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** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case. On another occasion, she helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well.
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** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case. On another occasion, she helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. [[spoiler: Then he called NASA and told them she was medically unfit to be an astronaut, because hey, it's dangerous up there and she ''is''.]]
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* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Rico is leading the squad when one of his team is shot during a live-fire training exercise. Rico expects to be drummed out, but shows such responsibility that Zim, his sergeant, recommends administrative punishment instead, allowing Rico to stay. Rico, however, declines the invitation, due to his sense of shame, and opts to leave the infantry in disgrace. [[spoiler: However, after the Bugs destroy Buenos Aires, his home city, he requests to be reinstated and finished his training.]]
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* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', Rico is leading the squad when one of his team is shot during a live-fire training exercise. Rico expects to be drummed out, but shows such responsibility that Zim, his sergeant, recommends administrative punishment instead, allowing Rico to stay. Rico, however, declines the invitation, due to his sense of shame, and opts to leave the infantry in disgrace. [[spoiler: However, after the Bugs destroy Buenos Aires, his home city, he requests to be reinstated and finished finishes his training.]]
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A subordinate screws up. Badly. Someone dies, or someone close to them gets hurt, or lots of time and money is lost. He thinks he's screwed but the Boss decides instead to keep or even promote them on the basis of this failure, reasoning that the subordinate will forever more be motivated by [[MyGreatestFailure that mistake]].
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority to select chooses a candidate who has failed terribly because they feel [[ItsAllMyFault the memory of that failure]] will push them to excel in the future, rather than be predictive of their performance overall. Superiors who follow this trope may have [[NotSoDifferent a similar failure]] in their own past.
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority to select chooses a candidate who has failed terribly because they feel [[ItsAllMyFault the memory of that failure]] will push them to excel in the future, rather than be predictive of their performance overall. Superiors who follow this trope may have [[NotSoDifferent a similar failure]] in their own past.
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A subordinate screws up. Badly. Someone dies, or up badly: someone close to them gets hurt, or dies, lots of time and money money/time/resources are lost, a battle/constent is lost. a route. He thinks he's screwed but the Boss decides instead to keep or even promote them on the basis of this failure, failure on reasoning that the subordinate will forever more be motivated by [[MyGreatestFailure that mistake]].
mistake]]. Thus they are giving the subordinate a opportunity for MyGreatestSecondChance.
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority toselect chooses a candidate who has failed terribly because they feel [[ItsAllMyFault the memory of that failure]] will push them to excel in the future, rather than be predictive of their performance overall. Superiors who follow this trope may have [[NotSoDifferent a similar failure]] in their own past.
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority to
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** Grand Admiral Thrawn promotes a subordinate who failed to capture Luke's ship with a TractorBeam. The subordinate received high praise because he went above and beyond his duty in his efforts, creating new strategies on the fly that, even though they failed, still bespoke top-notch problem-solving skills. (Bonus points for actually taking responsibility for his failure.) The tractor beam operator was then told to work out a way to counter Luke's trick. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And he did.]]
** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn got a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator got executed.
** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn got a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator got executed.
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** Grand Admiral Thrawn promotes a subordinate who failed to capture Luke's ship with a TractorBeam. The subordinate received high praise because he went above and beyond his duty in his efforts, creating new strategies on the fly that, even though they failed, still bespoke top-notch problem-solving skills. (Bonus points for actually taking responsibility for his failure.) The tractor beam operator was then told to work out a way to counter Luke's trick. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And he He did.]]
** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn got a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operatorgot was executed.
** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn got a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator
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* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons, one of them being that she failed once and failed bad, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.
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* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons, one reasons. One of them being that she failed once and failed bad, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.
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* ''Series/{{House}}'':
** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case.
** Thirteen helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. Plus, it meant she had to get breast implants in order to secretly save her lungs. Yay!
** In season two's "The Mistake": After Chase kills a patient by neglecting to ask some routine questions and gets sued by her brother, House decides not to fire him, not because he figured that Chase would learn from his mistake, but because he'd figured that since the news of [[spoiler:the death of Chase's father]] had led to his screw-up, it wouldn't happen again because now [[spoiler:both his parents were dead]].
