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Holding Out for a Hero

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Holding Out for a Hero	comment	The crime rate in the City of Adventure is on the rise due to a new criminal syndicate in town. Should people vote for more police funding and work on improving inner city economics so that fewer people turn to crime? No. Why should they? A Hero will take care of it. The transportation system seems to be incredibly buggy. Every month there's at least one train/plane/subway crash that sends its passengers to apparent fiery doom. Should higher industrial standards be made to prevent these from occurring? Naah, as long as a hero catches it each time, it's not really a problem. The Government is taking away people's rights; should people rise up against it? ...that's iffy, La RÃ©sistance is often either ineffective or will become just as bad should they actually succeed. Let's just have the hero take care of it. Holding Out for a Hero is the deconstruction to the notion of a Superhero and a subversion of Big Damn Heroes. They've stopped becoming inspirations; and instead enable helplessness and recklessness. Muggles should stay out of things and let the special people do it. In fact, whenever the little people do try to change their own world, then they're either cannon fodder or else engaging in fascism out of fear. The Masquerade is often used by the good guys to prevent humanity from learning about the forces of the bad guys (even ones that are constantly killing them), because there's nothing they can do but get in the way anyways. If someone is The Chosen One, that means everyone else isn't and shouldn't bother, unless they're taking a bullet for the hero. In any case, it's all up to the hero. If the main characters are common people, they may discover that he has Feet of Clay, and have to manage without him. If combined with All of the Other Reindeer, the people may start to look not only lazy, but ungrateful and hypocritical at that. This is exemplified with any scene with a news report where the reporter ends with "...and the public wants to know, where is Superman?". Granted, clichÃ© media (which lends fuel to almost all media in fiction) often tries to be hypocritical, regardless, to reflect on their shallow desire for ratings and such. These arguments tend to fall flat, however, when used by an actual super villain. If the villain truly wants to help humanity progress, rather than trying to give philosophical angst to the super hero, they could probably improve matters more if they would just power down the death ray and stop being so damn villainous. Cities holding out for a hero usually lack real heroes. The trope often includes an Achilles in His Tent or a Just Fine Without You moment. Happens when the characters take Think Nothing of It too seriously and the Hero Harasses Helpers. Contrast Badass Bystander and As Long as There Is One Man. Often the cause for/savior in an Easily Conquered World. The Paragon is out to prevent this. A fear of invoking this trope is commonly cited as a reason why Reed Richards Is Useless. Destructive Saviour is an inversion—the heroes end up making thing worse. It does have the advantage that when the angry citizens demand The Hero persecute the Reluctant Monster or something equally wrong, and he turns the demand back on them, the trope Who Will Bell the Cat? often comes into play. Perhaps you were looking for the trope called Big Damn Heroes. (Wherein the premise is played straight and the Hero is in fact the only person who can save the day.) When the townsfolk are actively delaying the bad guys or doing other things to hinder them till the hero can get there, it is Hold the Line. Also not to be confused with She Will Come for Me, as the person in that trope usually does need the help.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_1015579b	comment	The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: In the episode "It's a Wonderful Scoob," Scooby, having suffered a major Heroic BSoD while trying to capture Time Slime, quits the gang and leaves; to convince him to return, Vincent Van Ghoul shows him a Bad Future where Time Slime rules the world. In said Bad Future, Shaggy, the only member of the gang who hasn't pulled a Faceâ€“Heel Turn, has gone completely insane, adamantly insisting that one day, Scooby will return and save the world.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen. The police went on strike until a Super Registration Act was passed. Actually a subversion because the police were trying to get rid of the heroes because the heroes were taking away jobs, and tended to work without the restrictions that police did. When the heroes try to keep the city safe all on their own, they learn that 5 men and a girl in tights can't police an entire city. The city suffers continual riots until the heroes all retire. Furthermore, you wouldn't exactly want the authorities to have the anti-social tendencies of characters like Rorschach or, god forbid, the Comedian. At one point, Rorschach, has a bit of internal monologue that sounds like something from John Galt (see Literature, below): The US government has stopped finding ways to end the Cold War through peaceful means because they have Dr. Manhattan on their side. This sends them right up Shit Creek when Dr. Manhattan abandons the planet, leaving them with nothing except stubbornness, a nuclear arsenal and a Soviet adversary that's sick of being bullied into submission and eager to flex its muscles.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_12557dc4	comment	In Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron, Peace Mark is reluctantly forced into a justifed instance of this — lacking the numbers and the technology to oppose the Galra Empire even in a guerilla conflict, they're only hope is for the Voltron Coalition to return and aid them. For the time being, they'll have to retreat into the shadows.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_12fd5db0	comment	Megamind deconstructs this trope by showing the effects of the mentality on the various parties involved when it seems the Villain Protagonist Megamind kills off the Hero Antagonist Metro Man: For the citizens of Metro City, they're so dependent on the hero to solve their problems that when the hero's no longer around, there's no one brave enough to stand up to the eponymous villain. For Megamind though, he is absolutely demoralized due to the fact that everything's so easy for him now that the hero's no longer around and practically everyone else is too cowardly to oppose him. Moreover though, he suffers an existential crisis because he has defined himself as a villain since childhood (he was raised in a prison albeit Happily Adopted and his antagonism with Metro Man happened since they were children.) As such, he has no idea what to do with his life after he wins. In a desperate attempt to alleviate this, Megamind gives someone else superpowers in an effort to find someone who'll challenge him, and when the newcomer kicks his ass, everyone flocks toward their new 'hero' Titan — unfortunately for them (and Megamind), they haven't considered the possibility that someone having superpowers and beating up a villain doesn't mean they're not a potentially worse villain. As for Metro Man himself? Turns out that he had been suffering his own existential crisis over whether his life was defined over what people want him to do as a hero that he came up with a plan to fake his death.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_1484a16e	comment	Invoked in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Hagrid tells Harry that the reason wizards hide from the normal world is precisely to avoid this trope. People would request magical assistance for all their problems, so they'd never advance on their own. It's certainly demonstrated that it works in a roundabout way: magical society has become so dependent on their own abilities that its technology became stale centuries ago, and people who are born without magical powers (squibs) are either forced to live with normal people (muggles) or relegated to menial jobs, while being dependent on others for such normal things as transport.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_16fc4335	comment	In the Heralds of Valdemar, Heralds are the divinely chosen agents who serve the country of Valdemar with any Magic or Psychic? powers they have and extensive training. Herald-Mages, the ones with "real magic", are rarer than ones with only Psychic Powers and are more versatile, but they've all got quite a bit to offer. The last book of the The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy, after twenty years of the most powerful Herald-Mage around doing incredibly big and flashy things to save it, has Valdemarans regarding non-Mage Heralds as "plain Heralds" - if one is sent to help them address a problem, they regard that as insulting or belittling their issues. After becoming the titular last Herald-Mage Vanyel decides to fix things by enacting country-wide Brainwashing for the Greater Good, forcing Valdemarans to believe that magic no longer exists and thus not holding out for mages to help them. This also ensures that no Herald-Mages are trained after him for centuries, which causes its own problems.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_1b6759eb	comment	In an episode of My Hero (2000), Thermoman accidentally erases his own memory, forgetting all about his identity as a superhero and only retaining his George Sunday persona. Janet is reluctant in reminding him who he is partially due to seeing him so happy and partially due to Janet wanting a normal life for once. Of course, this causes crime and other disasters to sky-rocket (in fact, a news report even mentions that many firefighting and police services around the world have been shut down because Thermoman made them redundant). To make matters worse, a meteor is suddenly heading towards the Earth...
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_1beda93b	comment	In the Sluggy Freelance arc "Phoenix Rising," Oasis takes the role of vigilante protector for the town of Podunkton. Most of the citizens accept her either out of gratitude or fear of being next on her hit list, and the local police force thinks this is just peachy, since they get to collect their government paychecks without having to do squat. Officer Tod does prove himself able to hold his own against an expert assassin, though, having been a mob enforcer before Oasis cleaned up the town.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_1c649ab3	comment	The Rising of the Shield Hero has a lot of this among the general populace, since they expect the summoned heroes to save them from the waves and solve their problems. Unfortunately, three of the four heroes are utter twits who treat the world like a RPG game, and their carelessness tends to cause more trouble than good, with the titular protagonist forced to pick up the slack and clean up the messes they made. This comes to a head when the Church of the Three Heroes gets fed up with their constant failures and decides to kill them off and summon new heroes to replace them. Later in the novel, this is explained as each hero was meant to be summoned in a different ritual done in a different kingdom (thus the mass summoning interfered with the choice ability of the Cardinal Weapons), and so the King of Melromarc hoarding all the heroes and founding the aforementioned heretic church as part of a revenge ploy against the Shield Hero purely out of hatred towards demihumans was absolutely irrational and petty.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_1ed97d3e	comment	This trope gets discussed in Wild ARMs 2. In fact, the whole question of what it really means to be a hero is a major theme of the game.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_20028d77	comment	In The Spectre #22 (third series) the title character removes all the pollution that was created from him destroying the country of Vlatava and hurls it into outer space. Superman asks Spectre why he doesn't do that with all of Earth's pollution. Spectre responds that it is too dangerous for humanity to become too dependent on superhumans to solve their problems.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_21e2f10d	comment	Dragon Quest III: After Ortega's death, it feels like the whole world basically just waited for his heir to come of age. Certainly everyone in your hometown did. But heyâ€”no pressure, right?
