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Anti-Nepotism

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Anti-Nepotism	comment	Nepotism is a longstanding practice whereby people with personal connections to authority figures are elevated in position regardless of, and often despite, their actual level of competence. The practice is so well-known, and so commonly hated as a form of corruption, that some honest authority figures have been known to swing too far the other direction to avoid any possible appearance that they might be unduly favoring their own kin and friends. While on the one level Anti-Nepotism generally shows the practicer's bonafides as a Reasonable Authority Figure and/or Honest Corporate Executive, it's hard on the people on the receiving end. They may feel their own ambitions are being stifled by their powerful relative, breeding resentment. Or they may become increasingly desperate to please the relative and take greater and more dangerous risks. Or it might just be fodder for grumbling to their friends but not significantly affect their personal relationship to their powerful relative. A Defied Trope form of Nepotism. See also "Well Done, Son" Guy. Compare Limited Advancement Opportunities, where out-of-universe concerns prevent a character from getting deserved promotions. Overlaps with Belated Child Discipline if someone who once benefitted from nepotism can't rely on it anymore.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_11844515	comment	Station 19: Andy is more than qualified to be a fire lieutenant and has had exactly the same training and background as Jack, who was promoted to the role months prior. In the first episode, she is pushed to question why she hasn't got the promotion herself and the Chief, who is her father, explains that he was deliberately holding her back for several reasons, one being that he doesn't know if he has a bias with her or which way it would sway.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_1b79f72e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses: In the setting of FÃ³dlan, the noble classes are born with "crests", which the Church of Seiros teaches are blessings from the goddess Sothis that grant powerful magical abilities. Those born without crests are considered beneath those who are born with them. Edelgard, the heir to the Adrestian Empire, was captured as a child and underwent torturous experiments to give her two crests, at the cost of a drastically-reduced lifespan. Her traumatic experience thus motivates her to start a war against the Church of Seiros, which is revealed to be a false religion and the crests were in fact not "blessings" but power stolen from an ancient race called the Children of the Goddess by the ancestors of Fodlan's ruling class. Edelgard's ultimate goal is to destroy the Crest system and abolish a system where birth determines one's class, instead creating a nation of "pure merit".
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Anti-Nepotism / int_1c5ffd84	comment	McLintock!: George Washington McLintock at one point tells his daughter Becky that he intends to will most of his estate to be made into a park, leaving a small spread for her. Not much, but it's more than her parents started out with.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach, the aristocratic Captain Byakuya forbade anyone from promoting his sister, Rukia, to the position her strength would normally merit. The reason is that (in Soul Society) Captains and Lieutenants are expected to fight on the front lines, against any enemies too tough or unfamiliar for the rank-and-file to handle, and he didn't want her to get hurt. Rukia's Captain begrudgingly acceded, but it all came to nothing when plot events got her involved in dangerous stuff anyway. Byakuya seems to have eventually changed his mind, as Rukia becomes a Lieutenant after the Time Skip, and is a Captain in the Distant Finale.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: An actual, noted-in-universe character flaw for Michelle 'Mike' Henke, who stands very close to the royal successionnote she's the Queen of Manticore's first cousin. She is noted in her personnel jacket as psychologically unable to accept accelerated promotion for her actions because she'll perceive it as nepotism. After the title character — who also happens to be her best friend — more or less reads her the riot act about this, she pretty much gets over it and subsequently shoots from Captain to Rear Admiral in less than two years.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_3942bcd6	comment	Chloe's Lament: After Chloe wishes to swap lives with Marinette, she struggles to grasp the fact that Marinette doesn't exploit her connections the same way Chloe did when she was the Mayor's daughter. When Gabriel holds his hat-making contest, Marinette decides not to enter due to her friendship with his son Adrien. Chloe has a complete Villainous Breakdown when she finds out, unable to comprehend the notion of anyone going so far to avoid even the appearance of exploiting their powerful connections, believing that to be the whole point of making them in the first place.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_4b201941	comment	Nobody Saves the World: The Thieves' Guild leader only promotes the guild members who prove themselves worthy. However, this rule, among other things, causes his niece (also a member) to become more distant, eventually undertaking a dangerous heist of her own in the Guild's final quest.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_564871a	comment	In later seasons of Blue Bloods, Jamie Reagan starts to feel increasingly that his father, Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, is making life difficult for him in an attempt to avoid the appearance of nepotism, noting that most of his academy classmates have already made detective while he's still a (increasingly decorated) beat cop. He eventually decides to embrace that role and become a squad sergeant rather than go detective.