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** Happens ''again'' in ''ComicBook/RunawaysRainbowRowell'', where he becomes Gert's boyfriend. In theory, he does have a character arc of his own, as Chase accidentally restores his SuperpoweredEvilSide and he tries his hand at becoming an actual superhero, but in practice he spends most of the series being moral support to Gert before discovering that [[spoiler:she will eventually get bored of him and dump him to get back with Chase, which will set off his FaceHeelTurn.]]
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** While Naevia was always Crixus's love interest from the beginning, she is introduced as Lucretia's personal attendant and has other roles outside of her romance with Crixus - such as having to help cover up a murder - and the ''Gods of the Arena'' prequel developing her further by showing her past from before she met Crixus. By the ''Vengeance'' season, her role in the story is to be rescued by Crixus and act as his lover. While she trains to become a DarkActionGirl, her role in the story is usually tied to Crixus in some way.
** Inverted for Aurelia, who entered the story as Varro's wife, and only shared scenes to serve his story. [[spoiler: After his death]], she becomes a main character in her own right, even avenging [[spoiler: his death by murdering the man who ordered it. She dies too but leaves more of an impact on the story besides her marriage to Varro]].
** While Naevia was always Crixus's love interest from the beginning, she is introduced as Lucretia's personal attendant and has other roles outside of her romance with Crixus - such as having to help cover up a murder - and the ''Gods of the Arena'' prequel developing her further by showing her past from before she met Crixus. By the ''Vengeance'' season, her role in the story is to be rescued by Crixus and act as his lover. While she trains to become a DarkActionGirl, her role in the story is usually tied to Crixus in some way.
** Inverted for Aurelia, who entered the story as Varro's wife, and only shared scenes to serve his story. [[spoiler: After his death]], she becomes a main character in her own right, even avenging [[spoiler: his death by murdering the man who ordered it. She dies too but leaves more of an impact on the story besides her marriage to Varro]].
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* Wrestling/{{Lita}} in the last two years of her career. Thanks to her ACL injury, she wasn't able to wrestle and instead appeared as Edge's on-screen girlfriend. While she did win the Women's Championship twice more, she was still heavily associated with Edge until the weeks leading up to her retirement storyline.
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* Wrestling/{{Lita}} in the last two years of her career. Thanks to her ACL injury, she wasn't able to wrestle and instead appeared as Edge's on-screen girlfriend. While she did win the Women's Championship twice more, she was still heavily associated with Edge until the weeks leading up to her retirement storyline. As of the 2010s and 2020s, she returned to WWE evoking her old persona, being remembered more as a WWE legend.
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* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', Akiza starts out as roughly the third most important character, with an ongoing plot involving uncontrolled psychic powers, estranged parents, membership in a cult, despising her own mystic destiny, and moonlighting as a terrifying underground duelist. By the end of the Dark Signers arc, all these plots are resolved, sometimes in as little as one or two episodes, and her personality shifts from moody and violent to a very typical shounen main-girl with a crush on the protagonist. For the remaining 90 episodes of the series, [[OutOfFocus on the rare occasions where she does get focus again]], you'd struggle to describe what she has going on outside of "is in school now, has feelings for Yusei and wants to get closer to him."
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This doesn't really count as "Demoted" because Levy was never really that prominent in the first place. At most, she was Lucy's first friend in the guild outside of Natsu, but then her contributions to the plot have almost always been entwined with Gajeel even before they became a couple: Her and Team Shadow Gear being beaten up by Gajeel to start the war with Phantom Lord; Gajeel shielding Levy from Laxus in the Battle of Fairy Tail, and most of Levy's interactions were with him in that arc; Sirius Island where she was chosen as an S-Class candidate had her partnering/coerced into being with Gajeel...and THEN their couple status really took off with them fighting together and her being protected by him.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Levy McGarden started out as a somewhat weak though up-and-coming BadassBookworm, and was considered competent enough to be chosen to compete in the rigorous S-Class Wizard Exam. By the manga's end, however, she has no role beyond being Gajeel's girlfriend, to the point where she isn't even a part of the team she once led anymore. Her two former teammates are even shown desperately trying to get her to notice them again, to no avail.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Levy McGarden started out as a somewhat weak though up-and-coming BadassBookworm, and was considered competent enough to be chosen to compete in the rigorous S-Class Wizard Exam. By the manga's end, however, she has almost no role beyond being Gajeel's girlfriend and has apparently even ditched her two teammates and best friends for him.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Levy McGarden started out as a somewhat weak though up-and-coming BadassBookworm, and was considered competent enough to be chosen to compete in the rigorous S-Class Wizard Exam. By the manga's end, however, she has almost no role beyond being Gajeel's girlfriend and has apparently girlfriend, to the point where she isn't even ditched her a part of the team she once led anymore. Her two former teammates and best friends for him.are even shown desperately trying to get her to notice them again, to no avail.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Levy McGarden started out as a somewhat weak though up-and-coming BadassBookworm, and was considered competent enough to be chosen to compete in the rigorous S-Class Wizard Exam. By the manga's end, however, she has almost no role beyond being Gajeel's girlfriend and has apparently even ditched her two teammates and best friends for him.
