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Also common in works where the "real" star is female, because having the female also be the PoV character is unmarketable or something.

A sister trope to [[A Day in the Limelight]] (just part of the story doesn't center around the expected protagonist) and [[~~The~~ ~~Ishmael~~]] (the character is not the protagonist at all, but is the narrator of the story and [[Audience Surrogate]], justifying their perspective).

A sister trope to [[A Day in the Limelight]] (just part of the story doesn't center around the expected protagonist) and [[First-Person Peripheral Narrator]] (the character is not the protagonist at all, but is the narrator of the story and [[Audience Surrogate]], justifying their perspective).

Compare [[Deuteragonist]] and [[Hero of Another Story]].

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'', unlike in ''[[Dragon Quest IV|IV]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest VI|VI]]'', the protagonist cannot equip the Zenithian Equipment; The one who can it's actually {{spoiler|his son}}.

* Monkey in ''[[Enslaved: Odyssey to the West]]''. The narrative actually revolves around Trip as Monkey supports Trip on her journey home and her quest for revenge of the one responsible for the annihilation of her village. {{spoiler|It's Trip that kills the main antagonist, Pyramid}}.

** Enslaved is loosely based on the Chinese novel [[Journey to the West]], in which this still holds true; ostensibly, it's about a priest named Tripitaka who is transporting religious writings [[Captain Obvious|westward]]. In practice, it's about Sun Wukong the Monkey King and all the awesome shit he does while he's forced to help Tripitaka on his journey.