Apparently the computer was so powerful that it could extrapolate national trends from a single person, but it needed that one "everyman"'s opinions to base its calculations on. The Isaac Asimov short story, Franchise, where elections were done, not by asking everyone one question ("who are you voting for?"), but by asking one person a whole bunch of questions (mostly unrelated to the election itself) then inputting all the answers into a computer and calculating the election results from it.The Time Abyss sorcerer Belgarath speculates that the planet itself was created just to give the protagonists something to stand on while they fix things. In The Belgariad, an ancient cataclysm split the mind of the universe itself into two opposed Sentient Cosmic Forces of Prophecy that wage a proxy war of Chosen Ones across history, up until the penultimate Chosen Ones appoint their successors and a human mediator makes the final Choice of victor.presidential election that comes down to a lone man's vote, and the candidates' attempts to win his support. The 2008 film Swing Vote is about a U.S.Unfortunately, this is deconstructed in the sequels when it turns out that giving a kid infinite wishes and letting him write the destiny of an entire world will spoil him into screwing things up by making wasteful wishes until the whole world is a mess.Fortunately, since Bastion is still there, the Empress tells him that all he needs to do is start making wishes, and the more wishes he makes, the more beautiful Fantasia will be reborn. Unfortunately, Bastion is too late, until only one single grain of sand is all that's left of Fantasia. As Fantasia is consumed by the Nothing, the Childlike Empress pleads with him to give her a name as the only way to save her world. who is revealed to be Bastion, the boy reading the book. The only thing that can save Fantasia is an Earthling child. Unfortunately, in the "real" world, people have begun to lose hope and imagination has begun to run dry, and thus Fantasia is being destroyed by "The Nothing".
The Neverending Story: Fantasia is a world inside a book that is borne from the hopes and imaginations of human beings.Norman is understandably freaked out by having to make such a choice and in the end manages to Take a Third Option by talking down Superman from lashing out after the UN nukes the world's superhumans. Humanity and super-humanity are cascading towards an unavoidable clash which only one of them can walk away from, and even the Spectre doesn't feel like he can judge between the two- so he tells Norman that he will have to choose which will live and which will die. The events of the book are seen through the eyes of everyman pastor Norman McCay, who's shown them all by The Spectre. This is the premise of the framing narrative of Kingdom Come.President Bill is about a man named Bill who was picked at random to be the President of the United States.A few left as new heroic ages arose, but I wanted for the final age, when humans would hold onto their strange powers for all time. Spell Syrin: Some of us knew this age of magic would end, and we wanted to see what came next. "End of the World" Special entends this trope to the world's rebirth. This whole situation is closer to the idealistic side of the scale, so usually the protagonist's choice will also be the more daring, fantastic, and optimistic option.Ĭompare to Humanity on Trial, when the humans have to convince the Powers That Be to accept their will, instead of themselves getting trusted with making the right decision. So The Hero has to use his best intuition, and make a choice that will influence everything. Maybe he's The Chosen One who is predestined to have the correct choice, the Ridiculously Average Guy who somehow represents all of humanity's opinions, or maybe, a more personal Powers That Be simply finds him sympathetic. The Hero is obviously not qualified for choosing the fate of mankind, at least by traditional standards, but the Powers That Be have a good reason to trust him. The Powers That Be can't decide what to do with the future of the universe, so they ask the opinion of The Everyman protagonist.
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