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* In ''Fanfic/AvengersInfiniteWars'', when the Avengers are initially split up across the galaxy, Wanda arrives on Dathomir, where she befriends a clan of Nightsisters. After saving Dathomir from renegade clan Queen Zalem, Wanda is allowed to take part in meetings of the Coven Leaders despite not being a leader herself, officially attending as the representative of Mother Talzin and the clan that took her in.

* Surprisingly, Franchise/{{Batman}} never officially joined the Franchise/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}}, despite the fact that he is considered a part of their main trio along with Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/WonderWoman.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': [[TheRival Shadow the Hedgehog]] becomes one of these to Sonic after his HeelFaceTurn. Although he doesn't hang out with Sonic's group like Tails, Amy, and Knuckles and [[ReformedButNotTamed keeps more than a bit of his rivalry with Sonic intact]]; he can usually be counted on to be "[[IWasJustPassingThrough Just Passing Through]]" whenever Sonic really needs him.
%% ** Knuckles also qualifies for this, as he spends most of his time doting over the Master Emerald instead of tangling with Eggman.

** Though Yamato repeatedly states their intention to join the crew throughout the Onigashima Raid, at the conclusion of the Wano arc they decide to remain in Wano to ensure that it can defend itself from the World Government now that [[WorldsStrongestMan Kaido]] is out of the picture.

* In ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', mutant guest stars, with every right to be on the team, would appear every few episodes, but you'd have to pay for the additional voice acting and everything so they just kind of left and did their own thing.

* Iroha Isshiki and Komachi Hikigaya in LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected. They're not official members of the Service Club, and Iroha only shows up in season 2, but they're so vital to the Service Club's efforts they may as well be club members anyway, particularly Iroha as she gets ShipTease with main guy Hachiman. By the end of the series, Iroha and Komachi revive the Service Club and reunite Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui, making Iroha and Komachi official members at last.

* Wrestling/RicFlair was never officially a member of Wrestling/{{D Generation X}}, but he was TheMentor of Wrestling/ShawnMichaels and Wrestling/TripleH, so he still maintained a close relationship with them, and anyone hurting him was their personal BerserkButton.

* Iroha Isshiki and Komachi Hikigaya in MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected. They're not official members of the Service Club, and Iroha only shows up in season 2, but they're so vital to the Service Club's efforts they may as well be club members anyway, particularly Iroha as she gets ShipTease with main guy Hachiman. By the end of the series, Iroha and Komachi revive the Service Club and reunite Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui, making Iroha and Komachi official members at last.

* Iroha Isshiki and Komachi Hikigaya in MyTeenRomanticComedySnafu They're not official members of the Service Club, and Iroha only shows up in season 2, but they're so vital to the Service Club's efforts they may as well be club members anyway, particularly Iroha as she gets ShipTease with main guy Hachiman. By the end of the series, Iroha and Komachi revive the Service Club and reunite Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui, making Iroha and Komachi official members at last.

* Iroha Isshiki and Komachi Hikigaya in OreGairu. They're not official members of the Service Club, and Iroha only shows up in season 2, but they're so vital to the Service Club's efforts they may as well be club members anyway, particularly Iroha as she gets ShipTease with main guy Hachiman. By the end of the series, Iroha and Komachi revive the Service Club and reunite Hachiman, Yukino, and Yui, making Iroha and Komachi official members at last.

* The trope's title is dropped towards Darren in ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger''. He was already pretty tight with the girls before he and Ginger started dating.
--> "Darren's...an honorary BFF."
** Courtney too. She shows herself to be kind-hearted towards Ginger and demonstrates her loyalty in many episodes. One incident has her refer to the three of them as her "real friends".

* Pat Savage is this to Doc and his aides in the ''Franchise/DocSavage'' novels. She is always willing to help them, and would be a permanent member of the crew if Doc would allow her, but Doc consider his work too dangerous to allow his sole surviving family member to be involved regularly.

* Being two teams of TrueCompanions, ComicBook/{{Runaways}} and ComicBook/YoungAvengers take this UpToEleven in that each team treats the other one as whole like this.

* ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'': Starling is this to the StormHawks. Aerrow refers to the team including her as the Storm Hawks Seven, and the team tries to get her to join permanently, but she declines for fear of attachment.

* Starling is this to the ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks''. Aerrow refers to the team including her as the Storm Hawks Seven, and the team tries to get her to join permanently, but she declines for fear of attachment.

