History Main / MonsterFangirl

** Jeffrey Dahmer...the "Milwaukee Cannibal"...even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWoEBVogrbs&lc=UgwXfqE9dNGs2QCQSvN4AaABAg.97EbQoJWTtj97RgONaOzkf has fans squeeing over him!]] This is mainly due to his somewhat sympathetic backstory [[note]]Lonely nerdy kid raised by emotionally neglectful parents with a mentally ill mother, a more favored younger brother, a loving but distant father and driven to "bottle up" all his inner demons[[/note]], somewhat pitiful persona [[note]]Meek and mild in interviews. Often expressing regret and remorse.[[/note]], [[https://i.ibb.co/sFDwYy2/nwlrqhrznpyos5ebltlb.png nerdish]] but [[https://i.ibb.co/28K792F/Annotation-2020-05-04-182731.png somewhat attractive]] looks (and physique) and other factors. Some romanticize his crimes into some twisted "Murder & cannibalism for LOVE!". It also doesn't help that, like Ted Bundy, he has a hot PrettyBoy former TeenIdol ([[https://i.ibb.co/HDFqfmV/Annotation-2020-04-18-171340.png in this]] case, Creator/RossLynch) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP4yqd90BT0 playing him]] as well...elevating the {{Megane}}-factor. Female admirers ether ignore the fact that Dahmer was gay or see his orientation as a perk [[note]]FANGIRL: "I'd be safe around him and Guy on Guy is hot!"[[/note]].

** "Columbiners" are a subculture of people obsessed with the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School Massacre]] and its perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Many take it well beyond just an ordinary TrueCrime enthusiasm into idealizing "Reb and [=VoDKa=]" as heroes for disaffected youth, with three of them winding up implicated in [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwpd4n/speaking-to-columbiners-about-depression-suicide-and-the-halifax-shooting-plot-232 a (thankfully thwarted) mass murder plot of their own]] in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and another one, around the time of the twentieth anniversary of the shooting, going so far as to travel from [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]] to Columbine High School in a failed attempt to pull off [[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fbi-launches-manhunt-for-sol-pais-surfside-teen-accused-of-threatening-columbine-and-other-colorado-schools-11149318 a repeat of the massacre]]. Less thankfully, one Columbiner in UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} actually did manage to imitate his heroes and [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1568631/Biography-of-a-teen-killer.html kill eight people at his school.]]

** The notorious SerialKiller Ted Bundy was a fairly handsome man, something that was not lost on people when Creator/{{Netflix}} premiered the TrueCrime {{documentary}} ''Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes'', nor when Creator/ZacEfron starred as Bundy in ''Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile'' around the same time (both were directed by Joe Berlinger). [[https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/panbeb/ted-bundy-why-are-people-stanning-one-of-the-70s-most-notorious-serial-killers "Hot Ted Bundy"]] soon became a meme, to the point where Netflix felt obliged to remind people that there were thousands of other attractive men in their other programs who weren't serial killers.

** Even Elliot Rodger..."Mister HeManWomanHater Extraordinaire"...has horny fangirls squeeing over him. While he no doubt was a PrettyBoy (looks-wise), we was still a creepy extreme misogynist who committed mass-murder.
* Jeffery Dahmer fangirls; Yup, there are weird gals who get the hots for a ''GAY'' man [[note]]Granted; Gals go gaga over cute gay men a lot. Stuff like slashfic and Yaoi are popular for a reason. However; Dahmer fangirls talk about him like they could've been his girlfriend when the real Dahmer preferred his sexual partners ''male'' and ''dead'' (...or ideally, physically alive but mentally-dead zombie sex slaves).[[/note]] who was a cannibalistic necrophiliac who even tried to turn victims into zombies.
* There's even people who squee over Nazi war criminals like Joseph Mengele!

** Jeffrey Dahmer...the "Milwaukee Cannibal"...even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWoEBVogrbs&lc=UgwXfqE9dNGs2QCQSvN4AaABAg.97EbQoJWTtj97RgONaOzkf has fans squeeing over him!]] This is mainly due to his somewhat sympathetic backstory [[note]]Lonely nerdy kid raised by emotionally neglectful parents with a mentally ill mother, a more favored younger brother, a loving but distant father and driven to "bottle up" all his inner demons[[/note]], somewhat pitiful persona [[note]]Meek and mild in interviews. Often expressing regret and remorse.[[/note]], [[https://i.ibb.co/sFDwYy2/nwlrqhrznpyos5ebltlb.png nerdish]] but [[https://i.ibb.co/28K792F/Annotation-2020-05-04-182731.png somewhat attractive]] looks (and physique) and other factors. Some romanticize his crimes into some twisted "Murder & cannibalism for LOVE!". It also doesn't help that, like Ted Bundy, he has a hot PrettyBoy former TeenIdol ([[https://i.ibb.co/HDFqfmV/Annotation-2020-04-18-171340.png in this]] case, RossLynch) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP4yqd90BT0 playing him]] as well...elevating the {{Megane}}-factor. Female admirers ether ignore the fact that Dahmer was gay or see his orientation as a perk [[note]]FANGIRL: "I'd be safe around him and Guy on Guy is hot!"[[/note]].

