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In an organization with a ranked hierarchal structure, you can get a promotion by showing aptitude for the work, impressing senior ranked individuals, fulfilling certain criteria, having a place open up due to retirement, resignation or death, and probably kissing a lot of ass. Or you can kill them and take their job. This is about the latter, not the former. This is a sister trope to You Kill It, You Bought It. However, in that one, you kill someone, purposefully or accidentally, and gain something of theirs (whether you want it or not). That could be a physical object or something more metaphysical, like a role in life or a curse, and you don’t need to have a system that puts the character in a position to get the job. This requirement of a rank to get into for a Klingon Promotion means it will show up in connection to different sorts of organisations. For instance, the Klingon Promotion will turn up in organisations that favour ruthlessness and the heavy dominance of a leader. Hence the trope name referring to the Klingons of Star Trek, who are often portrayed as accepting assassination of a superior (with varying justification) as a legitimate option for career advancement. You’ll get it in royal or noble lines of succession where individuals can obsess over the fact that if only 72 people would die in a very short period, they could become King. A common Sub-Trope is Challenging the Chief, where the role of boss goes to whoever's the biggest badass, who can kill or defeat any other badass in ritual combat. Perhaps the focus will be on a character who uses this method often to get ahead in the world. They could easily then be The Starscream, and if we get the chance to follow them going through several stations in life, advancing themselves with cunning, guile, and possibly the odd bottle of arsenic, we might get to see them as a Manipulative Bastard and maybe a magnificent one. This trope tends to enforce its Super-Trope: Superior Successor. Asskicking Leads to Leadership is when you get a society that works based on this trope. The Evil Prince tends to see the world this way, due to his position. Occasionally, a superior can forestall it with Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand. May result in You Are in Command Now if the replacement is lacking in qualifications for the position they gain and/or pulls off a Klingon Promotion by accident. In practical use, this is a dangerous gamble on the part of the killer, since if he kills a superior who has popular support, he will most likely be killed very quickly himself before he gets an opportunity to enjoy his new power. Also, most don't take well to an unproven upstart killing a superior who has experience and the wisdom to rule effectively, especially when it threatens the status quo. However, no one will mind the killing of an officer who has failed too many times, as long as the killer knows what he is getting himself into now and everything that goes with it. Most of the time, an individual who decides on Klingon Promotion probably does so with the backing of parties sponsoring his actions, thus protecting him from retaliation (leverage). And even then, there still might not be anything to protect them from certain avengers for whom It's Personal. This is similar to how most real-life politicians rely on the support of others to get them in a position of power and keep them there. Fictional societies that function on this rule often display its downsides. When leadership is predicated solely on being quicker on the draw than the opponent, there is no guarantee that any leader is at all qualified for the position they want, resulting in repeated misrule. Long-term planning is next to impossible since leadership changes hands often and violently, leading to stagnation. Nobody can count on anyone else not to betray them on a whim, which tends to make morale drop to rock bottom. Worst of all, no leader is likely to have the time, ability, or even motivation to improve the situation, since they are too busy fending off usurpers. Woe betide the organization when more than one candidate attempts a power play at once: the organization will likely tear itself apart before one of the usurpers comes out on top. This is a common cause of collapse for evil organizations. Expect a moral about trust and comradery to come from heroes who encounter these situations. If someone did it by killing the former leader stealthily and impersonating them, that is Kill and Replace. |
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On Adventure Time, Word of God says that Marceline became the Vampire Queen by killing the previous Vampire King. As of "Frost and Fire", Flame Princess has become Flame Queen after usurping her father. She also is running a better ship as well, judging how she enforces a "Tell the truth" rule as well. |
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In The Rise of Skywalker, Palpatine wants Rey to kill him; his explanation is that every Sith Master contains the spirits of all former Sith Masters within them, and he seems to actually be looking forward to this form of (after)life. At least that's what he says; he doesn't hesitate to try to rejuvenate himself in a different way when the opportunity presents itself. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): Ares becomes the new ruler of the underworld by murdering Hades. | |
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Played with in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, where the Big Bad Duumvirate of Jamitov Hymen and Bosque Ohm are killed off by Paptimus Scirocco late in the series, securing Scirocco's role as Big Bad just in time for the final battle. | |
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Played straight in The Salvation War's first book with Hell: other than Satan, the demon hierarchy works this way... which suits Satan just fine. However, as things go to hell Colonel Keisha Stevenson (US Army) inadvertently becomes a participant by gunning down a Hell village's lord. She is far more benevolent than him, but presumably abdicated the position once Civil Affairs troops arrived. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Lien-Da and Kragok murdered their father Luger in order to become Grandmasters of the Dark Legion. Of course, Kragok ended up double-crossing his sister and taking leadership for himself. Chronic Backstabbing Disorder must run in the family — quite some time later, after Eggman's reorganized the Legion into his Dark Egg Legion with Lien-Da's ancestor Dimitri as Grandmaster, she eventually double-crosses him too and leaves him for dead so that she can become Grandmaster again. And Dr. Robotnik, before he became the Big Bad, was the head of the Kingdom of Acorn's military — a job he got by throwing the previous holder of the title into the Zone of Silence (not murder, but close enough). And when he took over the Kingdom, he jump-started his coup by doing the same to the King. There's also Robotnik's nephew, Snively, who got tired of being humiliated and set things up to kill Robotnik. Snively barely had time to actively run Robotropolis after Robotnik was killed when the Freedom Fighters confronted and defeated him, taking back their city for good. |
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Digimon: In the lore, there are Seven Great Demon Lords, one representing each of the Seven Deadly Sins. Meanwhile, DarkKnightmon, after gaining the X-Antibody, wants to become one of the Seven Great Demon Lords himself. Since all seven have already been identified, he can't exactly lay claim to the title any other way unless one of those seven is out of the way. (The fact DarkKnightmon is hopelessly outclassed even by the weakest of them apparently is not a deterrent to his ambitions.) | |
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At the end of Death Race 2000, Frankenstein assassinates Mr. President. In the next scene, he's shown to have become the new President. In the 2008 remake Death Race, Frankenstein is an identity given to a random racer, with the idea being that everyone (including the other racers) think it's the same person all the time. When one Frankenstein is killed, someone else replaces him so that he appears to be invincible. "He's a gimmick." |
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X-Men: The Shi'ar Imperium apparently have this written into their laws, as the Earth-born mutant Vulcan is able to claim the title of majestor from D'Ken by killing him after (and we're talking right after) marrying into the Shi'ar royal family. Presumably this only applies within the royal family itself and the Shi'ar don't crown any old assassin that comes along. Fabian Cortez of Magneto's Acolytes is a big fan of this tactic. His very first story sees him attempt to kill Magneto in a bid to replace him as mutantkind's preeminent revolutionary leader, and later after he finds his attempt was unsuccessful (and Magneto comes back) Cortez flees to Genosha, where he kills off the island's current president and appoints himself the new leader of Genosha (which lasts for about five seconds or so before the X-Men, The Avengers, and Exodus all converge on Genosha to kick his teeth in). |
