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* [[C. S. Lewis]]'s ''[[Narnia]]'', one of the books is titled ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]'', which sometimes plays the trope straight and sometimes inverts it, as the boy is not always in charge, and is less experienced in the ways of the world than the former warhorse.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Maurice and Keith in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[The Amazing Maurice and
** Another Discworld novel, ''[[The Truth]]'', gives us Gaspode and Foul Ole Ron, who are essentially A Dog and His Insane Hobo.
** Very similarly to ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]'', in Fredric R. Stewart's ''[[Cerberon]]'', the eponymous unicorn has been George's best friend his entire life. The novel opens with George clearly in command, but by the end it's Cerberon who is in charge. In a [[Shout-Out]] to [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]], Cerberon's mother is named Jewel, after the unicorn in [[The Last Battle]].
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