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{{quote|"[[Multiple Reference Pun|A friend in need is a friend indeed.]]"|Old Adage}}
Someone who's your buddy when things are going well, but isn't when things go poorly.
Friends are good, especially when they are [[True Companions]] who will stick with you through thick and thin. But not all of your "friends" are reliable people. Some of them are fickle sorts who will abandon you the moment you get into trouble and actually need a friend to help. That's a Fair Weather Friend.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Haruo from ''[[Kenichi:
== Film ==
* Kaa accuses Mowgli's friends of this in the Disney version of ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''.
* Taken to the nth degree in ''[[Brazil (
== Literature ==
* In the book ''The Man in the Ceiling,'' the ''main character'' abandons his friends who need his help when the most popular boy in school takes an interest in him. He claims that all of them, being outcasts, would have done the same thing in his place.
* ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'': Nick Drew abandons his friends when the going gets tough.
* In ''[[Harriet the Spy]]'', the titular character's inner thoughts are shared with her classmates when her diary is taken from her. Her close friends, offended by her unflattering (yet not intentionally harmful) thoughts, join a club devoted to ruining her life. (Unlike some other examples here, they learn better by the end.)
* Alluded to in the novel ''[[Dragon Jousters|Joust]]''. After a new Jouster screws up big time, Ari comments that the Jouster's noble friends won't be hanging around to console him.
== Music ==
* ''My Fairweather Friend'' by [[Emilie Autumn]].
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[
** Referenced in [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1966/11/05 this] strip.
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Charlie Brown: So where are all my friends? }}
** In [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1962/01/20 this] one Snoopy bemoans the loss of his snowman to a bright, sunny (if cold) day. "There's one thing for sure...he was no 'fair weather friend.'"
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Mighty B!]]'': Penelope is Bessie's closest human friend, but will abandon her whenever that seems advantageous. Good thing Bessie's very tolerant.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
** If fact, through the series, Milhouse has been shown to been occasionally fickle towards Bart, as he often abandons him, sells him out to avoid trouble, or attacks whenever a dispute breaks out him.
** And this cuts both ways; when not friends with Milhouse, Bart is usually ignoring or outright bullying him. He once somehow [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|got him set up as America's Most Wanted and turned him into a fugitive]], seemingly all just [[It Amused Me|for a cruel prank]].
*** However, Bart has done so much for Milhouse than he can ever hope to replay him, from sacrificing a rare comic book just to save his life from falling out of the treehouse to allowing him to humiliate him in from of his Capital City friends just so he can look cool. Keep in mind that Milhouse is also the one responsible for leading Bart to be the underachieving class clown he is today, second only to his [[Complete Monster|Kindergarten teacher]].
** Bart of course isn't the only one with fickle friends: There is also Lisa's occasional one-off friend, Janey Powell, who is noted as "Lisa's fair-weather friend", and often laughs at her dilemmas.
*** Allison Taylor, who was Lisa's one-time friend, has also been [[Demoted to Extra|reduced to this]]. Although she has no lines, she virtually does what Janey and other background children do.
** In fact, the entire town of Springfield (consisting of all the major secondary and recurring characters) are like this to the Simpsons five, from Marge's gossiping acquaintances to Homer's beer buddies.
* On [[The Proud Family]], Dijonay was frequently this towards Penny, though she did [[What the Hell, Hero?|get called out on it]] at least once in the series' run.
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