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Terminally Exclusive Club
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This is when a club, social group, dynasty, etc. has a set of requirements that are (or will become) impossible for new members to fulfill. Eventually, the old members will pass away, no new members will be added, and the organization will fade into oblivion. Sometimes, this is deliberate and the club members are perfectly fine with the club's eventual demise. Other times, the disappearance of the club is undesirable, and it is not unheard of for rules and requirements to be changed to ensure the organization's survival. This can have very serious consequences if this is a Terminally Exclusive Heir Club for Men—in other words, the organization is a noble or royal dynasty. Male-line-only successions (which do exist) can become a major problem if you have several generations where only one son has been born—and then you have a monarch with no male heirs. This can and has resulted in a messy Succession Crisis. See also Last of His Kind. Contrast with Lowered Recruiting Standards. Note: Because Tropes Are Flexible, specific honours and ranks are also included here, although they're not exactly "clubs" as we know them. Deliberate |
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Night Watch has the Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road, the survivors of a short-lived rebellion that sprung up during the anarchy between the assassination of one Patrician and the ascension of the next. They memorialize the event every May 25th by wearing a lilac, and tend to be surly about explaining its meaning to others. Only those who were "there" are encouraged to join in, most of whom happen to have become members of the night watch since. | |
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100 Things to Do Before High School: In "Join a Club Thing!", Fenwick attempts to join the Genius Club. Eugene, the club's president and sole member, keeps setting him ridiculous tests because he is a Jerkass, and because there is only one Genius Club shirt and he wants to keep it. | |
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In Mission Hill, Andy and his friends are denied entry into a trendy nightclub, and decide to get back at them by opening their own nightclub. They create "The Meter Room", which is actually a literal electrical meter room, with the intention of not actually letting anyone into the club but themselves. It works, and they get a huge lineup of people outside, including the snooty club owner that denied them entry. They then decide to set off a smoke bomb inside, making everyone think the club burned down. All of the people in the line who never got in treat this as a tragic loss, completely unaware that they never had a chance of getting entry in the first place. | |
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In Zuleika Dobson, the Junta dining club has been reduced to one member, the Duke of Dorset. He has rejected all subsequent candidates (even the ones he himself proposed) as not coming up to the club's standards. In his last year at Oxford he did admit a couple, just to stop the club dying out entirely, but he's not really sure about them, either. | |
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In King of the Hill Cotton Hill's chapter of Veterans of Foreign Wars almost suffers this because of Cotton's dislike of Vietnam War veterans. With the local World War II and Korean War veterans dying off, the chapter cannot collect enough membership dues to maintain its meeting hall and might have to disband. There are plenty of Vietnam War veterans around but Cotton is disrespectful to them and for years has discouraged them from joining the VFW. He finally has a change of heart, invites them to join and the new members rescue the Arlen VFW. | |
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Discworld: Night Watch has the Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road, the survivors of a short-lived rebellion that sprung up during the anarchy between the assassination of one Patrician and the ascension of the next. They memorialize the event every May 25th by wearing a lilac, and tend to be surly about explaining its meaning to others. Only those who were "there" are encouraged to join in, most of whom happen to have become members of the night watch since. The Order of the Post in Going Postal; they can't get new members because the Post Office is shut down, so they've mostly become a club of old postmen who exist primarily to reminisce and look out for a member's family when he's "Returned to Sender." |
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Spy X Family: The extremely posh and exclusive Eden Academy was this at some point before the story's beginning. It's stated that despite their currently ridiculously high requirements the school was forced to relax some of their rules or risk going out of business. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas reveals that the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel fell victim to this. The Codex they follow demands that they only recruit from their own children. This was possible when they were the most powerful faction in the wasteland. However, other factions have managed to close the technology gap in the 100 years since the first game. The casualty rate rose higher than they can replenish their ranks and they are on the verge of collapse when the Courier finds them. Even the otherwise Reasonable Authority Figure in charge is unable to change things due to his rigid adherence to the Codex. The Mid-West and East Coast chapters decided to ignore that particular rule for practical reasons and have thrived. Their only chance for a decent ending is if the Courier manages to negotiate peace between them and the NCR. | |
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The Order of the Post in Going Postal; they can't get new members because the Post Office is shut down, so they've mostly become a club of old postmen who exist primarily to reminisce and look out for a member's family when he's "Returned to Sender." | |
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The Big Show may be The WWE's last Grand Slam Champion under the original qualifiers, as some of the prerequisite belts have been retired. There are four others who may join him, but they too are aging. | |
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The M*A*S*H episode "Old Soldiers" had Colonel Potter return from Tokyo in a foul mood. Over the course of the episode, it's revealed that he was part of a small group of soldiers who became life-long friends after they spent the night taking cover in a French chateau during WWI. They raided the chateau's cache of brandy and drank it all, leaving one bottle that they all swore would only be opened by the last survivor to toast the fallen. Potter had been in Tokyo to visit the only other living member before he died, leaving the colonel as the sole survivor of the group. | |
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The Wheel of Time: When Rand needs some privacy from his overzealous Aiel Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards, he declares a random empty building to be the Roof of a new warrior Society, whose membership is limited to those who have drunk from the spring near his home a continent away. The Aiel honor code is very serious about the customs of Societies, so they let it slide with only a few jokes at his expense. | |
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On Daria, the Fashion Club has very strict rules about members' appearances, on Sandi's insistence. Then, when she's forced to resign for gaining weight, she guilt-trips Quinn into resigning too. Naturally, the club begins to unravel with only Stacy and Tiffany left, though it reforms once Sandi loses the extra weight (and, in the first act of her renewed presidency, loosens the rules a bit). | |
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Worth the Candle: The party eventually settles on calling itself the Council of Arches, and after helping their allies found a fledgling island nation, this is the formal organization they settle on — an advisory body to their upstart country with a total of seven seats, each of which can be filled once, but never re-filled if vacated by death, resignation, or so on. | |
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GameFAQs has a forum called "Life, Universe and Everything" that has been permanently closed for new users for years. | |
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Some bands, such as Rammstein have said that if anyone quits or dies, the band will break up. | |
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