** When Foreman kills a patient in season three's "House-Training" by misdiagnosing a simple [[spoiler:staph infection]], House doesn't even consider firing him because he knows that Foreman will do it again. House figures, in his very own way, that since they're Super Extraordinary Doctors who specialize in TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease and save buttloads more patients than regular ones, that this translates to them [[RockBeatsLaser missing the really basic stuff sometimes]].
** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case.
** Thirteen helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. Plus, it meant she had to get breast implants in order to secretly save her lungs. Yay!
** In season two's "The Mistake": After Chase kills a patient by neglecting to ask some routine questions and gets sued by her brother, House decides not to fire him, not because he figured that Chase would learn from his mistake, but because he'd figured that since the news of [[spoiler:the death of Chase's father]] had led to his screw-up, it wouldn't happen again because now [[spoiler:both his parents were dead]].
** When Foreman kills a patient in season three's "House-Training" by misdiagnosing a simple [[spoiler:staph infection]], House doesn't even consider firing him because he knows that Foreman will do it again. House figures, in his very own way, that since they're Super Extraordinary Doctors who specialize in TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease and save buttloads more patients than regular ones, that this translates to them [[RockBeatsLaser missing the really basic stuff sometimes]].
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''Series/{{House}}'': is the former TropeNamer.
** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after thatcase.
** Thirteencase. On another occasion, she helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. Plus, it meant she had to get breast implants in order to secretly save her lungs. Yay!\n
** In season two's "The Mistake": After Chase kills a patient by neglecting to ask some routine questions and gets sued by her brother, House decides not to firehim, him. It's not because he figured that Chase would learn from his mistake, but because he'd figured that since the news of [[spoiler:the death of Chase's father]] had led to his screw-up, it wouldn't happen again because now [[spoiler:both his parents were dead]].
** When Foreman kills a patient in season three's "House-Training" by misdiagnosing a simple [[spoiler:staph infection]], House doesn't even consider firing him because he knows that Foreman will do it again. House figures, in his very own way, that since they're Super Extraordinary Doctors who specialize in TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease and save buttloads more patients than regular ones, that this translates to them [[RockBeatsLaser missing the really basic stuff sometimes]].dead]].
** In Season 4, Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that
** Thirteen
** In season two's "The Mistake": After Chase kills a patient by neglecting to ask some routine questions and gets sued by her brother, House decides not to fire
** When Foreman kills a patient in season three's "House-Training" by misdiagnosing a simple [[spoiler:staph infection]], House doesn't even consider firing him because he knows that Foreman will do it again. House figures, in his very own way, that since they're Super Extraordinary Doctors who specialize in TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease and save buttloads more patients than regular ones, that this translates to them [[RockBeatsLaser missing the really basic stuff sometimes]].
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* ''{{CSI}}'': Grissom is told to fire Warrick because Warrick left a scene and, as a result, rookie CSI Holly Gribbs is killed. Grissom tells Warrick that he's already lost one CSI, and that he doesn't want to lose another. Warrick then becomes one of the most reliable members of the team.
** To be precise, Grissom's stated reason for not letting Warrick go is that if he fired Warrick for making a mistake, he'd also have to fire himself and the rest of the team, because they've ''all'' made mistakes at one time or another.
** To be precise, Grissom's stated reason for not letting Warrick go is that if he fired Warrick for making a mistake, he'd also have to fire himself and the rest of the team, because they've ''all'' made mistakes at one time or another.
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* ''{{CSI}}'': Grissom is told to fire Warrick because Warrick left a scene and, as a result, rookie CSI Holly Gribbs is killed. Grissom tells Warrick that he's already lost one CSI, and that he doesn't want to lose another. Warrick then becomes one of the most reliable members of the team.
** To be precise, Grissom's stated reason for not letting Warrick go is that if[[note]] If he fired Warrick for making a mistake, he'd also have to fire himself and the rest of the team, because they've ''all'' made mistakes at one time or another.another. [[/note]] Warrick then becomes one of the most reliable members of TheTeam.
