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** This page used to be called [[Renamed Tropes|The Freddy]] but it was changed because it was too generic.
*** And, of course, because the trope name was easily confused with [[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|the]] ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|other]]'' [[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|Freddy]]
* Tim of ''[[The Magic School Bus (Literature)|The Magic School Bus]]'', who had no distinctive personality traits at all, despite being surrounded by a classroom full of loud, quirky characters. He may have been intended as the [[Only Sane Man]], but because he was so uninteresting, he basically became a [[Living Prop]], and the other characters [[Sanity Ball|took turns as the Only Sane Man]] instead. Tim ''was'' the only black male in the cast, but he was [[Five
** He was the last character to be the protagonist of an episode, long after all the others had been the focus of several episodes apiece, very late in the show's run. The writers (and his long-suffering voice actor) tried their best to give Tim an actual personality, but to no avail.
* Along with being annoying and [[The Load|largely useless]], this is a major reason that the kids in ''[[Transformers (Franchise)|Transformers]]'' are generally [[The Scrappy|hated so much]]. They're generally dull and lacking in personality, ironically making them less human than ''the robots''.
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