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In the Sluggyverse, the anthropomorphic incarnations of the holidays can be killed by mortals (or each other, or aliens). The slayer, by "right of caste", then becomes the new personification of the holiday. Bun-Bun the killer rabbit accidentally became the Easter Bunny by this process. In order to stop being the Easter Bunny, he set out to kill all the other holidays. Once in possession of all their powers, he could then change the rules. But he was defeated in the end by Mrs. Claus. | |
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Done accidentally by Ishida Uryuu in the Bleach fanfic The World In Black And White. During the ryoka invasion, various butterflies result in him killing Mayuri in a one-to-one fight, which about half the Twelfth Division was watching via the surveillance system, leading to the 'Kenpachi rule' being invoked, much to Ishida's shock. | |
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In the 2008 remake Death Race, Frankenstein is an identity given to a random racer, with the idea being that everyone (including the other racers) think it's the same person all the time. When one Frankenstein is killed, someone else replaces him so that he appears to be invincible. "He's a gimmick." | |
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In Apocalypse Now, Willard predicts he'll be fast-tracked to Major for offing the renegade Kurtz. For a brief moment, he sits at Kurtz' desk, contemplating the opportunity to take the Colonel's place as a new god-king. The throng of natives lay down their weapons and bow as he leaves the compound. | |
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Megatron in Insecticomics is actually annoyed that his second-in-command, Firestorm, refuses to ever try this no matter how much he tries to provoke it. He claims that he sometimes orders her to shoot him just to watch her overly-loyal brain break from the Logic Bomb. | |
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Kevin & Kell: Averted: Kell intervenes in a fight between Herd Thinners CEO R.L. and Executive Frank Mangle. R.L. and Mangle are seriously injured and, because she was the "last man standing" (as it were), she is promoted to CEO of Herd Thinners. And later on, R.L. reveals he let her keep the position uncontested to make repairs to the company while he recovered from his injuries, then promptly fires her with his connections to the board of directors and shareholders. Many of Kell's supporters quit on the spot with no regards to their hard-earned positions, and would go on to work at Kell's new company. Played straight earlier, during the prehistoric arc. Shortly after their arrival in the stone age, Kell kills a tyrannosaur who turns out to be the original CEO of Herd Thinners, and quickly settles behind his stone "desk". This whole story may or may not still be canon, though. |
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Age of the Wolf: In advanced werewolf society, it's an accepted custom to challenge the female Alpha in a Duel to the Death and take her place if successful. The main villain of the final arc is introduced when she takes out a half-dozen challengers. | |
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In the 1939 British film Tower of London (somewhat loosely based on Shakespeare's Richard III), Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Basil Rathbone) orders the assassinations of over a dozen people who stand between him and the throne, including his own brother Clarence (Vincent Price), drowned in the proverbial barrel of wine ("a waste of good Malmsey"), and his nephews, the "Princes in the Tower". | |
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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: In the Fat Freddy's Cat comic "Animal Camp", the Cat is tossed in with a pack of bloodthirsty dogs. When the leader of the dogs, Beelzebub, charges at him, the Cat fluffs up so much that Beelzebub drops dead of a heart attack, and the cat is proclaimed king of the dogs. | |
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Attempted in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, when Harvey Logan demands that Butch fight him to the death, with the expectation that the winner would be the leader of the hole-in-the-wall gang. "Guns or knives?" Subverted when Butch tells Sundance to kill Harvey if he wins the fight. |
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Played for laughs in Justice League Unlimited. Shayera confesses to her romantic rival Vixen that she is unsure of Earth ways of rivalry; "It's not like I can poison your water or something. *sigh* I miss Thanagar." As Vixen leaves after their workout, Shayera casually tosses her a water bottle. Vixen pauses for a moment, claims she's not worried, then disposes of it. Used when Lex Luthor took over Gorilla Grodd's Legion of Doom Expy after the latter's failed plan to turn the entire world into apes. Basically, Luthor admits he was planning on biding his time before taking over, but Grodd's plan is so stupid, he might as well do it now, and does. |
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In Supergirl story Hellsister Trilogy, Brainiac assembles an army of villains and appoints himself leader. Then Darkseid kills him off and declares himself leader. No one contests his claim. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Major General Olivier Armstrong kills Lieutenant General Raven, then assumes his position after telling Fuhrer King Bradley she killed him. Basque Grand is shown using this method in a flashback to the Ishval Extermination. Nobody seems to mind, though, as General Fessler wasn't particularly pleasant and it's quickly decided that he was hit by a stray bullet; despite half the division having witnessed Grand killing him, not one soldier disputes the official report. |
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Invoked by Edward (the actual heir) in The King's Speech, when he thinks his brother Albert wants to be king (he emphatically does not, he just wants Edward to pick up his act), calling it "positively medieval". | |
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Scarface (1932) In the beginning, Tony kills Big Louie so Johnny can become mob boss. Later, Tony becomes the mob boss by killing Johnny, with Guino pulling the trigger. |
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RWBY: When Sienna Khan refuses to start a war with the humans on the grounds that the White Fang are vastly underpowered, Adam Taurus kills her and takes over. Justified in that he was already a high-ranking member of the terrorist group with the majority supporting him, effectively making Adam the leader. Though after attempting to set off a series of bombs with his own followers in the blast zone and later abandoning them to be arrested, the White Fang turn on Adam who slaughters them all. | |
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Chaos factions of all kinds, as well as some of the more psychotic Imperial Space Marine chapters, have this trope as well. The Horus Heresy short story Inheritor reveals that this is how the titular character, Eliphas (the Chaos hero unit from Dawn of War: Dark Crusade), earned his epithet: he killed his Chapter Master during the Word Bearers' purge and took command of his Chapter. Lorgar said that Eliphas hadn't earned his new position, he had merely "inherited" it. | |
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In the Club Penguin Shutdown episode "The Girl", the Tuba Gang Leader asphyxiates the Purple Republic's leader by then to death. He ends up becoming the group's new head, since none of the other members bothered to take the former leader's place. | |
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Vow of the King: After killing Mayuri, Ichigo is promoted to captain of 12th Division, though it's currently a probationary appointment. | |
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Imperium of Vader: As per the Rule of Two, Vader kills Palpatine in a duel, replacing him as both the master Sith and Emperor. In fact, it turns out that there's actually a secret clause in Palpatine's will that Vader can only be his successor if he's the one to kill him. | |
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves features the Forty Thieves (as in "Ali Baba and ..."), and Aladdin causes the death of one in self-defense. He's sure the others are about to butcher him when they say it can only mean one thing. The One Thing is that he's now a member, unless someone kills him, which they'll be more than happy to do if he doesn't measure up. (If that's not bad enough, the former holder of his position is Not Quite Dead, and wants it back. That can only happen one way.) | |
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In the Trigun manga, the Murder, Inc. group the Eye of Michael appear to practice some form of this, as Wolfwood apparently succeeded to the Chapel seat in the Guns by shooting his Evil Mentor in the back, rather than being penalized by either organization. Though it turns out Master C isn't quite dead. Of course, it's possible he covered up that he'd been the one to do the shooting rather than owning up to the murder and Master C let him get away with it because he thought it was funny. Probably not, though; it's not like the most deadly assassins in the world are going to believe one of their number went down to a stray bullet. And the Eye and Guns are both made of crazy and believe that Asskicking Leads to Leadership. | |
