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''I tried so hard but you won't surrender.''
|'''Unlikely Hero''', by The Hoosiers.}}
What would happen if you replaced a [[Mary Sue]] with a well-written [[Ridiculously Average Guy]] without changing the plot? This trope is a character who gets involved in all sorts of craziness in defiance of all reasonable logic. Basically, they can't even take a vacation without becoming [[The Chosen One]] or saving the world. Whereas to a [[Mary Sue]], it's all in a day's work, this character often finds all the craziness surrounding them annoying and must rely on the remainder of the cast to keep their life from becoming [[Finagle's Law|an even worse]] [[Loser Archetype|disaster]] [[Status Quo Is God|than it already is]].
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* Tavi in ''[[Codex Alera]]''. The whole series started because he was looking for some lost sheep, though eventually it becomes apparent that {{spoiler|he was actually the heir apparent to the entirety of Alera.}}
* [[The Hobbit (novel)|Bilbo Baggins]]. Possibly the ur-example.
** His nephew [[The Lord of the Rings|Frodo]], to a lesser extent.
** The title character of ''Farmer Giles of Ham''.
* Richard of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' considers himself this for the first book and part of the second. He finally accepts his powers and heritage, and the responsibilities that come with them.
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