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You're at your fairly mundane job, which isn't anything martial (military, police, security guard, etc), doing your job, when all the sudden there's an explosion, or gunfire, or someone shouting that you're now a hostage. The professional badasses who'd normally kick ass and Chew Bubblegum, if they weren't out of bubblegum, are not available for whatever reason (slow to respond, killed, corrupted, etc). So what do you do? Do you hide in a closet or something, and hope the bad guys pass you by or otherwise don't notice you while your friends/coworkers/family possibly face a Fate Worse than Death? Hell, no! You're a man, not a mouse! note Unless your name is Mickey, and if it is, you're unlikely to be in that situation in the first place - but we've got sources that say you'd kick ass if found in it anyway. You step up to the plate, and start kicking ass. Sure, you might die in the process, but at least you went down swinging, instead of cowering in fear. Often these characters are either long lost ex-military or scientist working on the latest Phlebotinum. Related to Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, but the characters aren’t bumbling or otherwise incompetent, they're just not specifically competent or trained in the situation in question. Sometimes can also be a Badass Bookworm, and most commonly a Badass Normal. The Right Man is often The Only One who can save the day, for whatever reason. If not the protagonist, this character may be a Badass Bystander. Also see "Die Hard" on an X. A type of Action Survivor. On the TV Tropes power scale, these usually rate as Muggle Weight or Iron Weight. Compare Falling into the Cockpit, Stumbled Into the Plot and It Began with a Twist of Fate, and compare/contrast Unlikely Hero, Heroic Bystander, Badass Bystander and Spanner in the Works. |
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Every Dragon Age PC is some degree of this: The origin stories in Dragon Age: Origins all have the right person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fortunately for them, they have at least some combat training given their past. Hawke of Dragon Age II rose to prominence and played a key role in one of the most important events in Thedas's history almost totally unintentionally. The plot of the game explains how s/he managed to find themselves in these situations. This is stressed more than in the first game: the Framing Device consists of Cassandra, who thinks Hawke planned it all, interrogating Varric, who was actually there and has to explain how much more complicated it was. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the player character is widely assumed to be The Chosen One of Andraste. Later on, it turns out that they obtained their rift-sealing Mark by interrupting Corypheus' ritual to open the Breach. Unless Andraste acted *very* subtly, it was a complete accident. |
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In the first group of games in the .hack franchise, the main character Kite only got the power to Data Drain because his friend Orca (who was originally supposed to receive it) fell into a coma as he was about to receive it. Because of that, Aura had to give Kite the power because he was the only one there. The G.U. series as well. Haseo just happened to create a PC that fit the parameters of Skeith's vessel by blind chance. Had he not been an epitaph user, Ovan would have never approached him. |
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Downplayed with the Ashen One of Dark Souls III. As an Unkindled, they are a chosen one... but they were also someone who failed to Link the Fire, and are only being brought back as a desperate last resort after all the real chosen ones refused the call and became bosses. | |
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In Have Spacesuit Will Travel, the young adult main character wins the title's suit in a contest, repairing it to get it fully operational just in time for him to save all of humanity. | |
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The entire plot of The Expanse hinges on James Holden just happening to be within range of a distress call and being too noble to ignore it. As OPA leader Fred Johnson says later: | |
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Jack Ryan: Ryan is a US Naval Academy graduate who planned to enter the Marine Corps, but had to complete his degree from the hospital after being badly injured by a drunk driver and was medically discharged immediately after earning his commission. In the present, he's a historian and an intelligence analyst for the CIA. From there, he gets shoved into the role of Hero Protagonist in The Hunt for Red October because he's the only one on the scene with all the information needed to complete the mission. In Rainbow Six, terrorists attack a history-themed amusement park. One of the performers, portraying a Roman legionnaire, wades in with his reproduction sword and shield and badly injures one of the attackers. The RAINBOW team congratulates him for his bravery after all's said and done. |
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Hyrule Warriors: Linkle is a girl who has grown up thinking she's the legendary hero reborn. We don't meet her until after we've already been introduced to Link and seen him wield the Triforce of Courage, fight off a giant Dodongo, and wield a sword in his left hand, so the audience already knows that she's not the legendary hero. She also has No Sense of Direction and manages to circumnavigate Hyrule in her attempts to go to Hyrule Castle. Every single one of her false destinations puts her in key locations of the main story before or after the Hyrulean Army has already done events... and while they are in trouble. Her last scenario starts immediately after the Final Boss, and she helps pick up the Hyrulean Army when the hordes start Dragon Their Feet. She's not the hero, but she still saves 80% of the playable army and proves herself a heroine in her own right. | |
