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We Do the Impossible

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We Do the Impossible	comment	This character hasn't just beaten the odds once. He's survived several Suicide Missions. The Uriah Gambit failed. He won the Last Stand. In short, the hero has repeatedly accomplished so-called Impossible Tasks. And his superiors or the world at large have taken notice... and unfortunately for the poor hero, he or she is now the go-to person for missions that are thought impossible for anyone else. Characters like this can get this reputation a number of ways. Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder: The hero or heroes survive their superiors trying to kill them so many times deliberately in less important missions that when a crucial task that seems impossible actually does come up, they are the go-to group. Had to Be Sharp: They've overcome so many situations that others would have died in that they have accidentally built up a reputation for surviving anything. Nothing deliberate on the superior's part, but the odds came up and they beat them. Training from Hell: The characters might not have actually beaten anything yet, but they were put through training that by all rights shouldn't be too much easier than the supposed impossible mission. Fake Ultimate Heroism: Their reputation is entirely undeserved or grossly blown out of proportion. Rumor and exaggeration may turn a simple feat into an epic accomplishment, or make them up wholecloth. This may or may not be because The Powers That Be enjoy seeing the character win and/or suffer. One possible deconstruction of this trope is that the Big Good, Big Bad, or some other powerful or manipulative figure has been arranging things such that the characters always succeed, or at least have even odds. Once this aid is exposed, they have to face real impossible missions. Subtrope is Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder. One of the reasons It's Up To the Player Character, One-Man Army, and One Riot, One Ranger. In Video Games, Save Scumming probably helps. Compare Impossible Thief, who does (usually even more blatantly) impossible things in a different context.
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We Do the Impossible / int_1242e652	comment	Damage Control does this for construction.
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We Do the Impossible / int_1367cea0	comment	The super villain group known as The Undersiders in Worm starts out being perceived as a fairly unremarkable group, but has a firm reputation for escaping seemingly impossible situations. As the story progresses, they proceed to destroy or subjugate all local villains, while humiliating the government and Hero efforts to stop them. They effectively take over their home city and become its mostly-benevolent warlords. Needless to say, in the sequel series, the term Undersider has some serious infamy and renown. Protagonist Taylor Hebert in particular is known for this. To name a few instances, she kills the top-ranked hero Alexandria, partially leads the attack and (unprecedented) actual victory against the Endbringer Behemoth, and then mind-controls multiple dimensions-worth of parahumans in order to save the world. By the sequel series, sheâ€™s become a semi-mythical figure. All of this is accomplished by a thin teenaged girl whose superpower is the ability to control bugs.
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We Do the Impossible / int_143611d3	comment	The Fellowship of The Questport Chronicles. Especially after Year Four, when they accomplish a task that is explicitly stated to be impossible.
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We Do the Impossible / int_17ace8e1	comment	Bioshock Infinite: Booker's mission was near-impossible because the antagonist can see the future. Prior to the start of the game, 122 alternate universe Bookers got killed. He does it anyway.
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We Do the Impossible / int_1de036cc	comment	In Kamen Rider Wizard, when people with latent magical power are driven beyond the Despair Event Horizon, their Inner Demon bursts forth into the real world; coming back from the brink is said to be practically impossible. Haruto Souma, the title character, does this twice: once in the backstory (which gave him the ability to use magic in the first place), and again in The Movie. The latter gets a lampshade when the Big Bad outright says "That's impossible!" and Haruto responds "Isn't doing the impossible what wizards are all about?"
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We Do the Impossible / int_24d953d0	comment	This level of badassery is almost exactly how Samus is characterized in the manual for the original Metroid, having completed countless missions that others would have deemed impossible.
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We Do the Impossible / int_26b95dcb	comment	Resurrection of Magneto: When Storm goes to Dr. Adam Brashear (the Blue Marvel) for a machine to get her into the afterlife, he tells her that if she were to ask Tony Stark or Reed Richards they'd say this was impossible. But he's built a career on doing the impossible, so he immediately shows her to the big portal machine for getting into the afterlife.
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We Do the Impossible / int_2ef7cb74	comment	The Three Aces in the Lyrical Nanoha series have firmly established their reputation for achieving the impossible by the second season. In the supplementary manga set after it, their (future) superiors are completely baffled by what kind of miracle must have occurred to resolve a case, which, by all estimates, should have destroyed the entire planet, with a single fatality. Eventually, they conclude that this "miracle" had a name—or rather, three names: Nanoha Takamachi, Fate Testarossa, and Hayate Yagami.
