History Main / LesserStar

* Teddy in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' is branded as one of the main characters, can be named manually before the game begins, but only joins the party briefly, very late in the game. [[spoiler:Eventually, he gets injured and sits out for the rest of the adventure, leaving Ninten, Lloyd, and Ana to battle Giygas... or in this game, [[SpellMyNameWIthAnS Giegue]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' features an alternate reality where Sabrina, Hilda, Zelda, and Chloe are a successful GirlGroup called the Flavour Babes. Sabrina is the face of the band as the singer, Hilda is the drummer and Zelda is the guitarist. Chloe meanwhile plays... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the French horn]]. Sabrina taunts her about this, and Chloe resents the lack of attention she gets. And of course, she's the only member of the band not to be in the Spellman family.

* ''Robin Dubois'' is a Franco-Belgian parody of Myth/RobinHood. While the series is named after him, Robin isn't the main character, the Sheriff of Nottingham is. Here, he is named Fritz Alwill and [[CosmicPlayThing is constant victim of the series' gags]].

** Team BAD had Wrestling/TaminaSnuka. Wrestling/SashaBanks was undefeated and the clear star, while Wrestling/{{Naomi}} had been pushed as a title contender and got the odd win. Tamina was merely there to fulfill TheWorfEffect and would rarely get wins herself.

* There were issues of ''Comicbook/CableAndDeadpool'' in which Comicbook/{{Cable}}'s entire role was basically to appear at the beginning and give ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} a mission. And a stretch of issues about Deadpool trying to find Cable in different dimensions. Eventually, they literally crossed Cable's name off the [[http://mercwithamouth.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/cabledeadpool49.jpg cover]] and replaced it with the name of a random guest star. Some of it was merely due to [[ExecutiveMeddling editorial mandate]] that allowed Cable to be busy, missing, or even killed off in the ComicBook/XMen titles, leaving the writers of the book he was nominally headlining little recourse but to work around him, but even when Cable was available it often seemed like they were more interested in writing a Deadpool book that Cable was shoehorned into by, you guessed it, [[ExecutiveMeddling editorial mandate]]. This despite the fact that Cable had been a major player in the X-titles for quite some time, and Deadpool had originally just been a member of his RoguesGallery.

Compare and contrast with AndStarring, BreakupBreakout, FaceOfTheBand, IAmTheBand, MyFriendsAndZoidberg, and ThePeteBest.

* In ''{{Series/Riverdale}}'' within Josie and the Pussycats, Josie is the FaceOfTheBand, Valerie is a love interest for Archie and Mel...well she occasionally gets a line.

* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' features an alternate reality where Sabrina, Hilda, Zelda, and Chloe are a successful GirlGroup called the Flavour Babes. Sabrina is the FaceOfTheBand as the singer, Hilda is the drummer and Zelda is the guitarist. Chloe meanwhile plays... [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers the French horn]]. Sabrina taunts her about this, and Chloe resents the lack of attention she gets. And of course, she's the only member of the band not to be in the Spellman family.

* ''Diva Dirt'' published an [[http://www.diva-dirt.com/64719/diva-couture-wrestlings-female-trios-every-group-has-a-michelle-williams/ article about this]] drawing comparisons to Michelle Williams of Music/DestinysChild. Examples include:

* Wrestling/LayCool initially presented Layla this way. Wrestling/MichelleMcCool was the Women's Champion, while Layla was her BetaBitch. And when the team had Vickie Guerrero with them - she had some status as the Official Consultant of Smackdown. Then Layla won the Women's Championship, and so overcame this.