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* [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)/Characters|Jericho]] of the ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]''. [[Nightwing]]'s introduction is overshadowed by Jericho being introduced at the exact same moment.
* In the old ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic, a core set of Joes eventually emerged from the literal dozens of team members. While this is to be expected, Snake Eyes takes the cake here. Not only is he a character that is utterly flat and lifeless when not part of an ensemble (so he's naturally on the cover of most issues and his backstory is the most expounded upon of any Joe), the ''freaking series was renamed "GI Joe, STARRING SNAKE EYES"'', for over an entire year.
* In more recent ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics, Emma Frost seems to be stealing much attention away from women who have been in the book much longer because they've been removed in different ways.
** [[Wolverine]] falls into this to large degrees (often lampshaded in various fan works). This is part of the reason the trope [[Wolverine Publicity]] is named after him, since he's given a spotlight even when he's barely there.
** Various writers developed a new found interest in Cyclops being the leading man of the X-Men in the mid-2000's, with this pretty culminating in him being the primary focus of 2009's big X-Men event, [[Messiah Complex]]. Since then, a lot of comics have focused heavily on Cyclops.
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* Tyler Marlowe has become the [[Breakout Character]] of ''[[PS238]]''. Initially introduced in issue 3 as a sort of [[This Loser Is You]] character - the only unpowered kid in a school for superhuman "metaprodigies" - he has come to dominate the series to the extent that there are more issues with him as the main character than those in which he isn't. Meanwhile, many of the original major characters are hardly even mentioned, and at least one has been shipped off to another school; he hasn't been [[Put on a Bus]], because he still appears occasionally, but he's pretty much deteriorated into a non-stop [[Wangst]] source.
** To fans who started with the "Student Handbook," ''the entire student population''. The first volume seemed like the comic would the story of a group of former super-heroes with shadowed pasts trying to maintain and administrate a school where all the students have superpowers. Then, it turned out to be a series about child superheroes running amok, with occasional lip service to the idea the faculty actually did anything.
== Fan Works ==
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* In ''[[Fuck the Jesus Beam]]'', O.B.A.M.A. takes over the plot from his debut in the third chapter as the [[Big Bad]], despite Lordguckles having been set up as the main antagonist in the second chapter, and proceeds to have two chapters devoted almost exclusively to him (Including the now-deleted "CHAPTER RAGE"). Kaminic {{spoiler|gets [[Brainwashed]]}} and hardly does anything until {{spoiler|releasing himself from O.B.A.M.A.'s control}} in "CHAPTER NEO JESUS".
* ''[[Total Drama Comeback Series]]'' lampshades the tendency of Duncan and Owen to approach this in canon, while simultaneously making [[Author Avatar|Ezekiel,]] [[Author Appeal|Bridgette, and Izzy]] this within the actual fic.
* Aziraphale and Crowley are this for the ''[[Good Omens]]'' fandom. While they ''are'' in a substantial portion of the book, they are there mostly to initiate the birth mixup and then provide commentary on whatever the humans are actually out there doing. There are many more characters with more relevancy to the plot (after the birth setup), and there are also many memorable teams of
* ''[[A Hero (fan work)|A Hero]]'' is supposed to be a ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''/''[[Doctor Who]]'' crossover. Reading it, however, one can't help but notice how prominent the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' side of the story has become in comparison to the ''PMMM'' side. ''Especially'' in the case of Dalek Sec, who the author has admitted steals every scene he's in.
* In ''[[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies]]'', Tristan is overshadowed by Bakura, Duke, and all three Kaiba brothers, even though he was supposed to be the main character.
* Tends to happen in any facfic, as the author will often put their favorite character(s) to the forefront, at times leaving the main character in the background or not even in the story at all.
== Film ==
* The third ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' [[X-Men (film)|movie]] was more of a [[Wolverine]] movie guest-starring the X-
** [[
{{quote|'''"Once again, you think it's all about you."'''}}
* In the second ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' movie, the premise is "[[Fur Against Fang|Vampires vs. Werewolves"]]. The first has Lucian, perhaps the most interesting, charismatic, and likable character, while the second ''Underworld'' movie had about three scenes with werewolves, none of whom speak. Vampires and [[Hybrid Monster|super-vampires]] take up most of the screen time.
