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== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Older Than They Think]] ; [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''[[Father Brown]]'' says the [[Trope Namer|trope name]] in the story The Sins of Prince Saradine.

* In the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'', one of the protagonists of the Iceland situation, Lt. Michael Edwards, is forced into the role when he's (apparently) the senior surviving officer after the [[Macross Missile Massacre|Soviet missile attack]] on the US military facilities located there. Prior to the events of the novel, he's just a USAF weatherman, whose only claim to martial fame is being a marathon runner. It eventually got to the point that he was given a Navy Cross and when he protests that he's Air Force, a Marine general's only response is "this here says you're a Marine."

* The titular protagonist of [[Tom Clancy]]'s [[Jack Ryan]] novels and [[The Movie of the Book|related movies]]. At one time he was a US Marine, but that's years behind him, and at the beginning of his debut, in the novel ''The Hunt for Red October'', he's a historian and an intelligence analyst for the CIA. From there, he gets shoved into the role of Hero because he's the only one on the scene with all the information needed to complete the mission.