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There are many ways a character can respond to the Call to Adventure. If he's thrilled about it, and excited, he's Jumped at the Call. If he ignores it, or tries to continue living as though The Call never came, there was a Refusal of the Call. Then there's the hero who isn't happy about being called, but doesn't believe that he can avoid it, either. For whatever reason, his reaction isn't "Yay! Adventure!" or "Leave me alone. I'm not doing it." His reaction is "I can't talk you into picking someone else, can I? I'm gonna have to do this thing, aren't I? (sigh) Fine. Let's get it over with." He's Resigned to the Call. Sometimes, this is the only appropriate response — to jump at the call would indicate that he wasn't really fit to be The Chosen One. Often, resigning to The Call means that the person has recognized and accepted the responsibility of doing so, seeing it as something that has to be done, whether he likes it or not. In other cases, it's a fault. It all depends on where on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism the work is. It's also the most common response to a Refusal of the Call / You Can't Fight Fate combination or to The Call Knows Where You Live. If someone who is Resigned to the Call ever does attempt to move up to Refusing the Call, expect it to be a 10-Minute Retirement before they change their mind or their conscience makes them go back, usually just in time for a Big Damn Heroes moment. If someone who is Resigned to the Call is one of a party who otherwise embraces the Call, it's a toss-up whether the next trope to come into play will be The Complainer Is Always Wrong, or Only Sane Man. Someone who is continually resigned to Calls and taking it badly can become a Knight in Sour Armor. Compare with Reluctant Warrior. |
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In The Adventures of Shan Shan, Shan Shan tries to put it off. | |
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John McLane, hero of the Die Hard series, absolutely does not want to be the hero. In the first movie, he only fights back when forced and tries to leave things to the police constantly. In the second movie, he only gets involved when he figures things out and tries to help the actual police. But it's best exemplified in the fourth movie: | |
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Kyoko Koizumi in 20th Century Boys. She ends up involved in the whole "friend" conspiracy completely by accident, and repeatedly attempts (and fails) to go back to her normal life. Eventually she just gives in and rolls with it. | |
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Miho Nishizumi, from Girls und Panzer goes through this several times. She transfers to a new school to avoid having to take Tankery, but gets drafted into the sport when the Student Council demands she participate, albeit ultimately deciding to go along with it when seeing her friends, who had originally wanted to do tankery, switch their electives to stay with her and defend her decision not to do tankery. When she and her friends form a tank crew, she first refuses taking the commander position, but is talked into it by the rest of the team after the first practice. Later she gets "volunteered" to take command of the whole school's Tankery team by the Student Council president. | |
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The Belgariad: (Bel)Garion spends roughly 4 1/2 of the five books asking "Why me?". C'Nedra also spends a fair bit of books 4 and 5 giving recruiting speeches and leading the army because, according to the Prophecy, she must do so in order for Belgarion to have a chance to win, even though public speaking makes her physically ill, and that her promises of easy heroic victories and plentiful loot are lies. | |
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This is the case for Rudy Dewclaw in Kevin & Kell. Due to his dystracksia, he was ultimately turned down for a competitive hunting scholarship at Beige University. However, his talent at gardening—something he learned on a whim as a way to compete with his rabbit stepfather, Kevin—resulted in him being offered a competitive gardening scholarship instead. While he resisted initially, he ultimately gave in—on the condition that he still major in carnivore studies. This throws everything into chaos. And he relishes every moment of it. | |
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The main character of Cellular. He actively acknowledges how far in over his head he is, and he does attempt to get police help in the beginning, but acknowledges that if nobody better fit to handle the situation will step up, then he has no choice but to do so himself. | |
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Lyrical Nanoha plays with this trope in different ways. First, there's Nanoha who took the task of being a Magical Girl simply to help Yuuno recover the Jewel seeds that were scattered in the city, treating it like a secondary objective to studying or helping in their family business. It was her first slip up with a jewel seed that she decided to take the search more seriously, and an encounter with mage more experienced than she is who is also looking for said seeds made her realize the gravity of her quest. She then realized that she would need to improve herself in order to complete her quest, as well as to save the other mage from herself (as she saw what lengths her rival would go to to obtain the seeds) and became fully devoted to magic training. The second season has Hayate, who upon learning that she is The Chosen One, responded with what could be summed as "Sure, why not?" She was pretty content with her life, despite being a crippled girl who lives alone, and wished nothing more from the Book of Darkness, only expressing happiness for it has provided her