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The lost opportunity or career is most commonly some form of sports, but non-sports related careers are not unheard of.
A [[Super
Compare [[Sorry, Billy, But You Just Don't Have Legs]], [[Stage Mom]], [[Glory Days]], [[Trade Your Passion for Glory]]. [[White Dwarf Starlet]] is a related phenomenon, where the person got their moment of glory -- it just didn't last very long, and the bitterness is tangible.
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* This happens at a pretty young age to Coco in ''[[Basquash]]''. After suffering a traumatic leg injury at the hands of a mecha, she became wheelchair bound and unable to continue playing basketball, which is part of what kicks off the series' story.
* Invoked and subverted in [[Bleach]] with Tatsuki, who broke her arm after getting into the top eight in a fighting competition between girls of her age group, but still managed to earn second place despite the injury. She says that had it not been for the broken arm, she could have won the whole thing.
* The [[Start of Darkness]] for [[Slam Dunk|Mitsui Hisashi]] is this. In junior high school basketball, he's an MVP. He's surely on the way to repeat such feats in high school... then [[Game
== [[Comics]] ==
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* Pete Best, or, "That Drummer For [[The Beatles (Music)|The Beatles]] Before [[Ringo Starr (Music)|Ringo]] Came Along," was kicked out of the band (with no given reason!) right before they became famous.
* Dave Mustaine was kicked out of [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]] shortly before they became famous. Although [[Megadeth (Music)|Megadeth]] is still a respected and fairly well-known band, it's nowhere near as popular as Metallica.
* In the mid-90s, people thought that [
* R&B singer [
* The show ''Unsung'' on the channel TV One is about black R&B, soul, and gospel artists who didn't manage to make it big.
* New Jersey band [[The Gaslight Anthem]] have a song entitled "I Coul'da Been a Contender" which appears to follow the themes of messed up chances and regret; "You were gonna be my [[Judy Garland]], we were gonna share your tinman heart."
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== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* ''[[Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai (Visual Novel)|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'' has {{spoiler|Hideo}}, who was apparently a genius baseball pitcher before getting caught up in a terrorist attack and suffering a career-ending injury. Particularly of significance in the {{spoiler|Wanko and Ryuuzetsuran}} routes.
* Mitsuki Hayase in ''[[Rumbling Hearts]]''. At the beginning of the story, she's already a bonafide Olympic-grade swimmer. Then, [[Wham! Episode|her best friend Haruka got hit in a car accident, all because she chatted with her other friend, Haruka's would-be boyfriend, Takayuki, way too long on his way to date Haruka]]. At that point, she became unable to swim further, eventually quits and ends up as a [[Salaryman|salary woman]]. Over time, when she passes on a swimming pool, she's always reminded with this fact. [[It Got Worse|And things just go downhill from that point on]].
** The anime version at the end also had a shot on her looking at the newspaper, and saw Haruka's sister Akane, also Mitsuki's 'protege/successor', eventually making it to the Olympic championship, which makes [[Bittersweet Ending|the ending really bittersweet]], even if Takayuki returned his love to her and promises to restart anew together.
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