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* Bella from ''[[Literature/{{Twilight2005}} Twilight]]'' spends the first two chapters whining about how no-one would ever like her and how she has never had any friends. She spends every other chapter whining about how people just won't leave her alone. And from the moment she sits down in school (her literal first class), she starts making friends with no effort on her part and boys start asking her out. There is a hand wave that she didn't fit in among [[NotLikeOtherGirls tanned blonde beauties]] in Phoenix, but she's seen as exotic in a small town like Forks.

* Bella from ''[[Literature/{{Twilight2005}} Twilight]]'' spends the first two chapters whining about how no-one would ever like her and how she has never had any friends. She spends every other chapter whining about how people just won't leave her alone. And from the moment she sits down in school (her literal first class), she starts making friends with no effort on her part and boys start asking her out.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} claims to be a loner, and does honestly seem to attempt to do so, but his [[WolverinePublicity track record]] seems to prove otherwise. To a degree it works for Wolverine; by temperament he'd be a [[TheDrifter drifting]] KnightErrant [[KnightInSourArmor in Sour Armor]], which involves lots of helping people and then leaving and not seeing them again for several decades. In a slightly different genre he'd very reasonably say ButNowIMustGo. Look at that trope page; fully half the links in the description apply to him. (For example, until he regained his memories, his JourneyToFindOneself was a big part of his character.) All that being said, it becomes ridiculous to call Wolverine a loner when he is officially a member of three superhero teams at once, due to [[WolverinePublicity his publicity]]. Being a loner is in character, but the Marketing department wins, especially in a SharedUniverse. He also has had a girl sidekick following him around for most of the past thirty years. ([[ComicBook/KittyPryde Shadowcat]], ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics, Armor...)

* From his frequent internal monologues, you would think Hachiman Hikigaya of ''[[Literature/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected My Teen Romantic Comedy Snafu]]'' is a completely friendless person who is as repulsive to others as they are to him. However, he's shown in practice to be fairly socially apt and gathers a circle of friends ([[HaremSeries most of them girls who also seem to have crushes on him]]) in short time. Some, like [[TheAce Hayama]], [[GenkiGirl Yui]], and [[DudeLooksLikeALady Saika]] can be excused because they're friendly with everyone, but even more abrasive characters like [[IceQueen Yukino]], [[WiseBeyondHisYears Saki]], [[AlphaBitch Yumiko]], [[OldMaid his teacher]] take an eventual liking to him, and [[SenpaiKohai Iroha]] ends up idolizing him before they even met due to his ''reputation'', a far cry from the loathed social outcast he frequently refers to himself as. By the end of the series it's pretty clear that the only thing holding Hachiman back from being a social butterfly is his own self-defeatist, cynical attitude.

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* Ashley's theme in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series includes the phrase "I don't have as many friends as you". But [[https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1027976446961242118 as Supper Mario Broth explains]], ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' clearly shows her to have at least 9 friends -- according to polls, this is above average for most age groups.

* Kyoya from ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade'' often refers to himself as an "independent lone lion", but was introduced as the leader of a one hundred blader team in ''Fusion'' and almost always has Benkei at his side. In ''Masters'', he becomes the leader of another team to compete in the Beyblade World Championship and spends half of ''Metal Fury'' traveling with Gingka and the others in search of Legender Bladers. Even when he separates from them, Tithi and Yu eventually take their place as his travel companions. Aguma even calls him out on this at one point.

* From his frequent internal monologues, you would think Hachiman Hikigaya of ''Literature/MyTeenRomanticComedySnafu'' is a completely friendless person who is as repulsive to others as they are to him. However, he's shown in practice to be fairly socially apt and gathers a circle of friends ([[HaremSeries most of them girls who also seem to have crushes on him]]) in short time. Some, like [[TheAce Hayama]], [[GenkiGirl Yui]], and [[DudeLooksLikeALady Saika]] can be excused because they're friendly with everyone, but even more abrasive characters like [[IceQueen Yukino]], [[WiseBeyondHisYears Saki]], [[AlphaBitch Yumiko]], [[OldMaid his teacher]] take an eventual liking to him, and [[SenpaiKohai Iroha]] ends up idolizing him before they even met due to his ''reputation'', a far cry from the loathed social outcast he frequently refers to himself as. By the end of the series it's pretty clear that the only thing holding Hachiman back from being a social butterfly is his own self-defeatist, cynical attitude.