** Even Elliot Rodger has horny fangirls squeeing over him. While he no doubt was a PrettyBoy (looks-wise), we was still a creepy extreme misogynist who committed mass-murder).
* Jeffery Dahmer fangirls; Yup, there are weird gals who get the hots for a ''GAY'' man who was a cannibalistic necrophiliac who even tried to turn victims into zombies.

* In a non-romantic example, a number of mass murderers, especially those motivated by hatred of women, have gotten fandoms from the HeManWomanHater "incel" community, who see them as rebels against a system that they think denies them love and affection. (In other words, instead of directly falling in love with a killer, they think that the killer's crimes will improve their love lives.) Elliot Rodger, the Isla Vista, California shooter who left behind a detailed manifesto (including a Website/YouTube video) outlining his motivations, is especially notorious for getting this.

Depressingly this occurs even in RealLife, where it is known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia hybristophilia.]]

* In medicine, this is sometimes called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia hybristophilia]], a paraphilia in which one is sexually aroused by the fact that somebody has committed a heinous crime. Some famous examples include:

** Karla Homolka, wife of Canadian sexual sadist and killer Paul Bernardo, was one of these and an active accomplice in his crimes, but successfully portrayed herself to the court as a scared wife forced to go along with him in order to get a reduced sentence in exchange for providing evidence against her husband.

** Nasim Aghdam, who shot and wounded three people and then killed herself at Website/YouTube's headquarters [[DisproportionateRetribution because she felt that they were unfairly blocking her videos]], was immediately noticed on many of the internet's [[{{Imageboards}} various crawlspaces]]. Not just because many of them sympathized with her specific grievances, but also because she was a very attractive Middle Eastern woman who often wore sexy and flamboyant outfits in her videos.

Their fate is usually to be casually discarded to wind up [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness another victim]], or to go to jail for the crimes they commit to aid the Monster, often screaming declarations of love all the way. As a villain is not always redeemed, the woman's deluded attraction to the dangerous psychopath may also be a romantic manifestation of TooDumbToLive.

Compare DracoInLeatherPants for when the fandom does it. See also PsychoSupporter, NightmareFetishist and HorribleJudgeOfCharacter. For a fangirl of a ''literal'' monster in a relationship with one, see InterspeciesRomance, BeastAndBeauty or YouSexyBeast.

* In the first part of the ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' storyline, Carnage was in the middle of his latest rampage within the maximum security facility he had been sent to, when to his disbelief, he gained a cheering section. Of course, the fan in this case was fellow inmate Shriek, who was almost as sociopathic as he was, but they would become partners as a result.

* Sabrina in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' is revealed to have been this as a child. At one point, she wrote a school essay about a person she admired. Her chosen subject was Twenty Gyarados Bill, a notorious criminal whose titular Gyarados devastated the coast of Johto and the reason why the six active Pokémon limit was established. While she doesn't deny he's a mass murderer, [[EvilVirtues she tries to highlight his more positive traits]], describing him as "a shinning example of self-improvement through hard work and determination".

--> "It certainly does feel great to have a real killer around here again."

* In ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', "Jamie Dee" takes a hostage to steal a policecar. It turns out the "hostage" is one of his fangirls. [[spoiler: However, he's [[TheWoobie not what]] he seems]].

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' had an artist who has almost a dozen followers who commit murders, as he encourages them to be creative and to impress him. In the end he gets sent to a Super Max prison where he will have no contact with anyone in the outside.

* Music/FrankZappa: "The Illinois Enema Bandit", about a real life criminal who gave his female victims enemas. When sent to court "one girl shouts: "Let the bandit be" and another one shouts: "Let the fiend go free."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Pranksta Rap", Kirk Van Houten is arrested for kidnapping Bart. Even though he is innocent (as Bart staged a fake kidnapping), Kirk is happy to be in jail because he has a cleaner home, three meals a day and single women cheering for him.