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We Do the Impossible / int_2f865ae7	comment	Squad 442 ("The Nameless") from Valkyria Chronicles III is a penal legion whose exploits under the command of Kurt Irving grow to rival those of Squad 7 itself, even if their heroics will forever remain a state secret.
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We Do the Impossible / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann gives us Kamina and his motto: "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!" That's not a metaphor. He advocates doing things that are flat out impossible. The trick: in a universe that runs on Hot-Blooded-ness, it works. It is contagious, as Simon and the whole team Dai-Gurren demonstrate, thus getting categorized as this kind of badass.
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We Do the Impossible / int_32c541e6	comment	State Alchemists in Fullmetal Alchemist are the best of the best when it comes to alchemy. They're almost all practitioners of highly specific types of alchemy and have to pass a yearly test to make sure that they are still skilled enough to stay. Edward Elric and Shou Tucker were explicitly instated because they have done something that no one else has ever seen with alchemy.
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We Do the Impossible / int_375e8f14	comment	The entire city of Ankh-Morpork has gained this reputation by The Last Hero; according to Lord Vetinari, the reason the people of the Counterweight Continent ask him, and by extension the city's people, to stop Cohen the Barbarian from blowing up the Disc is because, in his words, "They believe us to have zip, zing, get-up-and-go, and can-do." Notably, the crew selected to go after Cohen consists of; Rincewind, Inept Mage, Cosmic Plaything and Action Survivor, Captain Carrot, The Ace and The Unchosen One who may be the last son of the city's royal family, and Leonard Da Quirm, a brilliant inventor who designs weapons of mass destruction as a hobby. The Librarian, who is an orangutan and the only member of Unseen University's staff who really knows what to do, ended up part of the crew by accident.
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We Do the Impossible / int_3f6c7a68	comment	In Cold Days, Harry Dresden paraphrases (and one-ups) the US Army Corps of Engineers motto by stating to his apprentice Molly: "The impossible we do at once. The unimaginable takes a little longer". Truly, Harry may be the Earth's strongest wizard of his generation and, in the span of twenty years, gotten out of countless impossible situations (though not unscathed), unwillingly building himself one hell of a reputation.
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We Do the Impossible / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	In a book of the New Jedi Order, Wedge isn't one of the Rogues anymore, instead commanding a good-sized portion of the New Republic's fleet in the days after Coruscant falls to the Yuuzhan Vong. What's left of the New Republic's ruling council tells him to hold Borleias as long as possible. Wedge is highly savvy and sees through them, aware that they want him and his entire command to get gloriously killed so that they can surrender later. He bullies them into giving him more resources by threatening to quit, along with most of his command staff, if they don't. Ultimately he sets up a new Rebel Alliance to work quietly under the radar, and while he ultimately retreats away from Borleias, he gives the Vong one hell of a bloody nose on the way out.
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We Do the Impossible / int_457b671e	comment	Jack Bauer of 24. Throughout the series he persevered through gunshot wounds, beatings, torture, explosions, plane crashes, drug addiction, biological weaponry and even clinical death. He very quickly becomes the guy anyone in the government goes to if they want to get shit done in as short a time as possible.
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We Do the Impossible / int_468bebb0	comment	Some Discworld characters; Granny Weatherwax has gone up against and beaten the unspeakable hordes of elves, vampires, Eldritch Abominations from a different dimension, and DEATH himself, and yet some idiot always think they stand a chance against this crotchety old lady. The entire city of Ankh-Morpork has gained this reputation by The Last Hero; according to Lord Vetinari, the reason the people of the Counterweight Continent ask him, and by extension the city's people, to stop Cohen the Barbarian from blowing up the Disc is because, in his words, "They believe us to have zip, zing, get-up-and-go, and can-do." Notably, the crew selected to go after Cohen consists of; Rincewind, Inept Mage, Cosmic Plaything and Action Survivor, Captain Carrot, The Ace and The Unchosen One who may be the last son of the city's royal family, and Leonard Da Quirm, a brilliant inventor who designs weapons of mass destruction as a hobby. The Librarian, who is an orangutan and the only member of Unseen University's staff who really knows what to do, ended up part of the crew by accident. Samuel Vimes has certainly gained a reputation for being an incorruptible hound of justice who will not stop until he apprehends the bad guys in the name of the Law. Rulers around the Disc have recognized that this seemingly-normal man has gone toe-to-toe with vampires, golems, werewolves, dwarves, trolls, and supernatural things of vengeance, and he is still not dead, while his opponents are seldom mentioned in polite company ever again.
