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When done well, this can be an interesting metaphorical exploration of how even the most blessed can feel isolated and abnormal. When done poorly, it comes off as cheap angst that will get tiresome, especially if the premise of the show relies in some part on that "Special-ness".
One common subversion is [[Can't Stay Normal]] where the character finally ''becomes'' normal, but is not able to adjust to it, and [[So What Do We Do Now?|longs for their old life back]]. Or just as they achieve their normality, something happens where they
See also [[Cursed With Awesome]], [[Internalized Categorism]], [[It Sucks to Be The Chosen One]], [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]], and [[Refusal of the Call]]. Contrast [[Jumped At the Call]], where wanting to be normal never even occurs to the hero. Naturally, the opposite of this trope is [[I Just Want to Be Special]]. See also [[Blessed With Suck]], when the hero has ''every reason'' to want to be normal.
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* Kairi Niko in the [[Knights of the Old Republic]] fic ''Destiny's Pawn'' is an amnesiac bookworm with skills she can't explain and really didn't ''want'' to know where she learned them. She flat-out asked the Masters if they could "shut off" her Force sensitivity, and only agreed to her conscription into the Jedi because there wasn't another option. Given her druthers, she's just quit and become a translator, but seeing as she's the ex-Dark Lord...
* ''[[My Immortal (Fanfic)|My Immortal]]'' gives us [[Overly Long Name|Ebony]] [[Mary Sue|Dark'ness]] [[So Beautiful It's a Curse|Dementia]] [[Common Mary Sue Traits|Raven]] [[Costume Porn|Way]], who likes to remind us that being such a special snowflake isn't really a good thing
{{quote| ''"Yeah but everyone is in love with me! Like Snape and Loopin took a video of me naked. [[Ron the Death Eater|Hargrid]] says he's in love with me. [[Canon Sue|Vampire]] likes me and now even Snaketail is in love with me! [[Wish Fulfillment|I just wanna be with you ok Draco!]] Why couldn't
* ''[[My Little Avengers (Fanfic)|My Little Avengers]]'': [[The Hero|Big Macintosh]] spends a good portion of the story regretting ever finding Mjolnir and becoming Thor, but eventually comes to turns with it. {{spoiler|This contributes to his [[Heroic BSOD]] when [[Big Bad|Loki]] steals Thor's powers from him, and after he gets them back, it's shown that he's fully embraced his role.}}
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