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'''Commentator:''' [[Butterfly of Doom|Again.]]
'''Copycat:''' [[Good News, Bad News|Good news, everyone!]] [[Bad Future|I stop a terrible dystopian future from ever coming to pass!]] [[Earthshattering Kaboom|...Bad news is that my actions have created a new future in which we all die.]]
'''Onlooker:''' [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Damnit! I knew you'd screw up somehow!]]
|''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4860110/7/Heroes_Abridged_With_Commentary_Genesis Heroes: Abridged with Commentary]''}}
Heroes sometimes lose. It's pretty common and, with [[Invincible Hero|a few]] [[God Mode Sue|exceptions]], it's the general rule of fiction to the point of being a near [[Omnipresent Tropes|Omnipresent Trope]]. That said, [[You Can't Thwart Stage One|losing in Acts 1 and 2]] doesn't mean a hero won't beat the villain in [[Happy Ending|Act 3]]; this is a good way of establishing conflict and drama while keeping them far away from being a [[Butt Monkey]]. Expanding this, a hero may well consistently win but still learn valuable [[Aesop|lessons]] out of it, get [[Character Development]], and just sometimes lose to [[The Worf Effect|keep the villains fresh and threatening]].
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