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Dismotivation

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Dismotivation	label	Dismotivation
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Dismotivation	comment	Dismotivation is when a character actively avoids doing anything that might get them towards their Goal in Life. This could be getting ahead in a relationship, getting a promotion on the job, or succeeding in some lifelong endeavor. They feel that working at maintaining the personal status quo is much better than working at getting somewhere, whether because of risk-aversion, laziness, or anxiety. Of course, they just may be genuinely happy where they are and see no reason to change a life that they are satisfied with. In the most extreme cases, this could extend to a character putting more effort into staying right where they are than it would have taken to succeed at whatever they were hoping for. Maybe they think that there's nothing they can do to change it, so they make absolutely sure that no progress is made. For instance, maybe Alice is eyeing that promotion at work because the increase in pay would be nice. But Alice thinks there's no way she can get it, or that there's too much competition, or she frets over the extra responsibility. So Alice deliberately sabotages her work, makes more mistakes, shows up late, and acts like the office bugbear simply to avoid coming up in the conversation about promotion. Had Alice put in all that effort into working honestly, she might have gotten the promotion. Of course, this means that their Dismotivation is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy; they don't succeed because they think they can't, so they don't even try. The obvious subversion here is that it often takes more work and careful thought to maintain the status quo than it does to move on. The most common plot and Character Development these characters go through is the gradual awakening of their inspiration and motivation to improve their lot. May overlap with Brilliant, but Lazy and Deliberate Under-Performance. A trait of The Slacker. When their attempts at mediocrity become unwitting successes, they have had a Springtime for Hitler. See also Almighty Janitor. Compare Ambition Is Evil.
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Dismotivation / int_19d5167b	comment	Referenced in the Chappelle's Show skit "Knee-High Park" with Stinky (an Oscar the Grouch analogue) expounding on the evils of materialism and the pointlessness of working to improve your life.
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Dismotivation / int_1adee40d	comment	Kariya from The World Ends with You intentionally avoids getting a promotion, despite being one of the most competent Reapers around. He already has his ideal job, which lets him relax and hang out with Yashiro.
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Dismotivation / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men villain the Juggernaut ostensibly is one of the most powerful beings on Earth (albeit that varies on whose writing him), being the avatar of an evil extradimensional entity blessed with strength and invulnerability enough to go a few rounds with the likes of Thor or the Hulk. However, he has little ambition beyond indulging in his grudge against his stepbrother or serving as hired muscle.
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Dismotivation / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Ikkaku Madarame refuses to let anyone know he can use bankai because he wants to continue serving under Kenpachi Zaraki. Yumichika Ayasegawa declines to use the full power of his shikai for the same reason, and also because the 11th division views kidou-based ability as evidence of cowardice which would therefore disgrace him. He also prefers the number five spot when he should really be number four. He just dislikes four for some reason...
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Dismotivation / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck. Morgan Grimes. Chuck himself at the beginning of the series. He's brilliant and capable, but he works at a big box electronic store in a menial, dead-end job and is reluctant even to compete for a promotion to assistant manager.
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Dismotivation / int_2342a881	comment	Andy of Mission Hill actively mocks his little brother Kevin for choosing to focus on school over drinking and partying. Kevin, on his part, is upset that Andy chooses his lazy, layabout lifestyle over trying to get his (very good) cartoons published. One episode took Andy's dismotivation to extremes - he had just lost his job and spent his days waking up in the afternoon, drinking, and basically wallowing in his own filth. Best exemplified when he takes a jar of lotion into the bathroom, closes the door, and then says, "Eh. Why bother?"
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Dismotivation / int_27831967	comment	In Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson wants minimal contact with everyone, both because he just doesn't like dealing with people and he's a raging libertarian who wants to ensure nothing in government ever gets done. April, the office intern, is extremely lazy, unmotivated to do anything, and hates everyone (except Andy). Naturally, Ron hires her as his assistant because she's the worst possible assistant ever. She quickly proceeds to ensure no one ever meets with Ron, sleeps at her desk all day, and conspire with Ron to ensure no work involving him ever gets done.
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Dismotivation / int_2ad4ca99	comment	In David Byrne's song "Lazy", The narrator claims to be a Lazy Bum, but he gives a surprisingly long list of activities he does in a lazy way. He comes across less like a genuinely lazy guy and more like one who works really hard to convince everyone how cool and lazy he is.
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Dismotivation / int_2e6be66a	comment	In My-Otome, Nao gets good grades, but has a Brilliant, but Lazy attitude, which includes not wanting to be part of the Trias, which is composed of the top three Pearls. Unfortunately for her, when Akane leaves school due to getting a position as the King of Florence's Otome, and eloping with Kazuya at the last minute, Nao takes Akane's position on the Trias and later becomes the Fourth Column.
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Dismotivation / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Shikamaru of Naruto. What a drag. He gets promoted anyway, in large part because he wisely chose to give up, and is the first in his class to become a Chunin.
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Dismotivation / int_32318e9a	comment	On Roseanne, Darlene resisted going to a prestigious art school due to fear of failure.
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Dismotivation / int_3558eaa2	comment	Jeff Winger in Community plays with this trope, in that he actually does want to get his law degree and out of Greendale Community College, but is also incredibly lazy, is used to coasting by on his looks and charm, and views doing anything but the absolute bare minimum effort required to get by as a personal failing; the key reason he wants to get his degree is so he can get back to the cushy life he had before he was exposed as a fraud. This is partly why he chose to go to Greendale, a school he (at least initially) views with nothing but contempt over a better school where he'd be expected to put the effort in. He also naturally falls into the trap of putting more effort into doing less than it would take to just suck it up and put an honest amount of effort in, and bringing more trouble than is necessary on himself as a result.
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Dismotivation / int_38edabf0	comment	Office Space has one of the best summations for why someone in a Dead End Job would have this mentality.
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Dismotivation / int_3eab69f5	comment	Twimble's song "The Company Way" in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying talks about how he's spent the last 25 years in the mailroom, avoiding promotion to avoid risk.
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Dismotivation / int_3f4a104b	comment	Wally of Dilbert is a chronically lazy employee at the company he works for, barely doing any work and constantly slacking off. He's based on a former coworker of creator Scott Adams. After realizing that the bottom 10% of employees would be offered extremely generous buy-out packages, this coworker went out of his way to get fired by being incredibly bad at his job. Adams says about this "This wouldn't have been so much fun to watch except this fellow was one of the more brilliant people I've met and he was totally dedicated to this goal." Wally's take on it:
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Dismotivation / int_400469e	comment	Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes says that "I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations." It's implied that Calvin is very intelligent for a six-year-old but finds his school constricting, as he's shown to have an extremely active imagination and even discusses philosophical concepts with Hobbes. Indeed, Calvin was once shown enthusiastically learning about dinosaurs, because he thinks dinosaurs are cool. He stops when he realizes he's learning something, only to keep going when he remembers that he's choosing to do it rather than having it forced on him. Essentially, Calvin maintains the status quo as much as he can simply because he has no interest in trying to succeed in school due to finding most school subjects incomprehensibly boring.
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Dismotivation / int_40852654	comment	Medaka Box: This is Kumagawa Misogi's greatest flaw. He is so much of a defeatist that he can't even imagine himself winning, and so instead devotes what little motivation he has towards losing in certain ways, most often at the expense of others. As a result, none of his constant defeats ever helped him grow as a person at all. The one defeat that changed this and (sort of) reformed him was the one direct match in which he earnestly and honestly tried to win properly, and so finally lost properly.
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Dismotivation / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Victor Tugelbend, protagonist of Moving Pictures, bases his life up until the plot kicks in on wanting to remain a student at Unseen University: he studies very hard so as to be able to maintain a perfect 84% average because that's the only number that allows him to both keep his scholarship and not graduate. Similarly, he's athletic because it's easier to get things done with a fit physique and tries to be well-groomed and well-dressed because it's easier to get dates that way. An example of the "takes more work" version. Rincewind, who wants to avoid any excitement or heroism for the rest of his life, even though it gets him congratulations and the admiration of pretty girls. However, he has historically been Fate's Butt-Monkey because he's the best tool of the Lady (-Luck) in their eternal rivalry. So this rarely works out. William de Worde, from The Truth, got a reputation for keenness at sport while at school because he was always dashing about the field and shouting. His sports masters evidently overlooked the fact that he was invariably doing so while remaining a long way from the ball or any possibility of getting caught up in a scrum over it.
