Club itself. Perhaps they were once a loosely-related group of fangirly teenagers, but they organized fast, especially once Renge took the lead. She even made Host Club doujinshi.
* Haruto Sakuraba from ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' is frequently harassed by mobs of girls who are members of his fan club. After he gives up being a teen idol to focus on football (and, in the process, abandons his clean-cut pretty-boy look by [[Important Haircut|growing a beard and getting a buzzcut]]), most of them drop out.
** Aaand then comes back. With some guys to boot.
* Rukawa's admirers in ''[[Slam Dunk]]'', complete with bandanas with his name, and the propensity to transform into an instant cheerleading club when in actual games.
* The males at the school in ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' (pictured above) are divided into two militant, warring fan clubs over San and Luna. Luna personally leads ''her'' club in efforts to take over the school. Mawari is left leading an equally-violent third club comprised of the girls, united under "[[Knight Templar|restoring order]]" with the motto "All men are beasts."
* Fuuko's fanboys in ''[[Clannad (
* Daichi and Kouichi in ''[[Hime
** Sei gets a fan club the very same day he transfers to the school, with members from the other clubs instantly switching to his.
* Used straight and subverted in ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]''. Subverted: [[Genki Girl|Tomoka Osakada]] does her best to create and form a fanclub for [[Troubled but Cute|Ryoma Echizen]] but in the end she and [[Shrinking Violet|Sakuno]] are pretty much the only stable members. Played straight: Wakato's fangirls from the Jyousei Shounan arc and the Rikkaidai cheerleaders. And there's no forgetting Atobe's ''army'' of fangirls, who can become even ''[[Yoko Oh No|violent]]'' towards the main girl of the [[Dating Sim]] ''Gakuensai no Oujisama'' if you have her befriending Atobe.
* In ''[[Ranma
** Much to [[Tsundere|Akane Tendo]]'s [[Does Not Like Men|despair]], she also had a fanclub in the beginning of the series. After [[Kendo Team Captain|Tatewaki]] [[Stalker
* Sakaki acquires one at the beginning of her second year in ''[[
* In the first episode of ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]'', we're treated with the
* About half of the school instantly becomes Nagi's fanclub/bodyguards in ''[[Kannagi]]''.
** She even has her own webpage and a good balance of male and female fans! Her good looks and comical personality wouldn't be enough to explain this ordinarily, but it may be a [[Justified Trope]] if you add in the speculation that a goddess would naturally, subconsiously draw followers.
* ''[[Rosario
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' shows that Utena is extremely popular for her [[Bifauxnen]] qualities and all of the female students address her as "Utena-sama". To the point where photos of her acting feminine (due to a [[Body Swap]] with the extremely feminine Anthy) start selling like hot cakes.
* There's one for Tsukasa in ''[[
* ''[[Kamen no Maid Guy]]'' has an even more specific variation. Naeka has fan club for her breasts. Not her, [[Gag Boobs|her breasts]].
* While not prominent, both Arima and Miyazaki develop them early on in ''[[Kare Kano]]''. One arc deals with what happens when Yukino's turns against her.
* In ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'', both Kazune and Micchi have fanclubs like this.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' pretty much half of Negi's class turns into this as soon as they see him. Then when he goes to the magic world, he and Kotaro enter a tournament and become celebrities, complete with legions of fangirls.
** And in the magic world, Nagi and the members of Ala Rubia have their followers.
* In ''[[K-On!]]!'', Mio gets one after [[Panty Shot|a minor incident]] during a concert.
** Another [[MM
* Misaki of [[Kaichou wa Maid-sama]] gains one for an episode. She finds it difficult to keep her secret life from them.
* Duke Devlin gets one in his first appearance in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', and three of them become his cheerleading squad for the next few episodes. They disappear when Duke joins the [[True Companions]].
** They seem to be quite fickle; they were previously seen hanging out with [[White
* High school sports start Aizawa Suguru in ''[[
* [[Small Name, Big Ego|Gary Oak]] of ''[[Pokémon (
* In ''[[
* Fakir and Mytho of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' also have been mentioned to have their own fan clubs. Pique is part of Fakir's fanclub and Lilie is presumably part of Mytho's group.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the [[Silver Age]], [[Superman|Jimmy Olsen]] had a club of bowtie-wearing dweebs who hung on his every word. As creepy as it sounds.
** Besides the Jimmy Olsen Fan Club, there was also (in [[Bronze Age]] comics) the ''Clark Kent'' Fan Club, consisting of female fans of Clark (from his WGBS evening newscasts).
