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** In "Return of Covid", [[FatBastard Eric Cartman]] has become one in the revised timeline as he ends up a homeless bum who shouts obscenities at people. Even Stan and Kyle feel bad for him, but ([[TheDogBitesBack understandably]]) not Butters.
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* There's a ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode where Stan meets his future self: a lazy stoner who is going nowhere in life. They're forced to live together to the tune of a fake sitcom theme. Then it turns out that some of the other kids met their future selves too, and they're ''all'' lazy stoners who are going nowhere in life. These turn out to be actors hired by the kids' parents [[ScareEmStraight to scare them away from doing drugs]]. Inverted at the end of the episode, when Cartman says that he learned AnAesop from the experience, and resolves to turn his life around, lose weight, and be nicer to people. He is then approached by a handsome man in a nice suit, who claims to be Cartman's future self, and congratulates Cartman on making this positive decision, because this was the moment that set him down the path to becoming the rich and successful owner of his own time travel business. Cartman assumes that this is just another actor and tells him that he now resolves to act even ''worse'' than he did before, just to spite him. After he leaves, the businessman turns into a fat mechanic. Turns out he really ''was'' Cartman's future self after all.
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** Played straight AND subverted with the Darcy's. Both Marcy and Steve have become fairly successful white collar workers in adulthood, but are are shown several times as never having moved on from their loser-ish personalities from their high school years, they merely disguise them with a veneer of professionalism. Both are completely psychologically dominated by the various torments they endured as teenagers.
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* Quoted above is Dash Baxter, from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', a popular JerkJock who shows a surprising amount of self-awareness. He perfectly knows that high school is the peak of his life and that it will go downhill from here. Which is why [[BullyBrutality he terrorizes nerds]] (especially Danny) as hard as he does -- [[TheLastDance he wants to get his kicks in while he still can]].
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* On ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tapestry_%28episode%29 Picard dies during an operation due to an old injury from an incident from his rebellious youth of counter-cheating in sports ending in a stab to the heart]]. [[JerkassGods Q]] offers him a second chance if he can avoid said incident by reliving that period of his life. After he succeeds (backing out or whatever of cheating at sports and fighting, and having alienating sex with one of his friends) Q sends him back to the point in his life where the injury would have killed him only to discover that [[spoiler:he is a Lieutenant junior grade (between Ensign and Lieutenant) instead of a famous starship captain. Q explains that the injury gave Picard a sense of his own mortality which, possibly unknown to Picard himself, motivated him to make his mark on the Universe. The alternate Picard never lived that experience, and as such drifted thought his career, never getting noticed by anyone. Picard then begs Q that [[BeYourself he has learned his lesson]], is given a second second chance, condemns himself to death after a worthy life... and awakens from his death to discover that Q was just jerking his chain again (or might have actually saved his life)]]. With Q, you never know if it was really AllJustADream or if he actually sent you back in time. He was almost certainly lying about being God, however.
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** Just like in the original series, neither Dash nor Paulina had any plans for a life after high school--and they learn the hard way as adults that, once you graduate high school, no one really cares if you were "popular" in high school. Paulina (who was born into a wealthy family) is forced to get a job in order to have any kind of income after being disinherited while the best that Dash can do (once he attempts to actually make something of himself) is get a job at Casper High as a gym teacher and the football coach. Dash and Paulina also eventually got married and had two children (a daughter named Paola and a son named Dash Junior), but they ultimately got divorced--also, Dash Junior ends up being just as bad as his parents were when they were in high school. Paola, however, is the only member of the family to have turned out better (thanks to the influence of her grandparents).
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** Olga and Summer both tried pursuing careers as actresses (theater acting for Olga and film/TV-acting for Summer), even moving to New York City and Los Angeles, respectively, at some point in their lives to have a better chance of it. However, they failed to make it big as actresses and were forced to find other jobs (and moved back to their hometowns) in order to help support their families[[note]]Olga marries an aspiring musician named Patrick Sherman, with whom she has a pair of fraternal twin children named Logan Robert Sherman and Lisa Miriam Sherman, while Summer marries a guy she met in LA and has two sons named Sky and Sonny and two daughters named June and Britney--Summer also eventually divorces her kids' dad and gains primary custody of them[[/note]]. While it's unknown what Summer does for a living, Olga was forced to go back to working as a schoolteacher--and by the time her "baby sister's" oldest child is in 4th-grade at P.S. 118, Olga's working at that same school as a 5th-grade. Also, neither Olga's nor Summer's family appears to be that financially well-off, especially when compared to Helga and her family[[note]]Helga ultimately becomes an award-winning poet/novelist/short story writer and marries her childhood sweetheart, Arnold, who ultimately becomes a world-renowned anthropologist, being most well-known for his work with the Green-Eyed People of San Lorenzo. The couple also has three children named Andrew "Andy" Phillip Shortman, Megan Gertrude Shortman and Henry Miles Shortman--Megan's a Kindergarten at P.S. 118 while Henry's a year old by the time Andy starts 4th-grade.[[note]]
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* Happens quite a bit in stories by [[Creator/FlowerPrincess11 Flower princess11]]. To name some examples --
** Bonnie Rockwaller (from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Disney's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Possible]]''): Bonnie drops out of college to marry Señor Senior Junior, but the marriage isn't a happy one and they ultimately get divorced. Bonnie was also tricked into signing a prenup that left her with no money from Seniors when her and SSJ's divorced was finalized--with no money or college education, Bonnie was forced to get a job. But due her abrasive nature, Bonnie got fired from a bunch of jobs before being forced to take a low-paying at Bueno Nacho in order to have any kind of income--she was also forced to settle for marrying Ned (the manager from Season 1-episode, ''Bueno Nacho''[[note]]The episode where Kim and Ron both got part-time jobs at the restaurant of the same name[[/note]]), with whom she has two children: a daughter named Tawnie and a son named Ned Junior. While Ned tries being a good parent, Bonnie's a pretty neglectful who's clearly trying to live vicariously through her children, particularly Tawnie, who's basically just a clone of her mom (one of the few people, if not the only person, Tawnie's genuinely nice to is her dad).