** To be precise, Grissom's stated reason for not letting Warrick go is that if
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot spots the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''Literature/TheBible'': Peter denies Christ three times, Christ makes Peter the head of his church, making this OlderThanFeudalism.
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* Christopher Titus says this was his father's primary parenting method, letting him do dangerous things like stick a penny in a wall socket, sometimes even bringing people over to watch, then after he was hurt, saying "You're not gonna do that again, are you?"
** It's a major parenting method for certain lessons, although that's more 'let you screw up under supervision where I can make sure it won't kill you, so you'll know better than to do it when I'm not there to protect you' than 'not firing you as my son for being a moron because you'll learn.'
** Especially, back when houses frequently had fire in them, letting a kid stick its hand in the fire under supervision (or even burning them ''yourself'') was often recommended, so that they would learn from a very early age that fire hurts, and wouldn't go blundering into it and dying while your back was turned.
* In a possible company example, after the Exxon-Valdez debacle Exxon managed to reinvent itself by developing an obsession with safety.
** It's a major parenting method for certain lessons, although that's more 'let you screw up under supervision where I can make sure it won't kill you, so you'll know better than to do it when I'm not there to protect you' than 'not firing you as my son for being a moron because you'll learn.'
** Especially, back when houses frequently had fire in them, letting a kid stick its hand in the fire under supervision (or even burning them ''yourself'') was often recommended, so that they would learn from a very early age that fire hurts, and wouldn't go blundering into it and dying while your back was turned.
* In a possible company example, after the Exxon-Valdez debacle Exxon managed to reinvent itself by developing an obsession with safety.
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* Christopher Titus says this was his father's primary parenting method, letting method: let him do dangerous things like stick a penny in a wall socket, sometimes even bringing people over to watch, then after he was hurt, saying "You're not gonna do that again, are you?"
** It's a major parenting method for certain lessons, although that'syou?" In this case it was more 'let you screw up under supervision where I can make sure it won't kill you, so you'll know better than to do it when I'm not there to protect you' than 'not firing you as my son for being a moron because you'll learn.'
** Especially, back' Back when houses frequently had fire in them, letting a kid stick its hand in the fire under supervision (or even burning them ''yourself'') was often recommended, recommended so that they would learn from a very early age that fire hurts, and wouldn't go blundering into it and dying while your back was turned.
* In a possible company example, after the Exxon-Valdez debacle Exxonmanaged to reinvent reinvented itself by developing an obsession with safety.
** It's a major parenting method for certain lessons, although that's
** Especially, back
* In a possible company example, after the Exxon-Valdez debacle Exxon
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* In ''LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', this is one of Reinhard von Lohengramm's most admirable traits: when a subordinate fails him, he just tells him that he knows the subordinate learned his lesson and will do better next time. He is universally right in his judgement. [[hottip:*:He wasn't always like that. The first time Reinhard wanted to punish an officer who caused him to lose a battle, his best friend and living conscience, Kircheis, pleaded to him not to do it. Reinhard listened to his advice and learned the lesson.]]
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* In ''LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', this is one of Reinhard von Lohengramm's most admirable traits: when a subordinate fails him, he just tells him that he knows the subordinate learned his lesson and will do better next time. He is universally right in his judgement. [[hottip:*:He [[note]]He wasn't always like that. The first time Reinhard wanted to punish an officer who caused him to lose a battle, his best friend and living conscience, Kircheis, pleaded to him not to do it. Reinhard listened to his advice and learned the lesson.]][[/note]]
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* For Sherlock Holmes, it was 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face.' He was way off the mark, and arrived at the wrong conclusion. Fortunately, the case resolved itself before he could make too big a fool of himself.
--> "Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
--> "Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
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** In Season 4 Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case.
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** When Foreman kills a patient in season three's "House-Training" by misdiagnosing a simple [[spoiler:staph infection]], House doesn't even consider firing him because he knows that Foreman will "do it again." House figures, in his very own way, that since they're Super Extraordinary Doctors who specialize in TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease and save buttloads more patients than regular ones, that this translates to them [[RockBeatsLaser missing the really basic stuff sometimes]].