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** Well, that movie was always intended to be a multi-character piece. Still, you wouldn't have expected [[Mandy Patinkin]] to upstage ''[[Andre the Giant]]''.
* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' pulled the rare triple feat of playing this trope straight, ''subverting it'', AND ''averting it'' throughout the film. [[Iron Man]] received the most screen time, since the Marvel films around his character got the best reviews, fan reception, and revenue. Ironically enough, [[The Incredible Hulk]] received the least amount of screen time, with the film of his character being the least popular, yet the Hulk stole the show in nearly every scene he was in. Overall, when compared to the X-Men movies, ''The Avengers'' never sidelined any of the superhero characters for an extended period of time. This may partly explain the film's success, among other reasons.
== Literature ==
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* Tasslehoff becomes rather close to becoming one in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' Trilogies of the War of the Lance and The Twins.
* In some books of Robert Jordan's ''[[Wheel of Time]]'', unimportant characters like Galina can get more page time than the [[Chosen One|hero]], Rand; due to the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|large cast]] and the [[Long Running Book Series|length of the series]], every main character has books in which they barely appear.
* [[Terry Pratchett]] has stated this as an explicit problem of writing the [[Discworld]] at times - it's difficult to write a story set in Ankh-Morpork without the Guard getting involved, at which point it is inevitably a Guard story, regardless of the former plot outline. In fact, this trope was the primary reason for the creation of the protagonist character Moist von Lipwig (of ''[[Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]''
** ''[[The Wee Free Men]]'' was originally set in Lancre, one of the reasons for the change was that it would be too damn hard to keep the Ramtops witches from taking over.
* Season 3 of ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' very nearly turns into The Liquidon and Cindy Show. And as for the painful breakup when Cindy
* Take a look at the ''[[Honor Harrington]]''s Crowning Moment Of Awesome listing, and you'd be forgiven for thinking the series was entirely about Victor Cachat rather than, you know, Honor Harrington.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: As the series goes on, more attention becomes devoted to Jack Emery, Harry Wong, Bert Navarro, Ted Robinson, and Joe Espinosa (not to mention a few other characters). Some reviewers noticed this and complained that this series is about the Sisterhood, not the Brotherhood! This may have been the product of [[Designated Protagonist Syndrome]]. [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
== Live-Action TV ==
* So prevalent on ''[[Glee]]'', it's actually becoming a recurring plot point (along with repeated lampshadings). Series 1 had the focus remain almost solely on [[Official Couple|Rachel and Finn]]. They were designated female and male lead both in the Glee club (despite the fact that Cory Monteith is arguably one of the weakest singers and dancers in the cast) and on the show itself, with almost every important plotline revolving around them in some way and even getting major subplots in the rest of the cast's [[A Day in the Limelight]] episodes. Season 2 reduced Rachel and Finn's screentime and spread more focus to other characters, like Brittany and Santana (who got promoted to regulars) and Mike (who had more lines in six episodes of S2 than in the whole S1), but then turned the spotlight on [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Kurt]] and his much-discussed homophobic bullying storyline, and, later, Blaine. In fact, it's Kurt lampshading this in Original Song which leads to the couple's [[Relationship Upgrade]].
** Actually, Kurt's a pretty odd example, in that he never really got ''that'' much screentime, even in Season 2 - in his entire ten episode stint at Dalton Academy, he sung ''one song'' solo and was lucky to get two or three scenes an episode - but that which he did get was particularly memorable, thanks to his monopoly on the [[Alliteration|season's serious storylines.]] Let's face it, if you have an episode which consists of 42 minutes of good
** Blaine, with the Dalton Warblers, could be a better example, he sang more songs in a few episodes than some regulars did all show.
** As of Season 3, the show has become less about the group (and [[Out of Focus|Will]]) and more about [[Official Couple|Finn/Rachel]] and [[Beta Couple|Kurt/Blaine.]]
