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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way."''
|'''Frodo''', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''}}
[[The Hero]] needs help and is urging a dangerous plan on a reluctant group of people. [[Line in
If the character's [[Wide
On the other hand, the character can know. This is even more shaming.
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This character may find the actual conflict very hard but will stick to [[The Hero]] until the bitter end.
Contrast [[Sour Supporter]], [[Who Will Bell the Cat?]].
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer
* Frodo at the Council, in [[
** The book does this trope ''twice''. First Bilbo (who's aged and in no condition to undertake such a journey - thus weaker than Frodo) offers to take the ring - since he figures he started the whole thing. Gandalf praises him but remarks he's being silly - Sauron is the one that started all this, no one can hold Bilbo accountable. As they can't reach a decision (and inspired by Bilbo), Frodo offers to take it, which prompts the rest of the Fellowship to form when Sam says he will not be going alone.
* In [[
** But he'd learned his lesson in the previous book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where he was very reluctant to go with the others.
* A slightly different take on this scene happens during a siege in the second book from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. The besieged forces draw back inside the defenses at one point out of fear of wildfire, (a magically enhanced, virtually undousable flame) that their own side has used to set the battlefield ablaze. This lets the forces attacking them get right up to the gates and start trying to batter them down. The soldiers, even the [[Badass]] [[Blood Knight]] leading them, (who, by the way, got half his face burned off as a kid) refuse to go back and fight. At this point Tyrion, who is a dwarf, (not a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|fantasy dwarf]], but a human who happens to be about 4 feet tall) rides up and tries to get the soldiers to go back into the fight. They refuse. Tyrion then goes to lead the attack himself, shouting at the tough guy soldiers "They say I'm half a man. What does that make the lot of you?" True to form, that shames enough of them into fighting that they make a difference in the tide of battle.
== [[Film]] ==
* The movie ''[[
* In [[The Movie]] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
== [[Live Action TV]] ==▼
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S15 E4 The Sun Makers|The Sun Makers]]'', the outlaw Others are unwilling to help Leela rescue the Doctor. It's the just escaped worker who offers. The Others do not follow until later, when the Doctor returns to rally them.▼
▲* In the ''[[
== [[Tabletop
* ''[[Dungeons
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Occurs in ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'': When Anakin returns with the horribly mutated males of the local [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] tribe, a small child is the first one to welcome them back to the tribe.
* In ''[[South Park]]'', Cartman delivers a rousing speech in an attempt to persuade people to address the menace of Scott Tenorman. He succeeds only in enlisting the wheelchair-bound, mentally retarded Timmy.
** And then Timmy changes his mind.
*** Of course, Cartman [[Magnificent Bastard|didn't need their ''willing'' help anyway.]]
* At the end of Disney's [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]], Esmerelda leads Quasimodo out of the church before the waiting citizenry. After a hushed pause, the first to embrace/accept Quasi is a small child.
* Ducky in [[The Land Before Time]] is the first to snap Littlefoot [[Heroic BSOD|out of his funk]].
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