with people she can call family. After the Book of Darkness incident, she realized that she has been given an opportunity to help people in a greater way, by joining the military and keeping the universe safe from similar incidents that happened around her and as the current master of the book, feels she should share the responsibility with her guardians. The third season has this trope as a small plot point. The now adult protagonists rescue a small 6 year old girl named Vivio from the season's Big Bad and his minions. Nanoha decides to look after her in the meantime until Vivio can be safely given to a caring foster family, and she develops a bond with Vivio upon regular interaction with her. When asked why Nanoha doesn't just adopt Vivio as her daughter, she mentions that she's reluctant in raising her as her child given that her work sometimes puts her in dangerous situations, citing an experience she had that almost ended her career. The turning point is when Vivio is kidnapped by the Big Bad and is forced to fight Nanoha, Nanoha delivers a speech telling Vivio that she will try her best to be her mother. By the end of the anime, Nanoha has official adopted Vivio as her daughter and is perfectly happy with the relationship. |
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RWBY: When Oscar first hears Ozpin's voice in his head, he thinks he is going mad and tries to reject or justify the experience any way he can. Although he's not happy with his situation, he eventually accepts the inevitability of being the inheritor of a divine mission to save the world even though he continues to struggle with the possibility of losing his identity forever to the immortal who's now bound to his soul. | |
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By The Last Hero, Rincewind has become Genre Savvy enough to know when he's likely to be drafted for the Disc's first space flight, and grudgingly volunteers in order to save himself time trying to hide from his doom. | |
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The protagonist of With This Ring invites Nommo Balewa, "Doctor Mist", to join the Justice League. Being ageless, Doctor Mist dislikes interfering in mortal affairs, and would normally refuse, but there have been so many recent events threatening the very existence of the world that he feels he needs to step up and ensure that humanity survives. | |
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For Matsuda from Front Mission, his goal was to find and bring back Inuzuka from Huffman for his War Is Hell photography. He didn't wanted to become a wartime correspondent until Reona suffered a Retirony moment and he realize at that point that he had to help continue the press. | |
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In The World God Only Knows, Keima Katsuragi basically just wants to be left alone with his games, but he already signed the contract that would make his head explode should he fail to accomplish his goal. (He thought that it was a contract for a new game). So he sucked up at his job and a made good success of it. It also helps that he grows to care for the girls which contain the Weiss, because the Weiss will severely affect the girls in some way and will be reborn as the girl's first child. | |
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Supernatural: Dean Winchester fights and hunts monsters because he was trained from childhood to do so. He enjoys hunting in the earlier seasons, but he tires of it pretty quickly and it's made clear that he keeps going out of a sense of responsibility to the job than any real enjoyment. "What Is and What Should Never Be" is one long testament to this, and he's stated outright that if he had the option to do something else, he would. At the end of Season 5, Dean settles down with a girl and a kid and tries to live a normal life. He ends up leaving them for several reasons, but the most driving one being the fact that hunting was in his nature. It was a part of him, and he voluntarily abandoned a normal family life for hunting evil once again. | |
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The main character of Brand by Henrik Ibsen is a priest (which usually has the "call" as a job description). When he eventually takes the job, it is with great reluctance, and arguably for the wrong reason (not for The Needs of the Many, but to save his mother). He is quite resigned to the call all the way, but the trope is zig-zagged because he actually thinks he has a calling, he just doesn't want to do it like that, and not at all in that exact place, which he detests. | |
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Wil Ohmsford of The Shannara Chronicles is less than enthusiastic when informed by Allanon that he happens to be important enough to be dragged along on the Druid's quest to keep demons from overrunning the world. | |
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Discworld: By The Last Hero, Rincewind has become Genre Savvy enough to know when he's likely to be drafted for the Disc's first space flight, and grudgingly volunteers in order to save himself time trying to hide from his doom. A few protagonists have tried to refuse the call (only to find that You Can't Fight Fate ... or in Moist's case, the Patrician), but the only main characters to Jump at it have been Cohen, Carrot, Tiffany, and before the series, Granny Weatherwax (though even she ended up Resigned to being 'the Good One', as her older sister became a Light Is Not Good Obliviously Evil fairy godmother). |
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist has its own rather idiotic take on this in the beginning, although it mutates into a Jumped at the Call when Chosen One becomes obsessed with finding Betty's weakness. | |