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We Do the Impossible / int_47b1287b	comment	Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger has Space Ranger cadets put into Unwinnable Training Situations repeatedly...and they're graded by how many ways they can figure out to pull off an "impossible" victory.
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We Do the Impossible / int_495ea55e	comment	Deep Rock Galactic: The titular company prides itself in exploiting planets that every other competitor finds to be too risky to be worth it, and sometimes considered impossible to mine. This is half the reason why their newest mining operation, the one you're participating in, is in Hoxxes IV, literally the most dangerous planet in the known galaxy, and equally the most profitable due to its mineral and biological riches.
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We Do the Impossible / int_4ce969a9	comment	Similarly, in the earlier Bungie game Marathon, the character is implied to be a cyborg super-soldier, the hero of a thousand faces, and the personification of Destiny itself. As the series progresses, he goes from surgical strikes to being the turning point of a war to single-handedly routing entire armies.
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We Do the Impossible / int_4ec6798d	comment	James West and Artemus Gordon of The Wild Wild West are apparently the government's go-to team whenever the impossible needs to be done.
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We Do the Impossible / int_4f7a49d9	comment	The four quite rightly get this reputation in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World when they achieve some highly improbable successes. To the point where the following dialogue with the Circle takes place:
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We Do the Impossible / int_4ff41a9c	comment	It's implied in Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, that Samantha Shepard's suicide mission actually counted as a deconstruction since the "loyalty" missions in which she gained her crewmates' trust were at least partially set up by Cerberus in order to make Shepard and her team bond more tightly. This feeling of unearned success contributes to her Heroic BSoD. She is, however, still regarded as one who does the impossible—it's the reason why despite her crimes against civilians the powers-that-be opt to give her another chance. That Shepard & Co. can't just shoot, bludgeon, or talk their way through the threat facing her galaxy only shows how how dangerous said threat is. The Citadel Council and others begin to regard the Trans-Galactic Republic as doing the impossible since their technology defies known physics, their ships are so strong, and they send Reapers packing. Such adoration seems misplaced after the events of Fractured (SovereignGFC), but it's all they have left or so they think.
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We Do the Impossible / int_53b30902	comment	Squad 7 from Valkyria Chronicles fits this trope rather well (despite technically being mere militia) thanks to Welkin Gunther's leadership, and they end up being assigned numerous suicide missions deemed too unglamorously dangerous for the regular Gallian army. Though the brass treats them as mere Cannon Fodder, Squad 7 always manages to pull off an astonishing victory against near-impossible odds, or at the very least, delay the enemy hordes long enough to allow allied units to successfully retreat (before making their own escape). Squad 442 ("The Nameless") from Valkyria Chronicles III is a penal legion whose exploits under the command of Kurt Irving grow to rival those of Squad 7 itself, even if their heroics will forever remain a state secret.
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We Do the Impossible / int_53ccae27	comment	This is essentially the overall main plot of Irresponsible Captain Tylor, both the titular character and the crew of the Soyokaze are either Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder or just that badass, or some combination of both (the series doesn't make it clear which).
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We Do the Impossible / int_562e8a6e	comment	Max Payne has been blow up, shot at, fallen heights that would've crippled others, and has actually been shot in the head by a Desert freaking Eagle, and somehow he still has a bad guy body count well into the triple digits by the second game, and has personally ended the life of anyone who's ever pointed a gun at him. And yet somehow the villains of the third game somehow think it's a good idea to make this completely unkillable man their fall guy.
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We Do the Impossible / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987): A third-person variation occurs at the end of "Launchpad's First Crash"; Scrooge tells Launchpad he is the only pilot he knows capable of pulling off the impossible things necessary on his missions.
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We Do the Impossible / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: The Vorkosigan Family. As Cordelia remarks; "The difficult we do at once. The impossible takes a little longer."
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We Do the Impossible / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate: Stargate Atlantis: "I'm Rodney McKay. Difficult takes a few seconds; impossible, a few minutes!" Also, Sheppard has flown several Suicide Missions. Stargate SG-1: SG-1 have gotten so adept at this the Asgard have, on more than one occassion, 'hired' them. There is even a sprinkle of this within (but not yet recognised outside of) the Destiny 'Expedition Crew' in Stargate Universe, especially for Eli.
