Heroic Fire Rescue: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Discworld/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'': {{smallcaps|Bill Door}} saves a little girl from a fire.

** ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'': Played more-or-less straight, although Moist is very [[Genre Savvy]] about it (yet he actually saves several lives).

** Parodied in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]''. Vimes does this and is accused of trespassing (in the embassy which was on fire) and kidnap (of the woman he rescued).

* In the first book of [[Timothy Zahn]]'s ''[[The Cobra Trilogy|Cobra]]'' Trilogy, the war has ended and a Super Soldier has come home to great distrust from his community. At one point he is almost hit by a car, and his computerized reflexes save him and then cause the car's tires to blow out, making it crash and killing the people inside despite his best efforts. Later on the mayor, who's on his side, gets him to a burning building after the firefighters have an equipment shortage, and he saves several people to mass cheers, daring then to hope that public opinion has turned around. It didn't, unfortunately; after the excitement died down he was regarded with yet more fear.