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Like bragging rights, an object, a title, or a job is passed from the defeated to the winner. Sometimes, though, defeat means death. You Kill It, You Bought It means that whoever kills the owner gets the possession, no matter if the kill was intentional or not. This is often the only way Loyal Phlebotinum can change hands. So, it usually goes like this: The Hero accidentally does something to kill the previous owner, so he's stuck with the possession even though the death wasn't his fault. The rest of the plot involves the hero either trying to cope or trying to get rid of it. Another common version is that the position of The Grim Reaper works like this, so that if somebody is supposed to die and ends up killing The Grim Reaper in self-defense (or just checkmates him), the killer ends up with the job. Otherwise, very rare is it that the character intentionally kills the office holder, unless the Heroic Comedic Sociopath falsely believes that a position works that way, and thus hilarity will ensue. This is distinct from Klingon Promotion because that is restricted to killing someone deliberately, for the express purpose of gaining their position. For this trope, the killing isn't necessarily deliberate, and the killer is not a lower-ranking member of the victim's organization who gets "promoted", but rather they directly inherit the previous person's possession, office, curse, or whatever it may be. See also Challenging the Chief which also has cases where someone accidentally ends up involuntary manslaughtering their way into an unwanted role. Contrast First-Episode Resurrection, where the hero gets powers from dying themself. Also see Someone Has to Do It. Related to Subbing for Santa. Sometimes applies to a Legacy Character. Can result in And Then John Was a Zombie. See also Power Copying. Compare Finish Him! and You Are in Command Now. See Finders Rulers for when this is affected by looting a MacGuffin off the corpse. Not to be confused with Kill and Replace. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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In Adventure Time, Marceline became Vampire Queen by killing the Vampire King. She wasn't even a vampire at the time, but he turned her just as she staked him for exactly such a purpose. Ironically, she serves as queen to no one, as Marcy exterminated all the vampires by that time. | |
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In Dune, a Fremen who kills another in honorable combat is entitled to possession of the water in his body, which is extracted prior to cremation. And gets his wife as well. He also gets the responsibility of having to take care of the wife and children. Paul finds this out the hard way... and he's only 15. | |
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In Eric, after the Luggage tramples and kills the incarnation of Quetzovercoatl, demon-god of the Tezumen Empire, the Tezumen briefly start worshiping it instead. | |
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Death's job was shown to work this way in Mort. The eponymous Mort, Death's apprentice, challenges Death to a fight in order to save a princess, a wizard, and his wife-to-be. It's a no-win situation: If Mort wins, he will become Death, the loneliest person in the world, for eternity. If he loses, they all die. Luckily, Death's not such a bad guy. | |
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In Worm, one of the powers that the supervillain Butcher had was that anyone who killed him would inherit weaker versions of the powers of all previous Butchers, along with their voices giving guidance. | |
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In Malevil, Emmanuel finds himself in this position after killing Wahrwoorde. His tormented family quietly accepts that Emmanuel is their new tyrant, to be abused (raped in Miette's case) at his leisure. He makes it clear that he has no intention of being anybody's master. | |
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In Wonder Woman (1987), Ares becomes the new ruler of Hades (including Tartarus and Elysium) by killing Hades, which grants him mastery over the shades—including faded gods—in his newly acquired realms. | |
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In Wonder Woman (2011) (New 52) Diana becomes the God of War when she kills a weakened Ares. It was the only recourse available to her to prevent the villain from killing Ares to steal his power. | |
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The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning: Defied. The Atlawas worship the Stone Sentinel and, after Spyro defeats it, decide that they're going to worship him instead. Spyro politely declines. | |
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Dick Tracy. 'Big Boy' Caprice invokes this after giving Cement Shoes to 'Lips' Manlis. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows a central plot point is that wands may switch allegiance to whoever kills or defeats the former owner. These facts are of particular importance relating to the Elder Wand. What most wizards don't realize, and what ends up being a major plot point at the end of the book, is that killing your opponent isn't necessary, you just have to defeat them on a duel or deprive them of their wand. This throws a wrench in Dumbledore's plan to leave the Elder Wand without a master: he originally intended to let Snape kill him, which would mean the wand still belonged to him in death. Instead, Draco disarms Dumbledore, unwittingly becoming the master of the Elder Wand, and Harry later becomes its master when he disarms Draco. However, Voldemort thinks simply killing its previous owner gains you ownership of the Wand, so he kills Snape (whom he thinks has become the Wand's master) to get it. And when he tries to duel Harry while wielding it... |
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It is stated in the Secret Reports of The World Ends with You that the guy who kills the Composer becomes the Composer. Three people Neku encounters have this intention; first is Joshua, who is lying through his teeth because he is the Composer, the second is Beat, who just wants to restore Rhyme, and the third is a revived Sho Minamimoto for he-of-the-Jesus Beam only knows why. It never comes to it, mind, but that tidbit is there for you to know. | |
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In the Ranma ½/Sailor Moon crossover Curses Aren't the Only Change, Haruka ends up defeating the leader of a ninja clan and being told she is the new leader. This means she is way too busy to help when she is told she is a Sailor Senshi. | |
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Sluggy Freelance Santa Claus at one point flees to space from the wrath of Bun-bun, and he comes back with an infection of alien DNA that eventually transforms him into an alien monster that's essentially an entirely different being. In "Snowfinger", it seems Alien Santa is plotting to subjugate Earth through Christmas presents, but it turns out that he's unable to do it because he's too busy fulfilling the role of Santa Claus that he unwillingly inherited from his host. Starting with accidentally squashing the Easter Bunny, Bun-bun took over just about every holiday this way in a years-long subplot. He's finally defeated when the groundhog shadow which is linked with Bun-bun kills and steals the position of the old year — a few seconds before 12:00 AM, New Year's Day, where the old year will officially die, taking Bun-bun with him. Bun-bun then has to go and hit the in-plot Reset Button to save himself. |
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In Deadpool (2022), when Deadpool's partner Valentine manages to kill the Horned Emperor, who leads the Atelier assassins' guild, it turns out that the mantle of Horned Emperor passes to whoever kills the previous Emperor. Cue drama. | |
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Chzo Mythos: Anyone killed with Frehorn's Blade becomes a powerful spirit, but is at the command of their killer. A loophole exists for those who kill themselves with the blade. Since you get put in command of yourself, like you already are, you just become a powerful spirit with no downside. This is how Malcolm Somerset becomes the Caretaker. | |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee: The season 2 premier "The New (Para)Normal)" reveals that thanks to him helping defeat the Chairman in the season 1 finale, Scratch is the new head of the Ghost World. | |
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Saints Row IV: The President was really only out to kill Zinyak to avenge Earth, but he or she certainly doesn't object to being the new Emperor afterward. Kinzie even mentions the "'You keep what you kill', it's a classic" as the President takes the throne.. | |
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In Reaper Man, when Death's time for "retirement" comes, a new Death shows up to kill him so he can take his place. However, in a subversion, the original Death is actually able to defeat his replacement. | |
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In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly", set in the evil Mirror Universe, Archer takes over the Enterprise by force, and Hoshi Sato points out that according to tradition, everything the previous captain owned now belongs to him — including her, as she's the Captain's Woman. | |
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The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror XIV" has Homer become the Grim Reaper after killing the previous one. | |
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Mega Man (Classic), when you defeat a Robot Master, you gain their power till the end of the game. Defeating Dr. Wily, however, doesn't have you take over anything of his. | |
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In The Rise of Kyoshi, the titular heroine has to do some work with the dao fei (bandits) in order to learn bending. She challenges her gang’s leader, Xu, to a duel because he’s a mad warmonger. In said duel, she kills him. Since she was his subordinate, she inherits his gang by a strict interpretation of the dao fei’s code. She’s worried that to outsiders it looks like any other sort of internal power struggle rather than The Chosen One doing her job to bring peace and balance to the world. | |
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Astyanax: Breaking Thorndog's seal means bringing his curse upon yourself so that you'll die with him. However, this curse is transferable... | |
