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A Straw Fan is a character or plot meant as a not-so-thinly veiled attack on the fans for their complaints about the work. It can be either perfectly justified or the sign of an ego run rampant. Take your pick. Or maybe the creator has trouble telling the difference between legitimate criticism and Fan Dumb or Hate Dumb (or is just too lazy to tell the difference). See also Loony Fan and Occidental Otaku. Sometimes can cross into Affectionate Parody territory if the fans are good-humoured (and the Straw Fan similarly affectionate); likewise, an Affectionate Parody of one's fandom can drift here. Expect this person to say "I'm your biggest fan!" at least once. Also expect this person to embody at least one or more of the characteristics of Fan Dumb. Subtrope of Write Who You Hate. Compare with Take That, Audience! and Straw Critic. |
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Done in the Sherlock episode "The Empty Hearse". The episode begins with with a somewhat ludicrous explanation of how Sherlock survived the previous season's Cliffhanger... before it is revealed the story was created by Anderson, who has set up a club for fans of Sherlock Holmes who believe he is still alive. Later we see a fairly creepy romantic moment between Sherlock and Moriarty that turns out to be a member's Slash Fic. When Sherlock finally does explain to Anderson how he did it, Anderson complains, "Not how I would have done it", listing all the internal inconsistencies in the explanation and refusing to believe him. | |
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This character is in fact based on Chop-Top from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - who harassed a radio DJ with much of the same act. | |
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On Adventure Time, the Ice King turns out to be one at the end of "Fionna and Cake," which is actually just a Rule 63 Fanfic he wrote. Finn also takes a turn as one during "All the Little People," an episode-long critique of the excesses of Shipping. | |
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The New Kids on the Block cartoon, of all shows, had a character named Fanny. She and her friends were the very personification of NKOTB Fan Dumb of the time. | |
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In The Incredibles, the origin story of the villain Syndrome is that as a boy he was a big fan of Mr Incredible, however his over-enthusiasm got in the way of his hero's crime-fighting activities and was angrily told off. As an adult, he seeks revenge on Mr Incredible and by extension all the other supers as a tech genius supervillain. | |
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The Fillmore! episode "The Unseen Reflection" featured some fans of a young-adult sci-fi fantasy book series who took it far, far too seriously. This particular episode is a good skewering of fans and fandoms in general, complete with Fandom Rivalry and the MST3K Mantra. However, the episode also took the time to skewer the author as well. It was justified in that she legitimately did not care about her fans or the books, stating she wrote the latest one, which turned out to be horrible plot-wise and grammatically, on a plane to Milan. |
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X-Men: When Peter Milligan relaunched X-Force as X-Statix following the death of fan-favorite Edie Sawyer, the new book opened with an arc about a Reality Warper fanboy who couldn't get over the fact that they'd "gotten rid of" Edie and was holding his town hostage. However, not only does he ultimately become a sympathetic character, he joins the team and in their desire to not let him down the group actually gels somewhat for the first time. Although he's still an unstable, horribly dangerous psychotic who the team ends up murdering. | |
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Hercules has a sequence after he becomes a famous hero where he's posing for a portrait, and the session is interrupted by a group of screaming fan girls who jump on top of him and try to rip his clothes off. This is based on incidents that actually happened to William Shatner and Harrison Ford with Star Trek and Star Wars fans respectively. | |
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Kamen Rider Zi-O: Over Quartzer: The Big Bad of the film wants to replace the Heisei Era of Kamen Rider with one that he feels is more canonically consistent by slamming the present day Earth into its past self; using his own Riders to control the "new" narrative. The Hero's movie-specific form has the distinct ability to summon a horde of side-characters and non-canon forms to retaliate. | |
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Runaways: In Runaways (Rainbow Rowell), Abby, with her obsession with keeping Molly young forever, is meant to be a stand-in for fans who supposedly refuse to let the Runaways grow up. | |
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In The Baby-Sitters Club Mallory Pike, #1 Fan, Mallory is this for her favorite YA author. First she sends her letter after letter after letter, growing angry when she doesn't respond to it personally, tracks her down to her home and makes herself the author's assistant...and then later gets angry at her because not all the events in her FICTION series actually happened to her in real life, and thought her a bad writer and a liar for it. | |
