Redirect farming at least: Right Man In The Wrong Place

What do you think when you read Right Man in the Wrong Place?

The trope gets its name from a Half Life quote made in reference to Gordon Freeman, but doesn't make much sense for this trope when taking outside that context, so I think this needs some redirect farming at least.

I dunno, I've heard the turn of phrase quite often and I've never played Half Life. It makes sense to me, anyhow...

I hear the phrase used, but not in the sense the trope is referring too. More in a sort of "moral" use.

Tropes Are Flexible. I think the name works just fine. Taken at face value, it basically means "you aren't qualified to be doing what the plot demands, but dammit, you're going to anyway, because no one else will."

If anything, that's what the turn of phrase means, anyhow...

edited 9th Sep '11 2:57:45 PM by USAF713

When I hear Right Man in the Wrong Place, I think of a really noble guy ending up in a criminal city and revolutionising the place, and stuff like that.

Why would it be so limited? Tropes Are Flexible.

At it's most basic, it's "someone who isn't going to be able to do the job, logically, in a bad place, who decides to do it anyway because nobody else will or can." That's plenty relevant to the title, and vice versa.

Oh look, he's an example.

It's been two months since this was active. Is this going anywhere?