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[[File:unfavourite pf 7171.jpg|link=Phineas and Ferb|thumb|400px|And the father prefers his dog, [[I Have No Son|Only Son]].]]
{{quote|"Wrong kid died!"
|'''Dewey's father,''' ''[[Walk Hard]]''}}
The nasty end of [[Parental Favoritism]]. Where there's an Alpha wolf, there's got to be an Omega. When there is a first banana, there is a second banana. This is the person in the family who can't get a break. For example, this is the child who's the big [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?|let-down]] to their parents, the daughter that was supposed to be a son (or vice-versa), the child the parents had by accident when they'd already decided they didn't need another mouth to feed. But all in all, this is basically the kid who is always getting the short-end of the stick.
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** ...who is ''himself'' an Unfavorite {{spoiler|due to his short telomeres giving him frail health and a limited lifespan. Adaptations of ''SEED'' state that Rau was abandoned by Al de Flaga when he was very young, once Al found out.}} This is part of why Mu empathizes with him very late in the series.
* Abo Ozawa in the baseball manga ''[[Stripe Blue]]''. His older brother Bantarou is the closing pitcher on a professional team that owes its recent success solely to him. Being that Abo is ''also'' a baseball pitcher, he has to work extra hard to stand out, even to his own parents, despite frankly having not very formidable skills.
* Shinji Ikari of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion
** In actuality, while Shinji is the unfavorite and Rei gets something resembling affection from Gendo, his
* Played with in regards to Belarus of ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', who ''thinks'' she's The Unfavourite of her older brother Russia because of their older sister Ukraine and Russia's subordinates, the Baltic brothers (Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia). This leaves the girl, well... [[Brother-Sister Incest|rather]] [[:Category:Yandere|unstable]].
** [[Romantic Runner-Up|Canada]] might as well be invisible next to his brother [[Large Ham|America]].
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** England is hated by his older brothers [[All There in the Manual|(Scotland, Wales, and most likely Ireland as well)]].
** Roman Empire clearly loved North Italy more than [[Jerkass Woobie|South Italy]]; the Chibitalia chapter said that he took Italy with him when he had to run away, but was shown to have left Romano. This pattern continues throughout their childhood, with [[Tear Jerker|Romano at one point lamenting his status.]] It gets better when Spain picks up on the situation and starts showing him as much love as he can (Spain can be weird sometimes, but at least he's trying).
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* Definitely Ageha from ''[[Papillon Hana To Chou]]''<nowiki>:</nowiki> as an infant, her mother sent her to live with her grandmother in the country because she couldn't stop crying; her twin sister Hana/Kana (the translators kept switching) is popular and glamorous and steals her potential boyfriend; she's even screwed over by her only [[Poisonous Friend|"friend"]]. No wonder she's almost [[Driven to Suicide]]. {{spoiler|Fortunately her relationship with her mom improves dramatically when they finally start talking to each other. Kana/Hana, however, is becoming uneasy with her sister's newfound confidence...}}
* Asagi Ayase of ''[[Yotsubato]]'' gets far more than her share of crap from her mother. It's played for laughs, since Asagi tends to retaliate in kind, but at least one flashback has shown she's gotten this treatment for years.
* Moroboshi Ataru from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' is another only-child example of this trope. His parents are constantly lamenting the fact that he was ever born, in his presence. Played pretty much entirely for laughs.
** They also wistfully mention how much they wanted a little girl, making Ataru the Unfavorite to a sister who ''doesn't even exist''.
* Sachiko in ''[[With the Light]]'' loves both of her children—autistic Hikaru and his unafflicted little sister Kanon—equally; it's her mother-in-law who plays unfavorites. Having Kanon to interact with and a hard time accepting the fact that Hikaru's not going to "get better" and be exactly like "normal" people means that she is more affectionate with the girl.
* In ''[[There Beyond the Beyond]]'', both of the kingdom's twin princes are named Virid Visette Viridian. The one who would eventually become the [[Axe Crazy|"Mad Prince"]] was left to be abused and forgotten in a cell, while his brother got to be doted on in the palace.
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* Seileiz, eldest of the three heirs to his country in ''[[Vampire Game]]'', is also by far his mother's most hated. {{spoiler|There are three reasons for this: he's adopted (as are his brothers), he's the [[Son of a Whore]], and he's the illegitimate son of the king. The queen was willing to put up with the first two, but having a reminder of her husband's refusal to sleep with her running around really pissed her off.}}
* In ''[[Nononono]]'' Nono's brother, Yuuta is like this. Both of them were trained by their ski-jumper dad to be ski-jumpers, hoping to go to the olympics. The problem is, Nono is the more talented of the two, but she can't go to the Olympics due to being a girl. Their father kept on pushing Yuuta to be as good as his sister.
* Reina in ''[[Queen's Blade]]'' apparently suffers from this early on, being clearly the weakest between the three Vance sisters and not being allowed to leave the palace or do anything with her life. The justification for this later on is that {{spoiler|Reina is the [[Generation Xerox]] of her mother, who died fighting in Queen's Blade, and her father was being overprotective for that reason.}}
* Moe Shishigawari from ''[[Bleach]]'' was {{spoiler|the only Fullbringer with whom Ginjo did not share Ichigo's stolen power, and Ginjo planned to kill him as soon as they were done, because he's potentially [[Too Powerful to Live]]}}.
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* In some ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fics, Harry is treated like this when it is mistakenly
* This is the entire premise of some ''[[Naruto]]'' Fanfiction. Often, Naruto's OC sibling is substituted for the jinchuriki, and Naruto's parent-inclusive life becomes inexplicably ''worse''. One such example is [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6077073/1/The_Heros_Brother this].
* ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' has some interesting cases with Jim being the unfavourite compared to ''his dead father''. His mother couldn't stand the resemblance between them and would often do nothing to stop his stepfather from beating him, neglecting him and traveling far away just so she wouldn't have to look at Jim.
** In one story, after becoming captain, to get back at his mother from neglecting and allowing the abuse to happen, Jim donated a huge sum of money towards charities where children had been abused, naming it her, "for all the things she did when he was a kid". Afterwards, people went up to her, asking her "how does it feel?" for raising such a nice kid and how ''proud'' she must be.
** For the record, there is little to no evidence for this in canon.
* There is a very good ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanfiction called ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2138430/1/Misconception Misconception]'', in which time changes and another child is born in
* Fanfiction often has [[Transformers (film)|Megatron jealous of his brother Optimus.]] Whether they are actually biological brothers or simply brothers by name depends on the author. For example, [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3853153/1/The_Ties_That_Bind_Us The Ties That Bind Us] shows a young Optimus being injured by an ambush and his caretaker Ironhide had to carry him while telling Megatron to follow him. While understanding that Optimus was more serious condition, Megatron began to grow envious that he was always placed second place after Optimus.
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