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Someone Has to Do It

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Someone Has to Do It	comment	It's a tough job, sometimes a boring job, often a dirty job, but Someone Has to Do It. Literally. Some kind of supernatural force exists that ensures that there is always somebody doing the job. Once a person takes up the torch, they can't put it down unless there's somebody there to pass it on to. Situations like Death Takes a Holiday where it would merely be a very bad idea for the post to become vacant don't count. These are cases where having somebody doing the job is not just a good idea, it's the Law of the Universe. Usually, the job comes with an exemption from aging and death by natural causes — although exemption from death by violence may or may not be thrown in. It is often the case that being killed is the only way to leave the job, with the killer being drafted to fill the vacancy (or gladly jumping in because they just want to be special). The job itself is often something of a supernatural nature, such as guiding the souls of the departed into the Afterlife, but not always. Sealed Evil in a Duel is another common form. This trope is not in effect any time somebody says "(it's a dirty job but) someone's got to do it". Tropes which might apply to such situations include Necessarily Evil, Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work and No Place for Me There for evil "dirty jobs", Closest Thing We Got for jobs where nobody has the proper skills but somebody has to try and hope for the best, Heroic Bystander and Action Survivor for unpleasant-but-necessary heroism, and Who Will Bell the Cat? for difficult and dangerous jobs (either heroic or villainous) that everybody wants somebody else to do. Compare to There Can Be Only One and Sparing Them the Dirty Work. See also Subbing for Santa and Klingon Scientists Get No Respect. Examples
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Someone Has to Do It / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Someone Has to Do It / int_3b39c254	comment	Someone must act as the Receiver of Memory and hold all of the community's memories of the past in his or her own mind. If they die before passing them on, the memories escape and infiltrate everyone's mind... and as this is an emotion-free false Utopia, their minds aren't able to cope (imagine a wide-scale human Logic Bomb). For this reason, Receivers are forbidden to undergo voluntary "Release" (assisted suicide).
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Someone Has to Do It / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Someone Has to Do It / int_3f70415	comment	Subverted twice in the series: once when Buffy dies Because Destiny Says So, only to come Back from the Dead with a little CPR (which means now there are two Slayers) and once at the end of the series, when every Potential is activated simultaneously through a spell.
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Someone Has to Do It / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Someone Has to Do It / int_453871ec	comment	Another Discworld example: it has been observed that kingship is instantly passed to the new monarch upon the death of the reigning king/queen. In a world powered by tropes, this can have major plot importance (and would be great for use as a faster-than-light communication signal, if the bar hadn't closed while the wizards were discussing it). For instance, Pteppic, heir to the throne of Djelibeybi, notices himself manifesting some pharaoh powers before he even gets news of his father's death.
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Someone Has to Do It / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Someone Has to Do It / int_7142b38a	comment	The Grim Reaper remains in office until he becomes complacent or suicidal and is killed by one of the people he has come to collect. That person then takes his place.
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Someone Has to Do It / int_838343d6	type	Fairy Tale
Someone Has to Do It / int_838343d6	comment	In one of the Grimms' Fairy Tales, "The Devil's Three Golden Hairs", one of the incidental characters is a man who is doomed to keep ferrying travellers across a particular stretch of river. In the end, having learned from the hero of the story that he can escape his task by tricking one of his passengers into becoming ferryman in his place, he resolves to try the trick on the next passenger who comes along — and, as luck would have it, the next passenger to come along is the villain of the piece. All live appropriately ever after. In Neil Gaiman's short story Instructions the boatman from Three Golden Hairs is mentioned. It is advised that you only tell him how to leave after you are off the boat yourself.
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Someone Has to Do It / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Someone Has to Do It / int_859ec5d8	comment	There's also rulers of The Fair Folk. Each of the two Fae Courts has two queens, two kings, and a lady, all of whom are immortal except under very specific conditions. If they're killed, someone has to take their place and eventually becomes just like the original. Harry hopes that part can be defied, seeing how that would mean he would become like Lloyd Slate, the previous holder of his new job.
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Someone Has to Do It / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
Someone Has to Do It / int_89631688	comment	"Into every generation a Slayer is born." A girl, chosen from about 1800 Potential Slayers, is selected to fight demonic forces in order to prevent Hell from taking over Earth. Once the current Slayer dies, the next takes her place.
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Someone Has to Do It / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
Someone Has to Do It / int_a00c13e0	comment	The end of the manga, where Aqua Regina gives her power and title to Lucia so she can stay alive, leaves a Sequel Hook when you think about it; they need a new Pink Pearl Voice.
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