Outcasts

An outcast is a person who has been rejected by society or a social group. There have been characters who felt like an outcast before. The reason why a certain character has been depicted as an outcast is due to their problems they face. Basically, people who felt lonely in everyday lifestyle.

Examples of Outcasts

 * 1) Red (The Angry Birds Movie): Red is an outcast compared to the rest of the birds due to him being a serious bird unlike the rest of the cast. He's also an outcast due to his troubled childhood as a source of his anger issues. However, he did become a hero to bird island after the pigs stole the eggs.
 * 2) Ren Amamiya (Persona 5): Starts out as a normal high school student who is constantly mistreated by everyone else when he first moved to Tokyo for probation.
 * 3) Goro Akechi (Persona 5): Grew up in an abusive household which caused him to be alone for his entire life.
 * 4) Makoto Niijima (Persona 5): She was unpopular with the students in her school due to not being able to do anything to stop Suguru Kamoshida's abuse thus being seen as a control freak according to other students.
 * 5) Ann Takamaki (Persona 5): Because of her quarter-American Japanese blood, she didn't have that many friends.
 * 6) Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5): Got labeled as a track traitor due to his brash violence against Kamoshida.
 * 7) Futaba Sakura (Persona 5): Because of her intelligence, she was bullied and barely had any friends. She was also blamed for driving her mother to suicide by her other relatives.
 * 8) Sid the Sloth (Ice Age): He was seen as an idiot towards his family. In fact, his real family abandoned Sid in the first film. Even a lot of characters mistake him for a screw-up when he is far from it.
 * 9) Mumble (Happy Feet): He was born differently from the rest of the penguins. Because he can't sing well due to birth defects. Sure he can dance, but it didn't please well with the crowd.
 * 10) Shrek (Shrek): Shrek is cranky because he is always judged every time he gets seen thinking that he's better off alone. In Shrek Forever After, Shrek gets treated like a celebrity as well as facing responsibilities of being a family man to the point of acting like an outcast in the form of wishing that he was still a solitary and feared individual.
 * 11) Fiona (Shrek): She had a curse that transforms her into an ogre. She was locked up in a tower. Her dad was strict about this such as not letting her go to a sleepover with Sleeping Beauty.
 * 12) Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia): Izuku wanted to be a hero, but when children at his age at the time started to manifest their powers, Izuku never developed any meaning he was Quirkless. Eventually, he did get a Quirk in the form of One For All.
 * 13) Po (Kung Fu Panda): He wanted to learn Kung Fu because he was inspired by the Furious Five. As he trained, he wasn't like the rest of the Furious Five due to not having any fighting experience since he works at a restaurant. Po managed to be good at Kung Fu.
 * 14) Wreck-It Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph): He is a video game bad guy from the 8-bit era of video games. He started to get tired of having to be the bad guy because he just wanted the same recognition Fix-It Felix Jr. had.
 * 15) Vanellope (Wreck-It Ralph): Gets bullied by other racers due to her glitchy state. Vanellope did get respect later on.
 * 16) Hiccup (How to Train Your Dragon): He is portrayed as an individual who didn't specialize in brawn and bravery. Instead, he is pretty small and is more of an intellectual who tames dragons.
 * 17) Mike Wazowski (Monsters Inc): This is noticeable in Monsters University. He is ignored by almost everyone except the adults during Mike's backstory.
 * 18) Norman Babcock (ParaNorman): He has the ability to talk to ghosts, but everyone else seems to think that he is just talking to the air.
 * 19) Nick Wilde (Zootopia): As a child, Nick was bullied by Junior Ranger Scouts Troop 914 on his first day because foxes are seen as untrustworthy.
 * 20) Miles Morales (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse): He starts off as an individual who has a hard time being in a new school (Visions Academy) despite being bright. It's getting worse when he somehow managed to get powers that are unique thanks to getting bitten by a spider.
 * 21) Branch (Trolls): He starts off as a jerk to every troll (even though he was right about the Bergens) and feels left out because other trolls are more positive.
 * Ed, Edd & Eddy (Ed, Edd n Eddy): They are known for being disliked and harassed by just about every other character on the show. Well except for the Kankers who are prone to sexually harass the Eds.
 * 1) Dib (Invader Zim): Tormented on a regular basis.
 * 2) Luz Noceda (The Owl House): Back at her home, she is struggling with being accepted by others because of her interests.
 * 3) Claude von Riegan (Fire Emblem: Three Houses): Has been an outcast by being discriminated against by many due to his origins. That didn't stop him from being open-minded.
 * 4) Lyndis/Lyn (Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade): When her tribe was under attack, she tried to help but was rejected because of her gender. At that moment, she became the last of her kind.
 * 5) Ike (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance): He was the newest member of the Greil Mercenaries, but was seen as an outsider by others. He did train hard though.
 * 6) Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist): Spends most of his life being ridiculed by everyone else. The situation improves over the course of the manga and the anime.
 * 7) Lucy (Elfen Lied): As a child, she was mercilessly teased by the other kids in the orphanage for her emotionless demeanor and her horns.
 * 8) Shira Kusakabe (Fire Force): Was scorned by everyone he came across for his involvement in the disastrous fire that killed his parents. It's even gone to the point where he was seen as the devil. Even though he tried to piece together the truth about what happened, he was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.
 * 9) Charlie Brown (Peanuts): Frequently suffers in a lot of Peanuts-related media.
 * 10) Guy-Am-I (Green Eggs and Ham): He is a failed inventor who is seen as an outcast by other inventors.
 * 11) Emmet Brickowski (The LEGO Movie): Was misjudged and seen as an idiot by the master builders. Later on, he became one.

The Overall Reason Why It Rocks
The best part of being an outcast is that it can help viewers sympathize with some of these characters. Some media can make these characters likable in such a way you feel bad for them.

The Only Bad Quality
Sometimes it can be cliche or badly done such as Gene from The Emoji Movie or Amy from Cuties