* The final film in the Film/{{Blade}} trilogy, ''Blade: Trinity'', is a victim of this. Instead of the film focusing on Blade, a group of hunters get the most attention with Blade showing up, every-now-and-again. The film suffered a huge backlash by the fans because of this and Wesley Snipes even sued, claiming they were whitewashing him for his own film franchise.
** However, given the myriad of rumours that Wesley Snipes ''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement allegedly]]'' couldn't be bothered to show up on set most of the time, leaving his stunt double having to perform most of the filming in his place; if true, then it's not entirely surprising that Blade ultimately doesn't appear much?
* {{Discussed|Trope}} by the filmmakers of ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' in the case of Creator/JohnnyDepp, who took what was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen intended to be a secondary character]], went wild in the wardrobe department (without [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney's permission]]) and pulled focus on every opportunity. Elizabeth was the main protagonist, Will was originally supposed to be an ErrolFlynn-esque romantic hero with Jack Sparrow as the LoveableRogue, {{big brother|Mentor}} {{sidekick}} instead of the StraightMan to Depp's EnsembleDarkHorse AntiHero. In hindsight, of course, Depp was marketed as the star of the film.

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* The final film in the Film/{{Blade}} trilogy, ''Blade: Trinity'', is a victim of this. Instead of the film focusing on Blade, a group of hunters get the most attention with Blade showing up, every-now-and-again. The film suffered a huge backlash by the fans because of this and Wesley Snipes even sued, claiming they were whitewashing him for his own film franchise. However, given the myriad of rumours that Wesley Snipes ''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement allegedly]]'' couldn't be bothered to show up on set most of the time, leaving his stunt double having to perform most of the filming in his place; if true, then it's not entirely surprising that Blade ultimately doesn't appear much?
* {{Discussed|Trope}} by the filmmakers of ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' in the case of Creator/JohnnyDepp, who took what was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen intended to be a secondary character]], went wild in the wardrobe department (without [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney's permission]]) and pulled focus on every opportunity. Elizabeth was the main protagonist, Will was originally supposed to be an Creator/ErrolFlynn-esque romantic hero with Jack Sparrow as the LoveableRogue, {{big brother|Mentor}} {{sidekick}} instead of the StraightMan to Depp's EnsembleDarkHorse AntiHero. In hindsight, of course, Depp was marketed as the star of the film.

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** Hell, Cena's been stealing the spotlight from the WWE Championship for a while now. The first few months of the year it was understandable - he was headlining WrestleMania with ''Wrestling/TheRock'' in the latter's first 'Mania match in ''years''. After that, however, it was unjustifiable. He stole the spotlight from Wrestling/CMPunk, who is the ''WWE Champion'', at Extreme Rules, which took place in Punk's ''hometown of Chicago'', while Punk was in a nicely dubbed ''Chicago'' Street Fight with ArchEnemy Wrestling/ChrisJericho, all because he was in a match with ''Wrestling/BrockLesnar'', who doesn't have nearly as much star power as Wrestling/TheRock does. Then his match with ''Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis'' headlined Over The Limit over '''CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship'''. That last one is why Punk's fan base didn't diminish at all when he turned heel - when a match like ''that'' goes after you, even though you're the WWE Champion, you have a legitimate reason to be angry.

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** Hell, Cena's been stealing the spotlight from the WWE Championship for a while now. The first few months of the year it was understandable - he was headlining Wrestling/WrestleMania with ''Wrestling/TheRock'' in the latter's first 'Mania match in ''years''. After that, however, it was unjustifiable. He stole the spotlight from Wrestling/CMPunk, who is the ''WWE Champion'', at Extreme Rules, which took place in Punk's ''hometown of Chicago'', while Punk was in a nicely dubbed ''Chicago'' Street Fight with ArchEnemy Wrestling/ChrisJericho, all because he was in a match with ''Wrestling/BrockLesnar'', who doesn't have nearly as much star power as Wrestling/TheRock does. Then his match with ''Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis'' headlined Over The Limit over '''CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship'''. That last one is why Punk's fan base didn't diminish at all when he turned heel - when a match like ''that'' goes after you, even though you're the WWE Champion, you have a legitimate reason to be angry.

