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The character hasn't just beaten the odds once. He's survived several [[Suicide Mission|Suicide Missions]]s. The [[Uriah Gambit]] failed. He won the [[Last Stand]]. In short, the hero has repeatedly accomplished so-called [[Impossible Task|Impossible Tasks]]s. And his superiors or the world at large have taken notice... and unfortunately for the poor hero, he or she is now the [[Who You Gonna Call?|go-to person]] for missions that are thought impossible for anyone else.
 
Characters like this can get this reputation a number of ways.
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* Some [[Discworld]] characters. Lu Tze is types 2 and 4 simultaneously. Granny Weatherwax is a type 2.
* Mat Cauthon, Perrin Aybara, Lan, Thom Merril, even Jain Farstrider from [[Wheel of Time]] have this quality and Lan, Mat and Perrin have all unwittingly received followers for it. Granted, Mat IS that lucky and Perrin can talk with wolves, but hey...
* Near the end of ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'', Inigo Montoya and Fezzik face a seemingly impossible task and feel lost without Vizzini, who was the brain of the outfit. They decide that the one they need to help them is the Man in Black -- becauseBlack—because he already climbed the Cliffs of Insanity without a rope, and beat the world's greatest fencer Inigo in a swordfight, the world's strongest giant Fezzik in wrestling and the, uh, [[Smug Snake|kind of smart]] Vizzini in a game of wits.
* [[The Brave Little Tailor]], in [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]] story, is a Type 4. Having killed seven flies, he embroiders a belt with the [[Badass Boast]] "Seven In One Blow" and then has to use [[Guile Hero|his wits]] to fulfill challenges from people who think it was seven ''men''.
* [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] would fall under the first category.
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