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** A mixed example with the ''Alicization'' arc, where she continues to be heavily involved in the plot ([[spoiler:including the rather awesome feat of tricking a GovernmentConspiracy into bringing her into their secret base, when she was somebody they were specifically on alert for]]), while her character still pretty much revolves around loving Kirito.[[spoiler: However in the War for the Underworld arc, she steps up as a protagonist with Kirito down for the count.]]
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** A mixed example with the ''Alicization'' arc, where she continues to be heavily involved in the plot ([[spoiler:including the rather awesome feat of tricking a GovernmentConspiracy into bringing her into their secret base, when she was somebody they were specifically on alert for]]), while her character still pretty much revolves around loving Kirito.[[spoiler: However [[spoiler:However in the War for the Underworld arc, she steps up as a protagonist with Kirito down for the count.]]
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* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': This happened to Julian Albert after he started dating Caitlin about halfway through the show's third season. As she [[spoiler: became Killer Frost]], his role was reduced to [[spoiler: trying to find her a cure and acting excessively overprotective of her to the point of risking his own life.]]
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: This happened to Claire Temple over the course of the Marvel Netflix shows. At the start of ''Series/Daredevil2015'' season 1, she was initially emphasized as an outsider, the audience stand-in, the mortal in a world of gods and monsters. By the time ''Series/IronFist2017'' and ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' come around, Claire has become a part of the strangeness now. And while that is a major development, it also means she loses the key elements that made her such a compelling character in the first place. This change is particularly obvious in ''The Defenders'', in which Claire is actually one of the most informed, well-connected, least fazed characters in the show, and thus one of the least interesting. She is no longer the funny, baffled, exasperated, badass civilian. She’s now just one of a large crowd of side characters, and the narrative actually regards her more like a ''Series/LukeCage2016'' side character than a crossover character, with the show barely even acknowledging her past connection with Matt. The second season of ''Luke Cage'' reduces her even further to being merely Luke’s girlfriend, thus placing her firmly in a secondary role. And then she breaks up with Luke and leaves in the third episode.
* Once her storyline as TheMole in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' was concluded, this happened to [[BitchInSheepsClothing Grace]], who reappeared in the second season just to make up a LoveTriangle between herself, Tommy, and May and then has no purpose in the story at all after that besides being [[spoiler: Tommy's wife and mother of Charles, which is likely why she was killed off in Season Three]], since there wasn't much more they could do with her.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: This happened to Claire Temple over the course of the Marvel Netflix shows. At the start of ''Series/Daredevil2015'' season 1, she was initially emphasized as an outsider, the audience stand-in, the mortal in a world of gods and monsters. By the time ''Series/IronFist2017'' and ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' come around, Claire has become a part of the strangeness now. And while that is a major development, it also means she loses the key elements that made her such a compelling character in the first place. This change is particularly obvious in ''The Defenders'', in which Claire is actually one of the most informed, well-connected, least fazed characters in the show, and thus one of the least interesting. She is no longer the funny, baffled, exasperated, badass civilian. She’s now just one of a large crowd of side characters, and the narrative actually regards her more like a ''Series/LukeCage2016'' side character than a crossover character, with the show barely even acknowledging her past connection with Matt. The second season of ''Luke Cage'' reduces her even further to being merely Luke’s girlfriend, thus placing her firmly in a secondary role. And then she breaks up with Luke and leaves in the third episode.