** Dash Baxter and Paulina Sanchez (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickelodeon's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny Phantom]]'') -- They eventually get married and have two children: a daughter named Paula and son named Dash Junior. However, their marriage wasn't a happy one and they eventually got divorced--they also appear to be fairly neglectful parents who try living vicariously through their children (Dash especially with their son). And Dash and Paulina don't appear to be as good-looking as they were back in high school.
** Olga Pataki (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickel]][[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} odeon's]] ''Hey Arnold''): About five years after graduating, Olga quit her job as a teacher to pursue a career as an actress, even moving to New York City to audition for Broadway--she also met and fall in love with an aspiring musician named Patrick Sherman, who she ended up marrying after only six months of dating. Unfortunately, Olga fails to make it big as an actress while Patrick fails to make it big as a musician--Bob and Miriam also didn't approve of Olga wanting to become an actress and have also made it extremely clear that they don't like Patrick. After Olga and her husband move back to her old hometown of Hillwood and they end up having children (a pair of boy-girl fraternal twins named Logan and Lisa), Olga's forced to go back to working as a teacher to help support her family while Patrick, by contrast, has trouble holding down a job and is often switching employment--Olga and her family also live in tiny/cramped apartments (they have to move around every couple years or so due to their financial issues). Olga also has a rather distant relationship with her children (particularly her daughter, Lisa) and Olga's relationship with her parents isn't quite as good as it was back in the original series--in fact, Bob and Miriam now actually seem to favor ''Helga'' over Olga (to some extent at least), probably at least partially because of how Helga has ultimately become the more successful sister[[note]]As an adult, Helga's a top-selling/world-renowned poet, novelist and short story writer (specializing in romance literature) and is married to her childhood sweetheart, Arnold Shortman, who has become a world-renowned anthropologist, being most well-known for his work/research with the Green-Eyed People of San Lorenzo. Helga mothers three children with Arnold (two sons named Andy and Henry and a daughter named Megan), with whom she has a much better relationship than Olga does with her own children--Helga has ultimately become a way better parent than either of her own parents ever were. And on top of all that, Helga's relationship with Bob and Miriam has greatly improved as she's gotten older (even if she still isn't as close to them as Olga is), to the point of where she calls them "Mom" and "Dad" more frequently (although she has the habit of calling them by their first names).[[/note]]
** Summer from "Summer Love" seems to have become this by the events of "A Trip to the Beach"[[note]]Which takes place when Andy and Kiara are in 4th-grade[[/note]]. To go into greater detail:
*** 1.) Just like Olga (Helga's older sister), Summer failed to make it big as an actress.
*** 2.) While she eventually got married and had four children, she and her husband eventually got divorced, with Summer apparently having primary of their kids[[note]]Summer's ex-husband (her kids' dad) apparently hasn't visited much since they got divorced and it's stated that Summer's ex-husband is the one who pays alimony and child support[[/note]].
*** 3.) Much like Olga and her family, Summer and her family don't appear to be as financially well-off as the Shortmans are (for example, Summer's described as having an old, cluttered minivan that she's ''still'' paying off).
** Bonnie Rockwaller (from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Disney's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Possible]]''): Bonnie drops out of college to marry Señor Senior Junior, but the marriage isn't a happy one and they ultimately get divorced. Bonnie was also tricked into signing a prenup that left her with no money from Seniors when her and SSJ's divorced was finalized--with no money or college education, Bonnie was forced to get a job. But due her abrasive nature, Bonnie got fired from a bunch of jobs before being forced to take a low-paying at Bueno Nacho in order to have any kind of income--she was also forced to settle for marrying Ned (the manager from Season 1-episode, ''Bueno Nacho''[[note]]The episode where Kim and Ron both got part-time jobs at the restaurant of the same name[[/note]]), with whom she has two children: a daughter named Tawnie and a son named Ned Junior. While Ned tries being a good parent, Bonnie's a pretty neglectful who's clearly trying to live vicariously through her children, particularly Tawnie, who's basically just a clone of her mom (one of the few people, if not the only person, Tawnie's genuinely nice to is her dad).
