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Note that they actually have to ''ask for the training themselves.''
Note that they actually have to ''ask for the training themselves.''
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== Anime and Manga ==
== Anime and Manga ==
* Oh god poor Shirahama Kenichi in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' . As the show goes on, one starts to wonder if he would´ve been better if he just lost the match to Daimonji.
* Oh god poor Shirahama Kenichi in ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' . As the show goes on, one starts to wonder if he would´ve been better if he just lost the match to Daimonji.
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* ''[[Pendragon]]'': After nearly being beaten to death by Saint Dane, Bobby asks Loor to do this. His training is very much [[Training from Hell]].
* ''[[Pendragon]]'': After nearly being beaten to death by Saint Dane, Bobby asks Loor to do this. His training is very much [[Training from Hell]].
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Ron and Hermione ask Harry to do this, and Dumbledore's Army is born.
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Ron and Hermione ask Harry to do this, and Dumbledore's Army is born.
** [[Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban|Previously]], Harry asks Lupin how to fight off dementors, and Lupin teaches him the Patronus Charm.
** [[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Previously]], Harry asks Lupin how to fight off dementors, and Lupin teaches him the Patronus Charm.
* Jason Marshall, in ''Rogue of [[Gor]]'', devises a plan to defeat the pirates who are terrorising the peaceful river-ports along the Vosk. But first he must learn to fight with a sword. He wins the gratitude of the broken-down alcoholic Callimachus, who when sober is an excellent swordsman, levels up as per the plan and does indeed defeat the mean old pirates over the course of the remainder of the book and the next one.
* Jason Marshall, in ''Rogue of [[Gor]]'', devises a plan to defeat the pirates who are terrorising the peaceful river-ports along the Vosk. But first he must learn to fight with a sword. He wins the gratitude of the broken-down alcoholic Callimachus, who when sober is an excellent swordsman, levels up as per the plan and does indeed defeat the mean old pirates over the course of the remainder of the book and the next one.
* Richard Cypher of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' spends a good portion of the first book doing this, until he takes up the mantle of the Seeker and starts calling the shots. He's a woodsman who doesn't even let himself be ''angry'' because his mother was killed by a fire caused by an angry outburst. He knows questing, and killing, from nothing.
* Richard Cypher of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' spends a good portion of the first book doing this, until he takes up the mantle of the Seeker and starts calling the shots. He's a woodsman who doesn't even let himself be ''angry'' because his mother was killed by a fire caused by an angry outburst. He knows questing, and killing, from nothing.