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_21e321da	comment	Dragon Quest VII picks this apart in small-scale with the Love Dodecahedron in Greenthumb Gardens. If Lavender simply talked to Borlock and explained she loved Carraway and not his son Dill, she could easily get him to abandon the Arranged Marriage and find some other way of repaying her late parents' debt. Instead, Lavender expects Carraway to sweep in and fix everything, despite knowing that Carraway is an Extreme Doormat whom she's forcing to choose between her love and his family's welfare. Ultimately, this Fatal Flaw costs her everything when Carraway decides the only way to resolve the situation is to take himself out of the picture.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_223c2a48	comment	Justified, at least, with the Vah Ruta crisis in Breath of The Wild. The only thing that can begin to affect the divine beast is a Kryptonite Factor for the residents. They tried to solve the problem themselves already, and switched to finding someone more electricity resistant when that failed.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_23e119be	comment	The whole Superman holding back ordeal started in the Bronze age with Elliot S. Maggin's Must There Be a Superman?? from Superman #247. In it, The Guardians of the Universe drag Superman to Oa and tell him, point-blank, that his superheroics are causing human evolution to stagnate and to cut it out. He's shaken by it and decides to hold back on the situations that regular humans would be fine with dealing.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_2a8943c0	comment	After spending two years as Ladybug, Marinette feels like the people of Paris are taking her presence — and protection — completely for granted. Rather than learning how to manage their negative emotions, they keep getting akumatized by Hawkmoth for the pettiest of reasons, expecting her to swoop in, save the day, and use her Lucky Charm to wipe away any damage or long-term consequences. She grows so resentful of this that she decides to retire, passing the Earrings over to a Sketchy Successor.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In Justice League, Dr. Amanda Blake Waller, of the Cadmus group, is half of the time sympathetically depicted in her frustration at this; despite "extra-legal" (and in some cases, downright hideous) methods of dealing with it.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_2e91e43b	comment	In Raise, people in Atlas start neglecting to take proper care of themselves — or worse yet, their own children — because of the background belief that Jaune will revive them. Jaune notes most of the kids he brings back died in preventable accidents when he starts asking how they died. Best summed up when Jaune leaves for Mistral.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_3133ae78	comment	Played with in SWAT Kats: the Enforcers combine law enforcement with being a full-time standing army as they have everything from patrol cops to assault infantry and battle tanks with air support from gunship helicopters and fighter jets. One episode even confirmed they have a navy with an aircraft carrier. However, while they do a good job apparently keeping Megakat City at a relatively good level of law and order, they are constantly outgunned by the villains of the episode being completely dependent on the Swat Kats to save them.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_31a8701b	comment	During Mark Waid's writing of The Flash, it was revealed that one of the liabilities of having a superhero in your city is that people feel more at liberty to conduct dangerous experiments, thinking that a superhero will save them if things go wrong. That theme was also explored in Rick Veitch's Brat Pack where the presence of the True-Man encouraged humans to have lesser safety standards for nuclear power plants. This wouldn't present a problem, however... if True-Man hadn't been MIA for years.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_334120fc	comment	8-Bit Theater evoked this trope and named it "The Superman Complex", and then showed the problems of relying on it in this Crapsack World.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_3495152f	comment	In Hancock, this trope is exploited by Ray, a PR man, for Vigilante Man Hancock as part of a plan to improve his reputation. The first step was to have Hancock turn himself in for his vigilante actions and reckless destruction. The purpose was twofold; it first gave showed that he was willing to own up to his actions and show the city he was not above the law. The second purpose was to show how things would be like if he wasn't around. According to Ray, he believes the city takes Hancock for granted and it turns out he's correct given how without a super-powered Cowboy Cop like Hancock around, crime skyrockets and eventually the chief of police calls, thus beginning Hancock's work with them. Justified by Hancock being a powerful deterrent by his powers and him not afraid to pull cheap shots. Hell, when the criminals he put in prison try to harass him during his time there, he threatens two that if they don't back off, he will put one's head in the other's ass... and proceeds to do just that when they continue to taunt him.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_360140c7	comment	This is frequent in Fireman Sam. In one of the most striking examples, a hob has been left on, and some paper napkins catch fire. Now, that's bad, but you'd think that someone among the half-a-dozen adults would be able to deal with it. Nope, they just panic and shout for help, calling out two fire trucks to save the day. Even worse, one of those present is actually a fireman himself, and his reaction is to yell "Call for Fireman Sam!".
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_3b878256	comment	Somewhat averted in Mark Waid/Barry Kitson's 2004 remake for Legion of Super-Heroes. The eponymous characters describe themselves as a social youth movement rather than a super-hero team. Cosmic Boy says that the Legion exists for the purpose of their teenage followers.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_3db49365	comment	Spider-Man Trilogy: The first Spider-Man movie features the song "Hero", by Chad Kroeger, which mentions this trope: In Spider-Man 2, when Peter Parker quits being Spider-Man for a while the crime rate in New York jumps by 75%. This isn't supervillain crime, this is stuff like two guys with shotguns robbing a bank then riding away. Either Spider-Man's presence was previously enough to deter petty criminals, so his absence has all the criminals coming out of the woodwork, or the NYPD has come to be waaay too reliant on Spidey's help. Averted later in the same film: Spidey is battling Doctor Octopus (read: getting pummeled) when he is knocked into a moving subway. When Doc Ock comes in to finish him off, the citizens aboard the train tell him that he'll have to go through them, first. He obliges. This was a callback to a slight aversion near the end of the first film, where the bystanders provide some minor (but useful) assistance by harassing the Green Goblin during his fight with Spidey.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_40c7c051	comment	Averted in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, where initially President Slade Wilson (one of the few heroes left on the parallel Earth) refuses to use nuclear weapons against the Crime Syndicate. At the end of the film, President Wilson leads an army of space marines to assist the Justice League in apprehending the Crime Syndicate. Earlier in the film, when the heroic Lex Luthor brings the Justice League to his earth, he asks Superman not to interfere in his fight with Ultraman, saying it won't mean anything if an outsider defeats him.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_43041cff	comment	In the 1996 Made-for-TV Movie, Thrill, a bomb is rigged in the seats of a roller coaster. Our hero disarms it and stops the ride (at the top), just before the villain knocks him off onto the track. As he tries to re-arm his bomb, what do the passengers right next to him do? Sit there.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers and its source material, Super Sentai: Even heroes aren't immune to holding out for other heroes. In Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger/Power Rangers S.P.D., the Rangers begin to slack off when their commanding officer becomes a Sixth Ranger and begins busting heads. As soon as he finds out, he begins answering calls for backup with "Suck it up and do it yourself." In Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, there's an episode where Tommy is in a coma and the other Rangers lose their powers. The Monster of the Week keeps attacking the city, leading to a news caster asking the question, "Where are the Power Rangers?" In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, when the Gokaiger makes their arrival on Earth, the first thing the citizens ask them are "Are you guys the new Super Sentai?" Justified in this case, since pretty much all of the active previous teams got depowered in the process of stopping the last invasion. Given that even the technology-based teams also couldn't seem to recreate their powers, they were Earth's only protectors, and the only other team that would emerge before the Super Sentai powers were restored happened almost a year into the Gokaiger's stay on Earth. This is frankly a recurring problem in many tokusatsu series. The civilians' only purpose is to be affected by the villains threatening them, and the help they provide is to cheer for the heroes. Many times, they've even proven themselves to be Ungrateful Townsfolk the very moment the heroes appear to act out of line, to the point of lynching five high schoolers due to one of their classmates getting injured during an attack or antagonizing the super-powered teens they believed to cause the monster attacks. Linkara actually expresses exasperation one time Apathetic Citizens and Adults Are Useless is in full play in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. In the introductory scene of the soon-to-be replacement Rangers, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha; they, the half of the team they're not replacing, and Bulk and Skull are the only ones attempting to stop a carriage rolling down a hill, and any person that could easily have halted it just dives out of the way as if it was a bullet train. One very MAJOR aversion to this is the Grand Finale to the Zordon Era in Power Rangers in Space. The five remaining Space Rangers (Red had decided to sneak aboard the Big Bad's floating base to save the captured Zordon) make their Last Stand against the invasion force. Hot off the heels of their I Am Spartacus moment, Bulk and Skull rally the citizens of Angel Grove to join in the fray. While Status Quo Is God applies after this, it's implied by later series that this change of attitude resulted in Ranger tech becoming more and more widespread in varying degrees to allow the regular citizens to slightly more effectively fend off against any active forces of evil until any active Rangers can show up, most notably with the Lightspeed organization.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_44b3af49	comment	In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, while the Rangers are on Phaedos in search of the Great Power, Earth is left defenseless as Ivan Ooze finally unleashes his Eco-Morphicon Titans. As Alpha and a dying Zordon watch helplessly from the Command Center, you can hear a news reporter asking "Where are the Power Rangers?"