* Also pre-Crisis, [[Batman|Robin]], whilst attending Hudson University as Dick Grayson, had his own on-campus fan-club, and occasionally attended meetings of the self named (at least one hopes so) Robin-Rooters, whose members were mostly female, but not exclusively so. They even designed new costumes for him, which they then had made up for him to wear, which he did.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The ''[[Ranma
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▲* The ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' fanfic ''[[Girl Days]]'' has fun with this. When Ranma starts attending Furinkan High as a girl as part of the Girl Days training, a bunch of fan clubs almost immediately break out. One, the Ranma-chan club, is a group of girls devoted to Ranma remaining a girl; another, the Ranma-kun club, are girls who want their male Ranma back, no matter the cost. A third, a group of guys, have deluded themselves into thinking Ranma will go out on a date with them. Ranma and her friends simply call this club 'The Idiots'. And once Shampoo starts attend school as well, she gets her own fan club.
* This is the function that the Blue Blaze Irregulars serve in [[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]].
* [[Deconstructed]] in ''[[
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'': "You have saved our lives! We are eternally grateful!"
== [[Live
* A one-episode character of ''[[The 4400]]'' gets an ''extreme'' version of a fan club, who actually worship him, as part of being the [[Monster of the Week]].
* ''[[
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', in one of the worlds the group visits, Tsukasa is scouted while walking down the street and becomes a male model, gaining a following of fangirls with screen-printed clothing and signs. While this sort of thing isn't unusual for a handsome celebrity, it's implied that this took place ''in a day or two''.
** Even worse, {{spoiler|since this is the Nega World, all the fangirls are actually monsters in human form, which makes the cold and jealous way they glare at Natsumi when Tsukasa says he knows her all the more scary.}}
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
== Real Life ==▼
* The faculty at Whitwell Middle School wanted to teach the students about tolerance, so they decided to start a project on the Holocaust. The students then took it ''[[Up to Eleven]]'' by deciding to collect six million paper clips to represent the Jewish people killed in the concentration camps. Once word got out, the school was flooded with paper clips, and a rail car from Germany was brought to the school and turned into a permanent memorial.▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' featured this with Quistis Trepe, the youngest instructor in the history of the school. In the American translation they are called "Trepies."
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' has two senpais in the main cast. Akihiko, the male senpai, is shown early on to attract squealing hordes of fangirls with minimal effort (or desire). Mitsuru Kirijo's otaku are a lot more subtle, but the player can find any number of NPCs that all fantasize about attracting her attention, especially one that just plain fantasizes about anything Mitsuru does or could potentially do to her.
* After winning the S.T.A.R. Game in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: Twilight Princess'', Link ends up with one.
* The [[Pokémon]] games will give you your own personal fan club after meeting certain requirements like beating the Elite Four and [[Gotta Catch Em All|catching all Pokémon.]]
* [[Ar
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'''s Kimiko suddenly acquires an enormous horde of fanboys when she mouths off on public radio in their defense. Erika also has a fanclub so obsessed that they stay loyal to her even after she disappears from the public eye for years. The series goes deeper into exploring the phenomenon than just using it for comedy, portraying the fanboys as [[You Suck|everything from sympathetic losers (Piro) to immoral, pathetic perverts (Kuro)]].
* Shion [http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2003-12-09&comic=ExCoKo gets one of these] in ''Experimental Comic Kotone''.
* [[The Adventures of Wiglaf and Mordred|Wiglaf]] gains one of these pretty much whenever he goes out in public.
* ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'': Goldie had a [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=124081 good-sized following] during her senior year. The following year, [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=129947 Jane followed in her footsteps] {{spoiler|before dropping out of school.}}
* In ''[[Taiki:
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* In the [[Whateley Universe]], teenager Fey is horrified to find out that she has a fan club of girls her own age. Her teammates on her super-team tease her about it now and then.
* In [[Survival of the Fittest]] V4, Reiko Ishida got one of these due to her success in ice skating, often referred to as her "entourage". Bit of a subversion, though, as, unlike most characters that have found themselves in this trope, she's actually quite close friends with them.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* The Three Js (Joey, Jeffy and Jamie) who hung on Quinn Morgendorfer's every word in ''[[Daria]]''.
* Supergirl attracts one of these during a trip to Japan in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Chaos at the Earth's Core", which makes Stargirl extremely jealous.
* In ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'', Beast Boy gains a literally instant fanclub when the Titans go to Japan after he wows a horde of Japanese school girls at a local arcade.
** {{spoiler|The one he's after, however, turns out to be an evil catgirl ink monster.}}
* The three girls obsessed with Gaston in ''[[Beauty and
* In ''[[The Princess and
* Speaking of sexy princes, Prince Zuko of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' gets a sudden audience of blushing girls (complete with floating hearts!) when he takes off his shirt in the [[Beach Episode]].
** Aang gets one when he visits Kiyoshi village for the first time.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* The faculty at Whitwell Middle School wanted to teach the students about tolerance, so they decided to start a project on the Holocaust. The students then took it ''[[Up to Eleven]]'' by deciding to collect six million paper clips to represent the Jewish people killed in the concentration camps. Once word got out, the school was flooded with paper clips, and a rail car from Germany was brought to the school and turned into a permanent memorial.
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