History Main / TheKnightsWhoSaySquee

* Lars von Trier gets to work with and even impersonate his lifetime mentor and role model Jørgen Leth in a documentary film called ''The Five Obstructions''.

* In ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'', Sothe, despite being a highly skilled rogue, still fanboys immensely over {{badass}} Ike. This quote from Micaiah shows the level of his [[http://ashleighdragmire.deviantart.com/art/Micaiah-s-Creepy-Comment-94543806 admiration.]]

** And in ''SuperSmashBros. Brawl'', he and Otacon fanboy over Captain Falcon for some reason that is never fully explained. Snake also shows deep respect for Mario and Luigi.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' special "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]", the Tenth Doctor fanboys over ''himself'' (the Fifth Doctor). By the end it's pretty clear that it's really DavidTennant and StevenMoffat who are doing it to PeterDavison.

** This meeting would go on to have a notable consequence: Sinestro asks Booster what Corps he belongs to, leading him [[LineOfSightName to make up the name]] "[[AndNowYouKnowTheRestOfTheStory Sinestro Corps]]" on the spot. This gets Sinestro thinking...

* [[BigGuy Tallahassee]] from ZombieLand. When he meets [[Bill Murray]] he drops the badass and starts {{Squee}}-ing like a fangirl.

* Aquerna and some of the other Underdogs of Whateley Academy in the WhateleyUniverse have a fan club for Fey. This is really embarrassing for Fey, since she's their age and still in high school.

* The LegionOfSuperHeroes over [[{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] in the animated series. With Brainiac 5, it never stopped, and we had scenes of [[TheKobayashiMaru Danger Room-like sessions]] with Brainy heroically stopping the bad guys, being fatally wounded, and dying in the arms of [[strike: his beloved]] Superman.

* [[BigGuy Tallahassee]] from ZombieLand. When he meets [[BillMurray]] he drops the badass and starts {{Squee}}-ing like a fangirl.

However, what we forget is that our dear protagonists used to have a life before (or even ''besides'') their duties, and are still individual people with likings and all. Maybe they JumpedAtTheCall because [[AscendedFanboy they wanted to be like their beloved childhood hero]], or had some of their decisions shaped by the "philosophy of life" of their idol. The person they admire and want to follow didn't have to be a "true" superhero, though. Could be a favorite celebrity, IdolSinger, or something else. Maybe that doesn't even have to be a person; just [[McGuffin an object]], an animal (small cute creatures are a particular favorite), a [[ShowWithinAShow show]], even a [[MoeMoe particular attitude]].

So, why we should be surprised that they still {{Squee}} over their idols? Given the circumstances, we should not be surprised whenever a {{Superhero}}, MagicalGirl, TeenSuperspy, etc. starts acting like a {{fanboy}}/{{fangirl}} over something or someone.

Often, this is followed by FanDisillusionment when the Hero discovers the {{Squee}} object is actually either [[NiceToTheWaiter mean]], [[BrokenPedestal fake]], or [[NoHeroToHisValet not without his own problems]]. This can lead to an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} on not becoming a fanboy/fangirl; conversely, it can lead to an {{aesop}} that the hero is, after all, a human being. A similar trope, which can carry over into real life, is AscendedFanboy.

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* In ''TokyoMewMew,'' [[TheOjou Mint]] [[FanGirl fangirls]] over [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Zakuro]].

** Ironhide began the series fanboying the veterans of ''TransformersArmada,'' especially Hot Shot. Later in the series, a trio of younger 'bots fanboy ''him.'' [[spoiler:They become {{Dead Sidekick}}s three or so episodes later]].

* In ''Avengers Classic 11'', Cap does a SherlockScan of SpiderMan, and they get their first good talk.
---> '''Spidey''': Plus it's, like, you're standing there and I'm nerding out on the inside. [...] Permission to freak out openly...?

* When the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica came down on Young Justice, Arrowette's first reaction was stunned surprise that the ''Justice League'' concerned themselves with ''them''. (Making it all the more dramatic when she slowly realized that they were being unjust, complaining that the young superheroes were acting young, and then turned on them, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome telling them off in a manner that reduced them to stunned silence]]. And then stormed off into the kitchen to hyperventilate.)

