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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8147703" data-attributes="member: 6803643">In the new Star Wars films, Finn, Rose Tico, Bodhi Rook, Jannah, even young Han Solo fit this bill. The entire series "Star Wars Resistance" lives on this trope, with nearly every cast member rising to the occasion at some point from relative normalcy. And to some extent, "Star Wars Rebels" was about this too -- Kanan says he didn't sign up for the military. Do a little good here and there, save Lothal, but fight a war? That's what they have to grow into. In Marvel, yes there's Captain America, who is only great because he is good. But also in this trope to some extent, there's various "science heroes" like Iron Man and Doctor Strange who become great through their smarts and studying and practical effort, even if they were pompous a***s beforehand. And there's Spider-Man, who if he's nothing without the suit, doesn't deserve it, and who stands up for the little guy as a friendly neighbourhood spider-man. And there's Peggy Carter of course, who fights against the tides of sexism to become the greatest spymaster Shield has ever had, even more so than Fury. And there's Rosario Dawson's Night Nurse Claire Temple, who gets caught up with all these injured street-level superheroes, and decides to learn martial arts from Colleen Wing and takes up cat claws while in China and becomes a hero in her own right. Over at Disney Proper, there's Flynn Rider in Tangled, there's Kristoff in Frozen/2, there's Aladdin, there's Tiana, there's Milo Thatch, there's Jim Hawkins, there's Pacha, there's Quasimodo, there's Fa/Hua Mulan, there's Cassandra in Tangled the series, there's Miss Bianca and Bernard, you can even make a case for Anna in Frozen/2, given that she has no powers whatsoever and yet is the real hero of the films. Taran of the Chronicles of Prydain is this trope to a T. Literally, this is what his plotline is, and unlike with Rey in Star Wars, they stick firm to the the idea that he is Taran nobody, but it's not where he comes from that matters, it's who is is that matters. Disney will be re-adapting the entirety of the Chronicles in the coming years for D+, which is awesome since The Black Cauldron was such a financial failure.Samwise Gamgee carried the popularization of the trope forward at the turn of the 21st with the movie adaptations, and arguments could be made for Ron and Hermione in Harry Potter.There's a lot when you look at the margins. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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