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* In the [[Mistborn]] trilogy, Ruin very nearly manages to destroy the world before {{spoiler|Vin becomes a god, and then kills him via [[Taking You with Me]]}}. Even so, the world would probably still have effectively died if {{spoiler|Sazed hadn't taken the powers of both Ruin and Preservation,}} and [[World-Healing Wave|fixed everything.]] |
* In the [[Mistborn]] trilogy, Ruin very nearly manages to destroy the world before {{spoiler|Vin becomes a god, and then kills him via [[Taking You with Me]]}}. Even so, the world would probably still have effectively died if {{spoiler|Sazed hadn't taken the powers of both Ruin and Preservation,}} and [[World-Healing Wave|fixed everything.]] |
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* The [[Inheritance]]cycle begins with King Galbotorix having all but extincted Dragons and their Riders, ruling his Kingdom absolutely, with only a few pockets of resistance on its outskirts. Eragon, a rider trains to beat him, barely manages to prevent being captured for 4 books, only because Galbotorix does not want to kill him, much less won't just fly out to fight him with his Eldritch Abomonation of s Dragon. When the final confrontation begins, he calmly reveals he knows every "secret" they do, proceeds to defeat every countermeasure they had against him so effortlessly. Besides having years of experience, power, swordsmanship, wards against damage over Eragon (which in this universe, almost locks victory in) , he also reveals he has knowledge of The Word, allowing him to control the concept of magic itself. He had shown evidence of perhaps being a [["Well Intentioned Extremist"]], and fans before had complained he did not seem evil, leading this troper to believe for the first time that [[a"Bad Guy Wins"]] ending that later turned out not be would happen. How this is managed showns great use of eucatastrophe. |
* The [[Inheritance]]cycle begins with King Galbotorix having all but extincted Dragons and their Riders, ruling his Kingdom absolutely, with only a few pockets of resistance on its outskirts. Eragon, a rider trains to beat him, barely manages to prevent being captured for 4 books, only because Galbotorix does not want to kill him, much less won't just fly out to fight him with his Eldritch Abomonation of s Dragon. When the final confrontation begins, he calmly reveals he knows every "secret" they do, proceeds to defeat every countermeasure they had against him so effortlessly. Besides having years of experience, power, swordsmanship, wards against damage over Eragon (which in this universe, almost locks victory in) , he also reveals he has knowledge of The Word, allowing him to control the concept of magic itself. He had shown evidence of perhaps being a [["Well Intentioned Extremist"]], and fans before had complained he did not seem evil, leading this troper to believe for the first time that [[a"Bad Guy Wins"]] ending that later turned out not be would happen. How this is managed showns great use of eucatastrophe. |
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* At the end of The Promise by Chaim Potek, Reuven meets an old Reebe who is an exile to America after the Holocaust terrified when he hears of the Rosenberg case and thinks there will be a pogram. But the Reebe is overcome with joy on learning that Reuven is not himself in terror-because he has come to a country where there are Jews who can go their whole life taking it for granted that they will only be held to account for their own crimes. |
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* The [[Wheel of Time]] has this on a ''schedule''. At the end of every Age, the Dragon fights the Dark One; if he wins, this trope; if he loses, even bigger catastrophe. However, it's possible that the Father of Lies was, well, ''lying'' about having won the battle in prior ages. Or it could be future ages and he just doesn't know the difference - the books make it pretty explicit that he's just outside of the Pattern and would be pretty alien to all sorts of its characteristics. |
* The [[Wheel of Time]] has this on a ''schedule''. At the end of every Age, the Dragon fights the Dark One; if he wins, this trope; if he loses, even bigger catastrophe. However, it's possible that the Father of Lies was, well, ''lying'' about having won the battle in prior ages. Or it could be future ages and he just doesn't know the difference - the books make it pretty explicit that he's just outside of the Pattern and would be pretty alien to all sorts of its characteristics. |
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** Innumerable ones in the books themselves. When the party splits up, there can be as many as several ''for each segment of the main characters per book''. That can come out to a dozen or so of this trope. |
** Innumerable ones in the books themselves. When the party splits up, there can be as many as several ''for each segment of the main characters per book''. That can come out to a dozen or so of this trope. |
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