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* The entire fourth season of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' was ''The Seven of Nine Show''. In theory, she had just been introduced and needed her character established in a hurry. Others suspect [[Fan Service|something]] [[Gag Boobs|else]] was behind all her screen time.
** ''[[Star Trek]]'' falls into this a lot, most frequently with the "Nonhuman who gradually learns to be human" type of character. Specifics:
*** First, of course, would be Spock and the rest of the [[
*** Next would be Data from [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]], who has much more of his backstory explored than the others, including an [[Evil Twin]] and encounters with his creator. One look at the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Heartwarming|Heartwarming]] page shows how many episodes focus on Data.
**** [[Creator's Pet|Wesley]] also had this from time to time.
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** [[Up to Eleven|Kenji steals the spotlight even when other characters have]] [[A Day in the Limelight]]. It was lampshaded when Kenji traveled through time to the past when Fudou fought Jamanga alone. [[Medium Awareness|Somehow, Fuudo realizes the show title:]]
{{quote|'''Fudou:''': ''Madan Senki Ryukendo? Why not Madan Senki Ryuguno?''
'''Kenji:''': ''Sorry Fudou. I am [[The Protagonist]]''
* Kung Lao from ''[[Mortal Kombat:
* A lot of episodes of ''[[Big Wolf on Campus]]'' focused mainly on [[Perky Goth|Merton Dingle]] despite the fact that the show is told from the POV of [[Our Werewolves Are Different|heroic werewolf, Tommy Dawkins]].
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' Sylar was supposed to die after the first season, and was brought back due to being [[Ensemble Darkhorse|massively]] [[Draco in Leather Pants|popular]]. Ever since then, the plot has bent over backwards to accommodate him. This was especially prevalent during the third season.
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* Col. Sheppard and Rodney McKay of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'': They usually filled the roles of [[Action Hero]] and [[Smart Guy]] [[Lancer]], just like O'neil and Daniel Jackson on [[Stargate SG-1]], but Atlantis seemed to spend much less time on the other members of the team.
** Granted that Sheppard is the lead, but take for example, the episode "The Seed," where he robs Ronon of a chance in the spotlight ''twice''. First Ronon volunteers to test a risky antidote, but Sheppard cuts in to take it himself. Then when Ronon goes to save Keller, he messes up ''just'' as Sheppard wakes up so he can go and save the day.
** A stronger case can made for Rodney McKay
* During the first three seasons of ''[[Charmed]]'', every episode was centered around "Superwitch" Prue. She fought and vanquished all of the demons, brewed a lot of the potions, and was involved in every plot, with Phoebe providing the romantic subplot and Piper throwing out the occasional funny one liner. This was especially glaring in one season 3 episode that featured Piper's wedding...and that quickly got demoted to a subplot when Prue's astral body went crazy.
** {{spoiler|After Prue's death}}, Piper grew into the role of Superwitch, brewing most of the potions and vanquishing most of the demons. She also was wrapped up in the plots, what with her struggling marriage with Leo and trying to protect her two children. During Season 8, only a few episodes of the season were not completely devoted to either Piper or [[The Scrappy|Billie.]]
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* This tends to happen in [[Professional Wrestling]] pretty much any time a wrestler gains any degree of power over the writing of the show. For example, in [[WCW]] from 1998 to 1999, the show centered so heavily on [[Kevin Nash]] that he gained the [[Fan Nickname]] "[[Shoo Out the New Guy|Big Poochie]]" after the character from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[Show Within a Show]], ''Itchy And Scratchy'' (specifically from a bit where Homer suggests that, when Poochie's not around, all of the other characters should say things like, "Where's Poochie?"). See also [[Triple H]] on [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'s ''Raw'' brand from 2002 to 2005, [[Jeff Jarrett]] in [[TNA]] from its founding in 2002 to the end of 2006, and recently, [[Kurt Angle]] and his then-wife, Karen, also in TNA since 2006. If the latter three are any indication, they eventually do get it out of their system.