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The entire premise of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, where Monty Navarro kills his entire family to gain the status of earl. | |
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Shot Caller: In the end, Jacob uses a razor blade he smuggled into the prison to overpower a corrupt guard, then unlocks the cell to Aryan leader "The Beast" so he can kill him and take over the gang after convincing the guard to falsify the death report to say that Jacob acted in self-defence. | |
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In Shadow Raiders, that's the policy for the rulership of planet Bone. although we discover near the series' end that Femur couldn't entirely stomach killing his brother, the king at the time, and merely imprisoned him on the Prison Planet in order to take the throne. | |
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Dilbert: Dilbert once did this by accident. Having landed on top of an Elbonian resistance leader (after being deliberately launched there by the other side via giant slingshot), he is appointed to be the new leader. He negotiates an end to the civil war and goes home. After being promoted to Co-CEO to help break the tie between the main CEO and other Co-CEO, Dogbert immediately votes to fire the main CEO. He then orchestrates the death of the other Co-CEO, leaving him in charge of the company. |
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SCP Foundation, SCP-507 ("The Reluctant Dimension Hopper"). Document 507-3B is a list of the Alternate Universes SCP-507 has been to while in Foundation custody. In universe 7F2-WA3-193, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by his Vice President in order to assume the Presidency. Over time this became a standard procedure in which any qualified candidate could become President by assassinating the current President. | |
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Ashton does this in Winters In Lavelle; killing the dragon prince grants him the deceased monarch's land and status "by rite of blood." Though, the killer probably would have been executed instead, except he was also a dragon. | |
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In Metalocalypse Offdensen makes it very clear to Melmord that this was the only way Melmord would become sole manager of Dethklok: he'd have to kill Offdensen first. Melmord fails and dies instead. | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: This is Frans' plan to become the President. As Gordito -and later the Doctor- points out: "That's ... not how our government works." At the end of the arc, Dr. McNinja points out another hole in the plan: Frans isn't an American citizen and wasn't born on American soil, so he wouldn't be eligible for the Presidency anyway. Later the Vice President tries to assassinate the President, but gets caught. And then the President is tricked into making King Radical the new VP and he manages to succeed. |
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Drumline has a non-violent example: any player can challenge a higher-ranking one in a musical duel. Truth in Television for many band programs. | |
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In the C.O.P.S. (1988) episode "The Case of the Crime Convention", Big Boss implies that he isn't the first Big Boss and that he supplanted his predecessor after eliminating him. | |
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Homestuck has a race of aliens known as trolls with classes based on blood color. At the very top is the Tyrian blood caste and there are only two alive at a time: the current Empress and the Heiress who needs to kill the Empress for her place on the throne. And for good reason: there is only one lusus that shares the tyrian blood of the Empress/Heiress and they fight not just for the throne but also for control over this monster, who can easily wipe out the entire race save for those of tyrian blood if she isn't properly maintained. | |
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In one Knights of the Old Republic fanfic, "Destiny's Pawn: Leviathan", Saul Karath isolates Carth from the rest of the crew after the initial "interrogation" and casually re-extends his offer to make Carth his right-hand man in the Sith Fleet. He knows full well Carth wants him dead and tries to sweeten the deal with the offer of a Klingon Promotion. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars has some violations of the Sith Rule of Two: it starts simply with Dooku taking Ventress as an assassin/pseudo-apprentice, and then trying to take her out when Palpatine realizes she might become too strong, then Ventress creating her own "apprentice" in Savage Opress to try and get rid of Dooku, and then Opress betraying both Ventress and Dooku and then teaming up with a not actually dead Darth Maul. Palpatine is forced to step in personally to cut the numbers back down to manageable levels by killing Opress, and Ventress goes into hiding. | |
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Green Lantern: The only way to become Agent Orange of the Orange Lantern Corps is to kill the current holder of that title. Since the orange light becomes weakened if used by multiple people, There Can Be Only One at a time. Be warned that if he should kill you instead, You Will Be Assimilated. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, this is how Redcloak becomes the supreme leader of the hobgoblins. Unwilling to take part in the painful, humiliating, and time-consuming initiation rituals, Redcloak is informed that he can become leader by killing the current leader, so he immediately kills the hobgoblin cleric who has been leading the initiation ceremony. However, it turns out that guy wasn’t actually the supreme leader, but the real supreme leader, seeing how powerful Redcloak was, chose not to press the issue. | |
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Mushishi has the Kuchinawa, a mushi whose very purpose is to do this trope. They roam around for the Lords of the Mountain, mushi who act as guardian spirits to a mountain or mountain range, and seek to devour them and take their place as Lord. Mujika, who assumes the role of the current Lord of the Mountain, is a subversion, since villagers killed the previous Lord for him in an effort to get him to stay in town. | |
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Thanos Rising: After serving with a crew of space pirates for several years, the Captain finally has enough of Thanos' pacifistic ways and tries to kill him in a duel. Thanos kills the captain quite easily and takes over his ship. | |
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This is how Dorf Quest deals with gods: A sufficiently powerful mortal may challenge one in a duel in order to gain his or her godhood. In addition, it takes ten years to get properly used to these new powers, during which the new god is (relatively) easy prey. It has been established that the turnabout rate is quite high, although there are also four gods who have never been defeated. | |
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The Ninja Mafia in Sam & Fuzzy is ruled by an emperor and his ruling council (which the emperor selects when crowned). One of the council is elected new emperor if the emperor dies. It's never stated outright but implied pretty heavily, that traditional succession often involved an incumbent stealthily assassinating the sitting emperor. In addition, if (in an extremely unlikely scenario) someone were to assassinate both emperor and the entire council, the assassin becomes the new emperor. | |
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The main plotline for Kind Hearts and Coronets, where Louis Mazzini, the disowned grandson of the Duke of Chalfont, systematically murders his way through the family to become the sole heir to the title and estates. | |
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Evon: Maximus The Cruel, fresh from charging himself up on dark magics, executes a coup d'taut within The Cabal, killing (former) Big Bad Sevarian The Powerful and forcing his dragon, Ferneris The Gray, to run for his life. The rest of the Cabal's inner circle quickly falls in line. | |
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In The Last Jedi, Kylo Ren takes Rey to Supreme Leader Snoke, who orders him to kill her to show his devotion to the Dark Side. Instead, Kylo kills Snoke using the confiscated Skywalker lightsaber to slice him in half and makes himself the new Supreme Leader. | |
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In Magic Powder, the orcish clans have a very simple promotion system — you kill someone and then you get to take their spot in the hierarchy until someone else kills you. This is how Gundel became the head of the orc clans, and when he's killed in the first issue, his lieutenants immediately slaughter each other to determine who will become the new boss. | |
