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** He's a borderline example, due to Flanderization making him more distinct as time goes on. He's more of the Ego to Barney's Id and Marshall's Superego. His desire to have a family and his single status as a thirty-something-year-old male living in New York City still sticks him with this trope, however.

* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', Captain Janeway is sincerely tempted to give up her life as a Starfleet captain and her promise of getting her crew home to settle down with a decent but fairly bland guy she met on a planet and become a minor power plant supervisor.

* ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'': Out of all the Gokaigers, Don "Doc" Dogoier, aka Gokai Green, is the only one without a [[Backstory]] or known past. [[What Could Have Been|Initially]], [http://www.jefusion.com/2011/09/don-dogoiers-backstory-revealed.html he was planned to have a back-story as the son of a scientist who was murdered at the hands of the Zangyack forces.] However, Naruhisa Arakawa, the show's head writer, discovered that he preferred to leave Don without a back-story.

* On ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' and ''[[The Daily Show]]'', there is a [[Running Gag]] that Mitt Romney is an extremely bland guy. For example, a joke on ''The Colbert Report'' was that he got indigestion from a "particularly spicy Wheat Thin".