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** He's also a big fan of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', having created the web series ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl''. He eventually got to do voice acting for the 3DS and Wii U iterations of the series, reprising his role as [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Chrom]] in Robin's Final Smash and an EasterEgg conversation with Palutena.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic: Doug Walker is such a massive Franchise/{{Batman}} fan that he named [[Film/Batman1989 the 1989 Batman film]] and Film/TheDarkKnight two of his favorite movies, Batman as his second most favorite fictional character ever, cited ''Series/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' as one of his favorite TV shows ever and frequently discusses and references the franchise in his videos and editorials. It gets to the point that he will dress himself up as Batman whenever he can.
** Doug is also a gigantic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fan and especially loves WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. Other stuff he has a particularly strong love for are ''Series/{{Blackadder}}, Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, Anime/CowboyBebop, WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Doug has managed to interview and invite most of "Animaniacs" writers and actors to provide cameos to some of his reviews. It's the show that appears most frequently on the Nostalgia Critic's [[UpToEleven Top 11]] lists.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick: Lindsay is a huge Creator/JRRTolkien fan and follows all movies Creator/SpikeLee makes. She also has a guilty pleasure for every movie starring robots.
* WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall: Lewis Lovhaug has many passions outside of comic books - ''{{Franchise/Star Trek}}'', ''{{Series/Doctor Who}}'', ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'', ''{{Franchise/Power Rangers}}'' (hence why he also does {{WebVideo/History Of Power Rangers}}), several horror movies, several [[BritCom British sitcoms]], etc. And he's been known to CosPlay in his videos whenever the comic gives him the opportunity to do so.

* Josh N. Hadley, podcast maker best known for ''Podcast/{{Radiodrome}}'', is deeply passionate about movies and TV series, though his nostalgia is mostly concentrated between the 1970s and early 1990s and focused on works outside the mainstream. He sincerely likes Creator/JohnCarpenter, especially ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' whose film trailer music he uses as the theme of "Radiodrome". And, last but not least, he is not just a movie fan. He also reads novelizations of books and compares them to what the movie directors made of them.

* Jim Sterling, of ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' fame, is a passionate gaming enthusiast: two of his top favorite series are ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' and ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' (the latter of which he spent an entire episode calling "the ''Film/CitizenKane'' of Gaming"). He is also a big fan of the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' series, so much so that he opened an episode on the infamous ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' by beating the snot out of a copy of said game with the dildo-bat from ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. He has also grown incredibly fond of Sega's ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series and considers the spin-off game ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'' one of his favorite games (on top of the love he already has for ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'').

* [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/aug/24/alqaida.sciencefictionfantasyandhorror There has been some speculation]] that UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden named his organization, al-Qaeda (which means "base" or "foundation"), after... the sci-fi novel ''{{Literature/Foundation}}'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov.

* Paul Krugman, who received the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (it is technically not a Nobel Prize) in 2008. It is not unusual for those with a Ph.D. to be nerds but he deserves a special mention. Reasons: 1) His interest in economics began when he read Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' books. He wanted to, just as in the book, be one of the social scientists "who understand the true dynamics save civilization". Since psychohistory does not exist, he turned to the closest thing, economics. 2) He posted [[http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/limited-posting-for-the-next-few-days/ this]] [[WebOriginal/LOLCats LOLcat]] on his blog upon leaving for Sweden to get his Nobel prize. 3) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuRabL3lFPg This]] video. 4) To cheer himself up he once wrote [[http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/economics-the-final-frontier/ The Theory of Interstellar Trade]], a paper where he outlines how trade between different star system might work. It does among other things take up how time dilation could affect economics. ''And'' he's a ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' fan!

** The comics editors were ''huge'' outspoken fans of indie comics, and managed to put (among other things) [[ComicBook/FunWithMilkAndCheese Evan Dorkin's]] ''Kid Blastoff!'' and Creator/JeffSmith's ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'' into the magazine.

* Several members of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses are big fans of ''Series/RedDwarf'' - Linkara and Spoony frequently reference the show in their videos, Creator/DougWalker cites it as his favorite live-action show, and fourth-favorite television show overall (behind ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'') and Rob Walker has stated that Santa Christ was inspired by Ace Rimmer.

* Creator/SalvadorDali adored Film/BusterKeaton and Film/TheMarxBrothers. He even gave a speech at a Surrealist Movement meeting dressed in a diving suit, because he had seen the Keaton movie "The Navigator" recently, in which Keaton does the same. He also painted a portrait of Harpo Marx.