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The Simpsons's Comic Book Guy: Though he was originally just the standard nerd, when the show crossed into Long Runner territory, he would often mock the large section of the fanbase that think the show isn't good anymore, but still watch it religiously anyway. CBG's catch phrase actually originated from a usenet post which complained about an episode from Season Four. To put things in perspective, Season 4 of The Simpsons is now widely thought to be part of the show's "golden age". In the Regina Monologues, JK Rowling expresses her annoyance of fans asking about the ending to the Harry Potter seriesnote This was before Half-Blood Prince was published: |
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Young Justice: Peter David created a Straw Fan in issue #13 to retaliate against a complaint he'd received about issue 7, only the fan was made into a cowardly bystander who made stupid speeches rather than a supervillain. Parts of the bystander's dialogue were taken from an online argument with the fan in question virtually word for word. | |
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The two-part episode of Justice League focusing on expies of '40s superheroes is surprisingly respectful to both the characters and their fans, but it also argues that their time is gone. The villain turns out to be a Reality Warper who couldn't accept that his heroes had died, and reanimated them to fight endlessly in a perpetually static world. Ultimately, they themselves fight and kill him to end the cycle and allow change, even though it means they will cease to exist as well. Oh, and his name is Ray Thompson, which is totally not a reference to the guy who was writing the 40s heroes in the 80s. Becomes somewhat Hilarious in Hindsight when you considered what went on at DC shortly after. |
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Douchey has shown up twice on Atop the Fourth Wall. Once to deride Linkara for mistakes he's made (Linkara later used magic to teleport to his house and beat him) and again for calling him a rip-off for doing an episode on comic book advertisements. | |
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The Flash: Eobard Thawne is the most Straw-y of them all, being simultaneously a takedown of the idea that anyone could replace Barry Allen as the Flash, as well as a takedown of fans who refuse to accept Wally West as the new Flash and wanted Barry to come back. This version of the character can be seen in The Return of Barry Allen. | |
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A reoccurring character in the short-lived Wisenheimers is Christian, an overweight 11-year-old boy who frequently obsesses over the focus character of Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz!, Mickey the Dick, prominently based on a listener who previously submitted fan mail to the show. Christian is subsequently Driven to Suicide after being rejected by Mickey on numerous occassions, only before returning in a later episode as a ghost. | |
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Doctor Who Novelisations: The novelisation of "Shada" turns both Skagra and (eventually) the Ship into this. Skagra is the classic ultra-negative, if-only-the-show-was-Darker and Edgier Fan Dumb type - he spends all his time watching video footage of the Doctor and rating the sets, effects, monsters and the Doctor's performance very low things out of ten, and particularly can't stand it when things are funny. The Ship is more of an Affectionate Parody Fangirl who appreciates the good moral lessons of the Doctor's adventures and enjoys a good Squee over how much she fancies him, but forces other people to watch them with her. | |
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In the Regina Monologues, JK Rowling expresses her annoyance of fans asking about the ending to the Harry Potter seriesnote This was before Half-Blood Prince was published: | |
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Sharyn McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun is set at a convention and features a few of these. The most prominent is Clifford Morgan, a fanboy who's oriented his entire life around a series of Conan the Barbarian-esque novels to a very unhealthy extent. He ends up murdering the novels' author after breaking into his hotel room and finding a "joke ending" for the next book where the hero is killed. | |
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Animaniacs had the "Please, Please, Please Get a Life Foundation", a support group for overly-obsessed fans, particularly of the Internet variety. What makes it even more disturbing is that it was largely based on a real guy, one Dennis Falk, the production team had encountered while working on Tiny Toon Adventures. Not only that, it was significantly toned down from the real thing. Tress MacNeille, Babs' voice actress had to cancel several convention appearances near his hometown because he had sent several very creepy fanletters that gave them reason to believe he would try to rape her. The fans' actual dialogue was taken almost verbatim from a document maintained by the Internet fandom community called the Cultural Reference Guide to Animaniacs. The community responded by accepting the cartoon as Affectionate Parody. |