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** When Foreman kills a patient in season three's "House-Training" by misdiagnosing a simple [[spoiler:staph infection]], House doesn't even consider firing him because he knows that Foreman will "do do it again." again. House figures, in his very own way, that since they're Super Extraordinary Doctors who specialize in TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease and save buttloads more patients than regular ones, that this translates to them [[RockBeatsLaser missing the really basic stuff sometimes]].
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* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': [[spoiler: Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight with Gene in the woman's hospital room, Sam assumes Gene will want to kick him off the team. Gene fires back with "Are you joking? You've got to put this right. She's not giving up and nor should you."]]
* ''AshesToAshes'' pulls this one when Chris [[spoiler: turns out to have been corrupt. Gene decides that the shame of still working in CID with everyone knowing what he did will be his punishment.]]
* ''AshesToAshes'' pulls this one when Chris [[spoiler: turns out to have been corrupt. Gene decides that the shame of still working in CID with everyone knowing what he did will be his punishment.]]
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* ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'': [[spoiler: Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight with Gene in the woman's hospital room, Sam assumes Gene will want to kick him off the team. Gene fires back with with: "Are you joking? You've got to put this right. She's not giving up and nor should you."]]
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* ''AshesToAshes'' pulls this one when Chris[[spoiler: turns out to have been corrupt. Gene decides that the shame of still working in CID with everyone knowing what he did will be his punishment.]]
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See also SecretTestOfCharacter, TrainingAccident, YouDidEverythingYouCould. Contrast with YouHaveFailedMe, when a subordinate gets harshly (and, often, terminally) punished for possibly trivial mistakes.
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* ''LifeOnMars'': [[spoiler: Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight with Gene in the woman's hospital room, Sam assumes Gene will want to kick him off the team. Gene fires back with "Are you joking? You've got to put this right. She's not giving up and nor should you."]]
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A subordinate screws up. Badly. Someone dies, or someone close to them gets hurt, or lots of time and money is lost. He thinks he's screwed. But the Boss decides instead to keep or even promote them on the basis of this failure, reasoning that the subordinate will forever more be motivated by [[MyGreatestFailure that mistake]].
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority to select chooses a candidate who has failed terribly because they feel [[ItsAllMyFault the memory of that failure]] will push them to excel in the future, rather than be predictive of their performance overall. Superiors who follow this trope may have [[MyGreatestFailure a similar failure]] in their own past.
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority to select chooses a candidate who has failed terribly because they feel [[ItsAllMyFault the memory of that failure]] will push them to excel in the future, rather than be predictive of their performance overall. Superiors who follow this trope may have [[MyGreatestFailure a similar failure]] in their own past.
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A subordinate screws up. Badly. Someone dies, or someone close to them gets hurt, or lots of time and money is lost. He thinks he's screwed. But screwed but the Boss decides instead to keep or even promote them on the basis of this failure, reasoning that the subordinate will forever more be motivated by [[MyGreatestFailure that mistake]].
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority to select chooses a candidate who has failed terribly because they feel [[ItsAllMyFault the memory of that failure]] will push them to excel in the future, rather than be predictive of their performance overall. Superiors who follow this trope may have[[MyGreatestFailure [[NotSoDifferent a similar failure]] in their own past.
In short, this trope refers to any situation where someone with authority to select chooses a candidate who has failed terribly because they feel [[ItsAllMyFault the memory of that failure]] will push them to excel in the future, rather than be predictive of their performance overall. Superiors who follow this trope may have
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** In season two's "The Mistake": After Chase kills a patient by neglecting to ask some routine questions and gets massively sued by her brother, House decides not to fire him, not because he figured that Chase would learn from his mistake, but because he'd figured that since the news of [[spoiler:the death of Chase's father]] had led to his screw-up, it wouldn't happen again because now [[spoiler:both his parents were dead]].
