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== Anime ==
* Lampshaded in ''[[
{{quote| "Aren't you the kind of guy with no friends?"<br />
"Yeah, I used to be but there was sort of a paradigm shift last spring." }}
* For people who repeatedly say they only have friends because of the main character, the cast of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' sure know a lot of [[Victim of the Week|Victims Of The Week]] from early childhood...
** It could be they knew them, but weren't friends with them, like how we know all our classmates despite not hanging out with all of them regularly.
* Played with in ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* [[Batman]]. For a guy who is torn by emotional isolation living eternally in the darkness, the guy has a ridiculous [[Batman
** In fact, the 'Bat Family' is probably the largest in the DCU. There's at least currently a Batman, a Robin, a Nightwing, a Red Robin, Oracle, Batgirl, Black Bat, Batwoman, Flamebird, Spoiler, and Alfred in this loner's gang. Though to be fair, he does mostly work alone where feasible and leaves the others to their own devices.
** Just to emphasize the point: for ''seventeen years'' this supposed loner starred in a book whose entire premise was to team him up with ''everyone else in the DC Universe''.
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* [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] from ''[[Discworld]]''. Again, he's got his own supporting cast.
** They accrete over a few decades. Most of his existence was solitary. Though he's had the old guy around for some thousand years now, and Binky the horse for unspecified time, but not all along because he mentions having experimented with skeletal horses in the past. Self-image habits die hard.
* Bella from "[[Twilight (
** And from the moment she sits down in school, she starts making friends and boys start asking her out. Yes, [[Sarcasm Mode|she's clearly unpopular.]]
== Live Action TV ==
* The title character of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. While he is often curmudgeonly and rude (particularly to patients), he also seems equally unable to function unless there's people nearby who he can make rude comments to. In one episode where he must make a diagnosis on a plane, he deputizes several passengers to act as highly [[Flanderized]] versions of his regular staff, even after admitting several minutes later that it isn't actually helping that much.
* In an early episode of ''[[Lost]]'', Kate gives Sawyer some advice, starting with the words: "from one island outcast to another..." Kate practically runs [[Fan Nickname|Craphole Island]], and has relationships with all the major characters.
* Roy invokes this in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', trying to seduce a girl who likes dangerous loner types. He fails miserably.
* The Tenth Doctor on ''[[
{{quote| '''Sarah Jane''': You know, you act like such a lonely man but look at you! You've got the biggest family on Earth!}}
* In the series four finale of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', Arthur goes after Merlin and tells him: "you're the only friend I've got." Except for Gwen, who's travelling with them. And Hunith, whose house he recovered from his injuries in. And the Knights of the Round Table, who are currently trying to make their way back to him. And Tristan and Isolde, both about to thrown in their lot with him. And Gaius, back in Camelot.
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