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Some viewers feel that the Documentary Special When Lit casts pinball collectors and fans in this light, particularly the less-than-flattering portrayals of Josh "Pingeek" Kaplan and Sam Harvey. Others, however, have argued that the movie is simply accurately reflecting their Real Life eccentricities. | |
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Done REALLY blatantly in the Supernatural season four episode "The Monster at the End of This Book", where the Winchester brothers discover that a series of pulp novels (titled, you guessed it, Supernatural) has been chronicling their adventures; Sam goes on the internet and discovers their fandom. In addition to Sam's pointed comment that "For fans, they sure do complain a lot," the boys are horrified to learn about all the Shipping the series has apparently spawned. Read more. Don't forget Chuck's dialog at the end of season 5: And then Becky, the Wincest-writing fangirl is introduced in Season 5. Then Sam and Dean go to a Supernatural Fan Convention where one of the panels discusses the "Homoerotic Subtext" between the characters. |
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Oblivion has the devoted fanboy you pick up when you become Grand Champion of the Imperial City Arena, who is essentially a strawman for every overenthusiastic fan who won't take the hint to go away and die somewhere. If the idea was to drive home how annoying such a person can be, it worked... fans of the game have a long and noble history of finding horrible things to do to him. | |
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Francis from Super Paper Mario is a Stereotypical Nerd who kindaps Peach, takes her on a Dating Sim-like escapade, and does some in-universe Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch. For the latter, you have to answer in the affirmative that you do the same just to get into his room. In one of his private rooms, you can find and read this "Geeklog" entry: | |
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The entire plot of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back involves the title characters trying to sabotage a movie based on them to stop a flood of half-wit internet criticism. Once they receive a large cash payout for the film, they literally track down every last internet troll and beat them up. This was in part based on a Flame War between creator Kevin Smith and fans over the movie Magnolia (referenced when a particularly inarticulate fan has the screenname "MagnoliaFan"). | |
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Total Drama: Sierra knows your dental records. Kelsey, a fangirl from the 2nd aftermath show of Action, who has a Trent doll was actually inspired by a real life fangirl who had a doll of Cody (which Sierra coincidentally has a obsessive stalker crush on). |
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Parodied with Dethklok's "Fan Song", which spends three minutes informing their fans how much they suck. | |
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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel had an old man that peed in the main character's empty Nuka-Cola bottles. He was named after one of the (now-ex) admins of No Mutants Allowed, the Fallout forum that defines Unpleasable Fanbase for gamers. Fallout 2 had the "Unwashed Villagers fighting a spammer" rare encounter, where the aforementioned Villagers beat up an annoying spammer, Grim, who keeps whining and making absurd suggestions for the game. ("I want a tank!") Both the Villagers and the spammer are based on real-life forum members from back in the day, and the Unwashed Villagers were known for their positive contributions, while Grim was... not. |
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World of Warcraft includes a quest in the revamped, post-Cataclysm Azeroth in the undead area where the PC takes on the role of a questgiver and hands out three quests to various computer-programmed NPC players. All three are digs at various groups of fans: the "Kingslayer" (character who killed the Lich King) who can't play, the total noob and "Johnny Awesome", decked out in full heirloom equipment (items which can only be bought by people who had a max-level character in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion) and riding Sparklepony. All three then make an appearance in the Hillsbrad area of the game as mercenary computer-controlled aides — or rescue objects — to the PC. | |
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Freakazoid! had Fanboy, who could only be escaped by directing him to a different franchise to obsess over. | |
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Bat-Mite turns into this at the end of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, sadly tossing aside his previous characterization (and development) in the process. | |
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Green Lantern: In Green Lantern: Rebirth, Sinestro treats Kyle Rayner like a trashy Inadequate Inheritor whose mere existence cheapens the Corps. In an interview, Geoff Johns admitted that he intended for Sinestro to be a stand-in for Kyle-hating Hal Jordan fanboys, and that Hal's defense of Kyle modeled the attitude that he wanted Hal fans to have moving forward. | |