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_46f5bf95	comment	Averted in Manhunter (Kate Spencer version, 2004-2007), where the titular character/prosecutor decides not to execute the Shadow Thief in hopes that the criminal justice system can ultimately deliver a just verdict/security.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_475972f0	comment	In Y: The Last Man the leader of the Fish & Bicycle Troupe deliberately conceals the existence of a living male monkey (which implies the existence of other surviving males) to prevent false hope amongst women that some man is going to come along and save them.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_48cf61a6	comment	In Superfriends, the American heroes are called upon around the world for emergencies, even for local issues. For instance, when a plane crashes in a remote region of Tibet, the local authorities call upon Superman and The Flash to help get to them in time even while they on the other side of the planet in America. It does help that they are each super fast.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_4965fb90	comment	In Incredibles 2, Winston and Evelyn's father chose to try calling the superheroes for help and then just stood in place when his house was being burgled and was gunned down as a result. Evelyn notes that had he taken the more sensible route of hiding in the house's dedicated safe room, he would have been fine. Evelyn becomes a jaded cynical individual and later a supervillain, who blames superheroes as a result for her dad's death, believing that their presence was what led to him making his choice.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_49ad83ee	comment	The quest-givers in World of Warcraft will sometimes fall into this. Sure, the racial capitals have level 80-something guards patrolling the streets, the throne rooms have level 80-something elites standing by, and the starter areas have level 90 elites standing around doing very little, but they can still send level 5 players to take care of the local orc problem. Some of the quest-givers are just people who send the players to collect those 20 Bear Asses, even though it's their jobs, but because they're either very tired or just too lazy to do it. You'll also sometimes run into a very high-leveled quest giver in a low-level area who asks you to take care of a problem they're perfectly capable of handling, sometimes not even seeming that busy.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_4b96a87d	comment	Utilized in a very dark way in Superman: Doomsday. After seemingly coming back from the dead, one of Superman's first acts is to save a little old lady's cat from being stuck in a tree. However, he then gives an uncharacteristically cold lecture to the old woman that there were larger crimes going on and that he cannot always be there for the little things that he thinks people should take care of. At the same time, he sees Metropolis as his city and even mentions his actions are for their own good. It turns out this Superman is actually a modified clone created by Lex Luthor as part of an experiment to create an army of Supermen to serve him. However, said clone is still Superman at the core and he proceeds to stop Luthor's plan and he ultimately must be stopped by the real Superman (alive, but weakened) with help from Lois and Jimmy.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_4d1ba412	comment	Implied in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja when the new mayor is attacked by dinosaurs.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_4f7a49d9	comment	This trope drives the four crazy in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, because they're always being asked to do something heroic that the city guards really should have done, such as search for a missing citizen or rescue a kidnapped baby. The official excuse is usually that the guards are not empowered to do much outside the cities proper, or that the gods themselves chose the four to perform this heroic deed. Eventually they start refusing every request they get and pointing at other nearby outworlders who could do the job.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena: Warrior Princess: This is taken to almost absurd proportions in the episode "Been There, Done That". Xena and her entourage enter a town just in time for a feud between two noble houses to erupt into all-out war, with a tragic, bloody conclusion. But then, a "Groundhog Day" Loop starts, which threatens to start the battle again. Xena tries everything to stop the loop; she tries getting the two families to make peace, and succeeds, but that doesn't stop it; she makes them angry enough at her to get them to stop fighting, but still, the loop happens. Finally, a young man tells her why it's happening: he and the daughter of the opposing house were Star-Crossed Lovers, and made a deal with Cupid to have the day repeat itself until he finds a way to keep his lover from killing herself and their families from killing each other; until a "Hero would come along to save [the girl], make peace between the houses and end the loop." He had numerous chances to tell Xena, but the thing is:
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_5178149f	comment	The first episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold has Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)'s scarab warp him and Batman to a distant planet that was once saved by a previous wielder of the Beetle powers. The amoeba-like inhabitants are being enslaved and want Jaime to rescue them, but he tries to convince them to stand up on their own two feet. It takes a while.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_526d4c5c	comment	The Republic in Knights of the Old Republic had quite a lot of this, as Kreia points out in KOTOR 2. The Republic is incapable of handling the marauding Mandalorians until a few Jedi join them. Kreia even has a philosophy based on this. Helping people by solving their problems for them only makes them weaker by taking away to conflict that could have made them stronger. She's fine with the player "helping" people, but only so long as the player understands that what they're doing isn't actually helping those people, but helping themselves by making them dependent on the player.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Similar is to be expected in the Ultimate Marvel Universe in the face of Ultimatum as a good deal of the superheroes are dead, the Fantastic Four and Avengers are disbanded, Captain America is a fugitive, increased public persecution of mutants, and Gregory Stark's superhuman task force does not strike the readers as trustworthy.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_553051f	comment	Superman preached the dangers of this sort of thing to Kyle Rayner when he first got the Ion power, and was basically able to be everywhere and prevent any problem. We later see Kyle watch some firefighters saving someone, and allow them to have to struggle to do it. He almost steps in, but they make it ok, and he acknowledges to Alan Scott that Superman was right.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_5755b96a	comment	Happens briefly in The Order of the Stick. After the city is overrun by hobgoblins, several of the fleeing soldiers accidentally become aware of the elf wizard who had fought alongside them also fleeing the invading army under a spell of invisibility. These soldiers actually stop their retreat and proceed to bombard the elf with demands to save them, turn them invisible, teleport them out of there, blast the hobgoblins, anything. Unfortunately for them, said wizard is completely out of spells by this point and can only watch as they are slaughtered by the hobgoblins.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: The Civil War plotline. The two sides are effectively deadlocked: the secessionist Stormcloak rebels in eastern Skyrim while the Imperial loyalists and their Imperial Legion forces hold western Skyrim. Other than some skirmishes in the countryside, the two sides are completely deadlocked. Only the involvement of the Dragonborn can break the stalemate. By joining one side, the Dragonborn will be instrumental in leading the attacks for that side on opposition forts and cities. Even if you do not choose a side, you'll still impact the situation during the main quest when you must call for a summit and a ceasefire to deal with the dragon crisis. It can make you wonder what would have happened if the Dragonborn never came along.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: Due to a combination of contradictory orders, bureaucratic red tape, stretched resources, and General "Wait-and-See" Oliver's strategy, the NCR can't accomplish very much at all without the Courier's assistance. They need his/her help to run supplies, train soldiers and medical personnel, interrogate prisoners, catch Legion spies, assassinate Raider leaders, carry out diplomatic missions, and even retake towns that have fallen into Legion hands. If the player doesn't do them, they simply never get done, as the epilogue shows.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_5a6defee	comment	Averted in District X where the New York City police department handles various superhuman threats throughout Mutant Town without help from the superheroes (although the X-Men member Bishop was a member of the police force).