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Parodied in The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap. Chester accidentally kills an infamous gunslinger, and local law says that he must take care of the man's family. It turns out that the gunslinger had a very loud wife and a dozen unruly children. Chester eventually becomes sheriff of the town and carries around a picture of his new family which he shows to anyone who looks like they might cause trouble. However, this eventually blows up in his face when the local outlaws learn that a railroad will be going through the widow's property and paying her a fortune for it, thanks to a lie Duke cooked up to get Chester off the hook. Chester whips out his picture and nearly gets killed by the greedy outlaws. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei, you often get the ability to fuse previous bosses as your new minions after defeating them in combat. In another example, destroying each of the Bel demons in Devil Survivor grants you several stat points, as you are essentially devouring that demon's power and adding it to your own. It is a major Junkyard law in Digital Devil Saga, and its breakdown in favor of loyalty to the tribe and The Power of Friendship is a major landmark in the Character Development of the Embryon's Asuras. | |
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In Community Pierce's dad dies of a heart attack (after being yelled at by Jeff). Having written in his will that whoever kills him will inherit his ridiculous-looking ivory toupee, it goes to Jeff, who really doesn't want it. | |
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RWBY: When a Maiden dies, their power transfers either to a young female who is in their thoughts as they die, or jumps to a random, unknown eligible female if the Maiden's last thoughts are about a man or an older, ineligible woman. This power transfer can be deliberately manipulated by having a young, eligible woman murder a Maiden to obtain the power by ensuring the dying Maiden's final thoughts are of her killer. Cinder killed the Fall Maiden and Raven killed the Spring Maiden to gain their powers. Ozpin tried to use a machine to give Pyrrha the powers of the Fall Maiden but Cinder killing her stopped that. At a later point, it's revealed that this same thing happened with Raven and the Spring Maiden and would have happened with Winter and the Winter Maiden had Cinder not interfered and led to the Maiden passing her powers onto Penny instead. | |
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Trapped on Draconica: By killing Mordak, Kalak turns into Mordak. | |
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In Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, this applies to blind dates. | |
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Mafia III: At the end, Lincoln is given the opportunity by the major Mafia families to take over Sal Marcano's position as The Don of the city. It's up to the player to choose whether or not he accepts or he leaves, at which point one of his lieutenants become the new boss of the city. | |
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Wonder Woman: If an Olympian kills another Olympian, and doesn't miss a significant chunk of them flitting about somewhere in an avatar or embodied aspect, they gain their attributes in addition to their own. This is technically supposed to apply to all gods but the rules start getting wonky real fast once you move away from the twelve (plus Hades). If killed by an outside force they're meant to have Resurrective Immortality, but if they're weak enough or commit suicide they fade out permanently. In Wonder Woman (1987), Ares becomes the new ruler of Hades (including Tartarus and Elysium) by killing Hades, which grants him mastery over the shades—including faded gods—in his newly acquired realms. In Wonder Woman (2011) (New 52) Diana becomes the God of War when she kills a weakened Ares. It was the only recourse available to her to prevent the villain from killing Ares to steal his power. |
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One of the Forty Thieves' rules in Aladdin and the King of Thieves is that if you manage to kill one of their members, you can take that member's place. | |
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In Shadow Raiders, this is the official law for royal succession on Planet Bone. They may be Proud Warrior Race Guys, but they also highly respect cunning, ambition, and ruthlessness; assassinating the previous king is the tradition for taking power. | |
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In Attack on Titan, cannibalism is the traditional method for passing on the power of the Nine Titans. When the host of one of these special powers is eaten by another Titan, their powers and memories are inherited in the process. Because the powers eventually kills the host after 13 years, a sort of ritual exists where the current host is chained down and fed to a mindless Titan. Other cases of inheritance exist, such as an accident where the host is consumed by a random Titan or one Titan Shifter kills another to combine their powers. A third option exists, when the host dies without being devoured — their powers are randomly inherited by an Eldian infant. | |
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The Dresden Files: Circumstances depending, this is how the mantle of the Knight of the Summer or Winter Court is passed on, if they don't die in battle. The previous Knight is ritually sacrificed on the Stone Table. Harry sacrifices Lloyd Slate to become the Winter Knight. | |
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Taking over the version of Earth seen in the SCP Foundation is a bad idea, as seen in SCP-2998's various iterations. An alien race successfully takes over Earth, but doesn't realise that the planet is absolutely infested with dangerous anomalies that the Foundation was keeping contained. The result is that the aliens' new civilisation on Earth collapses as they try to fix the mess they've made. A Reset Button ends up being necessary to fix things. | |
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Undertow (Chair Entertainment): After taking out Lancaster, after he tried to betray him, Captain Rake is referred to as Admiral. Presumably he is saddled with the rank of Duke-Admiral when the Iron Marines choose to follow him. | |
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Discworld: Death's job was shown to work this way in Mort. The eponymous Mort, Death's apprentice, challenges Death to a fight in order to save a princess, a wizard, and his wife-to-be. It's a no-win situation: If Mort wins, he will become Death, the loneliest person in the world, for eternity. If he loses, they all die. Luckily, Death's not such a bad guy. In Eric, after the Luggage tramples and kills the incarnation of Quetzovercoatl, demon-god of the Tezumen Empire, the Tezumen briefly start worshiping it instead. In Reaper Man, when Death's time for "retirement" comes, a new Death shows up to kill him so he can take his place. However, in a subversion, the original Death is actually able to defeat his replacement. Death also takes the place of The Hogfather for a while, not because he killed him, but because someone else is trying to, and the role has to be filled. |
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Wulfrik the Wanderer is protected from magical assassination by the fact that anyone killing him with magic will inherit his curse (to wander the earth challenging horrible monsters and enemy champions to single combat, sacrifice their souls to the Dark Gods in case of victory, and be tortured by daemons forever in case of defeat). And unlike Wulfrik, they won't have years of experience fighting the aforementioned, nor have access to his flying teleporting longship or a veteran crew of hardened Norscan raiders to help him get to his goal. | |
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In Metalocalypse, Charles indicates that the only way to get his job as CFO for Dethklok is to kill him first. But since fucking with his bread-and-butter is a bad idea, he's dispatched everyone who's come to take his job. | |
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World of Warcraft (3.3.0) includes a quest that reveals that 'There must always be a Lich King'. It appears that the transfer of power and title aren't automatic, but if the mantle isn't accepted, the only thing holding the Scourge back would be released. However, the trope was ultimately subverted. Upon the Lich King's defeat, Tirion Fordring picks up the fallen Crown and reluctantly places it upon the head of Bolvar Fordragon. | |
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The Mandalorian features a non-lethal example. After Moff Gideon has kidnapped the Child, our titular hero goes to Bo-Katan for help, as he knows she's been hunting the Moff herself. Bo-Katan agrees on the condition that she is to be the one to kill Gideon. However, Gideon anticipates this and ensures he's in the Child's cell when Mando gets there, instead of on the Bridge where Bo-Katan was expecting him to be. This results in Mando defeating him and earning the the Darksaber, much to Bo-Katan's horror. Mando tries to surrender the sword to Bo-Katan, but Gideon explains that the Darksaber must be won in combat. It's likely that the only reason we don't see Bo-Katan try to murder Mando is because of the timely arrival of Gideon's Dark Troopers. | |
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In The Island (1980), Maynard kills a pirate when they capture his boat. Because the pirate was married to Beth, a Kangaroo Court convened by John David Nau sentences him to be Beth's slave and to impregnate. | |
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In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Franz Rayner's master plan is that by killing the President of the United States, he will become the President. Of course, the implausibility of that plan is immediately pointed out, and Rayner admits that while the US Government doesn't work that way, the rest of the plan revolves around convincing the rest of the world that it does. | |
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In American Horror Story: Coven each generation of witches has a Supreme, a super-powerful witch that rules the coven. The Supreme has perfect health that lasts until a successor starts coming into her abilities. As the new Supreme grows stronger, life force drains from the old one, who gets sicker and sicker until she dies and the new one gets her full powers. This process can be sped up if the new Supreme kills the old one or if the old Supreme kills herself. However, the old Supreme can 'buy back' her life and powers by killing the new one during the transition phase. | |
