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