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A work of fiction with a very immersive setting appears so idealistic and 'perfect' in comparison to boring, everyday life that it causes fans to feel the need to emotionally invest themselves in it. The same carries over to characters in a story, who feel they are leading uninteresting lives. They wish they could live in the stories they love and begin Longing for Fictionland. Frequently, these characters may feel detached from real life or seem to suffer from depression. After all, they wish to leave to somewhere they can never go or wish to meet people who don't even exist yet seem so vastly superior to those they do know. Or they may decide to actualize it, try to build something like it in the real world. Sometimes they begin to wish they could become a part of the world, or meet the character they love. When this character gets his/her wish, see I Wish It Were Real. May lead to an Anti-Escapism Aesop. Compare Mythopoeia, Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality. For Real Life examples of people really believing fictional characters are real, see Daydream Believer. See also Thinks Like a Romance Novel, for one form this can take. If someone wishes a fictional character were real because they have sexual feelings for them, that's Perverse Sexual Lust. Very, very, very much Truth in Television for many people. |
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The #1 Google search that begins with "Is Edward Cullen..." is quite often "Is Edward Cullen real?" or some variation thereof. That also happened with A.S. Byatt's Possession. Type in "Randolph Henry Ash" and see what you get. |
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The infamous "Project Digiclipse" from the early to mid-2000s. What started out as just a bunch of kids having fun with roleplaying about Digimon in the real world got out of hand quickly, as some people either genuinely believed that Digimon was real and believed in the site's mission of one day reaching the Digital world or signed up to troll the people who didnote only to then end up having people mistake their post as legitimate began to join the site in mass. Then the goons at Something Awful caught wind of it and it proceeded to get out of hand from there. Although some people briefly mistook it as an actual cult, nowadays it's generally agreed on that it was just a bunch of kids wanting to have some fun roleplaying only for it to snowball horrendously out of control. | |
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Not initially in Norman Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, as Milo does not use the titular tollbooth because he hopes to go to fantastical kingdoms, but because he's got nothing better to do at the time. In the end, however, he states he might go back for a visit when he finds the time. Subverted, or perhaps even defied, as he ends the story thinking there's so many exciting things around him in the real world to explore. | |
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Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words": The main character, Chow, is an author struggling with Writer's Block trying to envision the story for his fictional creation, Dr. Wai the adventurer. As he writes, Chow daydreams himself as Dr. Wai and his globe-trotting adventures, but the harsh realities in life drags Chow back to the real world. | |
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An abnormal psychology textbook from 2006 or so contained a section on really hard-core Elvis fans. It advised readers not to regard these fans as schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill, because, devoted though they are, they will quite readily admit that Elvis really has left the building. In his account of life as a disappointed musician turned rock journalist, I Hate Rock 'N' Roll, Tony Tyler writes about hardcore fans of Barry Manilow. One middle-aged British housewife, despite being married with three children, was obsessed to the point where she believed Barry was going to pick her out at a concert, take her home, and offer to marry her. She believed this so absolutely that she refused to have sex with her husband, seeking instead to hasten the Day by "keeping herself pure for Barry". Apparently her husband left her. She didn't notice.note Harsher in Hindsight since Manilow came out as completely homosexual in The New '10s. This is called erotomania. Unlike what it says at The Other Wiki, erotomanic episodes can happen to anyone, male or female, and is not limited to the mentally ill. Despite the name, it often has little to do with sex; in fact, it can include the idea that you and the famous person will help to promote and exemplify a more spiritual love. |
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Tsutomu, the main character of Ultraman Gaia: The Battle In Hyperspace, is a lonely boy who spends most of his time fantasizing that the Ultramen were real. His wish is eventually granted when he comes across an alien artifact that opens a portal from our world with the Ultramen's, but unfortunately the monsters also comes along for the ride. | |
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One episode of The Simpsons, in a parody of Heavenly Creatures, had Lisa making friends with a girl named Julie. Together they create an imaginative fantasy world where they ruled together. As they get deeper into the fantasy, and after her mother sees that she may be troubled, Marge decides that Julie is a bad influence on Lisa and says they can't see each other anymore. Lisa and Julie run off together so they could continue being in "Equalia" but after getting into trouble with some bullies, Lisa decides that she wants to live in the real world. Julie is sad, telling Lisa that the real world is for people who can't imagine anything better. Cue Lisa giving a Cuckoo Finger Twirl as Julie leaves. In one episode, Homer gets on the bad side of a corrupt private detective, who ends up blackmailing Nelson for dirt on Lisa by stealing a photo of Nelson with Snow White at Disneyland. Nelson is relieved to have the photo back, but not for the reason you'd think. |
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In Kevin & Kell, Tyler Meadowvole described many situations he saw in terms of fictional settings. It was a coping mechanism to deal with the death of his biological parents, who were eaten. This eventually faded as he settled into a new life being adopted by his uncle Mark and Mark's wife, cat Aby Eyeshine. | |
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Freaky: In "Sitcom", a girl with a troubled home life fantasizes about being part of the perfect family in her favourite Dom Com. This turns into a case of Be Careful What You Wish For when she becomes Trapped in TV Land. | |