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Dark Souls: The Chosen Undead from Dark Souls turns out to be one, as the 'prophecy' they're chosen for was made up by Gwyndolin in order to trick some undead into Linking the Fire. The only requirement for being the Chosen Undead was not going hollow doing the things needed to get to the Kiln of the First Flame. The Bearer of the Curse from Dark Souls II is some random undead who found Drangleic because they heard the rumors that there was a cure for Undeath there. There isn't; there's just a whole lot of monsters that need beating up and a Humanoid Abomination who needs to be stopped from reaching the Throne of Want, and you're the only person who wants to go out and clean the place out. But if you clear the three DLC areas, you do get a cure for your curse, as Vendrick will enchant the crowns you find so they render you immune to Hollowing. Downplayed with the Ashen One of Dark Souls III. As an Unkindled, they are a chosen one... but they were also someone who failed to Link the Fire, and are only being brought back as a desperate last resort after all the real chosen ones refused the call and became bosses. |
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Bloodborne: The player character is a random person who travelled to Yharnam to cure an unspecified illness, and was shanghai'd into helping deal with Yharnam's werewolf problem. Depending on what the player does, they could be ultimately be released from their duty (like Eileen and Djura) after saving Yharnam for the night and presumably leave for somewhere less horrible, take Gherman's place as Caretaker of the Hunter's Dream and mentor to future hunters, or punch out the Moon Presence and become a Great One yourself. And if you do the DLC, you've also lifted a curse that's doomed every hunter since the first to go insane with bloodlust. | |
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In Dawn of the Dragons, the player character was a farmhand enjoying a perfectly normal day picking turnips when an army of beastmen attacked. | |
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Ladybug, the protagonist of Bullet Train, is just a thief trying to snatch a briefcase and get off the train without causing any trouble. However, thanks to his chronic bad luck, he finds himself in the middle of a free-for-all of international assassins and criminal schemes that he just can't wriggle out of no matter how hard he tries. And the real kicker? He wasn't even going to be on that job in the first place, but the guy who was originally slated to steal the case called in sick. | |
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In Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, a game set in an Alternate History where Winston Churchill died in a car accident before World War II, Carson is a steelworker helping build a skyscraper in New York when the Germans invade. He fights his way out and joins La Résistance. | |
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Isaac Clarke of Dead Space and Dead Space 2, an engineer who survives two necromorph outbreaks and beats insanity. Played straight then subverted by Isaac in the third game. He eventually decides to STAY and fight instead of just walking away from the situation which, at the time, was very easy to do. | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the player character is widely assumed to be The Chosen One of Andraste. Later on, it turns out that they obtained their rift-sealing Mark by interrupting Corypheus' ritual to open the Breach. Unless Andraste acted *very* subtly, it was a complete accident. | |
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Gordon Freeman from the Half-Life franchise is the Trope Namer, from the G-Man's quote about him above. Ordinary scientist of theoretical physics, forced to become a One-Man Army against a horde of alien gribblies. And not only does he kill the aliens, he also kills most of the military force sent to contain the situation whose orders include killing any witnesses of the incident. Interestingly enough, although the trope is named in Half-Life 2, the situation is a subversion from that point onwards, as the G-Man himself has purposefully left Gordon at a specific place and time, rather than Gordon falling into it by accident or chance. Then again he's still really not supposed to be there and not at all prepared for the situation, so if you think of it as Gordon just continuing where he left off the trope is still being played as straight as before. | |
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In Violent Saturday, Shelley Martin is a mine supervisor on his way to pick up his son for fishing trip. The bank robbers carjack his vehicle as their getaway vehicle. Held hostage alongside an Amish family, Shelley decides that he is not going to be pushed around any more... | |
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World of Warcraft's Adventurers usually get their start this way; being ordinary, if martial, people going through coming of age ceremonies, militia recruitment drives, or otherwise just doing their day to day lives when shit hits the fan. From there, their superiors realize that their talents are wasted dealing with mooks and send them out to deal with greater threats - becoming Taught by Experience heroes of their respective peoples simply by virtue of dealing with stuff that would have killed others many times over - heck, it probably killed them many times over too, but because the Kyrian see their potential in upholding the balance, even death is just a learning experience. | |
