History Main / IJustWanttoHaveFriends

* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'': According to her character bio, Saki Yoshida doesn't have any dreams, but she just wants friends. Unfortunately, her efforts only end up with her being both ostracized and abused by her classmates once her attempt at CompensatedDating becomes known, and she ends up getting involved with people who do '''not''' have her best interests in mind, and gradually descends into drug abuse and prostitution.

* Many characters from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (in fact, the moral of the show is arguable that the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE falls into this category), but particularly emotionally troubled, socially awkward, and manically depressed protagonist Shinji Ikari.

* In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', Skippy Squirrel secretly feels lonely having only his aunt Slappy for company and wishes to have friends his own age. [[spoiler:His wish is granted with everyone else's when he gets some friends (and a potential girlfriend) when spring comes around.]]

Sometimes fictional characters do not so easily get friends handed to them with the plot. They are lonely from the start and desperately looking to make and keep friends. The reasons for their loneliness may vary but, in the end, a character who really wants friends may either try to go about it in the wrong way, make friends with the wrong people, or secretly angst about it behind a [[StepfordSmiler different facade]]. If they end up successful more often than not these fictional characters will turn out to have been [[BeautifulAllAlong sociable all along]], especially for {{Shrinking Violet}}s, nerds, {{Cool Loser}}s, etc.

* ''Literature/TheInstitute'': Although Avery Dixon is an unwilling lab rat, he can't help but see the upside of his experience in the Institute, the friendships he's made with the other kids. [[spoiler:His last thought before he sacrifices himself to aid their escape is "I loved having friends"]].

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Naminé's entire characterization is this. Unlike other [[TheSoulless nobodies]], Naminé was born not in Twilight Town, but in Castle Oblivion, before no other people; even having [[DiscOneFinalBoss Xemnas]] greet you after you were born is preferable. Shortly after she came into existence, Organization XIII arrived and, realizing her priceless memory-manipulating powers, basically forced her prisoner to modify the memories of the people who next visit the castle: Sora and the gang. After Sora frees her from them, she's willing to take any job from [[AntiHero DiZ]], however selfish it is. Plus, aside from her few outdoor scenes, Naminé is always seen in [[AsceticAesthetic a lonely, completely-white room]] with a large table, chairs, pencils, and drawing papers. [[RoomFullOfCrazy Her finished drawings, which always depict other people, sometimes decorate the walls.]][[note]]Well, [[https://www.khwiki.com/images/9/92/The_Lonely_Witch_01_KHRECOM.png almost]] [[https://i.imgur.com/AOX2Qi5.png always.]][[/note]] Think about that for a second. Lastly, Naminé never forms a bond with other characters [[spoiler: in her entire existence]]. The closest she had to a friendship is with Sora, who [[spoiler: subsequently forgets her (and everyone else in Castle Oblivion) after his memories are restored.]] It's probably why during the prologue of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', she tries her hardest to reach Roxas without getting caught; she doesn't want to just inform him about [[spoiler: the virtual world]], but to befriend him as well. Finally, when she's finally freed from having to form unhealthy relationship with anyone, [[spoiler: she has to be absorbed to make Kairi whole.]]

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Naminé's entire characterization is this. Unlike other [[TheSoulless nobodies]], Naminé was born not in Twilight Town, but in Castle Oblivion, before no other people; even having [[DiscOneFinalBoss Xemnas]] greet you after you were born is preferable. Shortly after she came into existence, Organization XIII arrived and, realizing her priceless memory-manipulating powers, basically forced her prisoner to modify the memories of the people who next visit the castle: Sora and the gang. After Sora frees her from them, she's willing to take any job from [[AntiHero DiZ]], however selfish it is. Plus, aside from her few outdoor scenes, Naminé is always seen in [[AsceticAesthetic a lonely, completely-white room]] with a large table, chair'''s''', pencils, and drawing papers. [[RoomFullOfCrazy Her finished drawings, which always depict other people , sometime decorate the walls.]][[note]]Well, [[https://www.khwiki.com/images/9/92/The_Lonely_Witch_01_KHRECOM.png almost]] [[https://i.imgur.com/AOX2Qi5.png always.]][[/note]] Think about that for a second. Lastly, Naminé never forms a bond with other characters [[spoiler: in her entire existence]]. The closest she had to a friendship is with Sora, who [[spoiler: subsequently forgets her (and everyone else in Castle Oblivion) after his memories are restored.]] It's probably why during the prologue of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', she tries her hardest to reach Roxas without getting caught; she doesn't want to just inform him about [[spoiler: the virtual world]], but to befriend him as well. Finally, when she's finally freed from having to form unhealthy relationship with anyone, [[spoiler: she has to be absorbed to make Kairi whole.]]