* As a group, the Main Event Mafia in particular, [[Kurt Angle]] specifically. Worst of all, it's basically a rehash of the nWo storyline from [[WCW]], complete with [[Shoo Out the New Guy|Big Poochie]].▼
▲As a group, the Main Event Mafia in particular, [[Kurt Angle]] specifically. Worst of all, it's basically a rehash of the nWo storyline from [[WCW]], complete with [[Shoo Out the New Guy|Big Poochie]].
* [[WCW]]'s [[New World Order]]; they became so overpushed in 1996-1999 (thanks to the creative control wielded by [[Hulk Hogan]], [[Kevin Nash]] and [[Scott Hall]], as well as the overindulgence of Eric Bischoff) that it drove the entire storyline into the ground. The main problem was that, despite being the bad guys, they ''[[Generic Doomsday Villain|never, ever lost]]''.
* In the really old school, see: [[Hulk Hogan]] in the WWF and WCW, and Dusty Rhodes in Jim Crockett Promotions/NWA. Ironically, Pro Wrestling NOAH could use more of this instead of the booker-wrestler ''de''valuing himself to get over a young guy... who then fails to get over due to weak early title defenses, drops the belt to an "old guard" guy and promptly drops back to midcard hell.
* And [[Hulk Hogan]]'s now doing it again to [[TNA]]—again.▼
▲And [[Hulk Hogan]]'s now doing it again to [[TNA]]—again.
* [[Defied Trope]]: [[Vince McMahon]] came out to take credit for the actions of [[Wade Barrett]] and [[The Nexus]], much like how his daughter [[Stephanie McMahon]] had arisen as the mastermind behind the ECW revival in 2001. Barrett and his men proceeded to ''beat Vince senseless'' in response. (We guess that'll teach him not to ride other heels' coattails, especially since he's retired from wrestling now.)
* For a long stretch between 2007 and 2009, almost every main event at every PPV was some combination of [[Randy Orton]], [[Triple H]], and [[John Cena]]. Since [[Triple H]] was injured, and Cena was busy with the Nexus, it became Orton and [[Sheamus]] more often than not.
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* [[Triple H]] in 2011 since he became COO, which could be summed up as this: We went from the "Summer of [[CM Punk|Punk]]" to the "Autumn of HHH."
** Though the focus on The Game eventually died down after October, when he was ousted as the Raw General Manager and replaced with John Laurinaitis. Trips would then be injured by [[Kevin Nash]] and actually didn't show up until December to exact his revenge.
== Sports ==▼
* 49.5% of all baseball-related news will be about the New York Yankees. 49.5% will be about the Boston Red Sox. The other teams are evenly divided among the remaining 1%.▼
** In Chicago, there's the Cubs and that Black Sox Scandal team on the South Side.▼
* In Ireland, GAA news is divided 60% Dublin Gaelic football, 30% Cork hurling, 10% the rest. Neither is the best team, but they have the highest populations and can thus boost newspaper sales more.▼
* Notre Dame's football team last won a national championship when Reagan was president, yet they have enough clout that they're the only ''team'' (as opposed to conference) to have an exclusive deal with a major television network.▼
* ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'', due to various licensing agreements with teams and broadcast agreements, was widely seen as "The Toronto Maple Leafs Show" with the occasional spinoff "The Montreal Canadiens and Someone Else". This problem eased significantly when the show went to a two-game format, the later game finally allowing the western Canadian teams to get regular national airtime.▼
** It's STILL the "Toronto Maple Leafs Show", not just on Hockey Night but on every Canadian-produced sports show/channel, because essentially all of Canada's media is located in Toronto and they [[Creator's Pet|hammer that fact in every single moment they can.]]▼
* In the Philippines, most news about the NCAA/UAAP will involve men's basketball. I heard there were other sports, but...▼
* Coverage of football dominates sports news in the UK both in newspapers and on TV, even during the off season when no games are actually being played (transfer news makes up the difference). Only the Olympics and the Ashes stand a reasonable chance of displacing football off the back pages, and then only during the summer and if England/GBR are doing well.▼
* Brett Favre. He's undoubtedly one of the best quarterbacks to play the game, but the amount of media attention he receives in what is ostensibly a team sport borders on the insane. In 2009, he returned to Green Bay (his old team) to play as the QB of the Minnesota Vikings (their hated rival). Fox dedicated a camera to watch him for the entire game and fans could watch a webcast of that view exclusively. Even though he wasn't on the field for half the game!▼
