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[[File:ddd_1797ddd 1797.jpg|link=Married... Withwith Children|rightframe|Al Bundy at work.]]

Compare with [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]], [[This Loser Is You]]. The [[Jerk Jock]] has a particular tendency to evolve into one of these. Contrast [[Small Name, Big Ego]].

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** Another interpretation is that everyone knows Walt is a [[Jaded Washout]] [[Hypocrite|except himself]]: His wife asked his catholic priest to watch after him after her death because she knows that he has no connection to his sons. Everyone thinks he is an old crazy man. Only after Walt realizes his racism is a flimsy excuse to feel better at the expense of others can he be a hero.

* Trip McNeely in ''[[Can't Hardly Wait]]''. Mike Dexter is also on his way to becoming this, as shown by the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].

* Female example: Mavis Gary in ''[[Young Adult (Filmfilm)|Young Adult]]'' is a former [[Alpha Bitch]] prom queen who's now in her thirties, divorced, and ghostwrites teen-lit novels in order to recreate her high school [[Glory Days]].

* Former [[Trope Namer]] Al Bundy, from ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]''. Although anyone who has worked in a degrading, low-paying, miserable, [[Overly Long Gag|menial]], service-industry job may find him less of an [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]] than people who haven't. (Work a job where you are regularly [[Unsatisfiable Customer|abused by customers]] for a few years and Al Bundy will be your patron saint.) Although a chauvinist, a loud mouth, and a loser, Al Bundy himself isn't without his virtues. [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other|He genuinely loves his wife and family]] though he was loath to admit it, [[All Take and No Give|regularly sacrificed for his children]], and would never cheat on Peggy. (But he did go to the [[Bikini Bar|Nudie Bar]] and loved his [[Porn Stash|Big'Uns]].)

* Pete Hornberger from ''[[Thirty Rock (TV)|30 Rock]]'' is implied to be this at home. However, ''30 Rock'' is a [[Work Com]], not a [[Dom Com]], so we never actually see Pete at home, and don't see much of his wife, either.

* Due to the complaints of parents groups and his marriage to Rita Repulsa, by the end of the second season of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' this has happened to Lord Zedd [[Badass Decay|of all people]]. Right down to his father-in-law's evil empire stated to be conquering Zedd's former territories in a throwaway line.

** The Zedd of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' season three and ''[[Power Rangers ZEOZeo]]'' was even called "Al Bundy Zedd" by the writing staff at the time.

** Making Howard a bizarre combination of the [[Jaded Washout]] and the [[Ted Baxter]], since he variates between thinking he's a smooth talking, artistic, dark and brooding genius, with understanding that he's utterly pathetic

* [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] knows she's a waste of space deep down. When Dark Nella is about to end her pitiful, nerdy, judgemental, shut-in existence, she's only really upset at being called nerdy.

** [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] had a year long [[Story Arc]] where he was getting more and more miserable about his job, involving bitching at other contributors for doing it better than him and trying to invade a [[Kickassia|country]] because he was desperate for some kind of power.

** With [[Ask That Guy With the Glasses (Web Video)|Ask That Guy With theThe Glasses]]'s ongoing [[Humiliation Conga]], we get to watch the process of how someone can go from cool and collected to almost completely pitiful.

* Simon Trent, the typecast actor who played the Gray Ghost, years after the show was cancelled, in ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]].''

*** [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone|Though this is changing.]]

* The [[Small Name, Big Ego]] page mentions a couple of high-school-jock types (Dash from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', and the Bradster from ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'') who are actually prototypical [[Jaded Washout|Jaded Washouts]]; completely aware that, lacking any real redeeming features, these are their glory days, and they're keen to milk the time for all it's worth, before they flunk out of college and spend the rest of their lives pining for a time they spent making sure the unpopular kids would be too resentful to show up to the high school reunion.