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_5d4da196	comment	The first Spider-Man movie features the song "Hero", by Chad Kroeger, which mentions this trope:
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_5d4da197	comment	In Spider-Man 2, when Peter Parker quits being Spider-Man for a while the crime rate in New York jumps by 75%. This isn't supervillain crime, this is stuff like two guys with shotguns robbing a bank then riding away. Either Spider-Man's presence was previously enough to deter petty criminals, so his absence has all the criminals coming out of the woodwork, or the NYPD has come to be waaay too reliant on Spidey's help.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_62570927	comment	This trope was averted in the event of Marvel Universe's Dark Reign as the superheroes were quite hesitant to defend a public that entrusted Norman Osborn and his band of supervillains as protectors along with the increased persecution of mutants following House of M. Thus, society will have to depend more on themselves for protection. Similar is to be expected in the Ultimate Marvel Universe in the face of Ultimatum as a good deal of the superheroes are dead, the Fantastic Four and Avengers are disbanded, Captain America is a fugitive, increased public persecution of mutants, and Gregory Stark's superhuman task force does not strike the readers as trustworthy.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_628b342c	comment	Spoofed in issue #0 of Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink. When Captain Omnipotent realizes that his never-ending superheroics are due to overachiever guilt at being the last son of Crypto, he cheerfully ignores people's cries for help so they won't be dependent on him.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_629cd094	comment	Dragon Age: Origins has one point where the Warden has the option to do this after being captured and thrown in prison. You can either attempt to break out on your own (not terribly difficult, even without your gear), or simply say that you're sure your friends will rescue you and chose which two party members will attempt the jailbreak.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_62f94c6	comment	Played straight at first in The Dark Knight Trilogy, but later invokedly averted. While heroes like Batman and Harvey Dent were needed to get there, better policing and new laws like the Dent Act have taken care of Gotham's huge problem with organized crime and corruption in the police force by The Dark Knight Rises.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_630a4ab9	comment	Eddie Kingston was still a rudo when Die Bruderschaft des Kreuzes formed at the end of the 2009 CHIKARA Season Finale Three-Fisted Tales on November 22, 2009. However, when they were all standing shoulder to shoulder and Ares instructed Carpenter Ant (Pinkie Sanchez) to unmask, someone in the crowd chanted "We want Kingston!," as if he was the only one who could solve this problem.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_63230cb	comment	Cell in Dragon Ball Z Abridged pretty much sums up what happened to Dragon Ball Z after Goku unlocks Super Saiyan, where the even remotely capable cast Can't Catch Up to the exponentially powerful Saiyans and their even more powerful offsprings and leave everything out for Goku to defeat and save the day. It's actually one of Abridged Vegeta's major berserk buttons.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_6365ff2d	comment	Dragon Quest: Double subversion. Many warriors went out to fight the Dragonlord and retrieve the Ball of Light and the Princess, but neither of them returned; so the King and the Alefgardians had become reduced to hope that the prophecy about the coming of the descendant of Erdrick was right.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_64494e71	comment	Walker, Texas Ranger: There was an episode involving a Shop teacher in High School who was The Aggressive Drug Dealer sending out his students to send out drugs. The plot simultaneously tried to preach the strength to stand against the drug dealer... while having the drug dealer kill anyone who wasn't Chuck Norris or protected by Chuck Norris. A similar episode had another teacher, this time a student of Walker, stand up to and thoroughly trounce three gangbangers who had barged into his classroom and started harassing one of his students... only to be shot and killed by the trio later that day. Apparently only Walker's martial arts can stop crime.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_66521be6	comment	In the Tower and the Hive installment Pegasus in Flight, Russia used an old law to forcefully draft the entire group of telekinetic talents. This caused a problem with some factories that were not upto safety regulations because these telekinetics were not available to assist in planet-side accidents.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998): One episode was devoted to showing how the citizens of Townsville have become so used to the girls taking care of everything from invading monsters to fires to getting cats out trees that every problem is shrugged off with, "Oh, the Powerpuff Girls will take care of it." This causes the girls to go on strike. Subverted somewhat, in that they still had to help the townsfolk realize that monster+electrical wires+water>soggy toast. They didn't get the "toaster in the bathtub" analogy, and instead took it to mean they had to get the monster's toast soggy. The girls spelled it out for them. Then the townsfolk claimed total credit for it, and started exulting that they didn't need the Powerpuff Girls anymore. Reversed in another episode that had an obsessive collector of Powerpuff Girl merchandise capture the Girls themselves to add to his collection. The people of Townsville paid the girls back for helping them by going to the collector's house and ripping up all his merchandise, freeing the Girls in the process. Since he was a flabby, bald, overweight Otaku with no powers, there wasn't much he could do to stop them. Another episode had the girls replaced by a phony hero called Major Man, a Superman Substitute with genuine powers who was secretly setting up crimes so he could stop them and get the credit; the citizens of Townsville give him it because he's outwardly a more impressive and traditional hero than three kindergarten girls. When the girls find out what he's been up to (he literally kicks a dog onto the road to save it), they set a friendly monster called Fred on the city and he is completely overpowered, and useless as he never set it up and never fought real crime or monsters. When Fred first attacked, the citizens of Townsville happily ignored him as they thought "Major Man will take care of it"; they only panicked when he didn't. And yet another episode had a cop go nuts thinking that the reason he was fired from the force was because of the PPG taking all the credit for stopping crime and making the cops look bad and losing funding. He was actually fired because he was a corrupt, incompetent Jerkass (he's asleep during an armed robbery, and his apartment is full of seized merchandise), and he decides to take revenge on the girls using some of Mojo Jojo's old equipment that he stole from the evidence locker. He is thwarted by his fellow officers, leading the narrator to give the police department partial credit for saving the day at the end of the episode.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_6723753c	comment	In Superman: Red Son, wherein a communist Superman had no problems with using his abilities to prevent every bad thing possible (from each according to his abilities and all that), people did indeed grow too reliant upon him to solve all their problems. Eventually cars stopped being manufactured with seatbelts — the citizens expected Superman to save them if they got into a wreck. (Ironically enough, Lex Luthor opposed him on those grounds in that reality, too.)
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_68d7b51d	comment	An infamous 4chan /tg/ post deconstructed this trope rather well by showing just why RPG townspeople rely on Player Characters to do everything for them: they just plain suck at doing things themselves. The DM forced the players into the role of various regular townspeople attempting to help out the town innkeeper with his rat problem. For regular PCs, this would be a trivial first quest to complete when starting a new campaign. For these schmucks? Total Party Kill. Then they rerolled different schmucks and suffered another Total Party Kill, and then two more before the session was over. Next session, they went back to playing a normal campaign, and several weeks later, their party came upon a devastated village in the wilderness, with all the townspeople long dead. They wondered what could have happened to the village to put it in this state, until they saw the unmistakable corpses of their third group of useless schmucks and realized where they were. Quote the poster, "We never bitched about helping out some random NPC with his rat problem again."
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_6b302cc3	comment	"Liberate" by Disturbed:
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_74f7210c	comment	While the The Legend of Zelda series is a prime offender of this notion, it is subverted in the backstory for The Wind Waker, the first game in the "Adult Timeline". When Ganon eventually returns, the people of Hyrule are confident the Hero of Time will return to defeat him once more... but he doesn't. Helpless, the citizens desperately pray to the gods for assistance, who are left with no other option but to flood Hyrule to prevent Ganon from taking over. An aversion shows up in the beginning of the "Decline Timeline", in which Link is killed in the final battle with Ganon in Ocarina of Time. However, the knights of Hyrule and the seven Sages manage to thwart and seal away Ganon in the corrupted Sacred Realm themselves after a great war, forming the backstory of A Link to the Past. Justified, at least, with the Vah Ruta crisis in Breath of The Wild. The only thing that can begin to affect the divine beast is a Kryptonite Factor for the residents. They tried to solve the problem themselves already, and switched to finding someone more electricity resistant when that failed.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_76c01b30	comment	Subverted with V for Vendetta, where V tells the public that they either take responsibility for taking down the totalitarian dictatorship or V will obliterate both them and the totalitarian dictatorship.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_792239e5	comment	This is very much the state of Sylvarant in Tales of Symphonia, where everyone seems to be mostly reliant on the fact that The Chosen One will have to save them all. Nobody seems to think much about what having all these hopes and that responsibility shoved onto her this does for the Chosen's self-esteem.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_7988cb68	comment	Several of the quests in Mass Effect can come off this way, though the implication is that, no matter how long you take to get around to jumping on that quest, you got there just in time to help pull them back from the brink. An example of this being played straight is Liara's recruitment mission in Mass Effect: You find her trapped in a forcefield she accidentally activated when her research camp came under attack. Her dialogue changes based on how many quests you did before recruiting her, with the clear implication that she has been hanging there the whole time waiting for someone to come get her out. This doesn't speak too badly of her, she was unable to move after all, but it does make the would-be kidnappers who have been camping right on top of the equipment you use to save her this whole time without pushing the "on" button look pretty stupid.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: Commissioner Gordon often has the worry of relying too much on Batman to patrol Gotham, and points it out in Batman: No Man's Land by claiming that he can't get himself hired anywhere because his reliance on an "urban legend" damages his credibility. Usually though, he has to admit that the corrupt and perpetually-underfunded police department couldn't handle Gotham's crime rate before with normal mobsters and certainly not now in the face of a bunch insane supervillains (and the even more insane but Badass Normal Joker.) And, as Battle for the Cowl demonstrated, Gotham does indeed become a lawless warzone the moment Batman disappeared and only returns to something resembling normality (for Gotham) once Dick accepts that there must be Batman (and he's it). A large portion of the "Knight" arc (Knightfall/Knightquest/Knightsend),apart from being a Take That! at people who wanted a Darker and Edgier Batman, was to point out that a huge part of the problem in Gotham was mostly psychological in nature, and that Gotham needs Batman, even a fake one. Gotham as a whole does this with its supervillains. Instead of investing in tighter security for Arkham Asylum, planning for what to do if a supervillain breaks out, or even just giving people like the Joker the death penalty after years of mass murder, Gotham relies on its vigilantes to stop them without doing anything to fix the problem. Justified with the reveal of the Court of Owls, an Ancient Conspiracy which has been controlling Gotham from behind the scenes and taking action to prevent it from getting better, bribing and browbeating those who are ever in a position to help into not doing so out of fear for their own lives. Batman and his allies are among the few people willing to stand up and try to improve things regardless.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_8349fc53	comment	Kingdom Come: Explored. It concludes with a UN rep telling Superman that they (normal people) saw meta-humans as gods. Superman replies that they thought of themselves as such, and they were wrong. The comic ends with meta-humans and humans becoming equal partners.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_84986bf9	comment	In RuneScape, Major Mary Rancour gets upset and starts ranting during the quest Kindred Spirits about how her Burthorpe Guards have started slacking in their duties, as the World Guardian will just come along and undo any damage done by troll invasions.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_854a6eaa	comment	In Reign of Doomsday, the reaction of US Government to learning that a spaceship will crash into Earth at terminal speed within ten minutes is... broadcast a worldwide message to Superman or any hero, asking them to do something.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_8614f3c0	comment	The Worthing Saga deals with this issue. An entire planet of telepaths and telekinetics has, from altruistic motives, eliminated pain on all the worlds. They heal any injuries instantly, they block grief at death (which is only from old age), etc. They finally figure out this has turned all of mankind into slaves, and commit mass suicide. Of course then when Pain returns, no one is equipped to deal with it...