** During one of Favre's retirements, ESPN interrupted Sportcenter for ''live coverage'' of him getting off a plane en route to a press conference.▼
* After Favre's (final) retirement, the media fixated on Tim Tebow in the same way. Before his first snap as a pro, the coverage was all about his future with the Denver Broncos. It got to the point where, during the 2011 season, pre-season starting QB Kyle Orton was eventually released by the Denver Broncos to allow Tebow to take over at quarterback—not necessarily because Tebow was better, but ''because the fans stole Orton's spotlight for Tebow''.▼
* Mention to someone not from the UK that you're from anywhere in the vicinity of Manchester and you'll get something along the lines of 'Oh, so you're a Manchester United fan?'. Tell them you're a Manchester City fan, who play in the same league and locally have almost the same level of support (different areas of the city), and they used look at you blankly. That's changed a bit in the 2010s, after the Abu Dhabi oil barons replaced the sacked former Thai prime minister as owner at Man City.▼
** Made all the more ironic by the fact that Manchester is pretty much evenly divided between the two, while a great deal of United's fanbase is made up of out-of-town bandwagon-jumpers.▼
* [[Bishonen|Sidney Crosby]] and [[Vodka Drunkenski|Alex Ovechkin]] interchangeably serve as the NHL's Brett Favre.▼
* In India, cricket manages to be an SSS to not only any and every other sport, but even billion-dollar corruption issues and state elections!▼
* Spain suffers from pretty much the same football obsession the UK does, except Real Madrid and Barcelona seem to be the only teams existing in the whole country.▼
** Tell anybody that you live in Madrid. Despite the fact that there are ''5'' First and Second Division teams based on that Community and 3 on the city itself, you'll rarely find anybody who doesn't assume you support Real.▼
* Brazil has a football obsession in [[Serious Business|religious levels]] - though the Olympics and [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|volleyball]] also get some love. And nationwide press basically just pays attention to the big 4 of both Rio and São Paulo (being the biggest two cities/states ''and'' the headquarters of the big media companies helps the other states being treated as a [[Flyover Country]]), getting even worse if one of those 8 hires a big name player or wins a major championship.▼
* In the 2010-2011 NBA season, the Miami Heat got to near [[Creator's Pet]] levels of coverage after Lebron James and Chris Bosh joined the team. Fortunately, the hoopla over the Heat was greatly reduced the following season, mainly because there were more intriguing stories to talk about (i.e., the lockout, the Knicks' extremely erratic season with coach shake ups and Jeremy Lin, injuries galore, Dwight Howard's will-he-or-won't-he stay in Orlando).▼
* National soccer news in the Netherlands has a tendency to become "AFC Ajax and some other teams". Granted, AFC Ajax is the most successful team in the league, but it irks people when "their" team wins the league and then it's still about how Ajax didn't win it.▼
* With the return of the Winnipeg Jets to the NHL, the focus from all Canadian sports outlets seems to have shifted to the team formerly known as the Atlanta Thrashers.▼
* The quarterback position in American football and the pitcher position in baseball are ''especially'' prone to this and will always get a greater share of the credit or blame than they deserve. The goalkeeper position in hockey and soccer/football are often this trope as well.▼
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** [http://cdn2.spong.com/pack/s/o/soulblade7457/_-Soul-Blade-PlayStation-_.jpg From the look of the box art of SoulBlade], you wouldn't really think much of the blond haired guy right? Well, that guy is Siegfried Schtauffen, who has effectively become the main character since [[Soul Calibur]] 1 despite not owning the titular sword until IV. He's the only character to own both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur at different points in the series becoming BOTH the [[Big Bad]] and [[The Hero]]. You can even see how important he became overtime by comparing his [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091210083736/soulcalibur/images/0/0a/Soul_Edge_-_Siegfried.jpg original concept art] and his [http://images.wikia.com/soulcalibur/images/e/ed/Siegfried-schtauffen-in-soul-calibur-4.jpg artwork in IV]. Of course, this ended up making him a [[Tropes Are Tools|likable character]].
