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* Discussed in ''{{Wicked}}''. Elphaba (ostracized since day one for her green skin) offers to share her lunch with her teacher, Dr. Dillamond, ostracized for being a Goat. She eats her sandwich; he eats the paper bag it came in.

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* Discussed in ''{{Wicked}}''.''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''. Elphaba (ostracized since day one for her green skin) offers to share her lunch with her teacher, Dr. Dillamond, ostracized for being a Goat. She eats her sandwich; he eats the paper bag it came in.
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* In {{MAG ISA}}, [[http://www.drunkduck.com/MAG_ISA/index.php?p=312394 Eman Cruz eats lunch alone. ]]

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* In {{MAG ISA}}, [[http://www.drunkduck.com/MAG_ISA/index.php?p=312394 ISA}} -- [[http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119179 Eman Cruz eats lunch alone.alone cuz he’s not like everyone else. ]]

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* The title character in ''EthanSuspended'' eats lunch on the stairs outside the cafeteria as often as not.


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** Sounds like a high-class version of diner-type counter service.
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** It is never said explicitly that he committed suicide. Though, it is hinted it. The girl does infer that if he had had at least one friend he would not have fallen to his death, because the train trestle he fell from was where he went when he was depressed.

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** It is never said explicitly that he committed suicide. Though, it is hinted it. The girl does infer that if he had had at least one friend he would not have fallen to his death, because the train trestle he fell from was where he went when he was depressed.



* This can happen in real life even if you have a lot of friends if everyone has a different lunch period then you.

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* This can happen in real life even if you have a lot of friends friends-- if everyone has a different lunch period then you.
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* Discussed in ''{{Wicked}}''. Elphaba (ostracized since day one for her green skin) offers to share her lunch with her teacher, Dr. Dillamond, ostracized for being a Goat. She eats her sandwich; he eats the paper bag it came in.
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* There is an urban legend in Japan called 'Toire-meshi' (literally "toilet-lunch"), which says that people with no friends would take lunch hidden in the lavatories in order to avoid the awkwardness of being seen eating alone.
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* ''BattlestarGalactica'': When Gaeta is suspected of having collaborated with the Cylons on New Caprica, he eats alone in the mess.

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* ''BattlestarGalactica'': When Gaeta is suspected of having collaborated with the Cylons on New Caprica, he eats alone in the mess.mess hall.
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* VeronicaMars, until Wallace decides to sit with her

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* VeronicaMars, until Wallace decides to sit with herher.
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** Granted that this was the [[{{invoked trope}} implication]], not the truth, as the members of the of the main cast found out[[spoiler: when they befriend her, it still takes quite a while before they're able to 'move on'. She would eat alone because the people she wanted to help were antagonistic towards her instead.]]
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* In the DisneyChannelMovie ''Brink'', after the title character has a falling-out with his friends, he approaches them one day while they're eating lunch and says, "Can I sit here?" They all say yes... [[YankTheDogsChain and then as soon as he sits down they get up and leave him there]].

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* In the DisneyChannelMovie DisneyChannelOriginalMovie ''Brink'', after the title character has a falling-out with his friends, he approaches them one day while they're eating lunch and says, "Can I sit here?" They all say yes... [[YankTheDogsChain and then as soon as he sits down they get up and leave him there]].
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** Though in most episodes afterwards he actually has quite a circle of nerd friends around him during lunch.

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Related to IJustWantToHaveFriends

May be related to IntelligenceEqualsIsolation.

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* Smax in ''TopTen'' initially eats lunch alone by choice.

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* Deb in ''NapoleonDynamite'', when Napoleon awkwardly compliments her. Napoleon himself would be, if not for Pedro.



* Deb in ''NapoleonDynamite'', when Napoleon awkwardly compliments her. Napoleon himself would be, if not for Pedro.
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* This can happen in real lfie even if you have a lot of friends if everyone has a different lunch period then you.

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* This can happen in real lfie life even if you have a lot of friends if everyone has a different lunch period then you.




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*Often people eating alone at cafes, restaurants, etc. are offered a newspaper (if they haven't brought their own) to help negate the awkwardness. Occasionally - at some upper-class restaurants - a solo diner may be seated at the 'chef's table' with other single diners, though this is very rare.
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** If this happens you might have to sit at a table that you vaugely know the people at just to not feel awkward.


