The Call Has Bad Reception: Difference between revisions

# An [[Idiot Hero]] cannot be involved. The issue here is that the problem is the fault of the instruction giver, not the hero. If the hero is of the sort that, if he knew exactly what he had to do, he would still screw it up, then it doesn't count.

# Half-truths, [[From a Certain Point of View|pretend-truths]], and the like do not count. Even if the person sending the hero on the mission ''purposely'' tells the hero half the story with good intent, because the very act of telling him the whole story would immediately doom the hero to failure, then it doesn't count.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* This is the driving force of the plot of ''[[Giant Robo]]: The Day the Earth Stood Still''. The succinct version of the saga is thus: young Emmanuel Von Volger walks in on his father unsuccessfully attempting to stop an experiment that winds up destroying an entire country. His father shuts himself into a room for days, until he stumbles out of his room, randomly babbling that Emmanuel should stop the scientists he worked with at all costs, and hands him the tool he needs to do it before dying. As Emmanuel delivers what he believes is the death stroke to the entire world, the truth is revealed via hologram: {{spoiler|Dr. Volger wanted to stop the energy drive because the drive they created was faulty, and would have created an even greater catastrophe than the original explosion that set the whole story in motion.}} By this time Emmanuel has screwed up so badly that there's nothing left for him to do but kill himself.

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