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Morgon of The Riddle Master Trilogy is very much not happy about the ambiguous, threatening prophecies that have been ascribed to him and only grudgingly agrees, after almost being murdered a few times, to try and figure some of this stuff out. He'd much rather go home and brew beer. | |
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Accidental Hero: Dustin Hoffman's character is a misanthropic, cynical petty crook, constantly declaring that everyone is out for themselves and no one else. Then a plane crashes right in front of his car, and a boy begs him to save his father; he looks around for a fireman, or anyone else, but there's no one else to turn to, so he goes into the burning wreck and rescues each person he comes across in turn - grumbling the whole time about his brand-new shoes. At the end of the film, with his son at the zoo, someone falls into the bear enclosure; he yells, "call the zookeeper!" a few times before reluctantly heading off to the rescue, grumbling, "watch my shoes." | |
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Max Payne, starting with the second game, is a bit of a Death Seeker and has no desire to uncover vast conspiracies and punish those responsible. But he can't turn away from the truth, and he won't just lie down and die. The fact that he's really good at shooting people means that he's a very hard kill, as well. However, this goes out the window after The Imperial Palace Hotel in the third game, when he's shocked out of his survival cycle and actively goes looking for a fight. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Lord of the Rings: Frodo Baggins goes through this twice. When he first takes the Ring from the Shire to Rivendell, he feels completely inadequate to the job, but realizes that if he remains at home, he's a danger to everyone near him. And then, at the end of the Council of Elrond, he sits in silence waiting for anyone else to offer to take the Ring to Mount Doom: The Fall of Gondolin: Ulmo tells Tuor that he needs him to send a message to Turgon, the king of Gondolin, and Tuor will soon find someone who will guide him to the hidden city. Upon meeting Vonronwë, Tuor repeats the Ulmo's words, and Voronwë tiredly says he doesn't wish to return to Gondolin ever again; if he survived his sea voyage, he intended to travel Southwards, far from Morgoth and the war. Nonetheless, he reluctantly agrees that he must return if evil is again growing and threatening his city.. |
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Sammy, protagonist of Chorocojo's Let's Play of Pokémon FireRed, has no interest in becoming a Pokémon trainer and would rather play video games. She only even got a Pokémon because Professor Oak wouldn't let her leave town without one, and only started her journey because she realized she could go to Celadon City and buy more video games. Once she did that, she headed home and only went back to the call for selfish reasons (going to the Power Plant for an electric Pokémon to power her tv through a power outage, taking on Team Rocket at Silph Co. because they interrupted her favorite show, fighting the Elite Four to make more money to buy video games, the list goes on). This seems to have stemmed from her nearly becoming a Skarmory's lunch as a child, which left her with a distrust of the outdoors and started her video game obsession. | |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, when the Black Order arrives in New York, Tony Stark asks Bruce Banner if he would like to take on the charging Cull Obsidian. Bruce admits he doesn't want to, but resignedly notes he never gets what he wants. | |
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In Agents of the Realm, after she realizes that she can't stop being an Agent - and after Judy gives her a pep talk - Norah becomes resigned to the fact that she has become a Magical Girl Warrior. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, this is the most common attitude taken by the Grey Wardens and their companions, especially Alistair. Though Alistair did Jump at the Call to become a Grey Warden - it's the bits after Ostagar that he's more cynical about. Some volunteer readily and don't take 'no' for an answer (Leliana, Wynne, Oghren.) The ones who are more resigned to it: Morrigan, railroaded into what might be an extended Escort Mission, though at that early stage no one is sure who is the escort. Sten, locked in a tiny cage with nothing left to live for. Zevran, after his failed assassination and the expectation of capital reprisal from his bosses. Subversion; he'd taken the job with a deathwish in the first place, expecting failure. Shale could be a borderline example; though not really opposed to joining, resigned to pretty much anything due to lack of direction. |
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In The Lost Fleet, Captain John "Black Jack" Geary has been put in command of the crippled Alliance fleet against his will (being a Human Popsicle for 100 years gives him seniority over any other captain). He vows to bring the fleet home, but then wants nothing more than to retire and live in peace. By the end of the main series, he realizes that the Alliance desperately needs him, and he can't quit. | |
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The Ciem Webcomic Series offers us Candi Levens. She has resigned herself to the fact all along that she must take up superheroics. But the Call decides to punish her anyway. | |
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After a few quests in Fallout 3, you start to get dialogue options that suggest (if you choose them) that the Lone Wanderer is becoming resigned to fixing everyone's problems, such or "I can see where this is going..." or "So, you want to do it?" | |
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Though he has occasional gung-ho moments, this is Eric's general attitude in Coga Nito. Unless something particularly significant is riding on the outcome, he'd really rather just go home, thanks very much. | |
