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* Uncle Rico from ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]''.
* [[Badass Grandpa|Walt]] in ''[[Gran Torino]]'' is a subversion. He's genuinely [[Badass]], and while his family doesn't pay him much attention or respect, the rest of his neighbourhood certainly does.
** 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 (film)|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]].
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* Jack Malloy, from the ''MWC'' <s>ripoff</s> -inspired sitcom ''Unhappily Ever After''. Used car salesman.
* Pete Hornberger from ''[[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 Zeo]]'' was even called "Al Bundy Zedd" by the writing staff at the time.
* Ray Drecker from ''[[Hung]]'' became this without even realizing it.
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** And Meg. One of the few females to fit this trope. How many redeeming moments has she ever had throughout the series? Very, very few. And when things start to look up for her, chances are, [[Status Quo Is God|they're gonna fall apart by the end of the episode.]]
*** [[Throw the Dog a 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.
* [[The Venture Brothers|Rusty Venture.]] A [[Former Child Star]], these days he's a bitter, cynical, "Diet pill" addicted has been. Thanks in no small part to his amazingly traumatic childhood.
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