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  • Knull, the poor abused runt of the villain crew in Archipelago, is a Nervous Wreck for a good reason, considers himself too cowardly to deserve honorable death and stutters constantly. And yet... he commits several subtle acts of sabotage that save the heroes' lives, stands up to the pirates on occasion (usually to defend Lucinda), and finally decides being scared is no excuse. After that, he actively finds the heroine and helps her.
    Knull: Hey! L-leave her alone! Go pick on someone your own size! (Han approaches) D-did I mention how much smaller I am than you?
  • Cwen's Quest:
  • Tyler Marlocke (aka, Moon Shadow) of PS238 is always willing to point out how scared he is in any given situation. This does not stop him from advancing towards sources of danger to help people out. For just one example, he once jumped off of a hovering airplane to save a friend who had just been hit by a Power Nullifier. His mentor, The Revenant, was listening and noted his computer was able to tell the precise height that Tyler jumped from based solely on his screams of fear.
  • Sleepless Domain: Zoe is introduced as having only recently become a magical girl and being harassed because she attends the school designed for magical girls despite not being an active monster fighter herself, which is seen as benefiting from the school's perks while not earning them. Zoe confesses to Undine that she hasn't fought yet because she's afraid. We later learn, however, that while Zoe hasn't been fighting, she has been venturing out at night and observing others fight without doing so herself. She finally jumps into the fray to save Rue, an independent magical girl, from being killed. Both Undine and Rue assure Zoe that there's nothing wrong with being afraid; Undine tells her that she shouldn't fight unless she wishes to, while Rue points out that even if Zoe never fought again in her life, she saved one person's life. Zoe resolves to become stronger and fight after Undine rescues members of her family who would have died otherwise, and partners up with Rue.
  • Stand Still, Stay Silent: Onni Hotakainen has shades of this. Onni is a former scout/mage who no longer scouts because he for some reason was overcome by his fears of the monsters in the woods (being Promoted to Parent for his little sister and cousin may have been a contributing factor too). When the comic rolls around, he hasn't been outside the walls of his home settlement in years. However, Onni is still a mage and has absolutely no problem with challenging even very powerful spirits in the Spirit realm.
  • The rock-crabs, from Vexxarr, are a species that do not eat (they feed on energy gradients), lives in terror of the predators in their native environment, and have trouble understanding that other species ever do anything other than running or hiding from danger. They rarely realize that those predators are about the only thing that can harm them. See these examples of their encounter with a Bleen warfleet.
    • Those energy gradients they feed off? That includes being hit by an Energy Weapon that can destroy a star ship.
    • They overlap a bit with Fearless Fool because they often don't even recognise when other beings are trying to harm them. They only fear beings that try to eat them... although anything except their natural predators that try to do so are usually killed when the physically unharmed rock crab rips its way out of the creature's stomach.


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