* The PreCrisis LexLuthor felt this way about ''AlbertEinstein.'' After all, this was MadScientist Lex, and Einstein had been his childhood hero. Luthor would commemorate Einstein's birthday each year by traveling to some pivotal location from Einstein's life for a visit (spending one day working in Einstein's old patent office, for instance.). It took Superman years to figure out why Lex was behaving so oddly, until he made the connection, at which point he was genuinely touched. Notably, Lex couldn't bring himself to do anything genuinely wicked on that day, out of respect for his hero. Notably, this story was written by Elliott S! Maggin, who always treated Lex with more tragic sympathy than other writers did; and Einstein is ''Maggin's'' personal hero.

* ''[[StarTrekFirstContact Star Trek: First Contact]]'', the second [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] film, has the crew travelling back to the mid 21st century and meeting Zephram Cochrane, the man who invented warp drive and pretty much founded the utopian principles of the ''StarTrek'' universe. Much of the crew expects to meet a living saint, and instead discover Cochrane to be a raging drunk who cares more about money than anything else. Other crewmen, like Riker, either didn't have such expectations or just got used to the reality faster. Although Riker does get the best line about Cochrane's attitude:
--->'''Riker''': Someone once said, "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
--->'''Cochrane''': That's rhetorical nonsense. Who said that?
--->'''Riker''': ''You did''. Ten years from now.

* In ''IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', Crash and Eddie (and to a lesser extent, Diego) become obsessed with the [[CrazySurvivalist Crazy Survivalist]] Buck.
-->'''Crash''': You are Super Weasel!
-->'''Eddie''': Ultra Weasel!
-->'''Diego''': Diesel Weasel!
* Lars von Trier gets to work with and even impersonate his lifetime mentor and role model Jørgen Leth in a documentary film called ''The Five Obstructions''

* A much more restrained than usual version of this is seen with Caspian in C.S. Lewis's ''[[{{Narnia}} Prince Caspian]]''. The film, [[AdaptationDecay less so]].

--> ''"Cause you know what Doctor? You were'' my ''Doctor!"''

** The Tenth Doctor was pretty star-struck by {{Shakespeare}} in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]".

* Commander Shepard of ''MassEffect'' gets this from time to time, since s/he's already a {{Badass}} with a rep in the first game. In the second, s/he's only the savior of the entire galaxy; one could almost argue that there's ''less'' squeeing over him/her than there should be. [[spoiler:Especially since s/he's back from the dead.]]
** Given the memorials to the Commander on a half dozen planets, his/her home colony adopting his/her face as their official logo, and (according to one news report) raging internet arguments about what his/her return means I'd say things are pretty Squee-ish.
* In ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'', Sothe, despite being a highly skilled rogue, still fanboys immensely over {{Badass}} Ike. This quote from Micaiah shows the level of his [[http://ashleighdragmire.deviantart.com/art/Micaiah-s-Creepy-Comment-94543806 admiration.]]

** Plus there is one where a [=MAD=] agent also happens to be Gadget's favorite actress.

* In ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold,'' BlueBeetle spends most of his time in awe of Batman. (He's also fanboyed over previous Blue Beetle Ted Kord and AQUAMAN.)
** And Bats himself to SherlockHolmes, in the episode where he went back in time. At the end of that episode, Holmes asks how he knew who he was. "Everyone knows who you are. You're the world's greatest detective." (World's Greatest Detective is usually a title given to Batman.)
* In ''Justice League,'' Captain Marvel finally meets his idol Superman, only to discover that he's nothing like he thought he would be. After Supes beats the tar out of him, destroying the "reformed" Lex Luthor's new city in the process, he resigns from the now understandably repentant JL with the words, "You just don't act like heroes."
** Contextually, the Big Blue's attitude had a lot to do with recent events. [[spoiler:It didn't help that Lex Luthor had gone out of his way to make things look suspicious to Supes so he'd go off half-cocked, thus soiling the League's reputation.]]

** The whole team drools over Val-Yor to a scary degree, trusting the stranger to the point of joining a mission of his far from Earth ''way'' too quickly. Then it turns out [[spoiler:he's species-ist and hates Tamaraneans, allowing for an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} without going to the MoralGuardian-unfriendly level of using the actual ''black character'' for a race-relations-related episode]].

* Allegedly, Gabe and Tycho of PennyArcade and KarenTraviss (best known for her WessHar books and RepublicCommando novels) reacted this way to one another when they read each other's blogs and found out they were fans of one another.