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Naminé's entire characterization is this. Unlike other [[EmptyShell nobodies]], Naminé was born not in Twilight Town, but in Castle Oblivion, before no other people; even having [[DiscOneFinalBoss Xemnas]] greet you after you were born is preferable. Shortly after she came into existence, Organization XIII arrived and, realizing her priceless memory-manipulating powers, basically forced her prisoner to modify the memories of the people who next visit the castle: Sora and the gang. After Sora frees her from them, she's willing to take any job from [[AntiHero DiZ]], however selfish it is. Plus, aside from her few outdoor scenes, Naminé is always seen in [[AsceticAesthetic a lonely, completely-white room]] with a large table, chair'''s''', pencils, and drawing papers. [[RoomFullOfCrazy Her finished drawings, which always depict other people, sometime decorate the walls]]. Think about that for a second. Lastly, Naminé never forms a bond with other characters [[spoiler: in her entire existence]]. The closest she had to a friendship is with Sora, who [[spoiler: subsequently forgets her (and everyone else in Castle Oblivion) after his memories are restored.]] It's probably why during the prologue of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', she tries her hardest to reach Roxas without getting caught; she doesn't want to just inform him about [[spoiler: the virtual world]], but to befriend him as well. Finally, when she's finally freed from having to form unhealthy relationship with anyone, [[spoiler: she has to be absorbed to make Kairi whole.]]

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': One of Dr. Clef's lecture on RealityWarpers notes that while adults and teenagers usually use their mind-control powers for sex, children use them to make people be their friends.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fulfills this wish. Despite not lifting a finger to gain friends, Bella being the [[AudienceSurrogate audience avatar]] gets friends in high school remarkably easy. Even when she forgets her {{Muggle}} friends for Edward Cullen or Jacob Black (ignoring them for months in ''Literature/NewMoon'') these friends are always there for her regardless. Both the Cullens and the werewolves look out for her despite the risk she brought to them. They happily accept her in their group of TrueCompanions as a friend without an effort on her part despite the fact that both factions are normally not very open to [[{{Muggle}} average humans]].

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* Close friendships are something both Bloom and Aisha canonically [[FriendlessBackground longed for]] before meeting the other [[TrueCompanions Winx girls]]. In ''Fanfic/YouWereMyBestFriend'', this desire is given a (positive) twist in the form of allowing the two girls to befriend each other long before the events of canon by means of Bloom's canonical [[DimensionalTraveler dimension-traveling powers]] -- just with the requirement of dancing to get there.
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* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', this is a main driving point behind Faith's actions. She really wants to be friends with Buffy but it never really happens. Then they do start becoming friends and she accidentally kills a man and pretends not to care, destroying the friendship they had been building. The comics touch on this, with her angsting over how she pushes away anyone who is the least bit decent to her.

* In the "Reverend Jim, A Space Odyssey" episode from ''Series/{{Taxi}}'', it's clear that Jim, a burned-out hippie, is desperate to find one, so the rest of the cabbies decide to turn him into a taxi driver too. Needless to say, this also changed the show in many aspects.

