We Do the Impossible: Difference between revisions

# [[Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder]]: The hero or heroes survive their superiors trying to kill them so many times deliberately in less important missions that when a crucial task that seems impossible actually does come up, they are the go-to group.

# The character really is that [[Badass]]. They've overcome so many situations that others would have died in that they have accidentally built up a reputation for surviving anything. Nothing deliberate on the superiors part, but the odds came up and they beat them.

# [[Fake Ultimate Hero|It's entirely undeserved or grossly blown out of proportion.]] Rumor and exaggeration may turn a simple feat into an epic accomplishment, or make them up wholecloth. This may or may not be because [[The Powers That Be]] enjoy seeing the character win and/or [[Cosmic Plaything|suffer.]]

 

* As does [[The Chronicles of Riddick|Riddick]].

* In ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', Alan Quartermain (Sean Connery) apparently actually hired a guy to screen visitors because of his reputation for (2).

 

 

** There is even a sprinkle of this within (but not yet recognised outside of) the Destiny '[[The Unchosen One|Expedition Crew]]' in ''[[Stargate Universe]]'', especially for [[Ascended Fanboy|Eli]].

* In an old Polish series ''Zmiennicy'', one of the workers at a theater says: [[Badass Boast|"I do the impossible offhand,]] [[Beyond the Impossible|for miracles you have to wait a bit."]]

* ''[[Firefly]]'': Used by Mal Reynolds during the Battle of Serenity Valley to describe his unit:

{{quote|"We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty."}}

 

== Video Games ==

** Similarly, in the earlier Bungie game Marathon, the character is implied to be {{spoiler|a cyborg super-soldier, the hero of a thousand faces, and the personification of Destiny itself.}} As the series progresses, he goes from surgical strikes to being the turning point of a war to single-handedly routing entire armies.

* The Prince in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' wants to kill off the PC, but [[The Uriah Gambit|since he can't order an execution sends us on increasingly dangerous suicide missions]].

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