* ''StarTrek'':
** ''[[StarTrekFirstContact Star Trek: First Contact]]'', the second [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] film, has the crew travelling back to the mid 21st century and meeting Zephram Cochrane, the man who invented warp drive and pretty much founded the utopian principles of the ''StarTrek'' universe. Much of the crew expects to meet a living saint, and instead discover Cochrane to be a raging drunk who cares more about money than anything else. Other crewmen, like Riker, either didn't have such expectations or just got used to the reality faster. Although Riker does get the best line about Cochrane's attitude:

** He has to be subtle about it to avoid violating the Temporal PrimeDirective, but Ben Sisko of ''DeepSpaceNine'' is pretty darn squeeful about getting to meet [[TheKirk Captain Kirk]] in "Trials and Tribble-ations".

* ''[[StarTrekFirstContact Star Trek: First Contact]]'', the second [[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] film, has the crew travelling back to the mid 21st century and meeting Zephram Cochrane, the man who invented warp drive and pretty much founded the utopian principles of the ''StarTrek'' universe. Much of the crew expects to meet a living saint, and instead discover Cochrane to be a raging drunk who cares more about money than anything else. Other crewmen, like Riker, either didn't have such expectations or just got used to the reality faster.
** Although Riker does get the best line about Cochrane's attitude:

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Often, this is followed by FanDisillusionment when the Hero discovers the {{Squee}} object is actually either [[NiceToTheWaiter mean]], [[BrokenPedestal fake]], or [[NoHeroToHisValet not without his own problems]]. This can lead to an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} on not becoming a fanboy/fangirl; conversely, it can lead to an {{aesop}} that the hero is, after all, a human being. A similar trope, which can carry over into real life, is AscendedFanboy.

Another common plot is for the best current hero to squee and be all "[=~I'm Your Biggest Fan~=]!" over a childhood idol, perhaps telling him that he was the inspiration that got him where he is. The hero's fans are often quite embarrassed by the way they treated what they assumed was an insignificant elderly person.

Compare and contrast AudienceSurrogate. See also FanOfUnderdog.

* ''OnePiece:'' [[{{Dojikko}} Major Sergeant Tashigi]] is pretty much fangirling on the inside over Zoro [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/97/18/ here]] There's kind of a double-subversion going on, though. She immediately presumed he was a bad person upon finding out he was a pirate, but doesn't realize that Zoro is still a good guy, and is still all what she was squeeing over earlier and far, far more.
** To clarify a couple of key points: First, she thought Zoro was a bad guy even before finding out he was a pirate ([[IdiotBall because bounty hunters clearly are only slightly less reprehensible than pirates]]). Second, at that point in the story, ''she didn't know that the guy buying swords was Zoro''. Yeah...

** Ironhide began the series fanboying the veterans of ''TransformersArmada,'' especially Hot Shot. Later in the series, a trio of younger 'bots fanboy ''him.'' [[spoiler:They become {{Dead Sidekick}}s three or so episodes later]].

---> '''Spidey''': Plus it's, like, you're standing there and I'm nerding out on the inside. [...] Permission to freak out openly...?
* And there's also another CaptainAmerica and Spider-Man Team Up, where it is very easy to believe that Spidey is not just squeeing at Cap, but crushing.

* When the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica came down on Young Justice, Arrowette's first reaction was stunned surprise that the ''Justice League'' concerned themselves with ''them''. (Making it all the more dramatic when she slowly realized that they were being unjust, complaining that the young superheroes were acting young, and then turned on them, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome telling them off in a manner that reduced them to stunned silence]]. And then stormed off into the kitchen to hyperventilate.)

* In ''Dark Reign: YoungAvengers'', upon meeting Norman Osborn superperson artist Coat-of-Arms has one of these moments. She (literally) lets out a "Squee!", then proceeds to go into super-fangirl mode, gushing about how she admires Norman's "works" while showing him paintings she did of some of his more infamous moments (including killing Gwen Stacey). This pisses Norman off and, for a brief moment, he loses his composure and flips out on her. The fact he "went into Green Goblin mode" makes her completely ecstatic.

