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* An episode of ''Anime/HellGirl'' centers around this. A girl named Minami becomes close friends with another girl named Shiori, who soon starts spending time with other new friends and shutting her out entirely. Enraged at the perceived abandonment, [[DealWithTheDevil Minami enters Shiori's name into the Hell Correspondence]]. Later, Shiori finds herself in the same situation when her other friends leave her for someone else and [[HopeSpot goes back to Minami in response]]. It ends in tragedy when Shiori [[ForegoneConclusion forces Minami to pull the thread on the straw doll]] in hopes of cursing the other girls. [[MagicAIsMagicA Since Shiori is the only one that the doll works on due to her name being entered]], Minami can now only hope that they can be friends when they meet again in Hell.
* The cause of much drama during the Deathtival tournament in ''Manga/KillingBites''. Nodoka had just been harshly beaten up and poisoned while trying to protect her new friend Pure, who then arrives with Tasuku to help her. Nodoka, being blinded by pain and highly mentally unstable, transforms from a giant sloth hybrid to a humongous berserking megatherium and [[spoiler:kills Tasuku in the confusion before being mortally wounded herself by a distraught Pure]].
* In ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'', after Riko [[NewTransferStudent transfers in]], she and Chika quickly become attached. This causes You some angst as she's used to being Chika's best friend, but she's too kind to actually say anything. Eventually, Chika proves that Riko getting extra attention was only temporary while she got used to her new school and that she still cares about You just as much as always.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Pikachu goes through this in Episode 30 of the ''Journeys'' season, due to Ash spending much of his time training and battling with Riolu instead of him. Feeling neglected, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Pikachu storms off in anger]], but they make up at the end of the episode.
* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', the only two real friends Hime has, Mitsuki and Kanoko, are jealous of each other and both qualify for this trope. Hime met Mitsuki in elementary school but parted on bad terms with her, and then met and befriended Kanoko in middle school before reuniting and reconnecting with Mitsuki in high school. As such, Kanoko becomes jealous of Mitsuki's growing closeness with Hime, while Mitsuki is jealous of the connection Hime forged with Kanoko while they were estranged.

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* ''Film/{{Gooby}}'': A contributing factor to Willy and Gooby's friendship failure is that Willy has started to spend too much time with his new friends.

See also JealousPet, TerritorialComicRelief and TerritorialSmurfette. TheTrapParents applies for cases in which a HeartwarmingOrphan's new family take them away from their friends...and then turn out to be evil.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': In a story arc starting with [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2020/11/24 this comic]], Kevin gets jealous at Miles' girlfriend Carla because he fears Miles prefers her over him (they actually hang out because they where assigned as partners for a class project).

* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': At the beginning of the series, Patricia, Joy, and Fabian formed a close circle of friends. Then Joy disappeared and Nina came to the school, earning Patricia's wrath - not only did she assume Nina to be connected to Joy, but she also felt jealous over Fabian becoming Nina's friend instead of hers. This would later extend to her being jealous over Nina becoming close to Amber as well.

* In ''VideoGame/BlackCloset'', one of the potential cases is trying to patch the friendship of two of the students that are strained, one of the variants being due to this. It can be resolved by either persuading the jealous friend, telling the new friend to back off or finding out from the jealous friend's roommate that the former plans to nonlethally MurderTheHypotenuse and putting her in detention afterward. If the case isn't solved in time, [[spoiler:the jealous girl will push the new friend down the stairs]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'': In the episode "Franklin Goes to Day Camp", Franklin and Bear let Possum hang out with them when his best friend, Squirrel, is absent for the day due to being ill. Possum and Bear start to hang out together by joking around with each other throughout the day's activities, and as a result, causes Franklin to become jealous, and feel left out.