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On more than one occasion Bulk and Skull have managed to save the Power Rangers when they were in trouble. And every single time, it is awesome, and completely surprises the villain. | |
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24: Jack Bauer keeps trying to get away from CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit), yet at the beginning of every season, he always somehow ends up being the one person in place to stop a major terrorist attack. For example: At the beginning of season 4, he's an assistant to the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, in a desk job. He has to go to the CTU office in Los Angeles to do a review of their work—on the same day that a major terrorist attack in Los Angeles launches. At the beginning of season 8, he's in New York City planning to move to Los Angeles with his daughter, but then when an ex-contact shows up at his doorstep, he finds himself dragged into a major terrorist attack in New York City. |
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Special Circumstances: In Princess of Wands, Barbara Everette finds herself battling an Eldritch Abomination when on vacation in Louisiana, triumphing over it even though she's completely unaware of the supernatural world at the time due in part to her unwavering faith in God, and in part to her father insisting that she be able to take care of herself in any situation. | |
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Homestuck: Mr. Egbert (as well as his Post-Scratch counterpart Mr. Crocker) is an ordinary businessman that has no fate or designated role set for him by Sburb — even his own friend has offscreen adventures playing the game. Despite this, he's able to survive the initial apocalypse like the other game-relevant Guardians, and provides crucial assistance for his child. | |
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In Rainbow Six, terrorists attack a history-themed amusement park. One of the performers, portraying a Roman legionnaire, wades in with his reproduction sword and shield and badly injures one of the attackers. The RAINBOW team congratulates him for his bravery after all's said and done. | |
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Several playable characters in Risk of Rain and and Risk of Rain 2, including all of the robot characters, had little-to-no experience with combat prior to the crash of the UES Contact Light and are just re-purposing their tools for combat purposes. Despite this, they can survive where trained military men would not, and can well be the only one to escape the planet. The trope is also referenced in the sequel in the Boss Subtitles of MUL-T's Umbra, "The Right Tool for the Wrong Job." | |
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The Bearer of the Curse from Dark Souls II is some random undead who found Drangleic because they heard the rumors that there was a cure for Undeath there. There isn't; there's just a whole lot of monsters that need beating up and a Humanoid Abomination who needs to be stopped from reaching the Throne of Want, and you're the only person who wants to go out and clean the place out. But if you clear the three DLC areas, you do get a cure for your curse, as Vendrick will enchant the crowns you find so they render you immune to Hollowing. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: This Qlaviql ore freighter captain is in command of the only ship able to respond to an attack on his homeworld by a frigate armed with a powerful plasma lance. With guts and a "dream mess" created from the ore mined from asteroids, the frigate is destroyed. This ultimately results in his being declared the leader of the planet. | |
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In Campione! Godou was an average teenager whose only special ability was his skill at baseball. However, after encountering Verethragna he proved to be just crazy, reckless, and determined enough to stand up to and beat a Heretic God. The kind of recklessness Godou showed is a common trait among Campione. Many were ordinary humans until they encountered a Heretic God and were just too stubborn and lucky enough to kill them, usually getting themselves temporarily killed in the process. | |
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Silent Hill: While several of the protagonists were "called" to Silent Hill, Travis Grady, Henry Townsend, and to a lesser extent Harry Mason simply got too close to the supernatural to escape its influence. Once trapped in Hell on earth, they have no choice but to fight their way out, and only incidentally manage to prevent the local God of Evil from resurrecting. Cybil from the first game in particular simply had the misfortune to be heading to Silent Hill in response to a call when Harry and Cheryl (i.e.the other half of Alessa's soul) are both pulled into the town's alternate reality, but her being there drastically improved Harry's odds of survival because she lent him a pistol to protect himself with. | |
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Almost every hero in Sin City has a habit of fitting this trope, Marv and Dwight stories especially. They almost always start off with the protagonist stumbling upon a crime for which they have to take action. | |
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Cloudscratcher: When pirates invade a fancy restaurant, Felix is the first one to fight back. | |
