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* Starting with Book Two, Navaeli from ''Literature/HeraldsOfRhimn'' gains a newfound determination to stop capitulating to Silamir... but that requires her to remove her Heraldry. The idea of no longer being a Herald brings her a lot of relief and a little guilt, since people look to her as a potential savior from Gardhe's reign.
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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' has examples of both "I just want to be normal" AND "I just want to be special". Specifically, Sam Witwicky uses the exact phrase "I just want to be normal" 16 or 17 minutes into ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', and spends the first half-hour of ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' looking for work but declining menial jobs because he just wants to be special.

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* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' ''Film/Transformers2007'' has examples of both "I just want to be normal" AND "I just want to be special". Specifically, Sam Witwicky uses the exact phrase "I just want to be normal" 16 or 17 minutes into ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', and spends the first half-hour of ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' looking for work but declining menial jobs because he just wants to be special.
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** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerIncontinence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance since ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal, even fantasizing that she and the Joker are HappilyMarried with kids and without their EvilMakeup.

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** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerIncontinence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance since ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal, even fantasizing that she and the Joker are HappilyMarried with kids and without their EvilMakeup.clown makeup.
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** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerIncontinence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when [[BigBad The Enchantress]] gives the squad [[LotusEaterMachine illusions of their greatest desires]] and Harley sees herself [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes married to the Joker with kids]] and no clown makeup, meaning ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal.
--->'''Harley:''' What did you think was gonna happen? That you can coach little leagues and make car payments? "Normal" is setting on the dryer. Please like us, ''we don't get "normal"''!

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** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerIncontinence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when [[BigBad The Enchantress]] gives the squad [[LotusEaterMachine illusions of their greatest desires]] and Harley sees herself [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes married to the Joker with kids]] and no clown makeup, meaning since ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal.
criminal, even fantasizing that she and the Joker are HappilyMarried with kids and without their EvilMakeup.
--->'''Harley:''' What did you think was gonna happen? happen, huh? That you can have a happy family, coach little leagues and make car payments? "Normal" is setting on the dryer. Please like us, ''we don't get "normal"''!
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*** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerIncontinence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when [[BigBad The Enchantress]] gives the squad [[LotusEaterMachine illusions of their greatest desires]] and Harley sees herself [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes married to the Joker with kids]] and no clown makeup, meaning ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal.

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*** ** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerIncontinence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when [[BigBad The Enchantress]] gives the squad [[LotusEaterMachine illusions of their greatest desires]] and Harley sees herself [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes married to the Joker with kids]] and no clown makeup, meaning ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal.
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*** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerInconsistence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when [[BigBad The Enchantress]] gives the squad [[LotusEaterMachine illusions of their greatest desires]] and Harley sees herself [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes married to the Joker with kids]] and no clown makeup, meaning ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal.

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*** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerInconsistence.PowerIncontinence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when [[BigBad The Enchantress]] gives the squad [[LotusEaterMachine illusions of their greatest desires]] and Harley sees herself [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes married to the Joker with kids]] and no clown makeup, meaning ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal.

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** The young Clark's reaction after finding out he's a super-powered alien in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
--->'''Clark:''' Can't I just keep pretending I'm your son?
*** Harley Quinn calls [[PlayingWithFire El Diablo ]] out on this in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', due to his haunting guilt of having accidentally killed his family due to PowerInconsistence. Doubles as FridgeBrilliance when [[BigBad The Enchantress]] gives the squad [[LotusEaterMachine illusions of their greatest desires]] and Harley sees herself [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes married to the Joker with kids]] and no clown makeup, meaning ''she too'' wishes she could have a normal life than be a psychotic criminal.
--->'''Harley:''' What did you think was gonna happen? That you can coach little leagues and make car payments? "Normal" is setting on the dryer. Please like us, ''we don't get "normal"''!



* The young Clark's reaction after finding out he's a super-powered alien in ''Film/ManOfSteel''.
-->'''Clark:''' Can't I just keep pretending I'm your son?


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*In ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', Peter ''really'' wants to just enjoy his vacation and not do superheroics for a while, leading to him snubbing Nick Fury. Unfortunately for him, Fury has other plans.
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* Inverted with Tails in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series. Tails is a young fox with two tails instead of one, which got him bullied by other people for it. Rather than wishing he was a normal fox, Tails shrugs it off and accepts who he is and he actually uses his tails to fly and to propel him really fast when he runs.

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* Inverted with Tails in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series. Tails is a young fox with two tails instead of one, which got him bullied by other people for it. Rather than wishing he was a normal fox, Tails shrugs it off and accepts who he is and he actually uses his tails to fly and to propel him really fast when he runs.
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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': ** Keqing has tried and failed on occasions to discard or destroy her Vision, which she believes is the gods' way of cursing her for her wish of human independence. She fears that people will attribute her accomplishments to her Vision rather than her own work. As she does not want the Vision to fall to the wrong hands, she had no choice left but to accept it as part of her life; still, she only sees it as just another tool without any divine will attached.

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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': ** Keqing has tried and failed on occasions to discard or destroy her Vision, which she believes is the gods' way of cursing her for her wish of human independence. She fears that people will attribute her accomplishments to her Vision rather than her own work. As she does not want the Vision to fall to the wrong hands, she had no choice left but to accept it as part of her life; still, she only sees it as just another tool without any divine will attached.
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While this is all well and good, most writers conveniently forget that after such an exciting and exceptional existence, everything else will seem dull and meaningless to most people. Not only are [[DePower special abilities usually given up]], but sometimes also cherished friends. Some people psychologically will be unable to adjust, and most will acquire deep-seated mental issues about the whole process. That said, for most, those things might be preferable to the things that come with living "exciting" and "exceptional" lives, such as regularly being put in life-threatening and traumatizing situations, going through near and more often than not actual death experiences, NoHoldsBarredBeatDown, and having your [[KeepingSecretsSucks social]] and [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife romantic]] life impacted.

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While this is all well and good, most writers conveniently forget that after such an exciting and exceptional existence, everything else will seem dull and meaningless to most people. Not only are [[DePower special abilities usually given up]], but sometimes also cherished friends. Some people psychologically will be unable to adjust, and most will acquire deep-seated mental issues about the whole process. That said, for most, those things might be preferable to the things that come with living "exciting" and "exceptional" lives, such as regularly being put in life-threatening and traumatizing situations, going through near and more often than not actual death experiences, NoHoldsBarredBeatDown, participating in [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown brutal]] fights, and having your [[KeepingSecretsSucks social]] and [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife romantic]] life impacted.
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While this is all well and good, most writers conveniently forget that after such an exciting and exceptional existence, everything else will seem dull and meaningless to most people. Not only are [[DePower special abilities usually given up]], but sometimes also cherished friends. Some people psychologically will be unable to adjust, and most will acquire deep-seated mental issues about the whole process.

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While this is all well and good, most writers conveniently forget that after such an exciting and exceptional existence, everything else will seem dull and meaningless to most people. Not only are [[DePower special abilities usually given up]], but sometimes also cherished friends. Some people psychologically will be unable to adjust, and most will acquire deep-seated mental issues about the whole process.
process. That said, for most, those things might be preferable to the things that come with living "exciting" and "exceptional" lives, such as regularly being put in life-threatening and traumatizing situations, going through near and more often than not actual death experiences, NoHoldsBarredBeatDown, and having your [[KeepingSecretsSucks social]] and [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife romantic]] life impacted.
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Related to IJustWantToHaveFriends when the character wishes to be normal to develop relationships. Also related to GiveHimANormalLife, when they leap at the chance to arrange this for their offspring.

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Related to IJustWantToHaveFriends when the character wishes to be normal to develop relationships. Also related to GiveHimANormalLife, when they leap at the chance to arrange this for their offspring.
offspring. If the character isn't human, they may want to BecomeARealBoy.
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* ''Podcast/BinaryBreak'': Penny's friend Billy desperately wants to be normal and not draw too much attention to himself, and he wishes Penny would do the same. Unfortunately, Penny loves telling everyone about his conspiracy theories and doesn't register when he's being made fun of.

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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Keqing has tried and failed on occasions to discard or destroy her Vision, which she believes is the gods' way of cursing her for her wish of human independence. She fears that people will attribute her accomplishments to her Vision rather than her own work. As she does not want the Vision to fall to the wrong hands, she had no choice left but to accept it as part of her life; still, she only sees it as just another tool without any divine will attached.

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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': ** Keqing has tried and failed on occasions to discard or destroy her Vision, which she believes is the gods' way of cursing her for her wish of human independence. She fears that people will attribute her accomplishments to her Vision rather than her own work. As she does not want the Vision to fall to the wrong hands, she had no choice left but to accept it as part of her life; still, she only sees it as just another tool without any divine will attached.attached.
** By his own admission, the only reason why Alhaitham helps the Traveler [[spoiler: to overthrow the corrupted system of the Sages, and free the current Dendro Archon]] is not out of selflessness nor thirst for power, but simply because he enjoys his job as a scribe, and he won’t settle for anything less nor more.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{HunterTheParenting}}'': Kevin and Shitbeard are shown to hate being vampires and wish they were human again. Of course, they were both Embraced against their will, shoved into the extremely abusive vampire society, and deprived of all the little joys of life, so it's understandable that they hate being vampires. Kevin even tries to maintain his ties by humanity by keeping his apartment and caring for his pet cat.
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* Kahlua from ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'', as a child, had tried to save a friend with her magic, but said friend was less than grateful, instead scared away by her strength. The result was a fear of not being normal, and she mentally [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] a large percentage of her own power by choice. This created her SuperpoweredEvilSide, Tequila.

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* Kahlua from ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'', as a child, had tried to save a friend with her magic, but said friend was less than grateful, instead scared away by her strength.powers. The result was a fear of not being normal, and she mentally [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away]] a large percentage of her own power by choice. This created her SuperpoweredEvilSide, SuperpoweredAlterEgo, Tequila.

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