The Friend Nobody Likes in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- In Amazing Fantasy, Bakugou's middle school classmates admit behind his back that they can't wait to be rid of him and only fall in line out of fear rather than respect. He loses almost all of his social clout after Izuku manages to humiliate him twice by accident. Bakugou himself is shaken by this and falls back on old habits rather than trying to correct his behavior because he doesn't understand what he's doing wrong.
- An Incognito Query: Discussed. When Question and Reagan are driving, Reagan asks why none of the League is helping him. He comments that they don't get involved with his work, making Reagan realize that they think he's plain nuts.
- In Avenger Knight, Batman to a certain extent seems to be this to the Avengers. Nick Fury does not like how little he knows about him, though he does believe that the Dark Knight cares for Gotham. Hawkeye really doesn't like Batman though he does accept that Gotham would have fallen apart without him. Tony just outright thinks he's a lunatic.
- As seen in Chapter 29 of BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant, Terumi, despite being a member of Salem's inner circle, is loathed by pretty much everyone there. The more vile members like Cinder and Tyrian are unable to stomach his presence for very long (it's even noted that their mutual hatred for him is one of the few things they seem to agree upon), and despite Hazel's attempts to be courteous, it's made clear that even he can't stand him either. Of course, with how much of a sadistic asshole he is, Terumi relishes in every moment of being so despised by his "allies" in Salem's group.
- Child of the Storm: Doctor Strange attains this status because he's incurably manipulative, distinctively sparing with information, and utterly ruthless. The fact that he uses his vast powers as a Seer and a Time Master to guide people into choosing exactly what he wants them to is another cause for resentment, especially once people become aware of it. The snappy remarks don't help. While he has good reasons for most of his behaviour (he's preparing the universe to go up against Thanos) and his backstory is sufficiently sad that even people who can't stand him are moved to tears, he is widely disliked. However, no one hates him as much as he hates himself.
- Earth's Alien History: The Cardassians and the Breen become this to the rest of the Pact of the Raptor after their failed invasion of Klingon space during the Praxis War ruins the Romulans' attempt to install a Pact-friendly Klingon government. They just barely avoid being kicked out of the Pact, are forced into debt to the Romulans when they pay off their reparations to the Klingons for them, are made to accept demilitarized zones in their territories, and are made to surrender colonies to the Shield Alliance.
- In The Faith Chronicles, Kennedy is ultimately this to the rest of the Scooby Gang. Due to Kennedy's near-fanatical devotion to the Watcher's Council, Buffy, Anya and Tara swiftly dislike her given what they have learned about the Council's role in abducting Faith from her birth mother when she was an infant, and Giles simply tolerates Kennedy's presence because he has to put up with the Council's orders. While Kennedy is dating Willow, it's soon made clear that she is emotionally manipulating Willow with the goal of basically using the witch as a weapon for the Council given her magical potential, and Xander is soon forced to face that his own friendship with Kennedy was mainly based around Kennedy encouraging his own hatred of Faith, which Xander gets over when the rest of the Gang make their own changed opinion clear.
- A Hero's Wrath: It is implied that Endeavor is still the No. 2 hero despite his toxic personality and various scandals is because the Hero Commission has a vested interest in keeping him. Otherwise no one could stand him. Deus even compares him to Asura and makes a point that Asura was at least an honorable man who actually cared about other people, Asura himself having hunted Endeavor down and roughed him up when he found out about Shoto and his wife.
- Deadpool in the sequel and spin-offs to The Many Dates of Danny Fenton. Owing to his insanity, career, or his overly friendly attitude, he's not well-liked by most people who associate with him. This includes Danny's dates and girlfriends in other timelines, including Supergirl, Kim Possible, and even Phantasma. Danny Phantom, on the other hand, whether it be cluelessness on what Deadpool does or just because he's nice to him, considers him a friend.
- How the Light Gets In has a more somber version of this than usual. In one flashback, Laurel remarks to Dean that she's pretty sure that the members of Team Arrow don't like her. She's pretty sure they don't dislike her, but she's still sure they don't like her. Another flashback reveals that she's absolutely right. As far as Dean's concerned, even after they accepted her, they still considered her an outsider. In the present, she and Diggle even talk about it.Diggle: You know, when you first joined the team. I didn't like you. Did you know that?
Laurel: Uh, yeah, no shit.- Even after they accept her, they don't like Dean, with opinions varying between dismissing him as a civilian and viewing him as an unstable threat. After he pummeled Oliver and killed Darhk, this has only increased.
