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{{quote|"Like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what."|'''Nick Mason''' of [[Pink Floyd]] explains why you should take this trope with a grain of salt.}}
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It must be noted that in terms of musicians, particularly Rock bands, that the rhythm section (i.e. bass, drums, sometimes rhythm guitar) is the foundation upon which everything is built, so while many drummers or bassists may not be prolific songwriters or singers, many singer and guitarists acknowledge that the sound would be nothing without them.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Tenchi of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' gets a bit of this. He's the title character, but the show is really all about the girls; Tenchi himself is primarily relevant as a [[MacGuffin]] for them to fight over. Of course, one translation of the title is "No Need For Tenchi". How much of this he has depends on the series, and how far through the series one progresses. In the main OAV series, for example, he ends up {{spoiler|being revealed as the reason all known universes were created, not to mention more powerful than the beings responsible for their creation}}.
* Despite being
== Comic Books ==
* There were issues of ''[[Cable]] & [[Deadpool]]'' in which Cable's entire role was basically to appear at the beginning and give Deadpool a mission. And a stretch of issues about Deadpool trying to find Cable in different dimensions. Eventually they literally crossed Cable's name off the [http://mercwithamouth.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/cabledeadpool49.jpg cover]{{Dead link}} and replaced it with the name of a random guest star. Some of it was merely due to [[Executive Meddling|editorial mandate]] that allowed Cable to be busy, missing, or even killed off in the [[X-Men]] titles, leaving the writers of the book he was nominally headlining little recourse but to work around him, but even when Cable was available it often seemed like they were more interested in writing a Deadpool book that Cable was shoehorned into by, you guessed it, [[Executive Meddling|editorial mandate]].
* Similarly, in most ''[[Blake and Mortimer]]'' stories, the former has a much smaller role than the latter, with some even having him barely show up at all (''The Time Trap'' for example only has him appear on panel in the very last page visiting Mortimer in the hospital).
== Film ==
* Turner of ''[[Turner
* The film ''[[Music and Lyrics]]'' features an in-universe example: the lead character was part of an 80's pop duo named PoP!, heavily based off Wham!, with him playing the Andrew Ridgeley role.
* Fanny in ''Fanny and Alexander''.
== Live Action TV ==
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== Video Games ==
* Despite the name, the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' games rarely give the two brothers equal billing. In games when Luigi is as important as Mario, both characters are mentioned by name in the title (e.g. ''[[
* There were two pack-in games that came with the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]]. One was ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', of course. The other? ''[[Duck Hunt]]'', which is remembered for only two things: Being the ''other'' game that came with the NES, and... ''[[The Scrappy|the dog]]''. Speaking of the NES accessories in order of well-known-ness: Control Pad, Zapper, Power Pad, Power Glove, NES Advantage, [[Fun with Acronyms|Robotic Operating Buddy]].
* Same with Bob (blun/by) (the blue bubble dragon) from ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'' who has not been in as many games and ports as his brother Bub (the green bubble dragon) had. Coincidence?
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== Western Animation ==
* Parodied, of course, on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode ''"Lisa's Rival"''. Lisa takes solace in that there's nothing wrong being the second-best at anything. She then imagines a future in which she, Art Garfunkel, Jim Messina, and John Oates play their #2 song ''"Born To Be Runners Up"''. They get booed off the stage, and she wakes up [[Lampshade|lampshading]] the [[Fridge Logic]] of why people would show up to their concert just to boo them.
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'':
** An in-universe example, the bassist Murderface is definitely considered a main character and major player in the band Dethklok. However, numerous episodes have shown that 1) he sucks at playing bass, 2) all the bass parts are written by lead guitarist Skwisgaar, 3) the bass parts are usually mixed to near-inaudible levels on the albums, and 4) in one in-character interview in a magazine, lead singer Nathan Explosion said that Murderface's duties in the recording studio are to simply play every single note one time, which is then laboriously assembled with [[Pro Tools]] into actual basslines one note at a time.
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