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A character has just been promoted to a position within his workplace that he is very clearly unqualified for, as part of some scheme by the higher ups or because no one else is stupid enough to take the job. They may even get promoted on their very first day of a new job without having any experience. This may be because the job has a High Turnover Rate, or because it's extremely dangerous, or the character is being used for something more malicious. The person who receives the promotion will usually never suspect that there is anything fishy going on, despite their lack of credentials. Note that this trope is only for when there seems to be some kind of ulterior motive for the promotion. Somebody who desperately assumes a role because nobody qualified is available if the Closest Thing We Got. A person who is too highly positioned for their level of competence (due to either The Peter Principle or The Dilbert Principle) is a Pointy-Haired Boss. A person who receives a promotion simply to get them out of the way is Kicked Upstairs. Placing a relative in an important position is Nepotism. The effect of the "promotion" is especially bad for whoever was promoted if their new position is known for being a Volatile Second Tier Position. If the character manages to achieve more with their new position than the higher-ups ever expected, see Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster. If they do even worse, see Reassignment Backfire. Also contrast The Uriah Gambit, which is putting someone on the front lines during combat in the hopes that they will end up dead, Reassigned to Antarctica, when a person receives a job as a punishment, and You Are in Command Now, when a person in a military position is forced to take control because everyone else is unavailable. This trope is a common tactic in Springtime for Hitler scenarios. Compare with Nominated as a Prank. |
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In Dune, Duke Leto Atreides is made lord of Arrakis, the most important planet in the entire empire. He is very much aware that the emperor just painted a giant bull's eye on his back. | |
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At the end of the Sluggy Freelance arc "Dangerous Days", HeretiCorp research scientist Chen gets promoted just as the corporation comes under federal investigation. In the comic after the actual head of the corporation delivers that line, Chen is shown being arrested. | |
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The plan of the villainous Leona Humpford and Louis Stoole from The Adventures of Willy Beamish involves hiring and promoting Willy's father Gordon to be the head of HR of the Tootsweet Corporation... right before a plumber's strike sends the company down the tubes. | |
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Conversations with a Cryptid posits that this is why Shigaraki was set up to be the heir of All for One's criminal empire. All for One wanted to retire, and planned to hand his operation over Shigaraki so he'd go make a big mess, get caught, and be taken for the leader, while All for One slipped away quietly because everyone thought that Shigaraki was the person behind everything. It didn't quite work because of a (canon) Spanner in the Works — a random civilian informed the police of the location of Shigaraki's hideout, meaning that he nearly got busted before he could inherit anything, and All for One had to personally bail him out. | |
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The Simpsons: "C.E.D'oh" is a good example but also a subversion. Homer learns that the nuclear power plant's legal owner is a canary with a name extremely similar to Mr. Burns, so he takes the fall if things go wrong. Homer then releases the canary and convinces Mr. Burns to make him the new patsy...at which point Homer fires Burns and takes full control. Burns takes it surprisingly well. In "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner", Artie Ziff manages to con Homer into winning his outstanding shares of Ziffcorp through a card game, thus making him the majority owner of the now-failed corporation. Immediately afterwards Artie is tracked down by the Securities and Exchange Commission but when Homer mentions he's now the majority interest in the company, he winds up being the one arrested. |
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In the Looney Tunes short "Hare Brush", Elmer Fudd apparently thinks he's a rabbit and switches places with Bugs Bunny, who is "cured" into believing that he's "Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire". After some gags of Bugs-as-Elmer hunting Elmer-as-Bugs, Bugs-as-Elmer gets hauled off to face tax evasion charges while Elmer gets off scot free. Subverted: "A Pest in the House" had Daffy Duck as a hotel porter and Elmer Fudd as the manager hosting a cranky guest who would hold the manager responsible whenever his sleep was disturbed and punch Elmer in the nose, which ended up constantly happening due to Daffy's shenanigans. At the end of the episode, Elmer promotes Daffy to manager and dons the Porter cap. The guest shows up...and punches Elmer again. |
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In Wintersmith, the witches agree that Mrs Earwig's apprentice Anagramma should get Miss Treason's cottage note A cottage in Discworld witchcraft isn't just a cottage; it's more like taking over a medical practice. Tiffany, who was Miss Treason's apprentice, protests that this is unfair ... on Anagramma who is clearly being set up to fail to prove a point about Mrs Earwig's brand of witchcraft. | |
