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* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChamberlainHeights'': Grovers older brother Montrel was once the best basketball player in the history of Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan High School, and was set to go to Duke University on a full athletic scholarship. [[DrugsAreBad Then he had his first taste of weed in his senior year]], and his life ever since has revolved around doing nothing except sitting on the couch, smoking weed and playing video games.
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* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChamberlainHeights'': Grovers Grover's older brother Montrel was once the best basketball player in the history of Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan High School, and was set to go to Duke University on a full athletic scholarship. [[DrugsAreBad Then he had his first taste of weed in his senior year]], and his life ever since has revolved around doing nothing except sitting on the couch, smoking weed and playing video games.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{House}}'', Foreman and Taub end up high and locked in the hospital records room, where Taub finds and reads Foreman's personnel file. Foreman is revealed to have struggled in med school, because he had to claw his way up trough the public school system and state college unlike his prep school and Ivy League educated peers, and even admits to cheating on a test. Taub desperately tries to stop Foreman reading his file, but when he does he finds to his surprise that Taub's academic record is excellent and asks why he tried to hide it. Taub replies that he's ashamed of wasting his potential: he could have been a brilliant medical genius like House, but followed the money into plastic surgery instead; and when he lost his practice he basically had to start over again as a lackey to the person he could have been. He then tells Foreman that he should be proud of his background because "at least your life is trending up".
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* In ''Film/JojoRabbit'', Captain Klenzendorf. Formerly a highly decorated soldier for Nazi Germany, Klenzendorf lost an eye and was demoted to the point where he's stuck training the Hitler Youth. He's [[PunchClockVillain completely disillusioned with the Nazis party]], to the point that he [[spoiler:risks his life by deliberately lying to the Gestapo to save a Jewish hideaway]], and he's entirely abandoned any hope of the Germans winning the war.
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* In ''Film/JojoRabbit'', Captain Klenzendorf. Formerly a highly decorated soldier for Nazi Germany, Klenzendorf lost an eye and was demoted to the point where he's stuck training the Hitler Youth. He's [[PunchClockVillain completely disillusioned with the Nazis party]], Nazi Party]], to the point that he [[spoiler:risks his life by deliberately lying to the Gestapo to save a Jewish hideaway]], and he's entirely abandoned any hope of the Germans winning the war. war.
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* Dennis Reynolds from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' somehow manages to become this ''without'' ever having glory days. He ''thinks'' he did, frequently claiming to have been at the top of the food chain in high school. However, in the High School Reunion two-parter, it's revealed that he was just as pompous and pathetic in high school as he is now, with the actual popular kids reacting to his antics back then with confused amusement at best.
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* The protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', as described by the credits song, was in a very famous TV show in the '90s. Now he's simply a washed-up actor obsessed with his past success and stuck bumming around with his deadbeat roommate. However, throughout the series, his career goes through a series of ups and downs as he gets cast in various films and TV shows.
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* [[Characters/BojackHorsemanBojackHorseman The protagonist protagonist]] of ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', as described by the credits song, was in a very famous TV show in the '90s. Now he's simply a washed-up actor obsessed with his past success and stuck bumming around with his deadbeat roommate. However, throughout the series, his career goes through a series of ups and downs as he gets cast in various films and TV shows.
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* In some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer exhibits this trope -- particularly in the spoof of the 49up series of documentaries, in which Homer was dissatisfied with his life in general. This is occasionally played semi-sympathetically, as when flashbacks reveal Homer to have been an accomplished gymnast in high school and such, but that [[WellDoneSonGuy his father's cynical comments about him destroyed his confidence]]. Homer has plenty to regret in life but is usually just too lighthearted to let it get him down. He always admits at the end that he also has a lot to be proud of.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': [[Characters/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPowerShadowWeaver Shadow Weaver]] had so much promise back when she was Light Spinner, but she became so ambitious for more power, that not only has it disfigured and turned her even more power hungry, all her potential ended up going to waste. [[spoiler:After losing her power crystal in Season 1, she's become something of a has-been who has nothing left but to settle scores and the best she can do to is throw curveballs whenever possible]].
* In some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Characters/TheSimpsonsHomerSimpson Homer Simpson]] exhibits this trope -- particularly in the spoof of the 49up series of documentaries, in which Homer was dissatisfied with his life in general. This is occasionally played semi-sympathetically, as when flashbacks reveal Homer to have been an accomplished gymnast in high school and such, but that [[WellDoneSonGuy his father's cynical comments about him destroyed his confidence]]. Homer has plenty to regret in life but is usually just too lighthearted to let it get him down. He always admits at the end that he also has a lot to be proud of.
* In some episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Characters/TheSimpsonsHomerSimpson Homer Simpson]] exhibits this trope -- particularly in the spoof of the 49up series of documentaries, in which Homer was dissatisfied with his life in general. This is occasionally played semi-sympathetically, as when flashbacks reveal Homer to have been an accomplished gymnast in high school and such, but that [[WellDoneSonGuy his father's cynical comments about him destroyed his confidence]]. Homer has plenty to regret in life but is usually just too lighthearted to let it get him down. He always admits at the end that he also has a lot to be proud of.
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