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[[File:GreenLanterns.jpg|link=Green Lantern|frame| "[[Brightest Day|In brightest day]]/[[Blackest Night|in blackest night]]/[[Badass Creed|no evil shall escape my sight/Let those who worship evil's might/beware my power]]/[[Green Lantern|Green Lantern's light]]!"]]

 

''"...Yes."'' }}

 

 

Compare [[There Is Another]], [[Send in the Clones]], [[Legacy Character]], and [[Heroes Unlimited]]. Contrast [[Last of His Kind]].

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

* ''[[Yumeiro Patissiere]]'': Vanilla chooses Ichigo as her partner, then she meets the Sweets Prince's partners, Tennouji's partner Honey, and finally Maron partners with the Heiress. {{spoiler|Then all of them go to Paris and discover that every team member on the Cake Grand Prix has a spirit partner, even Henri-sensei.}}

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': It's eventually revealed in conversation that the school Shinji attends is a front organization for the powers that be, and that ''all of Shinji's classmates'' (if not the entire school) are potential Children candidates.

* The Dex Holders of ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. It's a common event for a [[Big Bad]] to think that there's only one... maybe two... possibly three... [[Oh Crap|wait why are there thirteen kids here]]?

 

 

* [[The DCU]]'s [[Green Lantern]] Corps, made up of [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|thousands of members from all over the universe]] and this trope's original [[Trope Namer]]. Being an Earth-based Green Lantern is doubly non-impressive, because there are ''five'' human GLs already, though they tend to be [[Humans Are Special|among the best]] in the Corps. However, this has varied over the years, as the Corps has wavered between a pure police/military outfit and a 3600-member super-hero team where everyone just happens to have the same power. Today, it's somewhere in between: All Green Lanterns have the same power and order is strictly enforced, but individual members can have highly distinctive costumes and styles of using said power. For instance, John Stewart has a fairly standard costume but his ring constructs are highly-detailed pieces of engineering, whereas Guy Gardner has a very unusual costume but just blasts things with his ring, and honorary member Alan Scott's costume is ''bright red and purple'' and his ring constructs appear covered in spectral flames (however, he's technically not a Green Lantern).

*** That depends on what percentage of each sector is actually inhabited. It's easy to keep the peace in a given region if no one's living there.

*** The current vision seems to be there are 7200 active corpsmen (two for each sector) but there are like 20 corpsmen acting as reserves.

* The Guardians of the Galaxy in the third ''[[Paperinik New Adventures]]'' series.

* Captain Britain is part of the Captain Britain Corps in the ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'' series, where each different Britain in the Marvel multiverse has one to defend the country. Most of them are different versions of Brian Braddock, but this isn't always the case. Since there's one for almost every reality, not every Captain Britain is Caucasian, male, or even good for that matter.

* [[Ghost Rider]] now fits this trope. Every nation and every religion has its own Spirit of Vengeance (it's pretty cool actually).

** {{spoiler|Subverted: They killed them all, except for Johnny and Dan.}}

*** {{spoiler|Well, sort of. A power such as Zadkiel's can't truly erase a Rider from existence, as was seen in the last issue of ''Heaven's on Fire'' when every Rider in history showed up to take him down.}}

* In ''[[All-Star Superman]]'', Superman is seen teaming up with Supermen from other times (essentially, his descendants) to fight threats against time. {{spoiler|The organization is led by Superman himself from a little over a million years in the future.}}

* In ''[[Immortal Iron Fist]]'', Danny Rand discovers not only is K'un Lun not the only capital city of heaven, but each city has its own Immortal Weapon, its own protector and representative like him. Also, he learned that there were lots of other Iron Fists throughout history, including the terminally awesome Wu Ao-Shi, the Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay.

** And also when he first met his archrival, the Steel Serpent, he learned that K'un Lun housed another sacred and ancient power that rivaled the Iron Fist: The Serpent Sting.

** There are seven main colored Lantern Corps in DC and seven Immortal Weapons, so there's that too.

 

== Film ==

* ''Woof!'' is a children's book (and TV series) about a boy who turns into a dog. At the end of the book, he meets several other people who are the same, and they suggest that there are others all over the world.

* Although if they are heroes is relative (and Harry has more then a few words to say on the subject) the White Council from ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' fits the trope ''very'' loosely. Many magic users who've just discovered their powers get a visit from a Warden telling them the Seven Laws of Magic. The Council itself defends wizards and muggles against the nastier supernatural threats via its wardens.

* In [[Young Wizards]], after Nita takes the Oath and gets her power, she gradually learns that there are wizards among every living species on Earth, and every alien race we know of.

* In ''Oh. My. Gods.'' by Tera Lynn Childs, the main character finds out she is a demigod and finds out that there is a whole school of them in Greece.