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Robin (1993): When the Dark Rider took possession of Stanley Baumgarten he learned the name he wanted was already in use, so he challenged the Dark Rider (Cossack) to a fight and killed him, thereby claiming the name. | |
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In X-Men: First Class, Magneto kills Shaw and becomes the new face of the mutant revolution. | |
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War of Kings: Gladiator ends up becoming Majestor of the Shi'ar Empire, mainly because all the royal family is dead or missing, and he's just slaughtered his way through the corrupt courtiers who caused the whole mess. The panicking Shi'ar citizens see him standing around with the royal sceptre and just assume from there. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess: When Xena kills Mephistopheles she has to take over his position as ruler of hell. Fortunately there's a very prideful angel named Lucifer that happens to be corruptible and can take her place. | |
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands: In "Together Again'', it's shown Death's position is taken by whomever kills the previous Death, like it or not. New Death ended up trapped in the position after being manipulated into killing Death, his father. At the end, Finn and Jake fight each other to be the one to have to take on this burden because they don't want each other to be stuck reaping souls for eternity. | |
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This is how the last of The Holders, the Holder of Legion, got his job. In turn, if you complete the stupendous task of gathering the other 2537 Objects, your only way to get the final one is to kill him and become Holder of Legion yourself. | |
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Rio Lobo: Hendricks murdered Rio Lobo's previous sheriff and declared that he had the job now. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In the episode "A Game of Pool", a pool shark plays against the ghost of another shark whose memory overshadows all of his own achievements. Upon winning, however, he becomes the ghost who is called to defend against challengers. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Nomad Droids": After Threepio accidentally knocks Artoo onto Hay-Zu, the Pattitites want to make him their leader due to him having killed the previous one. He declines. This is how Pre Vizsla meets his end in battle. After having locked up Savage Opress and his brother, Darth Maul, the brothers escape and Maul challenges Vizsla to combat, one warrior to another. Maul ends up winning, and takes both Vizsla's Darksaber and his head before assuming the leadership of Death Watch and the true leader of Mandalore... for a while, anyway. |
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Makai Kingdom: Overlord Zetta destroys a Cosmic Keystone known as the Sacred Tome in a fit of pique... unfortunately, its destruction means the destruction of his entire netherworld with it, forcing Zetta to confine his own soul inside the book and literally (pun very much intended) become the Sacred Tome in order to survive. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: There are two ways of obtaining a Magus Key in the setting: One, you can be given one (like how all the original Demiurges (and Allison) got one from Zoss), or two, you can kill someone who has one and take the Key from their corpse. All of the Seven Black Emperors obtained their collection (they each have 111,111 keys) through repeated acts of Regicide, save Mammon, who bought his first Key, and Incubus, who was given his by Maya when she decided to retire from conquest. The others look down on him implicitly because he didn’t truly earn his Key like they did. | |
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The Order of the Stick Redcloak, upon being told he could become Supreme Leader of the hobgoblins by killing the current leader in single combat, promptly casts "Slay Living" on the hobgoblin putting him through the humiliating rituals to become an honorary hobgoblin. When he asks if the hobgoblin he killed was the Supreme Leader, the actual Supreme Leader wisely says "yes". |
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The Mortal Instruments: In City of Lost Souls, Maureen Brown becomes leader of the New York vampire clan after killing Camille Belcourt. | |
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World of the Five Gods: In The Curse of Chalion, it is revealed that the Golden General had obtained a blessing from the Gods. When Fonsa the Fairly-Wise sacrificed his own life to assassinate the Golden General by magic, the blessing is transformed into a curse that afflicts the royal house of Chalion. The plot revolves around finding a way to lift the curse. In Paladin of Souls, a character kills a bear that is hosting a demon. The demon jumps from the dying bear to its slayer. |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: In the Dragonborn DLC, Hermaeus Mora, Daedric Prince of Knowledge, "rewards" the Dragonborn for his victory over his former champion Miraak by declaring the Dragonborn to be Miraak's replacement. The entire plot of Dragonborn was essentially Mora's plan to replace Miraak with the Dragonborn, and it's implied that he was sowing the seeds for this even in the main questline. | |
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Warcraft World of Warcraft (3.3.0) includes a quest that reveals that 'There must always be a Lich King'. It appears that the transfer of power and title aren't automatic, but if the mantle isn't accepted, the only thing holding the Scourge back would be released. However, the trope was ultimately subverted. Upon the Lich King's defeat, Tirion Fordring picks up the fallen Crown and reluctantly places it upon the head of Bolvar Fordragon. In the previous Warcraft games, becoming the chieftain of an Orc clan (or the Warchief of the entire Horde) would work this way. Orgrim Doomhammer became Warchief by killing the then-existing Warchief, Blackhand. There are some limits, of course. Orgrim was killed from behind by a human knight, and he passed leadership to Thrall rather than to the enemy knight. Ogres work the same way. In Dire Maul, when you defeat the current king, the rest of the Ogres turn friendly and declare you their new king; part of the challenge is killing the king while killing as few ogres as possible, which increases the tribute you receive at the end. |
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Whenever the host of the spirit eater is killed, the nearest person will almost certainly become its next host body. Tough luck if you weren't the killer. The host before you managed to contain it for a time by arranging to die alone in an area built to contain spirits; it only failed because a third party intervened. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: In this strip the titular amorph claims ownership of the Pranger's Bangers ship Integrity, thinking his shooting up inside the ship made it crash. After accidentally blowing up King Lota, Lt. Pibald asks if the guy who blew up the king gets to be the new king. Lota survived the blast. |
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Sam of Sam & Fuzzy didn't actually kill the heads of the Ninja Mafia, but everyone else in the room was dead, so... | |
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This is the premise of Campione!. If a mortal kills a heretic god, that person gains the powers and abilities of said heretic god. However, Pandora, the goddess who created this system, insists on fair fights. Ganging up on a god, killing a god who had been weakened by a third party, or Kill Stealing will mean the killer will not get any powers. | |
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In The Haunting Hour episode "Game Over", four kids get sucked into a video game, and are informed that they have to beat it to escape. Unfortunately, the one who lands the killing blow on the final boss is forced to take his place. The final boss says the same thing happened to him when he got sucked into the game years ago. | |
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Blade: Blade becomes the "leader" of a gang in New York called "The Bloodshadows" after he bests their former leader, Cyrus Cutter, in a knife fight. They even follow him back to his native Britain. | |
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DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything: When a Dicer is injured or dies, their Dice spill out near them and become unactivated, allowing someone else to use them. | |
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Venom: After killing Knull at the end of Venom (Donny Cates), Eddie Brock accidentally becomes the new God of the Symbiotes, leading into the next run. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day: You are crowned king of the Panthers after being held responsible for the death of the previous king. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Mouri claims the title of Grand Elder of Namek — and, with it, the authority to create Namek's Dragon Balls — by killing and eating Super Kami Guru. | |
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In The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramanga shoots Hai Fat. When an assistant comes in, he simply says "Mr Fat has just resigned. I'm the new Chairman of the Board". | |
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In Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Lascelles kills a guardian knight of Faerie, defending England's honor. Instead, he is forced to take the knight's place — and it's implied that this role will last until someone kills him in turn, which may not be for thousands of years, if ever. Definite Nightmare Fuel. | |
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In Phantom Brave, if you kill people, you will be able to summon them as Phantoms. Naturally, this fun system leads to the cold-blooded murders of old men and blacksmiths by a cute little girl. | |
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The Ghost Called Molly McGee, Since Molly retains ghostly abilities in this AU, she's the one who replaces the Chairman. | |
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In Suikoden IV and Suikoden Tactics it's made clear that the Rune of Punishment is granted to whoever manages to take out the current bearer. It doesn't help that the rune eats the life force of the wielder whenever it is used. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening: The Warden is now made the Arl of Amaranthine due to the fact that he/she killed Rendon Howe, the previous Arl in the original game and his lands are now Grey Warden property. Though this is less because the Warden killed the Arl and more because the Arl was considered a traitor and a criminal by the end of Origins, which led to his family losing their lands. And since Ferelden happened to owe the Grey Wardens a great deal... Anyway, the point is that it wasn't all the important who killed Rendon Howe (he probably would have been eventually executed even if he had somehow survived his confrontation with the Warden). | |
