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{{quote|''"Normal? [[I Just Want to Be Special|Who wants to be normal]]?! If you're not a hero, you're a zero."''
|'''Ben'''
For some heroes, when they receive the [[Call to Adventure]], they [[Refusal of the Call|refuse the call]]. When they finally accept the call, they continue to complain that "[[I Just Want to Be Normal]]".
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* Though Minto Aizawa in ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' wasn't happy about working with Ichigo at first, manga extras note that she thought it was her destiny to become Mew Mint and was even secretly delighted, which fits well with her reaction to her object of affection's [[Refusal of the Call]].
* Subverted in ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'': the [[Genre Savvy]] Yuka Sugimoto is thrilled at the prospect of being the heroine of a [[Trapped in Another World]] adventure story when a mysterious blond [[Bishonen]] and a flying monster or two show up at her high school... except she isn't and they weren't there for ''her''. The ''real'' heroine of the story, her classmate Youko Nakajima, has a typical (and one might say extreme) [[Refusal of the Call]] reaction to the early events of the series. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|Yuka's stubborn insistence that ''she'' was the one being called causes her to act as an antagonist}} for a significant chunk of the first [[Story Arc]]. {{spoiler|To her merit, opnce she ''does'' realize how mistaken she was, Yuka conceeds and goes back home, letting Yoko take over.}}
* [[Anti-Hero]] example: Alucard of ''[[Hellsing]]'' isn't really a hero, but he's willing to do heroic deeds just for the action. ''Very'' willing. Enough that one of his catchphrases is ''demanding'' he be given an order by [[
* Kazuki from ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual]]'' provides an excellent example of this. The second-in-command of Sanada's organization prepares a long, overwrought speech trying to convince him to fight in a mecha on behalf of their organization, and she is barely able to get five words out before Kazuki readily agrees.
* Gai Daigoji from ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' (real name: Jiro Yamada, but he didn't think that sounded heroic enough) is so eager to be a [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]] pilot that he arrives to his post three days ahead of schedule. He promptly breaks his leg from showing off (literally).
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* [[Birds of Prey|Misfit]] is a rather tragic take on this. She Jumped At the Call because she doesn't have a normal life to return to after she accidentally killed her own family with her powers.
* [[Wonder Woman|Cassie Sandsmark]] went to great lengths to become a superhero, starting at stealing enchanted artifacts to empower herself, and eventually marching right up to the king of the gods and asking him for powers.
* No super-hero has ''ever'' wanted anything more than Polar Boy wanted to be a member of ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]''. He actually slept outside the entrance of their HQ so he could be the first to apply! Being turned down because he couldn’t control his powers was, to him, a lifelong dream being crushed, but he still wouldn't abandon the call, forming the Legion of Substitute Heroes with some other rejected applicants, eventually learning to control his powers, and after he and he Subs defeated (and humiliated) an army of duplicates of [[The Dreaded|Computo the Conqueror]], he not only made it to the true Legion (who waived the age limit rules simply to admit him), but became the leader of it.
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