** To be more specific: the original ''Soul Edge'' had no central protagonist, but Sophitia and Siegfried are arguably the most prominent because the former destroys one half of Soul Edge, while the latter becomes the [[Big Bad]] under its power. ''Soul Calibur'' had Xianghua as its protagonist, as per [[Word of God]] (she originally wielded the holy sword before Siegfried did). ''II'' once again had no protagonist because of the [[Alternate Universe]] style storyline, but Siegfried, as Nightmare, is starting to steal the spotlight. By ''III'', he's the full-blown protagonist.
* ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' does this, a lot. However, they change up the characters, and the old focuses become peripheral. Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami's intense rivalry was the main focus of
** '''{{'}}94.''' The ''big'' story for that one was the dream matchup between Fatal Fury Team (Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, Joe Higahsi) and Art of Fighting Team (Ryo Sakazaki, Robert Garcia, Takuma Sakazaki), made very clear by title sequence and every victory comment each member delivers to the other team. Today, not only do most ''KOF'' players probably not even know what games they're from, Takuma has completely vanished, Andy has been reduced to an occasional bit player, and Joe and Robert are tenuously clinging to trusty sidekick status.
* The ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' franchise spends a great deal of the storyline focus on rivals Scorpion and Sub-Zero. But, as they're the headliners for the games, they're the ones who got the most attention; many of the characters seemed to be designed solely as one-off characters (like Stryker), or that the others underwent ridiculous plot changes to try and make them viable again (Raiden becoming evil, Liu Kang dying, etc.).
** Sub-Zero and the Lin Kuei in general are a Spotlight Stealing Squad all their own, what with the Lin Kuei trying to kill Sub-Zero in MK 3 with three killer cyborg ninjas (one of whom was once his old friend Smoke), Noob Saibot turning out to be the elder (evil) Sub-Zero [[Back from the Dead]], Frost taking him on as a mentor in the later games, and Scorpion relentlessly pursuing him (at least until one of the later games' [[Big Bad]]s was revealed to be the one who murdered Scorpion's family).
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** Or [[Albert Einstein]].
* For game generations in total there's always at least one console that overshadows the others. The [[Atari 2600]], [[NES]], [[SNES]], [[PlayStation]], [[PlayStation 2]], [[Wii]]...
▲* 49.5% of all baseball-related news will be about the New York Yankees. 49.5% will be about the Boston Red Sox. The other teams are evenly divided among the remaining 1%.
▲** In Chicago, there's the Cubs and that Black Sox Scandal team on the South Side.
** In Canada, it's mostly the Blue Jays with a bit of everybody else. (Assuming, of course, it's that thin period in the summer time when there's no hockey to talk about; see the "Hockey Night in Canada" example.)
▲* In Ireland, GAA news is divided 60% Dublin Gaelic football, 30% Cork hurling, 10% the rest. Neither is the best team, but they have the highest populations and can thus boost newspaper sales more.
▲* Notre Dame's football team last won a national championship when Reagan was president, yet they have enough clout that they're the only ''team'' (as opposed to conference) to have an exclusive deal with a major television network.
▲* ''[[Hockey Night in Canada]]'', due to various licensing agreements with teams and broadcast agreements, was widely seen as "The Toronto Maple Leafs Show" with the occasional spinoff "The Montreal Canadiens and Someone Else". This problem eased significantly when the show went to a two-game format, the later game finally allowing the western Canadian teams to get regular national airtime.
▲** It's STILL the "Toronto Maple Leafs Show", not just on Hockey Night but on every Canadian-produced sports show/channel, because essentially all of Canada's media is located in Toronto and they [[Creator's Pet|hammer that fact in every single moment they can.]]