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This is the usual (but not the only) method of obtaining Shardblades and Shardplate in The Stormlight Archive, although it wasn't always that way. It's usually done deliberately although it's possible that Shallan may have obtained her Shardblade at least partially accidentally. It's unclear. It's very much cleared up in the second book. Throughout all the Cosmere novels, the main way to become a Shardholder (basically, a God) is to kill the previous one. The original Shardholders were a group of people who banded together to kill God for a variety of reasons and each walked away with a Shard of his power. Unfortunately, the power doesn't come with an instruction book or any sort of guidelines on how nigh-unlimited power should be used, resulting in multiple cases of God Is Inept. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms: The title of Magister and accompanying special powers are "inherited" by the winner once Magister is defeated. This leads to Magisters being extremely dangerous wizards even before taking said powers, so while formal challenge and non-lethal combat are quite acceptable, victory usually was achieved via killing one's predecessor in some sort of surprise attack. Sometimes even unknowingly — it's easier to do while blowing up whole catacombs than in fair face-to-face battle. Overall it's actually an invoked trope, as Word of God claims that the Magister's title is Schmuck Bait, instigated by Mystra so that hyperaggressive wizards have a prize to kill one another over, rather than leave them running loose and causing havoc for everyone else. Ravenloft: A lesser villain that manages to kill a domain's darklord will almost certainly become stuck with the darklordship themselves, with canonical examples including Ivana Bortisi and Gabrielle Aderre. Gabrielle's antagonistic son Malocchio is even specifically avoiding killing her because his seer powers let him know that he'll inherit her title if he does so. Inherited domains don't always follow this rule — if a Darklord is somehow vanquished in other circumstances (while there are no canonical examples of Darklords being killed by someone Good aligned, a rare few, such as Lord Soth, have left their position without being murdered), the domain is either absorbed into another nearby domain, or anyone else evil enough for Darklordship gets the title, as is the case with Sithicus's second Darklord, Inza Kulchevich. The 3rd Edition Dungeon Master's Guide says that because goblins are Chaotic Evil, their government is rulership by the strong. This means that if the goblin king is killed, the killer usually takes the king's place. When two kruthik swarms meet, their leading hive lords battle to the death while the rest watch. The winner devours the loser's corpse and then takes control of its swarm. |
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Overwatch: The playable character Doomfist is actually the third to go by that name in the game's backstory; he took it on after killing his mentor, the previous Doomfist, over a conflict of ideals. | |
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Fallout 4: The basic plot of the DLC Nuka-World boils down to this. You find yourself in a giant Death Trap, then face the Raider Overboss at the end of it. After successfully killing him (thanks to a little help from his second-in-command), you're named the new Overboss. Of course, you have the option to kill instead of accepting. | |
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The Venture Brothers: Subverted. Rusty discovers a cult of personality living under the Venture Compound. They worship his father through a set of videotapes of personal hygiene. Rusty proceeds to "kill" their god by removing the tapes, thinking they will make him their new god. They don't. | |
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This is what happens if you kill a Judge of the Triwizard Tournament in the world of The Parselmouth of Gryffindor — and, for that matter, it's the only way to switch out Judges. Helen Monroe exploits this by killing the Durmstrang Headmaster and claiming the title for her Lord, Grindelwald. | |
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The Unbelievable Gwenpool: At the end of issue #1, Gwen gets a surprise visit from M.O.D.O.K., who notifies her that because she killed his top henchman, she's his new #1 whether she likes it or not. | |
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Subverted in The Wizard of Gore; after being sent on a drug-fueled hallucination adventure, Ed is knife-detoxed by Montag the Magnificent and offered the chance to take his place as a drugged-up slave to "The Magician". Ed manages to invert his situation, drugging "The Magician" and taking over the entire operation himself. | |
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The Victors Project has career victors Tiberius Drake (6th Hunger Games) and Ermine Butler (43rd Hunger Games) sent into the games by the respective victors who run their districts after having killed the promising front runner to be tribute (or in Ermine's case, the two front runners, while disfiguring a third). Tiberius had wanted to be tribute that year, but his killing was unpremeditated and in the act of breaking up an Attempted Rape. Ermine's action was premeditated (she was avenging a murdered friend who had been killed as a Klingon Promotion) but she had no desire to participate in the Hunger Games either before or afterwards, until being informed that both her family and her friends family's would be murdered as punishment for what she'd done unless she volunteered and won. | |
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Errant Story: In addition to more typical methods, any student who can successfully challenge the entire faculty graduates. | |
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This is how salvage works in a lot of the MechWarrior games where it is implemented. If you manage to kill the 'Mech with a minimum of Stuff Blowing Up, there's a very good chance that players can salvage their enemies' war machines. This is most often seen in games with "Mercenaries" figuring in the title or the protagonists' plotline. Mechwarrior Living Legends allows you to blast the pilot out of the cockpit and then steal their mech. | |
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A somewhat muted example, but Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Requiem both feature the act of diablerie, which works like the Baccano example mentioned above: if one vampire drains another, more powerful vampire, consuming their soul in the process, their Generation/Blood Potency goes up a step and they gain knowledge of one of the other vampire's Disciplines. Needless to say, diablerie is considered one of the most dire sins a vampire can commit and is punished with extreme prejudice, lest all the younger vampires turn all the older ones into juice boxes. It also forever stains the soul/essence/ethereal wahoo of the vampire who did it. This is actually a problem largely because there are vampiric powers that allow for the seeing of souls/essences, and diablerie basically gives your essence a flashing neon sign advertising what you did. Furthermore, souls consumed through diablerie are not destroyed: they are perfectly preserved inside their killer's body forever, with the ability to read his mind and access his senses. Particularly strong-willed souls can take over the body and resume their previous existences. |
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Code Name: Gravedigger: In Men of War #14, Gravedigger kills the chief of a band of Desert Bandits in a duel. He expects to get lynched by the rest of the bandits, but they instead hail him as their new chief. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The House of Quark", Quark kills a Klingon in a Bar Brawl (actually, he trips and lands on his knife, but good enough), so the Klingon's wife kidnaps him and forces a nominal marriage on him until she can get a dispensation to rule her clan in her own name. | |
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In "The Game" of the Highlander universe, when one Immortal kills another, he receives all the deceased Immortal's ability and memories through the Quickening. The more Immortals one kills, the stronger one gets, until one final battle between two Immortals for the Prize - wisdom, a connection with all life, a mortal existence, and the ability to have children. | |
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Mass Effect 2: The DLC "Lair of the Shadow Broker" has you going up against the eponymous Knowledge Broker kingpin. Once you off him, Liara takes over and aims to put a newer friendlier obscured silhouette face on the organization, as well as turn the monolithic info network fully towards Shepard's cause. Oh, and the Broker you killed got his position by killing the previous broker, so who's to say that that one didn't do the same thing? Which becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when you remember that one of two dialogue options to Liara at the end of her mini-questline is "Don't become the thing you're hunting." Ironic, much? Technically, there was nothing that forced Liara to be the new Shadow Broker. She could have simply left the headless organization to rot. However it was too good an opportunity to pass up, and seeing as how Liara was already pretty good with the Knowledge Broker business herself, it all worked out.Also Liara's conscience forces her to become the new Shadow Broker. The Shadow Broker keeps himself in power by regulating the flow of information to his clients - that way, nobody can gain a permanent advantage over the others. Some of the information his agents find could tip the balance of galactic politics or start wars. For this precise reason, his agents cannot sell any information without his say-so. If he was to die, presumably all his agents would find themselves out of a job, but in possession of secrets worth trillions of credits. Guess what would happen next... In one of the comics which focuses on Captain Bailey, you learn that this is essentially how Bailey got his job when he was forced to kill Pallin while investigating him, upon which Councillor Udina gives him Pallin's old job. Bailey however feels kind of guilty due to the fact that he believes Pallin to be innocent of whatever he's accused of. |
