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** After Mekanek saves the day by helping defeat Count Marzo after feeling a lack of self-worth over his rather lame powers in one episode, He-Man tells him he's "kind of special", and it helps Mek get his confidence back. |
** After Mekanek saves the day by helping defeat Count Marzo after feeling a lack of self-worth over his rather lame powers in one episode, He-Man tells him he's "kind of special", and it helps Mek get his confidence back. |
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** In another episode, after Orko causes a rather big accident at the palace, he goes to Castle Greyskull to beg the Sorceress to send him back to his home dimension, where he never made mistakes and was respected. The Sorceress agrees to do so, but while Orko is waiting in the library, he's approached by a mysterious "visitor" {{spoiler|(actually the Sorceress in disguise)}} who shows him several occasions where he's made a difference on this world, including a [[Shout-Out]] to his origin in the original series. Later, Orko is able to help defend the Castle when Skeletor uses the Ram-Stone to break in, the pep-talk having worked. |
** In another episode, after Orko causes a rather big accident at the palace, he goes to Castle Greyskull to beg the Sorceress to send him back to his home dimension, where he never made mistakes and was respected. The Sorceress agrees to do so, but while Orko is waiting in the library, he's approached by a mysterious "visitor" {{spoiler|(actually the Sorceress in disguise)}} who shows him several occasions where he's made a difference on this world, including a [[Shout-Out]] to his origin in the original series. Later, Orko is able to help defend the Castle when Skeletor uses the Ram-Stone to break in, the pep-talk having worked. |
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* In ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' protagonist Ensign Mariner has been on both sides of this trope: |
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** In the episode “Empathological Fallacies”, T’lyn’s frustration and self-doubt accidentally causes a [[Hate Plague]] among the crew. Eventually, she confides in Mariner that her reassignment to the Cerritos was a punishment, once after she was kicked off her old ship for following her instincts of logic, not acting like a “true Vulcan”. Mariner calls BS on this, pointing out to her that even Sarek (Spock’s father) and Spock himself had issues like this all the time, and feels T'lyn's CO was just a big jerk who had punished her for, what was at worst, a minor character flaw. T’lyn sees the logic there and decides to [[I Choose to Stay| abandon her goal of being transferred back to her old ship.]] |
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** In “The Inner Flight”, Mariner tells Ma'at (a Klingon captain) that her non-conformist maverick attitude (which results in her not wanting to be promoted) is a result of [[Survivor Guilt]] due to the death of her friend Sito Jaxa and subsequent outbreak of the Dominion War.<ref>This was a major plotline in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' that covered many story arcs, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_War described in full here].</ref>, feeling that if she were promoted to a leadership position, she’d be forced to send friends to their deaths (a true irony, as it means that she herself is proudly wearing a red shirt in order to avoid being responsible for [[Red Shirt| that notorious Trope]]). Ma’at (being a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]], like most Klingons) sees this as foolish, stating that nobody forced Jaxa to take that assignment, that she died upholding and defending the ideals of Starfleet, and that Mariner’s behavior is not honoring that. She sees his point and eventually they part on - [[Friendly Enemy| relatively]] - good terms. |
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== Real Life == |
== Real Life == |
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