The Friend Nobody Likes: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* From ''[[Hot Tub Time Machine]]'' (discussing the character Lou)

* While Stiffler is more of an outright antagonist in the first ''[[American Pie]]'', he becomes this in the second since they're staying at his place in the summer, and works to redeem himself in the third.

* Cameron in ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'' -- the others only hang out with him because he's part of the study group. {{spoiler|In the end he's the one to betray them and Keating.}}

* Pierce in ''[[Community]]''. His necessity is revealed when, in his absence, the study group begins to fight amongst itself for incredibly petty reasons just because they no longer have Pierce to kick around.

* Sheldon Cooper in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.

'''Howard''': *shrug* "We liked Leonard." }}

** For those who haven't watched the show, Sheldon and Leonard are roommates...therefore wherever Leonard goes, Sheldon usually goes.

** This is lampshaded in a season 5 episode where after Sheldon stops being friends with Leonard, the group, minus [[Beta Couple|Amy]], stops hanging out with him.

* Barney in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''

* Jayne Cobb in ''[[Firefly]]'', to the point where the others don't even bother with the "wait until they're out of the room" part. When the crew is discussing what to do with River, a mentally unstable girl who may or may not be a living weapon, Zoe says she's never hurt anyone. When Jayne points out she sliced him in the chest with a butcher's knife ''without provocation'', she just amends it to "anyone we can't spare."

** Of course, Jayne isn't technically a "friend" at all; he's a mercenary, and in fact one that Mal hired out from under another guy while that other guy was busy holding Mal up. He's told the good captain in no uncertain terms that if he gets a good enough offer he ''will'' turn on him -- but since he's grown to respect Mal, he'll do him the service of not stabbing him in the back about it. Any actual friendship between Jayne and anyone else on the ship is purely incidental.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[South Park]].'' Eric Cartman. This is the kid whose crowning moment was getting a kid to eat a bowl of chili made with his parents. Yet he'll frequently be included in the activities of the other boys when he isn't busy being the active threat. To quote Chef from "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"

** Also summed up in "The Death of Eric Cartman," where the other boys declare that he's not their friend and that they will ignore him from now on:

'''Kyle:''' Because he's a [[Fat Bastard|fat]], [[Politically-Incorrect Villain|racist]], [[It's All About Me|self-centered]], [[Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence|intolerant]], [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulating]] [[The Sociopath|sociopath]].<br />

'''Token:''' Oh yeah. }}