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_8a063c55	comment	The Gods of Arr-Kelaan when Mike, god of Honor/Valor, first gained his powers he worked as a superhero causing this effect. He decided he needed to change his strategy.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: Arguably, the aesop of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz is "Don't wait for the heroes, do it yourself", a point emphasized by Relena abandoning her stance of Total Pacifism to encourage the civilians to stand up to the invading army, and by Dorothy Catalonia's rather effective Reason You Suck Speech to them when they still don't grasp what Relena was telling them. The aesop of After War Gundam X is similar: the finale is a brutal rejection of the notion that Newtypes (people with mild Psychic Powers) are in any way superior to ordinary humans, and that people cannot expect to rely on the guidance or assistance of Newtypes to solve their problems, they have to man up and do it themselves. This was a somewhat shocking reversal of one of the central ideas of the original Gundam series, that Newtypes were the next step in evolution and needed to use their power to guide humanity into a new golden age.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_8ea0a0f4	comment	Dragon Quest Builders: In the final chapter, the Builder is told by Rubiss that the life force she imbued them with has largely been used up in the process of crafting the three relics needed to defeat the Dragonlord. Knowing this, the Builder decides that instead of living out a long life holding out for a hero, they'll spend what life force they have left facing the Dragonlord to make things better for everyone else now.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series, "Joker's Favor": Charlie Collins is just a muggle everyman that yelled at a bad driver only to realize too late that it was the Joker and spent the next two years on the run from him. Even though Charlie eventually gets Batman's attention to help him, in the end, it's Charlie himself who faces down his tormentor, and does such a good job of it that by the end of it, the Joker is yelling for Batman to come help him.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_90c73dda	comment	In Animorphs, while they try to slow the invasion on their own, the kids spend the better part of the series waiting for Andalite rescue. And waiting. And waiting. And waiting... They finally go on the true offensive when they realize that not only is no rescue coming, but the Andalites have just decided to blow up the Earth, sacrificing the humans to kill the Yeerk forces on the planet.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_91684031	comment	Subverted and lampshaded in PokÃ©mon Black and White. Subverted in that several authority figures, including most of the Gym Leaders and the retired Champion, are trying to curb Team Plasma's more criminal acts, but fail because they don't have the information (or destiny) that you do. The lampshading is mostly by Team Plasma members, who are pushing N to be the "hero" so they can outlaw PokÃ©mon husbandry, and N himself, who wishes the Apathetic Citizens cared as much as you do.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9173be2b	comment	Averted in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan and its American counterpart, Elite Beat Agents. "Ouendan" can be roughly translated as "cheer squad"... and that's your job, my friend. The duty of the Ouendan and the Agents is to provide encouragement through song and dance - the person being aided does the actual work. The only exception in either series is the last level of either game, where the Ouendan/Agents act as the focus for the Combined Energy Attack.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_924ce7d9	comment	In Birthright, the world of Terrenos has been fighting a losing war against God-King Lore, which only got worse when the Five, powerful magic users and the greatest champions of their land, decided that they were fighting a Hopeless War and they abandoned Terrenos. Their desperation is so great they teleport a little kid from Earth with no powers whatsoever because he is believed to be The Chosen One. And then said kid becomes a Fallen Hero and things become even worse.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_92df1bd0	comment	Subverted in Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime when Mother Glooperior asks two other slimes to help her move a heavy iron ball, because it would've been unfair of them to expect Rocket to do everything.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia plays with, deconstructs and examines this trope. In the world (and future) it's set in, 80% of the population have some form of superpower or Quirk. Despite this, crime by superpowered criminals was rampant despite the efforts of Heroes (who have to be highly trained, licensed and regulated; they are effectively civil servants). However, All Might strove to change this by being The Paragon, not only to serve and inspire other heroes by example, determination and skill, but also to cripple the morale of the villains. The moment he retires, the villains start becoming more active, which was the goal of All Might's archenemy, All For One (a supervillain whose power is stealing other powers), though he is defeated and jailed and leaves it to his protege to continue this rise in villainy, setting him up to be the Arch-Enemy of the protagonist and All Might's successor/protege, Izuku "Deku" Midoriya. This is also deconstructed by All For One in Tomura Shigaraki's backstory to make him his disciple and potential successor. Heroes inspire and give people hope, but this causes people to become apathetic to the suffering of others. After all, with heroes out there to save lives, why should they bother to help anyone? It isn't their place to do so. Unfortunately, Tomura bought this and it spurred him on the path of villainy, helped along by his personal experience with this face-to-face. After his powers activated and killed his family, he staggered around the streets looking for somebody to help save him, or punish him for the action, but no heroes were around. Despite that, he was witnessed by plenty of civilians, but because of his ghoulish appearance after the horrifying experience he'd just been through, they could tell he was bad news, and thus all of them uniformly avoided him to avoid getting caught up in trouble, leaving it up to a hero to save Tomura instead. However, the only person who actually reached out to him was All For One, leaving Tomura eternally grateful to his 'saviour' and enraged at the callousness of the ordinary civilians who chose to ignore his suffering.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_982fa89f	comment	Brother Tuck suggests the people of Locksley and surrounding areas are becoming like this in Robin Hood:
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9986775b	comment	Rick Martel used the Trope Namer as his entrance music in the American Wrestling Association.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9aac12df	comment	One U.S. Acres segment of Garfield and Friends involves a new rooster named Plato taking Roy's place. When the weasel invades the farm and steals the chickens, the rooster runs and hides. Orson vigorously attempts to shame and then forcibly drag the rooster to do his job. By the time he drags him there though, Roy (with some help from Wade) had sent the weasel packing (since in Wade's running away, he found Roy and informed him of the situation, before assisting in chasing away the weasel.)
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9ba84f18	comment	"Holding Out for a Hero", by Bonnie Tyler, the Trope Namer, only partly counts as an example. The lyrics imply the singer desires a heroic figure for a lover, but the original context counts against it: The song was specifically written for a scene in Footloose in which the protagonist is challenged to a Game of Chicken in a tractor, and finds himself the accidental victor (his shoelaces get stuck in the gearing, preventing him from bailing out), making him an Accidental Hero at best. (Although, the song has been used in many movies, television series, and even video games during Big Damn Heroes moments.)
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9bb5aad4	comment	Invoked in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX; according to Nightshroud, he will continue to exist as the collective Heartless of humans because they refuse to solve their own problems and always look for someone else to shoulder burdens.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9c6d8396	comment	In I Don't Want This Kind of Hero, Dana, the chief of the resident Heroes "R" Us, feels that this has become the case, making the 'heroes' a form of evil in disguise. That said, she then adds that regardless, someone in danger should always get help, and thus if someone else is in danger, they should help them.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Played straight in general throughout the series. In many, many cases, it's almost as if Quest Givers are simply waiting around for the Player Character to come along. Granted, this can be considered Justified by the fact that the player character is always the Hero of the Age, foretold by prophecy and "blessed" with the ability to rule their own fate (also the justification for the players involvement), so effectively superhuman. Morrowind includes a prominent specific example in its main quest. The Big Bad, a Plaguemaster Physical God, has returned and, in desperation, the Tribunal have trapped him within his volcano stronghold using a magic Great Wall. While the divine powers of the Tribunal are waning (due to being cut off from their source of divine power which lies within the volcano), the Tribunal Temple which worships them had strong Church Militant and Church Police forces, as well as support from the Proud Warrior Great House of the Dunmer people. At no point are these forces used offensively to attack the Big Bad or his forces. Later, dialogue with one of the Tribunal dieties implies (and out-of-game developer written texts strongly support) that he truly believes that You Can't Fight Fate, and knew that the Nerevarine would eventually come along to save the day. Skyrim: The Civil War plotline. The two sides are effectively deadlocked: the secessionist Stormcloak rebels in eastern Skyrim while the Imperial loyalists and their Imperial Legion forces hold western Skyrim. Other than some skirmishes in the countryside, the two sides are completely deadlocked. Only the involvement of the Dragonborn can break the stalemate. By joining one side, the Dragonborn will be instrumental in leading the attacks for that side on opposition forts and cities. Even if you do not choose a side, you'll still impact the situation during the main quest when you must call for a summit and a ceasefire to deal with the dragon crisis. It can make you wonder what would have happened if the Dragonborn never came along.