* In ''BoosterGold'', time travellers had got Sinestro to come to Earth ahead of schedule, so that he would meet Guy Gardner and cause disaster, by telling him that he would no longer be the greatest of the Green Lanterns. Booster had to stop him. After a brief attempt at fighting, Booster tries, "[[ImYourBiggestFan But I'm your greatest fan]]!" He gushes over him, tells him that he knows in his heart he can never be replaced, and convinces him that it was a plot by his enemies to find out what he feared.

* The PreCrisis LexLuthor felt this way about ''AlbertEinstein.'' After all, this was MadScientist Lex, and Einstein had been his childhood hero. Luthor would commemorate Einstein's birthday each year by traveling to some pivotal location from Einstein's life for a visit (spending one day working in Einstein's old patent office, for instance.). It took Superman years to figure out why Lex was behaving so oddly, until he made the connection, at which point he was genuinely touched. Notably, Lex couldn't bring himself to do anything genuinely wicked on that day, out of respect for his hero. Notably, this story was written by Elliott S! Maggin, who always treated Lex with a bit more tragic sympathy than other writers usually did; and Einstein is ''Maggin's'' personal hero.

* FanFic example: In M. [=McGregor=]'s ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.com/Story-16694/MMcGregor+ The+ Wonderland+ Subject.htm The Wonderland Subject]]'', central to which is an [[IntercontinuityCrossover interdimensional crossover]] between ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and the UltimateMarvel universe, Xander and Jean Grey have several instances of mutual squeeing over each other -- he, because he's a big-time comic book fan; she, because she's a fan of a long-running Broadway musical version of ''Buffy'' native to her version of Earth.

* In ''IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', Crash and Eddie (and to a lesser extent, Diego) become obsessed with the [[CrazySurvivalist Crazy Survivalist]] Buck.

* Lars von Trier gets to work with and even impersonate his lifetime mentor and role model Jørgen Leth in a documentary film called ''The Five Obstructions''

* Ratchet of ''RatchetAndClank'' is like this a few times. He reacts with awe towards a hoverboard champion and is rather excited that the spaceship he is stationed on has a gamestation in the third game.

* In ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'', Sothe, despite being a highly skilled rogue, still fanboys immensely over {{Badass}} Ike. This quote from Micaiah shows the level of his [[http://ashleighdragmire.deviantart.com/art/Micaiah-s-Creepy-Comment-94543806 admiration.]]

* In ''{{Cars}}'', Lightning [=McQueen=] goes Squee over Doc Hudson when he realizes he was a great race car in his day. Leading to the painful scene where none of Doc's friends will believe him, and Doc watches, knows he is telling the truth, and says nothing.

* The members of the SushiPack fall into this occasionally.
** In "The World's Tastiest Heroes," Ikura fanboys over all the superheroes on [[ShowWithinAShow "The World's Biggest Heroes"]] and even gets backstage passes to the show. The superheroes all turn out to be [[PrideBeforeAFall horrible braggers]] and just laugh at the Pack when Ikura introduces them as heroes, too.

** The whole team drools over Val-Yor to a scary degree, trusting the stranger to the point of joining a mission of his far from Earth ''way'' too quickly. Then it turns out [[spoiler:he's species-ist and hates Tamaraneans, allowing for an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} without going to the MoralGuardian-unfriendly level of using the actual ''black character'' for a race-relations-related episode]].
** Also, in the flashback episode showing how the team first met, Beast Boy was very excited to meet Robin, who was, of course, already famous.

* In "The Penguins of Madagascar" episode "The Red Squirrel" Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico all squee over meeting and working with the legendary Special Agent Buck Rockgut. Skipper even claims to have "patterned his whole life" after Rockgut. [[spoiler:Their enthusiasm fades when he accuses first Private then Kowalski of being the villainous Red Squirrel.]]
* In ''[[TMNT2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003), Mikey often feels this way regarding established super-heroes, such as Silver Sentry and the Justice Force.

Often, this is followed by FanDisillusionment when the Hero discovers the {{Squee}} object is actually either [[NiceToTheWaiter mean]], [[BrokenPedestal fake]], or [[NoHeroToHisValet not without his own problems]]. This can lead to an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} on not becoming a fanboy/fangirl; conversely, it can lead to an {{aesop}} that the hero is, after all, a human being. A similar trope, which can carry over into real life, is AscendedFanboy.

