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* Playfully Subverted on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' Carl is subjected to a lot of Major Monogram's abuse, often resulting in AmusingInjuries, and has had a piano dropped on him in quest for a simple "thank you" from his boss.
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* Playfully Subverted on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' Carl is subjected to a lot of Major Monogram's abuse, often resulting in AmusingInjuries, and has had a piano dropped on him in quest for a simple "thank you" from his boss. He sticks around though despite all of this, hence he can't really be called "disposable".
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* ''TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'' had a group of college interns whom the titular character (and to some extent the rest of the crew) treats like crap: Steve refers to each as "intern!" rather than by name, forces them to loot an underwater research station owned by his rival and when they quit after the ship was briefly taken over by pirates, he sends them all home with "Incomplete" in their evaluations (his reason being that he didn't want to fail them, but he didn't want them to pass either). One of them, however, decided to stick around. Zissou immediately promised him an "A".
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* In ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', this was the introduction of Mike Nelson. Dr. Forrester and Frank hire Mike as a temp worker, and plot to kill him as soon as he finishes the job. However, their experiment subject Joel winds up escaping from the Satellite of Love just then, so they decide to use Mike as their new test subject instead.
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* In ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', this was the introduction of Mike Nelson. Dr. Forrester and Frank hire Mike as a temp worker, and plot to kill him as soon as he finishes the job. However, their experiment subject Joel winds up escaping from the Satellite of Love just then, so they decide to use Mike as their new test subject instead.
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* In {{Shadowrun}}, ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', many (if not most) megacorps will sacrifice interns and other low-level employees whenever it would be even a little expensive to get them out of trouble. See Rock in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' for an example. It's not uncommon for an inter to be set up to fall, as part of a gambit...
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* In {{Shadowrun}}, many (if not most) megacorps will sacrifice interns and other low-level employees whenever it would be even a little expensive to get them out of trouble. See Rock in ''[[BlackLagoon]]'' ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' for an example. It's not uncommon for an inter to be set up to fall, as part of a gambit...
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* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' it's a RunningGag that the interns are sent out to investigate things that are unnatural even by Night Vale's [[EldritchLocation standards]] and won't live past an episode. The only exceptions are Intern Dana ([[AmbiguousCloneEnding or her double]]) who spends her time reporting back from in Night Vale's worst EldritchAbomination invested locations or flicking in and out of existence with no escape in sight [[spoiler:until being elected mayor]], [[spoiler:Intern Maureen who spent a good deal of time blinking in and out of existence like Dana]] and [[spoiler:main character Cecil himself when he was a teen. Who even then, was implied to have died and been brought back somehow]]. It's worth noting the official Welcome To Night Vale intern shirts [[LampshadeHanging are red]].
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** Numerous interns are all but directly shown being killed in a few episodes of season 3, "World Tour". When everyone was in Egypt, Chris unleashed a horde of flesh-stripping scarabs on the contestants to give them incentive to start the challenge. One intern was acting as Chris' footrest, fearfully shaking as the beetles crawled by. In the next shot, all that remained was his skeleton, still serving as a footrest.
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** Played for laughs in a Season 1 running gag wherein the internsare sent to test the poor quality challenges for safety. They are usually severely injured routinely suffer serious injuries or die horribly horrible deaths in the process, but course of preparing and testing the challenges. When an intern dies whilst testing a challenge will get a seal of safety anyway. Interestingly, most of for safety, the intern designs host says, "That seems safe enough."
** Averted when the interns introduced in Season 4 become [[MauveShirt recurring minor characters]]. These interns arebased on the [[DevelopmentGag prototype designs of the main cast]] or they're [[DeathByCameo designs based on contest winners]]. explicitly mistreated and occasionally suffer {{amusing injuries}}, but do not come to lasting harm.
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* In a classic ''{{Dilbert}}'' strip, the Pointy-Haired Boss is seen carrying a corpse to a skip. He turns to camera (FourthWall?) and says "I love hiring these temporary workers! No benefits, no union, no contract, and you can just toss 'em in the dumpster when you're done!"
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** When Asok the intern was introduced, his co-workers immediately picked him up and said "I hope this one's sturdier than the ''last'' intern."
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RedShirt and TheIntern.
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--> "Do you even know the mortality rate of you internship program?! "
---> - ''Intern Maureen'', '''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'''
TheIntern is the lowest of the low in the company's command. In fiction land they're often not utilized for much besides [[YouGetMeCoffee getting the boss coffee]] and are often abused because of their lowly status. Sometimes that abuse is UpToEleven. And thus they become A Disposable Intern.
When the company needs to test the latest in unstable RopeBridge technology and there's a choice between sending out a main character or the intern we just met, more often than not the intern is going to bite it. There's NoOSHACompliance after all, and if a nameless intern dies who cares, [[RedShirt at least the danger is now known and a main character didn't have to die to show it]]. Interns are replaceable; main characters, who are more specialist and higher in the ranks, aren't. Don't worry, this horrible negligence will more often than not be PlayedForLaughs as a different Disposable Intern will sometimes be seen and killed regularly, often to the point of a RunningGag.
Compare CannonFodder, NewMeat, RedShirtReporter, BadBoss, and CListFodder.
A {{Subtrope}} of RedShirt.
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* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'' (mis)treats interns similarity to the source material below. However, it's notable as it's own example in that unlike in the show their uniforms are similar to actual [[RedShirt Star Trek uniforms.]]
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* In a classic ''{{Dilbert}}'' strip, the Pointy-Haired Boss is seen carrying a corpse to a skip. He turns to camera (FourthWall?) and says "I love hiring these temporary workers! No benefits, no union, no contract, and you can just toss 'em in the dumpster when you're done!"