** Dash Baxter and Paulina Sanchez (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickelodeon's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny Phantom]]'') -- They eventually get married and have two children: a daughter named Paula and son named Dash Junior. However, their marriage wasn't a happy one and they eventually got divorced--they also appear to be fairly neglectful parents who try living vicariously through their children (Dash especially with their son). And Dash and Paulina don't appear to be as good-looking as they were back in high school.
** Olga Pataki (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickel]][[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} odeon's]] ''Hey Arnold''): About five years after graduating, Olga quit her job as a teacher to pursue a career as an actress, even moving to New York City to audition for Broadway--she also met and fall in love with an aspiring musician named Patrick Sherman, who she ended up marrying after only six months of dating. Unfortunately, Olga fails to make it big as an actress while Patrick fails to make it big as a musician--Bob and Miriam also didn't approve of Olga wanting to become an actress and have also made it extremely clear that they don't like Patrick. After Olga and her husband move back to her old hometown of Hillwood and they end up having children (a pair of boy-girl fraternal twins named Logan and Lisa), Olga's forced to go back to working as a teacher to help support her family while Patrick, by contrast, has trouble holding down a job and is often switching employment--Olga and her family also live in tiny/cramped apartments (they have to move around every couple years or so due to their financial issues). Olga also has a rather distant relationship with her children (particularly her daughter, Lisa) and Olga's relationship with her parents isn't quite as good as it was back in the original series--in fact, Bob and Miriam now actually seem to favor ''Helga'' over Olga (to some extent at least), probably at least partially because of how Helga has ultimately become the more successful sister[[note]]As an adult, Helga's a top-selling/world-renowned poet, novelist and short story writer (specializing in romance literature) and is married to her childhood sweetheart, Arnold Shortman, who has become a world-renowned anthropologist, being most well-known for his work/research with the Green-Eyed People of San Lorenzo. Helga mothers three children with Arnold (two sons named Andy and Henry and a daughter named Megan), with whom she has a much better relationship than Olga does with her own children--Helga has ultimately become a way better parent than either of her own parents ever were. And on top of all that, Helga's relationship with Bob and Miriam has greatly improved as she's gotten older (even if she still isn't as close to them as Olga is), to the point of where she calls them "Mom" and "Dad" more frequently (although she has the habit of calling them by their first names).[[/note]]
** Summer from "Summer Love" seems to have become this by the events of "A Trip to the Beach"[[note]]Which takes place when Andy and Kiara are in 4th-grade[[/note]]. To go into greater detail:
*** 1.) Just like Olga (Helga's older sister), Summer failed to make it big as an actress.
*** 2.) While she eventually got married and had four children, she and her husband eventually got divorced, with Summer apparently having primary of their kids[[note]]Summer's ex-husband (her kids' dad) apparently hasn't visited much since they got divorced and it's stated that Summer's ex-husband is the one who pays alimony and child support[[/note]].
*** 3.) Much like Olga and her family, Summer and her family don't appear to be as financially well-off as the Shortmans are (for example, Summer's described as having an old, cluttered minivan that she's ''still'' paying off).
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**character that the author didn't like), they will end up as this. Bonnie Rockwaller (from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Disney's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Possible]]''): ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''), Dash Baxter and Paulina Sanchez (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickelodeon's]] ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''), and Olga Pataki and Summer (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickel]][[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} odeon's]] ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'') are some specific examples--to go into greater detail:
** Bonniedrops dropped out of college at one point to marry Señor Senior Junior, but Junior (one of Kim's enemies who become her boyfriend during the show's final season). However, the marriage isn't a happy one and they ultimately get divorced. fell apart and they got divorced, but Bonnie was also tricked into signing a prenup papers that left her with no money from Seniors when her Junior and SSJ's his dad once the divorced was finalized--with finalized. Left with no money or college education, Bonnie was forced to move back in with her family and get a job. job in order to have any kind of income. But due because of her abrasive nature, Bonnie got was fired from a bunch of jobs before being forced to take ultimately taking a low-paying job at Bueno Nacho in order to have any kind of income--she as a cashier--she was also forced to settle for marrying a man with far less wealth than the Seniors, as she ultimately ends up with Ned (the manager from Season 1-episode, ''Bueno Nacho''[[note]]The episode where Kim and Ron both got part-time jobs at the restaurant of the same name[[/note]]), with whom she has two children: a daughter named Tawnie and a son named Ned Junior. Junior (Bonnie also makes Ned take her last name when they get married). While Ned tries being a good parent, parent to their kids (and Ned Junior seems like a NiceGuy for the most part), Bonnie's a pretty neglectful who's and clearly trying to live tries living vicariously through her children, particularly Tawnie, who's Tawnie (who's basically just a clone of her mom (one of mom).