** The "Free Jahar" (Dzhokhar Tsaranev, the younger Boston Marathon bomber) fangirly squeefest. Even ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine got caught up in this one, running [[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/jahars-world-20130717 a controversial cover story]] that featured a profile of the young Tsaranev describing him as [[DracoInLeatherPants "a beautiful, tousle-haired boy with a gentle demeanor, soulful brown eyes and the kind of shy, laid-back manner that 'made him that dude you could always just vibe with,'"]] accompanied by [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-inconvenient-image-of-dzhokhar-tsarnaev a glamorous-looking cover shot]].
** "Columbiners" are a subculture of people obsessed with the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School Massacre]] and its perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Many take it well beyond just an ordinary TrueCrime enthusiasm into idealizing "Reb and [=VoDKa=]" as heroes for disaffected youth, with three of them winding up implicated in [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwpd4n/speaking-to-columbiners-about-depression-suicide-and-the-halifax-shooting-plot-232 a (thankfully thwarted) mass murder plot of their own]] in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and another one, around the time of the twentieth anniversary of the shooting, going so far as to travel from [[OnlyInFlorida Florida]] to Columbine High School in a failed attempt to pull off [[https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fbi-launches-manhunt-for-sol-pais-surfside-teen-accused-of-threatening-columbine-and-other-colorado-schools-11149318 a repeat of the massacre]]. Less thankfully, one Columbiner in UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} actually did manage to imitate his heroes and [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1568631/Biography-of-a-teen-killer.html kill eight people at his school.]]

** Likewise with the [[http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/cruzers-are-fans-of-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz.html "Cruzers"]], fans of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz, who flooded the jail in Broward County, UsefulNotes/{{Florida}} with a deluge of fanmail and phone calls.

** The "TrueCrime community" (or TCC) on Website/{{Tumblr}} has a bad reputation for this, and has often been accused of glamorizing serial killers and mass murderers and trying to whitewash or justify their actions. Many of the fandoms described above (Columbiners, Holmies, Cruzers) were born from and have their main presences in Tumblr's true crime community, which also has a not-insignificant degree of overlap with the site's alt-right presence. Many of the more grounded true crime enthusiasts on Tumblr often despair at the reputation the community has.

** "Columbiners" are a subculture of people obsessed with the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School Massacre and its perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Many take it well beyond just an ordinary TrueCrime enthusiasm into idealizing "Reb and [=VoDKa=]" as heroes for disaffected youth, with three of them winding up implicated in [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwpd4n/speaking-to-columbiners-about-depression-suicide-and-the-halifax-shooting-plot-232 a (thankfully thwarted) mass murder plot of their own]] in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Less thankfully, one Columbiner in UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} actually did manage to imitate his heroes and [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1568631/Biography-of-a-teen-killer.html kill eight people at his school]].

** Elliot Rodger, the Isla Vista shooter, has gotten a fanbase from the HeManWomanHater "incel" community.
** It has become increasingly clear that Karla Homolka, wife of Canadian sexual sadist and killer Paul Bernardo, was one of these rather than the scared wife she portrayed herself as to get a short sentence in exchange for providing evidence against her husband.

* Inque in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' had a male version. He helped her escape and tried to become like her. She pays him back for his help bu giving him a half-way working solution. [[AndIMustScream He becomes something like her, all right.]][[labelnote:what happened?]] When Inque gives him ''half'' of what made her that way he becomes oddly shaped with enormous hands, too big of ears, and a huge MadEye. He can't talk, can barely move, and needs a caretaker to watch over him. Just like Inque.[[/labelnote]]

** The "Free Jahar" (Dzhokhar Tsarnev, the younger Boston Marathon bomber) fangirly squeefest. Even ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine got caught up in this one, running [[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/jahars-world-20130717 a controversial cover story]] that featured a profile of the young Tsarnev describing him as [[DracoInLeatherPants "a beautiful, tousle-haired boy with a gentle demeanor, soulful brown eyes and the kind of shy, laid-back manner that 'made him that dude you could always just vibe with,'"]] accompanied by [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-inconvenient-image-of-dzhokhar-tsarnaev a glamorous-looking cover shot]].

** "Columbiners" are a subculture of people obsessed with the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School Massacre and its perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Many take it well beyond just an ordinary TrueCrime enthusiasm into idealizing "Reb and [=VoDKa=]" as heroes for disaffected youth, with three of them winding up implicated in [[https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwpd4n/speaking-to-columbiners-about-depression-suicide-and-the-halifax-shooting-plot-232 a (thankfully thwarted) mass murder plot of their own]] in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

** The "Free Jahar" (Dzhokhar Tsarnev, the younger Boston Marathon bomber) fangirly squeefest.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' franchise HarleyQuinn is one to the Joker. More specifically she was his therapist until she suffered a CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure.