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A character is joining an organization—maybe The Order, or the Adventure Guild, or even the Thieves' Guild. But how do they join? By swearing a vow. The swearing of a vow emphasizes or, alternatively, mocks the solemnity and importance of the event. Bonus points if the vow is magically binding, but it doesn't have to be. Honor-bound individuals might take this oath seriously, while a less honest person might not do so and end up known as The Oath-Breaker. For example, we could note this oath might move a protagonist to act in one way, such as keeping to fight even in a Hopeless War. It could also made them object to an action, such as not overthrowing Hitler because they pledged fidelity to him, unlike the military of Fascist Italy who pledged themselves to the King instead of Mussolini. This trope is itself morally neutral, but can skirt towards one side or the other on the moral spectrum depending on the case. Namely, if the oath involves being sworn into a blatantly evil organization, such as the Nebulous Evil Organization, Evil, Inc., or the military or State Sec of The Evil Empire, it overlaps with Villainous Vow. Conversely, examples involving heroic groups such as The Federation, The Alliance, La Résistance, and similar organizations overlap with Heroic Vow. Regardless of an oath's moral alignment, there may or may not be overlap with Badass Creed. |
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Towards the end of season 4 of Killjoys, Turin administers the RAC oath to Pip so that he can join the mission to take back the RAC ship. | |
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Becoming a Grey Warden in Dragon Age requires both an oath and a magic ritual called "The Joining". | |
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A deleted scene from The Goonies had Andy and Stef recite an oath to join the group in the scene at the bottom of the wishing well. | |
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In Bye Bye Birdie, members of the Conrad Birdie Fan Club, or at least its Sweet Apple chapter, recite this pledge: | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer the Great", Homer takes a vow when he joins the Stonecutters. | |
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Moriarty the Patriot: William always demands vows of loyalty and someone's life in exchange for his consulting services. When Bond joins his team, they swear their life and loyalty over to him before being accepted. | |
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Discworld plays with this whenever Watchmen are being sworn in. Ankh-Morpork people being who they are, the full text of the oath is read outnote The reading out of the oath actually includes verbalising the punctuation, so the oath takers actually do say "Square bracket" and "comma" when taking it. while the act of taking the King's Shilling has been enhanced by tying the shilling on a string (not that the shilling was worth much in the first place, having the same gold contant as seawater). Vimes likes the oath because of how vague it is, allowing him to get away with pissing off the city's rich and powerful whenever he feels they need it. Troll recruits get a special version when the Watch is recruiting civilians in an emergency. |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: The oath of the Imperial Legion: The oath of the Stormcloaks: |
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In Detective Comics #38, Batman and Dick Grayson swear an oath by candlelight, the latter becoming Robin. | |
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In Mass Effect Commander Shepard is sworn in as the Citadel's first human SPECTRE after proving that Saren has betrayed them. | |
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In the Forgotten Realms setting in D&D, specifically in the city of Mulmaster, there is an organization called the Brotherhood of the Cloak, aka "the Cloaks". They enforce laws on wielders of magic, including one that a person must be a member in order to use magic in the open, and part of joining the Cloaks is to take a vow promising to use their powers to uphold the law and to serve the High Blade. | |
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In Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, Wizards take the Oath: | |
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In James Clavell's Asian Saga, everybody who becomes Tai-Pan of the Noble House company has to "swear blind" on the family bible that they will uphold the orders set forth by the company founder. The oath in Tai-Pan sworn stipulates, among other things, that in order to become Tai-pan one must be related by blood or marriage to the founders' clan (Struan), that a member of the House of Chen will always be the company's comprador, the company will always be tied to China, and that they will attempt to drive anyone from the Brock family out of Asia. | |
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The Hunt in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. | |
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The Wheel of Time: The Aes Sedai Magical Society inducts its members, when they complete an apprenticeship and final trial by ordeal, by having them swear the "Three Oaths"note To speak no word that is not true; To make no weapon by which one man may kill another; and Never to use the One Power as a weapon (barring certain circumstances) on an artifact that makes them utterly binding. Although the Oaths were intended to ease people's (historically well-founded) distrust of the Aes Sedai, they've done more to give them an infamous reputation for Loophole Abuse, and the Black Ajah faction of enemy Moles has found a way to remove the Oaths anyway. | |