** Just like in thefew people, if not the only person, Tawnie's genuinely nice to is her dad).
**original series, neither Dash Baxter and nor Paulina Sanchez (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickelodeon's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny Phantom]]'') -- They eventually had any plans for a life after high school--and they learn the hard way as adults that, once you graduate high school, no one really cares if you were "popular" in high school. Paulina (who was born into a wealthy family) is forced to get married and a job in order to have two children: a daughter named Paula and son named any kind of income after being disinherited while the best that Dash Junior. However, their marriage wasn't can do (once he attempts to actually make something of himself) is get a happy one job at Casper High as a gym teacher and they eventually got divorced--they also appear to be fairly neglectful parents who try living vicariously through their children (Dash especially with their son). And the football coach. Dash and Paulina don't appear to be also eventually got married and had two children (a daughter named Paola and a son named Dash Junior), but they ultimately got divorced--also, Dash Junior ends up being just as good-looking bad as his parents were when they were back in high school.
school. Paola, however, is the only member of the family to have turned out better (thanks to the influence of her grandparents).
** OlgaPataki (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickel]][[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} odeon's]] ''Hey Arnold''): About five years after graduating, and Summer both tried pursuing careers as actresses (theater acting for Olga quit her job as a teacher to pursue a career as an actress, and film/TV-acting for Summer), even moving to New York City to audition for Broadway--she also met and fall Los Angeles, respectively, at some point in love with their lives to have a better chance of it. However, they failed to make it big as actresses and were forced to find other jobs (and moved back to their hometowns) in order to help support their families[[note]]Olga marries an aspiring musician named Patrick Sherman, who with whom she ended up marrying after only six months of dating. Unfortunately, Olga fails to make it big as an actress while Patrick fails to make it big as has a musician--Bob and Miriam also didn't approve of Olga wanting to become an actress and have also made it extremely clear that they don't like Patrick. After Olga and her husband move back to her old hometown of Hillwood and they end up having children (a pair of boy-girl fraternal twins twin children named Logan Robert Sherman and Lisa), Olga's Lisa Miriam Sherman, while Summer marries a guy she met in LA and has two sons named Sky and Sonny and two daughters named June and Britney--Summer also eventually divorces her kids' dad and gains primary custody of them[[/note]]. While it's unknown what Summer does for a living, Olga was forced to go back to working as a teacher to help support schoolteacher--and by the time her family while Patrick, by contrast, has trouble holding down a job and "baby sister's" oldest child is often switching employment--Olga and her family also live in tiny/cramped apartments (they have to move around every couple years or so due to their financial issues). Olga also has a rather distant relationship with her children (particularly her daughter, Lisa) and 4th-grade at P.S. 118, Olga's relationship with her parents isn't quite working at that same school as good as it was back in the original series--in fact, Bob and Miriam now actually seem a 5th-grade. Also, neither Olga's nor Summer's family appears to favor ''Helga'' over Olga (to some extent at least), probably at least partially because of how be that financially well-off, especially when compared to Helga has and her family[[note]]Helga ultimately become the more successful sister[[note]]As becomes an adult, Helga's a top-selling/world-renowned poet, novelist and short award-winning poet/novelist/short story writer (specializing in romance literature) and is married to marries her childhood sweetheart, Arnold Shortman, Arnold, who has become ultimately becomes a world-renowned anthropologist, being most well-known for his work/research work with the Green-Eyed People of San Lorenzo. Helga mothers The couple also has three children with Arnold (two sons named Andy Andrew "Andy" Phillip Shortman, Megan Gertrude Shortman and Henry and Miles Shortman--Megan's a daughter named Megan), with whom she has Kindergarten at P.S. 118 while Henry's a much better relationship than Olga does with her own children--Helga has ultimately become a way better parent than either of her own parents ever were. And on top of all that, Helga's relationship with Bob and Miriam has greatly improved as she's gotten older (even if she still isn't as close to them as Olga is), to the point of where she calls them "Mom" and "Dad" more frequently (although she has the habit of calling them by their first names).[[/note]]
** Summer from "Summer Love" seems to have become thisyear old by the events of "A Trip to the Beach"[[note]]Which takes place when time Andy and Kiara are in 4th-grade[[/note]]. To go into greater detail:
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** Billy Christiansen takes the gold: going from popular hunky jock dating the popular girl in school, to a slobby failure who nails drywall for a living and whose wife is pregnant with (he suspects) another man's kid. And he still thinks he can bed Romy since she had a thing for him back in the day, even though the last time they saw each other he publicly humiliated her for a laugh.
** His wife Christie deserves a mention too. She carried on her spiteful AlphaBitch ways 10 years beyond highschool, retaining her GirlPosse who copy her every move, so she never grew out of her teenage bullying- but the reunion reveals her life is a pathetic shell of her past glories. She's an unfulfilled housewife with an unhappy marriage to an unfaithful sleazy loser, her only outlet in life is having baby after baby (which she pretends to be [[StepfordSmiler thrilled about]]) she never got the career she wanted, and to add insult to injury, all the people she tormented in highschool are happy and fulfilled, and the minion she used to boss around has a high flying career in fashion.
** His wife Christie deserves a mention too. She carried on her spiteful AlphaBitch ways 10 years beyond highschool, retaining her GirlPosse who copy her every move, so she never grew out of her teenage bullying- but the reunion reveals her life is a pathetic shell of her past glories. She's an unfulfilled housewife with an unhappy marriage to an unfaithful sleazy loser, her only outlet in life is having baby after baby (which she pretends to be [[StepfordSmiler thrilled about]]) she never got the career she wanted, and to add insult to injury, all the people she tormented in highschool are happy and fulfilled, and the minion she used to boss around has a high flying career in fashion.
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** Billy Christiansen takes the gold: going from popular hunky jock dating the popular girl in school, to a slobby failure who nails drywall for a living and whose wife is pregnant with (he suspects) another man's kid. And he still thinks he can bed Romy since she had a thing for crush on him back in high school--and this is despite the day, even though fact that the last time they he saw each other Romy, he had publicly humiliated her for a laugh.
** His wife Christie deserves a mention too. She carried on her spiteful AlphaBitch ways 10 years beyond highschool, retaining her GirlPosse who copy her every move, so she never grew out of her teenage bullying- but the reunion reveals her life is a pathetic shell of her past glories. She's an unfulfilled housewife with an unhappy marriage to an unfaithful sleazy loser, her only outlet in life is having baby after baby (which she pretends to be [[StepfordSmiler thrilled about]]) she never got the career she wanted, and to add insult to injury, all the people she tormented inhighschool high school are happy and fulfilled, and the minion she used to boss around has a high flying career in fashion.
** His wife Christie deserves a mention too. She carried on her spiteful AlphaBitch ways 10 years beyond highschool, retaining her GirlPosse who copy her every move, so she never grew out of her teenage bullying- but the reunion reveals her life is a pathetic shell of her past glories. She's an unfulfilled housewife with an unhappy marriage to an unfaithful sleazy loser, her only outlet in life is having baby after baby (which she pretends to be [[StepfordSmiler thrilled about]]) she never got the career she wanted, and to add insult to injury, all the people she tormented in
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** Summer from "Summer Love" seems to have become this by the events of "A Trip to the Beach"[[note]]Which takes place when Andy and Kiara are in 4th-grade[[/note]]. To go into greater detail:
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*** 2.) While she eventually got married and had four children, she and her husband eventually got divorced, with Summer apparently having primary of their kids[[note]]Summer's ex-husband (her kids' dad) apparently hasn't visited much since they got divorced and it's stated that Summer's ex-husband is the one who pays alimony and child support[[/note]].
*** 3.) Much like Olga and her family, Summer and her family don't appear to be as financially well-off as the Shortmans are (for example, Summer's described as having an old, cluttered minivan that she's ''still'' paying off).
*** 1.) Just like Olga (Helga's older sister), Summer failed to make it big as an actress.
*** 2.) While she eventually got married and had four children, she and her husband eventually got divorced, with Summer apparently having primary of their kids[[note]]Summer's ex-husband (her kids' dad) apparently hasn't visited much since they got divorced and it's stated that Summer's ex-husband is the one who pays alimony and child support[[/note]].
*** 3.) Much like Olga and her family, Summer and her family don't appear to be as financially well-off as the Shortmans are (for example, Summer's described as having an old, cluttered minivan that she's ''still'' paying off).
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** The very first episode of the series, not counting the pilot shorts, portrayed Timmy himself as this when he wished to become a grown-up. Not only does he become bald, fat and middle-aged rather than the cool, muscular adult he imagined growing up into, every attempt at living his idealized adult life backfires, to the point where he ends up in jail. Though as ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'' revealed, in his actual adulthood, Timmy actually resembles his ideal self quite a bit, not to mention he is now HappilyMarried with two kids, so it's possible his FutureLoser self was a result of not growing up naturally, since he still had the mind of a child and never matured properly.
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* Eventually defied by the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', who either [[spoiler:starts a business, gets a decent job, or goes to college]]. This depends on the epilogue (he even [[spoiler:gets engaged if he chooses Lauren]]).
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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The infamous and despised ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' had this as part of the plot, showing Peter two versions of himself from worlds where he never became Spider-Man. One was a fat, nerdy software developer who had "turned his anger inwards", while the other was a rich, successfull but also bitter and resentful businessman who had "turned his anger outwards".
** On ''Earth X'', Peter is an overweight, middle-aged loser who's become stiflingly overprotective towards his daughter after MJ's death, but at least here he's not alone; both Wolverine and Jean Grey are just as washed-up and pathetic as he is.
** On ''Earth X'', Peter is an overweight, middle-aged loser who's become stiflingly overprotective towards his daughter after MJ's death, but at least here he's not alone; both Wolverine and Jean Grey are just as washed-up and pathetic as he is.