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WandaVision: It's revealed that Wanda has been a fan of sitcoms from a young age and prefers them over her tragic reality. While her Reality Warper powers allow her to enjoy life in one for a while, it turns out the townspeople really don't enjoy being forcibly converted into NPCs for her plots. | |
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One particular Tumblr macro expressed this. | |
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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance introduces the main characters leading troubled lives in the real world, and they have a conversation about what game world they wish could be real, which they (naturally) answer "Final Fantasy". The next day, they wake up and find themselves in that world. | |
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This is pretty much the definition of "chunibyou" given to the audience in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, with the infected person being unsatisfied with reality and immersing themselves within a world of fantasy. In both the anime and the light novels, Rikka plays this the straightest out of the cast. | |
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Bob the Angry Flower resorts to extreme science in an attempt to become a Powerpuff Girl◊. | |
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An SCP Foundation researcher working on SCP-1230 that produced an extensive fantasy world in the sleeping user committed suicide upon waking up. Having spent the equivalent of 200 years inside, he couldn't bear to return to his reality. In a subversion of the usual Foundation-contained Eldritch Abomination, the entity of the fantasy-making book had a My God, What Have I Done? moment and went into such a debilitating Heroic BSoD that it refused to even communicate for weeks. When it finally "wrote" something on the pages, all it could say was "I'm so sorry. I never intended for this to happen. I just wanted to make people happy..." on every single page, while the book was soaked with tears. | |
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Discworld: Terry Pratchett did such a good job of humanizing the Grim Reaper he would receive letters from terminally-ill patients hoping to meet his version of Death when their time came. | |
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Chloe Cerise in Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail wishes to find a place that she and her Childhood Friend were always together, a place where she didn't have to be pressured by everyone to follow in her father's footsteps, and just for once feel like she was loved. The next scene has her run away from the Cerise Lab and onto the Infinity Train and she begins to grow into her true self. In Chapter 12, Professor Cerise finally understands why his daughter would want such a thing. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A World of Difference", Brinkley thinks that Gerald Raigan has convinced himself that he is Arthur Curtis, whom he is playing in The Private World of Arthur Curtis, as he is attracted by the character's happy life with his loving wife Marian and daughter Tina. In "A Stop at Willoughby", the extremely stressed advertising executive Gart Williams keeps dreaming of Willoughby, an idyllic 1888 town straight out of Mark Twain's work. By the end, he gets his wish at Willoughby Funeral Home. |
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Ready Player One, in which almost everyone on Earth plugs into the virtual utopia, the OASIS, in an attempt to escape the rather sobering reality. | |
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When the movie Mannequin came out, an LSD researcher named Jerry Kelly was arrested several times for fondling and undressing female department store mannequins. When questioned, he said he wasn't on drugs, he was trying to find a mannequin that would come to life like in the movie. | |
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The Owl House: Before arriving in the Boiling Isles, Luz Noceda didn't fit in, and often poured over fantasy novels to imagine some place where she could. She got her wish, to an extent, when she arrives on the Boiling Isles, even if it's "not the PG fantasy world [she] dreamed of". | |
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In one episode, Homer gets on the bad side of a corrupt private detective, who ends up blackmailing Nelson for dirt on Lisa by stealing a photo of Nelson with Snow White at Disneyland. Nelson is relieved to have the photo back, but not for the reason you'd think. | |
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Don Juan DeMarco: When making his 'true' statement to the Judge, John explained that reading Lord Byron's Don Juan book was what inspired him to create his imaginary persona. | |
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The Trope Image comes from Sandra and Woo, where characters compare a real sunset unfavorably to the sunsets in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. | |
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There have been a few reports of people experiencing depression after seeing the beautiful world of Avatar and then having to return to the real world. Jennifer Lawrence, in one interview, talks about an incident where she and Josh Hutcherson were hanging out in his hotel room and had a freak out over how unfair it is that they'll never get to visit Pandora. | |
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The Literature Girl in Daily Lives of High School Boys wrote a Romance Novel, then had a crush with the novel's hero, and then sought to reenact a Meet Cute scenario from her novel in the series' Real Life... Deconstructed in that the series is a fairly realistic (and comical) Slice of Life, and Hidenori, the boy to whom she is projecting her hero on (simply because they frequent the same Artificial Riverbank), got weirded out. Her example is a bit more downplayed than most examples of this trope as she's not all that detached from the series' Real Life as long as Hidenori is not in her presence. | |
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Devoted fans of The Lord of the Rings reported doing this. The original Tolkien Society incorporated the food, the languages, and the cosmology into their daily existence. People had the appendices memorized. They took their class notes and doodled in Quenya, and founded communes with names like Lothlorien (one of which still exists, devoted to eclectic paganism). | |