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** It the recent storylines have exploded in length. According to the once-kept stats page, Elliot and Grace are still far and above in the most strips and central characters in the most storylines, but you'd never know because you've spent the last four or so years in Tedd's living room and the girl's bathroom at school. And of course, out of those last four years, we've gotten [[ScheduleSlip eighteen month's worth of actual comic]].
** Now that the most recent Ellen/Nanase arc has ended, Dan has taken his fandom's advice and is keeping them very much in the background, focusing on the characters he's been neglecting. It helps that one of the most interesting parts of Nanase's character, her magic, [[spoiler:has been lost for a few months AND Elliot has enough to keep the fans happy]].
* While the author of ''WebComic/SkinDeep'' has stated that it was about ''everyone'' and not ''just'' Michelle, the recent comic arcs since 2009 have pretty much seemingly aborted the arc that was being built up in the comic's early days, since now it's pretty much randomness and transformation in England. However; as of late 2011, the focus has gone back to Michelle.

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** The storylines have exploded in length. According to the once-kept stats page, Elliot and Grace are still far and above in the most strips and central characters in the most storylines, but you'd never know because you've spent the last four or so years in Tedd's living room and the girl's bathroom at school. And of course, out of those last four years, we've gotten [[ScheduleSlip eighteen month's worth of actual comic]].
** Now that the Ellen/Nanase arc has ended, Dan has taken his fandom's advice and is keeping them very much in the background, focusing on the characters he's been neglecting. It helps that one of the most interesting parts of Nanase's character, her magic, [[spoiler:has been lost for a few months AND Elliot has enough to keep the fans happy]].
* While the author of ''WebComic/SkinDeep'' has stated that it was about ''everyone'' and not ''just'' Michelle, the comic arcs since 2009 have pretty much seemingly aborted the arc that was being built up in the comic's early days, since now it's pretty much randomness and transformation in England. However; as of late 2011, the focus has gone back to Michelle.

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16th May '13 2:04:28 PM MagBas

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Kyle is the main character, he can not steal the spotlight. About the others, they are characters without spotlight, not characters stealing the spotlight, Examples Are Not Arguable

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* ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny 2''. The focus was so fixed on Kyle and Reala that there's no special arc to develop other characters like Loni, Nanaly, Harold and Judas (even though he was [[spoiler:Leon Magnus, the prequel's EnsembleDarkHorse]]), making them, especially Loni and Nanaly, look almost like {{Flat Character}}s.
** Ironically, ''Tales of Eternia'', which was called ''Tales of Destiny II'' in North America also suffers from this, since Chat and Max play little more than support characters and are in fact borderline optional since their abilities come from sidequests.
*** Also in Tales of Eternia, Rassius appears to be important [[spoiler: and important enough for everyone to mourn his death and treat it as a major plot point.]] despite that the story put so much emphasis on him and Farah when he was in the party.
* Karol in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' can be seen as a spotlight stealing character since he gets quite a bit of scenes showing him change from a cowardly little boy who got kicked out of every guild he tried to join to a strong hearted warrior.
** Especially since [[spoiler:Raven secretly being Schwann]] was treated as relatively minor story twist.

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8th May '13 2:25:19 AM Truro

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Facepalm* How the hell can Luna, a character who only appears occasionally be a spotlight stealler? The rest of this entry is just clutching at straws and seeing things that arn't there. There is NO Spotlight Stealing Squad in Fi M.

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** Rarity has been getting a fair share of episodes in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. This would later change when she had no focus episodes for all of season three.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders are a more fitting example(s), so far getting more episodes than the Mane Six in Season 2 while getting supporting roles & the occasional cameo in others.
*** Season three has had a notable pattern so far. Non CMC episode...CMC episode. Non-CMC episode...then a CMC episode. Season three however has been showing them [[CharacterDevelopment avoiding the more serious symptoms of this trope and actually get character development]]. 
** The Apple family are getting more focus since Season 2 with at least one episode focusing on each of the four, as well as one for all four of them.
*** The third season puts this UpToEleven by making Applejack the only character to appear ''and'' have speaking lines in every episode of the season.
** Rainbow Dash has been leaning as such since Season Two, having the largest number of individual spotlight episodes and arguably the most extensive CharacterDevelopment after Twilight Sparkle (the ironically downplayed "lead" character).
** Princess Luna, after being rescued by the main cast in the series premiere, was not seen again until over a year later and continues to make very sporadic appearances (not more than once or twice per season), while her older sister (and supposed "equal"), Princess Celestia, often features in episodes as a supporting character.

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Tenchi Solution is a disambiguation

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