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We Do the Impossible / int_6e17a0d1	comment	Die Hard's John McClane. Nevermind anything else this overworked NYPD cop does, he takes out a helicopter with a police car. He's just a mook that always ends up in the wrong place at the right time, or as they say in Live Free or Die Hard: "That's what makes you That Guy." Weirdly, John is usually this on accident. He's never the first guy anyone goes to in an out-of-control terrorist crisis in the films, doesn't get any accolades, and it is in fact suggested in the 4th film that his police department and many other law enforcement agencies consider his actions to be a fluke or an embarrassment. Somehow however, he always ends up being right in the middle of the terrorist plots he thwarts.
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We Do the Impossible / int_6eed44ab	comment	Dead Ringers: Gareth Southgate, manager of the England football team, gets bored in the run-up to the 2021 UEFA World Cup final, since he only does the impossible, and at that point the idea of England winning the cup actually seems entirely plausible. So he decides to instead go scale Mt. Everest carrying a fridge in nothing but a mankini.
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We Do the Impossible / int_6f7cfb8d	comment	Near the end of The Princess Bride, Inigo Montoya and Fezzik face a seemingly impossible task and feel lost without Vizzini, who was the brain of the outfit. They decide that the one they need to help them is the Man in Black — because he already climbed the Cliffs of Insanity without a rope, and beat the world's greatest fencer Inigo in a swordfight, the world's strongest giant Fezzik in wrestling and the, uh, kind of smart Vizzini in a game of wits.
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We Do the Impossible / int_7042b439	comment	This trope has been an exact quote for The Impossibles.
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We Do the Impossible / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: SG-1 have gotten so adept at this the Asgard have, on more than one occassion, 'hired' them. There is even a sprinkle of this within (but not yet recognised outside of) the Destiny 'Expedition Crew' in Stargate Universe, especially for Eli.
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We Do the Impossible / int_7393c0ce	comment	In Hellsister Trilogy, Superman points out to his cousin that they don't have the luxury of a normal life because no one can do what they can, and most of time saving the day comes to them, therefore people will keep turning to them for help. Right like he predicted, shortly afterwards the Legion of Super-Heroes turns to Supergirl because they need extra Kryptonian firepower to fight Darkseid.
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We Do the Impossible / int_75149ccd	comment	Rogue Squadron of the X-Wing Series, and its commander Wedge Antilles in particular. One of the Rogues' mottoes is "Impossible is our stock in trade, and success is what we deliver." No matter how many Rogues die in combat, Wedge always survives, and the squadron always rebuilds.
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We Do the Impossible / int_755b343f	comment	Master Chief of Halo is a combination of both Training from Hell and Native Skill and Cunning. He's already considered to be one of the best Spartan-II Super Soldiers by the beginning of the first game, but his exploits after most of the other IIs have died are what really turn him into a legend. Really, Spartans as a whole are considered to be this by the rest of the UNSC, the IIs especially.
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We Do the Impossible / int_757cf125	comment	In one episode of Rocket Power, Sam's skateboard simulation computer program stumbles upon a move that it has deemed physically impossible. Otto doesn't believe it, so he tries to pull it off and at one point does...with a little assistance from a tennis ball shot out of the Stimpletons' lawn mower.
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We Do the Impossible / int_7668653a	comment	Played with by giving you a whole squad of badasses in Mass Effect 2. Every squadmate is either the best in their profession or just ridiculously tough - Zaeed in particular is described as just like Shepard except for the fact he takes cheques (and is incapable of leading.) According to the squad, they're also sent into suicidal odds about twice a day. Lampshaded by Tali at game's end: Better yet, it's entirely possible for Shepard to do a suicide mission with no one dying, including their entire crew, not just squadmates. Also lampshaded when recruiting Thane. Garrus also has this winner:
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We Do the Impossible / int_791fca44	comment	Deconstructed in BioShock, where the protagonist was genetically designed to cut through Rapture like a hot knife through butter. The Vita Chambers help. Bioshock Infinite: Booker's mission was near-impossible because the antagonist can see the future. Prior to the start of the game, 122 alternate universe Bookers got killed. He does it anyway.