** Doug is also a gigantic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fan and especially loves WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. Other stuff he has a particularly strong love for are ''Series/{{Blackadder}}, Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, Anime/CowboyBebop, WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Doug has managed to interview and invite most of "Animaniacs" writers and actors to provide cameos to some of his reviews.

** Unsurprisingly, Dahmer was also a horror movie nerd; his favorite film was ''Film/TheExorcistIII''. He was also a big ''Film/StarWars'' fan and his favorite character was Emperor Palpatine.

* The [[BeautyContest Miss USA]] winner [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_Campanella Alyssa Campanella]] was [[http://tv.yahoo.com/daytime/video/miss-usa-hate-high-heels-loves-star-wars/25399253/ revealed]] to be a huge ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, even answering a few surprise trivia questions correctly, and going as far as admitting that if she knew she'd be quizzed on StarWars, she would've worn her hair with Princess Lea's [[OdangoHair Odangos]].

** He frequently quotes ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh2nnPDyZpQand as shown here]]) and ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' in everyday conversation, although his favorite comedy is actually ''Film/HotFuzz''. He's also very fond of mocking ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' or just referencing ''Film/StarWars'' in general, even though it's not one of his favorite movies.

* Online film critic James Berardinelli is a self admitted geek, having from youth been a fan of such things as ''StarWars'', ''{{Franchise/Star Trek}}'', ''{{Series/Doctor Who}}'', ''{{Creator/Monty Python}}'', ''{{TableTopGame/Dungeons And Dragons}}'', and more. He's even written a trilogy of fantasy novels found [[http://www.reelviews.net/PriceCrown/contents.html here]], [[http://www.reelviews.net/PriceMagic/contents.html here]], and [[http://www.reelviews.net/PriceTerror/contents.html here]].

** As a child, Robert McNair refused to leave the local segregated library without being allowed to check out his books. Although police were called, he was allowed to check out the books. The whole incident occurred after he saw Uhura on Franchise/StarTrek and decided he wanted to be a black astronaut like her and figured he needed to study hard. McNair became the second African-American Astronaut to fly in space. Following his death in the Challenger incident, the library was named in his honor and even published a children's book about McNair's determination to check out his books.

** On a similar note, Kimlinh Tran, the voice actress of Ms. Fortune, is also the voice actress of Sombra in the Overwatch AWNN crew.

* Anthony Cumia from Radio/OpieAndAnthony is a longtime PC gamer. He and many of the comedians who appeared regularly would also discuss video games on occasion. This even led to them doing voice work in several games developed by Creator/RockstarGames.

** Doug is also a gigantic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fan and especially loves WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. Other stuff he has a particularly strong love for are ''Series/{{Blackadder}}, Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, Anime/CowboyBebop, WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Doug has managed to interview and invite most of "Animaniacs" writers and actors to provide cameos to some of his reviews.

** He frequently quotes ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh2nnPDyZpQand as shown here]]) and ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' in everyday conversation, although his favorite comedy is actually ''Film/HotFuzz''.

* Creator/RobertCrumb has been a comic book fan ever since he was young, with Creator/CarlBarks as his personal hero. He also loved the early 1950 ''Magazine/MadMagazine'' under command of Harvey Kurtzman and the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' comics by E.C. Segar. Apart from that Crumb has a passion for everything from the 1920s and 1930s. He has a huge collection of old {{Jazz}}, {{Blues}}, {{Bluegrass}}, CountryMusic records dating from this time period and even said it's one of the few things that gives him a love for humanity. Crumb also loves ''Film/TheLittleRascals'', Creator/TheMarxBrothers, Creator/LaurelAndHardy and Creator/WoodyAllen. When the Dutch cover band the Beau Hunks released a CD with music from the Creator/HalRoach comedies of the 1920s and 1930s Crumb went on record saying: "This is something I've been looking for all my life!" He even allowed this quote to be printed on the CD and some of his artwork to be used to decorate the CD.

* Albert Uderzo, best known for ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', is a gigantic fan of Creator/WaltDisney and Creator/CarlBarks. His scriptwriter, Creator/ReneGoscinny, enjoyed watching Creator/WaltDisney and Creator/TexAvery cartoons and was very much influenced by Magazine/MadMagazine.

* Irish [=LetsPlayer=] Sean [=McLoughlin=], better known as LetsPlay/JackSepticEye, is a fan of many types of video games ([[CaptainObvious as one might expect]]), particularly VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus. He also enjoys the work of [[Creator/HPLovecraft H.P. Lovecraft]].