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In "The Ringer", Eminem gets a message from an "ex-fan" who mailed him a copy of The Marshall Mathers LP, telling him that if he gets back to that style, she'll love him (oooouuh!). He points out that due to the album's influence, if he did that he'd be "like everyone else in the fucking industry". | |
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Skyrim uses a similar fanboy for another Take That!. If the Dark Brotherhood missions are played, you learn that one of the assassins once killed a Grand Champion by disguising himself an annoying fan. | |
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The Plague Dogs contains a scene where a minor character criticizes Watership Down, the author's previous work, which seems to exist for just this reason. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic's "most obnoxious fan", Douchey McNitpick, in his "Top 11 F*ck Ups" video. The Critic has stated that he doesn't mind fans sending him criticism and complaints, just that they shouldn't be obnoxious about it. As such, Douchey is still a Straw Fan, but rather nicer than some examples. Douchey gets his revenge in the "Willy Wonka vs. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" video. It's not many creators who'd give their Straw Fans that kind of satisfaction. In "Next Top 11 F*ck Ups", he was less obnoxious, shutting up whenever the Critic yelled at him, and more pathetic, being shown to live with his mother, is hinted at being a crossdresser, and has masturbated to pictures of the Green M&M. He also got some satisfaction in the "You're A Dirty Rotten Bastard" special, where Spoony is The Nostalgia Critic instead and Douchey adores him. The real Critic apparently just sucks that much. He plays the same when appearing The Nostalgia Chick's review of The Fifth Element, giving obnoxious voice to fans saying she should stick to reviewing girly stuff and complaining over her definition of a MacGuffin, before telling her "I'm still going to mastubate to your picture tonight!" Douchey has shown up twice on Atop the Fourth Wall. Once to deride Linkara for mistakes he's made (Linkara later used magic to teleport to his house and beat him) and again for calling him a rip-off for doing an episode on comic book advertisements. As of The Review Must Go On, they had to find a person with no life who would not be missed, and who will obsess over every mistake and continuity error they see, to keep the Plot Hole stable. Two guesses who gets the job. |
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At least half of the humor in Shortpacked! comes from various Straw Fans of the various franchises and hobbies he follows. Some are recurring characters, some only show up once, but it's clear that Willis has an axe to grind with certain sections of fandoms in general. Sometimes certain fans in particular. When someone's been annoying Willis on his toy message boards, he's not very subtle about doing a comic about them. (The "I knew about that!" guy strip being the best example.) Some of the strips are near-verbatim from discussions at the Allspark (Transformers) message boards or similar. Willis even occasionally parodies his own fan madness. | |
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Bob and George author Dave Anez used an obscure minor character for this purpose in this strip and the next, in order to hang a lampshade on a small plothole he didn't care about. (One of the comic's running jokes was Dave's insistence that there were no plotholes; if you thought you saw one, you'd find out sooner or later why it made sense. And indeed, he always went to great lengths to close the big ones. This wasn't a big one.) | |
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Fallout 2 had the "Unwashed Villagers fighting a spammer" rare encounter, where the aforementioned Villagers beat up an annoying spammer, Grim, who keeps whining and making absurd suggestions for the game. ("I want a tank!") Both the Villagers and the spammer are based on real-life forum members from back in the day, and the Unwashed Villagers were known for their positive contributions, while Grim was... not. | |
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Smallville: An episode called "Action", where a fan of a comic book was sabotaging the set of a film adaptation because he didn't think they were doing it right. In Season 8, after many years of saying "No, the Chlois Theory will NOT come true," the Smallville showrunners finally decided to have some fun spoofing this fan theory in the episode "Hex," to the annoyance of the Chlois theorists...but the utter delight of everyone else in the fan base, who were equally tired of the Chlois theory. |
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Broken Plot Device has the "Idea Man", an obese penguin wearing kitty ears and a matching tail who, as the name implies, is the sole source of weird, offensive, and downright perverted ideas for the character's in Lizardbeth's in-comic comic. | |
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The Warp Zone: "Is The Last Jedi Bad? (Fanboy Court)" features two opposing Straw Fans going head-to-head; one who doesn't think the film lives up to the original trilogy and another who refuses to accept that Star Wars has flaws. | |