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In Season 2 of Halo (2022) it appears that Parangosky has been forced out of ONI and Ackerson taking over. However, Master Chief soon discovers Parangosky's "departure" was a cover story and she's still giving Ackerson orders. That includes allowing Reach to fall to the Covenant, sacrificing countless civilians and soldiers, as part of a larger plan. When Parangosky and Ackerson discuss what would happen if this becomes public, Ackerson realizes too late that becoming the public face for this was part of Parangosky's plan to avoid being blamed for the fall of Reach. | |
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Paranoia: "Congratulations, Troubleshooter Uwe-R-DMD! You are now the Assistant Squad Leader! Your job requirements are simple!" (Two hours later:) "And so you see, Friend Computer, if Assistant Squad Leader Uwe-R-DMD hadn't led the charge against the rampaging cleaning bot, we might have come back alive. Hmm? I was the primary squad leader, so where was I? Well, sir, I was busy leading a detachment to the rear, which was vitally important to what success we did have". | |
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The Jim Carrey movie Fun with Dick and Jane has Carrey's character Dick Harper promoted to Vice President of the company just in time to see the company go into a nosedive. He's shoved in front of a camera for a live news interview literally minutes after getting the job. Shortly after starting the interview, the truth of the company's terrible financials breaks, and he ends up as the face of the corporate cover-up, making it impossible for Dick to get a new job. | |
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One Dilbert strip features Dilbert's company recruiting their competitor's "best manager"— and immediately assigning him to an impossible task (Project Goosefood) whose failure will tank his career. Just like all the other "best managers" they recruited from their competitors. | |
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Professor Mmaa's Lecture: The termite psychiatrist Dr. Sigismund Kraft-Durchfreud receives the honor of providing therapy for the Queen herself. His enthusiasm disappears when he learns that the higher-ups have done so in order to have someone to blame (and shift the termite society's attention away from valid concerns) in case the Queen goes ill or infertile. | |
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In the setting of Exalted, the incompetent Regent of the continent-spanning Scarlet Empire was appointed because nobody knew what had happened to their vanished ruler, the Scarlet Empress, and nobody else was stupid enough to risk being found in charge if she ever turned up. | |
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This is the reason people like Advisor Devon get high ranking positions in the Collective of Anarchist States (CAS), in the webcomic S.S.D.D.. The CAS has a system of Challenging the Chief: If you don't agree with the "advise" of a superior you can challenge him with your own ideas, if your peers side with you get promoted to your superior's position while he gets demoted. While ideally the system will only get competent people in leadership roles, often advisors will support the advance of incompetent people with the intention to challenge them later or using them as scapegoats should something turn wrong. | |
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In Hit or Myth, Skeeve is tricked into this. The king says he wants a vacation, and has Skeeve disguise himself as the king. It turns out that the king was about to be forced into a marriage he had no interest in, and now Skeeve has to take his place. He gets revenge by claiming that the real king is himself in disguise and orders him hunted down and arrested. | |
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On Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula allows Zuko to take credit for killing Aang, which allows him to return home with his honor restored... because she's not entirely confident that Aang's dead, and doesn't want to be the one who gets blamed if the Avatar turns up alive. Unusually for this trope, it completely backfired on Azula, as due to Zuko himself informing Ozai that Azula was the one who struck the killing blow and the Avatar was still alive, which no doubt influenced Ozai into declaring her Fire Lord and then deeming himself "Phoenix King", thus deeming her useless. | |
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Admiral Dönitz from the That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch The New Fuhrer is thrilled to have been promoted as Fuhrer, rather oblivious to his headquarters being under fire, and eager to implement his ideas about pensions and the housing shortage. It lasts until his second in command gives him the items he needs to take his first decision: an analysis of the condition of their forces "summed up in one rude word"; General Eisenhower's phone number; and a written translation of 'We give up' in English. He does get a (half-hearted) "Heil Dönitz" for his troubles, though. | |
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In Squidbillies, Early was promoted to CEO to fill a minority quota and to act as a scapegoat for the company's many misdeeds. | |
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An episode of Phineas and Ferb sees Doofenshmirtz put in charge of Danville for the day by his brother in order to take the blame for a supervillain presently on the loose. | |
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On Halt and Catch Fire, Joe publically trumpets Cameron's role in developing the Lovelace BIOS code... right before staging a very public accident that appears to wipe out the code, and which appears to be a result of Cameron's slovenly work habits, so that he can have her fired and keep the rights to the code for himself (he, of course, kept backup disks of the code in case it couldn't be restored.) | |