* Hidenori Kusaka, creator of the ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' manga, doesn't get any inside info from Game Freak to help him out on his series. Instead, he plays the games when they come out and figures out which parts he wants to incorporate into the story. Some of his author notes have him [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] over whatever new features the games have.

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* Creator/AndyWarhol once said: "[[ComicBook/{{Tintin}} Hergé's work]] had a tremendous influence on my work, as much as Creator/WaltDisney did." Warhol and Hergé met later in life and as a tribute Warhol painted Hergé's portrait in several styles, rather than Tintin's.

* Creator/HRGiger loved authors like Creator/JeanPaulSartre, Creator/AlbertCamus, Creator/SamuelBeckett, Creator/FranzKafka and Creator/IngmarBergman.
* Creator/MarcelDuchamp, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, was a TabletopGame/{{Chess}} nerd, one of the top French players of his generation. He cowrote a technical book about a rare type of chess endgame position. There’s a story about his young bride who, in retaliation to his obsession for the game, got up one night when he was asleep and glued the chess pieces to the board. They were divorced soon thereafter.

* Roberto Calvi, head of the Vatican Bank, was obsessed with the novel ''Film/TheGodfather'' and carried a copy along with him everywhere he went. To him it was ''the only book that tells you how the world is really run''. He would have known, because he was heavily involved in mafia intrigues, which eventually brought him into debt troubles. In 1982 he went missing and his body was found hanging on top of a bridge in London, which [[DeathByIrony ironically]] would inspire the character Kenzig in ''The Godfather III'', who is murdered by the Mafia in the same fashion.

** Arby's [[https://twitter.com/Arbys Twitter account]] put a lot of references of video game and anime works.

* Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest and most successful investors and businessmen in the world, is a big ''Series/BreakingBad'' fan, even writing papers about what people can learn about business from watching the show, and dressing up as Walter White.

* ComicBook/{{Tintin}} creator Creator/{{Herge}} loved the novels of Creator/JulesVerne and Creator/AlexandreDumas and considered ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' and ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' to be among his favorite books. He was also inspired by early American comic strips like ''ComicStrip/BringingUpFather, ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' and ''ComicStrip/TheKatzenjammerKids''. The influence of early slapstick comedians like Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/HaroldLloyd and Creator/BusterKeaton is also evident in his work. Herge's main inspiration was French comic strip artist Alain Saint-Ogan, best known for ''"Zig et Puce"''. Later, when the magazine ''"Tintin"'' was founded Hergé even managed to publish ''"Zig et Puce"'' in Tintin and gave his idol much publicity. Hergé was also a known collector and admirer of modern painting and sculpture and later in life he expressed his love for the music of Music/JacquesBrel, Music/GeorgesBrassens, Music/TheBeatles and Music/PinkFloyd.
* Albert Uderzo, best known for ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', is a gigantic fan of Creator/WaltDisney and Creator/CarlBarks. His script writer, Creator/ReneGoscinny, enjoyed watching Creator/WaltDisney and Creator/TexAvery cartoons and was very much influenced by Magazine/MadMagazine.

* Creator/RobertCrumb has been a comic book fan ever since he was young, with Creator/CarlBarks as his personal hero. He also loved the early 1950 ''Magazine/MadMagazine'' under command of Harvey Kurtzmann and the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' comics by E.C. Segar. Apart from that Crumb has a passion for everything from the 1920s and 1930s. He has a huge collection of old {{Jazz}}, {{Blues}}, {{Bluegrass}}, CountryMusic records dating from this time period and even said it's one of the few things that gives him a love for humanity. Crumb also loves ''Film/TheLittleRascals'', Creator/TheMarxBrothers, Creator/LaurelAndHardy and Creator/WoodyAllen. When the Dutch cover band the Beau Hunks released a CD with music from the Creator/HalRoach comedies of the 1920s and 1930s Crumb went on record saying: "This is something I've been looking for all my life!" He even allowed this quote to be printed on the CD and some of his art work to be used to decorate the CD.
* Creator/ArtSpiegelman has written several essays about comic strips and their creators, a passion that goes back to his youth. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in his hometown New York City Spiegelman fell into a long depression, with only old newspaper comics from the early 20th century being able to cheer him up. He also likes Music/ComedianHarmonists and played their music constantly while working on ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}''.

* There is an ongoing debate about the effect of watching too much violent films and TV series. Over the years several criminals have done copy-cat crimes, inspired by stuff they saw on TV or in the cinema. Though, truth be told, they were usually all mentally unstable from the start and came from dysfunctional backgrounds.
* It has been said that quite some real-life mafiosi love ''Film/TheGodfather''. The inauguration of the new "don" by kissing his hand was an invention of author Mario Puzo, but has become a staple with real life maffiosi ever since.