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Forgotten Realms: The title of Magister and accompanying special powers are "inherited" by the winner once Magister is defeated. This leads to Magisters being extremely dangerous wizards even before taking said powers, so while formal challenge and non-lethal combat are quite acceptable, victory usually was achieved via killing one's predecessor in some sort of surprise attack. Sometimes even unknowingly — it's easier to do while blowing up whole catacombs than in fair face-to-face battle. Overall it's actually an invoked trope, as Word of God claims that the Magister's title is Schmuck Bait, instigated by Mystra so that hyperaggressive wizards have a prize to kill one another over, rather than leave them running loose and causing havoc for everyone else. | |
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This is the bad ending in Streets of Rage. | |
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I Wanna Be the Guy: In order to become the Guy, you have to kill the Guy. | |
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In The Transformers: The Movie, Galvatron kills Starscream right at his coronation and asks if anyone else wants to step up as the new leader. Obviously, they hail Galvatron. | |
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Batman: In I, Joker this is how the title of The Bruce is passed down. | |
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In the first Valkyrie Profile, Lenneth recruits at least three souls (Jelanda, Jin, and Gandar) by killing them herself. Jin's recruitment is a specific reference to the Japanese example in Mythology above, although Lenneth solves the problem by, well, killing Jin/the monster to take his soul (playing the trope straight in a fashion different from the myth). In Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, Hrist decides the quickest way to make sure Arngrihm stops being an obstacle is to kill him and force him to serve her. By the time it stops working, she's about ready for her own Heel–Face Turn. |
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The Metabarons: Each Metabaron must kill his father in ritual combat to succeed him as the next Metabaron. | |
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In Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, Hrist decides the quickest way to make sure Arngrihm stops being an obstacle is to kill him and force him to serve her. By the time it stops working, she's about ready for her own Heel–Face Turn. | |
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In Ranma Saotome, Chi Master, Qiáng Wang manages to gain control over a yakuza group based out of an area close to Nerima by killing its leader. | |
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God of War: The Olympians plot to kill Ares, the God of War by using Kratos as their pawn. They don't like Ares because he's being a jerk. After Kratos kills Ares, he becomes the God of War himself, taking his place where Ares left off and being an even bigger jerk than Ares was, bringing the Olympians full circle. | |
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How to Get Rid of Cellulite has the mysterious Serial Killer, the Butcher. It turns out that he has to murder six people to be initiated into the Brotherhood of the Eighth Dawn. After he gets Hoist by His Own Petard trying to kill the protagonists, it's them who receive a letter from the Brotherhood, notifying them that if they want to initiate, the Butcher has already been counted as their first victim and they have five more to go. | |
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In Episode 4 of the flash animation series Bad Guys, Bad Guys Go To Hell, the green guy killed the devil and took his place as ruler of Hell. Then it turns out the blue guy killed God last week and took his place as supreme deity. Now everyone in Heaven has to spend an eternity in hard labor building Him a giant palace. The Bad Guys quickly decide that Hell is better since you "only" get hot pokers shoved up your ass over there, and just go to Hell. Going back and forth between the two places isn't very hard anyway since they are right next to each other. | |
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Satan in The Gods of Arr-Kelaan works like this. Ronson eventually managed to give up the position by proving his predecessor's death wasn't his fault. | |
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MonsterVerse: Godzilla vs. Kong: Beyond having originally been built by Apex to deliberately Kill and Replace Godzilla, it's implied that Mechagodzilla once it's been possessed by Ghidorah's subconsciousness, will inherit Godzilla's position as the reigning King of the Monsters if it succeeds in killing him and Kong. In the novelization, Madison speculates that if this scenario plays out, then Mechagodzilla will probably take control of the other Titans around the world just like King Ghidorah previously did. In the prequel graphic novel Kingdom Kong, Camazotz tries to kill Kong and claim Skull Island as his own, and Dr. Brooks believes that if Camazotz had succeeded, it would've cemented him as a new Alpha Titan of comparable rank to Kong, Godzilla, and the late Ghidorah. |
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In John French’s Thousand Sons, Ahriman inherits leadership of his enemy Amon’s warband after killing him. Ahriman cements the change in leadership by using his powers to strip the red paint from their armour and repaint them blue to match his own. | |
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One way to obtain possession of a Death Note or a world famous detective's title is to kill its current owner. | |
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In Lexx, the "key" of the eponymous ship is passed on at death. The power can also leave if you are "Taken to the height of sexual ecstasy", which people would probably remember more easily if the most frequent captain weren't Stanley Tweedle, for whom that was never an issue (other than that one time). |
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In the third Song of the Lioness book, Alanna winds up killing a desert tribe's shaman in self-defence, and is told that she must now take his place. Unlike most cases of this, it's less a case of automatic promotion and more a case of "you created this mess, now fix it", and the tribe immediately pressures her to train replacements so they can have actual mages dedicated to them rather than a knight who will eventually leave. | |
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In Shovel Knight, Baz attacks the titular spade-wielder because he's heard that defeating a knight means you get to claim their title. Of course, since he's about as smart as the rope he uses in combat, it's not actually true; it was a misunderstanding caused by a conversation with King Knight. | |
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Death also takes the place of The Hogfather for a while, not because he killed him, but because someone else is trying to, and the role has to be filled. | |
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Among the Children of the Light in The Wheel of Time, there is an almost-forgotten section in their law entitled Trial by the Light. One Child claims his right to Trial by the Light to bring another to justice, then the two fight a lethal duel, and the loser's rank and property are forfeited to the victor. Galad invokes this to become Lord Captain Commander of the Children of the Light. There is also the tradition of Blademasters. One of the two methods of becoming a Blademaster is to kill a Blademaster in fair single combat with swords, upon which you get his rank and his sword (traditionally marked with a heron). |
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Dinosaurs had one episode where Robbie accidentally kills the leader of a gang, thus ending up as their leader. He doesn't mind until he realizes how unfortunate that position is. So he and his family decide to try to fake his death... which almost leads to him being eaten alive. In the end, it is revealed that Robbie never actually killed the leader and that the guy instead had Laser-Guided Amnesia and got lost in the swamps because of it. | |
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One ending in Princess Maker 2 — the absolute worst, score-wise — has the heroine kill the King of the Underworld, only to discover that this rule applies to that position. | |
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Dragon's Dogma: At the end this is revealed to be the entire point of the game. During the final battle with the Seneschal he reveals to the Arisen (the player) that all of the events of the game were in order to "temper the fires of creation" within the Arisen so that they could adequately take the Senechal's place as the world's keeper. Furthermore when playing on New Game+, upon reaching the Final Boss (again) the original Senechal is replaced with the Arisen who defeated him on the first playthrough. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The students each keep the charms from the Assassins they defeat/kill/send to the Shadow Realm. | |
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Gotcha Force: There's a chance (fairly high for Com Mons, lowering for progressively more powerful ones) that anything you've killed in a level you've completed will be given to you for your own use. This is to encourage you to handle most of the killing duties. | |
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The Elder Scrolls This is an extremely common behavior among the Daedric Princes, especially the more outright malevolent ones when it comes to the ranks of their mortal followers. Boethiah, the Daedric Prince of Plots whose sphere covers murder and betrayal, treats his (sometimes "her") champions this way. If they've displeased him, or if he has simply gotten bored, he may get another worthy mortal to challenge them in combat. If that mortal wins, that mortal takes the champion's place. Boethiah's quests in both Skyrim and Online involve this. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: In the Dragonborn DLC, Hermaeus Mora, Daedric Prince of Knowledge, "rewards" the Dragonborn for his victory over his former champion Miraak by declaring the Dragonborn to be Miraak's replacement. The entire plot of Dragonborn was essentially Mora's plan to replace Miraak with the Dragonborn, and it's implied that he was sowing the seeds for this even in the main questline. |
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Roronoa Zoro in One Piece aims to become the world's greatest swordsman. In order to achieve this goal, his primary objective is to defeat Dracule Mihawk, the current title holder, which suggests that defeating the current title holder automatically passes the title onto the victor. | |
