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The Call Left a Message
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Sometimes, when the Call to Adventure is made, no one is there to pick it up. But You Can't Fight Fate, and the call won't take no for an answer. If no one's there to pick up, the call will leave a message that can only be "answered" by the person(s) that it was originally intended for. This also has the added benefit of dispelling any doubt that the character might not really be a hero. It may be a literal message, or a magical artifact (usually a sword), but regardless of its form, it has the same purpose. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Examples: |
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The letters from Hogwarts that just ''keep on coming'. Throw one away? Another is delivered. Throw that one away? They come by the bucketload. Try to take him away to a remote place? A huge freaking giant comes and breaks down your door, bends your shotgun like a licorice stick and gives your son a pig's tail, THEN gives Harry his letter. At last. If that's not a Call to Adventure refusing to take no for an answer, what is? | |
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One of the books in the Redwall series delivers the message rather forcefully when a bolt of lightning knocks an heirloom sword from its hiding place on a high weather vane. The weapon comes within a few feet of skewering its intended recipient. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha has Raising Heart, an intelligent device found by Yuuno, an archeologist, who could not use it properly despite being a trained mage. She becomes fully functional when she was given to the titular heroine, a resident of a planet without magic. | |
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The staff Drum Billet passes on to Esk in the Discworld novel Equal Rites. | |
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In Mass Effect, the Protheans left their warning about the Reapers in beacons. Both Shepard and Saren answered. | |
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In The Transformers: The Movie, even after the Autobot Matrix has been given to Ultra Magnus, nothing really happens until Hot Rod gets a hold of it ande becomes Rodimus Prime. | |
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The Clow Book in Cardcaptor Sakura: A strange-looking book, in the basement of the 10-year-old heroine, and of all the people who had handled it previously, she's the only one to unleash the cards. | |
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October Daye: Rosemary and Rue kicks off the plot with a message on Toby's answering machine from Evening Winterrose, ordering her to solve her murder - and geasing her in the process to ensure that it happens. | |
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In A New Hope, Princess Leia is about to be captured by the Empire and entrusts the droid R2-D2 with the stolen plans for the Death Star. She also has R2 carry a message for the reclusive Jedi master Obi Wan Kenobi, in which she begs him to take R2-D2 to her home planet Alderaan so the rebels can use the plans. Luke Skywalker acquires R2 and sees the first part of the message, but R2 refuses to play the rest for anyone except Obi Wan. When they finally track down Obi Wan and show him the message, he says that he's getting too old for this sort of thing and Luke will have to help him do it. | |
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Another one based on (or blatantly ripped off from depending on your perspective) Arthurian legend, in The Wheel of Time: there is the crystal sword, Callandor, the Sword That is Not a Sword, sealed in the Stone of Tear, which only the true Dragon Reborn can take from its resting place. | |
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The Helmet of Fate tends to be this in The DCU. It will transform the person it was intended for into the hero Doctor Fate. If anyone else dons it, the results are not pretty. | |
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In Sword of Truth, a magical message left for Verna forces her to become Prelate of the Sisters of Light. Despite all the other Sisters trying first, it could only be triggered by her. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time does this twice in quick succession with the Master Sword and the Triforce of Courage. Ocarina of Time manages to invert this, actually: Link accidentally accepts The Call seven years too early, rather than too late, forcing him to be put in stasis until he's actually old enough for it. Too bad Ganondorf was expecting this... This is at least partially based on the Arthurian legend/myth of the Sword in the Stone. |
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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, aliens leave the Monolith behind for humans to discover once they've advanced far enough to travel to the Moon. And in the original novel, they put another one on Saturn (Jupiter in the film and in the novel sequels) for them to make the trip to when they've advanced far enough to do that. |
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Villainous example in The Saga of Darren Shan where the Vampaneze have a coffin of fire, that only the true leader of the Vampaneze can sit in without dying horribly. | |
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