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Davan and Jason's meeting the catgirls of Something*Positive, complete with long rant by authorial stand-in. Randy probably just wants to scare away the 'bad' audience (as opposed to the good audience, which he's adamant is most of the readers). Milholland also created a strip in Super Stupor about a superhero whose power is essentially retconning, and used that to take a jab at comic book creators who try to force the comics to be like they were when they were young, Joe. The strip also decried people who get their opinions from a site called TVTropes.com (most likely a knock-off of our great and glorious wiki) rather than forming their own. There was another poking fun at some of Harry Potter's older fans taking things too seriously (Based on a real incident about a midnight release costume contest) | |
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Llamas with Hats eventually became centered around this. The creator, Jason Steele, was originally making the series to have five episodes, but as he explains, when people were expecting the series to end at episode 5 with Carl blowing up the Earth, this embarrassed him greatly because that is when he noticed that what he was planning had become predictable, so the series had ended at episode 4 for several years. But when the audience demanded a continuation, Jason decided to show that audience exactly what happens when you beat a dead horse to the ground. Paul, who now represents the audience, doesn't have the same kind of reaction that he initially used to have, and this starts to upset Carl, who wanted that kind of reaction. After Paul leaves him, Carl attempts to replace him by placing a mask of Paul's face on a sheep—by continuing the series, it loses its charm and doesn't take its role seriously. As this is happening, the credits jingle is becoming more and more distorted. By episode 9, Carl is talking to himself, trying to get some kind of reaction, pretending that he has an audience, the result of the creator doing the same thing over and over again. Suddenly, the mask of Paul comes to life and urges him to finish his work—the audience comes back, but it's meaningless, with no life or substance to it. After Carl destroys the entire world, he realises that through his efforts to impress Paul and get him to react the way that he used to he ended up killing him in the process, the true audience that liked the show for what it once was was dead. Carl tried so desperately to get the initial reaction he got from the audience, but he unintentionally kills that same audience. So he finishes his work by commiting suicide, thus killing the show. | |
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The WWE pulled this with The Miz, who was used as a Take That! against fans who hated John Cena. He would mercilessly abuse Cena and the fans week after week, trying to goad the fan favorite into a match, and when Cena finally did take notice when they had been booked for a match Mix nearly wet himself, before being completely dominated. This would occur several more times before Miz's push. | |
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On Lexx, the Flanderization of 790 into an epic Yandere who threw himself relentlessly at a disinterested Kai and was completely Axe-Crazy toward anyone else who showed Kai any attention was an obvious (and perhaps over-the-top) Take That! to Kai/Michael McManus's more, ahem, overwrought fans. | |
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Monk had Sarah Silverman on as Marci Maven, an obsessed fan who freaked out because her favorite TV show had changed its theme song. This was a jab at the fandom complaining about how the show had switched from its first-season Instrumental Theme Tune to the Randy Newman composition "It's a Jungle Out There". She later showed up and kept referring to Monk's cases by the episode names, which confused Monk. She was also a jab at some Monk-slash-Natalie fanfiction, as well as a few other types of Monk fanfiction. | |
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Superman: Although there is more to the character, Superboy-Prime has attempted to destroy The DCU because it does not live up to his expectations. Certain fans tend to focus on nothing but this one aspect of his character, largely because it sometimes reaches a very mean-spirited pitch. | |
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Clerks II has a The Lord of the Rings fan come into Mooby's and get into an argument with Randal as to its superiority over Star Wars. Randal ends up ripping into the Ho Yay between Frodo and Sam so much that the guy vomits. | |
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RedLetterMedia has one for fans of the Mr. Plinkett Reviews, Palpy or Man-in-a-Black-Cloak-who-is-not-a-trademarked-character-of-Lucas-Limited. He calls Plinkett lazy for not putting out enough reviews and he hates Christopher Nolan and demands Plinkett review his movies, if not children's films or obscure movies. There also comments and tweets made by unnamed characters. One time, Mr. Plinkett himself asks "Enough of this sellout crap! When's the next Plinkett review?! Oh, Wait!, I'm me." | |
