Given to
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- Skyfall makes it very clear that M is the code name given to the head of Bond's department, no matter who they are, while at the same time seeming to imply the opposite of the name James Bond.
Source: Legacy Immortality -
However, even though he looks like this trope to everyone else, Michael is actually not ignorant at all, and he struggles with the seeming impossibility of the task thats been given to him (healing the Broken Bird with The Power of Love).
Source: Wide-Eyed Idealist - The offer to become a magic-user is given to our protagonist as well, and she accepts it - but after initially doing this favour for the benevolent-seeming Well-Intentioned Extremist villain, she goes on the run to use her magical powers to rebel against a world-spanning corrupt system.
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