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The star of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee. She has the role of the Te Xuan Ze imposed upon her whether she likes it or not, but once engaged in her role as the balancer of the real world and the world of magic, Juniper performs it with gusto. | |
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Garrus in Mass Effect 2 tags along more because he likes Shepard than anything else, and tends to snark about it. In the interim between the second and third game, he assumes a leadership role to prepare his people for the Reaper invasion, though he's not happy about that, either, as he doesn't like being a leader. | |
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The Four Gospels: In The Gospel of John, the religious authorities of the day have already tried to have Jesus stoned to death — twice — when Jesus announces his intention to go to the village of Bethany, less than 2 miles from Jerusalem. His disciple Thomas's response: "Let us also go, that we may die with him." Of course, they don't. | |
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Batman: Dick Grayson, a.k.a. Robin/Nightwing, honestly doesn't think he's cut out to be Batman, but he does it nonetheless when his mentor disappears. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Frodo Baggins goes through this twice. When he first takes the Ring from the Shire to Rivendell, he feels completely inadequate to the job, but realizes that if he remains at home, he's a danger to everyone near him. And then, at the end of the Council of Elrond, he sits in silence waiting for anyone else to offer to take the Ring to Mount Doom: | |
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Chandler Jarrell in The Golden Child is a specialist in finding missing children, but also a profound skeptic. When he is told that the titular Golden Child has been kidnapped, he's willing to consider it as just another job, and gets very annoyed when people keep bringing up supernatural stuff like that he's The Chosen One, or that the child is to be sacrificed to The Legions of Hell to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. Unfortunately, he keeps getting his face rubbed in these things until he grudgingly starts to believe. | |
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In the original Shadow Hearts Yuri doesn't particularly want to go on an epic quest or anything, but that damn voice in his head won't leave him alone, so he's just going along with it until the Character Development kicks in. | |
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On average this seems to be the attitude of the Oceanic Six returning to the Island on Lost, especially Hurley. The clearest exception is Sayid, who had to be dragged in handcuffs. | |
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The Wizard of Oz gives us Dorothy and Toto. They did want to see if there was a more interesting life than their mundane home in Kansas, but they never really wanted to end up in Oz. See if The Call cared. And other than the whole being trapped indoors during a tornado thing, they sure didn't seem to have much in the way of a warning. Still, once in Oz, what were they to do? | |
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Used twice as bookends in The Fold. First Mike is invited to a hearing to see if he's interested in the job, then introduced as if he's taken it and acquiesces. Second at the end when the survivors are met by a shadowy government agency with a limited-time offer when Mike knows he won't be able to live with himself if he doesn't take it. | |
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George Powhatan of The Postman answered the call once before, fighting off vicious survivalists to establish his own small farming community. When Gordon arrives seeking help for the beleagured Willamette communities, George tries Refusing the Call, but the fact that this is listed on this particular page should tell you how well that works out. | |
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In Transformers: War for Cybertron, Optimus shows shades of this after Zeta Prime is killed, forcing him to take up the mantle of the last Prime. | |
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In the original Mega Man Star Force, Geo doesn't want to be a superhero - he just wants to do his home-schooling and mope a lot - but, well, he's a responsible type when it comes to other people being in danger, and so whenever something disastrous happens he sighs, Wave Changes, and gets on with the serious business of shootin' stuff with a Mega Buster. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Ned Stark doesn't want to be the King's Hand, even for his best friend King Robert, but sees he has no choice in matter, partly because he can't disobey a command from his King and partly because he realises his friend is trapped in a Decadent Court and needs his help. Stannis Baratheon doesn't really want to succeed Robert as king. However, it's his duty to do it and thus he will, even if it means rebelling against Joffrey and fighting the Lannisters, Starks, and most of his own bannermen, having the smallest army at the start. After losing most of his troops, he contemplates burning a nephew of his to gain magical aid. However his conversations with Davos show how conflicted he is, but that he considers it his duty to take the throne, for the realm, for his daughter, and even the brother he didn't like, knowing Robert's wife murdered him so her family could usurp the throne. Ultimately, Davos reminds him of his higher duty as a King, to protect the realm and have him come and rescue the Night's Watch: |