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The Who's album, Tommy, has the titular character amass a cult of fans after becoming a pinball champion despite being deaf, dumb and blind (dumb meaning mute). It gets to the point where his fans basically ask him to be their spiritual leader after he gets his senses back. Depending on the adaptation, Tommy will either: a) Accept, believing that he can lead his fans to be their best selves, only for them to turn on him when they realize he isn't giving them an easy fix, or b) Refuse, explaining that they shouldn't want to be like him, to which his fans... still cruelly reject him. The same album has "Sally Simpson", a song about a teenage fan who sneaks out to go to one of Tommy's meetings and attempting to climb on the stage to touch him. It doesn't end well for her. An obvious allegory for Tommy being a rock star, plus the song was originally a stand alone about a fan of a Jim Morrison expy. |
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The Elder Scrolls The series has M'aiqnote (pronounced my-eek) the Liar, a recurring Easter Egg Legacy Character. M'aiq is a known a Fourth-Wall Observer (and Leaner and Breaker) who voices the opinions of the series' creators and developers, largely in the form of Take Thats, to both the audience (given the ES Unpleasable Fanbase) and isn't above above taking some at Bethesda itself. Most of his comments are jokes about, rebuts, and insults toward fan complaints about elements which were changed or not included in the current game, some of which are in past installments. Oblivion has the devoted fanboy you pick up when you become Grand Champion of the Imperial City Arena, who is essentially a strawman for every overenthusiastic fan who won't take the hint to go away and die somewhere. If the idea was to drive home how annoying such a person can be, it worked... fans of the game have a long and noble history of finding horrible things to do to him. Skyrim uses a similar fanboy for another Take That!. If the Dark Brotherhood missions are played, you learn that one of the assassins once killed a Grand Champion by disguising himself an annoying fan. |
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Pokémon has been doing this since the Gold/Silver days. The Poké Maniac and Poké Fan trainer types (among others) are usually given dialogue that cements them as parodies of some of the franchise's more unhinged fans. Later games took this a step further by including the Poké Kids, a class of young trainers who all cosplay as Pokémonnote The original iteration of the class, seen in Diamond and Pearl, featured only girls dressed as Pikachu; in Sword and Shield the class was brought back and now features boys dressed as Pikachu and girls dressed as Eevee, and claim that their lifelong dream is to grow up to become one. | |
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The Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" paints the entire Star Trek: The Original Series fandom as this. People became so obsessed with the show in the future, that the fandom became a major religion. Eventually, it was toppled, with all of its followers being thrown into a volcano. After the final copies of the show's tapes were launched into space, and landed on a desolate planet, the energy being Melllvar (the planet's sole resident) watched the tapes over and over again for centuries, turning him into a straw fan. He is what causes the show's cast to crash land on his planet after they leave Earth, and intends to have them act out his fan scripts until time stops. | |
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Leonard from Monster Prom is meant as a Take That! towards the worst aspects of fandom. He constantly insults and belittles people for no reason other than to be a jerk, and he's also bigoted towards Zoe, deadnaming her as "Z'Gord" and refusing to acknowledge her transition. This attitude is explicitly written to draw parallels to Fan Dumb and transphobia, and to make him into a foil for Zoe, as she is meant to show all of fandom's positive aspects (like creativity, passion, and respect for a creator's ambitions). | |
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As odd as it sounds, The West Wing had an example of this. Following a semi-publicized incident where Aaron Sorkin got in a fight with his fans (and a fellow writer) on Television Without Pity, Sorkin wrote an episode called "The U.S. Poet Laureate", where Josh gets in a scuffle with a fan site devoted to him and the incident gets publicized. He refers to the site webmaster as "a dictatorial leader who [he's] sure wears a muu-muu and chain-smokes Parliaments." The episode got bonus ego points for having the U.S. Poet Laureate explain that her works meant to serve as a distraction, not to make any higher point. Of course, considering the real life site's policies about criticism on their forums, Sorkin's probably not all that wrong. It doesn't lessen how utterly petty the stunt was, but he's not wrong. | |
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In The Angry Video Game Nerd's review of the Atari 2600 game The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a character shows up who starts harassing the Nerd with "did you know" questions that he's heard before, questions about when stuff is coming out, and requests for advice on how to create a ripoff series. This character is in fact based on Chop-Top from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - who harassed a radio DJ with much of the same act. |
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Wonder Man: Wonder Man has turned into Marvel's most explicit version of Superboy Prime. | |
