History Main / SpotlightStealingSquad

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* The Three Fairies in ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' and Maleficent (who is also a fairy) are really the main characters. Not only do they get the most (if not all) screentime, but every action that Philip makes is initiated or aided by the fairies. Arguably, this isn't as much of a bad thing as it's actually a bit different for [[Literature/SleepingBeauty the fairy tale]] to be told from the perspective of the fairies.

* The Disney adaption of ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' places heavy spotlight on Tigger, and later Roo (both only minor characters in the original novels) with [[OutOfFocus Pooh occasionally acting as a mere side character]]; both characters have even gained their own starring full length features. Granted since both characters were {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s initially, [[TropesAreNotBad this decision hasn't fared quite as badly as other examples]].

* Franchise/{{Batman}} has the tendency to do this in the WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies in which he is a supporting character. The worst offenders would probably be ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'' and ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse''.
** He steals the line itself. His name is in 5. He's also in all the Justice League movies, bringing the Bat up to eight movies.

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' movies have Timon & Pumbaa add the comic relief to them and are considered the most popular characters in the series, which of course led to [[WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa the weekly animated series]] and third movie focusing solely on them. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d on ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''
-->'''Simba:''' Those guys always get all the attention.
* Despite being the titular character of the movie, Disney/{{Aladdin}} is usually overlooked when it comes to merchandise, which tends to focus on [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Jasmine]] & Rajah, Genie, or Iago instead.

* On the topic of World War II... Depending on where you live, this may not apply to you. However, if you live in America, World War II was basically "Germans vs America, with Japan being involved only on December 7th, 1941 and August 6th, 1945." Many Americans would be shocked to discover that Italy was also an enemy. In other words, Germany stole the spotlight from all the other Axis powers.
And the "Big Three" Axis powers in general stole the spotlight from those that allied with them... such as Russia, for a time being, and Iran.
** In terms of battles, there was only Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and the Battle of Berlin. Everything else was just a skirmish between small squads. Between America and Germany. Only. If Japan is mentioned, it's probably about Okinawa, the kamikaze fighters, or Midway. If Russia is mentioned, it's only Stalingrad.
* The Korean War is called the "Forgotten War" for a reason... Being placed in between World War II— which was the greatest human conflict of all time— and Vietnam— which took place smack dab in TheSixties just to start— Korea was marred by few memorable controversies, generally clear frontlines... and one of the highest American fatality rates in military history, on top of being the closest point the world has ever come to Nuclear War, save the Cuban Missile Crisis. For some reason, it's only "remembered" whenever North Korea plays world troller.

* Eurocentricity applies in and of itself. Really, if you live in the West and are an average person, do you know a single goddamn thing about African history circa 400 BC to 1200 AD that doesn't involve slaves or pyramids, or Chinese history after the first dynasty was formed, without mentioning gunpowder? Or anything about Native American history (granted, most of it was oral tradition) besides that they were a part of the first Thanksgiving?
** After all, the "greatest events in history," such as the Plague, the Renaissance, the Dark Ages, generally the World Wars, the French Revolution, etc. took place ''wheeere?'' I suppose you don't know what was going down in India or Nigeria in 1650 do you?

** Ash's Charizard has a tendency to take the spotlight every time he appears. Even back when he was a Charmander he got alot off dedicated episodes and after leaving to train he has come back the most of all Ash's reserve mons. [[spoiler:And now he's back, not "Here to help with the current fight" back, "Here to be in the team for the rest of the arc" back.]]

* WordOfGod says it that Ben became this in ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

** ''Lost'' also clearly played favorites with its distribution of spotlight episodes. For example, in the first season of 24 episodes (and 14 main characters), Jack got three spotlight episodes just to himself, Shannon got... none. Basically, if your name was Jack, Kate, Locke, Sawyer, Hurley, Sun or Jin, you were guaranteed lots of centric episodes, everyone else was lucky to get one a season, if that.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The films are an example of this as they focus excessively on the Gotei 13 characters to the exclusion of other characters, even the rest of the human TrueCompanions. In the manga, TiteKubo has so many characters to rotate through that it can sometimes seem like this trope is in effect when really it's a case of LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters needing to go through periods of being OutOfFocus so that everything and everyone can be covered.