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Completely averted in One Piece. Luffy has made it clear several times that if he comes across a place that subscribes to this philosophy, he's perfectly willing to let it rot. Fortunately, most of the places Luffy visits are filled with people perfectly willing to fight for what's important to them. The closest the series comes to this is the good denizens of Thriller Bark, who are holding out for someone like Luffy to get their shadows back, but justified due to this being because they already tried on several occasions and utterly failed every time. Averting this actually becomes a problem in the Alabasta arc, in which Koza believes that he's solving the country's problems himself by starting a rebellion; but since he was tricked into believing the wrong person was the villain, all he does is create more problems that need to be resolved by the "heroes" (though in fairness, he becomes pivotal in resolving everything after he finds out what was going on). Ever since the death of the former daimyo Kozuki Oden, the inhabitants of Wano are waiting for the Akazaya Nine who will take down Kaido and current daimyo Orochi's reign as prophesied by Oden's wife, Kozuki Toki, before dying. Publicly nobody believes it, but the Kozuki supporters are still waiting and quickly gather when the Akazaya Nine return. Orochi himself believes the prophecy and is wary of the samurais' return.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9e84c324	comment	In Batman Returns, Catwoman chews out a woman for this after saving her from an attacker.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9edf7c1d	comment	Averted in What If?: Civil War where S.H.I.E.L.D., under the guidance of Henry Peter Gyrich, kills or imprisons all the superheroes and supervillains on Earth using an army of Thor clones. Gyrich then goes on to win the US presidency.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9f33d8ef	comment	In The Untold Story of Argo City, Supergirl informs Kandor's Science Council she has discovered her parents Zor-El and Allura are trapped in a parallel pocket dimension. Rather than devoting manpower, time and resources to rescue one of their most prominent scientists, the Kandorians wait for Supergirl solving the trouble.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_9f89a5f0	comment	In pretty much all PokÃ©mon games, we see useless police and Apathetic Citizens who wait for some random kid to do everything for them. In PokÃ©mon Ranger, the residents of Fall City needs Rangers' help for things like finding lost PokÃ©mon, moving boxes, and lighting up dark rooms. Luckily, by the end, they become more self-reliant. Subverted and lampshaded in PokÃ©mon Black and White. Subverted in that several authority figures, including most of the Gym Leaders and the retired Champion, are trying to curb Team Plasma's more criminal acts, but fail because they don't have the information (or destiny) that you do. The lampshading is mostly by Team Plasma members, who are pushing N to be the "hero" so they can outlaw PokÃ©mon husbandry, and N himself, who wishes the Apathetic Citizens cared as much as you do.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_a03824e8	comment	Subverted in The DCU version of World War II, where Hitler's The Spear of Destiny blocked out superhumans from entering the Axis campaign, thus leaving regular humans to fight the war.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_a090fcfc	comment	The enslaved hares in Bucky O'Hare were waiting for the titular hero to rescue them. This annoys insurrectionist Mimi La Floo, who is trying to set up a resistance movement, to no end.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_a33d74a4	comment	Sort of used in the sixth Sword of Truth book, when Richard decides that if he continues to force the fight against the Imperial Order with his amazing super-powers, he will cause his people to become what he is fighting to protect them from.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_a3df455	comment	In PokÃ©mon Ranger, the residents of Fall City needs Rangers' help for things like finding lost PokÃ©mon, moving boxes, and lighting up dark rooms. Luckily, by the end, they become more self-reliant.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_aa954170	comment	The aesop of After War Gundam X is similar: the finale is a brutal rejection of the notion that Newtypes (people with mild Psychic Powers) are in any way superior to ordinary humans, and that people cannot expect to rely on the guidance or assistance of Newtypes to solve their problems, they have to man up and do it themselves. This was a somewhat shocking reversal of one of the central ideas of the original Gundam series, that Newtypes were the next step in evolution and needed to use their power to guide humanity into a new golden age.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b1e6eef4	comment	In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, when the Gokaiger makes their arrival on Earth, the first thing the citizens ask them are "Are you guys the new Super Sentai?" Justified in this case, since pretty much all of the active previous teams got depowered in the process of stopping the last invasion. Given that even the technology-based teams also couldn't seem to recreate their powers, they were Earth's only protectors, and the only other team that would emerge before the Super Sentai powers were restored happened almost a year into the Gokaiger's stay on Earth.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Ultra Series: This trope is sometimes given as the reason why "transform into Ultraman" isn't the response to the monster showing up and the Anti-Monster group helping that particular Ultra have to make an effort first — the Ultras don't want humanity to DEPEND on them, they want them to progress to the point they can fight side-by-side WITH them.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b31b332f	comment	Avoided in the Transformers Film Series. The Autobots are protecting humans, sure, but the military isn't exactly cowering behind Optimus Prime. In fact, at some points it seems like the US military is better at fighting the Decepticons than the Autobots are. It helps when one remembers that in the movie series, most advanced military tech was developed from studying Megatron while he was frozen under Hoover Dam. Eventually in the original 1980's Transformers cartoon, human contact with the Autobots greatly accelerated Earth's technological development. As a result, by the early 2000's humans were able to hold off the Decepticons by themselves. This was acknowledged in the Beast Wars series, where the new Megatron attempted to kill the original proto-humans knowing that it was due to their assistance that the Autobots were able to win the Great War.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: Justified in a late 1970s issue, with the Hulk rampaging desperately through New York and all the regular authorities like the NYPD can't stop him. As a cameraman is getting this, he is wondering where The Fantastic Four, The Avengers or Spider-Man are to help stop the monster.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind includes a prominent specific example in its main quest. The Big Bad, a Plaguemaster Physical God, has returned and, in desperation, the Tribunal have trapped him within his volcano stronghold using a magic Great Wall. While the divine powers of the Tribunal are waning (due to being cut off from their source of divine power which lies within the volcano), the Tribunal Temple which worships them had strong Church Militant and Church Police forces, as well as support from the Proud Warrior Great House of the Dunmer people. At no point are these forces used offensively to attack the Big Bad or his forces. Later, dialogue with one of the Tribunal dieties implies (and out-of-game developer written texts strongly support) that he truly believes that You Can't Fight Fate, and knew that the Nerevarine would eventually come along to save the day.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b777d9c2	comment	In Aquaman (1991), this is invoked and subverted. Black Manta is confident the Atlanteans will rely on Aquaman to save them and stay out of the fight as they usually do—and he's floored when they do stand up and fight.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b80c3b	comment	Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a deconstruction of this concept. The city worships its superheroes and relies on them to fight evil regardless of their personal qualities, which allows Captain Hammer to get away with being a total jerk to everyone who isn't as strong as he is. Captain Hammer's boorish behavior is what turns Doctor Horrible into a super villain, and their squabble over the one person who is genuinely trying to make the city a better place ends up killing her.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_b8c4fbbc	comment	In Tales of an Mazing Girl, Sarah occasionally agonizes over the effects that her superpowers (including the superpuppetry skills she learned at Cal Arts from one of the original Muppet creators) have on the world and how they become dependent on her doing its dirty work.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_bb58cad8	comment	The opening of Justice League (2017) shows people yearning for the return of Superman to the tune of Sigrid's cover of the Leonard Cohen song "Everybody Knows". Zack Snyder's Justice League doesn't include the above scene, but still brings up the need to revive Superman.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_bcc7c8a1	comment	In Renegades, this is Nova's main problem with the eponymous superheroes: because the Renegades promise that they will take care of all the problems and protect everyone, no-one is trying to solve any of Gatlon City's innumerable issues on their own. People aren't interested in learning medicine because there are prodigies with Healing Hands; the economy is near-stagnant because Renegades make money by selling their skills abroad; the police force is non-existent because Renegades patrol the streets; and no-one's bothered about the city turning into a (well-meaning, but still) dictature, because everyone assumes the Renegades will take care of everything.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_bcf4836d	comment	This very idea was fulfilled in another alternate universe: The Last Avengers Story. The government used superheroes to capture supervillains and then executed them. After that most heroes retired, and their replacement had stagnated without strong enemies until Kang killed them.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, when Elliot gets captured by Damien, Tedd advocates waiting for his father instead of Ellen, Grace and Nanase going to rescue him themselves even though Mr. Verres is unreachable.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_bddc4ebe	comment	In Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, there's an episode where Tommy is in a coma and the other Rangers lose their powers. The Monster of the Week keeps attacking the city, leading to a news caster asking the question, "Where are the Power Rangers?"