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* TripleH was the only one of a group of four people to be punished for what was known as "The [=MSG=] Incident." Triple H and ShawnMichaels hugged Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, who were on their way to {{WCW}}. Someone caught this on camera, and it quickly made the rounds. Since Hall and Nash were gone, and Michaels was the WWE Champion at the time, Triple H had to take the whole of the punishment. One would think this incident would keep him at the bottom of the card for the rest of his life, and utterly ruin him, despite Triple H's love for the business. Fast forward to today: Triple H is married to Vince [=McMahon=]'s daughter, won thirteen WWE world titles in his career, and is being groomed to take over the business side of the WWE.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''ThePractice'': Early in his career, Bobby put on a half-hearted defense of a man he'd been appointed to represent as a public defender, believing him to be guilty; the man was convicted of murder. The man was exonerated several years later, and hired Bobby to handle his wrongful-imprisonment suit, figuring he'd be motivated to atone for his own role in the conviction.
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* ''DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''DoctorWho'': ''Series/DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor, becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle, and eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor, Doctor and becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle, and battle. The Doctor encourages her to become the invasion's media darling, knowing that it would lead to her eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''DoctorWho'': Harriet Jones (MP, Flydale North) stumbles into Downing Street to promote her new health regulation ideas... during the middle of an ''alien invasion''. Being too stubborn to back off, despite everyone repeatedly telling her to, she manages to accidentally spot the aliens while trying to plant her files in the emergency program suitcase. This leads to her meeting the Doctor, becoming the lone reliable witness of the alien battle, and eventually becoming Prime Minister of the UK as a result.
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* ''ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons, one of them being that she failed once and failed bad, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.
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* ''ArtemisFowl'': ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons, one of them being that she failed once and failed bad, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.
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"Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
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--> "Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
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** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn had a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator had been executed.
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** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn had got a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator had been got executed.
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* For Sherlock Holmes, it was 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face.' He was way off the mark, and arrived at the wrong conclusion. Fortunately, the case resolved itself before he could make too big a fool of himself.
"Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
"Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
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** It's a major parenting method for certain lessons, although that's more 'let you screw up under supervision where I can make sure it won't kill you, so you'll know better than to do it when I'm not there to protect you' than 'not firing you as my son for being a moron because you'll learn.'
** Especially, back when houses frequently had fire in them, letting a kid stick its hand in the fire under supervision (or even burning them ''yourself'') was often recommended, so that they would learn from a very early age that fire hurts, and wouldn't go blundering into it and dying while your back was turned.
** Especially, back when houses frequently had fire in them, letting a kid stick its hand in the fire under supervision (or even burning them ''yourself'') was often recommended, so that they would learn from a very early age that fire hurts, and wouldn't go blundering into it and dying while your back was turned.
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* ''TheBible'': Peter denies Christ three times, Christ makes Peter the head of his church, making this OlderThanFeudalism.
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* ''TheBible'': ''Literature/TheBible'': Peter denies Christ three times, Christ makes Peter the head of his church, making this OlderThanFeudalism.
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* ''{{House}}'':
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers TransformersGeneration1]]'': Aerialbot Silverbolt is scared of heights and screws up during a mission. [[BenevolentBoss Optimus Prime]] promotes him to Aerialbot leader, knowing that the responsibility will take his mind away from his fears.
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers TransformersGeneration1]]'': Transformers Generation 1]]'': Aerialbot Silverbolt is scared of heights and screws up during a mission. [[BenevolentBoss Optimus Prime]] promotes him to Aerialbot leader, knowing that the responsibility will take his mind away from his fears.
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* ''[[Series/TheTransformers TransformersGeneration1]]'': Aerialbot Silverbolt is scared of heights and screws up during a mission. [[BenevolentBoss Optimus Prime]] promotes him to Aerialbot leader, knowing that the responsibility will take his mind away from his fears.
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Entire justification? Well, it\'s how he manages the squadron\'s formation, at least.
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** Grand Admiral Thrawn promotes a subordinate who failed to capture Luke's ship with a TractorBeam. The subordinate received high praise because he went above and beyond his duty in his efforts, creating new strategies on the fly that, even though they failed, still bespoke top-notch problem-solving skills. The tractor beam operator was then told to work out a way to counter Luke's trick. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And he did.]]