* Later episodes of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' seemed to ditch the idea that the show was about ''all'' the friends, and focused almost exclusively on Rachel. Other characters would rarely get their own story arcs unless Rachel was involved in some way.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine.'' Admittedly the series is named after him, but in season 8 he is the focus of nearly every episode, with few left over for the other members of the "Steam Team" (Henry, Edward and Toby probably suffering the worst). By season 9 the other Steam Team members have only one episode centred on them, the new standard gauge characters of that season are overshadowed by his appearances and even when he doesn't play ''any'' part in an episode plot (such as the episode "Skarloey The Brave") he's forced to make an obligatory appearance. Some updated music videos of the season 8, now featuring the CGI footage now focus ''solely'' on Thomas. It's gotten to the point where he's borderlining on being a CreatorsPet.

* As a result of being MerchandiseDriven, ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' suffers from this quite a bit. Whenever new toys are released, their characters are going to push older characters into the background. In particular, the end of series 2 of TheOriginalSeries featured very few characters who weren't Combiners, and after TheMovie, the Combiners themselves were relegated to playing second fiddle to Rodimus' FiveManBand and the reformatted Decepticons. Later on, they themselves were driven out to allow the Headmasters to take centre stage; unfortunately, all the other characters became mush less competent soon after the Headmasters were introduced. ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' took a step away from this, introducing the Pretenders in a ContinuityReboot.

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* On later seasons of ''Series/TheWestWing'', C.J. Cregg started to get a lot more focus and episodes like [[DocumentaryEpisode "Access"]] and "The Long Goodbye", an EmmyBait episode which focused entirely on C.J. dealing with her father's Alzheimers. In season 6, it stretched WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief when she [[spoiler:became Chief of Staff, a job she was unqualified for and should have gone to Josh or Toby]]. Not that she was a bad character or actress; AllisonJanney won several Emmys for the role and deserved them.

** Sasuke Uchiha. So much so that the manga's entire [[MythArc mythology]] goes back to ancestors, because he gets that much focus.

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* ''Manga/{{Mai-HiME}}'': In comparison to the [[Anime/{{Mai-HiME}} original anime]], the manga focuses more on Yuuichi Tate and his misadventures at school than those of the girls fighting to save it.

* In more recent ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' comics, Emma Frost seems to be stealing much attention away from women who have been in the book much longer because they've been removed in different ways. Jean Grey and {{Storm}} (whose shoes she both now fills) had a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on her]] and got married off respectively. Shadowcat was PutOnABus (or trapped in a missile). Rogue was put in a coma. Psylocke was outside the reality with the Comicbook/{{Exiles}}. Regardless of the changing status of those characters, Emma is still the most prominent. Smacks of UnfortunateImplications in that Emma is put in the spotlight for sex appeal, as though all those other women somehow aren't sexy enough.

* The easiest way to spot a MarySue. Heck, it's practically the defintion of Mary Sues.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' fandom will often do this to Ianto Jones. For example, in stories that take place in the Year That Never Was, Ianto will [[SpotlightStealingSquad suddenly show up]] and [[PossessionSue defeat the Master often by himself.]] In canon, Ianto was a [[BattleButler genuinely badass character]], but so were [[TheCaptain Jack]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes Martha]] and [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]].

* The final film in the Film/{{Blade}} trilogy, ''Blade: Trinity'', is a victim of this. Instead of the film focusing on Blade, a group of hunters get the most attention with Blade showing up, every-now-and-again. The film suffered a huge backlash by the fans because of this and Wesley Snipes even sued, claiming they were whitewashing him for his own film franchise.
** However, given the myriad of rumours that Wesley Snipes ''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement allegedly]]'' couldn't be bothered to show up on set most of the time, leaving his stunt double having to perform most of the filming in his place; if true, then it's not entirely surprising that Blade ultimately doesn't appear much?
* {{Discussed|Trope}} by the filmmakers of ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' in the case of Creator/JohnnyDepp, who took what was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen intended to be a secondary character]], went wild in the wardrobe department (without [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney's permission]]) and pulled focus on every opportunity. Elizabeth was the main protagonist, Will was originally supposed to be an ErrolFlynn-esque romantic hero with Jack Sparrow as the LoveableRogue, {{big brother|Mentor}} {{sidekick}} instead of the StraightMan to Depp's EnsembleDarkHorse AntiHero. In hindsight, of course, Depp was marketed as the star of the film.

