Have you ever "fallen in love" with a fictional character you absolutely did not expect to?

Mine?

Anakin Skywalker.

Knew of this fictional character for years of course, before we were truly introduced to him in the prequels.

Arrogant, brash punk with a take-charge attitude. Conflicted bad boy. By turns tender and caring, fiery and challenging. And it doesn't hurt that he is drop-dead gorgeous (prior to Mustafar of course).

I fell head over heels in love with Anakin. Still am.

Luke's father?? Who became Darth Vader?? Do tell!

Never foresaw it but don't regret it. Anakin puts the beat in my heart.

And fortunately I have a friend (who is ironically a bit younger than I), who is a lot like Anakin. And I'm very sweet for him.

Uhhh... No comment.

In answer to the OP question: No.

But I have no problem with people who have.

I am much more likely to be enthralled by a concept. So, for example, I have no more than a passing interest in the character of Doctor Who, but I am utterly fascinated by the idea of being able to visit other planets and different periods of history by travelling around inside a high-tech gothic castle that has somehow been crammed inside a telephone box.

I didn't fall in love with him, or have romantic thoughts, but back in High school I had a strange fascination with The Jaffe, one of the main characters from The Great And Secret Show.

I had a friend [a she] who were crazy for Paul McCartney, back in high-school. I though it pretty weird. I had pity on her...

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So if he had been played by, say, Dennis Franz, would you still be in love with "the character"?

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That's a really good question. Likely the answer would be NO.

I love the MasterHarper from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonrider series
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Actually. when I was a teen I had quite the crush on Rogue (Comic book- this was LONG before the movie came out) from the X-Men.
But uhhh... I wasn't the only male who did- even when not limiting it to teenagers

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Now that you mention it, Robinton is probably my favorite character of the entire series. He's just a great character.

I don't know if I've "fallen in love" with any fictional characters, but I've sure had crushes on a few. I know that they're fictional, though, so it really isn't any more than that.

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Heh. Sydney Carton. Hawkeye Pierce. And, yeah, a little love for Robinton, too. But Anakin? Uck.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Mine?

I've always love "Superman" Clark Kent .

Hmm, mostly female respondents admit to loving imaginary guys. Must be a chick thing (sorry, Neverfly! )

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Well , it's because most women are Not shy in telling who they admire from those fictional charaters .

At another forum, there's a thread talking about women "swooning" over celebrities. Although it's usually over musicians or actors, the thread was prompted by reports of women fainting at Barrack Obama's political rallies and campaign speeches. Most of the responses seemed to be aimed at trying to hide, disguise, or get rid of this difference between the sexes, such as by claiming that swooning/fainting is merely "expressing emotions" and saying that men are emotionally suppressed in our culture and feel the same but wouldn't dare express it, or by talking about circumstances in which passing out is common for both sexes. But something that I find illuminative did emerge from all of the attempts at distraction: if you take away the examples they gave in which the mind-altering effects can be attributed to physical or chemical trauma to the brain, such as drugs and exhaustive dancing or making the blood rush out of the brain by centrifugal force like the whirling dirvishes, so that you're only left with cases in which an emotional state alone causes the fainting/swooning without such brain trauma, then there's just one other thing in that category, together with women's/girls' reactions to certain guys: religious fervor. It's the only other context in which an emotional state alone, without insult/injury to the brain, can cause the brain to, as if voluntarily, cease its "higher" functions (thought and consciousness). Of course, not all women/girls who obsess over guys faint about it, but not all religious people pass out at religious events either, so the analogy still holds. So, at least, psychologically, women/girls who do this aren't really distinguishing between those guys and God... which might be at least part of why they sometimes seem to want to hide this and act as if they didn't do it at all.

Personally, I've never swooned. I've fainted once, but that was at marching band practice, and it was pretty hot out at the time. Doesn't count, really.

Oh, I forgot one earlier--Lord Peter Wimsey. (In the books and, to a lesser extent, the later BBC productions. Ian Carmichael annoys me and is a lousy Peter to boot.)

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Umm , Delvo , I don't quite understand the religious side of women fainting.
Well, we women have that ability to faint because of over- excitedness and our emotions gets over us when a Celebrity , a good- looking man, comes out of the concert stage or at a movie, though I am woman and I don't faint over those celebrities. It's just our nature , we are capable of showing and letting go off our emotions. I can't imagine men fainting over at Marilyn Monroes concert back in the 60's and women just keeping their emotions and excitedness watching the Beatle's Concert then.

I don't know how to explain it in Scientific way, maybe somebody here can help that .

And for religious side , Umm , In my observations here in my country , which is 90% Catholics , people faint , men and women , not by the gorgoeus Religious Statues dressed up on a Feast Day , but because of the thick crowd patronizing and parading over the heat of the Sun during the day, I guess those need immediate medical help , you know what I mean .

Or maybe we just don't confuse love with physical attraction as often.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I am with you here, but it is not always a one way thing. There are some guys who spent sleepless nights dreaming about Beyonce/Hayek/..., I am obviously not one of them.
Love is such a big word, most guys are big on the physical part.

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