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* Willy Loman's Biff in ''Theater/DeathOfASalesman" was a popular JerkJock in high school. A decade and a half later, he's marginally employed and spent some time in jail on account of his kleptomaniacal tendencies. His greater self-awareness, and the fact that he intentionally sabotaged his life and career when the father he idolized disappointed him makes him a somewhat sympathetic version of the trope.
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The JerkJock and all-around popular guy who makes TheProtagonist's life impossible presumes that his popularity and success in the academic world will translate into [[CorruptCorporateExecutive success in business]], sports, and politics, and everyone else will be there to lick his boots.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', "WesternAnimation/TheOldGreyHare": Even in the year 2000 Elmer Fudd is still easily fooled by WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': Towards the end of the episode "The Price of Love", popular kids [[GirlPosse Brit, Tiff, Pteresa]], and [[JerkJock Sebastian]] are seen walking past Sheldon's house. Pteresa exclaims that [[TemptingFate popular people always win in the end]]. Cut to twenty years later, where Pteresa, her future son with Sebastian, Brit, and Tiff are going to bail Sebastian out of jail (again). Pteresa, Brit, and Tiff are now ugly, with Pteresa wearing oversized glasses and curlers, Brit being obese, and Tiff missing half her hair. The Crust Cousins tell Pteresa that she should have married Sheldon, who is apparently now a a millionaire.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': Towards the end of the episode "The Price of Love", popular kids [[GirlPosse Brit, Tiff, Pteresa]], and [[JerkJock Sebastian]] are seen walking past Sheldon's house. Pteresa exclaims that [[TemptingFate popular people always win in the end]]. Cut to twenty years later, where Pteresa, her future son with Sebastian, Brit, and Tiff are going to bail Sebastian out of jail (again). Pteresa, Brit, and Tiff are now ugly, with Pteresa wearing oversized glasses and curlers, Brit being obese, and Tiff missing half her hair. The Crust Cousins tell Pteresa that she should have married Sheldon, [[WhosLaughingNow Sheldon,]] [[RidiculouslySuccessfulFutureSelf who is apparently now a a millionaire.billionaire.]]
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* Happens quite a bit in stories by [[Creator/FlowerPrincess11 Flower princess11]]. To name some examples --
** Bonnie Rockwaller (from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Disney's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Possible]]''): Bonnie drops out of college to marry Señor Senior Junior, but the marriage isn't a happy one and they ultimately get divorced. Bonnie was also tricked into signing a prenup that left her with no money from Seniors when her and SSJ's divorced was finalized--with no money or college education, Bonnie was forced to get a job. But due her abrasive nature, Bonnie got fired from a bunch of jobs before being forced to take a low-paying at Bueno Nacho in order to have any kind of income--she was also forced to settle for marrying Ned (the manager from Season 1-episode, ''Bueno Nacho''[[note]]The episode where Kim and Ron both got part-time jobs at the restaurant of the same name[[/note]]), with whom she has two children: a daughter named Tawnie and a son named Ned Junior. While Ned tries being a good parent, Bonnie's a pretty neglectful who's clearly trying to live vicariously through her children, particularly Tawnie, who's basically just a clone of her mom (one of the few people, if not the only person, Tawnie's genuinely nice to is her dad).
** Dash Baxter and Paulina Sanchez (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickelodeon's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny Phantom]]'') -- They eventually get married and have two children: a daughter named Paula and son named Dash Junior. However, their marriage wasn't a happy one and they eventually got divorced--they also appear to be fairly neglectful parents who try living vicariously through their children (Dash especially with their son). And Dash and Paulina don't appear to be as good-looking as they were back in high school.
