What are the counter examples from Western media then?
Star Wars? Nope, Luke inherits The Force, making him super-special himself.
The West doesn't have many prominent examples because we don't really have a strong idea of a commoner versus genius that Japan does.
A ordinary farmer who becomes a world stage musician isn't something that would need to be explained in western media, we would just accept it because why couldn't a common farmer do that?
While in Japan you would either need to focus on how much of an unbridled genius or effort monster he is or else they will just reject the notion immediately.
Heck look at the book Hairy Potter. Even though a lot of the characters put a lot of weight on breeding and talent the book itself doesn't really care and the reader isn't expected to... Everyone has their own talent. Later on he started to become significantly more talented then everyone else as it went on, but that is more destiny throwing a wrench in there.
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But let me think really hard...
Ok the best examples of this in Western media can easily be seen in two situations
1) The School setting Popular versus Unpopular
I'll focus on that... In most school settings the popular kids are always pretty much universally disliked while the "unpopular kid" is universally liked by everyone... without any hint of irony or self-awareness.
It is so focused on trying to appeal to the average viewer's "I am ordinary" mentality that it fails to depict what it is attempting to show.
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Actually that would be where all my examples can come from. Anytime a show is trying to appeal to the audience by making someone else look bad.
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Naruto is a superhero complaining that he's gained superpowers and is thus not an "everyman" doesn't make sense
No he FLAT OUT cannot.
I let out slack to allow a character to gain the powers that a series gives everyone.
Yet Naruto is considered to be a loser by the show for a long time... But has advantages that FAAAAR outstrip everyone else by leaps and bounds and yet is still treated like an Everyman.
If I am watching a Super Hero cartoon... and they call Superman a loser and try to make us feel for how he is exactly like us... While he still has all his super powers and everyone is like a 3rd rate super hero... I am going to call it out.
So in conclusion my issue with Naruto isn't that he is a Ninja (which translates to being a wizard in the setting) since everyone, or everyone who matters, is a Ninja... It is that he is treated as a ordinary ninja when in fact he is a SUPER DUPER Ninja with sprinkles on top.
If Naruto didn't have both his two HUGE overwhelming advantages that makes him an ultrafudge ninja sundae... He wouldn't be on the list as one of the worst examples. In fact he would probably be on the list as a great example.