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* ''Literature/ImpossibleCreatures2023'': [[spoiler:While the heroes are sailing past the Island of Manticores, Christopher is threatened by a manticore who gives him a speech about how humans are driven by fear. Before it can eat him, Jaques the jaculus shows up to burn it; turns out he'd been following Christopher because the latter promised to be his biographer.]]
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* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': In book 3, Joe has been attacked by the Creature (which intends to kill him), only for Francisco "Trey" Trejo to show up at the last minute and attack it from behind, saving Joe's life. Unfortunately, the Creature is able to capture Trey and run off with him.
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* ''Literature/TheCalfOfTheNovemberCloud'': A pack of hyenas are about to kill Konyek's beloved calf when two elephants whom Konyek had befriended charge out of the trees and towards the hyenas, who understandably instantly scatter.
-->''Konyek saw her standing there, too dazed with terror to move. Faster he ran, and yet faster, but it seemed to him that he was no closer to her, as in a nightmare. Then he heard a great trumpeting, and from round a curve in the hill-slope there appeared the two elephants. They tossed their heads and flapped their great ears in anger and charged straight at the hyena; and now the hyena were as full of fear as the calf, and ran away until they had disappeared from sight.''
-->''Konyek saw her standing there, too dazed with terror to move. Faster he ran, and yet faster, but it seemed to him that he was no closer to her, as in a nightmare. Then he heard a great trumpeting, and from round a curve in the hill-slope there appeared the two elephants. They tossed their heads and flapped their great ears in anger and charged straight at the hyena; and now the hyena were as full of fear as the calf, and ran away until they had disappeared from sight.''
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* The ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' spin-off novel "The Tangled Skein" features Holmes and Watson being attacked by a vampire while searching Hampstead Heath for the individual who murdered a recent client, only to be saved by Professor Abraham van Helsing (''Literature/{{Dracula}}''), who had already determined that a vampire was responsible for the murders and tracked the killer to that area.
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Examples of BigDamnHeroes in {{Literature}}.
* This occurs in the climax of ''Literature/TheHowling1977''. [[spoiler:Karyn is alone and besieged by werewolves with only a shotgun for protection (which isn't all that effective against her attackers) when Chris comes hurtling up the driveway, running over a few of the wolves and shooting others with a handgun loaded with silver bullets]].
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** Also in ''A Storm of Swords'', Jaime Lannister, completely [[JustForPun unarmed]], leaping into a bear pit to distract said bear from Brienne. Jaime doesn't do much about the bear on his own, but the archers he brought back with him do. Made even better by Jaime's quip, after he asks if Brienne [[AttemptedRape is still a maiden]]: "Oh, good. I only rescue maidens."
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** Also in ''A Storm of Swords'', Jaime Lannister, completely [[JustForPun unarmed]], unarmed, leaping into a bear pit to distract said bear from Brienne. Jaime doesn't do much about the bear on his own, but the archers he brought back with him do. Made even better by Jaime's quip, after he asks if Brienne [[AttemptedRape is still a maiden]]: "Oh, good. I only rescue maidens."
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* Young wizard Monmouth rescues the rest of the protagonist B-team and a crew of galley slaves in ''[[Literature/OneHundredCupboards The Chestnut King]]'' by transforming the ''entire ship'' into a floating aspen grove and having the living wood spit out the chains, sparking a slave rebellion. Even more impressive as he had only just been freed himself and was exhausted, dehydrated, [[TapOnTheHead concussed]] and suffering from heat exhaustion, as well as working with oak, a wood he wasn't bonded to.
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* Young In ''[[Literature/OneHundredCupboards The Chestnut King]]'', young wizard Monmouth rescues the rest of the protagonist B-team and a crew of galley slaves in ''[[Literature/OneHundredCupboards The Chestnut King]]'' by transforming the ''entire ship'' into a floating aspen grove and having the living wood spit out the chains, sparking a slave rebellion. Even more impressive as he had only just been freed himself and was exhausted, dehydrated, [[TapOnTheHead concussed]] and suffering from heat exhaustion, as well as working with oak, a wood he wasn't bonded to.
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* Near the end of Creator/TerryPratchett's Discword novel ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' when the Ins and Outs are about to be packed off and safely out of the officers' hair. Sgt Jackram bursts through the door to defend his [[spoiler:"little lads"]]. What with him being larger than life and having about 40 years of blackmail material in his head, he begins an epic verbal beatdown of the general staff to free his troops.
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* Near the end of Creator/TerryPratchett's Discword novel ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' when the Ins and Outs are about to be packed off and safely out of the officers' hair. Sgt Jackram Jackrum bursts through the door to defend his [[spoiler:"little lads"]]. What with him being larger than life and having about 40 years of blackmail material in his head, he begins an epic verbal beatdown of the general staff to free his troops.troops.
* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', Richard is in the process of having his life stolen by Lamia when the Marquis de Carabas arrives, furious, [[spoiler:back from the dead]] and wielding a crossbow.
* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', Richard is in the process of having his life stolen by Lamia when the Marquis de Carabas arrives, furious, [[spoiler:back from the dead]] and wielding a crossbow.
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* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': In the climax, Dalinar Kholin, his son, and most of his army have been trapped on a plateau, pinned between two massive enemy armies, after his ally betrays him and pulls out with all of the portable bridges that allowed access to the plateau in the first place. One of the slave crews that runs such bridges has managed to get themselves "lost" and have a perfect opportunity to escape, but they sacrifice that chance by using their bridge to give Dalinar a way out.
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* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'': ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'': In the climax, Dalinar Kholin, his son, and most of his army have been trapped on a plateau, pinned between two massive enemy armies, after his ally betrays him and pulls out with all of the portable bridges that allowed access to the plateau in the first place. One of the slave crews that runs such bridges has managed to get themselves "lost" and have a perfect opportunity to escape, but they sacrifice that chance by using their bridge to give Dalinar a way out.
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* Young wizard Monmouth rescues the rest of the protagonist B-team and a crew of galley slaves in ''[[Literature/OneHundredCupboards The Chestnut King]]'' by transforming the ''entire ship'' into a floating aspen grove and having the living wood spit out the chains, sparking a slave rebellion. Even more impressive as he had only just been freed himself and was exhausted, dehydrated, [[TapOnTheHead concussed]] and probably suffering from heatstroke, as well as working with oak, a wood he wasn't bonded to.
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* Young wizard Monmouth rescues the rest of the protagonist B-team and a crew of galley slaves in ''[[Literature/OneHundredCupboards The Chestnut King]]'' by transforming the ''entire ship'' into a floating aspen grove and having the living wood spit out the chains, sparking a slave rebellion. Even more impressive as he had only just been freed himself and was exhausted, dehydrated, [[TapOnTheHead concussed]] and probably suffering from heatstroke, heat exhaustion, as well as working with oak, a wood he wasn't bonded to.
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* Young wizard Monmouth rescues the rest of the protagonist B-team and a crew of galley slaves in ''[[Literature/OneHundredCupboards The Chestnut King]]'' by transforming the ''entire ship'' into a floating aspen grove and having the living wood spit out the chains, sparking a slave rebellion. Even more impressive as he had only just been freed himself and was exhausted, dehydrated, [[TapOnTheHead concussed]] and probably suffering from heatstroke, as well as working with oak, a wood he wasn't bonded to.
