Noun

(en noun)

(label) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).

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, year = 1988 , month = August , title = Comics , first = Bart , last = Bull , magazine = , issn = 0886-3032 , volume = 4 , issue = 5 , page = 41 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=XAZuVTiu8yMC&pg=PA41&dq=fanboys , passage = (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy' obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two ' fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.) }}

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, year = 1998 , month = September , title = Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side , first = Brian , last = Doherty , magazine = , issn = 0886-3032 , volume = 14 , issue = 9 , page = 108 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=-5EbyHNqgkwC&pg=PA108&dq=fanboys , passage = Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women. }}

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, date = 2008-12-10 , title = What's so great about Macs? , first = Tim , last = Barribeau , newspaper = (The Sydney Morning Herald) , issn = 0312-6315 , url = http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/whats-so-great-about-macs-20090615-cb42.html , accessdate = 2012-10-20 , passage = Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults. }}