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Since: Dec, 1969
Aug 14th 2010 at 5:00:39 PM
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- I'm almost certain that the trope name is from something specific, but I can't recall what and there does not appear to be an entry specifying the Trope Namer either...
I removed this example because it's disputed and infected with natter. Discussion about its validity should continue here.
- Hector in The Iliad. The champion of Troy delivers one lofty, noble, inspirational speech on top of another about perseverance, fearlessness, and destiny, only to turn and run like a coward from Achilles when their big battle finally comes.
- In his defense, we're talking about Achilles here...before any author had invented his one weakness. The man was literally impossible to defeat.
- Especially if you let anything bad happen to his other one weakness.
- And after that Hector voluntarily goes out to fight Achilles alone; well, he spends most of the fight running and defending, but it IS Achilles (a very pissed off Achilles), and he goes out knowing he can't win.
- Before that Hector had fought Ajax the Greater to a draw and almost singlehandedly run Troy's defense for nine years AND fought his way right up to the Greek ships. So it's not like he was a coward or a fake.
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