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* Suzaku Kururugi from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' fits this for the majority of the first season. Then his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder starts acting up.

* Lark from ''Webcomic/{{Crepuscule}}'' was bullied by his peers when he was five for having red eyes which were supposedly signs of being a vampire.

* ''Manhua/RetiredHeroes'': Tifa gets ostracized a bit due to being the daughter of a demon, but not too much. It helps that the mayor's daughter has declared her TheRival, and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou refuses to let anyone else look down on her]].

* ''Anime/KazeNoShojoEmily'': At first, everyone at Blair Waters excludes Emily for being a Murray clan, even though she disavows them and considers herself a Starr. However, they eventually warm up to her when they realize that she's someone else under the surface.

* TheBusCameBack: Returns to the story two years after his son's death in order to investigate Kowase's disappearance [[spoiler: and Shikimi's.]]

* ''Manga/BigWindup'': The protagonist Mihashi Ren was bullied at his former middle school due to his old teammates believing that he was made the ace through favoritism, because his family owns the school. The bullying, combined with his naturally sensitive and sorta [[NervousWreck jumpy]] personality left him with crippling anxiety, extreme self-confidence issues and a [[GuiltComplex guilt complex]] on top of it. He gets better in high school though.

** Sajin Komamura was treated like a monster due to being a [[CanisMajor huge anthropomorphic canine]]. His loyalty to Yamamoto stems from Yamamoto being the first person to have ever looked past his appearance to see the true man beneath. When Kenpachi destroyed the helmet he wore to hide his features, the reaction from others was relief that he was no longer hiding himself because they'd felt the helmet made him seem shifty and now they could trust him because he was being open about himself. No-one cared about his actual features.

* Makino Tsukushi of ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'' saves the trio of obnoxious popular girls that bully her multiple times (often from her vengeful boyfriend), but they continue to attempt to torment her throughout the series.
** Tsukishi also saved Sakurako after the girl when to great lengths to torment her [[spoiler: because she wanted Tsukasa, who was then interested in Tsukushi, to find her attractive after he called her ugly as a child]]. They became sort-of friends after that.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDinosaur'' have Nobita obtaining a life dinosaur in the present, specifically, a ''futubasaurus'' which he named Piisuke, but when the public catches news of Piisuke's existence, Nobita and Doraemon have to send Piisuke back to the Cretaceous era. Due to a mix-up, they unfortunately sent Piisuke to the American Cretaceous time-zone instead of the Japanese one, leading to Piisuke getting ostracized, bullied and repeatedly picked on by the American Elasmosaurus species, which Nobita and Doraemon didn't find out until a few weeks later after trying to observe Piisuke through the time-television. Cue Nobita, Doraemon and their friends quickly boarding the TimeMachine in Nobita's desk to collect Piisuke and send him back to Japan.

** On the heroic side there was Zenitsu during his childhood as a homeless orphan who just tagged along equally destitute children like him, they didn't like Zenitsu's apparent coward nature and crybaby behavior, he was often abandoned by other kids who labeled him as completely worthless, however, as a teenager Zenitsu was taken in by a elderly sword master who paved the way for Zenitsu to come out of his shell, slowly but surely growing into a great demon slayer.
** On the villainous side there was [[spoiler:Gyutaro's past as a human, the son of a low ranked prostitute, living in extreme poverty his mother hated the fact she had to earn her keep and feed a son while at it, so she vented her frustrations by relentlessly beating Gyutaro up. In the poor area Gyutaro lived in, he was constantly bullied for his ugly appearance, odd voice and poor grooming; life was just constant hell for him, no one loved him; when tragedy struck with sister Ume being burned alive for retaliating against a Samurai, Gyutaro just lost his mind at no one in the world ever showing him and his sister any kindness, when the opportunity to become a demon knocked to save Ume's life, Gyutaro took it without thinking twice; both siblings became terrible evil demons ever since, hating the world itself for casting them out as humans]].

** Larhalt was rejected for [[HumanDemonHybrid his part-demon heritage]] (his mother was a regular human, while his father was a demon [[DisappearedDad that died shortly after Larhalt's birth]]), and even his mother herself was targeted for having been with a demon. It resulted with her dying from an illness and Larhalt himself harboring a dislike for the humans.[[note]] At the same time, this allowed Baran, who adopted Larhalt after his mother's death, to relate to him.[[/note]]
* As a child, Lucy of ''Manga/ElfenLied'' was mercilessly teased by the other kids in the orphanage for her emotionless demeanor and her horns. The final straw is when [[spoiler:they take the puppy she'd been caring for and [[ForcedToWatch force her to watch]] while they beat it to death, just to get some kind of reaction out of her. She snaps and tears apart everyone in the room with her newly-awakened powers]]. Later, thinking she has been betrayed by Kouta, she goes on a massive slaughter rampage.