* Both Mark David Chapman (assassin of Music/JohnLennon) and John W. Hinckley, Jr. (who tried to shoot UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan) were obsessed with the novel ''Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye'' by Creator/JDSalinger. Though some conspiracy theories have pondered if this was genuine affection or just being subject to brain washing. Hinckley also watched ''Film/TaxiDriver'' so much that he tried assassinating Reagan in order to impress Creator/JodieFoster, just like De Niro's character committed an assassination to seemingly win over Foster's character in the movie.

* Serial killer Richard Ramirez was a tremendous fan of Music/{{ACDC}}. When the police arrested him he wore a T-shirt of the band and left a hat of the group at one of the crime scenes. He specifically loved "Night Prowler" from ''Music/HighwayToHell'' and nicknamed himself "The Night Stalker". Naturally all this was bad publicity for the group, who were targeted by MoralGuardians for having "inspired" Ramirez' crimes.

* Wayne Williams, who murdered several children, once asked for cassettes with music by B.B. King, Bobby Bland, Tyrone Davis and Z.Z. Hill to be sent to his prison cell.

* Ronnie Biggs, accomplice of the Great Train Robbery and refugee in South America from 1965 until 2001, once recorded a single with The Music/SexPistols, "Nobody Is Innocent" (1978). The band literally visited him in his hiding place, though without [[Music/JohnLydon Johnny Rotten]], who had already left the band at that point and would distance himself in the strongest possible terms from this RefugeInAudacity stunt.

** He also did a panel at the 2009 Worldcon with Charles Stross, of whom he is a fan. Also he wrote this with he says is the closest thing to science fiction he's wrote http://mit.edu/krugman/www/BACKWRD2.html

* Creator/KarlMarx was a pretty big geek as well. His favorite authors were Creator/{{Aeschylus}}, Creator/WilliamShakespeare, Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe and Creator/HonoreDeBalzac. He also loved ''Tristram Shandy'' and attempted to write a novel in that style. He and Friedrich Engels bonded over their love for Balzac and they planned to write a book about him, with Engels saying that Balzac taught them more about economics than any writer.

* Theoretical physicist and futuristist Dr. Michio Kaku is a big science fiction fan, even hosting a show called "Sci Fi Science" where he would figure out how to theoretically achieve popular sci fi tropes in real life such as traveling to a parallel universe, building an artificial planet, and even building a lightsaber and destroying a Death Star among others.

* Astrophysicist UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson is a huge comic book fan boy and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan who frequently references both in his lectures and during his television appearances.

** As a child, Robert McNair refused to leave the local segregated library without being allowed to check out his books. Although police were called, he was allowed to check out the books. The whole incident occurred after he saw Uhura on Franchise/StarTrek and decided he wanted to be an black astronaut like her and figured he needed to study hard. McNair became the second African-American Astronaut to fly in space. Following his death in the challenger incident, the library was named in his honor and even published a children's book about McNair's determination to check out his books.
* Scientists discovered a gene that causes an embryo to grow spikes like a hedgehog, so they called it a hedgehog gene. Then they discovered the protein that the gene produces, so of course they called it [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Hedgehog]]. It gets better: Another group of scientists found a potential antagonist to the protein in question, and decided to name it "Robotnikinin". And better: Sonic Hedgehog was later joined by [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachurin]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin so named because it is "nimble"]].

** Hawking also loved ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and named ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' "the best show on TV ever." Naturally, he also was special guest voice in both series.

* Mathematician Kurt Gödel, best known for his incompleteness theorems, was a huge Disney fan and fascinated by ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''. He even tried to get Albert Einstein interested in the movie, but failed. Eventually Gödel's fascination with this film resulted in an obsessive fear of being poisoned, like what happened to Snow White. He would only eat food that his wife prepared for him. When she was hospitalized for six months in 1977 and could no longer cook his meals, Gödel simply starved to death because he refused to eat.

* SorayaSaga, freelance scenario writer for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', VideoGame/{{Xenogears}} and VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} is a huge {{Transformers}} fan and publicly draws fan art for it.