* Once her storyline as TheMole in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' was concluded, this happened to [[BitchInSheepsClothing Grace]], who reappeared in the second season just to make up a LoveTriangle between herself, Tommy, and May and then has no purpose in the story at all after that besides being [[spoiler: Tommy's wife and mother of Charles, which is likely why she was killed off in Season Three]], since there wasn't much more they could do with her.
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* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': This happened to Julian Albert after he started dating Caitlin about halfway through the show's third season. As she [[spoiler: became [[spoiler:became Killer Frost]], his role was reduced to [[spoiler: trying [[spoiler:trying to find her a cure and acting excessively overprotective of her to the point of risking his own life.]]
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: This happened to Claire Temple over the course of the Marvel Netflix shows. At the start of''Series/Daredevil2015'' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' season 1, she was initially emphasized as an outsider, the audience stand-in, the mortal in a world of gods and monsters. By the time ''Series/IronFist2017'' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' and ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' come around, Claire has become a part of the strangeness now. And while that is a major development, it also means she loses the key elements that made her such a compelling character in the first place. This change is particularly obvious in ''The Defenders'', in which Claire is actually one of the most informed, well-connected, least fazed characters in the show, and thus one of the least interesting. She is no longer the funny, baffled, exasperated, badass civilian. She’s She's now just one of a large crowd of side characters, and the narrative actually regards her more like a ''Series/LukeCage2016'' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' side character than a crossover character, with the show barely even acknowledging her past connection with Matt. The second season of ''Luke Cage'' reduces her even further to being merely Luke’s Luke's girlfriend, thus placing her firmly in a secondary role. And then she breaks up with Luke and leaves in the third episode.
* Once her storyline as TheMole in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' was concluded, this happened to [[BitchInSheepsClothing Grace]], who reappeared in the second season just to make up a LoveTriangle between herself, Tommy, and May and then has no purpose in the story at all after that besides being[[spoiler: Tommy's [[spoiler:Tommy's wife and mother of Charles, which is likely why she was killed off in Season Three]], since there wasn't much more they could do with her.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: This happened to Claire Temple over the course of the Marvel Netflix shows. At the start of
* Once her storyline as TheMole in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' was concluded, this happened to [[BitchInSheepsClothing Grace]], who reappeared in the second season just to make up a LoveTriangle between herself, Tommy, and May and then has no purpose in the story at all after that besides being
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* {{Wrestling/Lita}} in the last two years of her career. Thanks to her ACL injury, she wasn't able to wrestle and instead appeared as Edge's on-screen girlfriend. While she did win the Women's Championship twice more, she was still heavily associated with Edge until the weeks leading up to her retirement storyline.
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* {{Wrestling/Lita}} Wrestling/{{Lita}} in the last two years of her career. Thanks to her ACL injury, she wasn't able to wrestle and instead appeared as Edge's on-screen girlfriend. While she did win the Women's Championship twice more, she was still heavily associated with Edge until the weeks leading up to her retirement storyline.
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* {{Wrestling/Maryse}} went from being a Divas' Champion (the longest reigning one until Wrestling/AJLee surpassed her) to the valet of Wrestling/TedDiBiase and later Wrestling/TheMiz. Again, this was playing to her strengths, which were more as a character than [[FauxActionGirl a wrestler]].
