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Maybe I can still do super-deeds for worthy people without being seen, like a sort of guardian angel!
"We don't do it for the glory. We don't do it for the recognition... We do it because it needs to be done. Because if we don't, no one else will. And we do it even if no one knows what we've done. Even if no one knows we exist. Even if no one remembers we ever existed."
— Supergirl, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot
Fan Works
"For the last year or so there had been a veritable deluge of stories about averted disasters, mysterious last-minute saves, and people miraculously surviving accidents that should have killed them. There had always been stories like that, true, but not in those numbers. It was almost like there was some kind of guardian angel out there, doing its best to keep people safe. A guardian angel that preferred to remain invisible."
Literature
Marina: I thought you were a Mogadorian.
Crayton: I know, but only because you misinterpreted the clues. This morning when I was talking to Hector, I was trying to show you I was a friend.
Marina: But why didn't you just come and get me when you arrived? Why send Ella in?
Crayton: I tried approaching Adelina first, but she cast me out the second she knew who I was, and we needed to have your chest. I couldn't pull you away without it, so I sent Ella in, and she started looking for it even before you asked her to. The Mogadorians have known your general location for a good while now, and I've done my best to keep them off your trial. Killing some, well, killing most, but also planting stories in villages hundreds of miles away, about kids like a boy who lifted a car above his head and a girl who could walk across a lake. It was working until they discovered you were in Santa Teresa; but even then, they still didn't know which one you were. Then Ella found the Chest and you opened it, and that's when I came here, to talk to you in private. When you opened the Chest, it led the Mogadorians right here.
Crayton: I know, but only because you misinterpreted the clues. This morning when I was talking to Hector, I was trying to show you I was a friend.
Marina: But why didn't you just come and get me when you arrived? Why send Ella in?
Crayton: I tried approaching Adelina first, but she cast me out the second she knew who I was, and we needed to have your chest. I couldn't pull you away without it, so I sent Ella in, and she started looking for it even before you asked her to. The Mogadorians have known your general location for a good while now, and I've done my best to keep them off your trial. Killing some, well, killing most, but also planting stories in villages hundreds of miles away, about kids like a boy who lifted a car above his head and a girl who could walk across a lake. It was working until they discovered you were in Santa Teresa; but even then, they still didn't know which one you were. Then Ella found the Chest and you opened it, and that's when I came here, to talk to you in private. When you opened the Chest, it led the Mogadorians right here.
— Lorien Legacies: The Power of Six
Live-Action TV
Angel: I won't be long.
Buffy: No, you'll just give me a cryptic warning about some exciting new catastrophe, and then disappear into the night. Right?
Buffy: No, you'll just give me a cryptic warning about some exciting new catastrophe, and then disappear into the night. Right?
— Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Teacher's Pet"
Video Games
"You don't call for Roddy. He comes when he is needed."
Webcomics
"So... all those times I found a whole sandwich in the trash, woke up somewhere safe after getting blackout drunk... that was you, huh? [Beat] I'm sorry for what I said earlier. You did fulfill your promise — and then some. Thank you for being there when my mom wasn't."
