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** Somewhat [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in that he surrendered anyway.

* From the same era, we have Marshal Lefebvre, who had risen from the ranks to become one of Napoleon's senior generals. One of his dinner guests supposedly expressed envy of his wealth. Lefebvre's response was to offer to take him outside and take twenty shots at him from thirty paces; if the guest survived it would all be his. Unsurprisingly, he declined. "I had a thousand bullets fired at me from much closer range before I got this," said Lefebre. Most other French generals could have said the same.

* One time Ghenghis Khan had his horse shot under him during a clan war. After the fighting he assembled the prisoners and asked who had done that. One of the prisoners said, "It was I."

** After that Ghenghis Khan rewarded him. He may have been a monster sometimes but he did have [[Magnificent Bastard|style]] at other times.

*** In the second case he should have had a man chosen by lottery as representative. It would have been too cool a [[Badass Boast]] not to remember.

* [[Indonesia|Gajah Mada]], before his campaign to unify the archipelago, made this oath to his queen: ''"If the external territorities of Majapahit are lost, I will not taste any spices. And until I have conquered Malaka, Seram, Tanjungpura, Haru, Pahang, Dompo, Bali, Sunda and Palembang... I will ''never'' taste any spices."'' And, he actually ''succeeded'' and even expands the territority of Majapahit into the whole archipelago that will be known as Indonesia.

{{quote|Occasionally I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.}}

::It worked. He got into college, the essay won a contest, and Gallagher is now a successful novelist.