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*** It worked out well for him in ''[[Interesting Times]]''. At least, if your definition of "well" is [[Kicked Upstairs]] and never heard from again.

** The Palace Guards in ''[[Guards! Guards!]]'' also believe they're in a conventional heroic fantasy—two of them refuse to attack Captain Vimes on the grounds that [[Conservation of Ninjitsu|they outnumber him]] and he's unarmed, both indications that he's likely to do something heroic.

** In ''[[Unseen Academicals]]'', Glenda objects to her friend Juliet going out with Trev Likely because he's not [[Prince Charming]]. When she gets involved in a romance of her own, she wises up; while she thinks that these events don't happen in romances, she doesn't act as if it ought to be one.

* [[Miles Vorkosigan]] falls into this in the novel ''A Civil Campaign''. Throughout the series, he's a masterful [[Guile Hero]] who always succeeds through is cleverness, but then he attempts to apply his military strategy to wooing his love interest, despite all of his family and friends trying to warn him that this is a terrible idea. Sure enough, when he proposes, she feels emotionally manipulated and walks out on him.