Another common plot is for the best current hero to squee and be all "[=~I'm Your Biggest Fan~=]!" over a childhood idol, perhaps telling him that he was the inspiration that got him where he is. The hero's fans are often quite embarrassed by the way they treated what they assumed was an insignificant elderly person.

Compare and contrast AudienceSurrogate. See also FanOfUnderdog.

* ''OnePiece:'' [[{{Dojikko}} Major Sergeant Tashigi]] is pretty much fangirling on the inside over Zoro [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/97/18/ here]] There's kind of a double-subversion going on, though. She immediately presumed he was a bad person upon finding out he was a pirate, but doesn't realize that Zoro is still a good guy, and is still all what she was squeeing over earlier and far, far more.
** To clarify a couple of key points: First, she thought Zoro was a bad guy even before finding out he was a pirate ([[IdiotBall because bounty hunters clearly are only slightly less reprehensible than pirates]]). Second, at that point in the story, ''she didn't know that the guy buying swords was Zoro''. Yeah...

** Ironhide began the series fanboying the veterans of ''TransformersArmada,'' especially Hot Shot. Later in the series, a trio of younger 'bots fanboy ''him.'' [[spoiler:They become {{Dead Sidekick}}s three or so episodes later]].

---> '''Spidey''': Plus it's, like, you're standing there and I'm nerding out on the inside. [...] Permission to freak out openly...?
* And there's also another CaptainAmerica and Spider-Man Team Up, where it is very easy to believe that Spidey is not just squeeing at Cap, but crushing.

* When the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica came down on Young Justice, Arrowette's first reaction was stunned surprise that the ''Justice League'' concerned themselves with ''them''. (Making it all the more dramatic when she slowly realized that they were being unjust, complaining that the young superheroes were acting young, and then turned on them, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome telling them off in a manner that reduced them to stunned silence]]. And then stormed off into the kitchen to hyperventilate.)

* In ''Dark Reign: YoungAvengers'', upon meeting Norman Osborn superperson artist Coat-of-Arms has one of these moments. She (literally) lets out a "Squee!", then proceeds to go into super-fangirl mode, gushing about how she admires Norman's "works" while showing him paintings she did of some of his more infamous moments (including killing Gwen Stacey). This pisses Norman off and, for a brief moment, he loses his composure and flips out on her. The fact he "went into Green Goblin mode" makes her completely ecstatic.

* In ''BoosterGold'', time travellers had got Sinestro to come to Earth ahead of schedule, so that he would meet Guy Gardner and cause disaster, by telling him that he would no longer be the greatest of the Green Lanterns. Booster had to stop him. After a brief attempt at fighting, Booster tries, "[[ImYourBiggestFan But I'm your greatest fan]]!" He gushes over him, tells him that he knows in his heart he can never be replaced, and convinces him that it was a plot by his enemies to find out what he feared.

* The PreCrisis LexLuthor felt this way about ''AlbertEinstein.'' After all, this was MadScientist Lex, and Einstein had been his childhood hero. Luthor would commemorate Einstein's birthday each year by traveling to some pivotal location from Einstein's life for a visit (spending one day working in Einstein's old patent office, for instance.). It took Superman years to figure out why Lex was behaving so oddly, until he made the connection, at which point he was genuinely touched. Notably, Lex couldn't bring himself to do anything genuinely wicked on that day, out of respect for his hero. Notably, this story was written by Elliott S! Maggin, who always treated Lex with a bit more tragic sympathy than other writers usually did.

* FanFic example: In M. [=McGregor=]'s ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.com/Story-16694/MMcGregor+ The+ Wonderland+ Subject.htm The Wonderland Subject]]'', central to which is an [[IntercontinuityCrossover interdimensional crossover]] between ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and the UltimateMarvel universe, Xander and Jean Grey have several instances of mutual squeeing over each other -- he, because he's a big-time comic book fan; she, because she's a fan of a long-running Broadway musical version of ''Buffy'' native to her version of Earth.

* In ''IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', Crash and Eddie (and to a lesser extent, Diego) become obsessed with the [[CrazySurvivalist Crazy Survivalist]] Buck.

* Lars von Trier gets to work with and even impersonate his lifetime mentor and role model Jørgen Leth in a documentary film called ''The Five Obstructions''

* Ratchet of ''RatchetAndClank'' is like this a few times. He reacts with awe towards a hoverboard champion and is rather excited that the spaceship he is stationed on has a gamestation in the third game.