- On the flip side, Dean and his extended family all clearly have a very low opinion of Oliver, and the only member of Team Arrow Dean has any trust or respect for is Diggle.
- The Infinite Loops:
- The MLP Loops: Angel Bunny. He's a jerk on his best days, usually far worse, has conquered multiple worlds, and is a freaking Sith Lord. Fluttershy is the only one who can stand him.Celestia: Of all the creatures I have encountered in the defense of the realm, you possess the blackest heart.
- The RWBY Loops: Most of the villainous loopers. In order of activation: Roman and Neopolitan Torchwick, Cinder Fall, and Raven Branwen. While they all start off as examples of supervision, they each seem to develop into care and proximity examples. Yang, Raven's biological daughter, sums it up best: "I might not be willing to call you my mom, [but] I still think of you as part of my family."
- The MLP Loops: Angel Bunny. He's a jerk on his best days, usually far worse, has conquered multiple worlds, and is a freaking Sith Lord. Fluttershy is the only one who can stand him.
- In The Lightning Strike- featuring Harry Potter being sent to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Voldemort killed him- Madame Hydra is the only member of Hydra's leaders to have been enhanced herself, but Baron Strucker notes that there are almost certainly half a dozen black projects set up to take her out even though she's ostensibly on their side and the only reason none of them have been put into practice is that nobody had the chance to do so yet.
- The Mountain and the Wolf: The Wolf almost instantly becomes this to Daenerys' closest allies due to his overbearing manner, cheerfully-assumed violent nature, and his constant way of indirectly insulting people on his own side without seeming to intend to (and because he's even bigger and scarier than Gregor Clegane, no one can do much about it). His genuine talent for warfare gives another reason to keep him around, but once King's Landing is taken he becomes entirely insufferable. Oddly enough, he's genuinely friendly with Tyrion of all people, something Tyrion is not exactly happy about.
- In My Huntsman Academia, Katsuki Bakugou is still this. Everyone is flabbergasted at Izuku's ability to treat him kindly despite the horrendous bullying and abuse he piled on him all the way up to the point that they both entered Beacon. Shouto and Ren tolerate and snark at Katsuki, while Yang, Pyrrha, and Nora are all tempted to beat the crap out of him for his treatment of Izuku and Ruby. In time, several heapings of Humble Pie and Laser-Guided Karma start to mellow him out, and Ruby can usually hold a half-decent conversation with him after taking Izuku's and Mitsuki's advice on how to handle him.
- RWBY: Epic of Remnant: The Servants all hate Angra Mainyu because he's an ass. The only reason why they tolerate him is because he's Gudako's boyfriend.
- In the There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton series, Nick Fury is this to the Avengers and their other allies, due to his abrasive personality and his habit of morally grey actions taken behind their backs supposedly for the greater good. Pepper jokes that everyone hates him, even Fury himself.
- Ultimate Spiders and Magic: Trixie. Out of all of Peter's friends, she is the most complex with the worst reputation among them. She comes off as a snob with a huge ego and hardly anybody in the school can tolerate her self-absorbed presence. Even when Trixie first meets Peter in Episode I, she immediately recruits him as an assistant, and he spends half the time pondering if they're even friends to begin with. It's not until the end of Episode II "Rainbow Rocks" that Trixie reveals her genuine attachment to Peter after the Dazzlings' influence wears off.
- In Episode IV "Friendship Games", Sunset can't defend Trixie's antics from the Rainbooms and just accepts that even she doesn't understand how they're friends.
- While Ragnar the Rock in The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout thinks that all of them being Co-Dragons makes them friends, the rest of Drago's Elite Generals hate him because of this, seeing him as nothing but a clingy imbecile.
- A Clash Of Neets: The Drowned Goddess, Nyarko, is, ostensibly, an ally to the pantheon of the Seven and the Old Gods, and just as committed to their war with the Lord of Light and the Great Other. She's also, however, a general pain in the ass for everyone; aside from the fact that she encourages the Ironborn to behave like pirates (not raiders, mind you, stereotypical seventeenth century peg-leg-and-eye-patch pirates) purely for her own amusement, or regularly spawns sea-monsters as her "babies", she's just generally a deeply, deeply annoying person. Even her own priests seem to get find her exasperating. Unfortunately, they need her help.
- All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In "What if David never betrayed them?", the Animorphs split up to do missions so that some of them can avoid David, especially Rachel and Tobias.
