A little nobody from the middle of nowhere somehow manages to gather the resources to defeat the dark lord with little more than a rag-tag gang of friends and a can-do attitude.
This ometimes coincides with [[Prodigal heir living as a commoner]]
## Examples
- Frodo in [[Book/Fellowship of the Ring (series)]]
- Harry in [[Book/Harry Potter (series)]]
- [[Katsa]] in [[Book/Graceling (series)]]
- [[Katniss]] in [[Book/The Hunger Games (series)]]
- [[Darrow]] in [[Book/Red Rising (series)]]
- [[Alanna]] in [[Book/The Lioness Quartet (series)]]
- Alina Starkov in [[The Shadow and Bone Trilogy (series)]] believed she did not have powers until it was revealed that she actually had the rarest power of all.
## Variations
- [[Kelsier]] and gang in [[Book/Mistborn (series)]]: story starts with the dark lord having won a long time ago