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See [[A Day in the Limelight]] for a secondary character given the spotlight and [[Villain Episode]] for villains. See [[Breakout Mook Character]] for full spinoffs for mooks. Compare [[Elsewhere Fic]]. May overlap with [[The Greatest Story Never Told]]. An entire series of Lower Deck Episodes (within a larger [[The Verse|'verse]]) is an [[Innocent Bystander Series]].

* When ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' does these with recurring minor characters, the fact is usually stated enthusiastically by said characters. Sometimes with the main characters complaining that they've been pushed to the sidelines. Of course, this is a given since the series has [[No Fourth Wall]].

* The entire concept behind the OVA ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam|Gundam 08th MS Team]]''.

* The ''[[Homestuck]]'' fanfic [http://archiveofourown.org/works/101993 "Outsiders"] is about the {{spoiler|meteor apocalypses}} upon two planets, as seen from the viewpoint of a completely mundane and unrelated bystander human and bystander [[All Trolls Are Different|troll]].

* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfiction ''[[The Ollivander Children]]'' looks at the Second War against Voldemort from the point of view of people who never meet Harry Potter and have no chance of fighting Voldemort, much less defeating him, and their particular struggles in the war.