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Dismotivation / int_5cab4dfc	comment	Experiment 625 (or Reuben as he is now called) in Stitch! The Movie and Lilo & Stitch: The Series has all the powers of Stitch, but was regarded as a failure by Jumba because he would rather eat and make sandwiches than use his powers. This often makes him a pushover because he's too lazy to put up a fight with Stitch in the few times he's forced to assist Gantu in capturing an activated experiment. It's not until the last movie that ended The Series, Leroy & Stitch, where he finally gets off his butt and helps Lilo save Stitch and defeat a clone army of Stitch's evil twin, Leroy.
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Dismotivation / int_5d354f8	comment	Dave Lister, from Red Dwarf, is basically an Almighty Janitor because of this. While partly due to the fact he hates his job pre-apocalypse (in the novels, he only signed on with Red Dwarf because he somehow got so plastered that he wound up on Mimas, a moon of Jupiter, when he'd been getting drunk on Earth and it was the quickest way to get back to Earth), and post-apocalypse he's millions of years of non-stop travel away from Earth, he just doesn't have any major ambitions outside of trying to get home and open up a hot dog stand on Fiji.
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Dismotivation / int_60156176	comment	Ivan Vorpatril of the Vorkosigan Saga is perhaps the most unambitious, dismotivated character of the series. He steadfastly refuses to make waves, spends much of the series resisting the idea of politically advantageous marriage because he likes casual dating (and casual sex), and generally refuses to put himself forward. Despite this, he is quite competent and makes captain even before Miles, and later reveals that he's the official unofficial Spare to the Throne because nobody would accept a "mutie" like Miles, so being studiously unimpressive keeps others from wanting him as emperor - an office Ivan never aspired to since his father was murdered in the last succession crisis. It's also noted that he does his work very well indeed precisely because of his dismotivated nature: he's smart enough to have realized that investing a little effort into setting everything up to run as efficiently as possible saves him a lot more work down the line.
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Dismotivation / int_645d2bd1	comment	Lightsong, one of the Returned deities of Warbreaker, not only doesn't believe his own religion, he actively tries to be as lazy, unhelpful, and irritating as possible to stop anyone else from buying into it. Due to the devotion and insistence of his high priest his brother, whose daughter Lightsong died saving the first time around and the fact that he's really a decent guy, it doesn't take.
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Dismotivation / int_6a97ecc0	comment	Van Wilder is one of these, simply because being a Big Man on Campus is more fun than trying to graduate.
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Dismotivation / int_755fadab	comment	Kyon in Haruhi Suzumiya, which more than anything makes up who he is and how he relates to the rest of the SOS Brigade. He's also cynical and snarky. He often acts dumb because he doesn't care about anything. Most likely also the reason why he sucks at school, despite being very knowledgeable and aware of other people's intentions. He shows how an Almighty Janitor looks like as a kid. After Disappearance he decides to act more to help his friends, especially Nagato, but still hates acting on anyone else's behalf.
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Dismotivation / int_7de22ab8	comment	In the original Clerks it applies to Randal (who even says as much), and possibly to Jay and Bob. In the second film Dante comes around to the same point of view.
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Dismotivation / int_8a3d3df6	comment	Jaye Tyler in Wonderfalls exemplifies this trope but ends up helping others, often under protest.
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Dismotivation / int_9068877a	comment	Grif of Red vs. Blue. He acts lazy and incompetent that Sarge has slowly been giving him less and less to do until he has practically no responsibilities at Red Base... just the way he likes it. At one point he takes Simmons' place as Sarge's second in command, but once he realizes that he'd actually have to do work, he gives it to Donut. It should also be noted that Grif is the only member of the Red Team that Church is wary of, realizing that his dismotivation hides the highest intelligence of the team.
