Characters who are treated poorly by the majority in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- All For Luz: Luz Noceda was this before the events of the story.
- In chapter 14, Luz still has the reputation of the strange kid, now with less to do with the fact that she was overall goofy and more to do with the fact that she was silent and barely talked to anyone.
- Even more so after her role in the Death Camp gets exposed, thanks to Fantastic Racism and the manipulations of a Dirty Cop Sheriff.
- Dangan-Pinguino: While not much has been mentioned so far, it’s all but mentioned that Chiaki was this prior to attending Hope's Peak Academy, as she mentions that Chihiro is the first friend to ever visit her. A flashback at Chapter 12 even mentions that her peers, and even other adults, considered her as a "freak" since she was young. The fact that she has a bruise under her eye when Mayuri encountered her at that time, doesn’t help matters at all.
- The dark never consumes all, for the light remains within its core: Marinette is bullied and excluded to certain events by her own classmates, especially to events she had planned and scheduled herself for all of them to enjoy. This includes having her reservation for a hotel room cancelled when they left her behind.
- The Dragon and the Bow: Both Hiccup and Fishlegs have been looked down on their whole lives for their intellectual ways, and Merida is also treated poorly at first for being a Highlander. It is revealed in the past Gobber faced this for being half-Highlander, though except for a few individuals, he is largely accepted by the village.
- Fallout: Equestria, Littlepip grew up as Stable 2's despised outcast and scapegoat, not only because she was the bastard daughter of the Stable's resident drunk and her cutie mark was so generic, but because she was a lesbian. Even when she pulls a Big Damn Heroes and breaks the Steel Ranger siege on the Stable, they start treating her like a hero and offer to let her come back to the stable but she refuses to come back because she still has a job to do.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: According to Servantis, Phobos was hated long before he seized the throne, merely for existing — many saw him as an unnatural creature that was never meant to exist, others as a danger to the power held by the Escanor line.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail:
- Chloe Cerise felt like this because she doesn't like Pokémon like her friends, family or classmates do. This later expands on any of her likes, particularly those of the macabre, that make people call her a "Monster Lover" and has her bury her interests even more. Chloe even tells Lexi that she is specifically mocked because she's so different.
- In The Plush Penguin Car, Nico, a sea salt ice cream penguin, is picked on because he has a love of bagels. Even though their society is quite lenient on making foods based on their ice cream flavors, Nico states that they just picked on him because he was different and others joined in because they didn't want to be the next punching bag.
- Mad World (Invader Zim): Like in canon, Dib and Squee are both outcasts.
- In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku is incredibly lonely despite having superpowers that make him the envy of his peers. He gets this treatment because everyone is terrified of what he could do to them if they were to piss him off, as he nearly killed Katsuki Bakugou by accident when they got into a brawl as kids. His own self-loathing over his alien identity (who the whole world would hate and discriminate against) and his massive guilt complex only exacerbates the issue, as he reinforces his own treatment by purposefully distancing himself from others so he won't hurt them.
- Peace of Mind, Piece of Heart: Butter Brickle, a popsicle child, is shunned by his community not only because he managed to survive a violent passenger raid that claimed the lives of many others a few years ago, but also because he continues to befriend all the travelers that pass through the train car.
- The Terminators: Army of Legend, a military supercrossover series features the protagonists, having been Child Soldiers, ostracized by the rest of their peers and bullied because of their brutal past. It also doesn't help that Alpha Company itself is comprised of a collection of familiar children-oriented characters.
- Frozen Hearts (Red Witch): Simon suffers from this even before he became the Ice King. As a human, he is ostracized by other people due to his strange habits with Betty's friends trying to convince her to just cancel the engagement. As the Ice King, many people call him a freak to the point that soldiers are sent just to kill him. Also when Finn thinks that being the only one of their kind is awesome, Marceline proceeds to shoot back as to how being a Half-Human Hybrid caused her to be discriminated by everyone including humans and demons.
- In Book 5: Legends we have Temuji, born an albino with mystical power that inherently seems to frighten people, especially as a child. His mother is (seemingly) the only one whom loves him unconditionally, and losing her is what ultimately sets him on his path of Darkness.