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The Bible: By the time the big fish spat him out, Jonah's attitude had changed from "I am NOT going to Ninevah! I don't want them to be saved!" to "I guess I'm going to Ninevah." Moses's response to his God is a) Why me? b) what do I say when they ask Who sent me? c) You know they're not going believe me. d) I'm a lousy public speaker. Until God loses His temper and tells him to stop whining and don't keep his brother Aaron waiting. The Four Gospels: In The Gospel of John, the religious authorities of the day have already tried to have Jesus stoned to death — twice — when Jesus announces his intention to go to the village of Bethany, less than 2 miles from Jerusalem. His disciple Thomas's response: "Let us also go, that we may die with him." Of course, they don't. |
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Nathan Bridger starts SeaQuest DSV quite unhappy that the military has found him and brought him back to the sub, especially with none-too-subtle hints from Admiral Noyce that he's expected to take command again, but time and circumstance conspire to get him to don the UEO uniform and give out orders officially as Captain. By the start of the second episode, he's rediscovered his passion for discovery and ability to make a difference in the world. | |
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Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid had become this. While he's very hesitant in the first Solid game (until he discovers the connection between himself and the terrorist leader, by the fourth he considers it his reluctant duty to kill Liquid Ocelot and put an end to the machinations of 50 years of plotting and shadow games. | |
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Aislinn in the Wicked Lovely series. She realizes that she has no choice about being a faery, but she makes clear that she will only do it on her own terms. | |
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Naru-Hina Chronicles: After Touji (who was in charge of ANBU) is killed, Tsunade asks Kakashi to temporarily lead ANBU. He doesn't want the job, but understands the necessity and reluctantly agrees. | |
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Game of Thrones: Stannis Baratheon claims he doesn't even want to be the king or The Chosen One, but instead sees it as his duty. | |
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The Godzilla vs. Kong novelization indicates that Mark Russell isn't exactly thrilled about rejoining Monarch, and he would much rather have a normal life where he doesn't have to see another Titan again, but he believes working for Monarch is the right thing to do. So instead, Mark projects all his longings for a normal life onto his daughter Madison. | |
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In Chernobyl, Valery Legasov knows the risks of going to and remaining near an open nuclear reactor, but he never tries to get out of it (and doesn't even mention it until Shcherbina's complacency prompts him to blurt out how much their lifespans have been curtailed). In a conversation with his colleague Khomyuk, they both lament the horrors they're having to witness, undergo, and order, but they both know that they can't stop—not because of the government, but because of their own nature as scientists driving them to find the truth so this can't happen again. | |
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Child of the Storm has Harry become this in the sequel in respect to the fact that his destiny is to be pointed at Thanos as a Living Weapon by Doctor Strange. While he's got a strong case of Chronic Hero Syndrome, he's also something of a Knight in Sour Armor after a brutal Trauma Conga Line, which shifts his attitude from 'heroism for the sake of it' to 'heroism because it's right, even if it will probably be horribly unpleasant'. As he snarks when told about Thanos, "I'll see if I can fit him in." He later lightens up a bit, but he's still somewhat resigned. | |
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Ziggy of Power Rangers RPM. The only reason he's Series Green is because he had to morph to keep the Morpher out of Tenaya 7's hands and since it's DNA-locked, he can't just fork it over to someone else instead. | |
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The Elric Saga: Elric often complains about his fate as the Eternal Champion, but feels helpless to avoid it. | |
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Caleb and Amelia Zukov are descendants of the succubus Chantelle (from Hellblazer). Caleb accidentally put his sister into a coma, and learning to use his magic was the best chance he had to revive her. By the time he did manage to wake Amelia up, he was already a former member of the JSA and current member of the Outsiders. When Amelia woke up, she only went along with the Outsiders to be close to her brother. After falling out with them, she had enough of a thirst for adventure to get in with a revival of The Elite. | |
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The Three in Warrior Cats feel this way about being The Chosen Ones several times, but Dovewing more than the other two. | |
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The Fall of Gondolin: Ulmo tells Tuor that he needs him to send a message to Turgon, the king of Gondolin, and Tuor will soon find someone who will guide him to the hidden city. Upon meeting Vonronwë, Tuor repeats the Ulmo's words, and Voronwë tiredly says he doesn't wish to return to Gondolin ever again; if he survived his sea voyage, he intended to travel Southwards, far from Morgoth and the war. Nonetheless, he reluctantly agrees that he must return if evil is again growing and threatening his city.. | |