* ''Manga/FlameOfRecca''. In attempt to "save" the clan, after almost being murdered at age 4, Kurei was ostracized and ridiculed along with his mother for being the wielder of a [[BadPowersBadPeople cursed flame]] which was said to bring ruin to the Hokage ninja clan. As it turns out, Kurei is actually the holder of the rarest and most sacred fire that the clan can produce.

** Megumi Tadokoro. Initially ridiculed because of her poor grades and submissive attitude, she's considered a bit of a laughingstock. During training camp she makes a good impression with the instructors, allowing her to participate in the Elections. Though her schoolmates are initially baffled at her inclusion, they eventually catch her a break after her match in the quarterfinals even though she's defeated soundly by Ryou.

** It's flat-out stated that the spirit of the Cat exists for this. Whoever is possessed by the Cat is looked-down-on and shunned by the rest of the Zodiac, partly just so the other cursed members can feel their own lives aren't so bad.

* ''Manga/GakuenAlice'': Mikan is abused by classmates, teachers and her once-best friend. This may be different in the manga, but at least the best-friend abuse lasted for five seconds... Unless she feels Mikan is acting stupid or wants her to stop being sad, Hotaru is the first to jump to Mikan's defense. And the classmates and at least two teachers warms up to her pretty quickly too.

* ''Manga/TheGreatSnakesBride'': The protagonist Miyo and her family are pariahs in their village because Miyo's father is thought to have committed a murder and killed himself the day after being accused. Miyo was bullied a lot as a child because of this, and it led to the decision of offering her to the giant snake inhabiting the nearby mountain as a sacrifice.

* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gundam 0083]]'': Cima Garahau combines this with ButtMonkey for her backstory. She was tricked into killing the population of a space colony with poison gas, then her commanding officer foisted all the blame off on her to save his own hide. Because of this, she unfairly gained a reputation as a bloodthirsty psychopath, and the only people willing to work with her were soldiers from her home colony. Then near the end of the war, their colony is turned into a {{BFG}}, and that same commanding officer lost/never bothered recording the paperwork to show where the colonists were relocated, meaning Cima and her people have no idea where their families are. And then when Zeon lost the war and most of their forces retreated to the asteroid belt, Cima and her men were denied passage because of the gassing incident, forced to spend years eking out an existence and ducking TheFederation. [[spoiler:Is it any wonder she turns on the Zeons late in the series?]]

** Not even humans are safe from mistreatment. Before she started traveling with Sesshomaru, Rin lived as a ward in her hometown and was treated like crap by the people there. We're actually shown a scene of them beating her black-and-blue for stealing a fish.
* One of the main themes in ''Manga/IrisZero'', where 99% of kids are born with a power called an "Iris" that allows them to see things others don't. Kids without Irises, called [[TitleDrop Iris Zeros]], are bullied and discriminated against. Complicating things, kids only started being born with Irises about 27 years before the series start. So, [[AdultsAreUseless none of the adults understand the kids and their Irises, and therefore aren't making much of an effort to protect Iris Zeros from bullying.]] It's so bad that Toru, an Iris Zero, has a policy of "low exposure"-meaning he attempts not to stand out so no one will decide to beat him up after school.

** Junpei Yoshino, the teen who Yuuji befriended, was constantly getting harrassed or bullied in his past life, especially with the three people who died a CruelAndUnusualDeath in Chapter 18.

* In ''Manga/KemonoJihen'', Kabane has always been ostracized from his peers due to the strange smell he gives off. His EvilAunt uses him for nothing but menial labor and refuses to send him to school. All of the townsfolk actively shun and belittle him day-in and day-out. This is about as damaging to his psyche as one can imagine and he's baffled with Inugami treats him kindly.

* A {{subverted|trope}} example occurs with Izuku Midoriya in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. At the beginning of the series, his fellow classmates regularly mock Midoriya for his dreams of becoming a superhero even though he's a [[UnSorcerer Quirkless]] student, to the point that they call him [[MaliciousMisnaming "Deku"]] to emphasize his worthlessness and uselessness in a [[EveryoneIsASuper society filled with superpowers.]] However, after he receives training One For All and gets into U.A., his powerful new Quirk and heroic traits quickly earn him the admiration and respect of virtually everyone in class, to the point that he's initially elected ClassRepresentative.

** Chouji Akimichi being shunned for being fat, until Shikamaru Nara stands up for him and later he gets in the Ino-Shika-Chou trio.