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We Do the Impossible / int_7988cb68	comment	Played with in Mass Effect. Shepard, on his/her own, is a clear total badass, and was selected as the first human Spectre specifically on account of being a Badass — what he/she did, the player chooses at the character creation screen. In fact, Shepard gets huge amounts of credit and respect for being such a Badass, unlike many such characters. Shepard's squad, on the other hand, tends to be closer to elite cannon fodder; most of them aren't as obviously Badass as Shepard when they first join, but by the time the games are over, they've done enough Level Grinding that impossible tasks are just another day's work. Played with by giving you a whole squad of badasses in Mass Effect 2. Every squadmate is either the best in their profession or just ridiculously tough - Zaeed in particular is described as just like Shepard except for the fact he takes cheques (and is incapable of leading.) According to the squad, they're also sent into suicidal odds about twice a day. Lampshaded by Tali at game's end: Better yet, it's entirely possible for Shepard to do a suicide mission with no one dying, including their entire crew, not just squadmates. Also lampshaded when recruiting Thane. Garrus also has this winner:
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We Do the Impossible / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb, to the point that they just sort of assume it.
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We Do the Impossible / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mu La Flaga in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED uses "I am a man who can make the impossible possible," as his Catchphrase. He lives up to it with a combination of Ace Pilot skill, ingenuity, a healthy dose of common sense born of previous experience, and a bit of pure luck, to the point that in the penultimate episode he blocks an antimatter cannon with his Humongous Mecha and succeeds in shielding the ship behind him even though by all rights the positron beam should have gone right through his mobile suit and taken the ship out anyhow. And then the sequel reveals that he lived through it.
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We Do the Impossible / int_816181cb	comment	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a subversion. He's got a rep for being the great and powerful wizard who can solve any problem, but he's really a fake. (Starting with Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, he Becomes the Mask and becomes a real hero.)
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We Do the Impossible / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Starfleet engineers have an In-Universe reputation for this, the motto that appears on their actual 'corps patch' is "We got it", and claims that they are able "to turn rocks into replicators" that don't seem to be exaggerated in the least.
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We Do the Impossible / int_83d81bd4	comment	The arcade mode in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War applies this to Mobius 1, the player character of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. The mission commander explains that Mobius 1 was chosen to put down an Erusian rebellion by himself because his kill count exceeds that of entire squadrons. Oh, and the Erusians know him as "the Grim Reaper."
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We Do the Impossible / int_89703d00	comment	Wonder Woman: A short list of the eponymous heroine's feats includes: wrestling a gorilla ("Wonder Woman vs Gargantua"); stopping a tank with her bare hands ("Anschluss 77"); running 47 miles in four minutes ("Death in Disguise"); saving the world from several alien invasions ("Mind Stealers from Outer Space", "Judgement from Outer Space", "The Boy Who Knew Her Secret"); and preventing World War III from starting by destroying Hitler's clone ("Anschluss 77"). She's called Wonder Woman for a reason.
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We Do the Impossible / int_8d84363c	comment	Rome: After Vorenus and Pullo report that they'd encountered Pompey, but didn't kill him, Caesar's advisor recommends they be executed. Caesar responds, "Any other man, certainly. But those two, they found my stolen standard, now they survive a wreck that drowned an army and find Pompey Magnus on a beach. They have powerful gods on their side and I will not kill any man with friends of that sort."
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We Do the Impossible / int_905cf99c	comment	The Fifth Element: Korben Dallas is an overworked and unappreciated cabbie who ends up having to save the universe. Helps that he's Bruce Willis, which crops up in many of his roles. In-universe, Major Korben Dallas, of the The Federated Army's Special Forces, had an extensive record of successful missions and achievements.
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We Do the Impossible / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible. "I can do anything" is her tagline. She's even got a song about it. Lampshaded in a flashback from The Movie "A Sitch In Time" Heck, her name alludes to this ability, which comes up as a semi-regular Phrase Catcher; Sometimes she'll do something remarkable or say she's planning to do so, and another character will say "It's impossible!". Ron's responds "Check the name." (About the only time the punny names are noticed in-universe.) Even more so, her family's mantra is "Anything is possible for a Possible".
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We Do the Impossible / int_90f42a9b	comment	Mat Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, Lan, Thom Merril, even Jain Farstrider from The Wheel of Time have this quality and Lan, Mat and Perrin have all unwittingly received followers for it. Granted, Mat IS that lucky and Perrin can talk with wolves, but hey...
