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* The protagonist of ''[[Aimee]]'' by Mary Beth Miller is not the eponymous Aimee, in fact the protagonist is not given a name until the last few pages {{spoiler|It's Zoe}}. She is the girl who was accused of killing Aimee (when in fact Aimee killed herself). The book is all about the protagonist trying to detach herself from the shadow of Aimee's death.
* [[Action Girl|Vin]] from ''[[Mistborn]]''- she's the main POV character, but the story itself centers more on her mentor [[Rebel Leader|Kelsier]]. {{spoiler|Subverted when Kelsier is killed near the end of the first book, after which Vin shoulders the role of both protagonist and [[The Hero|heroine]] for the remainder of the trilogy}}.
* At the end of ''[[
** Sam Vimes is an interesting example. He ''became'' [[The Hero]] of the Watch novels, but when [[Terry Pratchett]] wrote ''[[
* The Dickens novel ''[[Our Mutual Friend]]'' is presented partly through the viewpoint of Mortimer Lightwood. As the family's lawyer Lightwood has a linking position between the hero and heroine, and is also connected to Eugene Wrayburn, but he has little direct impact on the action until fairly late in the story. In the 1990s BBC adaptation, he also functioned as the narrator.
* In ''SkyClan's Destiny'', one of the novels in [[Warrior Cats]], Leafstar is the perspective character, however Stick is the main character and the story centers around his struggles with the [[Offscreen Villainy|evil]] Dodge.
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* Leo from ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' has a personal journey, but the focus moves more towards the larger conflict and he's ultimately an insect to the villain. He gets the focus on his journey but the true hero is already dead at game start and his journey is just a small part of the much larger story he was sucked into.
* One can get this impression from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]''. While other titles in the series focus on Link —who, of course, plays the hero— ''Spirit Tracks'' seems to focus more on the character development of Princess Zelda. Appropriate since, [[Canon Discontinuity|barring that]] [[The Unholy Triforce|that one time]], this is the first time that she's playable.
* The various [[Featureless Protagonist]] player characters of ''[[Ace Combat]]'' have been this ever since the series steered away from [[Excuse Plot]]s (around the time of ''[[Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere]]''). Nowhere is this more obvious than in ''[[Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War]]'', where the entire game is told from the perspective of the enemy aces you shot down and your ex-[[Wing Man]] {{spoiler|whom you also shoot down}}. [[The Narrator]] even admits in the end that despite telling the whole story, he still has no idea just what kind of person the Demon Lord of the Round Table was.
** The only exception to the above thus far is ''[[Ace Combat: Assault Horizon]]'', which at least attempts to give the player character (who actually has a personality this time) some [[Character Development]].
* In ''[[Gundam Breaker]] 3'' has the [[Featureless Protagonist]] do nothing but pilot Gunpla in fights and follow around Misa, the girl who recruited them as a team member, and look at the back of her head as she talks. The previous games in the series only avoided this by ''[[Excuse Plot|not having]]'' a real plot.
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