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He plays the same when appearing The Nostalgia Chick's review of The Fifth Element, giving obnoxious voice to fans saying she should stick to reviewing girly stuff and complaining over her definition of a MacGuffin, before telling her "I'm still going to mastubate to your picture tonight!" | |
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Scream (2022) showcases many of these fans in regards to the fictional Stab series, often reflecting how parts of the Star Wars fans reacted to The Last Jedi. The killers are even an Ax-Crazy cross of this and Loony Fan, given they're slicing up people in hopes their massacre can inspire a better Stab movie! | |
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Sarah G. Lato from The Amazing World of Gumball who writes fanfiction and tries to invoke tropes on the main characters. In "The Shippening" she even finds a magic book that makes her fanfiction become canon. | |
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Ryosuke from Oshi no Ko is an example of an idol Otaku who becomes so obsessed with the notion of Contractual Purity that upon learning his favorite idol has gotten pregnant, he immediately goes to kill the doctor helping to bring her to term and then stalking her four years later to kill her. In contrast to the other fans of the idol who knew about it and accepted her secret to be happy, he considered it a betrayal to him. | |
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The main character of Arthur's Nightmare is an angry adult fan of Arthur and other PBS Kids shows, if the ending is to be believed, who begins the game with a rant on the show's switch to Flash animation. He is then subject to a game-length Nightmare Sequence where Arthur and the rest of the Read family is out to kill him. | |
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The Puyo Puyo series had Choppun, an Affectionate Parody of the more diehard fans of the series. Choppun is a guy who Cosplays as Arle Nadja, except Choppun has a paper bag over his head. He's also crossdressing, since Arle Nadja is the female main character of the series. | |
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In Stardust Memories, Sandy, the Author Avatar for Woody Allen, is beset on all sides by fans who complain about how they prefer his "early funny films" to his more recent semi-dramatic work. | |
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Dark Crisis: In the tie-in miniseries Dark Crisis: Young Justice, the Big Bad is Mickey Mxyzptlk, the son of Mr. Mxyzptlk, who hates the fact that the sidekicks from his era, such as the Tim Drake Robin, the clone Superboy and Impulse, were all unceremoniously dumped by the wayside by their mentors and replaced by other people that he felt earned their spots unfairly due to retcons, deaths and other things. Tellingly, he states that he doesn't care about the newer characters and claims they shouldn't exist, when the characters shown in the relevant panel are all some kind of minority (with the characters shown including the lesbian Batwoman Katherine Kane, the non-binary Kid Quick and the African-American Batman Jace Fox). He portrays the fan who seemingly hates the rise of minority-based heroes in recent years shoving aside other tried-and-true heroes. | |
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Many players of the Team Fortress 2 fanbase were very vocal about just how awful it was that the developers were putting all their effort into releasing totally useless cosmetic items in lieu of actual content. Valve released a blog post which allowed the fanbase to understand what really goes on behind the scenes. This quickly turns into more of a shot at themselves though, with the poor fanboy being Only Sane Man in an office filled with cosmetic-obsessed, hat-loving lunatics. Doubles as a Hilarious in Hindsight since hats are now insanely popular to the point where they are a meme generator. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Fame & Misfortune" has Twilight deciding to publish the Friendship Journals, which results in her and her friends becoming international celebrities. Rarity is boycotted by a crowd of fans who find her entries annoying, Applejack gets an entire mob of Loony Fans who expect to be treated like her family, Fluttershy is attacked by people complaining about her Aesop Amnesia, Pinkie Pie is reduced to a punchline with people laughing mindlessly at everything she says, Rainbow Dash is expected to tell the same stories over and over and accused of "disappointing her fans" when she gets tired of it. A large mob crowds around the castle at the end, arguing over which pony was best, who had the strongest friendship etc and one memorably saying "Twilight was better before she got wings!" | |