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Dismotivation / int_916f4758	comment	The protagonist from How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe has literally messed with the hardware in his time-machine so that he can live in the present-indefinite forever, and never have to face the future. Yeah, it's that kind of book.
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Dismotivation / int_9e7ed97a	comment	George in the first season of Dead Like Me, who goes back to work at the same temp agency she worked at prior to her untimely death.
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Dismotivation / int_a309575c	comment	Jonathan Creek. With his keen analytical skills and brilliance at coming up with magic tricks, he could have either been a great detective or a great magician if he'd wanted to be; instead, he has to be dragged kicking and screaming into virtually every investigation that Maddy or Carla rope him in to, and he's quite content to hide in the wings and play second fiddle to arrogant tool Adam Klaus, who gets all the fame from his tricks. In Jonathan's case, his dismotivation results from a combination of shyness, anti-social reticence and Celebrity Is Overrated feelings.
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Dismotivation / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass: Lelouch starts out this way, as a very intelligent young man who gets very average grades and goes through life without accomplishing much. His reasons are twofold: first, it's in his and his sister's best interests to lay low and not draw any attention to themselves, and second, he harbors an intense hatred for the society he's in and has no desire to succeed in it. This changes when he meets C.C. and gets his geass powers...
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Dismotivation / int_a656a587	comment	William de Worde, from The Truth, got a reputation for keenness at sport while at school because he was always dashing about the field and shouting. His sports masters evidently overlooked the fact that he was invariably doing so while remaining a long way from the ball or any possibility of getting caught up in a scrum over it.
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Dismotivation / int_aa88317d	comment	Ricky to a T in Trailer Park Boys. He actually likes jail, considering it almost like a vacation. He invokes and defends the status quo (getting drunk and high and living hand-to-mouth) on multiple occasions when Julian is trying a scheme to get them money, and he even gets arrested intentionally because of relationship problems.
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Dismotivation / int_bfa1ae9a	comment	Hyouka: Houtarou has two rules he lives his life by: "One: Never do anything you don't have to. Two: If you have to do something, do it quickly." Satoshi is also an example. He's content with being a Jack of All Trades, Master of None because he realizes that there's Always Someone Better namely Houtarou.
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Dismotivation / int_c4282b71	comment	Enforced in Starlight Glimmer's town in the season five premiere of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, where the prevailing ideology is that having talents of any kind only serve to isolate yourself and/or instill envy in others. The end of the season reveals that this mindset was a result of Starlight drifting away from a childhood friend after they learned their talents in magic.
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Dismotivation / int_c564dcf0	comment	Victor Tugelbend, protagonist of Moving Pictures, bases his life up until the plot kicks in on wanting to remain a student at Unseen University: he studies very hard so as to be able to maintain a perfect 84% average because that's the only number that allows him to both keep his scholarship and not graduate. Similarly, he's athletic because it's easier to get things done with a fit physique and tries to be well-groomed and well-dressed because it's easier to get dates that way. An example of the "takes more work" version.
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Dismotivation / int_c9a05bfd	comment	In All Flesh Must Be Eaten, a Zombie Apocalypse Tabletop game, one of the sample characters offered is a "professional student", who has been in college 12 years, living rather comfortably off of his scholarship, and has come "dangerously close to graduating" on several occasions. Though it's mostly used as a Hand Wave for why he has so many seemingly-unconnected skills.
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Dismotivation / int_cb3f37de	comment	Peter LaFleur, the main character of DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, is one of these, contrasted with his antagonist White, who takes "you should not be satisfied with yourself" to unhealthy extremes.
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Dismotivation / int_d0c31ab	comment	Kirk, in Star Trek: Generations, advises Picard to keep doing this for this exact reason. For his part, Kirk hated being an admiral so much that when he was demoted back to captain it was treated as being Cursed with Awesome.