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Valkyrie begins with a recording of the loyalty oath that Adolf Hitler required his armies to recite after he took power. This sets the stage for the hurdle the conspirators have to overcome if their Military Coup against Hitler is to succeed. | |
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The Night's Watch of A Song of Ice and Fire. | |
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The Producers: Franz has Leo and Max recite the Siegfried Oath, swearing allegiance to various German historical figures, up to and including "you know who." It was cut from the original film (although Franz refers to it in a later scene), but reinstated in the stage musical. | |
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Shadowrun. Some magical groups require anyone joining them as an initiate to swear an oath to follow the group's rules and strictures. This oath has magical consequences: if the initiate violates the group's rules it can destroy the group's source of power. | |
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Transformers: Animated: In "A Bridge Too Close, Part I", Megatron has the Constructicons be introduced as true Decepticons and be branded with the insignias. Before that, they have to recite the oath as follows: | |
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House of the Dragon: The practice of swearing obeisance to a monarch or heir is routinely deconstructed. They are always portrayed with an air of coercion, and must be secured with material benefits and the support of the nobility. The lords of the realm are not necessarily willing to set aside the concept of absolute male primogeniture, but swear an oath of obeisance to Rhaenyra because Viserys mandates it. When Viserys dies, not all of the houses, many of whom are now led by different people, or feel disrespected and ignored by the pro-Rhaenyra faction in the decades since she was invested as heir, are willing to honor the oath. | |
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Changeling: The Lost: Entry to a Noble Order requires that the Changeling swear a Magically Binding oath of conduct to Fate itself, which grants them new powers in return. If the Changeling breaks their oath or decides to leave the Order, their powers vanish and Fate takes a chunk out of their mind for good measure. | |
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In Warrior Cats, when an apprentice becomes a full warrior of their Clan (or when an outsider is taken into the Clan as a new warrior), the warrior ceremony includes a vow: | |
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The Madam Secretary season 2 premiere "The Show Must Go On" has Secretary of State Liz McCord forced to be sworn in as Acting President right before the title card after contact is lost with Air Force One and everyone ahead of her in presidential succession is either unavailable or incapacitated.note The vice president was undergoing emergency gallbladder surgery, the Speaker of the House was also on Air Force One, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate thought it was still Ronald Reagan's presidency due to a series of mini-strokes his staff had been keeping secret. | |
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Done for play by a young Ben Gates' grandfather in the opening of National Treasure after Grandpa tells him of the family legend of the treasure of the Knights Templar and Ben asks him, "Are we knights?" | |
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House of Anubis: In season 1, most Sibuna members joined through reciting an oath in the forest. In addition to reciting their lines, they had to burn an item they considered important. This seemed to be mostly forgotten about until the Touchstone of Ra, however. | |
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In Batman (Grant Morrison), Batman is seen administering oaths to Jiro Osamu and Johnny Riley, two new members of his Batman Incorporated. | |
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Chronicles of the Kencyrath has two: The Thieves' Guild of Tai-tastigon Tentir, the randon college |
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The Creed of Assassin's Creed follows the maxim "Nothing is true, everything is permitted" with the specific tenets of "stay your blade from the flesh of the innocent", "hide in plain sight", and "never compromise the Brotherhood." Failure to comply with these tenets results in punitive measures, up to and including expulsion or execution. | |
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The Man in the High Castle: In season 3, John Smith is promoted to Reichsmarshall of North America. As he's sworn in during a public ceremony in the streets of New York City, he is required to give a version of the Fuehrer Oath to Heinrich Himmler. | |
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Starship Troopers: When Juan Rico and his friend Carl volunteer for Federal Service, they take an oath to serve the Federation. | |
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