* {{Subverted}} by most {{First Person Shooter}}s as you almost always end as a OneManArmy Lone Wolf. 90% of the time you do have people helping you, they're [[RedShirtArmy generic soldiers that die just as easily as your enemies]]. For a glorious exploration to this approach, see ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''.
** Among the rare exceptions to this is [[CompetitiveMultiplayer team-objective gameplay]], such as {{Capture the Flag}} and Conquest/Domination/etc. Unlike Team Deathmatch, which encourages individual killstreaks, team-objective matches encourage players on the same team to communicate and work together to capture or defend a centralized objective. Examples include ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'', and ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims''. Don't have cool friends? Make Sims.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. Believe it or not, some people are just in it for the social activities ('I just want to feel useful in the raid'), even if the game is one of the [[InternetJerk least conducive place]] to do so.

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* Noriaki Kakyoin, from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is this in ''spades''. His entire motivation to join the Crusaders stems from both his desperation to make friends, with that group of Stand users being [[FriendlessBackground the first friends he'd have in his life]], and a deep feeling of self-loathing, because, in his urge to make connections with a Stand user, he sucked up to [[BigBad DIO]] — a kind of attitude he despises.

* Eddie Bloomberg aka Kid Devil had very few friends his age throughout his early history, the closest people being his aunt Marla and the hero Blue Devil. His later efforts to gain super powers and joining the Teen Titans were partly from IJustWantToBeSpecial, but also because he desperately needed some kind of family unit. When he fears he's losing his friends, he ends up inviting fans of his over to the tower, which ends up in disaster and causes him to become even more alienated. This is used against Eddie by Clock King when he brainwashes him into a violent monster, and Miss Martian has to remind him that he does have friends in order to bring him back to sanity.

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* At the beginning of the 2000 remake of ''Film/{{Bedazzled|2000}}'', Elliot's blatant desire for friends is made painfully obvious, to the point where everyone actively avoids his ham-fisted efforts.

* ''Literature/AngelaNicely'': “Problems, Problems!” introduces Molly, a new girl who is too shy to make friends and wants to know how to make some.
* The main four characters of the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series, although three of them would probably hate to admit it. They all come from a FriendlessBackground. Sandry is very cheerful and friendly, but her family constantly travelling made it difficult to form permanent relationships. Then almost all of her family was killed in a plague. Daja also probably had friends on her trader ship, but then everyone died in a storm and she was made an outcast from her society for being bad luck. Tris is naturally cranky and a jerk, and magical powers which made her seem like a possessed demon didn't help her. Finally, Briar Moss was a street rat who didn't seem to have very close friends. When they're all forced into a house together they do ''not'' get along very well, and only Sandry tries tries to make peace. Eventually through months of CharacterDevelopment they become TrueCompanions. (Although, [[spoiler: Sandry magically tying their magic together so they became psychically linked probably helped, too.]])

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries'': In "Literature/TheMule", The Mule tells Bayta Darell that he went through his entire childhood and adolescence without anyone ever liking him "naturally" (as opposed to being forced to do so by his psychic powers). Not until he's well into his twenties does he meet Bayta, who has genuine affection for him. He's so overwhelmed by the feeling of just being liked that he inadvertently, carelessly, lets her ruin his plans for conquering the Second Foundation.
* In Creator/VictoriaForester's ''Literature/TheGirlWhoCouldFly'', Piper's dream at the Fourth of July picnic. A brief moment of CommonalityConnection is broken by her previous isolation and the stories that are told about her.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'':

** Luna Lovegood painted the main gang as her friends on her bedroom ceiling. This demonstrates how lonely she must have been before meeting them, considering she and the gang weren't particularly close. By the time she painted Harry & Co., it's arguable that she actually was that close to at least some of them. She often supports Harry when no one else will, and she seems to spend a lot of time with Ginny. The evidence placing her in this trope comes sooner than this, in ''Half-Blood Prince'' when she says of the DA meetings, "It was like having friends".
** According to WordOfGod, Snape hung out with the Death Eater Jr. gang and went on to join Voldemort with them partly because of this trope.
*** As noted below, this is an accurate representation of how cults and terrorist organizations recruit.
** Also, similar to Snape, Quirinus Quirrell went in search of Voldemort (maybe to defeat him in his weakened state) because people constantly laughed at him and teased him so he wanted to do something amazing to show them up.

