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The character hasn't just beaten the odds once. He's survived several [[Suicide Mission|Suicide Missions]]. The [[Uriah Gambit]] failed. He won the [[Last Stand]]. In short, the hero has repeatedly accomplished so-called [[Impossible Task|Impossible Tasks]]. 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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One possible deconstruction of this trope is that the [[Big Good]], [[Big Bad]], or some other powerful or [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]] figure has been arranging things such that the characters always succeed, or at least have even odds. Once this aid is exposed, they have to face ''real'' impossible missions.
Subtrope is [[Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder]]. One of the reasons [[
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Film ==
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]:'' Korben Dallas is types 2 and 3. Helps that he's [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]], which crops up in many of his roles.
* ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]:'' Nevermind anything else this overworked NYPD cop does, he ''takes out a helicopter with a police car''. Types 1 and 2 (though not intentional canon fodder, pretty much hardly ever, he's just a mook that always ends up in the wrong place at the right time, or as they say in ''Live Free Or Die Hard'': "That's what makes you That Guy."
* John [[Rambo]] arguably meets all three criteria.
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* The Prince in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' wants to kill off the PC, but [[The Uriah Gambit|since he can't order an execution sends us on increasingly dangerous suicide missions]].
* Deconstructed in ''[[Bio Shock]]'', where {{spoiler|the protagonist was genetically ''designed'' to cut through Rapture like a hot knife through butter.}} The [[Respawn Point|Vita Chambers]] help.
* The arcade mode in ''[[Ace Combat 5]]'' applies this to Mobius 1, the player character of the [[Ace Combat 04|fourth game]]. The mission commander explains that Mobius 1 was chosen to put down an Erusian rebellion ''by himself'' because his kill count exceeds that of ''[[One
* Played with in ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]''. Shepard, on his/her own, is a clear type two, and was selected as the first human Spectre specifically on account of being a Badass - what he/she did, the player chooses at the character creation screen. Shepard's ''[[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|squad]]'', on the other hand, tends to be closer to type one; most of them aren't as obviously Badass as Shepard when they first join, but by the time the games are over, they've done enough [[Level Grinding]] that impossible tasks are just another day's work.
** Played with by giving you a whole squad of Type 2's in [[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]. [[Badass Crew|Every squadmate]] is either the best in their profession or just ridiculously tough - [[Badass Grandpa|Zaeed]] in particular is described as just like Shepard except for the fact he takes cheques. According to the squad, they're also sent into suicidal odds about twice a day.
* ''[[Air Force Delta]] Strike'': Need a team to [[Airstrike Impossible|fly into the eye of a tornado to destroy its generator]], [[Violation of Common Sense|destroy rail-gun artillery by flying down the barrel]], or clear an [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|absurdly spacious subway]] of enemy weapons? Call in the Delta Squadron.
* [[The Hero|Lightning]] almost invokes this trope word for word in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', declaring she, the other party members, and [[Humans Are Special|humanity as a whole]] to be Type 2. By this point the gang has taken down [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|multiple god-like beings]], some of them had to be defeated several times, and the party is still going.
{{quote| "We live to make the impossible possible!"}}
* Type 2 is almost exactly how Samus is characterized in the manual for the original ''[[Metroid]]'', having completed countless missions that others would have deemed impossible.
** Currently, she's pretty much a Type 5, having blown up Zebes, SR388, The Space Station circling SR388, The Bottleship, and the Phazon Planet.
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'': In a less physical version of this trope, Phoenix Wright makes a living of turning an impossible trial on its head. If the only choices he has are the impossible and the [[Buffy
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