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{{quote|''You know, just leaving the rest of the kids behind to waste their ''"[[Prophetic Fallacy|non-prophesized lives]]"'' away;''
''"Of course you're welcome to [[City of Adventure|Thorn Valley]], there's plenty of education for everyo- ''ooh'', you're not a ''[[The Messiah|Messiah]]'', are you? Yeah, [[Junior High|public school's]] down the stree''t''..."''|''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]'' on the plot of ''[[Secret of NIMH]] 2''.}}
Your [[The Hero|Hero]] hears [[The Call]] and, desperately wanting to fight evil aliens or demons or whatever [[Jumped At the Call|jumps at it eagerly]] only to be told "Nope, sorry, not who we're looking for". Often the rejected party will become [[The Rival|an antagonist]] and get powers of their own somehow, but sometimes they just become [[The Resenter|annoyed and bitter]]. And ''[[Green-Eyed Monster|envious]]''.
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== Anime And Manga ==
* In ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'', there's Yuka, an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who doesn't really fit into class, and spends all her time reading fantasy-stories and dreaming of going to another world - somewhere she'd BELONG! Then, suddenly, a mysterious, golden-haired [[Bishounen]] appears at the school, searching for a missing queen... and finding Yuka's classmate, Youko Nakajima. Yuka, eager to escape her dreary existence, talks Youko into bringing her along into the Twelve Kingdoms. However, as Youko manifests more and more 'specialness' in the other world, Yuka finds it harder and harder to convince herself that SHE should really be the 'Main Character', with her desperate need to be 'important' eventually driving her to become an antagonist. {{spoiler|At the end, however, she realizes that Youko is somewhat [[Blessed with Suck]], and that she's lucky to be just a 'side-character'. Understanding that she DOES belong back in the 'real world', she returns home with a smile, intending to live a normal life. And failing, but that's another story...}}
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