"No Respect" Guy: Difference between revisions

 

Note that Rodney Dangerfield, in the character he always plays, is ''not'' an example of No Respect Guy, despite his [[Catch Phrase]]. He is rather an [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]. Also note that the other characters have to ignore the "No Respect" Guy unfairly for him to count. If he's as stupid as everyone else he's just [[The Chew Toy]]. Subtrope of [[Only Sane Man]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Kiyone in ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]!''

* This coupled with [[Demoted to Extra]] caused Misawa's [[Face Heel Turn]] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''.

* Bossun of ''[[Sket Dance]]'' fall's into this occasionally.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Empowered]]''... dear '''Lord''', Empowered. Setting aside the fact that the general populace and criminal element all regard her as a [[Faux Action Girl|joke]], the level of [[Alpha Bitch|emotional abuse]] and [[Handsome Lech|sexual harassment]] she deals with from the 'Superhomeys' reaches the point where ''they'' are the ones posting pictures of her on the internet after the villains leave her [[Bound and Gagged|chained up humiliatingly]] for them to find. Not to mention the fact that her teammates forgot about her after a battle and left her trapped/embedded in the landscape ''more than once''. At least one reader has wondered why she has not [[Face Heel Turn|thrown her lot in with the Forces of Evil]] out of sheer [[Who's Laughing Now?|spite]].

** Probably because the Forces of Evil ''also'' humiliate her and ''sell'' pictures of her tied up and half-nude on the internet. Who'd kill the, um, cash cow?

 

== Film ==

* Nick Schaffer (Breckin Meyer) in ''[[Rat Race]]''. The most serious character, and the only one who doesn't jump at the opportunity of 1 million dollars, only entering the race after he gets an advantage (a helicopter pilot when the airport tower is broken). From there on, it gets worse.

* ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'': Beast Boy. Always Beast Boy.

 

== Literature ==

* Honsou from [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''Storm of Iron'' and ''[[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]]'' series. He is at first hated by the other Iron Warrior Space Marines for being a 'half breed'. After his promotion to Warsmith, the other Warsmiths hate and disrespect him, making extreme and insane demands of him. After destroying armies worth of enemies he still gets no respect, with random human [[Mooks]] in bars telling him he's an idiot.

** Specifically, he holds twelve jobs at the university (not counting football coach), giving him twelve votes on the university council. This means that no matter how anyone else votes, he forms a majority all by himself.

{{quote|"We didn't notice you were getting all this power..." and later on "...someone should do something about it."}}

* Poor Gunner First Class Jurgen from the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' series always gets overlooked by ''everyone''—most of his fellow soldiers don't consider him a "proper" Guardsman and none of the official histories or memoirs so much as mention him. (Exception: Sulla's... [[Purple Prose|"writings"]]... mention him as Cain's aide, but never by name.) Admittedly, he's a walking disaster area hygenically and {{spoiler|a blank, which makes people either respond to him with revulsion or flat-out ignore him}}, but you'd think someone would notice the number of situations he'd personally [[BFG|melta-gunned]] into submission.

 

* Fargo of ''[[Eureka]]'', and deservedly so, but his new role {{spoiler|as head of GD}} has actually lent itself to making him become a more responsible, and yes, respected character. Even before then, and acknowledging he caused plenty of problems thanks to [[Curious as a Monkey|certain tendencies]], he was still the assistant to the director of GD and apparently competent enough as an [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]] himself to participate or be made responsible for whatever was needed that week, but had his position derided by other specialists at GD. Except Larry, who is always competing to take over his position that is.

* Freddie in ''[[iCarly]]''. He is often abused by Sam, manipulated by Carly, and oh yeah, humiliated in front of the whole school.

* Whenever ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'' did a skit as themselves, Kevin MacDonald inevitably took on this role.

* Justin in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]''.

 

== Video Games ==

*** However, in ''The Thousand Year Door'', there is one Toad child who thinks Luigi is cooler than Mario (with apologies to Mario). There's also Pennington the detective, who takes one look at your outfit and deduces that you can only be the famous Luigi, and nothing can convince him otherwise. So Luigi gets respect sometimes.

 

* She isn't one anymore, but in her original few appearances, Zoe from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' had shades of this. In particular, in her first appearance, she was locked out of her car, trampled twice by a mob of people, and then beaten up twice by [[Killer Rabbit|Bun-Bun.]] While is was never as pronounced as her first appearance, nor is it still in effect, but random unfortunate stuff (such as failing her midterms due to changes to history that she had a hand in being on the test) happening to Zoe was a bit of a running gag for a few years after the strip started. Eventually, she got past it, but she's still a [[Weirdness Magnet]], so it's not all gone.

* White Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''. She sometimes appears to be the only person in the world with both a fully developed moral compass and an IQ above room temperature.

 

== Web Original ==

* Church from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''. He even gets repeatedly killed by his own teammates.

* In [[The Randomverse]], [[Superman]] is a mild example of the trope, though he somewhat grew out of it as the series went on. He one of the most [[Nice Guy|mild-mannered]] and [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|idealistic members of the cast]], but is looked down upon by most of his fellow superheroes (particularly [[Batman]] and [[Wolverine]]) because his series isn't nearly as successful as it once was, and many people see him as an outdated character with no relevance to the 21st century.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Dexter of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''.

* Jerry and Mary from ''[[Code Monkeys]]''. Jerry's chops are busted either through his association with his best friend Dave or pointing out a critical flaw in his plans, and Mary gets the brunt of Mr. Larrity's bad attitude because he's unapologetically sexist.

** This also works for Meltman of ''Action League Now!''.

* Squidward Tentacles from ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' is either this or a straight [[Jerkass]] [[Butt Monkey]], [[Depending on the Writer]] (albeit more often the latter than the former since [[The Movie]]).

* Jabberjaw the shark. His catchphrase is "No Reshpect"

* Shifty Dingo from [[Blinky Bill]] ESPECIALLY in season 2. Marcia treats him like a piece of trash and he's one of the nicest characters on the show.

 

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