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Most commitments and endeavors are temporary, by nature or design. High school typically takes four years, advanced degrees between two and ten, exploring an unknown region of space might be a five-year mission, democratically-elected representatives typically have term limits, and so on. These things are temporary. Some things do not have such limits. In fact, some commitments, endeavors, or sentences are explicitly designed to be lifelong. Other times, something that is ostensibly temporary will be extended or renewed in perpetuity, rendering it de facto lifelong. The person who winds up in such a position, therefore, is In It For Life. Note, however, that some things intended to be lifelong commitments (such as marriage) don't always wind up this way, with people managing to end their commitment early. By definition, the Ur-Example is life itself, which is also the only example which can be universally applied to living things. Subtropes: Longer-Than-Life Sentence, President for Life, Regent for Life, Resignations Not Accepted, Suicide Mission. Compare Mandatory Unretirement. Examples |
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Likewise, in Dragon Age, there is no such thing as a former Grey Warden, as the Taint they voluntarily expose themselves to during their Joining ritual is incurable. There is a single known example of a Grey Warden being completely freed from the Taint—Grand Enchanter Fiona—but she was the only success of a centuries-long research by an inhuman intelligence that is yet to be replicated. | |
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The "In For Life" flaw in Mechwarrior (the tabletop roleplaying game, not the video game of the same name). You're part of an organization for good or for ill. Normally, this most often applies to organized criminal groups like The Mafia, Yakuza, or The Triads and the Tongs. It can also apply to things such as elite government organizations, especially all forms of Secret Police. | |
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The D-class of the SCP Foundation are used as grunt labor and guinea pigs, taken from death row or third-world prisoners (and in times of shortage, from the general populace) for a promise of a shorter sentence, and are traditionally executed at the end of the month. A life sentence doesn't necessarily imply a long sentence. Some entries and stories on the site imply that there are other sources for D-class as well, such as cloning. Yet others imply that the monthly executions are a just a front, and that D-class are mind-wiped or otherwise reset before taking up new (but usually still inconceivably horrible) roles for the next month. |
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In the Supergirl crossover Red Daughter of Krypton Supergirl becomes a Red Lantern. In "Red Lanterns #30" -properly titled "Forever"- she finds out that she'll be a Red Lantern forever (and, predictably, she isn't happy about it). Of course, she does not stay a Red Lantern forever. | |
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In Mass Effect, there's "no such thing as a former Spectre". The closest you can get is Shepard in Mass Effect 2, as the game starts with them dying and then coming Back from the Dead. You get to choose whether you have your status reinstated or not... until the third game, when it's reinstated anyway. That said, Mass Effect: Andromeda has a former Spectre, the retired Avitus Rix. Of course, since he's six hundred years and an entire galaxy away from his former bosses, chances of Mandatory Unretirement are slim. |
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Better Bones AU: Until the end of the rewritten arc The Broken Code, leaders are not allowed to resign or leave in any other manner than death; their successor if they do so will not be able to get their nine lives (so Sunstar and Nightstar don't get any lives). This becomes a problem for Rowanstar/claw when he has retired and disbanded his Clan but can't get rid of his lives, and as long as he's alive his daughter and deputy Tigerheart can't get nine lives. After Tigerheart's death, Rowanstar takes her to the moonpool and drowns himself there, as long as it takes to get rid of all of his lives, so Tigerheart will be able to be revived to get her nine lives. | |
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In The Wheel of Time, service as an Aes Sedai (female magic-user) is intended to be lifelong. When the new Amyrlin Seat (a cross between The Archmage and a female Pope) breaks tradition by demoting an Aes Sedai to Accepted (apprentice), it causes a major scandal. Even when it's discovered that the Restraining Bolt that is a major part of their identity as Aes Sedai shortens their lifespan by several hundred years, there is a significant faction that would rather die as Aes Sedai than "retire" and have their lifespan restored. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: In the Golden Age of Comics those who became an Amazon dedicated the rest of their lives to the Amazons' causes, and those who visited Paradise Island and actually chose to become Amazons also had their lives extended far beyond the normal human timespan. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, service as a maester, in the Night's Watch, Kingsguard, and several religious orders is lifelong. The Night's Watch' traditional funeral rites end, "Now his watch is ended." | |
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Game of Thrones: The Night's Watch's vows (to hold no titles, take no wife, and defend the Wall against northern invaders) are for life. After Jon Snow is murdered and is resurrected, he considers his previous commitment to have ended, and later takes the title of King in the North. At the end of the series, he is sent back to the Night's Watch after killing Daenerys, and will presumably stay there permanently. | |
