Because I'm Good At It: Difference between revisions

{{quote|He took no pleasure in being a thief, but he took great pleasure in being a very good thief.}}

* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'': Honor does what she does because she's "better at it than most other people" (almost direct quote from the book). Given as what she does is lead fleets into battle, and almost always wins, it might count. It's clear that she doesn't like it, just that she's very capable. She might not like the idea of killing hundreds of people on both sides in her actions, but even she admits at times that she enjoys the thrill of battle, especially if her target is [[Complete Monster|someone]] [[It's Personal|who]] [[Moral Event Horizon|deserves it]]. Her own husband calls thinks of her as the Handmaiden of Death.

* In [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey|Gaudy Night]]'', Harriet Vane discusses how she continued to write murder mysteries after being tried and acquitted for murder; she says that anyone with feeling would rather scrub floors, but it happens that she would scrub floors very badly and writes mysteries very well.

* In ''[[The Godfather|The Godfather Returns]]'', the [[Interquel]] to ''[[The Godfather]]'', Vito Corleone is suggested as following this trope. During a flashback history lesson, the book discusses Vito's early days as Don. While his children were still growing up, Vito used his Genco Olive Oil delivery trucks to deliver alcohol during Prohibition, amongst other things. As Prohibition came to an end, Sonny and Fredo had joined "the family business".

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