▲*** With the return of the Winnipeg Jets to the NHL, the focus from all Canadian sports outlets
▲* In the Philippines, most news about the NCAA/UAAP will involve men's basketball. I heard there were other sports, but...
▲* Coverage of football dominates sports news in the UK both in newspapers and on TV, even during the off season when no games are actually being played (transfer news makes up the difference). Only the Olympics and the Ashes stand a reasonable chance of displacing football off the back pages, and then only during the summer and if England/GBR are doing well.
▲* Brett Favre. He's undoubtedly one of the best quarterbacks to play the game, but the amount of media attention he receives in what is ostensibly a team sport borders on the insane. In 2009, he returned to Green Bay (his old team) to play as the QB of the Minnesota Vikings (their hated rival). Fox dedicated a camera to watch him for the entire game and fans could watch a webcast of that view exclusively. Even though he wasn't on the field for half the game!
▲** During one of Favre's retirements, ESPN interrupted Sportcenter for ''live coverage'' of him getting off a plane en route to a press conference.
▲* After Favre's (final) retirement, the media fixated on Tim Tebow in the same way. Before his first snap as a pro, the coverage was all about his future with the Denver Broncos. It got to the point where, during the 2011 season, pre-season starting QB Kyle Orton was eventually released by the Denver Broncos to allow Tebow to take over at quarterback—not necessarily because Tebow was better, but ''because the fans stole Orton's spotlight for Tebow''.
▲* Mention to someone not from the UK that you're from anywhere in the vicinity of Manchester and you'll get something along the lines of 'Oh, so you're a Manchester United fan?'. Tell them you're a Manchester City fan, who play in the same league and locally have almost the same level of support (different areas of the city), and they used look at you blankly. That's changed a bit in the 2010s, after the Abu Dhabi oil barons replaced the sacked former Thai prime minister as owner at Man City.
▲** Made all the more ironic by the fact that Manchester is pretty much evenly divided between the two, while a great deal of United's fanbase is made up of out-of-town bandwagon-jumpers.
▲* [[Bishonen|Sidney Crosby]] and [[Vodka Drunkenski|Alex Ovechkin]] interchangeably serve as the NHL's Brett Favre.
▲* In India, cricket manages to be an SSS to not only any and every other sport, but even billion-dollar corruption issues and state elections!
▲* Spain suffers from pretty much the same football obsession the UK does, except Real Madrid and Barcelona seem to be the only teams existing in the whole country.
▲** Tell anybody that you live in Madrid. Despite the fact that there are ''5'' First and Second Division teams based on that Community and 3 on the city itself, you'll rarely find anybody who doesn't assume you support Real.
▲* Brazil has a football obsession in [[Serious Business|religious levels]] - though the Olympics and [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|volleyball]] also get some love. And nationwide press basically just pays attention to the big 4 of both Rio and São Paulo (being the biggest two cities/states ''and'' the headquarters of the big media companies helps the other states being treated as a [[Flyover Country]]), getting even worse if one of those 8 hires a big name player or wins a major championship.
▲* In the 2010-2011 NBA season, the Miami Heat got to near [[Creator's Pet]] levels of coverage after Lebron James and Chris Bosh joined the team. Fortunately, the hoopla over the Heat was greatly reduced the following season, mainly because there were more intriguing stories to talk about (i.e., the lockout, the Knicks' extremely erratic season with coach shake ups and Jeremy Lin, injuries galore, Dwight Howard's will-he-or-won't-he stay in Orlando).
▲* National soccer news in the Netherlands has a tendency to become "AFC Ajax and some other teams". Granted, AFC Ajax is the most successful team in the league, but it irks people when "their" team wins the league and then it's still about how Ajax didn't win it.
▲* The quarterback position in American football and the pitcher position in baseball are ''especially'' prone to this and will always get a greater share of the credit or blame than they deserve. The goalkeeper position in hockey and soccer/football are often this trope as well.
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