- Regaining Perspective
also portrays Laurel as this to Team Arrow. Oliver eventually comments on it, acknowledges his role in it, questions what exactly Felicity and Diggle's problems with her are, and demands that it stop. - The Hurricane reveals that the Joker was essentially this to Gotham’s other rogues, as they "respected" him but they still feared what he could do if he provoked them. Essentially nobody outside of Harley Quinn liked him, but his insanity and obsession with Batman guaranteed that no rogues would leave him out if they were attempting some kind of large-scale plan against the Dark Knight or his allies.
- The Stalking Zuko Series:
- Mai is a Dating example, as while she's Zuko's girlfriend, her abrasive attitude gets on everyone else's nerves. Interestingly enough, she starts getting along better with the rest of the cast after (albeit not as a result of) her final breakup with Zuko.
- Aang, possibly unintentionally, is a downplayed example, being a mix of necessity (since he's the Avatar) and Pity (since, for all his flaws, he's a Nice Guy). The Gaang keep him around, but they, particularly Katara, feel bad for him more than they enjoy his company or respect him and can be fairly harsh with him when he makes a decision with which they don't agree, even if they don't say it to his face.
- The Buffy The Vampire Slayer fic “Riley Who?” (currently lost to the ‘net) features Willow and Giles acknowledging that Angel and Riley are basically this to the Scoobies for different reasons, as while Buffy loved them both the rest of the gang never entirely clicked with either boyfriend. However, when pressed, Willow and Giles each admit to the other that they preferred Angel as he was still basically one of the Scooby Gang and their main issue with him was because of the curse; Riley essentially wants Buffy to be part of his own group in the Initiative rather than acknowledge the bond she has with her existing friends.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
- Sherman starts out as this (though Andy, his owner, puts up with him), but he later strikes up a friendship with Calvin. He's still not too good with Hobbes or Socrates, though.
- Ironically, the latter is this as well, being a very annoying prankster.
- Olrox from Joys of the Parenthood - The Țepeș Edition is the one most prone to issue complaints to Dracula for one reason or another. When he brings up Adrien's "antics" in the castle and calls them a problem, no one else in the council backs him up, a few even requesting play-time with the young prince.
- C Listers: None of the C-Listers like Mr. Camera, on account of him being a massive pervert who uses his powers to creep on women, something even his fellow supervillains take offense to.
- Deconstructed in let's go out with a bang!: Miu's well aware that none of her classmates particularly like her, aside from Kaede. Kokichi doesn't help; she's one of his favorite targets, and the others commonly berate her for letting herself get baited by things like him casually telling her to kill herself. This fuels Miu's paranoia and persecution complex, as she clings to the notion that none of her problems are her own fault — it's all his doing!
- Where Talent Goes to Die, being a Danganronpa fic, has a few examples. Like Danganronpa, they're cases of Proximity.
- Shiro Kurogane, the Ultimate Shogi Player. He bears a grudge against the protagonist, Kaori Miura, for defeating him in a shogi match by virtue of her beginner's luck, and repeatedly antagonizes her, even when she tries to apologize. Virtually no one who spends much time interacting with him has a positive opinion of him, and when Sakuragi murders him in order to frame Miura and graduate, most of the cast is more focused on finding the killer to stay alive than mourning his death.
- Sora Hoshino, the Ultimate Astronomer, is brutally honest, and doesn't hesitate to say what's on his mind, regardless of how offensive it may be, resulting in him frequently butting heads with Reiko Mitamura, and virtually anyone else who disagrees with him on any point. Murdering two of the more well-liked members of the class purely so he can graduate does not win him any favors, to say the least.
- Downplayed with Anzu Sugiura, the Ultimate Waitress. She's not nearly as unpopular as someone who secretly has the title of Ultimate Poisoner would normally be, but while Hoshino is the only one who openly detests her, she isn't particularly close with most of her classmates. She calls Miura her Only Friend, and says that she has an "understanding" of sorts with Iwasawa, whom she trusts enough to cooperate with on a plan to sacrifice themselves in order to satisfy the requirements for Monokuma's motive.
- The sequel, Where Talent Goes on Vacation, continues this trend.
- Yuichi Asakura is a Jerkass to just about everyone, especially Nagato, since he hates her for getting the same Ultimate Title that he has, and supposedly diminishing its value. Azuki concludes by the end of their Free Time Events that they'll never be friends, and even Nagato implies that she can't stand him.
