Basic Trope: Real-life sexual attraction to a fictional character.
- Straight: Alice lusts over Mr. Fanservice after watching anime and masturbates to him.
- Exaggerated: Alice is obsessed over Mr. Fanservice to the point where she refuses to meet real people.
- Downplayed: Alice thinks Mr. Fanservice is mildly attractive, but does not lust after him.
- Justified:
- The character in question was designed to be sexually appealing.
- The character in question represents one of Alice's fetishes.
- Inverted:
- Alice finds the character to be Nightmare Fuel and is disgusted by him.
- The character is sexually attracted to Alice.
- Subverted: Alice has her bathroom door locked and the cast thinks Alice is masturbating to a character, but she is appreciating his artistic looks instead...
- Double Subverted: ...but she eventually starts to masturbate.
- Parodied:
- Alice starts crying when Mr. Fanservice "divorces" her.
- The character in question is extremely ugly
- Zig Zagged: Last week, Alice was extremely attracted to a character, and yesterday she felt disgusted by him. Today, she feels indifferent to him.
- Averted: Alice never has sexual attraction to a fictional character.
- Enforced: The executive producers wanted to establish Alice as This Loser Is You because they believe this would make her more relatable to the audience.
- Lampshaded: "Alice sure does appreciate Mr. Fanservice, doesn't she?"
- Invoked: Alice knows Emperor Evulz's sexual tastes, and makes him think of the character to distract him when they are fighting.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz knows Alice's sexual tastes, and makes her think of the character to distract her when they are fighting.
- Defied: Alice refuses to get too attached to a character and finds a real-life romantic partner instead.
- Discussed: "Is Alice one of those people sexually attracted to fictional characters?"
- Conversed: "Oh man, I bet they're going to teach a lesson on how it's unhealthy to fantasize about 2D girls instead of real women"
- Implied: Alice gets excited when she sees Mr. Fanservice and has a nosebleed.
- Deconstructed: Alice's sexual interest in the character weirds out the cast and they don't want to associate with her anymore.
- Reconstructed: Alice finds a way to meet Mr. Fanservice and is happier with someone who now accepts her the way she is.
- Played For Laughs: Alice declares her lover to be Mr. Fanservice in a Valentine's Day event.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice dumps her boyfriend and falls in love with Mr. Fanservice which makes the boyfriend extremely concerned about Alice due to her failure to separate fiction from reality.
- Alice kidnaps Mr. Fanservice’s actor and forces him to be her husband and/or Sex Slave.
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