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[[The Hero]] would be [[Jumped At the Call|happy to answer]] the [[Call to Adventure]]. After all, he's been waiting in the [[Call Receival Area]], waiting for [[The Call Left a Message|the message]] to appear - but he learned that someone's been clearing the voice mail behind his back. It seems that some well-meaning family, friends or loved ones are [[Screw Destiny|preventing]] the Hero from catching the call.
Why? Maybe the Hero's [[Love Interest]] knows the [[The
[[You Can't Fight Fate|Eventually]], those [[Doomed Hometown|well-meaning but obstructive people]] will discover that [[The Call Knows Where You Live]], and will thus be forced to give in (assuming the Call doesn't exact revenge by killing them off first).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru seemed to be doing this to Luke Skywalker in Episode IV of ''[[Star Wars]]'', at least before [[The Call Knows Where You Live|the Empire caught up with them]]. Uncle Owen was the staunchest proponent of Luke staying home despite Beru's insistence that "Luke's just not a farmer, Owen. He has too much of his father in him." Owen's answer: "That's what I'm afraid of." We're initially led to believe that they're afraid Luke's going to get himself killed just like his father, but after [[Luke, I Am Your Father|a certain reveal]] in ''The Empire Strikes Back'', we learn that what they're really afraid of is the possibility that Luke might fall to the Dark Side and [[In the Blood|go evil like his father]].
* In the latest [[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]] movie, Dark of the Moon, Sam's new girlfriend Carly is playing this trope when Sam starts assembling the clues to a new adventure. She would prefer that he leave his dangerous ways in the past while he safely basks in their glory in the present. She fears that if he goes off to war again that it will be a repeat of the tragedy that claimed her brother. Unfortunately for her when she leaves Sam she unwittingly walks straight into the thick of the plot and becomes a [[Damsel in Distress]].
* In ''[[Be Cool]]'', Raji literally does this to Elliot when he deletes messages left for him by Chili. He'd prefer to keep Elliot as his muscle forever rather than let him embark on a movie career.
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** In the first book the Headmaster of Jordan College tried to kill {{spoiler|Lord Asriel}} because he knew the man's experiments would instigate the conflict with the church and that Lyra would be drawn into it.
* In some versions of ''[[Peter Pan]]'', the father was once a Lost Boy and didn't want his children to leave him.
* In ''The Rowan'', all the [[Psychic Powers|psychic]] [[Differently
* The overprotective parent flavor shows up in the ''[[Codex Alera]]'', though it's at least partially an accident.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [[Girl Genius]] Agatha's uncle gave her a locket that {{spoiler|seals her [[Science
** But without it, she would have been killed by a mob of angry villagers...or {{spoiler|had her personality wiped and replaced with that of her mother - which came awfully close to happening anyways}}...or would have been the cause of a civil war that she would have been ''very'' unlikely to survive. At least now, she has the resources and ingenuity to survive what's going to be thrown at her (hopefully).
** It was also a protection from opportunists (other than "The Other") who might use her as a political pawn, as they did with a more distant relation. Punch and Judy further delayed the call by sticking her in a university, where her mediocrity would stand out in contrast to all the Sparks while forcing her to learn the hard way what comes naturally to them. When the [[Power Nullifier]] came off, she had all that education at her disposal, and she was ready for the call.
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