- Satoshi Karita, the Ultimate Con Artist, is also disliked due to his untrustworthy personality, and how his talent indicates that he has no qualms with lying to or manipulating others for his own benefit. He tries to downplay this trope by remaining relatively civil to others so that they won't hate him enough to kill him, but his relationship with his roommate Asakura is bad enough that they had to divide their cabin into sides.
- Danny Phantom: Stranded: Stella isn't very well-liked by Danny's parents, which is justified, given that they had met while their kids were missing during Lost and everyone assumed that their disappearance was due to Stella badmouthing Danny and arguing with Star over it. This, as well as Stella's thoughtlessness/lack of responsibility, causes them to dislike her. Even after Stella apologizes to Danny, the Fentons don't forgive her and make it clear that they only associate with her due to her daughter being Danny's girlfriend.
- It is more prominent during Bonding, where Maddie and Jack barely hide their dislike of Stella and seem to bond more with Johnathan. When Stella and Johnathan start arguing, both Jack and Maddie take Johnathan's side and admit how they really feel about her and her past actions. However, after Stella risks her life to save Star during a ghost attack, they acknowledge what she did and let bygones be bygones. By Sick, the Fentons and Stella are much more civil with each other.
- Matt is this in Those Who Stand for Nothing Fall for Anything. Everyone just seems to tolerate his presence to various degrees, even his wife.
- In An Apostate? Me? Varric claims that Emma Hawke's bickering group is united mainly in their dislike of Sebastian, who became a party member by accident and refuses to go away.
- While Genesis, Angeal and Zack like Sephiroth in The Fifth Act, they don't trust him at all. Angeal and Genesis kept their terminal illness a secret out of shame and resentment. Genesis and Zack initially keep Sephiroth out of their investigation of Cloud's disappearance in fear Sephiroth would turn on them as he is loyal to ShinRa and Cloud's disappearance is a company cover-up. Sephiroth himself notes how no one trusts him.
- The Raven's Plan: House Lannister is this among the nobility of Westeros, due to their (especially Tywin and Cersei's) actions in the original timeline. The only reason that no one is waging war against them is due to a combination of Tyrion having taken over and the greater threat of the Others looming on the horizon.
- In Boys und Sensha-dō!, Heishi is this among Shark Team, which is entirely composed of male OCs. The team isn't especially close (in contrast to most Oarai crews, which are composed of clubs or close friends) — only Akio and Masaru are friends with each other, as are the other two boys — but none of the two pairs of close friends especially like Heishi, thinking of him as an annoyance. He's a Necessity example, though, since they need him to load their tank.
- Welcome to Sand Hands: Scoop, Mysterious Mark, and the Elevator Twins — none of whom appear in the story — are all described as "your least favorite friends."
- Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived;
- Daphne confirms that nobody in Slytherin actually likes Draco Malfoy as a person and everyone’s just trying to ingratiate themselves with him due to his father’s reputation, explicitly stating that Draco would have nothing if Lucius was poor.
- During Lockhart’s time as a teacher, it’s made clear that nobody else on the staff likes him; at one point Madam Pomfrey only tells Daphne off for referring to Lockhart as a candlestick because implying that Lockhart brings light to anything is too good for him.
- Harry Potter and the Magic of the Beasts: The more reasonable Slytherins dislike the pureblood supremacists in their house due to them holding an outdated and bigoted view, as well as their perchance to hex or even curse students without getting punishment from Snape or Dumbledore, which makes it difficult for a Slytherin without those views to make friends with anyone in the other three houses.
- Draco Malfoy is viewed as the worst among even the Pureblood supremacists, as his constant attacks on Harry, his group of friends and disregard for pureblood traditions had cost him a lot, ranging from reputation to half of his family fortune.
- As the fic goes on, Ron is viewed as this among Harry's group of friends at first, being a firm Dumbledore supporter. However, the rest of the school catches on that Ron is a Lazy Bum who is after the Potter fortune and believing he's entitled to have Emily. It's highly likely people will view him as no different than the Pureblood supremacists in Slytherin House.
- Ron is this in Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash. Harry keeps thinking mean things about him, such as "Ron's Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself".
- In Prodigal Son, despite being the new heir of the Hairy Hooligans — being the typical Viking the tribe wanted to be Stoick's successor — Snotlout's Know-Nothing Know-It-All Narcissism has caused everyone to lose all confidence in him, usually trying to ignore him or keep him busy.