* Alice in ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movies - nobody else can do anything even remotely important or even act like competent person, only she can.

* ''TheGhostAndTheDarkness'' features the (fictitious) American GreatWhiteHunter Remington as a co-star equal to John Henry Patterson. Screenwriter William Goldman claims Remington was a minor character in the script, but that producer-actor Michael Douglas significantly inflated the role during production.

* Big One from ''JAKQDengekitai''. He comes right the fuck out of nowhere, becomes the leader of the team, shoves them all (leader included) to the side, and is the focus of everything and absolutely perfect... and then becomes one of the series' mascot once JAKQ is included in the Franchise/SuperSentai. [[TropesAreNotBad This was, however, intentional and welcomed by the fans]] since before Big One appeared, the series was suffering in ratings, and his arrival did let the show run for some more episodes.

* ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' the series itself is a SSS in relation to its fellow ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series. While most ''KR'' shows simply get one season and one movie, ''Den-O'' has a grand total of either five or seven movies depending on how you count it[[note]]The fifth and most recent was a trilogy of three short movies, each focusing on a different hero[[/note]]. Furthermore, three of those movies have been crossovers with other ''Franchise/KamenRider'' shows, but the other shows' characters get token cameos at best. On top of that, Den-O also gets a starring role in the [[MilestoneCelebration franchise 40th anniversary movie]], over everyone else except the [[Series/KamenRider original]] and [[KamenRiderOOO current]] Riders.

* The Fonz on ''Series/HappyDays'', who went from supporting character, to supporting character living in the garage of the main characters, to the spotlight character, to the point where the show [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]] by having the Fonz literally jump a shark.
** Henry Winkler is on record as not supporting the excessive focus. At one point they wanted to call the show "Fonzie's Happy Days," but Winkler vetoed the change. He even turned down a spin-off, while encouraging his cast mates to do their own.

* In the ''[[BeverlyHills90210 90210]]'' sequel, the focus of the show shifted from the Wilson family to Naomi somewhere between seasons 2 and 3.

* An interesting example - "Moody's Point" on ''TheAmandaShow''. While it was certainly well-written and funny, it would take up most of the show.

* Most people prefer Hatsune Miku of Music/{{Vocaloid}} over all the other ''twenty-two'' Vocaloids (and over nintey if you count the fan made ones). The fans themselves even put a ''{{lampshade|Hanging}}'' on it by creating her [[TheWoobie Woobie]] counterpart, Haku Yowane, who's [[DrowningMySorrows always drinking]] because she knows she'll never be as good or popular as Miku.

* During TheEighties, Music/{{Genesis}} morphed into [[FaceOfTheBand The Phil Collins Band]], to the point where radio [=DJs=] would introduce Genesis songs as "another one from Music/PhilCollins". A one-man SpotlightStealingSquad for sure.

* In the really old school, see: Wrestling/HulkHogan in the WWF and WCW, and Dusty Rhodes in Jim Crockett Promotions/NWA. Ironically, Pro Wrestling NOAH could use more of this instead of the booker-wrestler ''de''valuing himself to get over a young guy... who then fails to get over due to weak early title defenses, drops the belt to an "old guard" guy and promptly drops back to midcard hell.
** And Wrestling/HulkHogan's now doing it again to Wrestling/{{TNA}}. Luckily, as time went on it got significantly better.
* DefiedTrope: Wrestling/VinceMcMahon came out to take credit for the actions of Wrestling/WadeBarrett and TheNexus, much like how his daughter Wrestling/{{Stephanie|McMahon}} had arisen as the mastermind behind the ECW revival in 2001. Barrett and his men proceeded to ''beat Vince senseless'' in response. (We guess that'll teach him not to ride other heels' coattails, especially since he's retired from wrestling now.)

