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* In ''Saga of the [[Swamp Thing]]'', even the other DC superheroes are surprised and stymied by Woodrue's attempts to unleash [[Gaia's Vengeance]], as none of them had ever seen fit to include backwoods Louisiana as part of their protected territory. After Swamp Thing get the Green to settle down and quit listening to the Floronic Man's ravings, the Justice League (and presumably the world at large) has no clue what it was that stopped the plants from attacking, they're just relieved that ''somebody'' is looking out for all those little unregarded dots on the map.
* A six-issue limited series from Marvel Comics told the story of a normal human who was down on his luck and borderline suicidal who gets killed right as an extra-dimensional big bad is opening a rift with a magic artifact intending to unleash the embodiment of Death upon the multiverse. His resulting passage through the gate closes it and bonds him to the weapon making him immortal and causing him to be reborn into another universe anytime he dies as only the weapon can end his life. He eventually foolishly returns the weapon to the Big Bad after getting a promise to leave Earth alone and return him there but upon seeing all the deaths occurring sacrifices his life and dies a noble hero to end the Big Bad's scheme once and for all. Meanwhile back on earth you see the heartbreaking disposal of his worldly possessions such as family photos in a trash can while being called a worthless loser.
* [[X-Men]] member Forget-Me-Not's entire career as a hero is this. Well, most of it. A member of the core team since M-Day at least, his accomplishments include fighting the Brood, acting as a soldier during the Age of X, and saving the other members of the team from death, enslavement, and many other horrid fates dozens of times, but his heroic acts all remain unseen, uncredited, and ignored due to the odd nature of his mutant powers: you only know he exists when you can see him, and the
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