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The origin stories in Dragon Age: Origins all have the right person in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fortunately for them, they have at least some combat training given their past. | |
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Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider 2013 reboot. While it was her theories about Yamatai that led to the crew heading for the island and getting shipwrecked, she certainly didn't expect it to happen. And once she's there, her inner badass starts to wake up (or more accurately, the exterior it's buried under gets forcibly ripped away). She's one of two actual archaeologists in her team, and the only one with actual competence, seeing as her mentor Whitman is just a narcissistic self-promoter and she's ultimately the one left to piece solve a centuries-old mystery and upset the plans of the local psychotic cult. | |
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Stephen Swain in Matthew Reilly's Contest (Matthew Reilly). He is just a radiologist at a hospital before fighting deadly aliens in a life and death contest. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Commander Benjamin Sisko expected that he was receiving an essentially administrative and diplomatic job in the ass-end of nowhere. What he got was serving as commander of one of The Federation's most important strategic outposts, plus, you know, the whole "Emissary" thing... | |
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In Kingdom Hearts, Sora's Keyblade didn't originally belong to him. It was supposed to be Riku's, but he had turned to Darkness, forsaking his Keyblade. So it ended up with Sora instead. | |
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Jack from BioShock is a subversion. Jack's airplane crashes, but Jack survives and swims to a lighthouse which happens to contain transport to the underwater city of Rapture. He is quickly given help with survival by Atlas, while Andrew Ryan immediately convinces himself Jack is from some foreign government and sends splicers to kill him. With some help from Atlas, Jack defeats everything that gets in his way, heads to Ryans office to kill the man... and shortly before doing so, Ryan reveals that Jack's entire past is fabricated, he was genetically modified to grow to an adult when he was a baby, and Atlas is controlling him through a hypnotic phrase. | |
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A common thread in the Fallout series. The player character is usually a normal vault dweller/tribal/courier thrust into legend. The Fallout 3 classes, in particular, tend to be especially harmless, like the uber deadly Marriage Counselor. Of course, you don't have to be a badass to save the world. Or at least, you don't have to start out that way. | |
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Far Cry 3: Jason Brody was just some guy on vacation when he was captured by Vaas's pirates. | |
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Roger Wilco, from the Space Quest series, has saved the day numerous times despite being a simple janitor (and not a very good one at that). | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: All poor Mike Nelson wanted to do was have his time card signed and get paid for his job. Instead, he gets shot up into space and forced to watch bad movies when the last guy bailed. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Common throughout the series. In the majority of cases, the Player Character starts off as a penniless prisoner (or penniless shipwreck survivor) who is thrust into a situation where they are the only person capable of stopping the Big Bad from Taking Over The World or even bringing about The End of the World as We Know It. In a few cases, you are The Chosen One backed by one or more deities, but this typically doesn't become apparent until you are already well into the game in question's main questline, meaning you had to choose to put yourself in that position first. Prevalent in side quests as well, especially Guild and Faction questlines. Your status as The Chosen One of the main questline does not directly apply, but you still find yourself in these situations and must act to save the Guild or Faction. (And in a few cases, such as Skyrim's College of Winterhold questline, saving the world from an entirely different threat than the one in the main quest.) |
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Prisoner 849 from Unreal. Originally just another criminal being transported in the Vortex Rikers prison vessel, the ship crashes in a planet overrun by a warrior race which made everyone in the planet their slaves. Over the course of the game and the Expansion Pack Return To Na Pali s/he rampages across the planet, offing the warrior race's leader and (most of) their ranks in the way. In RTNP this extends to the UMS crew who learnt the hard way to NOT to mess with someone like hir. | |
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Firestorm (1998): Firefighter Jesse Graves is just doing his job and attempting to recue a civilian trapped in the path of an oncoming forest fire. He wasn't planning on having to fight a bloodthirsty gang of escaped convicts, or uncover a massive conspiracy, but that's what he does. | |
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Critical Role: This was more or less the modus operandi of the Mighty Nein (the party of Campaign 2). Unlike Vox Machina before them, or Bell's Hells after, they never really set out to be heroes, they just stumbled upon a series of world-threatening situations, and simply didn't have time to get outside help or alert people more qualified to handle it; they saved the world because there wasn't anyone else that knew it needed saving. This had the consequence of many of their adventures being The Greatest Story Never Told. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Doctor's Wife" confirms the Doctor's (and the fans') long-held suspicion that the TARDIS purposely lands him in places where disaster is about to strike, so he can become this. | |
