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* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|The January Dancer]]'', Hugh sneaks off planet with the promise to return again. Later, the Fudir speaks of the legends of Stonewall and how they correspond to many King in the Mountain legends.
* In the [[Captain Future]] novel ''Planets in Peril'' by [[Edmond Hamilton]], the Captain is convinced to go into a parallel universe and impersonate an ancient hero who promised to come back when needed. {{spoiler|In the end, it is revealed he didn't go into a parallel universe, but his own twenty billion years in the future, and he '''was''' the hero he impersonated}}
* One of the ''[[Retief]]'' stories did a twist on this: the sleeping "kings" were all over their home planet, in plain sight, looking like heroic statues, '''and''' all the planet's less-brawny natives knew it, and knew how to awaken them. It just took a few whiffs of a natural resource that'd become rare long ago, a particular gas, and their '''immortal''' metabolisms would "start ticking over" enough for them to be consulted on various matters. Then hostile aliens attacked ... but it turned out the invaders '''exhaled''' plenty of that special gas. They accidentally revived a horde of [[Badass]]es who proceeded to carry the invaders around as life-support systems. "Your invasion is a great success ... but this time the invadees are the winners."
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