** Hell, Cena's been stealing the spotlight from the WWE Championship for a while now. The first few months of the year it was understandable - he was headlining WrestleMania with ''Wrestling/TheRock'' in the latter's first 'Mania match in ''years''. After that, however, it was unjustifiable. He stole the spotlight from Wrestling/CMPunk, who is the ''WWE Champion'', at Extreme Rules, which took place in Punk's ''hometown of Chicago'', while Punk was in a nicely dubbed ''Chicago'' Street Fight with ArchEnemy Wrestling/ChrisJericho, all because he was in a match with ''Wrestling/BrockLesnar'', who doesn't have nearly as much star power as Wrestling/TheRock does. Then his match with ''Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis'' headlined Over The Limit over '''CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship'''. That last one is why Punk's fan base didn't diminish at all when he turned heel - when a match like ''that'' goes after you, even though you're the WWE Champion, you have a legitimate reason to be angry.

* Wrestling/TripleH in 2011 since he became [=COO=], which could be summed up as this: We went from the "Summer of [[Wrestling/CMPunk Punk]]" to the "Autumn of HHH."
** Though the focus on The Game eventually died down after October, when he was ousted as the Raw General Manager and replaced with Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis. Trips would then be injured by Wrestling/KevinNash and actually didn't show up until December to exact his revenge.

* ESPN, especially its flagship program SportsCenter, usually gets accused of basically just being "NFL Live", with all non-football athletes being DemotedToExtra.

** TSOALR reports this has been [[http://tsoalr.com/?p=1120 recently reversed.]]

** This is fully noticeable in the recent lineup of codex releases. Prior to 5th edition, Space Marines would be released at the start of the edition, with maybe their Chaos Counterparts getting a later release. After that all of the other codex releases would be of the other races and factions. After 5th Edition, there appears to be an unspoken rule that there must be at least one space marine codex release between each other "non space marine" codex. When they actually ran out of codexes to update, the Daemonhunters got demoted into the aforementioned "Grey Knights" and was now deemed a "space marine" codex.

** [[http://cdn2.spong.com/pack/s/o/soulblade7457/_-Soul-Blade-PlayStation-_.jpg From the look of the box art of SoulBlade]], you wouldn't really think much of the blond haired guy right? Well, that guy is Siegfried Schtauffen, who has effectively become the main character since [=SoulCalibur=] 1 despite not owning the titular sword until IV. He's the only character to own both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur at different points in the series becoming BOTH the BigBad and TheHero. You can even see how important he became overtime by comparing his [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091210083736/soulcalibur/images/0/0a/Soul_Edge_-_Siegfried.jpg original concept art]] and his [[http://images.wikia.com/soulcalibur/images/e/ed/Siegfried-schtauffen-in-soul-calibur-4.jpg artwork in IV]]. Of course, this ended up making him a [[TropesAreTools likable character]].

* In TalesOfEternia, Rassius appears to be important [[spoiler: and important enough for everyone to mourn his death and treat it as a major plot point.]] despite that the story put so much emphasis on him and Farah when he was in the party.

* Thanks to Strong Bad Emails being the most popular segment on the site, Strong Bad tends to appear in more ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' toons than the titular character.
** This is even lampshaded when Strongbad tells Homestar that no one comes to HR.com site to see Homestar.

* ''N Fans The Series'', a comic that actually played the SelfInsert cast rather well was rather ''notorious'' for having a SpotlightStealingSquad, consisting mostly of Webster Swenson and Pchan (Both the main author and the best friend OF said main author respectively). This wasn't as apparent in the comic's early days (Even when the cast consisted only of about 6 people), but when the cast expanded to have LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, it became highly evident that at least half of the cast was going to be just shown as being in a crowd or fall almost completely to the wayside in favour of Webster Swenson and Pchan.