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We Do the Impossible / int_91d7e52d	comment	A Time to Kill: Brigance attempts to defend the African American worker Carl Lee Hailey - who killed two white men and stands by it - by pulling an Insanity Defence in a Deep South judicial system (with death row awaiting Hailey), pitted against a ruthless white prosecutor with a socially and politically influential background, a highly suggestible (as well as very opportunistic) judge, an all-white well-to-do jury who just wants to go home, a corrupted black activist group that holds out for a martyr (Hailey), KKK members spreading terror and intimidating Brigance's co-workers into quitting one by one, and (to add insult to injury) weak and powerless local authorities who fail to hinder any of this. Oh, and there's also the rioting that breaks out halfway through the trial. And then the National Guard has to be called in. Well yeah, it really couldn't get any worse. But hey, guess who wins in the end?
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We Do the Impossible / int_98da2344	comment	Air Force Delta Strike: Need a team to fly into the eye of a tornado to destroy its generator, destroy rail-gun artillery by flying down the barrel, or clear an absurdly spacious subway of enemy weapons? Call in the Delta Squadron.
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We Do the Impossible / int_9da04de7	comment	The A-Team: As defined by the officer pursuing the Alpha Team: Also a Badass Boast by the team's leader:
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We Do the Impossible / int_9e2f90f4	comment	By the latter half of One Piece, the Straw Hat Pirates have gotten a reputation that very little can stop them, as Luffy has spearheaded attacks on the World Government's most highly protected complexes, the Judicial Island Enies Lobby, the prison Impel Down, and the Navy headquarters Marinford, and punched a World Noble in the face and lived to tell about it, circumstances surrounding those incidents notwithstanding. During Dressrosa, Trafalgar Law has no problem being Defiant to the End to Don Quixote Doflamingo as he knows that even if he gets killed, nothing will stop the Straw Hats from destroying the villain's operations for good.
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We Do the Impossible / int_a037ae41	comment	His father, Kiritsugu Emiya, in Fate/Zero is hired for his reputation as an effective assassin against even the most powerful mages, mostly for fighting dirty.
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We Do the Impossible / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: The Professor regularly sends the Planet Express crew on missions that he doesn't expect them to survive—not because he wants to kill them, but because he views them as completely expendable.
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We Do the Impossible / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass has two versions of this: First is Zero, who takes a ragtag group of terrorists and reforms them into a military organization to fight The Britannian Empire, which rules over 1/3 of world. Second is Colonel Kyoshiro Tohdoh (known as Tohdoh The Miracle Worker). He fought for Japan when Britannia invaded, and was the only person to win a battle against Britannia's Knightmare Frames, which became known as the Miracle of Itsukushima. People revere him for this, despite the fact that he's not as good as people say. He even admits this. When he's put in charge of a battle in season one, he gets everyone captured.
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We Do the Impossible / int_a92c264a	comment	The gang of Exterminatus Now are an example of Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder. Schaefer has tried and failed to get them killed so many times on minor missions that he goes to them now if he really does have a job that needs doing against all odds. The B-team and C-team are also examples of this trope, but for different reasons, the B-team is an entire team of The Ace Cowboy Cop types of various flavors and True Companions who do it with pure skill, and the C-team does it by simply blowing everything up, shooting everything up, dicing everything up and calling in weapons of mass destruction way too often.
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We Do the Impossible / int_a9dd1e47	comment	In the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, it's explicitly stated that Anakin stands out in this regard, even for a Jedi. Obi-Wan even reflects on this at one point: "But for Anakin Skywalker, the completely impossible had an eerie way of being merely difficult."
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We Do the Impossible / int_b0028436	comment	At the end of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3, Jotaro give us this gem.
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We Do the Impossible / int_b2700e28	comment	If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: The Emperor, highly annoyed at the Ultramarines, sends them on an impossible mission to capture Magnus the Red, one of the most dangerous enemy leaders. He even tells them to go without Warp protection as a handicap. They succeed anyway, so he tells them to go handle another impossible thing he needs done. Then he just gives them an impossible mission that doesn't actually need doing. The Ultramarines themselves are shown discussing how the heck they have been able to achieve nearly impossible things, and suggest that some powerful entity is twisting reality to make sure they remain the best. The Emperor himself retrieves Magnus's soul from the God of Evil holding it. After doing this, he agrees it was absolutely impossible, but "I am the motherfucking Emperor."
