Resigned to the Call: Difference between revisions

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* Sosuke Sagara of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' is an odd example. He doesn't mind going into battle and fighting dastardly foes in a [[Humongous Mecha]], really. After all, it's [[Hired Guns|his job]], and 'bout the only thing he's good at, having grown up a [[Child Soldier]]. However, he DOES mind being assigned to the ONLY robot in the unit which is powered by [[Hot-Blooded|Hot Bloodedness]]. He frequently declares that a system so uncertain that you can only use it when your 'emotions peak' is way too unreliable to be a decent weapon, but is rather more like magic - and he's a SOLDIER, not a WIZARD! And yet, he's the only one who can use the system at ALL, so even though he'd much rather just use a bog-standard [[Real Robot]], every time a Lambda Drive-equipped enemy shows up, he's got no choice but to climb into his [[Super Robot]] and take them on, grumbling all the way.

* [[The World God Only Knows|Keima Katsuragi]] basically just want to be left alone with his games, but he already [[Deal with the Devil|signed the contract]] that [[Off with His Head|make his head explode]] should he fail to accomplish (he think that it is contract for a new game). So he sucked up at his job, and made good success of it. It also helps that he grows to care for the girls which contain the [[Emotion Eater|Weiss]], because the Weiss will severely affect the girls in some way and will be reborn as the girls first child.

* Kyoko Koizumi in [[~~Twentieth~~ Century Boys]]. She ends up involved in the whole "friend" conspiracy completely by accident, and repeatedly attempts (and fails) to go back to her normal life. Eventually she just gives in and rolls with it.

* Kyoko Koizumi in [[20th Century Boys]]. She ends up involved in the whole "friend" conspiracy completely by accident, and repeatedly attempts (and fails) to go back to her normal life. Eventually she just gives in and rolls with it.

* Rin Natsuki of ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]'' thought Nozomi was nuts when she was chosen to be the next Pretty Cure, telling her "Thanks, but no thanks." When one of Nightmare's men arrive, Rin panics and tries to find Nozomi and tell her to stop being a Cure. When she refuses and gets in over her head, Rin's resigned to save her best friend, despite how scared she is, and become Cure Rouge.

* Usagi Tsukino goes through this during the first half of the [[Filler Episode]] storyline in ''[[Sailor Moon]] R''. After being resurrected following the fight with Queen Beryl, she's content as a normal school girl until the storyline's [[Big Bad]]s show up, forcing Luna to restore her memories and powers. Despite this, she's completely hesitant on being Sailor Moon, causing her powers to futz up before blinking out completely. It isn't until she encounters Queen Serenity once more that she's Resigned to the Call.

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** Most ''[[Discworld]]'' protagonists are Resigned To The Call. A few have tried to Refuse it (only to find, as Rincewind realises above, that [[You Can't Fight Fate]] ... or in Moist's case, the Patrician, [[The Chessmaster|which is practically the same thing]]), but the only main characters to Jump at it have been [[Barbarian Hero|Cohen]], [[King Incognito|Carrot]] and [[Cute Witch|Tiffany.]]

* Jonah in [[The Bible]] is an example of Resigned To The Call coming after he [[Refused the Call]] and got a dose of [[You Can't Fight Fate]]. By the time the big fish spit him out, his attitude had changed from "I am ''NOT'' going to Ninevah!" to "I guess I'm going to Ninevah."

**Read what the Ninevites were like in Archeological records. Then imagine if Simon Wiesenthal was told by God,"Go preach repentance in Berlin." Jonah reacted more or less the same way.

** And what about Moses? His response to the Lord Our God is a) Why me? b) what do I say when they ask Who sent me? c) You know they're not going believe me. d) I'm a lousy public speaker. Until God looses his temper and tells him to stop whining and don't keep his brother Aaron waiting!

* (Bel)Garion, the main Chosen One of David Eddings' ''[[Belgariad]]'' is Resigned To The Call; he spends roughly 4 1/2 of the five books asking "Why ''me''?". C'Nedra also spends a fair bit of books 4 and 5 Resigned To The Call, giving recruiting speeches and leading the army because, according to the Prophecy, she must in order for Belgarion to have a chance to win.

* Morgon of [[The Riddle Master of Hed]] is very much not happy about the ambiguous, threatening prophecies that have been ascribed to him and only grudgingly agrees after almost being murdered a few times to try and figure some of this stuff out.

* Morgon of [[The Riddle-Master of Hed]] is very much not happy about the ambiguous, threatening prophecies that have been ascribed to him and only grudgingly agrees after almost being murdered a few times to try and figure some of this stuff out.

* In ''[[Kingdom Keepers]]'', the [[Five-Man Band|keepers]] aren't to enthusiastic about their new mission, especially [[The Lancer|Maybeck]] and [[The Big Guy|Charlene]]. However, since they cross over every time they fall asleep, there's little they can do except go with it.

* Aislinn in the ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' series. She realizes that she has no choice about being a faery, but she makes clear that she will only do it on her own terms.

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== Toys ==

* A lot of the characters in ''[[Bionicle]]'' who became Toa were at first, eh, reluctant. [[~~All~~ Is ~~Well~~ ~~That~~ ~~Ends~~ ~~Well~~|But most of them eventually got into the right mood]].

* A lot of the characters in ''[[Bionicle]]'' who became Toa were at first, eh, reluctant. [[Any Torment You Can Walk Away From|But most of them eventually got into the right mood]].

== [[Video Games]] ==