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Post-Injury Desk Job

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Post-Injury Desk Job	comment	After a Career-Ending Injury (in the line of duty or otherwise), someone is reassigned to an administrative position. If the injury is serious and permanent, the reassignment can be permanent as well; otherwise, the reassignment will last as long as it takes for the injury to heal. Usually, the injury has to be fairly serious, with a lengthy recovery time, in order to justify such a reassignment. In terms of severity, it typically takes at least a broken bone to cause this reassignment; anything less severe or with a shorter recovery time would probably result in the individual just being placed on convalescent leave for the duration of their illness or injury. On the other hand, a more severe injury, or one that causes brain damage, may result in them being permanently discharged. Usually, this trope applies to those in the military, police, or firefighters; however, this could apply to other physically demanding or dangerous occupations, such as construction, logging or mining, or athletes. It's worth noting that many of the tropes related to Desk Jockey and Soldiers at the Rear do not apply here; frontline soldiers often treat those who got a desk job as a result of an injury with a great deal of respect, as their wounds prove that they have served at the front themselves, and also serve as a sobering reminder of what can happen to them. Soul-Crushing Desk Job is a related civilian trope which may cross over if the character in question really misses active duty to the point of despair. Badass Bureaucrat may also apply if they retain some of their badass status despite their injury. See also Paperwork Punishment.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_117116ef	comment	The Penguins of Madagascar: In "Action Reaction" Skipper is forced to pick desk job to avoid stress, which could make him explode.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, PRT ENE director Emily Piggot originally served as a PRT field agent, before a mission gone wrong resulted in kidney and muscle damage that prevented her from returning to field work.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_1463a028	comment	Subverted with Amaro from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. After being shot in the knee he was supposed to be assigned to a desk job, but he opted to retire from NYPD instead.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_1581d7f3	comment	The Blue Max provides the page quote; Kettering is the squadron adjutant, and throughout the film, he walks with a pronounced limp. Stachel is sent to Berlin while recovering from being shot down, although his time in Berlin is more of a publicity tour.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_18bcfe7f	comment	A sports version appears in Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte. Endo was a high-school baseball team member but was forced to retire due to a Career-Ending Injury. The team manager offered him a managerial position on the team, but he declined it in favor of the Broadcasting Club, possibly intended to have a career in sports commentary.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_1face1d7	comment	One Adam-12 episode had Reed working the information desk after an arm injury. He's sporting a cast on his wrist and uses his pencil to try and stop the itching at one point. Malloy has an annoying temporary partner.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_212000b2	comment	Rescue Me had a firefighter whose injuries left him in a wheelchair reassigned to an administrative job at FDNY headquarters.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_32318e9a	comment	Defied by Jackie from Roseanne when she was a cop. After she injured herself arresting a perp, she was going to be offered a desk job. Instead of taking it she instead quit since she didn't want that.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_40b716af	comment	In Assassin's Creed, Malik loses an arm due to Altair's recklessness and is placed in charge of the Brotherhood's Jerusalem branch.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_4142730f	comment	In Patriot Games, this is how Jack Ryan met Robbie Jackson; Jackson, a naval aviator, broke his leg when his airplane's ejector seat spontaneously activated due to a faulty circuit and was given a job teaching at the Annapolis Naval Academy (where Ryan worked) while the injuries healed. Ryan was himself a former Marine officer, but his injuries from a helicopter crash were so severe that he was invalided out of the service entirely. Throughout the books, Jackson continues to see action and receive promotions and greater responsibility, but deep down he has a dread of his developing arthritis, which continually affects his flying. Not long after being promoted to one-star admiral, he has to go through a medical screening where the condition finally makes it impossible to maintain his flight status. At this point, he drives a desk at the Pentagon or aboard an aircraft carrier and treats his career as though he were playing with house money, figuring he'll either get promoted or not, but if he can't fly, he's not to fussed about it either way.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_45854dfc	comment	Starship Troopers has a soldier missing both legs and with a prosthetic arm processing the recruits' enlistment papers. An unfilmed scene in the script shows that he is there specifically to scare away anybody who seeks to enlist thinking it'll be an easy ride and later on we see Lt. Razak leading his Roughnecks while also using a prosthetic arm, showing the Federation has no issue with that as long as the damage is not too excessive.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_6535218b	comment	At the beginning of Red Storm Rising, USMC Colonel Chuck Lowe has a desk job in intelligence after he broke his leg while skiing.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_6ab79c14	comment	Bend It Like Beckham has the sports-related version of this; Joe can no longer play soccer due to a knee injury, but now works as a coach.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_75149ccd	comment	X-Wing Series: After Nawara Ven loses part of a leg to a micro-meteorite, he gets a prosthetic replacement, but it's not quite good enough to let him keep up with Rogue Squadron. Rather than leave, he becomes the squadron's Executive Officer.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_786a5a97	comment	On Chicago P.D., Sergeant Platt was shot in the line of duty and the injury permanently restricted her mobility, making her ineligible for street duties. She instead took the position of desk sergeant in the 21st District.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_7e4a4bd3	comment	Rules of Engagement has Colonel Hodges, played by Tommy Lee Jones. His leg is severely injured in Vietnam as a young Marine lieutenant. He never again sees action as a line officer, but he goes back to school to earn his law degree and transfers to the legal corps, where he serves out the following thirty years until his retirement. He develops and overcomes a drinking problem, is treated with disrespect by his father, a retired general and war hero, and despite being well respected by his peers and subordinates, never quite gets over being a Marine officer that can no longer lead men in combat.