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* Yumi of ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]''. She entered the last match of the finals without any of the insane hacks most other characters have ([[Evil Eye]], [[Photographic Memory]], [[Invisibility|Stealth Mode]], etc), so many people assumed that she'd get steamrollered since her table included Saki and Koromo, two characters with the [[Born Lucky|supernatural luck of a god or demon]]. Instead, we have Yumi being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] enough to realize that supernatural stuff was going on, whereupon she not only stops Saki's third [[wikipedia:Japanese Mahjong yaku#Going out on a supplemental tile from the dead wall|Rinshan Kaihou]] [[Finishing Move|in a row]] by changing her strategy to [[wikipedia:Japanese Mahjong yaku#Robbing a quad to go out|rob Saki out of her kan]] even if she knows that the chance of that happening is usually a [[Million-to-One Chance]], but she was also able to put a stop to Koromo's [[Winds of Destiny Change]] powered winning streak by intentionally playing into Saki's hand before Koromo gets yet another [[wikipedia:Japanese Mahjong yaku#Last tile from the wall|Haitei Raoyue]]. Compare her to Kana, the other normal in the table, who in the meanwhile could only watch in horror as her points dwindled to nothingness in the face of the two Mahjong demons

* Jubei of ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'', facing various mutants and mystical opponents with nothing but a sword and his skill with it.

* Otoha of ''[[Karas]]'' is an interesting example, in that he is a Badass Normal compared to ''himself''. He was originally a yakuza enforcer who liked killing gun-toting mooks with nothing but his sword, and was actually able to hold his own (if only barely) against a full-powered ''[[Youkai|mikura]]''. Then he turned into [[Super Mode|Karas]], and anything he fought just kind of ''[[Curb Stomp Battle|died]]''.

* Hei from ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' was a Badass Normal until the end of [[Phlebotinum War|Heaven's War]], when {{spoiler|he ended up with his sister's Contractor powers}}. As a ''[[Child Soldiers|teenager]]'' who had nothing more to go on than ninjutsu, he still managed to earn the nickname "[[Badass Nickname|The Black Reaper]]" from taking down so many Contractors.