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** Also inverted in Discworld with [[Discworld/Going Postal|Moist Von Lipwig]], who knows very well how things are supposed to go... and plays the part of the hero, because he knows that the innate genre savviness of the public will view him as a hero if he does. As a con artist, taking advantage of what people expect to see is his major skill.
** [[Discworld/Thief of Time|Rule One]].
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131006133725/http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target256.html Well, ''technically'' they're only little old men in robes...]
*** Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde in ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'' are confronted by Captain Carrot. They're about to fight him when they realise that's there's only one of him and nine of them, and that he's trying to save the world. All experienced heroes who have spent decades winning against incredible odds, they see that the fight can only go one way and back down.
*** This is pure genius considering that the Horde took advantage of that very trope ''themselves'' in their first appearance in ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'' (though it didn't end quite the way you might think).
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