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In The Man with the Golden Gun, Big Bad Professional Killer Scaramanga takes over Hai Fat's business corporation this way, by shooting him with his Golden Gun and steals the Solex Agitator as well. An assistant to Hai Fat arrives shortly after Scaramanga kills Hai Fat. Scaramanga then leaves Hai Fat's office and makes a Bond One-Liner of his own: | |
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Pathfinder: The hierarchy of Hell works in this manner by design. Insofar as the devils are concerned, someone not willing to do whatever needs doing to become ruler is not fit for rulership — and a ruler who cannot keep his followers from overthrowing him was a weak ruler to begin with. In Classic Monsters Revisited, the sidebar discussing crimes and punishments in gnoll society notes that the traditional "punishment" for regicide is to ascend to leadership of the slain chieftain's band. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: For drow of the Forgotten Realms setting, treachery is an acceptable method of achieving advancement, provided the assassin does not get caught. No different from any other culture perhaps, except that it's oft-cited conventional wisdom and the word of their goddess Lloth. This doesn't apply only to individuals, but to whole noble clans as well. If one noble family becomes extinct, every lower-ranking clan moves up in the hierarchy. The twist, however, is that any noble who survives can report the murders. Which usually leads to every other noble clan teaming up against the offenders to punish their "crimes" (and protect their own skins). As a result, attacks on the castles of noble families rarely leave any survivors. But drow are opportunistic bastards, so in the days and weeks following the "mysterious disappearance" of an entire clan, there are frequently some Cousin Olivers appearing in "random" other families. The drow princess Liriel Baenre discusses this system (and drow society in general) with a couple of curious surface dwellers in the novel Windwalker. She uses the example of a renowned master swordsmith and an up-and-coming rival, and notes that there are two accepted ways for the younger smith to get the older one's position — he can genuinely dedicate himself to becoming more skilled (which usually takes years of effort, planning, and more than a little magic) or he can kill the other smith (which also usually takes years of effort, planning, and more than a little magic). Liriel notes that although the stereotypical image of drow is that they would prefer the second way, in actual practice that's not always the case. Devils are often promoted this way in the armies of Hell; most sources state that all of them are either Starscreams or potential ones, and their leaders encourage it. (In fact, the original ruler of Stygia, Geryon, was stripped of his position because he showed loyalty to the Overlord of Hell, something that has no place in this society. Of course, what did you expect from Hell?) 1st edition AD&D Player's handbook In order for a 13th or 14th level Assassin to advance to the next higher level, they had to kill the Assassin character of that level. At any given time there are only 9 12th level druids, three Archdruids (13th level), and one Great Druid (14th level). In order to advance to that level, a druid has to face one of the druids (or the druid) of that level in combat. If the loser survives the combat, they lose one level of experience. There are only three monks of the 8th level and only one monk of level 9-17 at one time. In order to advance to those levels, a monk had to defeat the monk (or one of the monks) of that level in hand to hand combat. If the loser survives, they lose a level of experience. |
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In The Victors Project, many of the Career Victors from Districts 1 and 2 get selected as tribute by killing or incapacitating the prior favorite to be chosen as that year’s tribute. | |
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Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: In "Who's Who?", Klunk takes command of Vulture Squadron when Dick Dastardly gets amnesia. | |
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This is how the drow change their current Matriarch in Corner Alley 13. | |
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One Night Ultimate Werewolf added the Assassin and Apprentice Assassin roles in the One Night Ultimate Vampire expansion. If both are in the game, the Apprentice Assassin only wins if the Assassin is killed. | |
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For drow of the Forgotten Realms setting, treachery is an acceptable method of achieving advancement, provided the assassin does not get caught. No different from any other culture perhaps, except that it's oft-cited conventional wisdom and the word of their goddess Lloth. This doesn't apply only to individuals, but to whole noble clans as well. If one noble family becomes extinct, every lower-ranking clan moves up in the hierarchy. The twist, however, is that any noble who survives can report the murders. Which usually leads to every other noble clan teaming up against the offenders to punish their "crimes" (and protect their own skins). As a result, attacks on the castles of noble families rarely leave any survivors. But drow are opportunistic bastards, so in the days and weeks following the "mysterious disappearance" of an entire clan, there are frequently some Cousin Olivers appearing in "random" other families. The drow princess Liriel Baenre discusses this system (and drow society in general) with a couple of curious surface dwellers in the novel Windwalker. She uses the example of a renowned master swordsmith and an up-and-coming rival, and notes that there are two accepted ways for the younger smith to get the older one's position — he can genuinely dedicate himself to becoming more skilled (which usually takes years of effort, planning, and more than a little magic) or he can kill the other smith (which also usually takes years of effort, planning, and more than a little magic). Liriel notes that although the stereotypical image of drow is that they would prefer the second way, in actual practice that's not always the case. |
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The Marvel UK series complicated things further, thanks to its post-Movie future timeline, the Galvatron from that timeline traveling to the present day of the comics, and featuring several Decepticon leaders on Cybertron jockeying for position and getting killed off. | |
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Ironically, again according to the Legends, both Sidious and Vader would try to violate the rule themselves — Vader by explicitly taking a secret apprentice in The Force Unleashed, then Sidious by intending to cast even Luke aside and rule alone, immortal and eternally. And Darth Plagueis reveals that Sidious had taken Darth Maul as his apprentice and trained him for years before actually ascending to the rank of master himself. He then corrected the violation of the Rule of Two by murdering Plagueis. (The other Force-sensitive agents they use don't count, as they aren't trained in Sith tradition, and some may not even have been aware of it.) The Sith who formalized the Rule of Two also anticipated this, and fully expected it to be self-correcting. When a second apprentice gets brought into the mix, normally either the current apprentice is about to kill his master, or the current master is about to dispose of the current apprentice in favor of a more useful one. Or, if the second apprentice is unworthy, he gets to be the one discarded. In all those scenarios, the Rule of Two is restored. Indeed, at the end of his reign as Sith Lord, Darth Bane and his apprentice Darth Zannah each had picked a new apprentice of their own. Bane was worried that Zannah was going soft because she hadn't tried to kill him and thus decided to replace her, while Zannah had chosen that exact moment to overthrow Bane. Ultimately, Zannah killed Bane and took Bane's would-be second apprentice as her own. Bane and Zannah both tried to lure the apprentice to their side, but Darth Cognus declared that if either of them needed her help to win then they were not worthy of being her master. | |
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Traveller: The "Right of Assassination" was established fairly early in the Third Imperium's history after Porfiria, chosen by lot by a secret meeting of the Imperial Moot, assassinated and succeeded Cleon III, who was the Third Imperium's equivalent to Caligula. However, ascension by assassination still required the approval of the Moot. Later on there was a period where naval admirals would kill the current Emperor and take the title themselves. They were called the "Emperors of the Flag" but did not have the Moot's approval. In 2nd Edition MegaTraveller, Archduke Dulinor assassinated Emperor Strephon and tried to take his place, but failed. | |
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Numenera: In the Underwater City of Ahmas, where society is essentially a giant gladiatorial arena, the most expedient way of becoming king is often to fight and kill the previous king, as the current monarch did when he took the throne. | |
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Happens several times to the kings of the northern kingdom of Israel in The Books of the Kings, Jeroboam I's son Nadab is killed by Baasha who succeeds him as king, killing off the rest of Jeroboam's family in the process. Baasha's son Elah is killed by Zimri who succeeds him as king (for one week), doing the same thing to Baasha's family, this being sufficiently notorious for Jezebel to use of the next example: Jehu kills off the rest of Ahab and Jezebel's family and succeeds them as king. Jehu's great-great-grandson Zechariah is killed by Shallum, who is then killed by Menahem, who succeeds him as king. Menahem's son Pekahiah is killed by Pekah, who as king is later killed by Hoshea, who succeeds him as the last king. |
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Kaeloo: Discussed in the episode "Let's Play Gangster Poker", where Mr. Cat becomes a gangster and hires Stumpy to work under him. Stumpy tries to formulate a complex plan to kill Mr. cat so he can become the boss instead, though he never gets the chance to carry it out. | |
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This is Iznogoud's entire motivation and modus operandi: as Grand Vizier, he'll take over if the Caliph dies, hence his oft-repeated catchphrase "I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph!" | |
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Better Bones AU: Leopardfur, Crookedstar's deputy, poisons Crookedstar so she can succeed him as leader. She is in turn killed by her own deputy, Mistyfoot, who is disillusioned with Leopardstar's leadership and believes she can do better. | |
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Champions. The VIPER organization has often allowed its members to advance by murdering their superiors. For example, in the 5th Edition Viper: Coils of the Serpent supplement Redstone became Commandant of the Vancouver VIPER’s Nest after killing the former Nest Leader. | |
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Gundam: In the original Mobile Suit Gundam, the Zabi Family mostly use this tactic to get ahead. Zabi patriarch Degwin becomes the leader of Zeon in the first place by having Zeon Zum Deikun assassinated (or getting really lucky; it's never proven that Degwin ordered the assassination, or for that matter that he even was assassinated in the first place given that he had pre-existing health conditions that could have caused his fatal collapse, but several characters believe it to be fact, including Deikun's son Casval aka Char who uses it as justification for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge) and then claiming Deikun's last words on his deathbed were to appoint him his successor. Then, late in the series, Degwin gets a taste of his own medicine when Gihren uses the Solar Ray to kill him before he can sue for peace, thus becoming Zeon's new leader by inheritance. Gihren's victory is much shorter-lived than his father's, though, as his sister Kycilia in turn confronts him with his crime before shooting him dead on the bridge in full view of all the ship's crew. She then succeeds Gihren as Zeon's leader before meeting her end in the Battle of A Boa Qu. Played with in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, where the Big Bad Duumvirate of Jamitov Hymen and Bosque Ohm are killed off by Paptimus Scirocco late in the series, securing Scirocco's role as Big Bad just in time for the final battle. In Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, this becomes Neo-Zeon Super-Soldier Gyunei Guss's goal after meeting Quess Paraya and more or less losing his mind. |
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Ms. Tree: After The Queenpin Dominique Muerta is murdered, her daughter Lisa hires Ms. Tree to find the killer. Ms. Tree takes the head of security job Dominique had offered her, to the surprise and consternation of Dominique's nephew, "Don Donnie," the new head of Muerta Enterprises. Tree determines Donnie is ultimately responsible for his aunt's death, but didn't explicitly order it. | |
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A non-lethal variation occurs in Star Trek: Debt of Honor. Starfleet lieutenant Jamie Finney, who acts as a liaison officer on Commander Kor's Klingon ship, recommends caution in an unclear tactical situation. Khadri, a female Klingon officer taller by more than a head responds by insulting her as coming from a "coward's race" and threatens her, to which Finney reacts by knocking Khadri out with a flying kick. | |
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In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "wej Duj" ("Three Ships"), Klingon lower-deck helm officer Ma'ah spends most of his scenes performing menial tasks for Captain Dorg, but agreeing with Captain Dorg that the Klingon Empire has become soft allows Ma'ah to fill the recently-vacant position of second-in-command (empty because of a failed attempt at the Klingon Promotion). When Captain Dorg reveals that he's been providing Pakleds with Klingon weapons and sending them off to fight Klingon battles in secret, Ma'at points out that this is a massively dishonorable act that will eventually backfire and weaken the Empire further (Klingons always fight their own battles). Ma'at then uses his position as second-in-command to obtain a Klingon Promotion, taking charge and preventing further subterfuge that could destroy relations with the Federation. | |
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BattleTech: The Clans practice a weirdly sanctioned form of this trope. If a Clan warrior believes their superior is incompetent, as a warrior they have a right to challenge the suitability of their commanding officer's qualifications to command. This usually comes in the form of Trial by Combat, and while death in trial is not the goal, it's also not uncommon, either, since losing such a trial is usually a career-killer regardless of whether you're the challenger or challenged. The catch is, though, that merely defeating or killing a superior officer is not enough; the officer above them must approve of the subsequent promotion, though seeing as how Asskicking Leads to Leadership among the Clans, an officer losing to their subordinate is usually evidence enough that they were not worthy of commanding that subordinate. Also, as they detest subterfuge due to Honor Before Reason, Clan warriors will not simply backstab or assassinate a superior officer in a clandestine manner to advance themselves as a general rule, and those who do are considered dangerous aberrations by the rest of Clan society, often hunted down as no better than bandits and pirates. Klingon Promotions in Clan society are done above board, thank you very much. It's also important to note that challenging someone's leadership in Clan society doesn't have to be because you want the position. It's possible that you can challenge a leader because they're terrible in that position, and you want them out of it. If you win, you can then take the position yourself, or let someone else take it. A Trial By Combat is specifically about removing the leader in question, not strictly about taking their place. That said, Alaric Ward pulled this off to the letter against his commanding officer, Seth Ward. While Alaric was being lectured about his failure on the battlefield, an assassin attacked him with a poisoned knife. Alaric killed the assassin, but then grabbed his knife and used it to murder Seth, claiming the assassin had killed him and stepping into his now-vacant position. It's never been conclusively proven, but something like this is very heavily implied to be the reason that the second commander of Wilson's Hussars, Michael Langstrom, died suddenly in battle after his continued incompetence, blatant cowardice, and endless blame-shifting led to the destruction of most of the unit. In response, it's widely believed that his own executive officer, David Wilson, blasted The Neidermeyer in the back to spare the remnants of the unit from his disastrous bungling and let them escape with their lives. To no one's surprise, the surviving Hussars have stated that even if Wilson ever publicly admitted to killing Langstrom himself, none of them would ever testify to such before a tribunal—they hated Langstrom that much. |
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In DC Universe fanfiction Daughter of Fire and Steel, General Zod seizes control of the Kryptonian Council by barging into the council chambers and shooting the leader in the chest. | |
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Miss Nobody has a variation, with Sarah Jane killing her co-workers in order to get promoted to their positions. A secretary (and former friend) named Charmaine later tries to do the same to her, feeling that she'd been passed up for promotion because of Sarah Jane's meteoric rise. | |
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When Rhinox is infected with a virus that turns him into a Predacon, he immediately starts plotting against Megatron... and nearly succeeds. Rhinox is really smart. Trying to make him ruthless is probably not a good idea. And then Megatron goes and does it ''again'' (though this time he's prepared for and welcomes Rhinox's scheming, which allows him to obtain a legendary artifact of power against the organic). | |
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Rolemaster system game Spacemaster, Privateers campaign setting. In the Jeronan Empire military, lower level personnel fight duels (sometimes to the death) to rise in rank. | |
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Turns out in at least one universe of Dragon Ball Multiverse, the Saiyan hierarchy works like this. Case in point: when no one believed Bardock about his visions of Freeza destroying the Saiyan race, he forces the issue by challenging King Vegeta for the throne and winning, making him the new king and giving him the authority to order them to attack Freeza. | |
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One Piece: Blackbeard became one of the Four Emperors after killing his former captain, Whitebeard, and conquering his former territories for himself. It's downplayed a bit because Blackbeard wasn't considered a true Emperor by the masses until he also defeated Whitebeard's commanders in battle a year later, who came after Blackbeard for revenge. | |
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In Nebula, Jupiter actively believes in this trope: he wants to kill Sun so that he'll get Sun's job as leader of the solar system. Whether or not it'd actually work out that way is irrelevant, since it's pretty clear that the chances of him managing to wound Sun, much less kill him, aren't exactly high. | |
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Futurama: The throne of the planet Trisol works this way, with the end result being each Emperor only rules for a short time before he's drunk. Did we mention the beings of Trisol are living water who sleep in bottles? And "a short time" means he's usually done away with the night after his coronation? In fact, the longest reign of any emperor was one week. In the palace's portrait gallery, there are empty frames after Fry's portrait labeled "Fry's Assassin" and "Fry's Assassin's Assassin". Hell, this scene ends with a panel opening the wall, and a straw coming out to (unsuccessfully) try to drink him. Also from "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" while referring to Lrrr's king cape: |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Giorno and Buccarati's plan was originally for Bruno to rise up the ranks of Passione and get close to finding out the Boss's Secret Identity, then kill him and take over in the organization so they turn Passione into a force of good and end the drug trade plaguing Italy. The plans speed up after they find out that the Boss is paranoid enough to kill his newly-revealed daughter, and ultimately Giorno kills him and becomes the new Don. | |
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In Code Geass, Lelouch invokes this trope after killing his father, Emperor Charles zi Britannia, ascending to the throne himself as 99th Holy Britannian Emperor, Lelouch vi Britannia. Played with in that he didn't kill his father for that purpose but was quite happy to take advantage of this trope afterwards. Further played with in that none of the nobility and fellow royal family members recognized his authority until he used his Geass powers to force them to accept his rule. This is despite the fact that Charles himself became the 98th Holy Britannian Emperor in the exact same manner. Earlier, this is attempted by Kewell Soresi. After the Orange Incident, he thinks Jeremiah Gottwald is no longer fit to lead the Purebloods, so he lures him into a trap and tries to assassinate him. Fortunately for Orange Boy, Viletta and Suzaku intervene to save him. |
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In Doomsday, Eden apparently takes over running the cannibal tribe after killing Sol and presenting his severed head to the rest. | |
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De Generaal: The entire Running Gag of this comic is that De Generaal ("The General") wants to take over the fortress and become general himself, but he keeps on failing. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has a card named Goblin King, the flavor text of which explains their political system. | |
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This was The Nostalgia Chick's plan to get the presidency of Kickassia: kill The Nostalgia Critic. | |
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Swords: The Sword Tapir defeats Joyeuse in the final round of the Swor'nament...and according to a past royal decree, since Joyeuse was Queen of Hiltshire at the time she was defeated, that meant that the Sword Tapir was now the new king of Hiltshire. After her initial shock, Joyeuse takes the loss of her title in stride, deciding to leave Hiltshire and go find Harpe instead. | |
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Oglaf: The guy in one strip who wants to seduce the world's most beautiful woman thinks the title works this way, which leads him to attempt to seduce the crocodile that ate the previous title-holder. | |
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In The Santa Clause, this is essentially the spirit of the titular rule: there has to be a Santa and when you put on the suit, you're him. It's just that Scott making the mistake of accidentally killing the last Santa that makes it this trope. | |
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This is how Frost Giant society works in The Mighty Thor, befitting a race that values might over everything else. They are pretty serious about it too: when Loki's father Laufey is revived, he's less upset about being killed by Loki than he is by the fact that Loki didn't take his place afterwards. | |
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Legend of the Blue Diamond: Family members of the monarch of Tahzinii can challenge them to fight for the throne. Akela challenges Ekala in this way to keep her from hurting others and becomes queen. | |
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In Solo, Han's former girlfriend Qi'ra kills Dryden Vos, a high-ranking member of the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate, and takes over his position. Then she finds out her new boss is none other than Maul. | |
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Robot Chicken: The sketch "Not So Smurfy" has The Smurfs competing in Gargamel's Smurf Hunger Games to replenish their crops that were ravaged by a gypsy moth infestation. When Papa Smurf ignores Sassette's suggestion to convert the smurfberries they won into preserves to prevent another shortage, Sassette murders him and takes his beard, claiming herself to be the new Papa Smurf. | |
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In Jew Gangster, Ruby becomes The Dragon to The Big Guy after he kills the previous Dragon in a bar brawl. | |
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In Reborn! (2004), Squalo takes over the Varia by engaging in an epic swordfight with, and eventually beheading, the former Head. Squalo cuts off his own dominant hand before the fight and wins while exhausted from blood-loss. The Varia promptly proclaim the fourteen-and-a-half year old the new Head of the Varia. About a week later, he gives it to Xanxus. Belphegor becomes Storm Officer by breaking into the Varia HQ and murdering the then-current Storm Officer. Belphegor was eight at the time. |
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Warhammer 40,000: Ork hierarchy tends to work this way: if you succeed in killing the previous Warboss, the former officeholder clearly didn't deserve the job. This trope is so important to the orks that it's part of their actual biology. An ork that does well in fighting will naturally grow in size, allowing him to boss around smaller orks and challenge orks at his own size. Winning makes him even bigger and lets him boss around orks at his former size, and losing (even if it doesn't kill him) will make his rival bigger and capable of bossing him around; either way the hierarchy is preserved. It should be mentioned that, to orks, the notion of a smaller ork challenging — to say nothing of defeating — a bigger ork in a scrap for leadership is literally inconceivable (i.e. not only physically impossible but something an ork is incapable of thinking about), which explains why it's never happened. The Dark Eldar are a particularly stellar example as literally the only method of advancement within the Kabals (the paramilitary organizations that most Dark Eldar belong to) is to kill the person holding the desired title. Orks may simply intimidate other Orks into servitude with their superior size and bash the skulls of anyone who disagrees, but this trope is so fundamental to Dark Eldar society that Archons (Kabal leaders) have to hire strictly neutral Incubus bodyguards from outside their Kabal because none of their subordinates are trustworthy. Not surprisingly, Asdrubael Vect, the leader of the most powerful Kabal and de facto overlord of the Dark Eldar, encourages this sort of behaviour to maintain his position, although it is also implied in the Path of the Dark Eldar novels that he prevents the backstabbing from totally destabilizing Dark Eldar society. Furthermore, all backstabbing is on hold whenever a group of Dark Eldar is on a realspace raid for slaves— but as soon as everyone is safely back in Commoragh, everyone is fair game again. Chaos factions of all kinds, as well as some of the more psychotic Imperial Space Marine chapters, have this trope as well. The Horus Heresy short story Inheritor reveals that this is how the titular character, Eliphas (the Chaos hero unit from Dawn of War: Dark Crusade), earned his epithet: he killed his Chapter Master during the Word Bearers' purge and took command of his Chapter. Lorgar said that Eliphas hadn't earned his new position, he had merely "inherited" it. This is both averted and played straight with the Moritat. The Moritat are a death cult, but it's considered taboo to kill a fellow Moritat unless you have a damn good reason. The singular exception is the leader of the cult, the High Reaper. She will take one apprentice and groom him/her as her replacement. How does (s)he gain the rank? Take a guess. |
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Drowtales: Princess Snadhya'rune and her sisters killed their mother by forming a demon-summoning group on the outskirts of the Drow capital Chel, sending it in open war on the city, and burying their mother alive during the chaos while pinning the blame on the one sister who stayed loyal. The sisters used body doubles of the queen to rule from the lesser thrones, but they argue over actual policy. They've been fighting for the queen's throne ever since. | |
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Warhammer: The Skaven, and how! The entire race is built around the concept of backstabbing = good, and they follow it with gusto. There's probably not a single Skaven who is not planning to off his superior/tormentor/brother. Higher up in the ranks you have to get creative, as demonstrated when Grey Seer Thanquol of Gotrek and Felix fame offed his competitor for the position of army general with an accident involving a loaded crossbow and an exploding donkey. Pretty much the way the Greenskin army hierarchy works — if you want to be the Warlord, you need to kill the old Warlord. Ogres follow a similar style of leadership, with the added expectation that the winner eats the loser alive to cement his claim. Attempted by Malekith, would-be third Phoenix King of the High Elves, when he poisoned his predecessor and killed the council of princes that selected the king. Long story short it didn't work, which is why Malekith has since been the exiled Witch King of the Dark Elves on another continent. The Dark Elves, incidentally, also use this trope heavily, all the way up to Malekith who has kept his position of head honcho for millennia by being tougher, meaner and more vicious than his entire kingdom. Malekith also serves as something as a control mechanism on this trope: anyone who wants to try getting a promotion needs Malekith's approval first, or they'll find themselves deposed no sooner than their superior lies dead. |
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Always the Quiet Ones: Upon finding a bunch of sports equipment in Fluttershy's house which actually belongs to Rainbow Dash, Pinkie surmises that Fluttershy may have gotten rid of Rainbow Dash to take her place on the sports teams at school. | |
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In the Star Fleet Universe fiction story Mutiny on the Demonslayer, Commodore Jark Valgan attempts to assassinate his superior, Admiral Korvik, so as to take his position. Valgan is an ethnic Klingon. | |
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A kid-friendly version in Asterix and the Goths, where every Goth chieftain is doped to the gills on magic potion and spends their time beating the other chieftains with large wooden clubs and declaring themselves ruler over all the Goths to general hilarity (as a Batman Gambit by Getafix, who knows they won't invade Gaul with all the infighting). Since none of them die, they just get back up and start plotting anew. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, this becomes Neo-Zeon Super-Soldier Gyunei Guss's goal after meeting Quess Paraya and more or less losing his mind. | |
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Child of the Storm: Lucius eventually kills Baron Von Strucker (after drugging him for the means to control the Winter Soldier) and seizes control of HYDRA by force. General Lukin pulls this in Chapter 12 of the sequel Ghosts of the Past when his Mask of Sanity slips off and he executes President Volodya, becoming (through his patsies) the de facto ruler of Russia. |
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On Jimmy Two-Shoes, it's established that Lucius became ruler of Miseryville after freezing his father solid. As it turns out, this is how every Heinous took control of the town. | |
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In Pacificators, the Spanish Princess Belinda poisoned her father for the throne. | |
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In Hunter × Hunter, this is how Hisoka replaced the previous #4 position member in the Phantom Troupe gang. | |
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In the season 1 finale of OK Ko Lets Be Heroes, Darrell successfully manages to become the new manager of Box More, after he exposes Lord Boxman's latest activities to his investors and they let him shoot his father out of a cannon towards the sun. Boxman actually survives the ordeal (with light burns) a few months later. | |
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Dragon Ball: After learning that Commander Red only wanted the Dragon Balls to make himself taller, Staff Officer Black shoots him dead point-blank and takes over as the new leader of the Red Ribbon Army, aiming to use Shenron's powers to conquer the world. | |
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This is, essentially, how the Decepticons work. The same for the descendants, the Predacons. The Beast Wars Megatron even points out after an attempted assassination by Tarantulas that he's ok with treachery. It's incompetence he hates. When Rhinox is infected with a virus that turns him into a Predacon, he immediately starts plotting against Megatron... and nearly succeeds. Rhinox is really smart. Trying to make him ruthless is probably not a good idea. And then Megatron goes and does it ''again'' (though this time he's prepared for and welcomes Rhinox's scheming, which allows him to obtain a legendary artifact of power against the organic). |
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The Necromongers in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) exemplify their adherence to this philosophy in their motto: "You keep what you kill". | |
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In a Patreon-only Dumbing of Age strip Galasso tells Conquest that only when she is willing and able to do this will she be a worthy heiress to his 'empire' (read: pizza parlor). Becky, who watched the whole conversation, briefly raises a knife before deciding 'naw'. | |
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Ami from Dungeon Keeper Ami was bestowed the title of Empress Ami, Ruler of Avatar Island by the Light Gods after she slew the self-proclaimed Emperor Zakeros and beat the Avatar. She later has problems with subordinates who think they can get into her inner circle by murdering their superiors. | |
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The Infinite Loops portray the Gryphon Lands on Equestria as this, though it's nuanced a little. | |
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In X/1999, the Sakurazukamori is a clan of assassins with only one member at any particular time. The fate of the Sakurazukamori is to choose to die at the hands of the one they love most who then takes their place and repeats the cycle. Yes, it's a weird series with so many masochistic characters that want to be killed. | |
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Muzan makes it clear to the Twelve Kizuki, his elite group of powerful demons, that only the strong belongs in said close circle; so he has established a Blood Succession Battle system in which a demon who seeks to be ranked within the upper Kizuki can just challenge them and take any position if they are up to the task. | |
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A Rabbit Among Wolves: Jaune accidentally takes control of the Vale White Fang branch after he accidentally stabs Adam in the throat. | |
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Ages of Shadow: The fourth Himinion claims the title by poisoning and then murdering his predecessor, Boaz. However, since this blatantly violated the rules that Jade had put into place — and since Boaz was her favorite disciple and personal protege — she proceeds to messily kill this arrogant bastard when he shows up to claim his prize. | |
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Happens at the end of Mary Poppins of all places. Mr. Banks told the senior partner and bank founder a joke that made him laugh himself to death. The other partners later tell Banks that they're promoting him to the opened position. | |
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Beyond Sherwood Forest: After the original Sheriff of Nottingham is killed by the dragon, Malcolm murders William of Locksley — who is next in line — in order to secure the position. | |
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The funny thing is that, according to Star Wars Legends, the "Rule of Two" was actually made to curtail this behavior. Before it, the Sith organization practically ate itself since everybody constantly tried to pull this trope at once; the rule was instituted by the sole survivor of one such moment gone horribly bad. It was also noted somewhere that without the rule, several existing Sith apprentices could team up to kill their master... and then promptly try and kill each other. The last remaining would be far weaker than his master (only better or luckier than his accomplices), thus weakening the Sith overall relative to the Jedi. | |
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Looking for Group: The appointed king of The Empire is always the elf who is closest to the Royal Crown when the last wearer dies by any means. Hence a fallen hero who uses the most depraved means of assassination is immediately worshipped because the crown is at his feet. And then subverted when Richard fucks with ALL the nobility (Royal Crown becomes an Artifact of Doom). | |
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In the original Mobile Suit Gundam, the Zabi Family mostly use this tactic to get ahead. Zabi patriarch Degwin becomes the leader of Zeon in the first place by having Zeon Zum Deikun assassinated (or getting really lucky; it's never proven that Degwin ordered the assassination, or for that matter that he even was assassinated in the first place given that he had pre-existing health conditions that could have caused his fatal collapse, but several characters believe it to be fact, including Deikun's son Casval aka Char who uses it as justification for his Roaring Rampage of Revenge) and then claiming Deikun's last words on his deathbed were to appoint him his successor. Then, late in the series, Degwin gets a taste of his own medicine when Gihren uses the Solar Ray to kill him before he can sue for peace, thus becoming Zeon's new leader by inheritance. Gihren's victory is much shorter-lived than his father's, though, as his sister Kycilia in turn confronts him with his crime before shooting him dead on the bridge in full view of all the ship's crew. She then succeeds Gihren as Zeon's leader before meeting her end in the Battle of A Boa Qu. | |
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The Transformers (Marvel) has a lengthy chain of Decepticons assuming command aftter killing the former leader. Bizarrely, Starscream, who wanted to kill and replace Megatron since day one, never got the chance to do so. At the end of the original limited series, Megatron and the Decepticons were left crippled and helpless. Shockwave turned up while the Autobots were celebrating their victory and blew everyone away, deemed Megatron incompetent, imprisoned him and assumed command. Megatron eventually escaped and reclaimed his leadership position... only to lose it again, when Shockwave preyed on his paranoid fear of the (then-presumed-dead) Optimus Prime. Megatron blew himself up and Shockwave again took command. Ratbat, essentially the Decepticon supply manager, showed up on Earth to ensure that Shockwave was using Decepticon resources efficiently (It Makes Sense in Context). Shockwave ends up presumed dead fighting the Autobots because Ratbat doesn't want to waste gas fishing him out of Earth's atmosphere. Ratbat assumes command. Scorponok, a powerful Decepticon leader in his own right, arrives on Earth around that time and operates independently for a bit, eventually jockeying for supremacy with Ratbat. Scorponok eventually shoots Ratbat in the back and assumes full command of the Decepticons on Earth. Back on Cybertron, Megatron eventually returned and reclaimed command of the Decepticons there. After Ratchet caught him in an exploding transdimensional portal, Thunderwing assumed command. Scorponok fends off assassination attempts by Megatron, Starscream, and Shockwave, only to bite it fighting Unicron. In addition, Thunderwing (who'd been MIA since he'd stolen the Creation Matrix) was killed by Unicron as well. Bludgeon, up until now a basic grunt, assumes command because Megatron, Starscream, and Shockwave are all MIA, and no one else left on Cybertron is qualified. (Shockwave and Starscream decided to steal the Ark and leave the dying planet, inadvertently taking Megatron with them.) Bludgeon lasts into the subsequent G2 series but is killed by a rebuilt Megatron, who stays in charge until the series is canceled. The Marvel UK series complicated things further, thanks to its post-Movie future timeline, the Galvatron from that timeline traveling to the present day of the comics, and featuring several Decepticon leaders on Cybertron jockeying for position and getting killed off. Hilariously subverted by Tracer of the Decepticon Military Patrol squad. He covets the position of squad leader, but he genuinely respects the current leader, Bombshock. So his method of attempting to gain control of the squad is trying to figure out a way to get Bombshock promoted. |
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The Departed although it's unclear if the hierarchy was changed much. | |
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In the films themselves, we have the Skywalkers: In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin (the eventual Vader) kills Dooku,note which itself is an inversion, being a Klingon Demotion for Dooku as he is killed on Sidious' order to free up his position for Anakin current Sith apprentice — which, unbeknownst to him at first, put him on the path to become the new one. Then, in Return of the Jedi, Darth Sidious (Emperor Palpatine) wants Luke to kill Anakin and become the next apprentice... | |
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In MSF High, if you can beat up the hall monitor, you become the new hall monitor. | |
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The headband rules of Afro Samurai fall under this. If one has the number one headband, they are considered god and only the number two can challenge him. The person who has said latter headband, though, can be challenged by anyone. | |
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Along Came a Spider has an odd variation as well as an aversion. Candace Liao is forced to assassinate her sister Romano in order to stop her from attacking the St. Ives Compact and Federated Commonwealth at the beginning of the Clan Invasion and distracting them from the more important battle. It's also averted when Kali, her niece, assassinates her, but is quickly taken out herself, and Candace and Justin's son Kai assumes the throne, just long enough for a treaty made before the Clan invasion to fold the Capellan Confederation and St. Ives into the Federated Commonwealth with the wedding of one of Kai's sisters to Victor Steiner-Davion. | |
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In With this Ring... (Green Lantern), Remoni wants to fight and kill Carol Ferris -who at the time was the Queen of Zamarons- to legitimize her claim to the Zamaron throne. Carol sidesteps the issue by saying Remoni can have the throne. | |
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A Burning Flame In My Soul: A non-lethal version exists with the ruler of the hippogriffs. The ruler can be challenged for the right to the throne through three traditional contests: swimming, flying, and combat. Whoever wins two out of three is declared ruler. During the 20 year Time Skip, Princess Skystar became enraged at her mother Queen Novo at her treatment of Silverstream because of her relationship with Gallus, resulting in Novo permanently stripping Silverstream of her noble rank, and challenged her for the throne. Skystar won the swimming challenge, then lost the flying challenge, forcing things to be decided in the combat challenge, with Skystar surprising everyone by defeating her mother and replacing her as Queen. | |
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In nearly twenty-five years of being in various Transformers series, Starscream accomplished this exactly once in The Transformers: The Movie by declaring himself leader of the Decepticons after having a severely damaged Megatron dumped into space alongside other defeated Decepticons. And mere hours later Galvatron (a reformatted Megatron) came back to do the same thing to him. This is, essentially, how the Decepticons work. The same for the descendants, the Predacons. The Beast Wars Megatron even points out after an attempted assassination by Tarantulas that he's ok with treachery. It's incompetence he hates. When Rhinox is infected with a virus that turns him into a Predacon, he immediately starts plotting against Megatron... and nearly succeeds. Rhinox is really smart. Trying to make him ruthless is probably not a good idea. And then Megatron goes and does it ''again'' (though this time he's prepared for and welcomes Rhinox's scheming, which allows him to obtain a legendary artifact of power against the organic). |
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