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Originally Posted by Slayerx
Though instead of side characters aspiring to be as strong as main characters, i would have preferred pointing out that a side character can aspire to have a HUGE FANBASE. I mean who cares about being a main character when you have a large fanbase that loves you all the same... Hell Rock Lee managed to use his fanbase to transcend his side character status into becoming the main character in a non-canon spinoff!
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The thing is Rock Lee doesn't have a huge fanbase. He isn't that popular in Japan. In the last popularity poll he was 20th. He was behind Temari and Iruka. If you were going to do a spinoff based on a side characters popularity it would be about the Akatsuki, Gaara, Minato, or Shikamaru.
Lee was chosen because Saikyou Jump is for kids and he is the most goofy character among the Konoha kids.