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{{quote|''"You're the only man alive that can handle this mission, Kremmen."''|The introduction to every ''
[[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|Our beloved protagonists]] are the only people who can handle the problem.
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A variation that often occurs, particularly in shows or movies where there is a [[Race Against the Clock]] situation, is that those who are responsible for taking care of a particular situation (such as the bomb squad) will, for some reason, not be able to make it in time to resolve the problem that the protagonists are facing. In this scenario, the experts may be fully competent and on the side of the angels, but are prevented for some reason from taking care of the problem themselves, meaning that the untrained protagonists are forced to be [[Closest Thing We Got|the only ones who can take care of the problem]]. This often works to increasing tension; will the non-expert [[Wire Dilemma|cut the right wire]]?
Compare the subtropes [[Last Starfighter]], where it has been justified by the loss of one's allies, [[One Riot, One Ranger]], where it is justified by a specific decision on the part of the authorities, and [[It's Up to You]]. Compare [[I Work Alone]], where the hero chooses this voluntarily. Also compare [[The Main Characters Do Everything]], where extras aren't shown to be competent nor incompetent, they just never get to do anything. Also also compare [[
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The anime adaptation of ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]''. The main characters amount to a single squad of civilian draftee militia. Much like [[It's Up to You|in the game]], the country's actual professional army is presented as a bunch of tactically incompetent blowhards who want to hog all the glory and use the [[Uriah Gambit]] on the protagonists. They never amount to anything useful and get blown to bits by the enemy.
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* In ''[[The X-Files]]'', [[Agent Mulder]] and/or [[Agent Scully]] were often the only ones who could defeat the [[Monster of the Week]] - partly because of the astonishing amount of [[Corrupt Hick]] law enforcers they encountered, and partly because they were usually [[Dying Like Animals|the only ones who believed or accepted]] that the threat actually existed in the first place.
* The Doctor is often The Only One who can save the day in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', because he's a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] who's way above everyone else.
** It's long been suggested in the Fandom and the Expanded Universe that the TARDIS is deliberately putting the Doctor into these situations. The Eleventh Doctor episode [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E04 The
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' You never went where I wanted to go!
'''The TARDIS:''' But I always took you where you needed to be. }}
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