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This trope is very common in music, and in professional wrestling. See also [[The Band Minus the Face]], [[Breakout Character]], [[More Popular Spinoff]] and [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. Contrast with [[The Pete Best]], which is when the left-in-the-lurch character was never closely affiliated with the soon-to-be-famous group to begin with.
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* Inverted with The Radicalz: [[Eddie Guerrero]], [[Chris Benoit]], Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn. Yes, the first two went on to become major stars. Guerrero died. Benoit killed his entire family and himself. Malenko retired in the early 2000's and is still respected for a wrestler of his build and skill. Saturn disappeared, was homeless for quite awhile, and is just now granting public interviews.
* [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|"Stunning" Steve Austin]] and Brian Pillman of the Hollywood Blondes. Austin became six time [[WWE]] champion and the only man to win the Royal Rumble [[Rule of Three|thrice]].
** To be fair, the main reason for this was Pillman's untimely death at age 35. At the time, both Pillman and Austin were both very over high mid-carders (Austin being only a few months into developing the foul-mouthed, beer-swilling, [[Anti
* The Thrillseekers: [[Chris Jericho]] and [[Lance Storm]]. Not a total example. Jericho is the more well-known of the two outside of wrestling, but Storm was certainly not a terrible wrestler himself.
* America's Most Wanted - One would go on to form an even greater tag team known as [[Memetic Mutation|BEER! MONEY!]] The other was IWC phenomenon [[Professional Wrestling/Memes|Braden Walker.]]
* [[D Generation X]] - Not a total example as [[Shawn Michaels]] was already a big star when the group started, but of the other members of the group only [[Triple H]] discovered any real long term success.
** The others were less successful due to backstage incidents and cases of [[Small Name, Big Ego]]. Oh, and one became so unpopular he became the [[Trope Namer]] for [[X Pac Heat]].
*** The New Age Outlaws tag team were massively over before and after they were in DX. Separately, not quite as much. They have both stated that they're tag team wrestlers, not singles guys.
**** Billy Gunn (er, Kip James?) was the breakout of his original tag team, the Smoking Gunns. His partner and [[Kayfabe]] brother, Bart, was derailed by the WWE's foray into "real" boxing: Having won the Brawl for All, he was pitted against Butterbean in a real boxing match. Butterbean KO'ed him in 30 seconds, and that was it for Bart Gunn.
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