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This trope is the spiritual opposite of [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* In ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s Commissar [[Ciaphas Cain]], [[Fake Ultimate Hero|HERO OF THE]] [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|IMPERIUM!]] has been doing this since practically day one of his career, where he was declared a hero for saving his future aide, by charging to protect him from a horde of Tyranids - when in reality, he was simply running from ''more, larger'' Tyranids in the other direction. Since then, a combination of his survival skills, extreme good luck, and diplomatic abilities has resulted in him getting out of one hairy situation after another, with his reputation as a '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''' snowballing. Eventually, just being on the same planet was enough to panic an Inquisitor gone bad into [[Revealing Coverup|trying to kill him]], multiple times.
* Everything Rincewind ever did in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels that didn't involve running away like his backside was on fire.
** Except for the one time that he mans up, in ''[[
*** It's implied that although a coward he may be, Rincewind also grew up on the streets of Morpork - and survived. Which is why he chose a half-brick in a sock as his weapon against the greatest Sourcerer to ever live.
** Also in ''[[
*** In ''The Light Fantastic'', [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|he beats up the bringer of the apocalypse]]. With his ''bare hands''.
** As Lord Vetinari remarks in ''[[The Last Hero]]'', "[T]he thing about saving the world, gentlemen and ladies, is that it inevitably includes whatever you happen to be standing on." One of Rincewind's enduring character traits is his willingness to "heroically" face ''almost'' certain death whenever the alternative is facing ''absolutely'' certain death.
* There's an element of this in ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'', after Dorothy's house squishes the Wicked Witch of the East, and it's the key to the plot. Without squishing the Wicked Witch of the East Dorothy would never have acquired the Silver/Ruby Slippers and incurred the wrath of the Wicked Witch of the West. Nor would the Wizard have assumed she was powerful enough to destroy the WWW and thus never would have sent her there.
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', Arthur becomes a hero to a race of alien birds for showing them not to take any nonsense from their machines by throwing away a cup of revolting tea substitute a Nutrimatic device had given him.
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