** Never ever more literally than Tony Tony Chopper, who is an actual ''reindeer''. Even when he didn't have devil fruit powers, he was still picked on for having a blue nose, and when he ''did'' eat the devil fruit, he was violently thrown out of the herd. When he ate the Devil Fruit that granted him sapience and ability to turn into a human he was overjoyed that he may finally find a home... But to humans he looked like a scary yeti and they drove him away too. It would take a long time for him to find friends who accepted him; first Hiriluk, then Dr. Kureha, and finally the Straw Hats.

** Any relative of Montblanc Noland was met with ridicule and humiliation after he was labeled a pathetic liar, for years people kept berating Noland's family for actions, it got so bad that one of his descendants, Cricket, ran away from his family to forget about Noland's existence. However, when a grown-up Cricket eventually arrived on the island where Noland was called a liar, his crew immediately abandoned him once he revealed who he really was.

** As of the Totto Land Arc, Sanji was considered a pariah to his family. [[spoiler:He was born to the Vinsmoke family, whose warlike and Darwinistic principles is largely was supposed to become an [[LackOfEmpathy utterly remorseless]] {{Tykebomb}} like his older and younger quadruplet brothers after his father, [[EvilutionaryBiologist Vinsmoke Judge]], experimented on them in utero. Sora, Sanji's mother, tried to preserve her sons' humanity by taking a dangerous drug that undid genetic enhancements, but only managed to save Sanji and grew sickly until she died. Because Sanji was the only one who was physically weak compared to his enhanced siblings and still retained his compassion, he was deemed a "dud" and a disgrace to the family name, so Judge felt justified with letting Sanji's brothers bully him viciously and constantly while doing nothing to stop them. The only family members who loved Sanji for who he was were his older sister, Reiju, who took care of him every time he was beaten black and blue but only did it in secret out of fear of being abused as well, and Sora, who spent her last moments praising Sanji's compassion and encouraging his desire to cook. Eventually, after Judge [[DeathFakedForYou threw Sanji in the dungeons to let him rot there while lying that he died in a training accident]], Reiju secretly used her enhancements to free her brother and help him run away from home, but Sanji was so affected by his horrid childhood that he was shell-shocked to realize that he now had a true father figure in Zeff]].

** Vincent as well was made fun of by everyone due to his red eyes. Alice used to torment him as well, though Vincent probably bullied her more.

** Turned out Emerald was teased for being an orphaned dwarf who couldn't do much of anything without some help from rather friendly Pokémon. He got so sick of the teasing that he pushed away the Pokémon who helped him, and resolved to be more self-reliant. Not a bad philosophy, except that it alienated him from making any possible future friends he secretly wanted.

* [[ThisLoserIsYou Tsunayoshi "Tsuna" Sawada]] in ''Manga/Reborn2004'' is referred to as "No-Good Tsuna" by many of his classmates, and put down for his bad grades by his teachers in front of the classes regularly, as well as for his lack of social and athletic skills. Even when he's trying his hardest to change for the better, people still manage to dash his hopes flat like a pancake. Reborn his at home tutor also initially spends more time criticizing Tsuna than actually praising him, though he gets slightly nicer, but his taunting never does stop. Perhaps, though, he is doing it for Tsuna's sake to provoke him into doing something about the teasing. His own mother frequently belittles him even though she clearly cares for him, and she becomes nicer in the later volumes when Tsuna becomes less of a loser.

** [[spoiler:Otome]] got ''slightly'' redeemed because [[spoiler: she straightforwardly told Makoto [[WhatTheHellHero that he was an asshole]] and removed herself out of the picture, after learning about Sekai's possible pregnancy]]. [[KarmaHoudini No excuse for the rest, though.]]

** This is also shown in the episode where he and Wolfwood visit the flying city only to be hated by most of the inhabitants. They hated Vash because he brought Wolfwood with him (he didn't do it on purpose), and they hated Wolfwood because he was the first non-Vash outsider to visit in the better part of a century, and they were extremely xenophobic. The situation didn't change after the two of them fight off 2 of the Gung-Ho Guns and saved them all.

