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It is common in fiction and reality alike for people to start off with a partner in their professional environment. This can range from perfectly normal careers, to working in stuff like [[Professional Wrestling|tag-teams]] and superhero
The problem, though, is that teams often do not stay together. Further, reality dictates that teammates cannot always share their successes after they split ways. When some of the members become notably more successful after the group dissolves while the others languish, that's a
This trope is very common in music, and in professional wrestling. See also [[The Band Minus the Face]], [[Breakout Character]], [[More Popular Spinoff]] and [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. Contrast with [[The Pete Best]], which is when the left-in-the-lurch character was never closely affiliated with the soon-to-be-famous group to begin with.
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* [[Ben Affleck]] and [[Matt Damon]] were considered this for a while. Used to be that the two of them appeared together in everything - then, each going solo, Matt Damon got the ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'' and ''[[The Bourne Series|Bourne]]'' series. Affleck landed lead roles in a number of major films, but his career never reached quite the height of Damon's. However, he's recently gone a different route by directing critically the acclaimed movies ''[[Gone Baby Gone]]'' and ''[[The Town]]''.
* This gets spoofed in the movie ''[[Music and Lyrics]]'', with Hugh Grant's character being the [[Garfunkel|Andrew Ridgeley]] of the Wham!-like band.
* An interesting case for the main ladies of [[Mean Girls]]. After the movie, [[Lindsay Lohan]] looked like she was poised for superstardom...but [[It Got Worse|things did not turn out that way]] and she's been struggling for roles ever since. The other ladies however did well for themselves. [[Lacey Chabert]] got into a really nice voice acting
* The 1928 film ''[[Our Dancing Daughters]]'' (and its two successive entries, ''Our Modern Maidens'' and ''Our Blushing Brides'', which formed a loose trilogy) paired Anita Page, an actress with an impressive pedigree and a burgeoning career, with an up-and-coming actress who [[MGM]] had taken a liking to. The end result was that Page got upstaged by her co-star (who used the role as a launching pad to greater fame), MGM canned her three years later (despite starring in the first film with sound to win an Academy Award for Best Picture), and she more or less disappeared from acting altogether until the early 90's, whereas her co-star, [[Joan Crawford]], went on to become a superstar.
* Ted Healy decided to split from his back-up comedy players. Healy faded into obscurity. Not so for [[The Three Stooges]].
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**** It seemed that everything had come full circle with [[The Miz]] winning the WWE title after cashing in the Money in the Bank contract against [[Randy Orton]] the RAW after Survivor Series. However, the trope is temporarily back in subverted status after Morrison started a feud with [[Sheamus]] and beat him ''twice'', the second time in a #1 Contender's Ladder's Match at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2010, which earned Morrison a WWE title opportunity in the first match of 2011. Morrison would prove a great challenge for [[The Miz]], only losing because he missed [[Finishing Move|Starship Pain]] through a table. Even though Miz has crashed through the glass ceiling, it would seem that Morrison isn't too far behind.
***** Sadly the competition is officially over by the end of 2011. And in an ironic sense, [[The Miz]], after main eventing Survivor Series with [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]], beat [[John Morrison]] to start a new pursuit of the WWE Championship while the defeated [[John Morrison]], after long months of constant jobbing, was released from the company.
* [[WCW]] had Three Count, a boy band stable consisting of Evan Karagias, Shannon Moore and Shane Helms. Of the three, Helms has had a moderately successful [[WWE]] career as The Hurricane and as Gregory Helms, Moore has had a WWE career but been primarily a jobber, and Karaigas hasn't done anything. Although, Helms' status of
* This has happened with Curt Hawkins and [[Zack Ryder]] as the latter was been established as a hot new heel on [[ECW]] with his memorable [[Catch Phrase]] and [[Ear Worm|theme music]], while the former completely disappeared from WWE television and returned to FCW. Hawkins would later return as part of a very unmemorable tag team with Vance Archer which would later break up with Hawkins going nowhere on Superstars while Archer got released. However, it was during that short period of time that it would like Hawkins might have a shot at surpassing his partner as ECW went off the air and was replaced by NXT, [[Demoted to Extra|leaving Ryder stuck on Superstars as well]]. However, Ryder would become an underground hit when he debuted his [[Web Original]] series, [[Z True Long Island Story]]. With a huge following on the IWC, Ryder would eventually [[Heel Face Turn|turn face]] and get featured on both RAW and Smackdown as a result (Ryder recently defeated [[Dolph Ziggler]] at the WWE TLC PPV for the United States Championship), all while Curt Hawkins will occasionally make cameos on the show if he's lucky.
* Even if he had moderate success, Billy Gunn hit superstardom in comparison to what happened to Bart Gunn from The Smoking Gunns. He also outlived Road Dogg in the WWE even if they later reunited in [[TNA]].
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