* Creator/DavidBateson proclaims himself to be [[Characters/HitmanGamesAgent47 Agent 47]]'s biggest fan. Among the games in the series, his favourite is ''VideoGame/Hitman2SilentAssassin''. Though in later years he just got so caught up in his acting work that he just couldn't have the time to play the games he loves.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd and Creator/{{Cinemassacre}}: Creator/JamesRolfe is a huge horror movie fan. He has a huge collection of movies and really likes the Franchise/UniversalHorror and Film/HammerHorror franchise. Apart from that he is very fond of practical special effects makers, which explains his glee over the original ''Film/KingKong1933'' and Creator/RayHarryhausen. Musically he is a huge Music/{{ACDC}} fan. He is also fond of Music/BlackSabbath, Music/DeepPurple, Music/JudasPriest, Music/LedZeppelin, Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/TheWho, Music/TheOffspring, Music/{{Queen}}, Music/GunsNRoses, Music/PinkFloyd, Music/ZZTop, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/IronMaiden, Music/RobZombie, Music/{{Tool}}, Music/{{Primus}}, Music/SystemOfADown, Music/{{Boston}}, Music/{{Survivor}}, Music/VanHalen, Music/{{Slayer}}, Music/DefLeppard, Music/{{Heart}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/{{Rush}}, Music/MotleyCrue, Music/TheMisfits, Music/TheRamones, Music/BlueOysterCult and Music/{{Whitesnake}}.
** Like many young creative people Rolfe started out making home movies as a child. He is still doing it today and the production values of his movies have seriously improved. Apart from that he hosted an annual haunted house in his parent's garage.

* Creator/BradJones is, of course, a huge fan of [[ExploitationFilm exploitation]] and other sorts of B-movies. He likes Creator/PierreKirby movies and considers Creator/BrunoMattei his favorite exploitation director. But he also takes pride in watching all Creator/NicolasCage movies he can get his hands on. Brad is obviously a huge fan of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', but he references countless other films and TV series in his projects, some so obscure that you have to consult an encyclopaedia.

** Doug is also a gigantic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes fan and especially loves WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. Other stuff he has a particularly strong love for are ''Series/{{Blackadder}}, Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus, Anime/CowboyBebop, WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Doug has managed to interview and invite most of "Animaniacs" writers and actors to provide cameo's to some of his reviews.

** In one of Dougs Gravity Falls Vlogs Rob reveals that he's something of an Anime fan, possessing some knowledge of Japanese Dating Sims and mentions having watched ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK''.

* Josh N. Hadley, podcast maker best known for ''Podcast/{{Radiodrome}}'', is deeply passionate about movies and TV series, though his nostalgia is mostly concentrated between the 1970s and early 1990s and focused on works outside the mainstream. He sincerely likes Creator/JohnCarpenter, especially ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' whose film trailer music he uses as the theme of "Radiodrome". And, last but not least, he is not just a movie fan. He also reads novelisations of books and compares them to what the movie directors made of them.

* Jim Sterling, of ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' fame, is a passionate gaming enthusiast: two of his top favorite series are ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' and ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' (the latter of which he spent an entire episode calling "the ''Film/CitizenKane'' of Gaming"). He is also a big fan of the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' series, so much so that he opened an episode on the infamous ''VideoGame/AliensColonialMarines'' by beating the snot out of a copy of said game with the dildo-bat from ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''. He has also grown incredibly fond of Sega's ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, and considers the spin-off game ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'' one of his favorite games (on top of the love he already has for ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'').

* Andy Diamos is a doctorate alumni of Arizona State University whose ongoing research includes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXYKBt80Sg a vaccine for norovirus]]. You may know him better as ''Videogame/SuperMarioMaker'' (and assorted Mario hacks) streamer [[https://www.youtube.com/user/CarlSagan42/videos CarlSagan42]].

** As a child, Robert McNair refused to leave the local segregated library without being allowed to check out his books. Although police were called, he was allowed to check out the books. The whole incident occurred after he saw Uhura on StarTrek and decided he wanted to be an black astronaut like her and figured he needed to study hard. McNair became the second African-American Astronaut to fly in space. Following his death in the challenger incident, the library was named in his honor and even published a children's book about McNair's determination to check out his books.

** Unsurprisingly, Dahmer was also a horror movie nerd; his favorite film was ''Film/TheExorcistIII''.

* YouTube [=ASMR=] video maker [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eddeJoyByJBjE4CYXwNXQ Heather Feather]] is a fan of the ''Videogame/{{Portal}}'' games, having used Aperture as inspiration for a science corporation in some of her roleplay videos. In some of them, she quotes Cave Johnson's recordings, including the famous "Lemons" rant. She has also made [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', ''Series/BreakingBad'', ''Series/GameOfThrones'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'', Music/{{Queen}}, Music/{{Rihanna}} and more. And she does [[https://youtu.be/JxazG7_old0?t=1h5m41s a pretty amazing impersonation of GlaDOS]].