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_60156176	comment	In the Vorkosigan Saga, Miles Vorkosigan is an agent of Imperial Security with a public persona as a low-ranking military officer assigned to courier duties. When people ask why he has such a low rank when his father is the Emperor's most trusted advisor, he tells them that it's because his father is the Emperor's most trusted advisor and also a rigidly honorable man who bends over backwards to avoid the appearance of favoritism. Though at the same time, Miles frequently claims to be the beneficiary of nepotism to explain how he got his cover-position in Imperial Security. Miles also has to deal with this problem from the other end in 'Diplomatic Immunity', as the merchant fleet he needs to get out of impound is mostly owned by the empress' family. He can't be seen to be showing special favoritism to them, lest it reflect badly on the emperor, but the Emperor also wants to keep his in-laws happy.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_75149ccd	comment	In the X-Wing Series, Jesmin Ackbar has been the victim of this trope for most of her career. Most of her commanding officers have given her boring, out of the way desk positions instead of letting her actually fight like she wants to, because no one wants to be the one who got Admiral Ackbar's niece killed. She ends up signing on with the ragtag bunch of washouts and last-chances that is Wraith Squadron because she sees it as her last opportunity to actually fly in combat. She ends up being the squadron's first combat casualty.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_7db5e90f	comment	Lucky Luke: The 20th Cavalry Regiment is headed by a colonel whose son is also in the regiment, and is punished for just about every single thing he says by the colonel to avoid any accusations of nepotism (funnily, the other soldiers still call the son "daddy's boy"). The son finally snaps back at the colonel, who is stunned that his son is finally a man. Of course, old habits are hard to break, and at the end of the story, the son is punished for speaking out of turn (that is, saying "Goodbye, Luke" without asking Permission to Speak Freely).
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Anti-Nepotism / int_7e4805b6	comment	In Knives Out, Harlan Thrombey (a Self-Made Man and best-seller author) decides to leave absolutely nothing of his massive inheritance to his family and instead leaves it all to his nurse. While he believed, very deep in his heart, that it was him giving them one final bit of Tough Love and telling them to make their own fortunes, the truth of the matter is that calling them "layabouts" is being kind and an understatement, considering that one of said crappy children was the orchestrator of Harlan's murder and kills the maid later on in the film when she figures out who did it and tries to profit from it.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_805d2638	comment	Every Breath You Take: Virginia Wakeling shut down her nephew Tom's attempts to get a position at Wakeling Development simply because they were family, feeling he wasn't capable or responsible enough to work there. She had also planned to change her will to leave the majority of her money to charity rather than her children and nephew, to prevent them from becoming lazy and entitled; Virginia was especially concerned about her son, who only put in the bare minimum of effort at Wakeling Development and was clearly content to coast by on his inheritance for the rest of his life.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_8c7237b3	comment	In Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion, the narration mentions that Admiral Motti, commander in chief of the Imperial Navy and an in-law to Grand Moff Tarkin, got his post for valor in battle, and the only help he ever had by Tarkin, command of a gunship during the Clone Wars, was because they were short on officers for a battle and a trusted captain had vouched for him.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_8e09ebf	comment	Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Sensei Watanabe intially forbids his son, Cameron, from being a Power Ranger despite Camâ€™s clear desire to be more than just tech support for the team. This is because Camâ€™s late mother didnâ€™t want her son getting involved in activities that would put his life at risk. Halfway through the series however, the Godzilla Threshold is breached and Sensei Watanbe is forced to make Cameron the Sixth Ranger.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Ensign Beckett Mariner in Star Trek: Lower Decks is the daughter of the captain, something both she and the captain keep secret in the first season, and is given no special treatment and is sent to the brig regularly. In "Moist Vessel", Captain Freeman does give Mariner an undeserved promotion, but only in the hope that she'll find being a lieutenant so boring she'll transfer off the ship (after giving her Punishment Detail didn't work). After the truth is exposed, they briefly experiment with Freeman cutting Mariner some slack, but decide this simply isn't their relationship.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics: In one story, Coach Clayton is running his gym class and while he encourages the boys to take it easy with the exercises, he pushes his own son Chuck to work much harder, making him perform a higher high jump or catch a faster ball than the others. Archie finally calls him out on this, telling him it isn't fair to treat his son differently for better or worse. Coach Clayton sighs, agrees with Archie, apologizes to Chuck for treating him differently... and then says that from now on, ALL the boys will be pushed just as hard as him!