- In La Squadra Special Mission: Seduce the Boss, overlapping with Even Evil Has Standards, the rest of La Squadra is disgusted by Melone for his perverted tendencies and nasty habit of impregnating random women to produce juniors for his Stand.Footnote #23, Chapter 2: Incidentally, Melone is the exact sort of person that gives you way too much information about his pregnancy fetish approximately ten minutes after you first meet him. There are so many things the team wishes they could forget.
- The Amazing Spider-Man: True Purpose analyses the idea of Spider-Man being this to other heroes when he's killed by Magik during Avengers vs. X-Men. When Rogue questions why so many people are taking the wall-crawler's death so hard when she’s heard so many complaints about his attitude, Ben Grimm and Logan make it clear that those who took the time to truly know Spider-Man outside the mask deeply respected his attitude and his drive to do the right thing. Rogers and Red Sonja note later that what makes Spider-Man a good choice to lead the planned Avengers Unity Squad is that he’s been able to work with so many other heroes, and even the occasional team-up with his villains, despite how so many find him aggravating.
- In contrast to Spider-Man, during the final fight with Scott and Emma, Bobby notes that nobody’s that sorry about having to fight the former White Queen since in her case, people mostly tolerated her attitude for her skills rather than actually liking her, as opposed to Spider-Man being annoying on occasion but respected by those who counted.
- In The Other Side (memoriaeterna), Nick Fury might have the Avengers’ respect, but it’s clear that none of them like him much as a person. Sam Wilson makes it clear early on that he thinks it unlikely Fury would ever have been on Stark’s list of who would get access to Stark Enterprises after his death, even if Fury was operating on the assumption that literally everyone else on said list would have to die before Fury was selected.
- Ignited Spark:
- Bakugo, who already underwent through a case of Adaptational Jerkass, is this for 1-A. He is aggressive, unrepentant and self-centered to ridiculous degree. The only person who gets along with him is Kirishima, even Izuku, who already abandoned their friendship in favor of Ochako, barely tolerating his attitude. Once he is demoted to Gen-Ed follwing the Sports Festival (Bakugo hit Ochako with a Howitzer Impact and seriously injured her during their fight), Izuku admits to him he is glad that that his former bully is finally paying for his actions and won't miss him when he and his friends go back to school.
- Monoma, who is even more unsufferable than canon as well, is this for 1-B. No one stands his Irrational Hatred for 1-A and his constant need to put 1-B at the spotlight, with Yuyu constantly tasing him with her Quirk to get him to stop with his taunts.
- Deconstructed in My Hero Academia: Mechanical green with Minoru Mineta. The guys tolerate him at best, but the girls absolutely hate his guts, most evident with Momo and Tsuyu, largely due to his open perversion and lack of boundaries making them uncomfortable. During the Sports Festival, he overhears Izumi, Ochaco, and Tsuyu admit just how much they despise him and wish he'd either be kicked out or just drop out. Minoru was genuinely unaware of how his behavior affected them, thinking it was innocuous, and is left so depressed by this and the idea his class hates him that he forfeits his match with Izumi immediately so he can suffer an Identity Breakdown in private. This just makes everyone think he was a Dirty Coward who should have dropped out of the Sports Festival before the finals so someone else could take his spot, most of them not really caring about why he was acting weird and more just pissed they didn't get to watch Izumi punt him into a wall, and it just makes him feel Tsuyu was right about him being useless. Minoru is left sullen overall, and considers seeking therapy with Hound Dog. Even after the Sports Festival, the only thought his classmates spare for him is confusion over his sudden forfeit, and bemusement over the fact he wasn't involved in the attempt to trick the girls to dress like cheerleaders.
- In the "A Common Enemy Without A Common Cause" omake of Perfection Is Overrated, Hitomi and Shizune prove to be this to their fellow SUEs, standing out from the rest of the already dysfunctional team. Hitomi is an Ax-Crazy Jerkass murderer and deconstruction of the
Jerk Sue who openly states her intentions to kill the others For the Evulz; the others, despite having poor morals, find her repulsive. Shizune is a religious extremist who wants to kill everyone who doesn't agree with her — which means all of the SUEs, for one reason or another. They're all cases of Proximity, since they don't have any choice in the matter, though.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Slice of Velvet and Pear Moon Dancer is this to The Mane Six, sans Twilight, early on at least. Her more… prickly and "logical" demeanor does not initially endear her to them, as quickly as Twilight did in canon. And except for Twilight, none of them really consider her a friend by the end of their first adventure. With even Fluttershy letting it slip that she thinks Moondancer's a jerk. And she's much more skeptical about staying in Ponyville to study friendship than Twilight was. But she still makes an earnest effort to study it and her efforts soon enough start to pay off as the other ponies gradually accept her.