** Dumbledore was one in his youth, making friends (and falling in love with) with Grindewald due to the stress of having to care for his younger siblings, even falling into Grindewald's mage supremacy ideas. Unfortunately, it culminated in a three-way fight between Dumbledore, Grindewald, and Dumbledore's brother Aberforth that killed their sister. dumbledore carried his guilt for the rest of his life.

* ''Literature/{{Wind on Fire}}:'' Mumpo spends much of the first book, The Wind Singer, friendless and shunned by both his peers and the rest of society. He wants desperately to have friends and becomes infatuated with Kestrel simply because she speaks to him. Even when she is outright hostile to him he clings to the hope of friendship.
* In keeping with the Brontë sisters, there are some hints at the beginning of ''Literature/WutheringHeights'' that Heathcliff has this attitude towards Mr. Lockwood. While his attitude towards the latter can hardly be described as pleasant and charming, the opening of the book takes place towards the end of Heathcliff's life (much of the story is recounting HowWeGotHere), and his inept attempts at providing hospitality towards Lockwood offer some suggestions that, after living a life of hatred, bitterness and spite, he is trying to form some kind of connection after finally meeting someone who knows nothing of his past and doesn't hate him on sight (or vice versa).
* Rachel from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' wants to have friends, but her superpowers have overwritten her social instincts with canine ones and she tends to brutalize anyone who gets near her as a reflexive defense mechanism due to spending years on the run. It isn't until [[VillainProtagonist Taylor]], who is similarly friendless, comes along that Rachel actually gets a friend, because Taylor actually puts in the effort to get to know her and refuses to back down.

* Hector, protagonist of ''Literature/TheZombieKnight''. Combined with his [[ShrinkingViolet crippling shyness]], it has caused him [[{{Angst}} considerable difficulty]], [[spoiler: culminating in his suicide prior to the start of the story]].
* The UrExample might well be ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', where the god-king Gilgamesh spends his days oppressing his people and raping their wives, so the gods create Enkidu specifically for him to have an equal and turn his energies to worthier pursuits. It works for a while, but when Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh goes off the deep end for a while.

* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': The Season 4 episode "Today I Am A Freshman", where Marcia hastily signs up for every school club in (a misguided) effort to make new friends. (Most of the friends she had in junior high, as it turned out, lived in another high school district.) She ends up nearly joining a group called the Boosters, purportedly a pep club to support the class leaders and athletes but in reality a group that adheres to strict social codes and a closed group of friends, but after an accident involving Peter's volcano, she finally realizes her values aren't the same as those of the Booster club members.
* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', this is Jonathan in ''spades''. He starts off as a depressed loner trying to commit suicide, then he creates a spell which makes him a talented superstar that everybody loves. After that fails, he teams up with Warren and Andrew, the only friends he's ever really had, before being promptly murdered by the latter. Poor guy just can't catch a break.

* Series/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency: Dirk has spent much of his life alone due to his [[WeirdnessMagnet abilities]] scaring everyone away. As a result, he clings ''desperately'' to anybody actually willing to stick around.

* ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'': Both the radio series and 1950s television show had an episode "The Big Church," where a young woman reports to police she's been getting lewd letters from an unknown person and wants it stopped. It's really a cry for help: When detectives Friday and Smith are unable to find the dirty old coot who might have sent the letters and in the meantime find inconsistencies with her story, the woman eventually admits she wrote the letters and sent them to herself ... nobody wants to be friends with her at the church and she's afraid of becoming an old maid, it seems.

