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** It is also averted when in less than a year {{spoiler|he actually earns the title when he defeats a genuine Blademaster in combat.}}
* A common theme in [[Tom Sharpe]] novels, especially some of the Wilt series in which Wilt comes to the attention of the police who investigate him, find nothing but are sure they're missing something so investigate the entirely innocent school teacher more and more urgently until they eventually make a career-ruining mistake which they blame on Wilt outsmarting them rather than themselves getting obsessed over nothing.
* ''Don Quixote, USA'' has the narrator/protagonist a Peace Corps Volunteer trying to help the insurgents on a Caribbean island. He [[Stop Helping Me!|accidentally '''sabotages''' their operations]] so thoroughly that a Soviet agent, looking into whether it'd be worth Moscow's while to fund them, concludes, "At last I meet an American agent who makes no errors. My compliments." The American, meanwhile, thought the Russian was a Swiss banker.
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