Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, not all heroes have cleft chins, granite jawlines, rippling pectorals or any of the other standard hero signifiers. Sometimes you wouldn’t be able to tell a hero if they stood up and slapped you in the face – a pretty unheroic thing to do. But when it comes to being generally unheroic, unassuming, and unqualified, these fantasy protagonists fit the description. Here are the 10 most unlikely fantasy book heroes, the least heroic of them all.