* ''Manga/XxxHolic'': Kimihiro Watanuki is insulted, bullied, ordered around and screwed over at every point. The fact that his "friends" do occasionally help him out of trouble (that he usually got into for their sake) is how we, the viewers, know that they care.
** Yuko might do this, but Himawari and Domeki don't. Himawari is always complimenting Watanuki on his cooking, or laughing over how he and Domeki relate. Domeki, for his part, is always willing to help Watanuki, but is a {{Deadpan Snarker}} and never lets Watanuki get in a sidewise crack at him. Other than from Yuko, Watanuki gets most of his abuse from the spirit world, though he always goes off the deep end complaining that Domeki is intruding on his and Himawari's private time. Should also be noted that even despite Yuko's incessant teasing of Watanuki, she does prove the care deeply about him.
** There is however, a pretty heavy implication that Watanuki grew up not having any friends. His ability to see things that are InvisibleToNormals led his classmates to think of him as a weirdo who told outlandish tales or freaked out over things that weren't there, no matter how real they actually were. The one time he ''does'' make a friend, it turns out he's a spirit boy who is on his way to passing on to the next world. Domeki, Himawari, and Yuko are the first solid group of friends Watanuki's had in his life.
*** To top it off, Watanuki also grew up alone, having been orphaned and deciding from a young age that he'd live in his own apartment so to not be a burden on others. The landlord of the property has supposedly watched out for him most his life but that's where it stops.

** Shiraishi was a downplayed example at the start of the series, as while she attracted the attention of some boys for her looks, no-one seemed to like her personality (except for the teachers because she was a model student).

** Noa became a victim of bullying a few days after she started high school, and she got even more unpopular when she became the ringleader of the trouble-making group of first year students.

* In ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'', Shino was stigmatized after she killed a robber with his own gun. Even her own mother abandoned her (albeit because the incident broke her to the point where she was no longer able to care for Shino than out of malice). It's indicated that after the Phantom Bullet arc, Shino's been making some friends at school.
* In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', Vash the Stampede is universally hated/feared/hunted by everyone. The best he can hope for is being asked to leave a town and the worst is to watch as those trying to kill him destroy yet another town/city and kill innocents. To make matters worse, his heart of gold causes him extreme guilt over these incidents, [[HurtingHero yet he still is always there to save them]].

* ''Manga/XxxHolic'' has Kimihiro Watanuki, who is insulted, bullied, ordered around and screwed over at every point. The fact that his "friends" do occasionally help him out of trouble (that he usually got into for their sake) is how we, the viewers, know that they care.

* In ''Anime/SwordArtOnline'', Shino was stigmatized after she killed a robber with his own gun. Even her own mother abandoned her (albeit because the incident broke her to the point where she was no longer able to care for Shino than out of malice). It's indicated that after the Phantom Bullet arc, Shino's been making some friends at school.

** The villagers of the Hidden Sand Village learned the consequences of [[BullyingADragon bullying a Jinchuuriki]] when Gaara, the 1-Tailed host, went AxCrazy from the isolation, forcing everyone, including skilled veteran ninja and his own siblings, to trend ''very'' carefully around him. [[spoiler:After Naruto beats some sense back into him, he eventually becomes the respected and beloved leader of the village that had previously feared and hated him]].
** According to Deidara, [[spoiler: the two Jinchuuriki Akatsuki captured before Gaara were pariahs in their villages, and no one tried to rescue them]]. The trend is downright turned on its head with [[spoiler:Killer Bee, the eight-tailed Jinchuuriki. Turns out he's an extremely beloved member of the Hidden Cloud Village, and when that village, particularly the Raikage and his own students, find out that he's been captured, they are ''[[ItsPersonal pissed]]'' (though their mood changes to sheer annoyance when they find out that Bee gave his would-be captors the slip and went off on an unauthorized vacation)]]. Though it's later revealed that [[spoiler:when he was a kid, even Bee's treatment fell under this, and it's only later that he becomes as respected as he is now]]. It's also implied that they searched for [[spoiler:Nii Yugito but never found the kidnappers in time to save her]].

** Ace was a bit of an odd case as this trope goes. [[spoiler: It turns out his dad was Gold Roger himself. When he was growing up, though, the world hated the guy and seemed to spend a lot of time badmouthing him and any children he might have had, never aware that such a child actually existed and was ''right there listening'', so Ace himself wasn't a specific target to them. Didn't stop Ace from taking it personally.]]

* Yuuta of ''Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'' got this treatment when his {{Chuunibyou}} gone too far in middle school, making him a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. After moving to high school, he treats this as OldShame.

* Frequently seen as part of the cast's DarkAndTroubledPast in ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''.
** Pretty little Sophia is bullied for her {{albin|osarefreaks}}ism until Katarina ({{accidental|hero}}ly) saves her.
** Years later, Katarina steps in again, though on purpose this time, and rescues the [[MageBornOfMuggles commoner]] Maria from being harassed by some obnoxious nobles. In this case, other characters actually think those bullies were being [[BullyingADragon incredibly stupid]] since in no more than two years Maria will have ''higher'' status than them due to [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership her outstanding magical talents]].
** In Katarina's previous life, her best friend Acchan is being seen as a [[LonersAreFreaks weirdo]] due to her [[NoSocialSkills inability to make friends]].