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* {{Wrestling/Maryse}} Wrestling/{{Maryse}} went from being a Divas' Champion (the longest reigning one until Wrestling/AJLee surpassed her) to the valet of Wrestling/TedDiBiase and later Wrestling/TheMiz. Again, this was playing to her strengths, which were more as a character than [[FauxActionGirl a wrestler]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', this happens to Lance in Season 8, once he and [[spoiler:Allura]] become an OfficialCouple. The team sniper, moral support, and PluckyComicRelief with HiddenDepths in previous seasons, Lance spends Season 8 as "[[spoiler:Allura]]'s concerned boyfriend." If he's not in a fight, he's with her, talking about her, or worrying about her. Even when the current Paladins meet their predecessors, while all the other Paladins are told what worthy and talented warriors they are, all Alfor tells Lance is basically that he's a good boyfriend. Even when [[spoiler: Allura dies]], Lance's entire epilogue is about how he dedicates himself to her [[spoiler:memory -- basically becoming an evangelist for Allura's "message"]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', this happens to Lance in Season 8, once he and [[spoiler:Allura]] become an OfficialCouple. The team sniper, moral support, and PluckyComicRelief with HiddenDepths in previous seasons, Lance spends Season 8 as "[[spoiler:Allura]]'s concerned boyfriend." If he's not in a fight, he's with her, talking about her, or worrying about her. Even when the current Paladins meet their predecessors, while all the other Paladins are told what worthy and talented warriors they are, all Alfor tells Lance is basically that he's a good boyfriend. Even when [[spoiler: Allura [[spoiler:Allura dies]], Lance's entire epilogue is about how he dedicates himself to her [[spoiler:memory -- basically becoming an evangelist for Allura's "message"]].
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Victor was first introduced as a teenage boy who was fated to become Gert's mortal nemesis when he grew up. He was shown to be highly intelligent and powerful enough to fight off the rest of the team. After the Runaways managed to change his fate, he ultimately became the love interest to the team leader Nico. Since then, Victor's importance and power diminished considerably: e.g. he got outwitted by Chase, the least intelligent member of the team (who had also temporarily turned against his former teammates.) And then, after Nico dumped him, he spent the rest of the series doing almost nothing except ineffectually pining after her.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': Marla Madison was a scientist who built a Spider-Slayer for J. Jonah Jameson. He subsequently fell in love with her and they eventually married. Since Dr. Madison stopped building Spider-Slayers, she gradually settled down into the position of Jonah's wife as few writers seemed to be interested in developing her as a character (while JJJ continued being important). As she was killed off, there is little chance of that being ever rectified.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: ComicBook/SteveTrevor started out as an integral part of Diana's team. Not only was he perfectly ok with doing things she could not as an Amazon, like kill, he also had experience in spy craft and a military position that made him very useful. Writers following Marston's death quickly turned him into the poster boy of UselessBoyfriend and he only mattered because he and Diana were in love, seemingly having nothing else to really offer.
* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': Marla Madison was a scientist who built a Spider-Slayer for J. Jonah Jameson. He subsequently fell in love with her and they eventually married. Since Dr. Madison stopped building Spider-Slayers, she gradually settled down into the position of Jonah's wife as few writers seemed to be interested in developing her as a character (while JJJ continued being important). As she was killed off, there is little chance of that being ever rectified.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: ComicBook/SteveTrevor started out as an integral part of Diana's team. Not only was he perfectly ok with doing things she could not as an Amazon, like kill, he also had experience in spy craft and a military position that made him very useful. Writers following Marston's death quickly turned him into the poster boy of UselessBoyfriend and he only mattered because he and Diana were in love, seemingly having nothing else to really offer.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': Victor Mancha was first introduced as a teenage boy who was fated to become Gert's mortal nemesis when he grew up. He was shown to be highly intelligent and powerful enough to fight off the rest of the team. After the Runaways managed to change his fate, he ultimately became the love interest to of the team leader Nico. Since then, Victor's importance and power diminished considerably: e.g. he got outwitted by Chase, the least intelligent member of the team (who had also temporarily turned against his former teammates.) And then, after Nico dumped him, he spent the rest of the series doing almost nothing except ineffectually pining after her.
*''Franchise/SpiderMan'': ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Marla Madison was a scientist who built a Spider-Slayer for J. Jonah Jameson. He subsequently fell in love with her and they eventually married. Since Dr. Madison stopped building Spider-Slayers, she gradually settled down into the position of Jonah's wife as few writers seemed to be interested in developing her as a character (while JJJ continued being important). As she was killed off, there is little chance of that being ever rectified.
*''Franchise/WonderWoman'' ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: ComicBook/SteveTrevor started out as an integral part of Diana's team. Not only was he perfectly ok with doing things she could not as an Amazon, like kill, he also had experience in spy craft and a military position that made him very useful. Writers following Marston's death quickly turned him into the poster boy of UselessBoyfriend and he only mattered because he and Diana were in love, seemingly having nothing else to really offer.
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