** Olga Pataki (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickel]][[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} odeon's]] ''Hey Arnold''): About five years after graduating, Olga quit her job as a teacher to pursue a career as an actress, even moving to New York City to audition for Broadway--she also met and fall in love with an aspiring musician named Patrick Sherman, who she ended up marrying after only six months of dating. Unfortunately, Olga fails to make it big as an actress while Patrick fails to make it big as a musician--Bob and Miriam also didn't approve of Olga wanting to become an actress and have also made it extremely clear that they don't like Patrick. After Olga and her husband move back to her old hometown of Hillwood and they end up having children (a pair of boy-girl fraternal twins named Logan and Lisa), Olga's forced to go back to working as a teacher to help support her family while Patrick, by contrast, has trouble holding down a job and is often switching employment--Olga and her family also live in tiny/cramped apartments (they have to move around every couple years or so due to their financial issues). Olga also has a rather distant relationship with her children (particularly her daughter, Lisa) and Olga's relationship with her parents isn't quite as good as it was back in the original series--in fact, Bob and Miriam now actually seem to favor ''Helga'' over Olga (to some extent at least), probably at least partially because of how Helga has ultimately become the more successful sister[[note]]As an adult, Helga's a top-selling/world-renowned poet, novelist and short story writer (specializing in romance literature) and is married to her childhood sweetheart, Arnold Shortman, who has become a world-renowned anthropologist, being most well-known for his work/research with the Green-Eyed People of San Lorenzo. Helga mothers three children with Arnold (two sons named Andy and Henry and a daughter named Megan), with whom she has a much better relationship than Olga does with her own children--Helga has ultimately become a way better parent than either of her own parents ever were. And on top of all that, Helga's relationship with Bob and Miriam has greatly improved as she's gotten older (even if she still isn't as close to them as Olga is), to the point of where she calls them "Mom" and "Dad" more frequently (although she has the habit of calling them by their first names).[[/note]]
** Bonnie Rockwaller (from [[Creator/{{Disney}} Disney's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossible Kim Possible]]''): Bonnie drops out of college to marry Señor Senior Junior, but the marriage isn't a happy one and they ultimately get divorced. Bonnie was also tricked into signing a prenup that left her with no money from Seniors when her and SSJ's divorced was finalized--with no money or college education, Bonnie was forced to get a job. But due her abrasive nature, Bonnie got fired from a bunch of jobs before being forced to take a low-paying at Bueno Nacho in order to have any kind of income--she was also forced to settle for marrying Ned (the manager from Season 1-episode, ''Bueno Nacho''[[note]]The episode where Kim and Ron both got part-time jobs at the restaurant of the same name[[/note]]), with whom she has two children: a daughter named Tawnie and a son named Ned Junior. While Ned tries being a good parent, Bonnie's a pretty neglectful who's clearly trying to live vicariously through her children, particularly Tawnie, who's basically just a clone of her mom (one of the few people, if not the only person, Tawnie's genuinely nice to is her dad).
** Dash Baxter and Paulina Sanchez (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickelodeon's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny Phantom]]'') -- They eventually get married and have two children: a daughter named Paula and son named Dash Junior. However, their marriage wasn't a happy one and they eventually got divorced--they also appear to be fairly neglectful parents who try living vicariously through their children (Dash especially with their son). And Dash and Paulina don't appear to be as good-looking as they were back in high school.
** Olga Pataki (from [[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickel]][[Franchise/{{Nicktoons}} odeon's]] ''Hey Arnold''): About five years after graduating, Olga quit her job as a teacher to pursue a career as an actress, even moving to New York City to audition for Broadway--she also met and fall in love with an aspiring musician named Patrick Sherman, who she ended up marrying after only six months of dating. Unfortunately, Olga fails to make it big as an actress while Patrick fails to make it big as a musician--Bob and Miriam also didn't approve of Olga wanting to become an actress and have also made it extremely clear that they don't like Patrick. After Olga and her husband move back to her old hometown of Hillwood and they end up having children (a pair of boy-girl fraternal twins named Logan and Lisa), Olga's forced to go back to working as a teacher to help support her family while Patrick, by contrast, has trouble holding down a job and is often switching employment--Olga and her family also live in tiny/cramped apartments (they have to move around every couple years or so due to their financial issues). Olga also has a rather distant relationship with her children (particularly her daughter, Lisa) and Olga's relationship with her parents isn't quite as good as it was back in the original series--in fact, Bob and Miriam now actually seem to favor ''Helga'' over Olga (to some extent at least), probably at least partially because of how Helga has ultimately become the more successful sister[[note]]As an adult, Helga's a top-selling/world-renowned poet, novelist and short story writer (specializing in romance literature) and is married to her childhood sweetheart, Arnold Shortman, who has become a world-renowned anthropologist, being most well-known for his work/research with the Green-Eyed People of San Lorenzo. Helga mothers three children with Arnold (two sons named Andy and Henry and a daughter named Megan), with whom she has a much better relationship than Olga does with her own children--Helga has ultimately become a way better parent than either of her own parents ever were. And on top of all that, Helga's relationship with Bob and Miriam has greatly improved as she's gotten older (even if she still isn't as close to them as Olga is), to the point of where she calls them "Mom" and "Dad" more frequently (although she has the habit of calling them by their first names).[[/note]]
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* Central in ''Fanfic/SarumanOfManyDevices'' shows Saruman the future where he ends up as this -- his army destroyed and he himself stabbed by his former minion while attempting to take over the Shire out of vengeance -- as a means to get him to go along with his plans for progress.