Summoned Hero Web Novels

Summoned-hero novels on Tellura begin with a ritual that pulls someone across worlds to serve as a champion. The lead may embrace the role, resent it, or discover the summoners had something else in mind. Pairs with isekai and alternate-world.

Distinct from a general isekai, the summoning is a contract with somebody's agenda, and that agenda is usually the plot. Refusal, rebellion, or a hero who is the wrong person entirely all give the trope fresh legs. Pair with political once the summoned hero asks who wrote the prophecy, and with demon-protagonist for the version where the ritual went very wrong.