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This was basically Julie's reaction to finding out she was the Pendant Keeper in Our Little Adventure. She complained about having to quit her job in the Prologue, but didn't out and out refuse. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The attitude of one Buffy Summers throughout the majority of the series. She tries to refuse the call at various points, especially at the beginning, and the hope she feels when other Slayers start showing up is just heartbreaking when it becomes clear that she can't just step down and let the new Slayer take over. She also implies, at various points, that the job itself is pretty cool - her objections to it are based in the masquerade killing any chance of her ever having a normal relationship - or in some cases any relationship (count her exes, folks: Angel (vampire); Riley Finn (super soldier); and Spike (vampire) and a string of normal men) and the fact that "retirement" means dying. Also, the Call keeps dragging her friends and family into the mix, which she really objects to. Plus, by age 18, she's one of the oldest slayers ever (by the end of the series when she is in her early 20's, she's the oldest slayer in history) and she's been revived twice. In "Fool for Love", Spike argues this trope is what truly kills Slayers; they may start out fighting for survival, then fight to protect other people, but eventually they accept their destiny (and the extremely short life-span involved) and become death seekers. Once that happens, it's only a matter of time until some vampire or demon gets in a lucky shot. It's also revealed earlier that the Council of Watchers prefers to lose Slayers at a relatively young age, as Slayers get more powerful the longer they are active, and the Council of Watchers prefers young and naïve girls they can control, rather than strong and independent Slayers that may strain against their authority, which is exactly what happens when Buffy realizes that she can make them answer to her rather than the other way around. |
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The opening narration of MDK2 reveals the premise of the entire series and the Streamrider invasion. It begins with "Kurt Hectic never wanted to be a hero." and ends with "He was reluctant, but he had no choice. He was the Earth's last hope." | |
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Children of Time: Sherlock Holmes — it's not that he doesn't want to travel with the Doctor, but he's concerned about his Fixed Points and, most importantly, Watson's safety. The Doctor's loneliness and Watson's compassion seal the deal. | |
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Final Fantasy VIII gives us Squall Leonhart, a mercenary who gets involved in the adventure because it's his job, and stays involved partly to protect his girlfriend and partly because he's not given a lot of choice about it. He actively tries to rebel against it several times, but he's too professional to refuse an order. He's also explicitly hired by the government of Esthar to go fight the Final Boss, though he agrees of his own free will ( by that point, he is running Balamb Garden and could have refused the contract, but he didn't). | |
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In Saiyuki the fact that Sanzo is actually doing what the gods want him to in going on this quest, and even goes along with who they insist he bring along with limited grumbling seems severely out of character... until you get some Backstory and realize his duty as a Sanzo priest was all that kept him from falling completely apart at a certain point in his life, and this is the best lead he's had in 10 years of searching for his master's lost sutra. Then it makes more sense that he would be resigned to the call. | |
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In The Kingdom Keepers, the keepers aren't too enthusiastic about their new mission, especially Maybeck and Charlene. However, since they cross over every time they fall asleep, there's little they can do except go with it. | |
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The Peace Not Promised: Severus Snape isn't really keen to work with Dumbledore for his second try; he knows full well that Dumbledore is The Chessmaster who cares about every piece and yet will sacrifice whatever it takes to win the game. But he also knows that Dumbledore's help is by far his best chance to end Voldemort and keep Lily safe, and as a long-time double agent, he has plenty of experience of doing whatever must be done. | |
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Sosuke Sagara of Full Metal Panic! is an odd example. He doesn't mind going into battle and fighting dastardly foes in a Humongous Mecha, really. After all, it's his job, and 'bout the only thing he's good at, having grown up a Child Soldier. However, he does mind being assigned to the only robot in the unit which is powered by Hot Bloodedness. He frequently declares that a system so uncertain that you can only use it when your 'emotions peak' is way too unreliable to be a decent weapon, but is rather more like magic — and he's a soldier, not a wizard! And yet, he's the only one who can use the system at all, so even though he'd much rather just use a bog-standard Real Robot, every time a Lambda Drive-equipped enemy shows up, he's got no choice but to climb into his Super Robot and take them on, grumbling all the way. A side note. The reason he's the only one who can use the Arbelest is because he was the first one to use it, and since then the mech's quirky AI (named "Al") refuses to work with anyone else. Al is also wired into the device that allows the mech to twist the laws of physics, itself black box tech that no one in Mithril knows how to replicate. | |
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Purgatory: The townspeople decide to take up arms even though (they think) it'll mean going to hell. | |
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