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Doctor Who has had one of the world's most notoriously Unpleasable Fanbases for decades, and some writers have let their feelings show: "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" had a whiny, nerdy character named Whizzkid, who kept gushing about the eponymous circus, though he said he knew it wasn't as good as it used to be, before getting horribly murdered. "Love & Monsters" also has elements of this, though more of the Affectionate Parody variety. Specifically, the human LINDA members were nice, friendly fans who hung out and had fun, while the Abzorbaloff was the Fan Dumb. "The Runaway Bride" had a human villain, Lance, who is a particularly nasty and misanthropic intellectual snob who loathes pop culture, and who plots with an alien to destroy Earth just because the alien offered to take him to see the great sights of the universe. It's hard not to see him as a caricature of the vocal Space Opera fan element who criticised the Russell T. Davies era of the show for having too many stories based around everyman characters and set in contemporary London, and too many pop culture jokes. Also the "Time Crash" mini-episode, where the Fifth Doctor has a My Future Self and Me moment with Ascended Fanboy David Tennant as his tenth incarnation. "Planet of the Dead" features Professor Malcolm Taylor, who is also firmly in the Affectionate Parody camp. One particularly nice moment features the Doctor and Malcolm reminiscing about their favourite adventure from the Doctor's old "UNIT files". Mark Gatiss and David Walliams did a sketch for BBC2's Doctor Who Night in which they both played Doctor Who fanboys who had kidnapped - and implicitly planned on raping - Peter Davison. Slightly more subtly, "The Unquiet Dead" had the Doctor himself gushing to Charles Dickens about what a fan he is ... and then bitching about plot holes and padding until a bemused Dickens says "I thought you said you were a fan?" |
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Misery, both the book and the film, took fan obsession to creepy scary heights in Annie Wilkes. Note, however, that King has referred to Annie as actually being a metaphor for his drug addiction. In the novel, Paul remembers a slightly more realistic fan of his work (who limited herself to re-furnishing her house to match the Chastain household from his novels, followed by a slightly disturbing barrage of fan mail), which helps him at least understand what kind of mindset he's dealing with. | |
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Vivian Wong from Yu-Gi-Oh! is an exaggeration of many cliches in Original Character fanfiction and shows how the cast would really react to such a character. She's a skilled duelist renowned for her beauty and a fan of Yugi and Kaiba. While she wishes to form a Battle Couple with Yugi, she goes so far as to kidnap Yugi's grandpa to duel him, under the condition that if he loses, he'll become her boyfriend and slave. Yugi doesn't fall in love with Vivian like what one would expect in fanfiction, but is instead bothered by her behavior. As for the women, she's incredibly hostile towards Anzu and Rebecca just for being near Yugi, similar to how fangirls tend to apply Die for Our Ship to the female characters. The girls have no problem showing they don't really care for Vivian, and couldn't care less what happens to her. | |
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He also got some satisfaction in the "You're A Dirty Rotten Bastard" special, where Spoony is The Nostalgia Critic instead and Douchey adores him. The real Critic apparently just sucks that much. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: Collectimus. A big-headed, tantrum-throwing, sedentary, nasally-voice alien with Nerd Glasses, he is presented as a parody of fans of Alien Force and Ultimate Alien. Professing himself to be Ben 10's biggest fan, he is obsessed with Ben 10 trivia and merchandise, specifically "collecting" the latter. However, he disregards the "real" Ben, complaining that the world of Omniverse should be Darker and Edgier and showing interest only in items from when Ben was younger and from a low quality Animesque knock-off. | |
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The Outsiders: In Outsiders 2009, Dan DiDio created one named "Harold Winer" for a specific fan.note link via archive.org. And set him up as a supervillain, so he could get beaten up. Oh, and made sure to make him Camp Gay. | |
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Likewise, the Insecticomics often uses interactions between the Transformers and either a fanboy or a fangirl (or occasionally both) to deliver a Take That! to the more irritating ideologies of the Transformers fandom. | |
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Happens a lot in the Homestar Runner universe, to the point where one could say half of the recent content is thoroughly dedicated to this trope. They even made an entire skit discussing fandoms in general, and, while their attacks weren't all directed at their own Fan Dumb, a good deal of it applies. | |
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In Assassins, Sam Byck rants into a tape recorder on how desperately the world needs Silly Love Songs, and that he's going to fly a plane into the White House to show how much he cares. The message is ostensibly directed at Leonard Bernstein, but the lyrics he quotes are by Stephen Sondheim, composer of Assassins... | |
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Similarly, there's the host of art critics in Sunday in the Park with George who complain that artist George's work is growing stale and repetitive. Note that Sunday ... was the first show Sondheim wrote after the original production of Merrily We Roll Along was derided by critics who said that Sondheim's long-term partnership with Hal Prince had outstayed its welcome. Both the Sunday ... and Merrily ... examples are more Straw Critics. | |
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