* In ''Series/{{Glee}}'' Rachel Berry, mostly in the second half of Season 1 onwards. And each attempt goes horribly, ''horribly'' wrong. Improves in the second half of Season 2 with her friendship with Kurt, Mercedes, and Blaine.
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* In "Keep Your Friends Close" from ''Series/TheInsideMan'', Mark Shepherd tells the Handler that he's out, that he wants a normal life, to have friends. The Handler snarks that it's touching, that he sounds like the emotionally supportive father he never had. He then says that people like the two of them don't have friends, that they have targets.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Several episodes:
** The 2002 episode "Juvenile" focuses on an impressionable 14-year-old boy, Jeremy Brice, who is implied to: 1. Be socially awkward; and 2. Have trouble making (and keeping) friends, and good ones at that. His decision to befriend a troublemaker named Zachary Connor, leads to a burglary incident where Zachary (the dominant member of the duo) assaulting the woman resident and raping her, and Zachary duping Jeremy into assisting her. In the end, it ends up costing Jeremy dearly: A second-degree murder and first-degree burglary conviction and 15 years in prison (with the possibility of parole after eight years). Attorneys Cabot and Donnelly sadly bemoan afterwards that Jeremy's life is basically over ... all due to a few bad decisions, among other things.
* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': Charles Xavier is so desperate to befriend other mutants that when he finds one in Morocco with [[PsychicRadar Cerebro]] (which he designed and assembled with his own hands in order to search for mutants globally), he travels halfway across the world just to meet a fellow telepath. He even ignores how [[QuakingWithFear afraid]] he was when he first sensed Amahl Farouk's mind, which should've been a warning to Charles that Farouk is extremely dangerous. Creator/HarryLloyd [[https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/legion-cements-charles-xavier-and-gabrielles-tragic-love-story-and-davids-doomed-fate clarifies]] on the loneliness that his character feels:
-->'''Lloyd''': He always imagined himself as a freak. This guy has this telepathic ability. And it's raw and I use it for good as much as possible, but I keep a lid on it and it's local. To then find someone else who has exactly the same thing to feel that you're part of a breed. There is some horror or something dark connected to it. But he goes out looking for a friend or a brother. He actually, only then, is honest about quite how alone he's been his whole life. Even now married and with a child. And as soon as he finds a connection on that level, which I think he resigned himself to never having, he has to explore it.

* ''[[Series/OneDayAtATime1975 One Day At a Time]]'': In a 1977 episode, "Barbara's Friend" -- a deeply troubled, insecure girl named Melanie, who has trouble making and keeping friends -- is too pushy and clingy, and eventually Barbara tells her (not so nicely, and in a "gee, I wonder why" sort of way) to go away and leave her the hell alone. That night, just as Barbara is making final preparations to go to a rock concert with her boyfriend, Melanie calls ... revealing that she has ingested sleeping pills and plans to never wake up. In the end, Barbara saves Melanie's life and helps her get professional counseling.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer Sherlock]] and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife John]] were this. Sherlock's [[InSufferableGenius a rude, unpleasant, obnoxious arsehole]] and John's a [[ShrinkingViolet shy]], [[TheQuietOne quiet,]] [[NiceGuy nice]] [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife depressed war-veteran looking for a purpose in life.]] [[TearJerker Dang.]]
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' while Lex Luthor genuinely wants to trust people, his position in power plus the fact that he tends to be overprotective leads to him losing the few friends he has, making him fall into this. Tess Mercer too , according to her actress Cassidy Fremman: http://www.kryptonsite.com/season10-cassidyfreeman.htm
* ''Series/{{Taxi}}'': Louie [=DePalma=] earnestly tries to make everybody think that he [[IWorkAlone feels good alone]], but in many occasions its demonstrated that he needs to belong to some group, specially after [[FriendlessBackground not having a single friend during]] [[FreudianExcuse his high school years]]. Subverted with the fact that Reverend Jim considers him his "best friend".
* On ''Series/TeenWolf'', Boyd accepts the bite when Derek offers it because he's tired of not having any friends, and becoming a part of Derek's pack means that he won't have to be alone anymore.
* On ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'', Misty Quigley desperately wants to have friends and be liked and wanted. However, the fact that she's absolutely nuts, [[TheUnfettered has few lines she won't cross]] and does stuff like spying on said "friends" and claiming it's for their own benefit, assures that she will always be TheFriendNobodyLikes at best.