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As his moniker implies, Batman rogue the Mad Hatter aka Jervis Tetch prefers whimsical Wonderland to gritty Gotham, especially the more sympathetic versions. Tetch genuinely does not understand why Batman would want to stop him from having riddle games and tea parties with friends all day, even when it involves kidnapping, Hypno Trinkets, and tea spiked with hallucinogenics. | |
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In the early 1970s, there was a group of Star Trek: The Original Series fans in Kentucky who planned to buy some land and create a small community where they would live according to Vulcan ideals. | |
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Heavily implied to be the case in Pale Fire, with Charles Kinbote trying to edit his late friend's last poem but unable to avoid inserting long, idyllic references to his own, probably fictional, home country in the commentaries. The friend in question, John Shade, has said in Kinbote's hearing that a person who re-imagines their own history into a nostalgic Fictionland is not insane, merely fleeing a "drab and unhappy past". |
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The plot "Yukari brings an outsider to Gensokyo" present in many Touhou Project fics is also popular because of this. | |
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Jetlag Travel Guides essentially promote the opposite: No one wants to go to the lands they feature. | |
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That also happened with A.S. Byatt's Possession. Type in "Randolph Henry Ash" and see what you get. | |
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"School eccentric" Anghel in Hatoful Boyfriend has a bizarre fantasy world in which he is the Crimson Angel of Judecca and the protagonist is an angelic warrior called Edel Blau who defeated him by encasing him in ice. It's implied by the fact that he's a member of the manga club and the fact that whenever you see inside his fantasy world it's just a JRPG that he's one of these people who unfortunately has the ability to induce hallucinations in others when physically agitated. Though it's also hinted that there may be more to it. | |
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Rakenzarn Tales version 1 had an opening monologue that went into the feelings behind this trope. It was removed in later version when the game's creator thought it was too preachy. | |
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In Robot Chicken, this is part of the Nerd's gimmick. His sketches commonly begin with him putting down a book and saying "I wish I was in (the setting the book he was reading took place in). That would be so cool. So cool..." before falling asleep and dreaming about getting his wish. | |
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Bridge to Terabithia: The main two characters create a fictional world called Terabithia to deal with their school troubles. They are aware that it is a fantasy and wish it were real, although this doesn't stop them from having fun. | |
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Brick: In a awkward conversation with Brenden, the Pen implies he really wishes he could live in Middle-earth. | |
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Quentin Coldwater in The Magicians dreams of traveling to the land of Fillory, from the Fillory and Further series by Christopher Plover (essentially an Expy of The Chronicles of Narnia and C.S. Lewis with a dash of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). Eventually, he succeeds - though it's quite unlike what he imagined. | |
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Splatoon provides yet another example of a Fandom-Specific Plot used as wish fulfillment, with its nigh-omnipresent "human time-travels forward to Inkopolis" fan fics. | |
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Quite a few people would like to go to Equestria from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and some would be more than willing to stay there permanently and give up their humanity in the process. The "Human in Equestria" fan-fiction genre is both popular and reviled for this reason and others. Some (such as this guy here) go far enough that they hope that Equestria is the afterlife, or at least that the afterlife involves ponies. | |
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Mio in Little Busters! was always more fascinated by fantasy and stories than the real world, so she didn't have any friends as a child for the simple reason that she didn't bother trying to make any. It wasn't until the end of middle school that she even began to socialize normally, apparently. Until then, she had an imaginary friend or little sister. | |
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The movie Pleasantville has the protagonist David, who longs to be in the black-and-white 1950s TV sitcom world represented in the TV show "Pleasantville". Thanks to a strange remote, he gets his wish, setting off the main plot. | |
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In The Chronicles of Narnia, the Pevensies appear to do this. Actually the land they're longing for is very real, and they ruled there for fifteen years. | |
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Astro City: As a child, the Mock Turtle always was trapped in wardrobes because he was trying to find a portal to Narnia. As an adult, after arriving in Astro City and accepted into the super-community, he sees the city from above. Through his green-tinted visor, he breathlessly notes that it resembles an Emerald City. | |
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Tony Manero plays this as dark as you can get, centering around a creepily obsessed Chilean fan of Saturday Night Fever (and, specifically, John Travolta's fictional character). | |
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John Constantine invites some of his muggle friends to visit Fiddler's Green for a day and one couple gets into trouble when they conspire with an unhappy resident to stay there permanently. They eventually get back to the real world safely but become severely depressed and addicted to drugs and alcohol because they were banned from Fiddler's Green so hard they can't even dream of it. | |
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Bill Cipher uses this to prey on Mabel Pines in Gravity Falls: rather than a physical prison, he keeps her in a pocket dimension that is filled with all her favourite things like cute stuff, fantasy, magic, happiness, and fun, knowing that even if she realises that she's being held prisoner, she won't want to escape. | |
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