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** If this happens you might have to sit at a table that you vaugely vaguely know the people at just to not feel awkward.

awkward.
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* In ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'', [[PerpetualFrowner Ange]] essentially eats lunch by herself every day because she is constantly shunned and bullied by the other girls at her private school. However, she uses this time to read her cousin Maria's diary, which she sees as a way of communing with her, and later learns to summon magical beings, Sakutarou and the Seven Sisters of Purgatory, to keep her company. Depending on your perspective, this is either genuine magic and a great source of happiness for the long-suffering Ange, or a truly pitiable case of someone who has to resort to deluding herself just to stay sane.

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** Significant in that commanders have their own mess hall; a new commander cannot enter until after his first victory. Typically they're greeted enthusiastically. Ender is not only the youngest and smallest: he's the only commander ever to win in the Battle Room without having first been defeated a few times. The other commanders--envious, spiteful or intimidated--pointedly withhold the congratulatory rituals.
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* This can happen in real lfie even if you have a lot of friends if everyone has a different lunch period then you.
** If this happens you might have to sit at a table that you vaugely know the people at just to not feel awkward.

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* ''[[Bleach]]'': Uryuu Ishida does this early on, and objects to being invited by Ichigo to eat with others.

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* ''[[Bleach]]'': ''{{Bleach}}'': Uryuu Ishida does this early on, and objects to being invited by Ichigo to eat with others.
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* When Ja'mie King from {{Summer Heights High}} has fallen out with her friends, an inversion of this trope leads to her spending lunchtimes in the staff room, rather than eating alone.
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* ''[[Bleach]]'': Uryuu Ishida does this early on, and objects to being invited by Ichigo to eat with others.
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* In PrinceOfTennis, Kaidou Kaoru always eats lunch alone... the the point that the other students in his class ''scoot their desks away from his'' in order to give him a wide berth. In this case, it's not so much that he's shunned as [[FaceOfAThug that everyone is scared of him/creeped out by his aloof attitude]]. It doesn't help that he eats [[Supremechef his mother's]] very high-quality traditional food in an overly reverent manner, which freaks them out.

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* In PrinceOfTennis, Kaidou Kaoru always eats lunch alone... the the point that the other students in his class ''scoot their desks away from his'' in order to give him a wide berth. In this case, it's not so much that he's shunned as [[FaceOfAThug that everyone is scared of him/creeped out by his aloof attitude]]. It doesn't help that he eats [[Supremechef [[SupremeChef his mother's]] very high-quality traditional food in an overly reverent manner, which freaks them out.
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** Presumably, Harry would have had to do this at the Muggle school he attended before Hogwarts considering he was made a social pariah by Dudley's gang and their bullying.

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** Presumably, Harry would have had to do this every day at the Muggle school he attended before Hogwarts considering he was made a social pariah by Dudley's gang and their bullying.

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* HarryPotter, at least once.

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* HarryPotter, at least once. once.
** Presumably, Harry would have had to do this at the Muggle school he attended before Hogwarts considering he was made a social pariah by Dudley's gang and their bullying.
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* The main character of the YA book ''Speak'' not only eats lunch alone, but ''in the bathroom''.

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* The main character of the YA book ''Speak'' ''{{Speak}}'' not only eats lunch alone, but ''in the bathroom''.
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* In PrinceOfTennis, Kaidou Kaoru always eats lunch alone... the the point that the other students in his class ''scoot their desks away from his'' in order to give him a wide berth. In this case, it's not so much that he's shunned as [[FaceOfAThug that everyone is scared of him/creeped out by his aloof attitude]]. It doesn't help that he eats his mothers very high-quality traditional food in an overly reverent manner.

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* In PrinceOfTennis, Kaidou Kaoru always eats lunch alone... the the point that the other students in his class ''scoot their desks away from his'' in order to give him a wide berth. In this case, it's not so much that he's shunned as [[FaceOfAThug that everyone is scared of him/creeped out by his aloof attitude]]. It doesn't help that he eats [[Supremechef his mothers mother's]] very high-quality traditional food in an overly reverent manner.manner, which freaks them out.

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