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** [[Don Rosa]] loved doing this to Donald. ''The Duck Who Never Was'' did it as a sixtieth birthday present to the character via [[It's a Wonderful Plot]], while ''The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros'' sees Donald's foreign friends from ''[[The Three Caballeros]]'' make a return and take him on an adventure to cure his depression.

* There was a brief scene in ''Gotham Knights'' where for once, [[Batman]] accepted the Spoiler, even telling her that he doesn't mind the company.

* The tract Stinky from ''[[Jack Chick]]'' has a mild example: The [[Punch Clock Villain|title demon]] after failing his task, is seen happily slacking and relaxing at the end while his master is being punished by his boss, [[Satan]]. What makes this special is that all previous tracts ended with all the bad guys, without exception, being thrown to Hell or punished for their failure.

* A ''[[Blondie]]'' comic showed '''everything''' going right for Dagwood, like the inversion of a [[Humiliation Conga]]: Mr. Dithers praised him and gave him a raise for some particularly skilled work, Blondie prepared his favorite meal and then smilingly waved him off to poker night, where he can't seem to get a bad hand.... The final panel shows Blondie, sitting up in bed, smiling out at the reader (and looking '''hot''' in her nightie) and saying something to the effect that "[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|after X years in this comic strip]], he deserves a day like this!"

*** There are hints before Book 7 that Neville may be something of a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]], such as his part in the Ministry raid in book 5, where he's not the most useful by any stretch of the imagination but proves that he has Gryffindor-grade balls just by going. He's also apparently ''really'' good at herbology (and dancing, see the Goblet of Fire movie, but not so in the book) and Charms, according to the book version of Half-Blood Prince, where Professor McGonagall recommends that he take a N.E.W.T in that subject... and there's that one minor thing... yes, he bears the burden of his parents' [[Fate Worse Than Death]] without collapsing himself.

* In ''[[The Pilo Family Circus]],'' Mugabo is powerful magician reduced to the level of performing cheap tricks for the circus' audience, and occasionally being intimidated by [[Monster Clown|Gonko]] or [[Big Bad|Kurt Pilo]] into pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Even his occasional breakdowns aren't taken that seriously. At the end, though, after narrowly avoiding death at the hands of [[One-Winged Angel|Kurt Pilo Unmasked]], Mugabo is finally given a chance to show off his true power to the audience: judging by the reports of a "cheerful black man shooting comets out of his hands," he had the time of his life.

* ''[[In Death]]'': Eve and Roarke certainly got this by meeting each other at the very beginning of the series. ''Interlude In Death'' even has Eve putting a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on this trope, with regards to their relationship.