* In [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], Mara Jade had been the Emperor's Hand, a personal enforcer to the now-deceased Emperor Palpatine, and believed that she was the sole Emperor's Hand. At one point, [[Magnificent Bastard|Admiral Thrawn]] informed her that Palpatine had granted the title of "Emperor's Hand" to many people, who each believed they were the only one. This revelation that the Emperor lied to her and regarded her as a tool and not a person began her slow but sure [[Heel Face Turn]].

 

*** Linkara's theorize that the advance in technology was a side-effect of ''Turbo'' and ''In Space''.

* ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]''.When Ralph and Bill finally meet one of the aliens in the ship, he discovers the secret leaders behind his superpowers with the implication that there are more like him elsewhere in the galaxy. Another episode revealed a previous bearer of the suit. He used it to become rich and it was eventually taken away.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

 

 

== Toys ==

* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', the six Toa were first thought to be a unique group of heroes, until after three years of storyline Vakama spoke the words: "You are not the first Toa." From then on, more and more Toa were featured and there was even mention of a war in which several hundred Toa fought.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' it, at first, seems like Sora's Keyblade is the only one in existence, and he's the only chosen master (after a brief tug-of-war with [[Rival Turned Evil|Riku]]). Then, right at the very end, King Mickey shows up with another. The sequels add Roxas and Xion {{spoiler|both of whom are extensions of Sora}}, Riku (for real this time) and Kairi, while Xigbar claims to have met Keyblade wielders before Sora. The prequel shows he wasn't kidding: at some point there were thousands of them, who went to war with each other and left behind an enormous [[Field of Blades]]. This left 7 or possibly 8 (Terra, Aqua, Ven, Master Xehanort, Master Eraqus, and Mickey. Vanitas is the maybe) before the "new generation". Sora seems to be the "main" Chosen One, for reasons that seem to have more to do with his heart than his Keyblade, but the details are still a little vague.

* ''[[Baldur's Gate]]: Throne Of Bhaal'' does a version of this, except that the Bhaalspawn are almost all evil (possibly including you, if you built your character that way,) [[Dark Messiah|just like Daddy]].

** Moreover, your character isn't even the only Bhaalspawn in the party: {{spoiler|Imoen and Sarevok can both be recruited, which makes for quite the [[Badass Family]] - especially if you use the ''Turnabout'' mod to resurrect Gorion (your foster father) or Alianna (your birth mother) for the final battle.}}

* The Nexus Force from ''[[Lego Universe]]'', split into four factions:

** '''Assemblers''': The group who builds models out of LEGO bricks. Led by [[Gadgeteer Genius|Doc Overbuild]].

* Implicit in [[Planescape: Torment]]: the Nameless One had led at least one previous party into the Fortress of Regrets, consisting of {{spoiler|Morte, Dak'kon, Deionarra and Xachariah}}.

* ''[[Dragon Quest IV|Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosens]]''. Although [[The Hero|The Hero / The Heroine]] is the one who can use the Zenithian Equipments, The team are considered chosens as a whole.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' has the Galaxy Girl Scouts, which fluctuate somewhere in-between being a purely female version of The Chosen Many and a [[Sailor Moon]] homage. The few scouts we've seen in action seem to be much more in line with being celebrity soldiers more than [[Magical Girls]] or superheroes, though.

 

== Western Animation ==

* One episode of ''[[Time Squad]]'' reveals that there is more than one Time Squad, and Larry calls on one after Tuddrussel gets imprisoned by Kublai Khan ("Tuddrussel is not going to like this..."). Wouldn't you know it, the unit they call is led by Tuddrussel's ''ex-wife'' ("Oh, he's REALLY not going to like this!").

** Though to be fair each keytool is unique, and Turbo once said it was an honor to be chosen by Glitch. {{spoiler|And the keytools only left because the infected guardians would have used them to make portals for Daemon, and came back after Daemon was beaten.}}

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' starts out with a classic [[Five-Man Band]] who we are led to believe are acting on their own, especially as they have the first 5 numbers. Later, it's revealed that the numbers go much higher than that, and KND has establishments all over the world, and even on the moon.

** Confusingly, the numbers are chosen by the agents themselves, rather than assigned, and are no indication of rank or seniority. Meaning that the group we follow aren't considered special, they just happened to be the only ones to choose 1-5. And in an incredibly baffling coincidence, not one of thousands of arrogant brats wanted to be Number 1 before Nigel Uno came along. Maybe because kids would rather be a higher number (like [[Up to Eleven|infinity plus one]]) than just being a measly "one", or perhaps the old Number 1 was decommissioned before the start of the series.

* [[The Hero|Lok]] from [[Huntik Secrets and Seekers]] finds an [[Amulet of Concentrated Awesome]], only to discover that many people, called seekers, possess them, and have banded together to form the Foundation.

 

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