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** Thanks to the unreliable narration from Cain's viewpoint, there's no way to be sure how much of Cain's heroism is really fake. Certainly, his handwaving to explain the selfish, cowardly reasons why he performed seemingly heroic acts looks rather thin at points.

** Assuming Cain is telling the truth about what he does, he's often actively trying to avoid danger and yet somehow ends up in it, so you can agree with his self-depreciation. On the other hand, more of the time he actively puts himself in harm's way even when there are numerous moments he could have quietly slipped away with no one the wiser and no harm to his reputation.

* In [[Rick Riordan]]'s ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|The Battle for the Labyrinth]]'', they meet up with Briares, the Hundred-Handed One, and find him demoralized and unwilling to fight, much to Tyson's distress. In the end, however, he does join in the final battle.

* In [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''Virgin Planet'', the somewhat callow hero lands on a [[Lady Land|planet inhabited solely by women]]—and women [[Shrouded in Myth|whose myths recount the days where there were men, wonderful and marvellous beings]]. Meeting with a real, merely human man leads them to rapidly conclude that he's really an alien, not being wonderful and marvellous enough. Dealing with him, however, brings various women to realize that he really is a man. (Not at all hurt by his [[Character Development]], all the way up to offering to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] at the climax.)

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