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On The Office (US), Dwight is promoted to a VP position as a reward for overseeing the Sabre Store project. Unbeknownst to him, Robert California is planning to shut down the project and fire him because a store for Sabre products would be an awful idea. Jim manages to keep him from the meeting where it's supposed to go down long enough for Todd Packer to take both the promotion and the fall. | |
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The Limehouse Golem: The gay Inspector Kildare is made lead detective in the investigation by his homophobic superior so that he'll take the blame for failing to catch the serial killer. Instead, he manages to close the case. | |
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The plot of The Flintstones live action movie is Fred Flinstone being promoted to an executive position, chosen solely for his high level of stupidity. It turns out that he is being used by a Corrupt Corporate Executive to embezzle money from the company and leave Fred to take all the blame. | |
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Yes, Minister: In "The Bed of Nails", Jim Hacker is giving the responsibility of formulating an integrated transport policy and the title of 'Transport Supremo'. Jim is quite pleased with what he sees as a promotion. Sir Humphrey immediately recognises this for the poisoned chalice that it is, and points out that this means that Hacker is now responsible for every transport screw-up in the country and to be blamed when the Integrated Transport Policy inevitably doesn't work due to the factionalism between the different Transport areas. The two of them join forces to find a way to force the PM to give the job to someone else without damaging the department's reputation. In "Party Games" when Hacker is convinced by Bernard that being Chancellor or Foreign Secretary would make him unpopular he is asked by Bernard if he wants the job in the middle, meaning Prime Minister. Initially thinking he means Home Secretary, Hacker comments he'd be responsible for all the muggings, jailbreaks and race riots in the country. In another episode, the Prime Minister plans to close down the Department of Administrative Affairs and Hacker is told there is talk he may be made the Minister responsible for Industrial Harmony. Hacker comments with horror that this means every strike in the country will be his fault.ExplanationThis episode came out in 1980, when strikes were a very frequent part of British society. |
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Defied in Final Fantasy VI. Emperor Gestahl effectively uses Kefka for this, having him arrested so the Emperor can blame the Empire's crimes on him in order to placate the Returners. However, the Returners don't fall for it, and it ultimately ends up making Kefka betray the Emperor after the Floating Continent is revived. | |
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I, Claudius. Emperor Tiberius names Caligula as his successor because he figures that whatever mad antics Caligula will get up to will obscure the faults of his own reign in comparison. | |
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The Wheel of Time: After the schism in the Aes Sedai Magical Society, the rebel faction elects Egwene al'Vere — only a trainee at the time — as their leader. It's ostensibly because she was elsewhere during the rebellion and represents an unbiased opinion; in fact, the senior members want a manipulable figurehead who can take the fall if the rebellion fails. After a stint as an Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster, Egwene openly takes the reins as a Magnificent Bastard with a strong power base. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire does this multiple times... The title "Lord of Harrenhal" should actually be read "Gotcha, Sukka!". Gaining it... rarely bodes well for those "promoted" to it. The complex sociopolitical makeup of the Riverlands and history of the castle virtually guarantees that you'll end up the scapegoat for whoever's in power. That, coupled with the immense cost of trying to maintain such an absurd castle means that receiving it is rarely an actual boon. Every family to possess it eventually goes extinct, which is considered to be a curse, but may just be because of the castle itself. The Freys manage to get... um... rather more "Shifted Sideways By Slightly More Titles To Scapegoat" than actually promoted, as such. Nothing they've actually "gained" since the Red Wedding actually has a rise in social status attached (financially, they have technically benefited), for all they've won prime royalties to The Scapegoat role. Euron takes the Shield Islands specifically and intentionally for this purpose. He conquers them in a series of surprise attacks, but knows that they'll be retaken, so he "gifts" them to his political enemies, knowing that he'll be praised as a conqueror, while they'll be blamed for losing the conquests. Beware being a promoted Wandering Minstrel in Westeros. Suddenly gaining a position as either a House or Court Bard should come with a bullseye sandwich-board for a tabard. Being a Court Fool or Maester is, generally, a much, much safer position, though not without risks. The Prince of Pentos is a ceremonial Puppet King position that has little actual say in the policies set by the city's magisters, but always takes the blame when things go wrong. And by "blame", we mean sacrificed to appease the gods during hard times for the city. |