** This trope is also Wedge Antilles' entire justification for the formation of [[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]; [[ShellShockedVeteran previously-trained pilots]] who screwed up in various ways, many of them not really their fault, get one last chance.
** This trope is also Wedge Antilles' entire justification for the formation of [[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]; [[ShellShockedVeteran previously-trained pilots]] who screwed up in various ways, many of them not really their fault, get one last chance.
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** Grand Admiral Thrawn promotes a subordinate who failed to capture Luke's ship with a TractorBeam. The subordinate received high praise because he went above and beyond his duty in his efforts, creating new strategies on the fly that, even though they failed, still bespoke top-notch problem-solving skills. (Bonus points for actually taking responsibility for his failure.) The tractor beam operator was then told to work out a way to counter Luke's trick. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And he did.]]
** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn had a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator had been executed.
** This trope is also how WedgeAntilles' entire justification for Antilles manages the formation of [[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]; [[ShellShockedVeteran previously-trained pilots]] who screwed up in various ways, many of them not really their fault, get one last chance.chance. Wedge is scrupulous about the pilots he accepts, though; of the ~40 pilots that try out, only ten make it in.
** This happened, in a rather unusual way, to Bevel Lemelisk, one of the designers of the original Death Star. He had been responsible for the exhaust port flaw on the original Death Star. The Emperor [[YouHaveFailedMe had him executed for that blunder]]...and then used a Sith technique to transfer his consciousness to a clone body. Lemelisk was then placed in charge of redesigning the Death Star. And every time he made another mistake, the Emperor would execute him [[TheManyDeathsOfYou in some new gruesome manner]], then transfer his consciousness to a clone body again.
** Contrast with a similar situation in a previous book; the tractor beam operator in that case exhibited both incompetence and insubordination--he had failed to capture the right target, and then tried to pass the buck on to his superior. Once Thrawn had a grasp of the situation, ''that'' tractor beam operator had been executed.
** This trope is also how Wedge
** This happened, in a rather unusual way, to Bevel Lemelisk, one of the designers of the original Death Star. He had been responsible for the exhaust port flaw on the original Death Star. The Emperor [[YouHaveFailedMe had him executed for that blunder]]...and then used a Sith technique to transfer his consciousness to a clone body. Lemelisk was then placed in charge of redesigning the Death Star. And every time he made another mistake, the Emperor would execute him [[TheManyDeathsOfYou in some new gruesome manner]], then transfer his consciousness to a clone body again.
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* Rapper J-Kwon ''exposed his buttocks'' at his interview, and was accepted onto the record label. To be fair, a music industry job allows for more creativity, but most people would not recommend mooning your interviewers. They were looking for "edgy" and "irreverent", and mooning expresses both. Still, though, it's an act that CrossesTheLineTwice, so even if you are looking for a job in the music, art, or entertainment industry, it's not something to recommend. J-Kwon was just lucky.
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** This trope is also Wedge Antilles' entire justification for the formation of [[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]; [[ShellShockedVeteran previously-trained pilots]] who screwed up in various ways, many of them not really their fault, get a LastSecondChance.
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** This trope is also Wedge Antilles' entire justification for the formation of [[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]; [[ShellShockedVeteran previously-trained pilots]] who screwed up in various ways, many of them not really their fault, get a LastSecondChance.one last chance.
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* Rapper J-Kwon ''exposed his buttocks'' at his interview, and was accepted onto the record label. To be fair, a music industry job allows for more creativity, but most people would not recommend mooning your interviewers. They were looking for "edgy" and "irreverent", and mooning expresses both. Still, though, it's an act that CrossesTheLineTwice, so even if you are looking for a job in the music, art, or entertainment industry, it's not something to recommend. J-Kwon was just lucky.
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* Rapper J-Kwon ''exposed his buttocks'' at his interview, and was accepted onto the record label. To be fair, a music industry job allows for more creativity, but most people would not recommend mooning your interviewers. They were looking for "edgy" and "irreverent", and mooning expresses both. Still, though, it's an act that CrossesTheLineTwice, so even if you are looking for a job in the music, art, or entertainment industry, it's not something to recommend. J-Kwon was just lucky.
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