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== Real Life ==
* Any great leader fits this trope. No leader can be great without it.
**This is especially the case among military leaders; in times past anecdotes about it made it sound religious or homoerotic. This was the case in the days when a [[Warrior Prince]]
* Innumerable ordinary heroes. You probably know a couple personally.
* Both Churchill and Hitler were [[Magnetic Heroes]], in the eyes of their followers. Hitler was not heroic in any other sense. They had tens of millions of followers. Both managed to array great world powers behind them on the issue of the largest war in human history, based largely on the force of their personality and oratory. Hitler was a decorated soldier in [[WW 1]], Churchill fought as a soldier/reporter in the Sudan and Boer Wars.
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