** It the recent storylines have exploded in length. According to the once-kept stats page, Elliot and Grace are still far and above in the most strips and central characters in the most storylines, but you'd never know because you've spent the last four or so years in Tedd's living room and the girl's bathroom at school. And of course, out of those last four years, we've gotten [[ScheduleSlip eighteen month's worth of actual comic]].
** Now that the most recent Ellen/Nanase arc has ended, Dan has taken his fandom's advice and is keeping them very much in the background, focusing on the characters he's been neglecting. It helps that one of the most interesting parts of Nanase's character, her magic, [[spoiler:has been lost for a few months AND Elliot has enough to keep the fans happy]].
* While the author of ''WebComic/SkinDeep'' has stated that it was about ''everyone'' and not ''just'' Michelle, the recent comic arcs since 2009 have pretty much seemingly aborted the arc that was being built up in the comic's early days, since now it's pretty much randomness and transformation in England. However; as of late 2011, the focus has gone back to Michelle.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' may as well just be "The [[FunnyAnimal Brian]] and [[EnfantTerrible Stewie]] Show" in its more recent seasons. Peter hasn't really suffered from it, but Chris and Lois have (whereas Meg's been OutOfFocus for most of the show).

** And they will apparently be the main characters of the [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120714223148/familyguy/images/3/3f/Yugyamilf.png 200th]] episode. Let's face it, it's ''all'' about them now.

** Raph seemed to be this in the first and second movie too, one possibility is that Raph tends to get into conflict which pushes the plot of the movie faster; in a long show they have more time to develop the characters. It was said that Leo was the "main" character of the 2k3 cartoon. It seemed like it was "Leo and his brothers" in other media as well.

* Lance from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}''.

** This more accurately made it's way into ''TheRailwaySeries'' novels the show is based on as well. While Thomas was little more than a semi regular in the original series, following it's revival by Christopher Awdry, more and more Thomas stories were pressured to be made in order to tie in with the show. Though Awdry did occasionally find clever ways of working round this and focusing on other characters instead ("Thomas Comes Home" for example, despite it's title, features the character at the end of only one story), he clearly became the most focused character, with most novels situated around his branch line.

* UsefulNotes/SarahPalin: She started out as just a potential vice president and now a lot of people seem obsessed with her for some reason. A surprising number of people even have trouble remembering whose running mate she originally was.
** At times it felt like the GOP ticket was Palin/[=McCain=].

** His most recent special expands Achmed's role [[UpToEleven even further]] (both solo and with his half-dead long-lost son.) He takes up roughly 60% of the show, forcing Peanut and Jose Jalapeno-on-a-stick to be introduced ''at the same time'' to make room. If anything, the puppets like Melvin and Sweet Daddy D managed to suffer this the most; even Bubba because in a 2010 performance, the ''audience'' knew his routine better than ''Jeff'' did.
* Even in death, Music/MichaelJackson managed to be a one-man SpotlightStealingSquad. If you saw the news ''at all'' during the summer months of 2009, chances are, it was about Michael Jackson. In comparison, very little attention was given to other celebrity deaths during the same month such as Ed [=McMahon=], Farrah Fawcett (who passed just before Michael), BillyMays, and David Carradine.
** Bonus points for being the top story overshadowing the military coup in Honduras

* WorldWarII has long since taken the spotlight of WorldWarOne in world history. The most notable reasons for this include its larger scale and consequences (more countries were involved meaning a greater scale of death and destruction and the resulting ColdWar had a much larger effect on the global balance of power than World War I did), film evolving more during that era meaning more civilians were exposed to what was going on, and that more veterans of World War II are alive today than from World War I (given that it started '''99''' years ago in 1914 the last veteran left - Florence Green, who served as a waitress for Women's Royal Air Force - died February 4, 2012 at the age of 110).

** Music/{{Beyonce}} herself is the SpotlightStealingSquad usually, especially when she was in Music/DestinysChild but no one paid attention to the other girls. See music above.

