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== [[Film]] ==
* Bennet from ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice|The Sorcerers Apprentice]]'' is one of the greatest offenders. He only has a couple of scenes, usually for a bit of [[Comic Relief]], where he shares the bedroom with the hero and seems to be the [[Social Circle Filler|''only'' person who talks to him]] and when he does is to say that [[You Need to Get Laid|Dave has to get a girlfriend]] and introduce a [[Chekhov's Gun]] that is going to be used by the [[Big Bad]]. Then, when he's having a date, Dave calls him for help and he leaves in the same instant, meets the hero, he says he's willing to do ''anything'' to help him and then [[What Happened to the Mouse?|he VANISHES without any explanation whatsoever.]] The point that [[Who Is This Guy Again?|ANYONE seems to remember this character]] makes it even more obvious.
* Michael, for SJ, in ''[[The Blind Side]]''.
* Lily, Andy's best friend in the movie ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]''.
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** Bizarrely, this is why Michael, despite his blatant racism, seems to genuinely like Stanley to the point of being willing to fight Corporate to keep him as an employee, even though everyone else sees Stanley as one of the less likable (or even memorable) people there, and Stanley himself has nothing but disdain for everyone around him.
** The thing about Michael is, he's not a racist out of bigotry -- he's a racist because he's an idiot. This is frequently the type of racism that is common today - people have generally racist mentality out of ignorance and not out of bigotry. The Office just takes it to the extreme with Michael.
* The titular Jimmy of ''[[Out of JimmysJimmy's Head]]'' has a [[Black Best Friend]].
* Gus on ''[[Psych]]'', though he exerts a lot of effort into ''not'' getting involved in Shawn's latest case. He's also probably a subversion, considering his general dorkiness, especially when compared to Shawn. What's his normal day-job when he's not helping Shawn solve crimes? He's a [[Salaryman|pharmaceutical sales rep]].
* ''[[Rita Rocks]]'': Patti
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* Libby Folfax from ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]'' to Cindy Vortex.
* And let's not even get started with Trixie of ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]''. Hell, if the race wasn't off, Jake himself would qualify.
* All-around cool kid Gerald Johanssen in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''. Though unlike most examples, it didn't [[Flanderization|consume]] his entire character.
** Arguably, Nadine counts too as she's Rhonda's best friend.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has this as part of a typical [[Token Trio]] set-up; Tucker is a Techno-Geek, and they're all [[Cool Loser|Cool Losers]].
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