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* Played straight and parodied on ''Series/XPlay''. During numerous skits/reviews, the hosts and staff would abuse, torment, and subject the "interns" to various punishments and horrors for the sake of comedy. Some of these "interns" weren't actually interns at all, though, and were actually other staff and producers of the show portraying a character.
* ''The Late Show with Creator/DavidLetterman'': In one episode a man who had invented a new super-powered pogo stick is demonstrating it outside the theater. Dave has the man pogo stick over a row of interns, since even if he does accidentally hurt one it won't matter. [[note]] However, on close inspection one can see that while the jumper is jumping in a straight line the line of interns is on an angle so the final one(s) won't be hurt even if he doesn't make it. [[/note]]
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* VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack treats interns quite badly. Sometimes even getting them killed.
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* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' it's a RunningGag that the interns are sent out to investigate things that are unnatural even by Night Vale's [[EldritchLocation standards]] and won't live past an episode. The only exceptions are Intern Dana ([[AmbiguousCloneEnding or her double]]) who spends her time reporting back from in Night Vale's worst EldritchAbomination invested locations or flicking in and out of existence with no escape in sight [[spoiler:until being elected mayor]], [[spoiler:Intern Maureen who spent a good deal of time blinking in and out of existence like Dana]] and [[spoiler:main character Cecil himself when he was a teen. Who even then, was implied to have died and been brought back somehow]]. It's worth noting the official Welcome To Night Vale intern shirts [[LampshadeHanging are red]].
* Occasionally crops up in ''WebOriginal/AcquisitionsIncorporated'', such as when Omin the CEO tries to magically convert their current intern into gold on accounts that they can always hire more.
* ''WebAnimation/DinosaurOffice'' has Terry eat the Intern, a young parasaurolophus, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain every time he appears]].
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* On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' the interns are sent to test the poor quality challenges for safety. They are usually severely injured or die horribly in the process, but the challenge will get a seal of safety anyway. Interestingly, most of the intern designs are based on the [[DevelopmentGag prototype designs of the main cast]] or they're [[DeathByCameo designs based on contest winners]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' ISIS interns in Krieger's lab are typically used as test subjects and die horribly as a result.
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--> "Do you even know the mortality rate of you internship program?! "
---> - ''Intern Maureen'', '''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'''
TheIntern is the lowest of the low in the company's command. In fiction land they're often not utilized for much besides [[YouGetMeCoffee getting the boss coffee]] and are often abused because of their lowly status. Sometimes that abuse is UpToEleven. And thus they become A Disposable Intern.
When the company needs to test the latest in unstable RopeBridge technology and there's a choice between sending out a main character or the intern we just met, more often than not the intern is going to bite it. There's NoOSHACompliance after all, and if a nameless intern dies who cares, [[RedShirt at least the danger is now known and a main character didn't have to die to show it]]. Interns are replaceable; main characters, who are more specialist and higher in the ranks, aren't. Don't worry, this horrible negligence will more often than not be PlayedForLaughs as a different Disposable Intern will sometimes be seen and killed regularly, often to the point of a RunningGag.
Compare CannonFodder, NewMeat, RedShirtReporter, BadBoss, and CListFodder.
A {{Subtrope}} of RedShirt.
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* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'' (mis)treats interns similarity to the source material below. However, it's notable as it's own example in that unlike in the show their uniforms are similar to actual [[RedShirt Star Trek uniforms.]]
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* In a classic ''{{Dilbert}}'' strip, the Pointy-Haired Boss is seen carrying a corpse to a skip. He turns to camera (FourthWall?) and says "I love hiring these temporary workers! No benefits, no union, no contract, and you can just toss 'em in the dumpster when you're done!"
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* Played straight and parodied on ''Series/XPlay''. During numerous skits/reviews, the hosts and staff would abuse, torment, and subject the "interns" to various punishments and horrors for the sake of comedy. Some of these "interns" weren't actually interns at all, though, and were actually other staff and producers of the show portraying a character.
* ''The Late Show with Creator/DavidLetterman'': In one episode a man who had invented a new super-powered pogo stick is demonstrating it outside the theater. Dave has the man pogo stick over a row of interns, since even if he does accidentally hurt one it won't matter. [[note]] However, on close inspection one can see that while the jumper is jumping in a straight line the line of interns is on an angle so the final one(s) won't be hurt even if he doesn't make it. [[/note]]
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* VideoGame/YouDontKnowJack treats interns quite badly. Sometimes even getting them killed.
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* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' it's a RunningGag that the interns are sent out to investigate things that are unnatural even by Night Vale's [[EldritchLocation standards]] and won't live past an episode. The only exceptions are Intern Dana ([[AmbiguousCloneEnding or her double]]) who spends her time reporting back from in Night Vale's worst EldritchAbomination invested locations or flicking in and out of existence with no escape in sight [[spoiler:until being elected mayor]], [[spoiler:Intern Maureen who spent a good deal of time blinking in and out of existence like Dana]] and [[spoiler:main character Cecil himself when he was a teen. Who even then, was implied to have died and been brought back somehow]]. It's worth noting the official Welcome To Night Vale intern shirts [[LampshadeHanging are red]].
* Occasionally crops up in ''WebOriginal/AcquisitionsIncorporated'', such as when Omin the CEO tries to magically convert their current intern into gold on accounts that they can always hire more.
* ''WebAnimation/DinosaurOffice'' has Terry eat the Intern, a young parasaurolophus, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain every time he appears]].
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* On ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' the interns are sent to test the poor quality challenges for safety. They are usually severely injured or die horribly in the process, but the challenge will get a seal of safety anyway. Interestingly, most of the intern designs are based on the [[DevelopmentGag prototype designs of the main cast]] or they're [[DeathByCameo designs based on contest winners]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' ISIS interns in Krieger's lab are typically used as test subjects and die horribly as a result.
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