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Dismotivation / int_d1490551	comment	The protagonist of Doorways in the Sand was left an enormous allowance from a rich relative's estate as long as he stayed in school, which he of course decides to abuse. In spite of every effort by the university to make him graduate or kick him out, he always manages to outmaneuver them, until The Plot detains him long enough for his most recent adviser to award him with a degree in absentia.
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Dismotivation / int_d9e1a051	comment	Fruits Basket: The head maid of the Sohma family is the head of the system that encourages the cult-like traditions and customs of the Sohma clan centered around preserving the "bond" of the Zodiac; namely, that as Akito is God of the Zodiac, she's free to do as she pleases, no matter how heinous or abusive, and the Sohmas who bare the Zodiac curse are nothing without her and exist solely to live and die for her sake. When Akito undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and is showing signs of self-improvement by abandoning the God Complex that made her hurt so many people, the maid states she's too old to be able to accept drastic new changes into the strictly traditional Sohma family, going so far as to say she liked the old Akito betternote The second anime downplays this to the maid admitting she's envious of Akito wanting and being able to move on so easily and angsting over her inability to do the same.
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Dismotivation / int_e293455a	comment	Oz of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is smart enough to be tapped by the world's leading software concern and has no ambitions except getting his guitar chords right. He has incompletes on his schoolwork, didn't go to summer school, and usually gets up late.
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Dismotivation / int_e728ae90	comment	In My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected, this trope fits Hachiman to a T. Among the usual reasons, the main one being to Never Be Hurt Again, he has an uncommon but somewhat logical argument. Hachiman, after being accused by Yukino of running away because of his dismotivation, makes his point of view clear: This gets flipped on its head later on, though. Hachiman's stubborn refusal to change his ways or his attitude begins to strain his relationships with the people he's close to, and it takes nearly losing them forever for him to finally admit that he does want to change, but has no idea how to do so.
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Dismotivation / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly example: This turns out to be Mal's motivation in Better Days, realizing that he is genuinely happier in his small ship running dangerous jobs all around the galaxy, then actually getting a big score and being able to retire.
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Dismotivation / int_e9cfda00	comment	At the beginning of Music and Lyrics, former eighties pop star Alex Fletcher, if not exactly happy, is at least comfortably resigned to his life of comfortable relative obscurity as a 'happy has-been'. Curiously, his love interest Sophie also never really demonstrates much desire to improve herself either, but in her case, it's more out of a lack of self-confidence: a cruel novel written by a vindictive ex-lover which portrayed her as talentless and derivative and which went on to be a bestseller pretty much destroyed her faith in her ability to write. Both are prompted throughout the movie to get out their respective ruts and start yearning for more things than theme-park gigs and watering plants.
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Dismotivation / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts's Demyx would like nothing better than to just sit around the Castle that Never Was and write songs. He actually bribes you to do his missions in 358/2 Days.. Though he's not completely demotivated. Axel explains that Demyx's specialty is scouting and observation, which he does enjoy. It's the missions where he has to do more than sneak and watch that he dislikes.
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Dismotivation / int_fa53eab4	comment	Shirley, the title character of Even Though I'm a Former Noble and Single Mother openly refuses advancement past B-rank in the adventurer's guild because if she does advance, she'd be compelled, by law, to abandon her daughters and go off chasing whatever "emergency" the guild tells her to. The guild master has the gall to be shocked and confused at this, and yells at his secretary Yukina because the poor girl can't get Shirley to even consider it.
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Dismotivation / int_fcf34eec	comment	Full Metal Panic!: Mao tells the story of how she met Sosuke and Kurz when the latter two were new recruits. Neither of them trusted the shadowy Mithril too much at the start and so intentionally sabotaged themselves, Sosuke using this trope (and claiming that any superior performance was a fluke). When a real situation came up, he was forced to drop the act, which showed his incredible skills and got him recruited (but also proved Mithril's trustworthiness, making everything work out).
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Dismotivation / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Will Riker works pretty hard at staying Exec on the Enterprise D even though offered several promotions. He stays XO because he's waiting for Picard to make Admiral and therefore become captain of the Enterprise. Ultimately subverted. The Enterprise D is destroyed, and Riker is eventually promoted anyway and given command of a new ship.
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