History Main / TheUnFavourite

These types are viewed as concrete and unchanging. However, if AbusiveParents are brought into the equation, there's a PopularityCycle involved, where one kid will be elevated above the other in a circular motion.

* ''WebVideo/ViralTexts'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJjMSV7PSA Shigeto]] was mistreated and treated like an idiot by his parents in favor of his sister Miyoko. They even kicked him out of the house and forced him to send them money. Shigeto and Miyoko eventually cut ties with them with Miyoko moving away from them, fooling them into thinking they were moving to a fancier house.

* New York is even worse when it comes to their basketball teams. The Manhattan-based New York Knicks are the most valuable team in the NBA, get a ton of press, and regularly sell out all of their games no matter what their record is. Meanwhile, the Brooklyn Nets are largely an afterthought in the media and they've often struggled to get fans in the seats. This dynamic was best displayed during the 2020-21 season. The Nets became one of the favorites for the championship following their acquisitions of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden and NYC largely did not care because the Knicks experienced a resurgence under a core of young players the team drafted and just ''made'' the playoffs for the first time in a decade. When playoff tickets went on sale to the public, the Knicks sold theirs out in ten minutes while the Nets had to resort to offering discounts in order to fill their arena, even with limited capacity due to the effects of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

* New York baseball has [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball two teams]]. The Yankees, perennial playoff contenders, 27 time world champions, rich as all hell...[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the Mets]]. Note that for some New Yorkers, this makes the ''Mets'' the favorites, because they're pitiable, lovable losers most of the time, while the Yankees are perpetually successful.

* New York baseball has [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams two teams]]. The Yankees, perennial playoff contenders, 27 time world champions, rich as all hell...[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and the Mets]]. Note that for some New Yorkers, this makes the ''Mets'' the favorites, because they're pitiable, lovable losers most of the time, while the Yankees are perpetually successful.

* ''TheUnFavourite/MangaSoprano''

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' backstory has strong vibes of this in the Primarchs. With a few exceptions the vast majority of them defected because of their father's disapproval and/or withering apathy. In the words of Roboute Guilliman, "The Emperor was a great scientist, a great leader, but a terrible father".
** The Emperor's main problem was that he had a very clear idea of what his ''generals'' should be like, but neglected to consider that those generals even saw him ''as'' a father. As a result, you got Lorgar -- who saw an entire world annihilated to teach him not to be religious; Perturabo -- whose hopes and dreams were straight-out ignored in favor of "here is a siege, go fight it"; Fulgrim -- whose obsession with perfection was left unchecked until it consumed him with the aid of a daemon; Angron -- who saw the people he cared about left to die because the Emperor abducted him from a hopeless battle rather than deploying his high-tech military in support; Magnus -- who was publicly humiliated; Mortarion -- who spent years fighting to free his homeworld, only for the Emperor to steal his thunder in a spectacular way; Alpharius -- the last primarch to be found, everyone disdained his unorthodox strategies and tactics and he joined sides with the only brother who acknowledged how brilliant he could be; and Horus -- the ''most powerful military leader in the galaxy'' -- who was left completely in the dark about why the Emperor was retiring to Terra, leading Horus to the not illogical conclusion that he was being left to do gruntwork while the Emperor sat back and enjoyed the spoils.
** On the tabletop itself several armies could lay claim to this. The long suffering Dark Eldar went ''ten years'' without receiving an update. Now that they have a new rulebook and set of models the mantle passes on to the Witchhunters, though their chances of getting an update are [[DemotedToExtra looking grim]].
*** Witch Hunters got changed to Sisters of Battle, which then changed to Adepta Sororitas. (Yes, the Sisters used to be a separate faction in the early days. Now they're not.) They got a digital-only release less than two years ago, although it took them until 2020 to get a full physical codex and updated models. The current Unfavoite (as of 2020) is the Inquisition, which has yet to get a full codex and has languished as a side army for most of 8th edition.
** The Necrons were also this, their army was pretty bland, with zero personality and very little to no updates. Now they got a massive change along with a lot of new figures and a revised back story making them more interesting, although there are those who feel that the changes removed what made them scary in the first place.
** And then there's everything Games Workshop does that ''isn't'' 40K, which tends to be stepped over because 40K is a massive cash cow and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and the ''Film/TheHobbit'' or ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' strategy battle games are not.

** Qualifying more in a meta sense are the Bretonnians, who had exactly one army book in the 21st century (a 2004 release that took place in 6th Edition). By the time Warhammer was discontinued in 2015 every single other faction had had an army book released since 2009, and almost all factions had had two books since the Bretonnian one; given that 8th Edition (released in 2010) was widely seen as significantly harming cavalry, the mostly-cavalry Bretonnian faction could feel completely forgotten. (And then in the End Times they proved to be almost completely irrelevant, to boot.)

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