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Anti-Nepotism / int_b295cab3	comment	Aeon 14: After their daughters Cary and Saanvi steal a ship to "get in on the fun" of the Battle of New Canaan in Orion Rising and are both nearly killed ramming an enemy carrier, Tanis and Joe Richards (respectively the then-governor and main protagonist, and the Commandant of the Intrepid Space Force Academy) promise to put the two of them through the wringer as cadets. In The Scipio Alliance Cary spends a couple pages complaining to their friend Jill and Artificial Intelligence half-sister Faleena about the treatment.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_bdcd318c	comment	Subverted for laughs in Son of the Sannin when Jiraya tells Naruto that, while he may be qualified to become a Chunin, he can't actually promote him due to the fact that it may be taken as nepotism (since he's the Fifth Hokage and Naruto is his adopted son) and Naruto will just have to wait until he retires. After ANBU gets a chance to take a picture of Naruto's shocked expression, he admits that it was a joke and gives him his promotion.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_cc510e3f	comment	Bar Rescue: Rita Cappovici, owner of Club Platinum, swore to make this an Enforced Trope toward her hospitality-trained daughter. In the end, when it went from being marked a "gentleman's club" to a "gentlemen's club," she agreed to having her on board.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_d2e2ca76	comment	The George Lopez Show: In one episode, Ernie complains to George about not naming him "Employee of the Week", and George reminds him that he can't because it will make everyone think it's because he's his best friend.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_e144ba19	comment	In Act 3 of Dragon Age II, Aveline, who is the Captain of the Kirkwall Guard by then, is accused of "coddling" her husband Donnic, also a guard, by allegedly assigning his unit to the safest patrol routes. To disprove these allegations, she asks Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall by that point, to accompany her on a nighttime patrol inspection, so they can interview the guards personally and later vouch for her fairness and strict adherence to the law.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_ed480be	comment	The Hands of the Emperor: Cliopher Mdang, head of the imperial bureaucracy is absolutely incorruptible and would never favor his family or home province. He sometimes over-does it: he is especially stern when dealing with his nephew Gaudy who is also in the civil service and initially ignores a problem that his family tells him about in his home-province until it nearly boils over â€“ after all, if he learnt it through his family and not through any official channels and other provinces donâ€™t have that possibility.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_f1591db	comment	Accidental Successor: Since Eraserhead mentored Izuku, Katsuki, Mina and Eijiro, the four of them are banned from entering U.A.'s Recommendation Exams; they have to apply to the Entrance Exams instead. All of the staff that are involved in organizing the Entrance Exams are forbidden from contacting any of the applicants in the period between the exam and the release of their result. Nedzu has to stress this to Toshinori in order to ensure he doesn't contact Izuku too early.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_f5d65e29	comment	In the Beauty and the Beast (1987) episode "Promises of Someday", Devin Wells, who grew up in the tunnels with Vincent, was the Un Favorite of Father, who filled the paternal role for almost all the tunnel children. It turns out Devin was his biological son, and he'd been trying to avoid showing favoritism towards him but overshot the mark considerably.
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Anti-Nepotism / int_fc09e683	comment	Mahabharata: In BR Chopraâ€™s television adaptation of the original epic, Ashwathama is upset that his father Dronacharya, the royal combat instructor, is devoting a lot of attention to the prince Arjun instead of his own son. Dronacharya tells him that in their house, as his son, Ashwathama has Dronacharyaâ€™s undivided attention, but at the school, the best pupil must receive all the special attention. Ashwathama demands a chance to prove his skill at archery, which leads to Dronacharya setting up the famous â€œspot the toy bird in the treeâ€� test. Which everyone except Arjun fails.
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