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* Lampshaded in ''[[Bakemonogatari (Light Novel)|Bakemonogatari]]''. Paraphrased:

{{quote| "Aren't you the kind of guy with no friends?"<br />

** It could be they knew them, but weren't friends with them, like how we know all our classmates despite not hanging out with all of them regularly.

* Played with in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. Madoka claims that she feels lonely at times due to thinking that she is weak and useless, but the anime clearly shows that it's all in her head as she has a loving family and caring friends.

* [[Batman]]. For a guy who is torn by emotional isolation living eternally in the darkness, the guy has a ridiculous [[Batman (Franchise)/Characters|character page]] full of his constant allies. This is hardly even mentioning that his relationship with Robin was so close during the [[Silver Age]] that you didn't need to be part of a [[Moral Guardians|censor board]] to interpret some [[Ho Yay]] going on there.

* Bella from "[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]" spends the first two chapters whining about how no one would ever like her and how she has never had any friends. She spends every other chapter whining about how people just won't leave her alone.

** And from the moment she sits down in school, she starts making friends and boys start asking her out. Yes, [[Sarcasm Mode|she's clearly unpopular.]]

* The title character of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. While he is often curmudgeonly and rude (particularly to patients), he also seems equally unable to function unless there's people nearby who he can make rude comments to. In one episode where he must make a diagnosis on a plane, he deputizes several passengers to act as highly [[Flanderized]] versions of his regular staff, even after admitting several minutes later that it isn't actually helping that much.

* The Tenth Doctor on ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' had elements of this. He had loads of friends, allies, acquaintances, etc. who would happily die for him, but chose to [[Wangst]] instead of say, stopping by for tea now and again. Lampshaded by Sarah Jane in "Journey's End":

{{quote| '''Sarah Jane''': You know, you act like such a lonely man but look at you! You've got the biggest family on Earth!}}

* In the series four finale of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', Arthur goes after Merlin and tells him: "you're the only friend I've got." Except for Gwen, who's travelling with them. And Hunith, whose house he recovered from his injuries in. And the Knights of the Round Table, who are currently trying to make their way back to him. And Tristan and Isolde, both about to thrown in their lot with him. And Gaius, back in Camelot.

* Charlie Brown in ''[[Peanuts]]'' goes in and out of this - everyone supposedly hates him, yet he seems to hang around with people like Linus, Lucy, and Shroeder a lot. In this case this was probably at least a little deliberate--Charliedeliberate—Charlie Brown is more insecure than a loner. His insecurities just lead him to feel lonely.

* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' Monica has an episode where she wonders if she is a social misfit [https://web.archive.org/web/20090406105541/http://www.wapsisquare.com/d/20030721.html\] until she meets someone who truly doesn't have any social life, and she ends up giggling over her self. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425010507/http://www.wapsisquare.com/d/20030926.html\].

* Davan of ''[[Something *Positive]]'' is the kind of misanthrope you would expect this of... except he has a sprawling group of friends, both close and distant, which grows and changes over time. Even Mike managed to get a lot of new friends thanks to his [[Heel Face Turn|Jerk Face Turn]].

* In the words of [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy|comedian]] Chris Rock: "The [[Useful Notes/Columbine|Trenchcoat Mafia!]] 'No one would play with us! We had no friends, the Trenchcoat Mafia....' Hey, I saw the yearbook picture, it was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school. I don't got six friends now! S***, that's three-on-three with a half court."

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