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== Anime ==
* Lampshaded in ''[[Bakemonogatari]]''. Paraphrased:
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* For people who repeatedly say they only have friends because of the main character, the cast of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' sure know a lot of [[Victim of the Week|Victims Of The Week]] from early childhood...
** 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]]''. 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.
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** They accrete over a few decades. Most of his existence was solitary. Though he's had the old guy around for some thousand years now, and Binky the horse for unspecified time, but not all along because he mentions having experimented with skeletal horses in the past. Self-image habits die hard.
* Bella from "[[Twilight (novel)|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.]]
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* Roy invokes this in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', trying to seduce a girl who likes dangerous loner types. He fails miserably.
* The Tenth Doctor on ''[[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":
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* 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.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* 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
* And Lucy's [[Verbal Abuse]] can't help.
** In the earliest strips, the other characters are in fact shockingly cruel to Charlie Brown. This motif is softened over time.
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== Web Comics ==
* 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
* Davan of ''[[Something
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== Real Life ==
* In the words of [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy|comedian]] Chris Rock: "The [[
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