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We Do the Impossible / int_b6d60e4	comment	In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Quatermain (Sean Connery) apparently actually hired a guy to screen visitors because of his reputation for skill.
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We Do the Impossible / int_b7c60560	comment	know what i've made by the marks on my hands: Izuku, having gained a reputation from interfering at Kamino Ward, is now the go-to person whenever someone loses their quirk.
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We Do the Impossible / int_b9b796cf	comment	Shirou Emiya in Fate/stay night survives battles against Servants where other Servants have failed. This is due to his training from hell since it's revealed that his magical self-training is physically demanding to the point of life-threatening, and has conditioned him to be more powerful and durable than Rin's more traditional study. His father, Kiritsugu Emiya, in Fate/Zero is hired for his reputation as an effective assassin against even the most powerful mages, mostly for fighting dirty. Fate/Stay Night's Berserker manages to break Gilgamesh's chains of Enkidu. These chains strengthen based on how godly the Servant is. This Berserker is Heracles, so his god rank is A.
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We Do the Impossible / int_bd9edbdd	comment	Peter lampshades this in Ghostbusters II:
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We Do the Impossible / int_c0d124e1	comment	The Chronicles of Riddick: As does Riddick. For instance, outrunning the lethal sunrise on an alien planet, or resisting having his soul ripped out by a half-dead warlord through sheer force of will.
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We Do the Impossible / int_c3d129cd	comment	Issei Hyodou, the protagonist of High School DÃ—D, can be considered as this. Seriously, who can pull off crashing an engagement party and declare that Rias' virginity belongs to him, take his rival's power and infuse it with him even though said rival's power is the total opposite of his, and summon the freaking god of breasts that makes even gods from other mythologies go "wtf".
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We Do the Impossible / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor. He flies in a time machine that can go anywhere and anywhen in the universe, has saved the Earth more times than he can count, saved the universe and all of reality itself repeatedly. He defeats intergalactic races of pure evil on a daily basis, thinks crippling dictatorships is a rather average outing, and can do all of this with a kettle, a piece of string, and a screwdriver. That being said, he's so used to being impossible and amazing that he's devastated when he can't pull out an impossible miracle. In "Voyage of the Damned", when he can neither save all of his friends nor pull a falling Astrid out of an emergency teleport, he bellows, "I CAN DO ANYTHING!" as he all but rips the teleport mechanism to shreds.
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We Do the Impossible / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has Harry developing a reputation for being more or less unstoppable. No matter how hard you knock him down, even if you kill him, he'll bounce back, and more importantly, hit back - hard. Of course, there are a lot of caveats behind this, and it doesn't account for the Trauma Conga Line, or for the fact that Harry understandably does not appreciate being a Doom Magnet (most of the time. He's more of a Blood Knight than he generally likes to admit). Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black, Director of MI13 once flippantly remarks, "We're MI13, we break the Laws of Nature for a living."
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We Do the Impossible / int_cbad9b62	comment	From Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Yang Wen-Li: nicknamed "The Magician" for his ability to emerge victorious against ridiculous odds: the first time he captured Iselhorn fortress, it was in fact a Suicide Mission given by superiors who wanted to get rid of him: he emerged successful from said suicide mission with insulting ease. Eventually he gets so good at winning against impossible odds or getting draws out of otherwise unsalvagable situations that his entire national government ends up nearly begging him in one particular situation to solve yet another crisis for the Republic.
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We Do the Impossible / int_d843ca85	comment	The Brave Little Tailor, in The Brothers Grimm story, is a fake ultimate hero. Having killed seven flies, he embroiders a belt with the Badass Boast "Seven In One Blow" and then has to use his wits to fulfill challenges from people who think it was seven men.
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We Do the Impossible / int_dbaabb61	comment	Mickey Mouse in "Brave Little Tailor" whose boast that he "killed seven [flies] in one blow!" was taken out of context and he was tasked with taking out a nearby problem giant.
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We Do the Impossible / int_ddba3ce8	comment	Apparently this is John Wick's reputation as a nigh-unstoppable, nigh-unkillable international assassin. Even when he's faced with a small army of skilled and motivated killers while holding nothing but a single handgun (or a pencil), he still can be counted on to come out on top.
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We Do the Impossible / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: "I'm Rodney McKay. Difficult takes a few seconds; impossible, a few minutes!" Also, Sheppard has flown several Suicide Missions.