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* On ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', Daniel Tiger has a fairly large circle of friends. Even so, his main concern regarding the new neighbors early in ''The Daniel Tiger Movie: Won't You Be Our Neighbor?'' as expressed in song is "''Will our new neighbors have a friend for me?''"
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''

* The premise of the WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoon "Little Gravel Voice"; the protagonist is a cute, friendly little donkey -- who unfortunately suffers from having a bray so dreadfully obnoxious, that it scares away all the other animals he tries to make friends with. Ironically, his bray ends up harming and scaring away a hungry wolf, which earns him the friendship of the other animals—once they tie up his snout with his ears, of course.

-->The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question ''Do you see the same truth?'' would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend", no Friendship can arise—[[TheFourLoves though Affection of course may]]. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be ''about''; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

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* ''Series/{{Community}}'' explores this through its [[DysfunctionJunction various damaged characters]], all of whom fit this trope to a certain extent. Pierce has given up on having friends and acts aggressive, rude, and [[RacistGrandpa racist]] to cover up his loneliness; Jeff has hidden himself beneath layers of {{Hipster}}-y irony and detachment so that he won't be hurt by rejection (which goes back to [[FreudianExcuse various childhood traumas]]); Abed [[AmbiguousDisorder can't connect]] with other people except [[MetaGuy through pop culture]] but desperately wants to; Britta tries to make herself look [[WomenAreWiser smarter than everyone else]] so they'll respect her; the list goes on. It takes a good chunk of the first season for them to open up to each other. It's somehow all still hilarious.

* Emmet in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''. He's shown to be trying to connect with all of his neighbors and co-workers, and he's constantly eager to receive some sort of acknowledgement. He undergoes a HeroicBSOD when Bad Cop shows him video of the same neighbors and co-workers describing him as a mere acquaintance, unimportant, and in some cases [[MyNameIsNotDurwood not even remembering his name]].

* ''[[Film/EighthGrade Eighth Grade's]]'' [[ShinkingViolet mild-mannered protagonist]], Kayla, [[FriendlessBackground starts the film with no friends]] and writes a list of her aspirations, half of which are variations on wanting to have friends. She engages in really awkward, failed approaches to the popular kids but thankfully manages to get one friend (dorkier than she is) by the end of the film.

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* Shizuo Heiwajima from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' admits that he craves any sort of social interaction, but is ''terrified'' of exposing innocent people to his HairTriggerTemper and hurting them. Things start looking up for him from Volume 4 onwards when he starts getting some control over his rage issues (he manages to get through a small party without losing his temper, develop a couple {{Intergenerational Friendship}}s, and [[spoiler:go on something resembling a normal date with a girl -- even if said girl is a bit AxeCrazy, [[InLoveWithYourCarnage In Love With His Carnage]], and secretly plotting his murder]]), but he still has a long way to go.

* The very plot of ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'' and as the title name suggests, all the characters in the story have trouble making friends, so the heroine Yozora started a club for these kind of people.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', this is implied with Tyler. He is determined to have everyone come to his party, and [[spoiler:in the end, doesn't seem to be against joining Mei's friend group despite seeing them as "weirdos" earlier in the movie]].

* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'': [[NiceGuy PJ.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has Jeff the Spider and Nergal.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Candace in one episode believed her friends are ignoring her and she falls into this trope, replacing them and becoming the queen of Mars -- ItMakesSenseInContext. [[spoiler:At the end it turns out they weren't ignoring her (except some Dude, but Candace doesn't know him), so she gets back with her friends ]]. In another episode, she turned out to be a loner: She had an argument with Stacy, so she tried to call another friend. The problem was, the only contacts in her phonebook apart from Stacy were Candace's boyfriend, her mum. [[PeaceLovingHippie Jenny]] and [[OddNameOut Buford]], though she quickly deletes him.