@lioness we've seen it done well, *occasionally*
one that comes to mind is a book series where it turns out that the overpowered wizard is overpowered specifically because he's unknowingly the chosen of a god in the process of having a stress-induced mental breakdown, who gets increasingly possessive and protective of him in unhealthy ways as the series goes on
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@lioness (the main conflict here being between the god and the wizard, who doesn't want to be stuck in an abusive relationship with a god)
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