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* Sosuke Sagara of ''FullMetalPanic'' is an odd example. He doesn't mind going into battle and fighting dastardly foes in a HumongousMecha, really. After all, it's [[HiredGuns his job]], and 'bout the only thing he's good at, having grown up a ChildSoldier. However, he DOES mind being assigned to the ONLY robot in the unit which is powered by [[HotBlooded Hot Bloodedness]]. He frequently declares that a system so uncertain that you can only use it when your 'emotions peak' is way too unreliable to be a decent weapon, but is rather more like magic - and he's a SOLDIER, not a WIZARD! And yet, he's the only one who can use the system at ALL, so even though he'd much rather just use a bog-standard {{RealRobot}}, every time a Lambda Drive-equipped enemy shows up, he's got no choice but to climb into his {{SuperRobot}} and take them on, grumbling all the way.

** It's really not a 'common' attitude; many of them volunteer readily and don't take 'no' for an answer (Leliana, Wynne, Oghren.) The ones who are more resigned to it:

** Most ''{{Discworld}}'' heroes are Resigned To The Call. A few have tried to Refuse it (only to find, as Rincewind realises above, that YouCantFightFate ... or in Moist's case, the Patrician, [[TheChessmaster which is practically the same thing]]), but the only ones to Jump at it have been Carrot and Tiffany.

** Most ''{{Discworld}}'' heroes are Resigned To The Call. A few have tried to Refuse it (only to find, as Rincewind realises above, that TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive), but the only ones to Jump at it have been Carrot and Tiffany.

* Sosuke Sagara of ''FullMetalPanic'' is an odd example. He doesn't mind going into battle and fighting dastardly foes in a HumongousMecha, really. After all, it's [[HiredGuns his job]], and 'bout the only thing he's good at, having grown up a ChildSoldier. However, he DOES mind being assigned to the ONLY robot in the unit which is powered by [[HotBlooded Hot Bloodedness]]. He frequently declares that a system so uncertain that you can only use it when your 'emotions peak' is way too unreliable to be a decent weapon, but is rather more like magic - and he's a SOLDIER, not a WIZARD! And yet, he's the only one who can use the system at ALL, so even though he'd much rather just use a bog-standard RealRobot, every time a Lambda Drive-equipped enemy shows up, he's got no choice but to climb into his SuperRobot and take them on, grumbling all the way.

* By ''[[{{Discworld}} The Last Hero]]'', Rincewind has become GenreSavvy enough to know when he's likely to be drafted for the Disc's first space flight, and grudgingly volunteers in order to save himself time trying to hide from The Call.

* ''TheWizardOfOz'' gives us Dorothy and Toto. They did want to see if there was a more interesting life than their mundane home in Kansas, but they never really wanted to end up in Oz. [[{{BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor}} See if The Call cared]]. And other than the whole being trapped indoors during a tornado thing, they sure didn't seem to have much in the way of a warning. Still, once in Oz, what were they to do?

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* Most of the original characters in [[http://community.livejournal.com/jla_watchtower/ JLA Watchtower]]/{{DC Nation}} fit this trope quite well.

* ''FinalFantasyVIII'' gives us Squall, who initially doesn't do the right thing out of sense of duty, but just because it's literally his job.

Sometimes, this is the only appropriate response -- to [[JumpedAtTheCall jump at the call]] would indicate that he wasn't really fit to be TheChosenOne in the first place. In other cases, it's a fault. It all depends on where on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism the work is. It's also the most common response to a RefusedTheCall / YouCantFightFate combination or to TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive.

* On average this seems to be the attitude of the returning Oceanic Six on ''{{Lost}}'', especially Hurley. The clearest exception is Sayid, who had to be dragged in handcuffs.

* ''StationeryVoyagers'', as shown above, has Arnold "Pextel" Rubblindo. In his particular predicament, he is now a [[{{VirtualGhost}} ghost]] [[{{SoulJar}} trapped inside a cartridge]] [[{{BrainUploading}} that is inserted into]] a six-foot-tall robot that is shaped like a mechanical pencil. While this does make him a slave of his new "creators," the [[{{AncientConspiracy}} Xyliens]], at least they're a ([[{{BlackAndGrayMorality}} mostly]]) benign group of {{MIB}} types. He doesn't particularly like being owned by them, but he [[{{BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor}} at least gets his wish]] to be an astronaut, even if he is [[{{FateWorseThanDeath}} trapped in a faux-immortal state]] [[{{CursedWithAwesome}} without the benefit of a true nervous system]]. On the same token, his "life" would be rather useless if he continued to defy the call - the [[{{BladeRunner}} Xylien Edge Skidder Division]] would simply come after him and [[{{SealedEvilInACan}} put his S-chip in a freezer]].

* Aislinn in the [[''WickedLovely'']] series. She realizes that she has no choice about being a faery, but she makes clear that she will only do it on her own terms.

* Aislinn in the ''[[WickedLovely]]'' series. She realizes that she has no choice about being a faery, but she makes clear that she will only do it on her own terms.