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Weirdly inverted in Dead Like Me, where the office of Reaper comes with an implicit (and unknown) quota of souls you have to reap before you are allowed to die. The last soul you reap becomes a Reaper to take your place. | |
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In an episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Wayne has to take the place of secret agent Dalton Pierce after Pierce accidentally kills himself with Wayne's prototype laser shaver. | |
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In Futurama. Fry accidentally drank the Emperor of Trisol, thereby assassinating him. He was then crowned the new emperor. In fact, pretty much all of the emperors got their jobs by drinking the current emperor. Indeed, they have placeholder portraits for "Fry's assassin" and "Fry's assassin's assassin" |
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Don't Kill It has this as a central point of the narrative. A town is besieged by a demonic force that possesses whoever kills its host. In the intro scene, a hunter kills an animal, and then proceeds to try and murder his neighbors. After killing one and seriously injuring another, the father of the family kills the hunter, only to inexplicably turn his shotgun on his injured wife, and then kills his daughter with a second shot as the screen fades to black. The remainder of the film focuses on Jebediah; who is trying to capture it with a special net, as anyone who kills it will become a relentless killer immediately after. The only way to temporarily contain it is to ensure you will die, then kill the current host, which is easier said than done as you get absolutely no time after killing before you become irrationally violent. | |
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The hero in the Sword of Truth series, at the end of the first book, takes control over the Big Bad's whole country after killing him, although in this case, it had more to do with Richard being the Big Bad's son. There's also the issue in a later book where he is attacked by thirty extremely skilled swordsmen, manages to kill them all, and has the wife of several of them (polyandrist society) insist she is his wife now. |
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Subverted in Code Geass: A sufficiently powerful Geass User can kill the immortal who gave them their powers, thereby becoming an immortal themselves. The subversion is that most immortals want to be killed (because Who Wants to Live Forever??) and typically trick their partners into going through with it. Interestingly enough, Lelouch Lamperouge becomes the Emperor of Britannia and then Suzaku Kururugi becomes Zero by both killing the previous holder of those titles. These were just part of Lelouch's final plan rather than a tradition, though. |
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The Bible: It applies to the outcome of the affair in Book of Genesis 34, in which Simeon and Levi slaughtered every man in Shechem in revenge for their sister Dinah's being sexually violated. Seizing all the women and children of the dead men along with their livestock and material possessions may seem to have been adding insult to injury for the survivors, but the alternative was to leave them there without their men to defend them from roving marauders in a place and time when men were a city's first and only line of defense. In other words, Simeon and Levi and the rest of Jacob's family were pretty much stuck with these women and children whether they wanted them along for the journey or not. | |
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In the Chaos Gods series, when someone kills a ranked demon, they absorb that demon's power. This alters the configuration of their soul and turns them into a demon themselves. | |
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In Cthulhu Slippers, Mal's return from the Far Lands accidentally squishes Nyarlathotep, leaving nobody to manage the Human Resources department at Cthulhu Corp. So Mal gets the job, although he goes power-mad for a while because Nyarlathotep is regenerating inside of his mind. | |
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Ravenloft: A lesser villain that manages to kill a domain's darklord will almost certainly become stuck with the darklordship themselves, with canonical examples including Ivana Bortisi and Gabrielle Aderre. Gabrielle's antagonistic son Malocchio is even specifically avoiding killing her because his seer powers let him know that he'll inherit her title if he does so. Inherited domains don't always follow this rule — if a Darklord is somehow vanquished in other circumstances (while there are no canonical examples of Darklords being killed by someone Good aligned, a rare few, such as Lord Soth, have left their position without being murdered), the domain is either absorbed into another nearby domain, or anyone else evil enough for Darklordship gets the title, as is the case with Sithicus's second Darklord, Inza Kulchevich. | |
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Near the climax of the Mageworlds novel By Honor Betray'd, Llannat Hyfid, wholly loyal to the Republic and still at least nominally a member of the Adept's Guild, faces the Magelord sus-Airaalin in a formal duel to the death for all that he holds. When the latter is struck down and refuses medical help, Mistress Hyfid finds herself acknowledged as not merely First of all the Mage-Circles but Grand Admiral of the invading warfleet. | |
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Highlander: The Source: Whoever kills the Guardian of the Source must take their place. Duncan incapcitates the Guardian, who tries to goad him into killing him. Since Duncan had been warned what would happen and is able to control his emotions even though the Guardian killed some of his friends, he walks away and moves to claim the Source. The Guardian explodes. | |
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The Santa Clause: The titular "Santa Clause" operates this way. If Santa becomes unable to carry out his duties and you put on his coat and step into his sleigh, you become Santa. Scott Calvin finds this out after accidentally causing Santa to slip off the roof of his house and die. | |
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Shadow and Bone: Morozova's creatures are allegedly the most powerful amplifiers known, and any Grisha who kills them will have their powers amplified to an insane extent. The hunt for Morozova's stag, one such creature, is a subplot. Subverted. Power is not gained from the animal's death, but to whom it chooses to bequeath its power. Kirigan thinks it's the former, but is proven wrong when Alina realizes it's the latter and unleashes her Sun Summoner abilities. | |
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Sonic becoming the king at the end of Sonic and the Black Knight is a mix of this and "Ancient Tradition". | |
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In the Invader Zim horror fanfic Tales of Terror: Dib and the Blair Witch, Dib destroys the Blair Witch, but is then cursed to take her place as the spirit haunting the forest. | |
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Six String Samurai: After the Kid vanquishes the Big Bad, Death, Death's minions hand him their card and tell him to call them if he needs a band. | |
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Space Pirates and Zombies practically runs with this trope. You want a ship, beat the nine shades of it, get the blueprints, and you can use it afterwards. Then, capital ships happen and make you realize there is a reason they are called capital ships. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: After Naked Snake completes his mission by assassinating his mentor and mother figure, the Boss, he is awarded with the title of Big Boss. This is also a case of propaganda by the US, who wanted the best soldier to be exalted and held up as an example for others. Given that Big Boss refuses to use the name for decades after getting it, and also abandons the US shortly after the completion of his mission because of the epic betrayals he uncovered, it doesn't turn out well for the US. | |
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Godzilla vs. Kong: Beyond having originally been built by Apex to deliberately Kill and Replace Godzilla, it's implied that Mechagodzilla once it's been possessed by Ghidorah's subconsciousness, will inherit Godzilla's position as the reigning King of the Monsters if it succeeds in killing him and Kong. In the novelization, Madison speculates that if this scenario plays out, then Mechagodzilla will probably take control of the other Titans around the world just like King Ghidorah previously did. In the prequel graphic novel Kingdom Kong, Camazotz tries to kill Kong and claim Skull Island as his own, and Dr. Brooks believes that if Camazotz had succeeded, it would've cemented him as a new Alpha Titan of comparable rank to Kong, Godzilla, and the late Ghidorah. |
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The protagonist Leon, of Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, within the Alternate Timeline of events called the Marie Route, kills the Black Knight, The Dreaded enemy hero who was sworn to protect the sibling princesses of the Fanoss Principality. Under the monicker of The Masked Knight, Leon, in honor of one of said princesses' Last Request, vows a Declaration of Protection to the remaining sister, rebelling against his homeland's government and taking The Black Knight's job. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 Inverted with Lucius the Eternal. If you kill him and take even a moment's pleasure in the act, you slowly and painfully turn into a resurrected Lucius, with your screaming face embossed on his armor. You kill it, Lucius bought you. This can go to as far an extreme as it needs to find a victim; in the short story Lucius: Pride and Fall he was killed by a landmine and ended up taking the body of the worker who assembled it on a distant world. The Imperial Guard have a variation of this trope: You Conquered It, You Get It. A Guardsmen's homeworld may be an incredibly long distance away from the frontline, and space travel is a bit of a luxury in the grim darkness of the far future — safe space travel is impossible — so chances are very good that a Guardsman will never see his home or family ever again. Fortunately, planets still need forces on them to defend them against other threats, so Guardsmen are usually granted land and settling rights on the newly-conquered planet. It becomes common for liberated planets to become home to bars with names like "The 105th", all filled with middle-aged, heavily-scarred men with blank stares. Robbers and gangs enter these bars at their own peril. Often, these Guardsmen have families and offspring of their own in time, and they join up in the Guard, are sent off to another world to conquer it, and the whole cycle repeats again. |