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_88603e58	comment	Discussed in Up Front, a collection of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe comics; at times, frontline soldiers would disparage rear-echelon troops while not realizing that many of those soldiers were assigned rear-echelon duties because they'd been injured on the front lines.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, Ragdoll goes from an active hero to someone who supports her team with desk work after she loses her Quirk to All for One. All Might as well is forced to take a more supportive role after he burns up the last of his power taking down All for One and has to retire from front-line superheroics.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_9c8118d0	comment	Shows up a couple of times in The Century Trilogy: In book 1, Fitz is reassigned to an intelligence office in London after being heavily wounded at The Somme, and also has a coal miner being given a job loading and unloading minecarts from an elevator after losing a hand. Book 2 has Colonel Beck, a Wehrmacht officer who is reassigned to staff headquarters in Berlin after losing a lung on the Eastern Front.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Zigagged with Space Marines: Those too far wounded to continue as line troops but not too badly that they need a Mercy Kill are instead interred as Dreadnoughts, heavily armed and armored life-support sarcophagi on legs that serve as Walking Tanks. Because of their comparative rarity and endurance, they're usually asleep for centuries until they're needed again, both for battle and to give commanders the benefit of their experience. Subverted with Chaos Space Marines, for whom the Dreadnought is punishment: When not in battle, their legs and weapons are removed and they're chained to a wall for years or centuries. When in battle they're so far gone that have a chance of shooting their own side. Subverted with Guardsmen too damaged for augmetics, who are supposedly sent to medical facilities for treatment... on a planet well-known for its production of combat servitors.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_c007e9c8	comment	On Space: Above and Beyond Colonel McQueen was an Ace Pilot till a head injury left him without a working inner ear. An implant allows him to live normally but exposure to high g-forces disables it, causing crippling nausea. McQueen, no longer able to fly space fighters himself, becomes the commanding officer of the 58th squadron and is restricted to desk duties on the SCVN Saratoga.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_c2297a9c	comment	In Judge Dredd, Judges injured in the line of duty who cannot recover sufficiently to meet the requirements of continuing as a Street Judge are often reassigned to administrative roles elsewhere in the Justice Department or become instructors at the Academy of Law. In the story arc "The Day the Law Died" Dredd recruits several of them to aid in his rebellion against the insane Judge Cal as they have not been affected by the brainwashing the street judges were subjected to via subliminal messages in their daily briefing tapes. One judge turned to crime after a bullet to the spine ended her career, resentful at having basically wasted her life. Dredd can't understand her mindset.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_c2e48301	comment	The Hunt for Red October has Commander Quentin, a former destroyer officer, manning a sonar listening post while he's recovering from chemotherapy, and "Skip" Tyler, a former submarine officer who is now teaching at Annapolis and doing consulting work after losing half a leg to a drunk driver. At one point, Tyler is offered the chance to go back to sea, but he turns it down so he can spend more time with his family.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_cac20f89	comment	In JAG Harmon Rabb Jr was once a hotshot F-14 Tomcat pilot who'd seen action in the Gulf of Sudra and the Persian Gulf War. However, he suffered from night blindness, causing him to crash his fighter during a nighttime carrier landing. Harm transfers to the Judge Advocate General corps as a lawyer. However, after his night blindness is surgically cured, he returns to the fleet briefly as a fighter pilot, then returns back to JAG due to poor career prospects if he stays in the fleet.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_ea4f62db	comment	Parodied in Family Guy with the episode Blue Harvest, a Parody Episode of A New Hope. Joe (as Biggs) is shown at the Yavin IV base making sandwiches after an accident left him in a wheelchair.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_f475f785	comment	Legion (2017): After his encounter with David leaves him terribly burned and scarred, Clark is assigned a desk job by Division 3 as soon as he returns to the office. He then promptly refuses to take the job, claiming that he'll hunt and capture the man who almost killed him.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_fe94578f	comment	In the Alex Rider novel Snakehead, Winston Yu served with distinction in Northern Ireland until suddenly developing brittle bone disease, which confined him to a desk job at MI6. This to him felt like being told "You Have Outlived Your Usefulness", ultimately leading him to become a board member for Scorpia.
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Post-Injury Desk Job / int_ffc6c28f	comment	Starship Troopers: This is not uncommon, as the Federal Service has a policy of allowing anyone who is willing and psychologically able to serve, regardless of physical limitations: Invoked by having a multiple amputee serve as a recruiting officer. The man has prosthetics that are indistinguishable from the real thing, but displays his injuries when on duty to remind potential recruits of the real dangers of joining and scare off any who may be joining for the wrong reasons. The book also has several heavily-wounded veteran instructors, including a "dirty fighting" instructor who's wheelchair-bound and wears a neck brace...and is apparently still able to take just about anybody on in a fight and win.
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Post-Injury Desk Job	processingCategory2	Injury Tropes
Post-Injury Desk Job	processingCategory2	Occupation Tropes
Bend It Like Beckham / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
Starship Troopers / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
Endo and Kobayashi Live! / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
Patriot Games / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
Red Storm Rising / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
Something Promised / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
The Boxcar Children / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
The Century Trilogy / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
The Hunt for Red October / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
Chicago P.D. / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
The Penguins of Madagascar / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job

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