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_bf09bf33	comment	This may sometimes seem that way in the Arrowverse, especially in Central City (Earth 1) or National City (Earth 38). In the former, the cops are simply unprepared to deal with the metahuman-of-the-week. On the other hand, they will cordon off the area in order to limit the collateral damage between the metahuman's fights with the Flash. In National City, it's pretty much the same, although the presence of DEO headquarters in the city does help. Lampshaded in Arrow, where some have pointed out that the Green Arrow fighting crime has resulted in people no longer trusting the cops to do their jobs.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_bfef9cdb	comment	In Welcome to Night Vale, everybody is perfectly happy to allow Tamika Flynn and her child army take on StrexCorp and their lack of help leads to them losing and being captured. Cecil gives everyone a disappointed lecture about this trope before he, too, is taken into custody.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X the inhabitants of Spira have accepted over generations that the only relief they will ever receive from the city-destroying Sin is the Summoners and their pilgrimage to obtain the Final Aeon- at least until Sin inevitably returns again reborn from the Final Aeon itself. During Operation Mi'ihen, the Crusaders and the Al'Bhed team up for a unique attempt to subvert the trope by trying to destroy Sin themselves with a powerful machina cannon. It fails, almost all of them die, and the survivors are excommunicated from the Church of Yevon for their heresy, and the people of Spira had presumably tried (and failed) to fight Sin in the past, so to be fair you can kind of understand their complacent mindset.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_c4282b71	comment	The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Mysterious Mare Do Well" has Rainbow Dash and the eponymous mare running around saving folks. At least two involved a road down a steep hill that led directly off a cliff. Nopony thought to build a crash barrier.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_c43df4d8	comment	Averted in Doctor Who episode "Turn Left" which shows an alternate timeline where the Doctor ends up dying and thus the Earth is robbed of its greatest protector in a hostile universe. However, humanity wasn't sitting around waiting for a hero but instead successfully fought off several threats that were defeated by the Doctor in the original timeline. Unfortunately, the methods and means used resulted in huge casualties that added up and led to devastating consequences.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_c6ebe632	comment	Two Letters: After spending two years as Ladybug, Marinette feels like the people of Paris are taking her presence — and protection — completely for granted. Rather than learning how to manage their negative emotions, they keep getting akumatized by Hawkmoth for the pettiest of reasons, expecting her to swoop in, save the day, and use her Lucky Charm to wipe away any damage or long-term consequences. She grows so resentful of this that she decides to retire, passing the Earrings over to a Sketchy Successor. The new Ladybug, by contrast, specifically encourages everyone to count on her saving the day... as part of building up a Cult of Personality around herself. At one point, she claims most prefer her over the original since she never suggests that they should try doing anything to protect themselves. This mentality lingers among those who recognize that the new Ladybug is a Villain with Good Publicity. Most of her critics desperately want the old Ladybug to come out of retirement and save them, and get flustered when they're reminded of how they helped drive her away in the first place — she has to save them, no matter how they treated her before, because "that's what heroes do!"
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_c717e9ce	comment	Taken to a parodic extreme in The 10th Kingdom. The Fourth Kingdom is invaded by trolls, but have so much faith in their Prince (who is in no position to do anything about it) saving the day that they do absolutely nothing to fight back. The troll king remarks to an ally that war is much more fun when there's no enemy.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_c7ea10cc	comment	Silver Surfer: During the 1960s series, he was fighting an evil duplicate in outer space. The Kremlin was watching this battle and was wondering if it was time to ally with the United States in the fight against a common enemy. Subverted in Silver Surfer #5 where a space alien decides to destroy humanity. Silver Surfer's human companion sacrifices his life to defuse a bomb set up by the space alien. The selfless sacrifice convinces the alien invader that humanity has enough nobility in them to be spared.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_cb7e4986	comment	In One-Punch Man, a very arrogant martial artist, Suiryu thinks rather lowly of heroes, who tend to be hypocritical douchebags and he has a Social Darwinist view of life, explaining that there's really no reason to save so many innocents when random monsters will show up again and again. However, he receives a big Break the Haughty treatment when he gets beaten by two powerful monsters, Gouketsu and Bakuzan. Suiryu is eventually driven into the Despair Event Horizon and shouts for any heroes to rescue him. Thankfully, Saitama comes to save the day. After a few Oh, Crap! moments and a Jerkass Realization, Suiryu came to understand what it takes to be a hero and eventually wants to become one himself. The series in general plays with this trope in regards to the Hero Assocation and how corrupt they can be, particularly in later arcs of the story.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_ccf875f7	comment	On Criminal Minds people fall into three categories: The BAU and other law enforcement personnel, serial killers, and helpless lambs to the slaughter. It is exceedingly rare for the victims to (effectively) fight back, and in a country with more guns than people a lone gunman with a pistol can exterminate a whole bus or take an entire train car hostage. Even when people know that the local home invasion killers kill everybody, they will patiently wait for their turn to die instead of attempting to fight back in a last-ditch effort. One can only wonder if some of those UnSubs are actually doing the gene pool a favor.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_cd0fa457	comment	Subverted in the the alternate Marvelverse The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, which highlights how easy it is to kill a large number of both superheroes and supervillains (especially if you have Garth Ennis writing the comic). Punisher kills off the Avengers, X-Men, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants with a teleporter device and nuclear weapons. Imagine how much more peaceful the world would be if the public adopted the Punisher's common sense approach in disposing of supervillains. This very idea was fulfilled in another alternate universe: The Last Avengers Story. The government used superheroes to capture supervillains and then executed them. After that most heroes retired, and their replacement had stagnated without strong enemies until Kang killed them.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_cd899ed6	comment	One very MAJOR aversion to this is the Grand Finale to the Zordon Era in Power Rangers in Space. The five remaining Space Rangers (Red had decided to sneak aboard the Big Bad's floating base to save the captured Zordon) make their Last Stand against the invasion force. Hot off the heels of their I Am Spartacus moment, Bulk and Skull rally the citizens of Angel Grove to join in the fray. While Status Quo Is God applies after this, it's implied by later series that this change of attitude resulted in Ranger tech becoming more and more widespread in varying degrees to allow the regular citizens to slightly more effectively fend off against any active forces of evil until any active Rangers can show up, most notably with the Lightspeed organization.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_cf32411f	comment	In Dubious Company, Sal plays this straight since she has the favor of a god and 1,025 kidnappings to justify it before meeting the pirates. She and the pirates then become accustomed to Tiren saving them, until they all get captured. Once they realize the severity of Kreedor's plan for Sal, the rest of the crew are forced to pull their weight.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: His comics have explored this on many an occasion. Supes himself seems particularly worried that the world will grow over-reliant on him and become unable to function if anything happens to him. As a result, he holds off on stopping most crimes and natural disasters; his general philosophy is that if humanity can handle it on their own, he's going to let them try. Lex Luthor pretends this is his beef with Superman... since Luthor wants humanity over-reliant on him. In Superman: Red Son, wherein a communist Superman had no problems with using his abilities to prevent every bad thing possible (from each according to his abilities and all that), people did indeed grow too reliant upon him to solve all their problems. Eventually cars stopped being manufactured with seatbelts — the citizens expected Superman to save them if they got into a wreck. (Ironically enough, Lex Luthor opposed him on those grounds in that reality, too.) Superman's ultimate retort to Lex Luthor comes in All-Star Superman at the end: This explains Lois Lane's reckless behavior in many of the Golden Age comics and Fleischer Studios Superman Theatrical Cartoons. She gets in trouble so often because she's sure Superman will always come to save her, and in fact she wants the excuse to see Superman again. Highlighted in Elliot S! Maggin's novel Last Son of Krypton: The whole Superman holding back ordeal started in the Bronze age with Elliot S. Maggin's Must There Be a Superman?? from Superman #247. In it, The Guardians of the Universe drag Superman to Oa and tell him, point-blank, that his superheroics are causing human evolution to stagnate and to cut it out. He's shaken by it and decides to hold back on the situations that regular humans would be fine with dealing. In Reign of Doomsday, the reaction of US Government to learning that a spaceship will crash into Earth at terminal speed within ten minutes is... broadcast a worldwide message to Superman or any hero, asking them to do something. In The Untold Story of Argo City, Supergirl informs Kandor's Science Council she has discovered her parents Zor-El and Allura are trapped in a parallel pocket dimension. Rather than devoting manpower, time and resources to rescue one of their most prominent scientists, the Kandorians wait for Supergirl solving the trouble. Superman preached the dangers of this sort of thing to Kyle Rayner when he first got the Ion power, and was basically able to be everywhere and prevent any problem. We later see Kyle watch some firefighters saving someone, and allow them to have to struggle to do it. He almost steps in, but they make it ok, and he acknowledges to Alan Scott that Superman was right.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_cf69b21e	comment	This was acknowledged in the Beast Wars series, where the new Megatron attempted to kill the original proto-humans knowing that it was due to their assistance that the Autobots were able to win the Great War.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_d0744832	comment	Averted in an issue of The Avengers where Jarvis goes to visit his mother, only to find a bully has been harassing the folks in her neighborhood. The rest of the neighborhood wants Jarvis to get his Avenger buddies to take care of the problem. Jarvis tells them that minor problems like this need to be taken care of by normal people. So Jarvis challenges the bully to a fight, only to start losing until the rest of the neighbors pitch in to help him.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_d3e3e38a	comment	In the She-Ra and the Princesses of Power episode "Flowers for She-Ra", the kingdom of Plumeria runs into trouble when the Horde uses machines to poison the Heart-Blossom tree that grants the Plumerians their Green Thumb powers. As they are largely a pacifist kingdom, their defenses are poor and they believe that karma will punish the Horde for their malfeasance in the form of She-Ra. When Adora, Glimmer, and Bow arrive to help, the Plumerians are overjoyed by the arrival of their savior, but quickly become disappointed in Adora when she is unable to use She-Ra's magic to heal the Heart-Blossom. Adora's team decides to destroy the Horde's machines by themselves, prompting an epiphany from Princess Perfuma and forcing her and the Plumerians to realize that they can't continue to rely on She-Ra alone, and that they need to stand up for themselves to protect their kingdom.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_d57d722e	comment	Averted in Ōkami: Although you, playing Amaterasu, have been helping the braggart swordsman Susano achieve fame by performing miraculous feats which he believes are his own, it doesn't take him long to realize that he's being "played with" by the gods. He then renounces any further help and goes off on his own. (Although you do get to assist him one last time, against Orochi, he deals the final blow all by himself.) Additionally, although Amaterasu is able to defeat Yami, the Lord of Eternal Darkness, it's only because the faith of all the people of Nippon granted her the divine might to do so.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_d5ae7c22	comment	Ultima IX was strongly themed on this trope. The Avatar was originally intended to be a role model, an example to follow, but after saving Britannia so many times, the people simply held out for the Avatar to solve all their problems. This was Lampshaded by the Big Bad, and in Moonglow, the town of Honesty a cranky citizen laid down the most brutal truth.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_d5b84b32	comment	Happens in Spore's Space age, but it's only one way. If the player attacks another empire, a dozen or more ships which also continuously spawn more along with the turrets in each city will attack the player relentlessly, probably killing or driving off the player early on until the player gets the topmost upgrades. However, if one of the player's colonies or allies is attacked their planets offer only a token resistance expecially if they lack turrets while calling for the player to help them, and if the player doesn't show up, whatever planet was attacked is pretty much forfeit.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_dd3fe595	comment	This happens to John Galt in Atlas Shrugged, when the economy is about to collapse and the government asks for his help. He refuses.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_df073316	comment	Superman's ultimate retort to Lex Luthor comes in All-Star Superman at the end:
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest: Dragon Quest: Double subversion. Many warriors went out to fight the Dragonlord and retrieve the Ball of Light and the Princess, but neither of them returned; so the King and the Alefgardians had become reduced to hope that the prophecy about the coming of the descendant of Erdrick was right. Dragon Quest III: After Ortega's death, it feels like the whole world basically just waited for his heir to come of age. Certainly everyone in your hometown did. But heyâ€”no pressure, right? Dragon Quest VII picks this apart in small-scale with the Love Dodecahedron in Greenthumb Gardens. If Lavender simply talked to Borlock and explained she loved Carraway and not his son Dill, she could easily get him to abandon the Arranged Marriage and find some other way of repaying her late parents' debt. Instead, Lavender expects Carraway to sweep in and fix everything, despite knowing that Carraway is an Extreme Doormat whom she's forcing to choose between her love and his family's welfare. Ultimately, this Fatal Flaw costs her everything when Carraway decides the only way to resolve the situation is to take himself out of the picture. Dragon Quest Builders: In the final chapter, the Builder is told by Rubiss that the life force she imbued them with has largely been used up in the process of crafting the three relics needed to defeat the Dragonlord. Knowing this, the Builder decides that instead of living out a long life holding out for a hero, they'll spend what life force they have left facing the Dragonlord to make things better for everyone else now. Subverted in Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime when Mother Glooperior asks two other slimes to help her move a heavy iron ball, because it would've been unfair of them to expect Rocket to do everything.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e261956	comment	Ping Pong: Within the friendship of Peco and Smile. Smile's stoicism was in response to Peco's lackadaisical attitude. As such, Peco is the "hero" Smile continually fantasizes about.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In one episode, Jonathan casts a spell to make himself into a badass so great that the whole town worships the ground he walks on, and everyone remembers things as if Jonathan had always been that way. One consequence is that Buffy is less strong and confident than normal, since she remembers Jonathan rather than herself saving the town. It stands to reason that the Muggles must have suffered a similar loss of self-reliance. In general, Buffy tends to rely on this — it's hinted that most people in Sunnydale are aware of what's going on but choose to pretend to be oblivious in the hope that someone else will take care of it, and anyone who is aware of the town's "secret" other than the hero and her friends and actually does something about it is generally a malevolent schemer with their own sinister plans. Furthermore, in the early seasons especially, much is made of the necessity for keeping Buffy's mission a secret without it ever being made clear why this is necessary, especially not to fill in Buffy's mom on what's happening. In fact, Sunnydale was created as a subversion of this trope, as a place for demons to feed, with their police and such kept deliberately incompetent and with an extra-strength masquerade. When others step up and try to help, they're rarely punished for it, though they're told they shouldn't. That Buffy empowers people around her is part of the premise and shows up in the pilot, with Willow standing up for herself, and at the end of the series with the use of the scythe. Of course, part of her de-evolution into a person that the rest of the Scoobies can barely tolerate (and later kick out of her own house so they (and The Potential Slayers) can train in peace) during the last season is her getting this mentality in her brain, with her being the "hero" in question, and becoming The Neidermeyer because of it.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e484b5e6	comment	Commissioner Gordon often has the worry of relying too much on Batman to patrol Gotham, and points it out in Batman: No Man's Land by claiming that he can't get himself hired anywhere because his reliance on an "urban legend" damages his credibility. Usually though, he has to admit that the corrupt and perpetually-underfunded police department couldn't handle Gotham's crime rate before with normal mobsters and certainly not now in the face of a bunch insane supervillains (and the even more insane but Badass Normal Joker.)
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e5e19143	comment	SuperlÃ³pez: Inverted for great comedy, especially in the early installments: people actually hope SuperlÃ³pez will not turn up, since he's such a Walking Disaster Area and his interventions tend to make things worse. He becomes more of a heroic figure as the series goes on.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e5ea79ee	comment	Explored in The Authority: Revolution, where the Authority has been disbanded for three years. Member Jack Hawksmoor says that the world seems better off without the Authority.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e71c679	comment	Even heroes aren't immune to holding out for other heroes. In Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger/Power Rangers S.P.D., the Rangers begin to slack off when their commanding officer becomes a Sixth Ranger and begins busting heads. As soon as he finds out, he begins answering calls for backup with "Suck it up and do it yourself."
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_e7a27429	comment	In The Bridge, Princess Celestia worries that this has happened, that she's protected and coddled her citizens for so long that they always depend on her or a hero to protect them and solve their problems.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_eb46e06a	comment	"We Don't Need Another Hero" (Thunderdome), sung by Tina Turner. Although written for Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, it argues against the idea that only Max's heroics are required to save everyone in an After the End world.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_eb59224d	comment	LazyTown's Sportacus came to the town with the aim of helping the kids live more healthy and active lives, but he seems to be the only form of law enforcement in the town and ends up spending most of his time rescuing the kids from dangerous situations.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_f079b358	comment	That theme was also explored in Rick Veitch's Brat Pack where the presence of the True-Man encouraged humans to have lesser safety standards for nuclear power plants. This wouldn't present a problem, however... if True-Man hadn't been MIA for years.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_f3d889f7	comment	Zack Snyder's Justice League doesn't include the above scene, but still brings up the need to revive Superman.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_fa5e90fd	comment	The MMORPG City of Heroes plays this to multiple ends: On one hand, the presence of superpowered beings in Primal Earth doesn't stop the world's militaries and police forces from trying their best to handle things on their own. Until the Rikti War, for example, Paragon City's police department was confident in its ability to "serve and protect" without relying on heroes to do all the work. Even when the war's aftermath left the PPD barely able to function, Chief Conrad Bochco vowed to protect the city without seeking alliances or help from the numerous hero organizations—but the PPD is not above letting superpowered beings join the police force, as Blue Steel shows. (This is why the PPD's Awakened Division, comprised of officers who fused with Kheldians, is so controversial within the police force; some argue it's a form of relying on outside help.) On the other, the citizens of Paragon City often hold out for a hero when criminals and villains confront them (some of the purse-snatching gang members will even accuse their victims of this), knowing full well that a hero will (hopefully) step in and save them. Many are still ungrateful about it, though ("There you are! There's never a hero around when you need one!"). And the trope is turned upside-down in the City of Villains expansion. There, the global criminal organization Arachnos has somehow legally become the government of what's now known as the Rogue Isles. The police basically exist to minimize the threat to the government rather than serve and protect the common people, and Lord Recluse has reduced the laws to "Do what you have the power to get away with". Crime is so rampant that, for the first 30 or so levels, a villain character only fights other villains to come out on top. The trope comes into play because most citizens have completely given up hope of proper law and order being reinstated, and rather than hold out for a hero usually just live constantly looking over their shoulder and ready to duck for cover.
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Holding Out for a Hero / int_fb7648ad	comment	Linkara actually expresses exasperation one time Apathetic Citizens and Adults Are Useless is in full play in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. In the introductory scene of the soon-to-be replacement Rangers, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha; they, the half of the team they're not replacing, and Bulk and Skull are the only ones attempting to stop a carriage rolling down a hill, and any person that could easily have halted it just dives out of the way as if it was a bullet train.
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Dragon Quest III (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Fable (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Icewind Dale (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
My Time at Portia (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
My Time at Sandrock (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Ōkami (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Quest for Glory II (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Resident Evil 3 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Skylanders (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Spore (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Superhero League of Hoboken (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Tales of Arise (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Terranigma (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The Warriors (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Ultima VII Part II (Video Game) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Bad JRPG: The Legends of Krys (Web Video) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Cassiopeia Quinn (Webcomic) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The Descended (Webcomic) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The Gods of Arr-Kelaan (Webcomic) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Captain Planet and the Planeteers / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Fireman Sam / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Incredibles 2 / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Superman Unbound / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The Adventures of the American Rabbit / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
The LEGO Batman Movie / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Eddie Kingston (Wrestling) / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Atlas Shrugged / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero

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