Anyone else obsessed with fictional characters?

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To OP, I do that too. They're a few characters I'm obsessed with. I know lots of x files dialogs by heart. It amuses me to repeat them.

I also think it's easier to analyze characters to understand them than people in real life because you can get to know them in depth safely. It's also easier then to relate to another human being even though only fictional.

I've been obsessed with many fictional characters over the years, most of them either classic cartoon characters or video game protagonists. I draw cartoons, so I guess it's not that unusual to think of them as if they were real friends and family members, but I have to be careful about teasing NT's about their own obsessions. One time years ago before I was diagnosed some women I knew who had their eyes glued to a soap opera and I jokingly said, "You guys really kill me, you act like the people on that show are real." One of them snapped at me, "You're the same with cartoons, only WORSE!"



Go figure. It's okay for NT's to be obsessed but not aspies. Although no one had a clue I had Asperger's yet.

Sorry if I already posted to this thread, but this right here is one of my fixations it seems . I have a horrible habit of getting super attached to characters and if they die or something happens and they leave the show/book/game, I usually lose interest and give up on it. It's petty, I know, but it seems I can't help it. Besides, it seems that happens a lot to me too, so when they DO stay alive, it means a lot as they all came at very critical moments in my life and I see what I want to be in them.

Yay for Doctor Who! I love Doctor Who
I have some characters that I've obsessed over off and on, but they are always vaguely there, and others that I've obsessed over and moved on from obsession even if I still greatly love the character.

Some characters I always come back to (in no particular order) :
Severus Snape
Spencer Reid
The Doctor
Tolkien's elves (a lot of them )
Loki
Hellboy (from comics)
Abe Sapien (from movie)

I was quite obsessed with Aragorn when I was in middle school, I guess you could say I had a crush on him. Now I love the character, but I'm no longer obsessed.

I'm slightly embarassed to say that some of these characters (especially the ones I've had a long-term special interest in) are like friends to me. I also have a few characters I made up that are my friends.

Wow, this makes alot of sense. I hav the smane sort of problem. I like to pair my favourite characters. Doesnt matter if its straight or same sex i even change the characters gender. How ever i gt really upset when a charecter in a story doesnt turn out the way I imagined. I wonder if there is anyway to stop this??

I was obsessed with Light Yagami at some point.

Bleach is the best. Obsessed with creating genderbenders. Femichigo is my latest obsession. I wonder if its normal to create genderbends?

Yes, through most of my life I have... But my old psychiatrist saw it as weird.

I know that these obsessions aren't going to help me keep a steady job or whatnot, but they're just something that I've always been fixated by...

The only way that I can sustain sufficient interest to watch movies or read books is by identifying with one of the characters. I can relate to the character as an extension of myself, I understand myself so that enables me to understand the character. Because I then feel that these characters are linked to myself, the represent part of myself, I tend to become fixated on them, whether the character is Ralph in "Lord Of the Flies," Jute in "if" or one of several others that I've identified with.

Yep SpongeBob SquarePants and various video game characters hehe

I'm obsessed with Om Nom the Sweet Pea from Cut the Rope who eats peppermint candy, Sgt Schultz and Peter Newkirk from Hogan's Heroes, all four of The Monkees, Austin Powers and Sid from Flushed Away.

Konata Izumi from Lucky☆Star

This reminds me back in the 1970s, Australian television was basically two channels running re-runs of old 1960s American sitcoms. We occaisonally had Australian dramas (which were pretty awful). One of the most popular was a show called Number 96. There was one particular character who was named Abigail (Bev Houghton) who was the equivalent of Joan Collins of Australian TV. So many women were so invested in this character that when Bev Houghton went in public she needed a body guard as women would walk up to her and abuse her. A lot of NTs simply couldn't distinguish between fantasy and real life back then.

But I don't think television has the same power over the current generation like it did in those days.

Way too many characters i am obsessed with and identify with!

Jean Claude Van Damme when I was younger and Mel Gibson Characters
Hulk
Wolverine
The Mariachi (Antonio Banderas in Desperado)
Steve McGarret (Five '0)
Tim Roth in Tin Star
Tom Cruise Characters
Jim Carrey

I would get so intensely involved that I would take on the personas of the characters for days or weeks, unconsciously talking like them and even going about doing daily things feeling like I was them doing it.

I could also get so absorbed in tv shows (like LOST) that I would feel like I'm in the actual show all day.

The fictional characters that get my attention are mostly the public personas of politicians and propagandists.