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In Renegades, this is how Honey's Pest Controller powers manifested. As a child, she accidentally stepped on a hive of bees and crushed it, then passed out from the stings. When she woke up, she found out that she killed the hive queen, and the bees somehow decided that she's the new one. | |
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The Unseen Hunt: Jaune and Weiss discover that by killing the two Elder Grimm that are respectively stalking their souls in the Grimm world, they can respectively inherit that Grimm's powers and Grimm world body for themselves, along with becoming the new ruler of that Grimm's domain in the Grimm dimension. | |
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Unsounded: Leadership positions in Sharteshane's underworld are gained by a less powerful member of the group killing their leader. Nary took over his gang by killing his da, and he expects and raised Sette to at least try to do the same. This is the origin of the "predators never die old" saying. | |
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On an episode of Jumanji: The Animated Series, there was a part where the heroes trick the hunter Van Pelt into falling off a cliff. Before Van Pelt does, however, Peter somehow grabs his whip. Over the episode, Peter gradually morphs into Van Pelt because "there must always be a Van Pelt. It's the rules of the game." He even goads Alan into killing him just so Alan can become Van Pelt. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Soon in the third movie, we learn that whoever kills Davy Jones has to take his place. Cue dilemmas for Will, who swore an oath to kill Davy Jones and Jack, who thinks it would be freaking awesome to be immortal. The title also comes with another catch. Should the captain not perform his duty (ferrying the souls of the dead to the other side), he and the crew end up looking like Jones and his crew. | |
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Annihilation: Ronan becomes ruler of the Kree after killing House Fiyero, who'd staged a coup on the Supreme Intelligence. | |
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Final Fantasy X: When Sin is defeated, it's replaced by the person who became the Final Summon. If it's defeated by the Final Summoning, that is. | |
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At the end of the fourth and fifth installments of Friday the 13th, after Tommy Jarvis assists in killing Jason or his copycat killer it's hinted that he'll become the next killer. Subverted in that he keeps turning up again, fairly normal. | |
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In Emerald City, Dorothy inherits East's ruby gauntlets after tricking her into killing herself, though they quickly turn invisible. | |
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The Legend of Dragoon: This is how Dragoon Spirits are obtained to begin with, as the Spirits are really the crystallized soul and life force of a dragon. These crystals only form at the very last moments of a dragon's life and are implied to disappear almost immediately after the dragon actually dies, so in order to obtain a Dragoon Spirit from a dragon you need to be present at the moment of its death. | |
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Blake's 7: "Shadow" shows that the Terra Nostra organized crime group works like this. When an underling kills his boss for failure, the Chairman informs him that "his assets are now yours". In "Death-Watch", two planetary systems wage surrogate war via gunfighters in a Combat by Champion. The First Champion of Teal is Tarrant's brother, who gets killed by a Young Gun. Tarrant then takes on the new champion and kills him. Avon quietly informs him that according to tradition, he is now the First Champion of Teal, causing Avon and Tarrant to agree for the first time in their lives by calling for an immediate teleport out of there. |
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Star Wars Rebels: As revealed in "The Honourable Ones", Zeb's species, the Lasat, have a tradition called "Boosahn Keeraw" wherein if a warrior is defeated by a superior opponent, they give them their weapon. It turns out that this is how Zeb's archenemy Agent Kallus got his bo-rifle. | |
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Diablo: This happens to the hero of the first game. After killing Diablo and removing the soulstone from its forehead and freeing his former host, the hero rams the thing into his own forehead, becoming Diablo and taking his place, which brings us full circle to where we started. Notable in that the hero thinks he's containing Diablo and preventing the demon from ever coming back, but Diablo is more powerful than the hero gives him credit for. | |
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Tron: Ghost in the Machine: When cornered by a security commander, Blue Jet's erratic User ability misfires, absorbing the commander's functions and rank. Jet is utterly terrified to find out that this now puts him in command of the User-Believer forces. | |
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This is how First Mate Cox becomes chief of the cannibalistic Raiders in Nation. In that case, he meant to kill the previous chief; he just didn't know he'd get the job afterward. | |
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Ravenous (1999) holds that a man can absorb another man's strength by eating him. | |
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Up: After Muntz falls to his death, Carl is now the proud owner of the Spirit of Adventure. A variation occurs when Dug defeats Alpha and puts him in the cone of shame, earning all the other dogs' allegiance. |
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This is how ranking is done in No More Heroes; when an assassin kills a higher-ranking assassin, he gains the slain assassin's rank. Unfortunately Travis doesn't realize the downside of that — he'll be targets for every other up-and-coming assassin — until Sylvia tells him after he kills the tenth-ranked. This convinces him that the only way out is simply to get rid of them all. | |
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Magic Sword: Choosing to pick up the orb which drops after killing the final boss turns your character into the new final boss. | |
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In Baccano!, an immortal who "eats" another immortal receives all of their knowledge and memories in the process. The demon who set the rules claims that it's so that he gets something out of the contract when the last immortal gets sick of living and summons him again to be devoured, but you can't help but wonder if he didn't just want to see Szilard totally lose his shit and start killing everyone For Science! (which he does). | |
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As the page quote shows, "You keep what you kill" is the core creed of the Necromongers in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), and Riddick proves this twice: once by killing a Necromonger with his own knife (which he got to keep) and the other time by killing the Lord Marshal (with the aforementioned knife, even) and taking his place as their ruler. | |
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Agents of Atlas: You become Gorilla Man by killing the previous Gorilla Man. This means that you become immortal unless killed, but are transformed into a gorilla. During Marvel Comics #1000, Gorilla Man is reluctant to plug himself into a Celestial's brain in case it kills him, and they end up with a "gorilla space-god". | |
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One of the Chaos! comics based on Halloween franchise has Laurie taking Michael's place after killing him in Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later. This was ultimately rendered non-canon by Halloween: Resurrection though. | |
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X-Factor (2006): The title of Morrigan passes to whoever kills the prior one, the current one having had the position for around a thousand years. Siryn kills the current one in order to cure Polaris of a case of trauma-induced madness. | |
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Blood: The dark god Tchernobog turns out to be the force that binds reality together. Guess who's responsible for that after you kill him? This ends up being one of the major forces behind the plot in Blood 2 — Caleb's refusal to use these powers for over a century results in creatures from another reality invading his. | |
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Crawl: This is the main gameplay gimmick. One player is the Hero, the other one to three are spirits. The spirits can possess traps and monsters to kill the hero, and the one who lands the killing blow regains their humanity and usurps the role of Hero. | |
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League of Legends: If any enemy hero has a buff that was granted by killing a neutral opponent ("jungling"), killing that hero will transfer that buff to the killer. Except for one special buff, gained by killing the game's Optional Boss during a round, which simply goes away. Played for Laughs with Kled, the Cantankerous Cavalier, who adds the title of anyone he kills to his own, not that anyone pays attention, leading to accumulations like Lord Colonel Major Centurion, Sergeant Double Admiral, Rear Forward Brigadier Admiral, Lieutenant Sergeant Commodore, and in extreme cases High Major Commodore of the First Legion Third Multiplication Double Artillery Vanguard Company. Kled is not all the way sane. |
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The Villains of Valley View: Villain law dictates that if someone kills the leader of all villains, they become the new leader. This comes into play when Amy kills Onyx. | |
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At the end of Siren (2010), Rachel is shown to have become the new siren of the island after having killed Silka. | |