** Both Shining Armor and Spike are this to the [[FanNickname Mane Six]]. They've [[BigDamnHeroes saved their friends]] several times each (and Spike has saved the day twice, but the two of them don't have Elements Of Harmony. Not that they don't try anyways: Shining Armor typically finds himself incapacitated early on by the threat and Spike is simply too young to regularly fight alongside his pals.

** Trafalgar Law forms an alliance with the Straw Hats and has essentially been promoted to the unofficial 10th member of their crew. For his part, Law was initially reluctant to treat their alliance as anything more than an EnemyMine situation, but he eventually came around to accept that Luffy sees him as a friend and return the sentiment (even if he will never admit it out loud). It's likely he won't join up since, similar to Jimbei, he has other responsibilities, namely his own ship and crew. Not that this matters much to [[{{Determinator}} Luffy]], of course.

* Tita Russell from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'', is this to the new Class VII in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'' where she accompanies them on a few occasions, but never stays in the party long. Then again, one of the students of new Class VII, Musse, is her roommate. In ''The 3rd'', Reis Argent is this in relation to the established Liberl cast. While she has no problem helping the group, she mainly acts as a close friend to Kevin, as the Gralsritter's squire and assistant to his mission. Kevin himself ultimately plays this role, despite his genuine friendship with much of the cast, alas the work of a [[ChurchMilitant Dominion]] is never finished.

** Starlight from Season 6 and on is an interesting case. Like Spike, she doesn't have an Element of Harmony and she lives with Twilight, but she's gotten more character focus than him since her addition to the show (especially in the "higher stakes" two-parter episodes) in a way which would be typical of many SixthRanger additions in most other media. However, when it comes to her relationship with the Mane Six, the show tends to keep them separate as [[TheFriendsWhoNeverHang she's seen hanging with them even less compared to him]]. Even though she lives in Twilight's castle, out of the main cast she mostly only runs with Twilight and Spike, usually only meeting the other Mane Six through Twilight or when she tags along as the Mane Six go on said two-parter adventures, but seeing her in a one-on-one with the primary cast in SliceOfLife stories is more rare (She has spent time with Pinkie Pie however, who is friends with ''everyone''). Although the show seems to make a distinction between her and the other Mane Cast, to compensate, her own focus episodes tend to follow her with her own set of friends instead. Season 8 addresses this by having Starlight Glimmer spending more time with the Mane Six outside of Twilight, with one episode having Starlight join the entire Mane Six on their special friendship retreat.

** Before them was Captain Jack Harkness, who travelled with the Ninth Doctor and Rose for a few adventures before being left behind. Once Jack and Ten worked their problems out, Jack was the Doctor's most consistently recurring ally on for the Tenth Doctor. He even led a team to help defend Earth against threats the Doctor couldn't (or didn't) show up for.
** Sarah Jane Smith was originally a full-fledged Companion of the Doctor, but became this during NuWho. Like Captain Jack, she protected Earth and had a few adventures with the Doctor. Due to her adoptive son Luke being only fourteen, she never rejoined the Doctor, but would always have his back.

** Before all of them, however, was Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, CMG, CBE, DSO. He lead UNIT in the 70's (or was it the 80's?) and fought alongside more incarnations of the Doctor than anybody else in the franchise's history. Their relationship could be rocky, but the Brigadier was just as determined as the Doctor to keep the Earth safe. Even when he was old, grey and retired, the Master considered him a big enough threat that he took countermeasures to ensure he couldn't interfere with his plans.

* During the final storyline of the ''Series/{{Smallville}}''/''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious crossover'' "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9472416/1/On-the-Run On the Run]]", [[spoiler:Chloe Sullivan basically becomes this to Dom's crew; Clark has been part of the team since he saved Letty from her near-death in the events of ''Film/FastAndFurious'' and Chloe apparently died back in Smallville, but once Clark learns that Chloe was left with amnesia and manipulated by Lex and Tess, he goes to great lengths to save her, and Dom makes it clear to Hobbs when he tries to arrest Chloe for her crimes with Tess's crew that his team consider Chloe family due to her ties to Clark and Brian (her cousin)]].

** Trafalgar Law forms an alliance with the Straw Hats and has essentially been promoted to the unofficial 10th member of their crew. For his part, Law was initially reluctant to treat their alliance as anything more than an EnemyMine situation, but he eventually came around to accept that Luffy sees him as a friend. It's likely he won't join up since, similar to Jimbei, he has other responsibilities, namely his own ship and crew. Not that this matters much to [[{{Determinator}} Luffy]], of course.