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One common plot element is a low-level worker who rises to the top of the command structure in his organization through hard work, persistence and skill. This trope is when a low-level worker is suddenly raised to a high position simply because he acted in a heroic manner and saved the day during a dangerous situation, regardless of his actual qualifications. Consider Bob, a worker on a starship who would like to be captain, but is too young and inexperienced. One day there's a disaster aboard ship and Bob saves everyone by bravely risking his life to shut down the ship's main reactor before it explodes and kills everyone. The ship's captain was killed in the accident and Bob is unanimously chosen as the new captain, even though he's completely unqualified to captain a spaceship. This may lead to a demonstration of The Peter Principle in more realistic settings. Compare: You Are in Command Now: Bob becomes captain because everyone higher in his chain of command is dead. Closest Thing We Got: Bob becomes captain of the starship because he's the only person on board with space experience. Falling into the Cockpit: Bob becomes captain of the starship because he happens to be on the bridge when all of the other bridge personnel are killed. Expose the Villain, Get His Job: Bob becomes captain because he found out that the previous captain was the villain and put a stop to his Evil Plan. Cincinnatus: Bob is given the power but resolutely refuses to keep it. Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Bob is in charge because he can fight really well. |
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Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Jar Jar Binks goes straight from being banished to being a general after helping the Nabooan humans and the Gungans get along. And then soon after the droid threat is gone he becomes a senator. Obi-Wan gets promoted from Padawan to Jedi Knight after defeating Darth Maul, even though he never seems to face the trials. |
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Used literally in Harry Potter when after the second wizarding war Kingsley Shacklebolt, newly appointed Minister of Magic, decreed that anyone who participated in the Battle of Hogwarts could start training to be an auror regardless of educational qualifications, stating that being in the battle in itself satisfied the skill and personality requirements necessary. This includes Harry and Ron who never went for their final year, and Neville who failed to qualify for a subject generally required for the job. | |
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General Bubuta Bokh from Labyrinths of Echo was a great hero during their civil war and once saved the King's life. The problem: he was good on a battlefield, but as a chief of police this rustic Boisterous Bruiser is comically incompetent — all the time. The only thing he does well is roaring and swearing at perps... or anyone in range who annoys and does not outrank him, for that matter. | |
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Star Trek (2009): James Kirk gets promoted to captain of the USS Enterprise after saving the Earth from Nero despite the fact he graduated from the academy less then a week earlier and already didn't have a spotless discipline record. This then gets Deconstructed in Star Trek Into Darkness when it turns out that he's not emotionally mature enough to be the captain, which he himself realizes. | |
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In Mannequin, Jonathan Switcher gets hired by the mall after he saves the boss from a falling billboard. | |
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In Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve Rogers starts out as a fresh private who becomes Captain America for propaganda purposes, but is made an official captain after his rescue of imprisoned troops and capture of HYDRA weaponry. | |
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In the live-action Thunderbirds movie, Alan Tracy is made a full member of the team after saving the day...despite the fact he's only fourteen years old! | |
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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a war hero from the Bajoran resistance to the Cardassian occupation gets a new title dedicated to him, Navarch, as well as becoming the Bajoran liaison to Deep Space Nine. He feels qualified for neither, explaining to Sisko in private that his greatest victory was actually just him surprising a ruthless Cardassian commander while the other man was bathing and people kept assuming he was just being modest. | |
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Protocol: Goldie Hawn plays a cocktail waitress who stops an assassination attempt on a Middle-Eastern ambassador and is therefore hired by the US government as a top level State Department protocol official. | |
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In BattleTech, an infantry soldier or vehicle crewmember who managed to capture an enemy Battlemech intact (or at least in a fixable position) will often be offered the option to becoming the mech's next pilot. This also can occur in the event that a mechwarrior brings down an enemy mech that's substantially better than their own. | |
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In Shadowrun Returns, the Player Character can become Head of Security for Telestrian Industries' Seattle branch due to saving the CEO's daughter (and Seattle) through an act of heroism... But also because you successfully broke into the branch earlier, causing Telestrian to terminate his last Head of Security. | |
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In Paul Blart: Mall Cop after saving the mall and it's hostages, the police captain offers Paul a job on the force, despite failing the test at the beginning of the film. Averted as he turns the offer down to continue guarding the mall. | |
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Military science fiction Victoria has this, since it takes place during a revolution. While the secessionists have actual generals among their ranks, protagonist John Rumford (a discharged Marine Corps captain and subsequent militia leader) is the man ultimately made chief of the general staff, in recognition of his heroic organizing and guerrilla work so far, which has greatly impressed Governor Adams. Hearing Rumford in person finally confirms to him that he is indeed the right man for the job. | |
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One of Ciaphas Cain's earlier adventures recounts that the men who were with him during the desperate defense of the local Arbites (police) station against invading genestealers were all promoted in the end. They were there in the first place because they'd become drunk and rowdy in the local bars and brothels; he was just there to get them out of custody. One Guardsman even notes that his new officer stripes just don't feel right, but Cain makes him a lot happier by remarking that a man of his discipline record won't keep them long. | |
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At the end of Book 2 of the Lone Wolf series Fire on the Water, Lone Wolf is granted the title of "Fryearl" and custody of the lands surrounding the remains of the Kai monastery after he rallies Sommerlund's Durenese allies and slays Darklord Zagarna with the legendary Sommerswerd. | |
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Noob: La Croisée des Destins inverts this in a "villainy equals job qualification" sense. In real life, Gaea is a Starving Student living off a scholarship that she's trying to stretch as long as she can according to All There in the Manual. In the MMORPG that she's playing, she manages to put a whole in-game faction in debt to her via earning in-game currency as a Con Woman with a thing for Blackmail, saving it for years, spending it all in creating a shortage of basic materials in a time of high demand, and reselling it all at inflated prices. This impresses a minor character enough to offer to hire her into a high-level job in a notoriously corrupt bank. | |
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This has tragic consequences in Third Watch. "Doc" is a highly competent and heroic paramedic who regularly declines promotions to supervisor because it is a desk job. He is finally guilted into taking the promotion after nine-eleven but it soon becomes apparent that he cannot handle the job. When he is fired he has a nervous breakdown and ends up taking the fire station hostage. | |
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Merlin: Merlin gets his job as Arthur's manservant as a 'reward' from Uther for saving Arthur's life. | |
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The Last Starfighter. During the movie the entire Starfighter corps was wiped out, leaving only Alex Rogan to fight the Ko-Dan Armada. He succeeds in destroying it, and at the end of the movie, the leader of the Star League asks him to rebuild the Starfighter corps. There's just one problem: although Alex is the best Starfighter alive (mainly because he's the only Starfighter alive), he has no particular organizational/military skills or experience, which would be required to perform such a task. (And in this context, "Starfighter" is really another word for "gunner".) | |
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Tales of Xillia 2: In Chapter 14, Ludger is promoted to Vice President of the Spirius Corporation and is given control of the company while the CEO Bisley is away completing Origin's Trial, despite having no qualifications to manage anything and having a reputation outside of the Department of Dimensional Affairs as an indebted suspected terrorist. | |
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