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*** This is actually a very logical course of action if you are willing to accept the consequences, one of Paul's [[Arc Words|maxims]] is that "He who can destroy a thing, controls that thing." He is willing to destroy civilization as he knows it, and knows the Guild is not.
**** Herbert explains much of why Paul does what he does in a set of correspondence with the legendary [[John W. Campbell]], where the two of them mutually note that Paul is a ''teenaged boy'' with vast knowledge, esoteric powers, and now enormous political and economic power, but he's not really wise. He can't be wise, not yet. He doesn't have enough life experience to be wise. His later actions prove this to be painfully true. His intentions are (mostly) good, but he makes a mess on a truly epic scale and it falls to his son Leto II to really clean things up.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
** Actually, logic works perfectly in Discworld once you account for the trope-based physics there. Purposefully lowering your chances until you have only one in a million chance has actually been used as a successful battle plan in the books.
*** Or rather, it's been attempted by the [[Genre Savvy]], who inevitably fail because they aren't statisticians, and therefore fail to make their chances ''exactly'' a million to one because they're working with rough estimates. They will then be saved by some other thing which ''is'' exactly a million to one.
** Parodied in ''[[
*** That, and he's in the Fairyland that tends to drive people insane if they spend too much time there.
** Ponder Stibbons in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s books that involve wizards is often assigned this role, and gets to express frustration because he lives in a world where thunderbolts really are signs of gods' annoyance instead of massive bursts of static electricity.
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