- This is Nami's backstory in the The Legend of Genji. Because of her chaotic spiritual powers, she was seen as the weird kid in her hometown and grew up with no friends. Her inability to waterbend also made her a target for bullying at the private waterbending school she attended. She moved to Air Temple Island in hopes of learning how to control her powers, but still feels isolated from the other Air Acolytes and struggles to adapt to their culture.
- In Flip a Coin, Barry Allen expounds on his past and reveals that he was never really able to outrun his father's crime until he was an adult, so he had few friends until then.
- In The Secret Life of the Backyard Kids, people treat Jorge poorly because he's a wizard and some people don't think wizards are "normal" humans.
- Swinging Pendulum: Ichigo is isolated and decried by many of the other students due to his genius and connection to the Shiba clan. He finds it very petty. A small number of the other students, on the other hand, are big fans of his due to his obvious skill and dedication, but Ichigo can't stand the kind of treatment fans give him. Thus, he pretty much ignores or avoids most of the other students.
- Asuka is bullied and ignored by other students for being a bastard child of a noble family and a Shrinking Violet. One time, a bunch of students went a little too far in their bullying of Asuka and Rangiku...while Ichigo was still present. Needless to say, the events that followed ensured that no one would dare to bully either of them again, whether or not Ichigo was around.
- Guardian shows Lulu being isolated as a child because her magical prowess unnerves other kids. She's out-of-place at Bevelle's temple later because of her grief and growing sense of doubt. Yuna, meanwhile, is actively mistreated by the clerics for the crime of being Braska's daughter, and Lulu notes how quickly they about-face once Braska defeats Sin.
- In The New Retcons, Elly attempts to justify how she'd taken Robin's hearing aid away by claiming she didn't want him to be teased and isolated by his classmates. However, it's heavily implied that she was more concerned that she might be judged for having a grandchild who requires such assistance.
- As a child, Elly personally picked on a girl with braces, calling her "Tin grin" and incessantly teasing her. When she got in trouble, she claimed "everyone was thinking it," and that she only got in trouble for being open with her scorn and disdain. So there's no small amount of Psychological Projection involved here, as well — SHE would have bullied Robin for needing a hearing aid, therefore kids these days are no different.
- Mudsnake: All her life Hermione has either been bullied for her intellect or her magical abilities.
- Returning: Scorpius Malfoy is isolated because of his family's reputation, although it's primarily within his house. His Only Friend is Lyra, who is a Book Dumb Inept Mage in Ravenclaw.
- The Hunger Games Prequel Collection features a character named Astrid who is rejected by everyone in District 3 apart from her mother and brother because she is rumoured to be the daughter of a Peacekeeper. (This is eventually confirmed.) Even winning the Forty-first Hunger Games does nothing to improve her situation; in fact, it leads to her being accused of winning because the Capitol rigged the Games to make sure "a Capitol girl" got out of the arena alive.
- The New Adventures of Invader Zim: Like in canon, Dib is a pariah among the skoolchildren, a status which rubs off on the twins when they team up with him. Bitterly lampshaded in Episode 7, when Dib comments on the upside of being able to go wherever he wants because no one cares if he's not present at skool.
- The Dark Fic Nobody Asked
is a very good deconstruction of this trope. In a world where Zim's successfully conquered Earth, Dib and all his classmates are now enslaved by the Irkens and condemned to (seemingly pointless) hard labor — and none of them can speak to or even make eye contact with Dib, out of guilt over the fact that they never believed him and treated him like crap. Later, when Dib manages to steal a ship and escape the planet to get help from the Resisty, until the last moment he debates with himself whether or not to just keep going, to abandon Earth the fate he feels it earned for itself. Ultimately, his hero complex wins out.
- Destiny Intertwined: There is a very deep and bitter rift between Warfang dragons and dark dragons. As a result, Hayze, the only Shadow dragon in Warfang, is openly distrusted and avoided and frequently considered a threat waiting to happen.
- Break My Fall: Blue's widely known throughout school for being a "bad boy," so people avoid him like the plague.
- The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (DragonRand100): Link is referred to as the boy without a fairy and is teased by many of the Kokiri for it, namely Mido and his cronies. They also tease him for his height as that makes him stand out compared to the other Kokiri which turns out to be due to Link being a Hylian. Despite this, after the seven year gap, the Kokiri come to recognize Link and they accept him as a Kokiri in their hearts.
