Anyone else obsessed with fictional characters?

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I get somewhat obsessive about characters from fiction novels, especially detectives (I love crime fiction). I pick up all the details about them from the books, watch the TV versions of the books, and almost feel as if they are a 'second family'. I also get very upset when one of the detectives is killed off or goes into retirement, it's like I've lost a friend.

You just read my mind. That's exactly what I want to mean when I say : yes, I often find myself acting a new character from tv, or from a book, and sometimes just being part of the story. Once I wanted to meet Jake from Stephen king's the dark tower, and I was rehearsing every script in my mind and playing with every door from my house. I was totally obsessed with him.

You just read my mind. That's exactly what I want to mean when I say : yes, I often find myself acting a new character from tv, or from a book, and sometimes just being part of the story. Once I wanted to meet Jake from Stephen king's the dark tower, and I was rehearsing every script in my mind and playing with every door from my house. I was totally obsessed with him.

Is it bad if I say I think it's worse than losing a friend?
I also have the habit of constructing alternate plot lines if this happens, or if I just get bored with the actual plot the characters are following. They aren't bad if I do say so myself. I bet no one else would like them though.

What happens in the actual movie/TV show that contains the characters I obsess over has little bearing on my feelings, since I basically just watch things in order to get a feel for different character's personalities so I can mentally transport them into my imaginary world. So for example, if a favorite character died in the original story, it wouldn't affect me because they would still be alive in my imaginary world.

My entire imaginary world is one big alternate universe where all of my favorite characters live, love and play amongst each other. I really like the world I have created for myself, but there isn't really an ongoing story there - it's just me hanging out with my favorite characters. If I ever do come up with a plot, it's always simple and I often repeat it over and over, like "let's all have a huge slumber party together" or "so-and-so gets pregnant".

I guess I'm afraid to do more creative/complicated stories because that would involve putting my favorite characters in some kind of danger or conflict, and I never want to do that. I know I said it doesn't matter what happens to them during the original movie/series, but it's different when they exist in my imaginary world - possibly because when they're there, they feel very "real" to me.

I get obsessed with fictional characters sometimes. The last incident happened about a year ago and lasted six months. It was very embarrassing and rather random. I was (and still is) ashamed to tell anyone that I like that character.

I spent lots of time watching anime episodes and reading manga with that chatacter, I wrote lists with all the moments where the character appeared for my convenience. I wrote many pages in my diary about that character. I constantly thought about that character and I even started to translate my thoughts into words spoken with that character's voice in my head. I imagined me interacting with that character, et cetera.

Yes, and not just fictional characters, fictional creatures here:

Thomas Covenat, plus assorted beings from those stories..
(my online handle, when I use one, is Sheol. It predates the Web by nearly a decade btw).
Also Cylons, Daleks, Gollum, orcs, Ringwraiths.

My mother used to warn me about getting "Too caught up" in a book or TV series.

Sincerely,
Matthew

I have the same "problem." Not just fictional characters, though, some real people like internet celebrities get involved as well. Cnaiur urs Skiotha, Vriska Serket, Tobuscus, DJ Alex S, Princess Celestia. There were others before.

Oh yes, ever since I was little I have obsessed over lots of fictional characters. They're just so much more interesting than real-life people since they're free from the laws of reality (which is boring) and can do just about anything we can imagine.

My most recent obsession has been with the characters from the Kid Icarus: Uprising video game for the 3DS; most of their dialogues are just priceless!

I'm also a big quoter of shows like Simpsons, Futurama, Mighty Boosh, IT Crowd and even stand up comedies routines I've watched heaps of times. I don't know if people get tired of it and hate me for it but I do worry about it.

To answer the actual question I have been reading the Marvel character Deadpool since '97. I like him coz he's a funny anti-hero but beyond the silly jokes and pop culture references there's some serious and dark stuff for the writers to touch on. I don't know if I'm "obsessed" but I like to talk about him to people if they'll let me and I have a couple of posters on my wall as well as a stack of comics.
I also like the musical persona of the guitarist Brian Carroll who performs as Buckethead. He is part robot and was raised by chickens who scratched his face off so he wears a white mask and a KFC bucket on his head with a sticker saying FUNERAL on it and he uses nanchucku on stage.

My obsessions are mainly Anime characters like Inuyasha L Near etc. they vary from week to week. Sometimes Naruto probably because I can relate to the Jinchuriki thing because the way villages treat them in childhood its the way it is as an aspie at least from my experience.

Yes. Fluttershy is best pony.

So for those of you with character obsessions - which ones are you currently obsessed with? Which ones have you obsessed over in the past? Do your character obsessions last for long periods of time (months or years), or do they vary from week to week or even day to day?

Anything Star Trek, specifically Original or Voyager telepaths, Original captain and doctor, and at times Uhura. And sometimes with the characters in Anita Stansfield's books.

I happen to be obsessed with films as well as characters. I have always been a huge fan of James Bond Films, A Nightmare on Elm Street/other 80's horror, Robocop, Alien, and generally superhero films. I sometimes watch the same movie several times a week without getting tired of it. Anyone else do this?

I was diagnosed with Asperger's spring 2012. I referred myself for assessment at college because I had been keeping track of behaviors associated with autism since I was 15. One of the behaviors I saw in myself was my intense obsessions with characters from my favorite tv shows. Most notably Sara from CSI and more recently Tony from NCIS. Others include Dr. Reid from Criminal Minds, Lilly Rush in Cold Case, and Johnny Zacchara on General Hospital. When I'm in an obsessive phase with a character such as the way I am with Tony on NCIS right now, I look up all youtube vids, internet info, and pictures on the character and sometimes the actor that plays them. It's quite effective when trying to stop boredom.