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** At one point, the Wizard held auditions for the fourth member of his latest Frightful Four in ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' comics. Applicants included an overweight cabbie in a bird suit ("The Osprey") and Captain Ultra, whose strength, flight, and gullibility made him a shoo-in... Until he fainted in the presence of a lit match.

** In the latest ''[[Fantastic Four (animation)|Fantastic Four]]'' cartoon, this scene was reproduced with the ''Fantastic'' Four auditioning for new members after the Thing lost his powers. The Fabulous Frog-Man knocked himself out bouncing around, Texas Twister wrecked the audition area, and [[Squirrel Girl]] didn't even get to do or say anything before she was rejected. Oh, if only they knew... The cartoon also includes the Captain Ultra bit [[Homage|almost exactly the same]], except replace "lit match" with "[[Playing with Fire|Johnny]] giving a flaming thumbs-up".

* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (~~Comic Book~~)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' frequently holds open auditions, and, as you might expect, most of the people trying out are total losers. [http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/340/ see here] for a pretty complete list (with a nifty parody at the end). Some of them aren't ''that'' bad, are they?

* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' frequently holds open auditions, and, as you might expect, most of the people trying out are total losers. [http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/340/ see here] for a pretty complete list (with a nifty parody at the end). Some of them aren't ''that'' bad, are they?

** In a subversion, a number of Legion rejects form the Legion of Substitute Heroes, who do good work as a sort of reserve team putting their unconventional powers to work in the field when the main team can't handle all aspects of a crisis.

** In one issue, the villainous Dynamo Boy, having tricked the rest of the Legion into quitting, held his own auditions -- and while he was largely met with the same type of also-rans who show up to other Legion try-outs, he turned down a couple of decent candidates for petty reasons. His reasons being that, using some future technology to get a scan of their personalities, judged they were too decent and wouldn't be converted to evil so easily.

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* [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=563 Semi-example] in ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' -- the first couple of candidates are okay, then there are two scary ones, and the one who gets hired. {{spoiler|Thalmus rejected the first two because he could find nothing with which to blackmail them.}}

* ''[[Flaky Pastry]]'' starts out this way, with Marelle and Nitrine looking for another roommate to help them pay the rent. All but one of the rejected housemates become recurring side-characters later on, too.

* Implied to have happened before Sabrina got her first job in ''[[~~Sabrina Online (Webcomic)|~~Sabrina Online]]''.

* Implied to have happened before Sabrina got her first job in ''[[Sabrina Online]]''.

* ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' gives us [http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1007 a couple] [http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1541 of strips] regarding brawlers who would make bad bunkmates, with Dedede as the "interviewer" (though it bears mentioning that the guy's usually [http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1092 rather easily impressed] when it comes to interviewing people).

* Reverse example in [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/149 this] ''[[Loserz]]'' strip, where Ben and Eric ask out various girls -- with their usual success rate.