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Farmelle
Since: Dec, 2009

There's two types of people. They may be different species, or subspecies, or whatever, but the point is they have different physical capabilities. A member of one of them does something that the other can't do, and the second race commends that person for their skill and bravery, etc... only what the first person did has nothing to do with them personally, it's a side-effect of their race.
Maybe an example would help: In World of Warcraft, you, a tiny fleshy being, are working with giant rock people. One of them sends you to these caves where you fight one of their most dangerous enemies: rock-eating worms. The guy is amazed by your ability to kill the worms, as they would eat through him in a few seconds. He tells you how brave you are, how skilled of a fighter, but your victory over the worms had more to do with the fact that they couldn't hurt you nearly as much as they could someone made of stone, not from any personal skill (although it played a part).
There was another thing like this in the Fairly Odd Parents, where the Yugopotamians revered Timmy for his ability to not be burned by flowers, chocolate, hugs, and niceness in general, but that was more Rule of Funny.
So is this a trope? Could it be?