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Green Lantern: Red Lanterns can never quit. To avoid people leaving his Lantern Corp, Atrocitus designed the Red Rings so that taking them off would be fatal. Only the healing power of a Blue Lantern can prevent this. | |
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The Reynard Cycle: When you become a Calvarian blood-guard, you are considered one until you are dead. Of course, you may die before you get that far. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines serve until they die or they are too grievously wounded, at which point they may be put inside a Dreadnought to continue serving pretty much eternally. Penal legions are pretty much this, since the idea is to redeem yourself of a particularly hideous crime by going on the most dangerous or suicidal missions. Fire Caste warriors either serve until death or face trials every four years of service to go up a rank, at which point they can become advisors. |
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Warhammer: Dwarf Slayers are individual dwarfs who have dedicated themselves to dying in battle against a particular enemy (Troll Slayers, Dragon Slayers, Demon Slayers etc.) to atone for some past dishonor. The most successful ones are technically the biggest failures, since they're bad at the "dying in battle" part. A human who joins the Imperial Colleges of Magic is bound to their code of conduct for life, not least because they're the only exception to the terminally-enforced Ban on Magic. However, they gain more freedom once they demonstrate their reliability: apprentices-in-perpetuity often hold day jobs and even full magisters sometimes disappear on personal projects, so long as they follow the rules and come when called to active duty. |
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Forever: Henry's commitment to both Abigail and Abraham. Henry was ready to stay with Abigail no matter how much older than him she grew to look, and Abigail eventually realized she felt the same, finding an out-of-the-way cottage where they could have spent her last days together. Henry is still just as devoted to Abraham as when he was a child, and clearly will be to his death. | |
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Safehold: For the first nine booksnote in the tenth book, it was retconned to be normal five-year terms with no restriction against running for re-election, this was how Siddarmark, the only significant republic on the planet, worked: elections were held on the death of a Lord Protector to elect a new Lord Protector, who would then go on to serve until his death. As this was deliberate constitutional design and the elections were to all indications reasonable fair and free, it didn't quite qualify as President for Life despite literally being a republican head of state ruling for life. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: "Once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen in Narnia." Important because it is not unknown for children from Earth to be taken to Narnia, installed as king or queen, returned to Earth, and then be returned to Narnia years, decades, or centuries later at which time a new ruler may be in place. | |
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The Murderbot Diaries: In the galaxy-spanning sci-fi setting, the Corporation Rim is a Privately Owned Society and de facto slave state where it's common for the less fortunate to sign away their labour and personal rights to their "employer" in perpetuity. Many colonies there are isolated Company Towns where the descendants of indentured labourers have no way to escape and no other means of survival. | |
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That said, Mass Effect: Andromeda has a former Spectre, the retired Avitus Rix. Of course, since he's six hundred years and an entire galaxy away from his former bosses, chances of Mandatory Unretirement are slim. | |
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Babylon 5: The Rangers appear to be this, although it's never specifically stated. Their motto is "We live for The One, we die for The One", and beyond that they are all volunteers, self-selecting for their dedication to the cause. The "Die for The One" part does get a bit of stick in the spin-off move Legend Of The Rangers, where the Captain points out that they're not supposed to die stupid - broadly, that today is a good day to not die, and tomorrow is as good a day as any to fight another day. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Both Assassins and Templars operate by this, though only the Templars have it as an explicit part of their oath, to serve from joining until death. | |
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In West Side Story, "when you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette 'til your last dying day." | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In one episode, the crew find themselves on a planet controlled by cadres, the members of which have proximity detectors implanted into their bodies. As one member explains, said proximity detectors are designed so they can't be removed without killing the patient, thereby making the initiation permanent (although the Enterprise crew figures out pretty quickly how to defeat it, as it seems whoever designed the system wasn't expecting someone with a starship's level of technology and technical knowledge to come along). | |
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