** In the episode "Griffon the Brushoff", Rainbow Dash meets an old friend named Gilda, a griffon, and they spend too much time with each other, making Pinkie Pie feel left out. Gilda also acts mean and disrespectful to Pinkie Pie behind Rainbow Dash's back. Pinkie Pie tells Twilight about this, but she just implies that she's just jealous of Gilda. Pinkie Pie isn't the only person Gilda is mean to; she's also like this to Granny Smith and even [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]], of all people. Pinkie Pie decides to get back at her by pulling a variety of party pranks on her, which causes Gilda to finally snap. She insults everyone as well as yelling at Pinkie Pie for setting her up. In reality [[spoiler: it was Rainbow Dash who set up the pranks]]. Rainbow Dash gets super disappointed at Gilda for her sour attitude towards her friends and tells her to go find some "new cooler friends" somewhere else.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': In a story arc starting with [[https://www.gocomics.com/crabgrass/2020/11/24 this comic]], Kevin gets jealous at Miles' girlfriend Carla because he fears Miles prefers her over him (they actually hang out because they where assigned as partners for a class project)

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Part of the reason why Chloe [[TheResenter resents Ash so much]] is because of how easily he bonded with her ChildhoodFriend Goh. Complicating matters further is that she and Goh have been growing increasingly distant for years due to his [[GoalInLife obsessive pursuit of Mew]], and the two are helping her father out with his Pokémon research, unaware of how neglected she feels.
** In Part 2 of the same story, Goh feels this way over seeing Trip and it gets worse when he learns that [[spoiler:Ash and Trip are together as boyfriends.]]

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Exaggerated in the episode,"[=iReuniteWithMissy=]", Carly's old friend, Missy, moves to Seattle and makes Sam feel left out and that she is going to replace her. She also believes that Missy is out to get her after sending her to a piñata factory, dropping her phone into [[BrandX Wahoo Punch]] and giving her expired chocolates, but Carly thinks that [[YoureJustJealous she's just jealous]] of Missy. She also [[BitchInSheepsClothing exposes her true colors]] to Sam that she wants to reclaim her position as Carly's only best friend and uses "paranoia" against her after Sam gets angry at her for all of this. Freddie gives the overseas trip to Missy and she rubs it all over Sam's face that she's not going to sabotage her friendship with Carly, at which point Carly overhears this and figures out the truth of Missy's motivations, ending her friendship with her.

* In ''VideoGame/BlackCloset'', one of the potential cases is trying to patch the friendship of two of the students that are strained, one of the variants being due to this. It can be resolved by either persuading the jealous friend, telling the new friend to back off or finding out from the jealous friend's roommate that the former plans to nonlethally MurderTheHypotenuse and putting her in detention afterward. If the case isn't solved in time [[spoiler: the jealous girl will push the new friend down the stairs.]]

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Exaggerated in the episode,"[=iReuniteWithMissy=]", Carly's old friend, Missy, moves to Seattle and makes Sam feel like left out and that she is going to replace her. She also believes that Missy is out to get her after sending her to a piñata factory, dropping her phone into [[BrandX Wahoo Punch]] and giving her expired chocolates, but Carly thinks that [[YoureJustJealous she's just jealous]] of Missy. She also [[BitchInSheepsClothing exposes her true colors]] to Sam that she wants to reclaim her position as Carly's only best friend and uses "paranoia" against her after Sam gets angry at her for all of this. Freddie gives the overseas trip to Missy and she rubs it all over Sam's face that she's not going to sabotage her friendship with Carly, at which point Carly overhears this and figures out the truth of Missy's motivations, ending her friendship with her.

* An episode of ''Anime/HellGirl'' centers around this. A girl named Minami becomes close friends with another girl named Shiori, who soon starts spending time with other new friends and shutting her out entirely. Enraged at the perceived abandonment, [[DealWithTheDevil Minami enters Shiori's name into the Hell Correspondence]]. Later, Shiori finds herself in the same situation when her other friends leave her for someone else and [[HopeSpot goes back to Minami in response]]. It ends in tragedy when Shiori [[ForegoneConclusion forces Minami to pull the thread on the straw doll]] in hopes of cursing the other girls. [[MagicAIsMagicA Since Shiori is the only one that the doll works on due to her name being entered]], Minami can now only hope that they can be friends when they meet again in Hell.
* ''Anime/CyberTeamInAkihabara'': In the early episodes, Suzume starts growing jealous of Tsugumi when the latter easily befriends Hibari, with whom she's been best friends since childhood. The two eventually overcome the animosity [[FireForgedFriends after some battles together]].

* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis'': At the beginning of the series, Patricia, Joy, and Fabian formed a close circle of friends. Then Joy disappeared and Nina came to the school, earning Patricia's wrath - not only did she assume Nina to be connected to Joy, but she also felt jealous over Fabian becoming Nina's friend instead of hers. This would later extend to her being jealous over Nina becoming close to Amber as well.