- Mr and Mrs Gold: Due to her ambiguous alliance and the incident involving Cinderella, Belle decided not to attend Snow White’s baby shower, sending her gift by mail and appearing after everybody else left.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
- Ash's Pokédex of all things, is this to Ash and the rest of his group. With its Insufferable Genius and Deadpan Snarker tendencies, Ash and the others never miss the chance to voice their annoyance at it.
- A more serious example is Red's Clefairy, whose Ax-Crazy personality makes it that none of Red's Pokémon are able to tolerate its presence, except his Pikachu and Charizard.
- Pokemon: Shadow of Time: Robin Ryuto is this among the girls Ash is with as of the Orre Arc's end. Misty, Iris, and Serena all knew Ash from the original timeline, Anabel fell for him under natural circumstances, and they accept May and Dawn as inevitabilities (for the same reason as Misty, Iris, and Serena), but they're not so sure about a relative "newbie" like Robin.
- In Ghosts of the Future, Metal Sonic joins up with the heroes and is immediately relegated to this role. Since he was previously being controlled by the Big Bad, crippled Silver's little sister during that time, and was a supervillain even before all that, their distrust and scorn isn't surprising. Even Metal himself never faults them for hating him. The only exceptions to this are Sicily (who becomes best friends with him) and Sonic (who used to hate him, but reconsiders after seeing him acting selflessly).
- Prison Island Break:
- The group initially treats Shadow this way. His only friend is Sonic, and it takes Silver a long, long time to warm up to him.
- Absolutely no one likes Scourge. The only reason he sticks around is because there's very little the group can do to get rid of him.
- In Sonic X: Dark Chaos, neither Sonic nor any of his friends like Eric very much due to how crazy and annoying he is, and how he apparently nearly got all of them killed several times in the past. Even Sonic himself, who is a bit more sympathetic to Eric, simply tolerates him at best.
- Precipice: Despite all the help he has provided the Rebel Alliance with, Hondo isn't really well liked among them, mainly due to him being an unrepentant scoundrel and because many consider him to be annoying.
- Bela Talbot starts as this in The Corrupted Innocent as the Winchesters don't like or trust her and only keep her around at first to find out why she was released from Hell along with Dean. As Bela learns more about the current stakes of the situation and commits herself to helping the Winchesters, all parties grow past this initial tension, to the extent that Dean and Bela end up falling in love.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act VI: Arial Kuyumaya has a Hair-Trigger Temper and constantly acts like a Spoiled Brat, with every attempt to berate her and get her to mellow out falling flat because she Can't Take Criticism and will physically attack anyone who tries. Throughout Act VI, only Dark, Complica, and Sun can actually stand to be around her; everyone else in the group barely tolerates her at best and has no qualms against calling her crazy, stupid, or otherwise badmouthing her to her face.
- Children of Remnant: While Ironwood's status in the Ozluminati is shaky at best, nobody likes Winter. Summer notes that the Atlas forces in Vale have all but become an occupying force under her charge, all of them are selectively picking what information she sees out of fear that she'll start a war, and even her own specialists have started to get nervous around her, which Summer notes is a recent development.
- Devin, from A Thousand Years, could apply. Upon being anonymously contacted by Jack (long story), his friends dismiss his concerns of it being a trap. They are also shown to be unsympathetic (even smug) when Jack tells them what his idol, Gwen Cooper, was "really like".
- In The Choices of Earth, while the Doctor allows Tom Milligan to stay with them to investigate what's happening to the children despite Tom having cheated on Martha, it's made clear that nobody else in Torchwood forgives him for cheating and he's mainly there because the Doctor, Martha, Jack, Ianto and Gwen don't dislike him enough to want him dead.
- Eugenesis has Mirage and Prowl, neither of whom are liked by most (if any) of their fellow Autobots. Prowl is worse off because of his total lack of people skills or leadership abilities.
- Syaoran in Shatterheart. Because of his clone's betrayal of the group, he is tolerated at best hated at worst by the rest of the group due to misplaced blame.
- In the Twilight fanfic Before The Dawn, while Joham was invited to attend the current vampire conference due to his unique knowledge of hybrids, it is made increasingly clear that nobody likes him, ranging from the other vampires treating him with contempt for raping his 'test subjects' to one vampire 'compelling' birds to leave their droppings all over his tent.
