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** In ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', Bianca is one of the main character's friendly rivals and makes frequent appearances. In the anime, she does show up fairly often but never really rises above the level of supporting cast. She's at least luckier than Cheren, who doesn't appear at all.
* Nozomi from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' was a main character [[Title Drop|and the reason that the show's called Elfen Lied.]] However, she was written out of the anime. Towards the end of the manga, she becomes a [[Cute Mute]] due to injury, further pushing her out of the plot and turning her into background filler when she even appears at all. Arguably a good candidate for [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]].
* The ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' franchise loves [[Sixth Ranger]]s... unless they're Michiru and Kaoru, the [[Dark Magical Girl]] twins from ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star]]'', who share the dubious title of [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer|Dame Not Appearing In This Trailer]]. If having no merchandise whatsoever despite being on a [[Merchandise-Driven]] show wasn't enough, they didn't even get to fight in the ''[[Pretty Cure All Stars]] DX'' movie and only showed up for a few seconds without any lines. It wasn't a voice actor issue, as Moop and Fuup, played by the same two people, appeared and got lines. No, Michiru and Kaoru just didn't get their spotlight for no good reason, even though every other Cure and support character in the history of the [[
** While not as bad as the above example, Honoka/Cure White also suffers from this. Supposedly co-stars with Nagisa/Cure Black. Actually appears half as much as her and has less episodes and scenes focused on her, plus she has no lover (Well, there's Kiriya, but he only appears a bit in the first season and [[Everything Fades|vanishes into light]] at the end. Fuji P. is around ALL the time both seasons), has almost no friends, and her family rarely appears. The exact opposite happens for Nagisa. The second season only made things worse, for [[Sixth Ranger|Hikari]] stole most of Honoka's screentime while Nagisa held a firm grip on most of hers, leaving poor Honoka with even less importance. And yet she's the more popular of the two. Go figure.
** In the first [[Non-Serial Movie]], Nagisa ''[[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|does everything]]'': She befriends the prince who oddly looks like [[Love Interest|Fuji P]]., he gives her the [[Chekhov's Gun|trinket that saves the day later]], she has a scene where she risks her life to save one of the [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]s, and, worst of all, SHE and SHE alone gives the [[Filler Villain]] the [[Patrick Stewart Speech|lecture about love and whatnot]], when on the series proper they're always delivered by both girls trading lines. Honoka gets... two scenes where she warms up the [[Aloof Ally]]. That's it. Even ''Hikari'' has more memorable scenes, and she spends half the movie injured in bed! (In fact, she's there ''because'' of such awesome scenes!) At least the second movie was fairer to poor Honoka... by giving ''Hikari'' the shaft instead. As long as Nagisa has plenty of screentime...
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