- In Cheshire, Marinette is bullied and isolated by her classmates and ignored by the school staff thanks to Chloé's influence. As Cheshire, meanwhile, she's hunted by the other Miraculous holders, who are convinced that she's just another villainous Black Cat.
- In Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises, Morgan is falsely convicted for stalking at the beginning of the story, was put under house arrest for half a year, and transfers to a new school where her criminal record hangs over her. No one seems to trust her much at the beginning.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Bride of Discord:
- Discord reveals to Fluttershy that he received this treatment from ponies as a child, due to his bizarre appearance, leading to him becoming a recluse and setting the stage for the person he would become.
- Luckily this mostly averted in the sequel Daughter of Discord with his daughter Screwball, who does sadly face bullying from her peers and prejudice from older ponies, but still has a loving family and multiple True Companions to stand by her growing up.
- Played straight with Mothball, who faces resentment from his whole hive/family out of envy, because Queen Chrysalis chose him to be her heir over them, despite the only difference between him and her other children being he was born with a more naturally regal look than them.
- Past Sins: Granny Smith has publicly come out as saying that Nyx cannot be trusted, and she's an influential voice. As explored in the side story "Winter Bells", Shining Armor — traumatized by his susceptibility to mind spells and fearful that Nyx might somehow cause him to lose Twilight Sparkle — nurses a deep grudge against her. Thankfully, he appears to be the only member of the family to carry such a grudge.
- In We're Gonna Get There Soon, Derpy Hooves is the resident klutz and Butt-Monkey. She's the target of much teasing and disrespect, making her very insecure.
- In Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto, Asuma reveals that he's just as reviled among the shinobi as Naruto is among civilians but with the difference that he deserves their scorn. Among his crimes are abandoning Konoha shortly after the Nine Tails attack and trying to pick a fight with Kakashi (the only friend he had left) by trash talking his dead team and father.
- In Catch Your Breath, this is the case with Obito. In addition to being generally treated like a dead weight by his classmates for being weak, no one within his clan adopted him after his parents died. It turns out that this is because he is Madara's sole living descendant. He didn't know until he broke into a secure office for some kind of explanation for their poor treatment.
- In Kamikakushi, Tobirama receives negative attention due to his coloration. He gets splashed with holy water by priests and his own cousins fear him.
- In Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, prior to his arrival in Konoha Town, Naruto attended Uzushio High School in Whirl City, but wound up getting ostracized following a fight with a gang that left a lot of property damage to the school compound. The ostracism was exacerbated because Whirl City had been one of those hardest hit by the 365-day rampage by the Nine Terrors, and Naruto was suspected of being one of them (he was, but it wasn't an openly-known fact).
- The Moon Cries in Reverse: When Lunar Lamentations begins, Naruto's teammates Sakura and Shikamaru are also receiving this treatment thanks to Anko's fears about their intelligence, as well as her concerns that the trio might not be totally loyal to Konoha. Later stories show that this treatment has only grown worse due to the whole murdering the Sandaime and going missing-nin thing.
- Team 8: The effects of this on Naruto's everyday life are exaggerated. Vendors who don't outright refuse him service instead overcharge him. He isn't allowed to open a bank account until his jonin-sensei intervenes and threatens the manager, and it's heavily implied he gained a reputation as a thief as well as a vandal from unscrupulous businessmen exploiting and exaggerating his prankster antics in order to dip into a fund set up to pay for any damages done by him. Then there's the academy therapist that intentionally gave him horrible advice, and the med-nins who don't want to treat him...
- In the A Dip in the Inkwell oneshot "Lemonade Pitcher", Estimation Eddie is often treated differently because he wears an Eyepatch of Power that covers his eye. However, the teammates on his baseball team appreciate him.
- In A Pikachu in Love, this is how Pikachu feels at the start of the fic, being unable to fully communicate with Ash and Co. and being treated as a 'Teachers Pet' by the other Pokemon due to being Ash's favorite.
- In Pokémon: A Marvelous Journey, the heroine, Julia, wasn't very well liked in school due to being autistic and considered weird by her classmates. It doesn't help that she has the ability to understand what Pokemon are saying, but most everyone she talks to about it don't believe her, thinking she's lying or trying to get attention. A lot of her problems and insecurities stem from being shunned and treated like a burden, and she was always sad about not having any friends.
- Red from Speak Up wasn't well liked by his classmates because he was mute, and they thought he was dumb, so they avoided him like the plague.
- Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act III: Throughout most of the act, the entire student body of Yokai Academy ostracize and shun Tsukune and his friends, thinking they're nothing but Glory Hounds claiming to have taken down Fairy Tale. When the group proves said rumors true by successfully fighting off separate attacks from Kuyou and a Fairy Tale squadron, the students get hit with a big-time Jerkass Realization, and now Tsukune's posse are the school idols.
- Deliver Us from Evil Series: Mortality Watson states that, despite the fact that Holmes is an arsehole, you really shouldn't mess with him. This gentle soul will unremorsefully kill you if you do.Mortality: If your master's actions destroy him whom I regard as-as the best and wisest man I have ever known, make no mistake that I shall hunt down, to a man, everyone who played a part in his destruction.
- Ultimate Sleepwalker: Sleepwalker bizarrely inverts this trope when he does this to himself. Although he's formed close friendships with many of the humans he's come to know on Earth and some of them have made an effort to make him feel like one of their True Companions, Sleepwalker himself still feels that he doesn't truly belong on Earth. Even the Thing, despite being turned into an orange, rock-skinned giant, can still relate to his humans in a way Sleepwalker never could.
- Little Hands, Big Attitude: Rouge the Bat was kicked out of her village as a young child because she has albinism, and nowadays she's trying her damnest to hide as much of her white fur as possible. When Maddie tells her that she looks beautiful, she retorts that her tribe abandoned her over this and that a bat that can't blend in with the darkness is useless.
- After Kathryn, the main heroine of The Heart Trilogy, gained her purple eyes and first vision (both a result of her being a Seer) at the age of six, her parents isolated and controlled her in an abusive way, afraid that superstitious villagers would kill her as a witch. Kathryn run away at the age of sixteen and began searching for her place in the world, but wherever she went, people shunned her, tried to kill her, or attempted to take advantage of her visions. At the age of nineteen, she tried to settle in Dale's ruined city, leading her to be captured by her future soulmate Smaug. Though she gains some friends among the canonical heroes, she prefers Smaug's company, both to protect people from him and because she still faces superstitions and advantage-takers among the Free Peoples.
- Total Drama: Pomewin Island Dave who had been left on Pahkitew Island like in canon, even had his parents not care enough to rescue him thus leaving it ultimately up to the production crew - really for the purpose of bringing him onto the game, and then had nearly everyone be against him save for but a few people due to his previous actions on his first season. This even persists after the first few eliminations.
- Unbreakable Red Silken Thread Cody had been ignored ever since high school started. Heather soon joined him in isolation after knowledge of their relationship went public.
- The Dinobots suffer this treatment in A Child Shall Lead Them (Transformers), even when one of them, Swoop, gains the Matrix and becomes the next Prime.
- I'm More Than You Think is a fanfic about a cat named "Whitescar" who is hated by almost everyone in her Clan. This is because a prophecy from prior to her birth states that she'll kill everyone who loves her. Her parents hated her from birth, while her brother grew into a Big Brother Bully. The prophecy is fake. Her father is a manipulative murderer who hid the real prophecy - that Whitescar was the "light" her clan needed - from everyone.
- Promise is a fanfic about Whitefang. Her mother preferred her sister from birth and her clanmates looked down upon her for not being like her sister.
- The fic What Is There To Do? is about a kit who is born a chimera with two different colours on her face. As a result, her peers fear her.
- In Lost Causes, Jessica Rabbit was created to act in adult cartoons and as a result was "born" into the lowest rankings of Toons. Humans looked down upon her because she's a Toon, while Toons looked down upon her because she's deemed "selfish" for working in the adult entertainment industry instead of making people laugh. This all changed when she met Roger and he began putting her in cartoons alongside him.
- Where We Don't Belong: During her time in Alcamoth, Eunie is treated rather negatively by many full-blooded High Entia due to her blatantly Homs features and her highly unusual personality for a High Entia.
- Remmy Cormo, narrator and protagonist of the Pack Street series, sees himself as a pariah in the eponymous predator-exclusive neighborhood he moved intonote , as nobody shows him any respect or consideration. The truth is a lot more complicated than that, with Fantastic Racism and Poor Communication Kills in full effect, as later on we find out that the "pack" of the building he lives in felt like Remmy was not showing them any respect or consideration.