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In X/1999, Subaru becomes the Sakurazukamori after he inadvertently kills Seishirou in a fight (even though Subaru is also head of the Sumeragis, eternal enemies of the Sakurazukas). He also takes Seishirou's place as a Dragon of Earth, despite being a Dragon of Heaven. Also, to become the Sakurazukamori, Seishirou had to kill his mother, as she was the previous one. It's implied that ''every'' Sakurauzkamori has done this. It is worth noting that Subaru was offered a choice — if he accepts Seishirou's eye (and thus his power), Seishirou lives on through Subaru taking up his place. If he doesn't, he has nothing to live for anymore. It was also implied that Sakurazukamoris can only be killed by the one they love most. |
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In the fifth season of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Hercules ends up in Ireland, where he meets Morrigan (loosely based on the Morrigan of Irish Mythology) who ends up killing a godly incarnation of "Justice". Morrigan then inherits that same position. | |
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In The Dark Id's Let's Play of Drakengard 2, the Fallout: New Vegas-style "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue attached to the final ending states that Caim, after his own death, went on to become the new Grim Reaper due to having basically killed the existing one's pact partner so hard that it died too; his application to the position simply stated "I murdered the shit out of the last guy." | |
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A Rabbit Among Wolves: Jaune accidentally kills Adam when the latter tries to take him hostage. As a result, he ends up in charge of Adam's White Fang branch. | |
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According to the Oglaf strip "Nothces", the crocodile who ate the world's most beautiful woman — as chosen by a contest — thereby technically became the world's most beautiful woman. Okay. | |
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Once Upon a Time: The power of the Dark One has this stipulation, which Rumplestiltskin wasn't completely aware of until it was too late. It also has an I Cannot Self-Terminate clause, so the previous Dark One had to manipulate Rumplestiltskin into killing him. | |
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Sa Ga Frontier: Learning magic requires The Gift. While most forms of magic allow their Gifts to be obtained by completing certain ordeals, the only way to claim the Gift for Space or Time magic is to kill the current wielder - only one being in reality can hold those Gifts at a time. Most characters can simply recruit the current holder to their party, but if you're playing as Blue, you must kill the wielder. | |
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Iron Fist: In Immortal Iron Fist, this is how the mantle of Dog Brother #1 is passed down. | |
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Big Trouble in Little China: Killing Lo Pan means Jack inherited the black magic bond that tied the unearthly hell-beast to his master. The only way to get rid of it is for someone to kill Jack, meaning they'll inherit it instead. | |
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The ending of Halloween II (2009) on the other hand ends with Laurie becoming as crazy, evil, and twisted as Michael, even briefly putting on his mask, after killing him. | |
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In Snarlbear, after the hero kills the titular beast, she is given its name. | |
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Doctor Strange: Shuma-Gorath has near-unlimited power in his home dimension, but Doctor Strange manages to steal the power of one of his generals and defeats Shuma with his own power. However, he finds himself starting to become Shuma-Gorath himself, as the Eldritch Abomination had warned would happen. He takes his own life. (Strange's ally Kaluu is able to revive him — unfortunately, Shuma comes back to life as well). | |
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A Growing Affection has this be one of the ways to become Raikage and Mizukage. | |
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DUSK: At the end, the protagonist is turned into The Dragon of The Man Behind the Man against his own will after killing the previous cult leader and earning Nyarlathotep's Villain Respect. | |
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Being the Leveler in Myth appears to work like this, although with an extremely long delay. | |
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Richard the Warlock from Looking for Group has inherited at least one title ("Mistress of Magma") that way, and considering his habits as well as his abundance of titles, possibly more. He actually explained his abundance of titles to a child once. You earn them based on kills. It appears this is how Tavor became the King of Legare. |
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In Star Control: Origins, the Faction of Eight were a council of Abusive Precursors who would wage war against alien races that had discovered intergalactic travel, only letting them live if they could destroy one of the members of the Faction and take their place. | |
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One episode of Family Guy plays with this trope more humorously. The Grim Reaper visits Peter's house and he twists and breaks his ankle. While he is resting comfortably in the house, he tasks Peter with killing people for him - though this happens because while he's incapacitated, no one can die and Peter screws up and lets the world know, causing chaos. Thus, Peter takes on the job because someone has to do it. | |
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Unknown Armies supplement Statosphere. One of the ways for an Avatar to replace a Godwalker of their archetype is to kill them in a symbolically correct manner. For example, to replace the Executioner you would have to render them helpless and then execute them, preferably with an axe. While this doesn't always work in this exact fashion (killing the Healer isn't going to do much), a symbolic killing also counts - beat the MVP at his own sport in a shut-out and you're the new MVP. | |
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In The Mummy Returns the army of Anubis works this way. The Scorpion King awakens and intends to use the army to destroy the world, but anyone who kills him takes control of the army. A cult resurrects Imhotep, Rick describes it as "he's the only one tough enough to take the Scorpion King out", hoping Imhotep will use the army to conquer the world with them as his aides. The good guys hope to kill the Scorpion King, and then send the army back to underworld. Which is what happens. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has a mild version with the Grail Knight, who after being "vanquished"note read: losing his balance and falling over from the mere act of raising his sword by Indy, tries to pass on his duties as the guardian of the Holy Grail. Indy declines. | |
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The Mountain and the Wolf: After a Norscan berserker starts cutting down Lannister troops, civilians, and Daenerys' forces during the siege of King's Landing, Jon manages to kill him in single combat. To his surprise, the Wolf shows up the next day to give him the dead man's armor, weapon, and head, having won them in single combat (and as the Wolf points out, the berserker had no kin to inherit them, and since he'd attacked his own side there was no weregild to be paid to the Wolf). | |
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In the fourth season of Charmed (1998), Cole becomes the Source after defeating him in battle. | |
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The only way to get the Number One headband in Afro Samurai is to kill the one who has it, but they have to have the Number Two headband, which is also obtained by killing whoever has it. The difference is that while the Number One can only be challenged by Number Two, Number Two can be challenged by anyone. An episode does show more headbands, but their purpose is never explicitly explained in the series. |
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Queen of All Oni: Jade kills Kaito, the General of the Ninja tribe, by eating his mask and absorbing his chi. This fully cements her position as new leader of that tribe. | |
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In Unlimited Fafnir, a D who deals the finishing blow to a dragon will inherit a weaker version of its powers. Yuu inherits antigravity from Leviathan, while Iris inherits Catastrophe from Basilisk. In Iris' case, however, she actually inherits the full extent of Catastrophe. This makes her much more powerful than the others, but also causes her to gradually transform into the new Basilisk. | |
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Babylon 5: Londo is a member of a Centauri dueling society, where it is customary for the winner to take the loser's family into his own. Londo's friend, who is about to be disgraced for protesting the war, challenges Londo and purposely loses to save his family from being dishonored along with him. Confirmed during "In The Beginning", where Londo tells the story of the Earth/Minbari war to the heirs of that family. | |
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The Chimaeran society in Jyu-Oh-Sei pretty much runs on a combination of this and the Klingon Promotion. Justified in that the entire system was set up to breed a new, hardier line of humans that could survive in the alien solar system after Earth was destroyed. | |
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Pilgrim (RPG Maker): In the My Sister ending, after Akemi kills Master Alice, she takes her place as the ruler of the castle in the Other World. | |
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The 1995 horror film Ice Cream Man ends with Small Paul in an asylum after killing the killer ice cream man, hinting that he would be taking his place. | |
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Deadpool: In Deadpool (2019), after Deadpool kills the King, he finds out that this is how the succession works and that he's now the King of the Monsters, and the rest of the run is him actually trying to do a good job running the kingdom (largely because literally nobody thinks he can do it). In Deadpool (2022), when Deadpool's partner Valentine manages to kill the Horned Emperor, who leads the Atelier assassins' guild, it turns out that the mantle of Horned Emperor passes to whoever kills the previous Emperor. Cue drama. |
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Captain America: Superia once tried doing this with A.I.M.. It turned out the A.I.M. director she had hoped to perform this on was a little tougher to kill than she'd been expecting. And had a M.O.D.A.M (Mental Organism Designed for Aggressive Maneuvers) in his corner. | |
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