* In ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'', Sothe, despite being a highly skilled rogue, still fanboys immensely over {{Badass}} Ike. This quote from Micaiah shows the level of his [[http://ashleighdragmire.deviantart.com/art/Micaiah-s-Creepy-Comment-94543806 admiration.]]

* In ''{{Cars}}'', Lightning [=McQueen=] goes Squee over Doc Hudson when he realizes he was a great race car in his day. Leading to the painful scene where none of Doc's friends will believe him, and Doc watches, knows he is telling the truth, and says nothing.

* The members of the SushiPack fall into this occasionally.
** In "The World's Tastiest Heroes," Ikura fanboys over all the superheroes on [[ShowWithinAShow "The World's Biggest Heroes"]] and even gets backstage passes to the show. The superheroes all turn out to be [[PrideBeforeAFall horrible braggers]] and just laugh at the Pack when Ikura introduces them as heroes, too.

** The whole team drools over Val-Yor to a scary degree, trusting the stranger to the point of joining a mission of his far from Earth ''way'' too quickly. Then it turns out [[spoiler:he's species-ist and hates Tamaraneans, allowing for an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} without going to the MoralGuardian-unfriendly level of using the actual ''black character'' for a race-relations-related episode]].
** Also, in the flashback episode showing how the team first met, Beast Boy was very excited to meet Robin, who was, of course, already famous.

* In "The Penguins of Madagascar" episode "The Red Squirrel" Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico all squee over meeting and working with the legendary Special Agent Buck Rockgut. Skipper even claims to have "patterned his whole life" after Rockgut. [[spoiler:Their enthusiasm fades when he accuses first Private then Kowalski of being the villainous Red Squirrel.]]
* In ''[[TMNT2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003), Mikey often feels this way regarding established super-heroes, such as Silver Sentry and the Justice Force.

Often, this is followed by FanDisillusionment when the Hero discovers the {{Squee}} object is actually either [[NiceToTheWaiter mean]], [[BrokenPedestal fake]], or [[NoHeroToHisValet not without his own problems]]. This can lead to an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} on not becoming a fanboy/fangirl; conversely, it can lead to an {{aesop}} that the hero is, after all, a human being. A similar trope, which can carry over into real life, is AscendedFanboy.

Another common plot is for the best current hero to squee and be all "[=~I'm Your Biggest Fan~=]!" over a childhood idol, perhaps telling him that he was the inspiration that got him where he is. The hero's fans are often quite embarrassed by the way they treated what they assumed was an insignificant elderly person.

Compare and contrast AudienceSurrogate. See also FanOfUnderdog.

* ''OnePiece:'' [[{{Dojikko}} Major Sergeant Tashigi]] is pretty much fangirling on the inside over Zoro [[http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/97/18/ here]] There's kind of a double-subversion going on, though. She immediately presumed he was a bad person upon finding out he was a pirate, but doesn't realize that Zoro is still a good guy, and is still all what she was squeeing over earlier and far, far more.
** To clarify a couple of key points: First, she thought Zoro was a bad guy even before finding out he was a pirate ([[IdiotBall because bounty hunters clearly are only slightly less reprehensible than pirates]]). Second, at that point in the story, ''she didn't know that the guy buying swords was Zoro''. Yeah...

** Ironhide began the series fanboying the veterans of ''TransformersArmada,'' especially Hot Shot. Later in the series, a trio of younger 'bots fanboy ''him.'' [[spoiler:They become {{Dead Sidekick}}s three or so episodes later]].

---> '''Spidey''': Plus it's, like, you're standing there and I'm nerding out on the inside. [...] Permission to freak out openly...?
* And there's also another CaptainAmerica and Spider-Man Team Up, where it is very easy to believe that Spidey is not just squeeing at Cap, but crushing.

* When the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica came down on Young Justice, Arrowette's first reaction was stunned surprise that the ''Justice League'' concerned themselves with ''them''. (Making it all the more dramatic when she slowly realized that they were being unjust, complaining that the young superheroes were acting young, and then turned on them, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome telling them off in a manner that reduced them to stunned silence]]. And then stormed off into the kitchen to hyperventilate.)

