Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Difference between revisions

May involve a [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]], but in most examples, it's an entire cast imposing on the stiff guy's time, money and patience. [[The Power of Friendship]] is usually evoked by the end of the story. There may be a montage as the character remembers how things used to be, and how despite how much the other characters irritate them, they have made stiff guy a better person.

 

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* ''[[Midori no Hibi]]'': Seiji thinks that his problem is not being able to get a girlfriend, but that's actually just a symptom of his general inability to interact non-violently with others. Having to protect Midori and her secret, and deal with wacky people he can't just punch, brings out his better qualities.

* Explicit in ''[[Haunted Junction]]'': Hayato, who says [[I Just Want to Be Normal]], but is constantly dragged into supernatural mayhem. In the final episode we learn that the school spirits have been tormenting him specifically to avert a [[Bad Future]] in which he lives a "normal life" but never emotionally connects with anyone including his future wife and child. Which seems to lead into a happy ending...except that said [[Preacher's Kid]] was made so miserable by the constant torment that he voluntarily participated in a plan to kill or imprison all the school spirits; and there's no indication that things are going to get better for him.

* The residents of ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' spend most of their time driving Yusaku Godai insane with their alcohol-induced insanity, but also end up somehow making him the man he needs to be for Kyoko, as well as get Kyoko to reflect on her feelings for him.

* ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' implies this is the case for Kyon, who became a much more outgoing and likable guy after exposure to the SOS Brigade. It ''inverts'' it with Haruhi, who became a more sympathetic person by hanging out with [[Locked Out of the Loop|apparently]] normal people.

 

== Film -- Live Action ==

* ''[[The Fisher King]]''. The "stiff guy" is a shock radio host, but he's still quite stiff. And the looney is...well...Robin Williams. As a crazy homeless guy. It's a surprisingly serious movie, but still, you can see where this is going.

 

== Live Action Television ==

* This is the basic plot of ''[[Producing Nobuta]]''.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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