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We Do the Impossible / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: In a less physical version of this trope, Phoenix Wright makes a living of turning an impossible trial on its head. If the only choices he has are the impossible and the even more impossibler, he'll do both simultaneously. We are not kidding in the slightest. In the first game, after all his evidence has been thrown out, his witnesses made unreliable, and his conclusions debunked, he wins an impossible case by calling a parrot as a witness. In a later game, he calls an orca.
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We Do the Impossible / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Rogue Squadron of the X-Wing Series, and its commander Wedge Antilles in particular. One of the Rogues' mottoes is "Impossible is our stock in trade, and success is what we deliver." No matter how many Rogues die in combat, Wedge always survives, and the squadron always rebuilds. In a book of the New Jedi Order, Wedge isn't one of the Rogues anymore, instead commanding a good-sized portion of the New Republic's fleet in the days after Coruscant falls to the Yuuzhan Vong. What's left of the New Republic's ruling council tells him to hold Borleias as long as possible. Wedge is highly savvy and sees through them, aware that they want him and his entire command to get gloriously killed so that they can surrender later. He bullies them into giving him more resources by threatening to quit, along with most of his command staff, if they don't. Ultimately he sets up a new Rebel Alliance to work quietly under the radar, and while he ultimately retreats away from Borleias, he gives the Vong one hell of a bloody nose on the way out. In the same duology of books, after setting up their base on Borleais, an enemy fleet attempts to take back a temporary base they're fabricating on the moon. Wedge and Tycho very specifically plan this operation so as to make it look like they lose the moon and run back to the planet in retreat. Due to coincidental timing by the cavalry and their Big Damn Gunship, they end up destroying the entire fleet instead. In the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, it's explicitly stated that Anakin stands out in this regard, even for a Jedi. Obi-Wan even reflects on this at one point: "But for Anakin Skywalker, the completely impossible had an eerie way of being merely difficult."
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We Do the Impossible / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain's is the HERO OF THE IMPERIUM because this trope is his stock and trade. His heroism is a mixture of "undeserved reputation" and genuine ability, odd as that sounds. He typically gets sent in to do something "merely" difficult, tries to take the easy way out, finds out things are much worse than they seem, and ends up doing the impossible anyway, only further enhancing his reputation. Just one example: In Death or Glory, he's shot down onto a strange planet in the middle of a continent controlled by Orkish invaders. His plan: get the frak out of there as soon as possible. The result: becoming a rallying point for a growing army of survivors, destroying thousands of Orks, and personally dueling the Ork Warboss to (the Ork's) death, effecting the liberation of the planet almost personally.
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We Do the Impossible / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: Used by Mal Reynolds during the Battle of Serenity Valley to describe his unit: Subverted pretty hard immediately after, though, because they lose pretty badly.
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We Do the Impossible / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Invoked by Reed Richards in "True Story": Doing the impossible is pretty much the Fantastic Four's mission statement. A subtle example, when they shrunk themselves to microscopic size to inject themselves into the bloodstream of their old friend Willie Lumpkin to remove an inoperable brain tumor. Lumpkin's doctor had previously said that only a miracle could save him. Ben Grimm's reply:
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We Do the Impossible / int_efc16582	comment	The name of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF) in the Mission: Impossible film series is self-explanatory. They'll accomplish missions the CIA (or any other American agency) can't pull off, either because of jurisdiction or because it's too damn risky/chances of success are small.
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We Do the Impossible / int_f53fe2fa	comment	The Impossible Mission Force in Mission: Impossible.
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We Do the Impossible / int_faf84cd	comment	The Prince in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines wants to kill off the PC, but since he can't order an execution sends us on increasingly dangerous suicide missions. Canonically, the only way the PC can die is if they do something that is also impossible - impossibly stupid: willfully submitting to the authority of the backstabbing Prince - where both dumbasses are then hit with a surprise-bomb-in-the-macguffin.
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We Do the Impossible / int_fb9c177d	comment	The Transformers mythos have The Wreckers, who tend to get called in when the job is incredibly dangerous and the chance of death is high. As described in "Stormbringer" #2:
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We Do the Impossible / int_fdbace96	comment	In the Gravity Falls episode "Weirdmageddon Part 1", Bill Cipher has raised Hell on Earth, and having been separated from his immediate family and lost his Journal, Dipper has hit the Despair Event Horizon. However, Wendy voices her belief that, having done incredible feats throughout the summer, taking Bill down is something Dipper can do.
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