* In ''Dark Reign: YoungAvengers'', upon meeting Norman Osborn superperson artist Coat-of-Arms has one of these moments. She (literally) lets out a "Squee!", then proceeds to go into super-fangirl mode, gushing about how she admires Norman's "works" while showing him paintings she did of some of his more infamous moments (including killing Gwen Stacey). This pisses Norman off and, for a brief moment, he loses his composure and flips out on her. The fact he "went into Green Goblin mode" makes her completely ecstatic.

* In ''BoosterGold'', time travellers had got Sinestro to come to Earth ahead of schedule, so that he would meet Guy Gardner and cause disaster, by telling him that he would no longer be the greatest of the Green Lanterns. Booster had to stop him. After a brief attempt at fighting, Booster tries, "[[ImYourBiggestFan But I'm your greatest fan]]!" He gushes over him, tells him that he knows in his heart he can never be replaced, and convinces him that it was a plot by his enemies to find out what he feared.

* The PreCrisis LexLuthor felt this way about ''AlbertEinstein.'' After all, this was MadScientist Lex, and Einstein had been his childhood hero. Luthor would commemorate Einstein's birthday each year by traveling to some pivotal location from Einstein's life for a visit (spending a day working in Einstein's old patent office, etc.). It took Superman years to figure out why Lex was behaving so oddly, until he made the connection, at which point he was genuinely touched. Notably, Lex couldn't bring himself to do anything genuinely wicked on that day, out of respect for his hero. Notably, this story was written by Elliott S! Maggin, who always treated Lex with a bit more tragic sympathy than other writers usually did.

* FanFic example: In M. [=McGregor=]'s ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.com/Story-16694/MMcGregor+ The+ Wonderland+ Subject.htm The Wonderland Subject]]'', central to which is an [[IntercontinuityCrossover interdimensional crossover]] between ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and the UltimateMarvel universe, Xander and Jean Grey have several instances of mutual squeeing over each other -- he, because he's a big-time comic book fan; she, because she's a fan of a long-running Broadway musical version of ''Buffy'' native to her version of Earth.

* In ''IceAge: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', Crash and Eddie (and to a lesser extent, Diego) become obsessed with the [[CrazySurvivalist Crazy Survivalist]] Buck.

* Lars von Trier gets to work with and even impersonate his lifetime mentor and role model Jørgen Leth in a documentary film called ''The Five Obstructions''

* Ratchet of ''RatchetAndClank'' is like this a few times. He reacts with awe towards a hoverboard champion and is rather excited that the spaceship he is stationed on has a gamestation in the third game.

* In ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'', Sothe, despite being a highly skilled rogue, still fanboys immensely over {{Badass}} Ike. This quote from Micaiah shows the level of his [[http://ashleighdragmire.deviantart.com/art/Micaiah-s-Creepy-Comment-94543806 admiration.]]

* In ''{{Cars}}'', Lightning [=McQueen=] goes Squee over Doc Hudson when he realizes he was a great race car in his day. Leading to the painful scene where none of Doc's friends will believe him, and Doc watches, knows he is telling the truth, and says nothing.

* The members of the SushiPack fall into this occasionally.
** In "The World's Tastiest Heroes," Ikura fanboys over all the superheroes on [[ShowWithinAShow "The World's Biggest Heroes"]] and even gets backstage passes to the show. The superheroes all turn out to be [[PrideBeforeAFall horrible braggers]] and just laugh at the Pack when Ikura introduces them as heroes, too.

** The whole team drools over Val-Yor to a scary degree, trusting the stranger to the point of joining a mission of his far from Earth ''way'' too quickly. Then it turns out [[spoiler:he's species-ist and hates Tamaraneans, allowing for an {{Anvilicious}} {{aesop}} without going to the MoralGuardian-unfriendly level of using the actual ''black character'' for a race-relations-related episode]].
** Also, in the flashback episode showing how the team first met, Beast Boy was very excited to meet Robin, who was, of course, already famous.

* In "The Penguins of Madagascar" episode "The Red Squirrel" Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico all squee over meeting and working with the legendary Special Agent Buck Rockgut. Skipper even claims to have "patterned his whole life" after Rockgut. [[spoiler:Their enthusiasm fades when he accuses first Private then Kowalski of being the villainous Red Squirrel.]]
* In ''[[TMNT2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003), Mikey often feels this way regarding established super-heroes, such as Silver Sentry and the Justice Force.