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Despite the baggage on his family name, all TRON 2.0's Jet Bradley wanted to do was program video games and stay the hell out of corporate intrigue. But when a phone conversation with his father is interrupted by intruders in the laser lab, he runs in to see what's going on and ends up zapped to cyberspace to fight a computer virus and a very hostile corporate takeover. | |
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In a sense, the Hero in Quest for Glory IV is this. In all the other games of the series, the Hero has gone to the current setting specifically to either make a name for himself (Quest for Glory I) or to investigate the problems there (the rest). The Hero did not intend to make his trip to Mordavia, and instead was shanghaied by the Big Bad and unceremoniously dumped in the middle of the Cave of the Dark One when the teleport spell fizzled out. With absolutely no knowledge of what the hell is going on, he jumps right into doing what he does best: Spanning the Works one minor problem at a time. | |
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Ted Lasso: Zig-zagged. Ted is an American Football coach brought in to coach a British Association Football team. However, Ted is humble and self-aware enough to focus his efforts on areas where his skills do transfer, like building team culture and cohesion and media management, and surround himself with people who have a better technical understanding of the game and can build strategies and training programs that mesh with his style of leadership. | |
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Hawke of Dragon Age II rose to prominence and played a key role in one of the most important events in Thedas's history almost totally unintentionally. The plot of the game explains how s/he managed to find themselves in these situations. This is stressed more than in the first game: the Framing Device consists of Cassandra, who thinks Hawke planned it all, interrogating Varric, who was actually there and has to explain how much more complicated it was. | |
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In the anime of Golgo 13, Duke Togo is on an airliner that's hijacked for ransom. A British intelligence officer recognises his name on the manifest. The problem then becomes finding an unobtrusive way to let Duke know they want to hire him to take out the hijackers, as Duke doesn't do good deeds for free. | |
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The title Midshipman of the Seafort Saga is on a routine space flight when disaster removes the entire chain of command down to him, leaving him in charge. He has no leadership or officer skills and gets by on the fact that he must be the Right Man In The Wrong Place and that he is willing to take responsibility for making horrible choices for the right reasons. He does what it takes first to keep order on his ship, and eventually to save the human species from being wiped out by Starfish Aliens. | |
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Negi from Negima! Magister Negi Magi started off like this, tasked with teaching an Unwanted Harem after he graduated from magical school. Now look where it led us. | |
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Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds was very much the right man to take on a very wrong pair of passengers, which ultimately ended in the events of Serenity. | |
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Medical student Otonashi, in Angel Beats!, winds up in an underground train accident that left only a handful of badly wounded survivors in a blocked subway tunnel. Otonashi was able to keep most of the survivors alive for an entire week; he himself died just minutes before rescue crews finally arrived. This also counts for the main story, in a way; ordinarily Otonashi would never have made it to Purgatory, as he died fulfilled. His amnesia got him in, and only someone who knew what fulfillment felt like would be able to help the SSS accept their former lives and move on to new ones. | |
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Citizen of the Galaxy is about a slave boy who gets bought by an old cripple who takes him under his wing, and gets pulled into events beyond his control time and time again. | |
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Starman Jones is about a kid who basically lies his way onto a starship, and finds himself in a number of adventures, at least one being a situation that only he could have gotten everyone out of. | |
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The Everyman Hero archetype from Feng Shui was built with this kind of character in mind. | |
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The Chosen Undead from Dark Souls turns out to be one, as the 'prophecy' they're chosen for was made up by Gwyndolin in order to trick some undead into Linking the Fire. The only requirement for being the Chosen Undead was not going hollow doing the things needed to get to the Kiln of the First Flame. | |
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The Sentinel: Blair Sandburg, M.A., anthropologist; "strictly an observer." Tell that to Garrett Kincade, among others. | |
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