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One Piece After Charlos, a Celestial Dragon, thwarts the Straw Hats' attempt to buy their new friend Caimie's freedom and shoots Hachi (a former enemy who tried to make amends with the Straw Hats), Luffy is enraged and punches Charlos out, bringing down the wrath of the Celestial Dragons upon him. When Disco, owner of the slave auction, calls his boss Doflamingo to tell him what happened and that the Celestial Dragons will blame those running the slave auction, Doflamingo gives Disco ownership of the shop, saying it's no longer useful to him. When Buggy is mistakenly believed to be the leader of Cross Guild, Crocodile and Mihawk both are enraged at the idea before they realize it means most of the attention will be on Buggy rather than on them and that they should all roll with it. And then Buggy takes advantage of it. Since he is still the public face and leader of the organization, the organization follows his word, so he declares they are going for the One Piece, despite Crocodile and Mihawk refusing do to so, they're along for the ride. |
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During the course of The Boys Stilwell, the Magnificent Bastard corporate executive at Vought, partners with another sharp and ambitious executive, Jess Bradley. The two work closely together and Bradley is promoted and given greater control over their superhero project... all just so when the inevitable happens and the supers go rogue, Stilwell can hang her out to dry and let her be an extremely convincing Fall Guy. | |
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On Futurama, Zapp's incompetence causes the space cruise ship Titanic to get sucked into a black hole, and while everyone is evacuating, declares that a captain should go down with his ship. He then promotes Kif to captain and flees. | |
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In The Hudsucker Proxy, the protagonist gets promoted to president of a company on his first day working there after the president commits suicide, as part of a stock scheme set up by a member of the board of directors. Unfortunately for the director, it backfires, as the stooge ends up being really successful. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Freys and Boltons suffer this after the Red Wedding. Their reward of overlordship forces them to deal with the remaining Stark and Tully loyalists, the Brotherhood Without Banners, the Ironborn, and the devastation and crime spawned by the war, while the Lannisters recuperate at King's Landing. Barristan Selmy gets this treatment after King Robert's death in a boar hunt, largely so the Lannister regime backing King Joffrey can get rid of anyone of questionable loyalty. A combination of this and the insulting retirement package offered to Barristan prompt him to storm off and back a rival claimant for the throne. |
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The Magnus Archives: Jonathan Sims gets promoted to Head Archivist, a job he isn't actually qualified for. His attempts to cover up his inadequacy (and general poor people skills) lead to him being manipulated into unwittingly becoming a trauma-eating monster and later ending the world. | |
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In Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tom took a position of "CEO" with a mining company, only to discover later that the position was actually "Chief minEr On duty." | |
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Blazing Saddles involves a plot by the state Attorney General to run the inhabitants of Rock Ridge off their land and resell it to the railroad at a huge profit. To this end, he appoints Bart, a black man awaiting execution, as the (extremely racist) town's new sheriff in an effort to sow confusion. To his frustration, Bart actually manages to do his job quite well. | |
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In Transcendence, the FBI and the military reluctantly work with RIFT to stop Will, planning to use them as a scapegoat when everything goes south. RIFT seemingly remains oblivious to this possibility. Whether or not that actually happened, however, is completely ignored. | |
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Star Wars: Legacy: Following Darth Krayt's apparent death, the ambitious Moff Morlish Veed is appointed Regent of the Sith Empire by Krayt’s Dragon Ascendant, Darth Wyyrlok. Veed quickly learns that the position makes him a glorified scapegoat: he has no real power, and if the Sith do something truly horrible — like wiping out all life on an inhabited planet using a Synthetic Plague — then people will assume he gave the order to do it, and the galaxy's outrage will be directed toward him instead of his Sith masters. | |
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In Nomine supplement You Are Here. When Jeanne Delarue was made director of the Board of Trustees of Progressive Banking, she was being set up to fail. The trustees intended to declare bankruptcy, blame her for it, split up the remaining money and leave her to face the music. | |
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In the final season of How I Met Your Mother, Barney's job is ultimately revealed to be to sign documents claiming responsibility for every illegal thing the company does, so if they get caught (again) he will go down and the company will be completely free. Except that he's actually turned informant for the FBI and reports everything he signs to them as part of a 10 year long sting, because his boss stole his girlfriend. | |
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The Sopranos: After Jackie Aprile's death everyone in the family assumes Tony will become the new Capo, while Junior feels like it's his turn. Both fearing an unnecessary Mob War, but also knowing the Capo will be the focus of any federal investigation, so T Ony instead chooses to let Junior assume official leadership while he himself runs things from behind the scenes. | |
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