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* As the ''[[Redwall]]'' series went on, the mortality rate went from "[[Anyone Can Die]]" to "Only vermin are in danger". Perhaps the nadir: ''One'' named, nonvillainous character died in ''Pearls of Lutra'', and she had only had five nonsinging lines beforehand.
* By [[Word of God]], only one character truly has this in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series: MacGuiness, Honor's valet, because Weber's wife likes him. In practice, Honor herself ended up with some, though, as she was supposed to be killed off at the end of ''At All Costs'', only for fan outcry (and a change in the series' timeline) to save her.
* Parodied and exploited in ''[[The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System]]'' where. Shen Quinqiu, a very [[Genre Savvy]] transmigrated man who knowswas thattransmigrated he is into a [[Troperiffic]] stallion[[Chinese chineseWeb Novel|stallion webnovel]] where the protaginstprotagonist has this trope as his particular "golden finger"{{context}}, manages to defeat a monster that has them both trapped and tiedbound him- byhe redirectingconvinces it to attack the young, tied up protagonist, on the knowledgeknowing that the novel's universe won't let their "chosen son" to be permanetlypermanently harmed. Sure enough, a ceiling column improbably fallsdrop aboveonto the monster, which frees the novel's protagonist and distracts the monster long enough for Shen Quinqiu to free and re-arm himself.
 
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