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== Anime and Manga ==
* Tsukune from ''[[Rosario
** He ''does'' get {{spoiler|Ghoul powers}} later on in the manga, and once he controls it, he [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|swiftly kicks ass with them]]. Of course, since it's a highly dangerous (to him) [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], he stops using it voluntarily and goes back to Rosario removing.
** Even apart from that, it does help that [[Shrouded in Myth|his reputation is much better than truly warranted]] before too long.
* Most of the guys in ''[[Mai-HiME]]'' are just sort of background noise, unless (or until) they're plot-relevant. And yet they have some of the prettiest and most popular (and superpowered) girls in school longing for them, and in the manga one of them became the main character and had Mai and Natsuki actively fighting over him. (At least there they came up with the excuse that he could unleash their full powers.)
* The character Nami Hito from ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' is the most average person in the entire show. She hates this and hates when people call her average, but the fact is, even her ''name'' means "run of the mill."
** In addition to that, she was supposed to be the main character when the comic was first forming. Later it became the teacher, but being surrounded by weird classmates still fits the trope.
* In ''[[Bubblegum Crisis 2040]]'', Linna's mother sets her up on an omiai date with a nice, normal, unexceptional guy. Linna is actually tempted into giving up her life of independence and excitement in the city (and moonlighting as a Knight Saber) to settle down and marry the guy.
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* ''[[The Idiot]]'' discusses this at length:
** Varvara Ardalionovna Ptitsyn, her husband Ivan Petrovich Ptitsyn, and her brother Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin are all described as completely ordinary people. Ivan Ptitsyn is stated to be blissfully unaware of how ordinary he is, and Varvara knows she's ordinary and has more or less made peace with that fact, while Gavrila knows that he's ordinary and is constantly striving to distinguish himself but lacks the ability to do so.
** In addition, the author launches into an aside describing how the vast majority of people in [[Real Life]] are "ordinary", and wondering how an author, interested in realism, is supposed to accurately portray these ordinary people.
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