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** In "The Prom", however, Buffy receives a special Class Protector award for saving the other students' lives on a regular basis.
** Xander himself, as well. In any normal high school someone with his looks, athleticism, and outgoing personality would have to deliberately work at ''avoiding'' becoming popular. In Sunnydale High he ranked socially somewhere between the school lunch special and carpet lint.
*** Xander is probably the only student in the history of high school who could publicly save the life of another student, join a varsity sports team and win a championship, and date the head cheerleader... and not only avoid gaining any popularity but then go on to ''remove'' the head cheerleader's popularity simply by association with him. He managed to turn one of the show's most expert social manipulators, whose father was also the richest man in town, into a temporary social outcast ''simply because she was dating him''. And even after Cordelia gets a measure of her social mojo back none of it remotely falls on Xander (and if anything, he actually ends up in a worse public position than before). It's like he radiates some kind of active Anti-Popularity Field.
*** Xander's also faced down and beaten up his school's worst bullies and yet somehow didn't earn renown as either chief [[Bully Hunter]] or else the new alpha bully himself, beaten the starting varsity quarterback in a fist-fight without becoming the new alpha male, and despite being the funniest guy in school ''since kindergarten'' couldn't even win the student award for Class Clown. Really, you could rename this trope "The Xander" at the rate he's going.
* Sabrina in ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': Despite being an attractive do-gooder and a model student, she was treated with contempt by both Libby and Vice-Principal Kraft. Libby at least might have seen Sabrina as a threat to her own popularity, but Kraft... [[Sadist Teacher|well some people are just jerks.]] That and he dated her aunt.
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