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Every future episode has Bart (who is a popular class clown and skater boy archetype in the present) as an aimless but upbeat Future Loser. In "Lisa's Wedding" (which looks furthest into the future[[note]]August 1, 2010...[[FailedFutureForecast wait a minute!!]][[/note]]), Bart works as a wrecking ball operator and also in a car junkyard, is divorced two times, and hits Moe's tavern and strip clubs. Though he also plans to go to law school later, which honestly sounds delusional. This could have also been a ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Another future episode had Lisa as the President of USA, so she could have appointed Bart... According to an episode, the Simpsons are plagued with a "Simpson's Gene" that doom the men of the family to become pathetic losers in the future (though it doesn't stop the show from depicting Bart as crafty). In the Christmas episode that takes place in the future, Bart lives in a slum, barely able to hold down a minimum wage job, and following his bitter divorce his sons heavily imply that they prefer spending time with their new stepfather than with Bart.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Every future episode has Bart (who is a popular class clown and skater boy archetype in the present) as an aimless but upbeat Future Loser. In "Lisa's Wedding" (which looks furthest into the future[[note]]August 1, 2010...[[FailedFutureForecast wait a minute!!]][[/note]]), Bart works as a wrecking ball operator and also in a car junkyard, is divorced two times, and hits Moe's tavern and strip clubs. Though he also plans to go to law school later, which honestly sounds delusional. This could have also been a ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Another future episode had Lisa as the President of USA, so she could have appointed Bart... According to an episode, the Simpsons are plagued with a "Simpson's Gene" that doom the men of the family to become pathetic losers in the future (though it doesn't stop the show from depicting Bart as crafty). In the Christmas episode that takes place in the future, "Holidays Of Future Passed", Bart lives in a slum, is barely able to hold down a minimum wage job, and following his a bitter divorce his sons heavily imply that they prefer spending time would rather spend Christmas with their mom and new stepfather than with Bart.him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Every future episode has Bart (who is a popular class clown and skater boy archetype in the present) as an aimless but upbeat Future Loser. In "Lisa's Wedding" (which looks furthest into the future[[note]]August 1, 2010...[[FailedFutureForecast wait a minute!!]][[/note]]), Bart works as a wrecking ball operator and also in a car junkyard, is divorced two times, and hits Moe's tavern and strip clubs. Though he also plans to go to law school later, which honestly sounds delusional. This could have also been a ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Another future episode had Lisa as the President of USA, so she could have appointed Bart... According to an episode, the Simpsons are plagued with a "Simpson's Gene" that doom the men of the family to become pathetic losers in the future (though it doesn't stop the show from depicting Bart as crafty).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Every future episode has Bart (who is a popular class clown and skater boy archetype in the present) as an aimless but upbeat Future Loser. In "Lisa's Wedding" (which looks furthest into the future[[note]]August 1, 2010...[[FailedFutureForecast wait a minute!!]][[/note]]), Bart works as a wrecking ball operator and also in a car junkyard, is divorced two times, and hits Moe's tavern and strip clubs. Though he also plans to go to law school later, which honestly sounds delusional. This could have also been a ContinuityNod to the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" which ended with a FlashForward that revealed that Bart will eventually become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Another future episode had Lisa as the President of USA, so she could have appointed Bart... According to an episode, the Simpsons are plagued with a "Simpson's Gene" that doom the men of the family to become pathetic losers in the future (though it doesn't stop the show from depicting Bart as crafty). In the Christmas episode that takes place in the future, Bart lives in a slum, barely able to hold down a minimum wage job, and following his bitter divorce his sons heavily imply that they prefer spending time with their new stepfather than with Bart.
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* Music/BruceSpringsteen's "Glory Days" is about the singer meeting old friends from high school who have not lived up to their early promise and just reminisce about their glory days all the time.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'':
** Averted in the ClassReunion episode with Daffy Duck. At first, he remembers himself in high school as the BigManOnCampus, and believes that he has fallen from his pedestal since then. But in a twist, it’s revealed that he was actually the least popular guy in school, and his memories of super-popularity were fabricated by himself to block out the trauma. He’s just as much as a loser now as he was back then.
** Played straight with Porky Pig, as seen in the trope image. In high school, he was the BigManOnCampus JerkJock who picked on dorky Daffy. Fast-forward fifteen or twenty years later, he’s now an average Joe ExtremeDoormat who is constantly manipulated and taken advantage of by Daffy.
** Averted in the ClassReunion episode with Daffy Duck. At first, he remembers himself in high school as the BigManOnCampus, and believes that he has fallen from his pedestal since then. But in a twist, it’s revealed that he was actually the least popular guy in school, and his memories of super-popularity were fabricated by himself to block out the trauma. He’s just as much as a loser now as he was back then.
** Played straight with Porky Pig, as seen in the trope image. In high school, he was the BigManOnCampus JerkJock who picked on dorky Daffy. Fast-forward fifteen or twenty years later, he’s now an average Joe ExtremeDoormat who is constantly manipulated and taken advantage of by Daffy.
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** Averted in the ClassReunion episode with Daffy Duck. At first, he remembers himself in high school as the BigManOnCampus, and believes that he has fallen from his pedestal since then. But in a twist, it’s revealed that he was actually the least popular guy in school, and his memories of super-popularity were fabricated by himself to block out the trauma. He’s just as much as a loser now as he was back then.
** Played straight with Porky Pig, as seen in the trope image. In high school, he was the BigManOnCampus JerkJock who picked on dorky Daffy. Fast-forward fifteen or twenty years later, he’s now an average Joe ExtremeDoormat who is constantly manipulated and taken advantage of by Daffy.