** Hell, Cena's been stealing the spotlight from the WWE Championship for a while now. The first few months of the year it was understandable - he was headlining WrestleMania with ''Wrestling/TheRock'' in the latter's first 'Mania match in ''years''. After that, however, it was unjustifiable. He stole the spotlight from Wrestling/CMPunk, who is the ''WWE Champion'', at Extreme Rules, which took place in Punk's ''hometown of Chicago'', while Punk was in a nicely dubbed ''Chicago'' Street Fight with ArchEnemy Wrestling/ChrisJericho, all because he was in a match with ''Wrestling/BrockLesnar'', who doesn't have nearly as much star power as Wrestling/TheRock does. Then his match with ''Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis'' headlined Over The Limit over '''CM Punk vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship'''.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny 2''. The focus was so fixed on Kyle and Reala that there's no special arc to develop other characters like Loni, Nanaly, Harold and Judas (even though he was [[spoiler:Leon Magnus, the prequel's EnsembleDarkHorse]]), making them, especially Loni and Nanaly, look almost like {{Flat Character}}s.
** Ironically, ''Tales of Eternia'', which was called ''Tales of Destiny II'' in North America also suffers from this, since Chat and Max play little more than support characters and are in fact borderline optional since their abilities come from sidequests.
*** Also in Tales of Eternia, Rassius appears to be important [[spoiler: and important enough for everyone to mourn his death and treat it as a major plot point.]] despite that the story put so much emphasis on him and Farah when he was in the party.
* Karol in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' can be seen as a spotlight stealing character since he gets quite a bit of scenes showing him change from a cowardly little boy who got kicked out of every guild he tried to join to a strong hearted warrior.
** Especially since [[spoiler:Raven secretly being Schwann]] was treated as relatively minor story twist.

* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' started as an ensemble piece, but due to a combination of factors [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment which will not be speculated on here]], very quickly became The Lady Mary Show, with everyone else's storylines getting shafted. Lady Mary only avoids CreatorsPet because a sizable portion of the fanbase still adores her. Granted, Michelle Dockery is a talented actress and carries it off with aplomb, but given the star power and sheer talent of the rest of the cast, it's still annoying.

** Rarity has been getting a fair share of episodes in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. This would later change when she had no focus episodes for all of season three.
** The Cutie Mark Crusaders are a more fitting example(s), so far getting more episodes than the Mane Six in Season 2 while getting supporting roles & the occasional cameo in others.
*** Season three has had a notable pattern so far. Non CMC episode...CMC episode. Non-CMC episode...then a CMC episode. Season three however has been showing them [[CharacterDevelopment avoiding the more serious symptoms of this trope and actually get character development]].
** The Apple family are getting more focus since Season 2 with at least one episode focusing on each of the four, as well as one for all four of them.
*** The third season puts this UpToEleven by making Applejack the only character to appear ''and'' have speaking lines in every episode of the season.
** Rainbow Dash has been leaning as such since Season Two, having the largest number of individual spotlight episodes and arguably the most extensive CharacterDevelopment after Twilight Sparkle (the ironically downplayed "lead" character).
** Princess Luna, after being rescued by the main cast in the series premiere, was not seen again until over a year later and continues to make very sporadic appearances (not more than once or twice per season), while her older sister (and supposed "equal"), Princess Celestia, often features in episodes as a supporting character.

* Many people believed this to be the case with Toshiro Hitsugaya from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', who ranks as the most popular character of the series and later got to star in his own movie. On the other hand, maybe Kubo's just responding to his [[EnsembleDarkHorse popularity with the fans]].
** The ''whole'' Gotei 13 qualify as the movies are more likely to focus on them and the Fake Kanakura Town arc excludes everyone else up to and including Ichigo himself.

** This is emphasized even further in the 1999 ''Tenchi Muyo!'' movie, ''Tenchi Forever!'', whose ending implies that [[spoiler:Tenchi is attracted to Ryoko, and the Tenchi/Ryoko pairing is in the cards]], which amazingly makes this a Tenchi timeline that doesn't utilize the TenchiSolution.

* Michael Jordon stole the spotlight from Magic Johnson and Larry Bird during the late 80s and into the 90s.

* Season 3 of ''StationeryVoyagers'' very nearly turns into The Liquidon and Cindy Show. And as for the painful breakup when Cindy [[spoiler: becomes a Glowmatti to save everyone]] near the beginning of season 4? Only Rhodney has a more painful separation from his lover. Of course, that's before [[spoiler: The Mystery Wanderer]] decides "screw this" and nearly hijacks the entire plot.

** Henry Winkler is on record as not supporting the excessive focus. At one point they wanted to call the show "Fonzie's Happy Days," but Winkler vetoed the change.