* Yuuta of ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'' got this treatment when his {{Chuunibyou}} gone too far in middle school, making him a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. After moving to high school, he treats this as OldShame.

* Frequently seen as part of the cast's DarkAndTroubledPast in ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom''.

* A {{subverted|trope}} example occurs with Izuku Midoriya in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. At the beginning of the series, his fellow classmates regularly mock Izuku for his dreams of becoming a superhero even though he's a [[UnSorcerer Quirkless]] student, to the point that they call him [[MaliciousMisnaming "Deku"]] to emphasize his worthlessness and uselessness in a [[EveryoneIsASuper society filled with superpowers.]] However, after he receives training One For All and gets into U.A., his powerful new Quirk and heroic traits quickly earn him the admiration and respect of virtually everyone in class, to the point that he's initially elected ClassRepresentative.

** Years later, Katarina steps in again, though on purpose this time, and rescues the [[MageBornOfMuggles commoner]] Maria from being harassed by some obnoxious nobles. In this case, other characters actually think those bullies were being [[BullyingADragon incredibly stupid]] since in no more than two years Maria will have ''higher'' status than them due to [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority her outstanding magical talents]].

* ''LightNovel/SkyWizardsAcademy'':

* Tamahome of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' reveals he was nicknamed "obake-chan" and tormented as a child because of the [[FacialMarkings mark]] on his forehead, which designates him as a Suzaku warrior (and hence somebody who will help save the entire kingdom).

* Mikan of ''Manga/GakuenAlice'' is abused by classmates, teachers and her once-best friend. This may be different in the manga, but at least the best-friend abuse lasted for five seconds... Unless she feels Mikan is acting stupid or wants her to stop being sad, Hotaru is the first to jump to Mikan's defense. And the classmates and at least two teachers warms up to her pretty quickly too.
* ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' has Yukinari Sasaki, who was often ridiculed and beaten up by girls all his life. That includes his best friend, Kirie. This is what causes him to [[AllergicToLove get hives whenever he is touched by a girl]].

** [[BullyMagnet Noboru]] as well. Anko and her friends' bullying of him was horrific enough to give her mother a VillainousBSOD. He does seem to have had at least one friend (Kikuchi), though Kikuchi didn't help prevent the bullying until Onizuka came along.
* Cima Garahau from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gundam 0083]]'' combines this with ButtMonkey for her backstory. She was tricked into killing the population of a space colony with poison gas, then her commanding officer foisted all the blame off on her to save his own hide. Because of this, she unfairly gained a reputation as a bloodthirsty psychopath, and the only people willing to work with her were soldiers from her home colony. Then near the end of the war, their colony is turned into a {{BFG}}, and that same commanding officer lost/never bothered recording the paperwork to show where the colonists were relocated, meaning Cima and her people have no idea where their families are. And then when Zeon lost the war and most of their forces retreated to the asteroid belt, Cima and her men were denied passage because of the gassing incident, forced to spend years eking out an existence and ducking TheFederation. [[spoiler:Is it any wonder she turns on the Zeons late in the series?]]
* [[spoiler:Reki]] from ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' was born with black wings due to being [[spoiler:sin-bound]]. This caused the other Haibane to ridicule her until she learned to [[HideYourOtherness dye her wings]].
* Ippo Makunouchi from ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'' used to be heavily bullied at school. In fact, he's introduced to boxing when MagnificentBastard Mamoru Takamura saves him from his most usual tormentor, the [[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]] Umezawa (who later [[CharacterDevelopment matures]], stops bullying Ippo and comes to befriend him).
* Juli in ''Manga/TheHeartOfThomas'' is TheUnfavourite in his family and [[spoiler: sexually harrassed]] at school due to his exotic dark looks inherited from his Greek father.

* This is a major problem for espers in ''Manga/PsychicSquad''. The BigBad went on the KillEmAll route years ago after being betrayed by his superior. Minamoto's job is to make sure the Children don't follow suit.

** Never ever more literally than Tony Tony Chopper, who is an actual ''reindeer''. Even when he didn't have devil fruit powers, he was still picked on for having a blue nose, and when he ''did'' eat the devil fruit, he was violently thrown out of the herd. When he ate the Devil Fruit that granted him sapience and ability to turn into a human he was overjoyed that he may finally find a home... But to humans he looked like a scary yeti and they drove him away too. Well, most of them.