History Main / InsurrectionistInheritor

* When [[BabylonFive Londo Mollari]] gets permission to divorce two of his three wives, two of them compete to be the most sickeningly sweetly loyal and subservient wives you could ever see. He divorces them both and keeps the one who found that beneath her dignity, saying "with you, I always know where I stand".
* One of the reasons [[Literature/TheWarGods Tomanak]] selects Bahzell as a champion is that Bahzell is willing to argue with him about anything. This tends to upset those who worship Tomanak in a more conventional fashion.

* [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] wins the respect of his queens this way.
* In Muslim folktales (not quite canon), humans are God's children and heirs precisely because we can defy Him, unlike angels, who are perfect and therefore mere servants.

* Harry Dresden wins the respect of his queens this way.

--> ''Servant, I don’t like that word. I suggest that you consider where you stand and choose a different term. My Queen. And you will be gentle with that girl, or so help me I will make you regret it.''

--->--[[Literature/ColdDays Cold Days]]

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--> ''By all the Powers of Light, I haven't met a mortal as stubborn as you in millennia! You ignore my dreams, force me to resort to dolts like that idiot in Derm—even'' argue ''with my sister and me face-to-face! Can't you get it through your thick skull that it's your very stubbornness, your refusal to do anything you don't believe is right, that makes you so important?!''
--->--Tomanak, [[Literature/TheWarGods god of war and justice]] to his newly chosen champion

* In ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', (the animated series) Malevola [=DeVil=] (Cruella's mother) named Cruella her sole heir when Cruella finally had the guts to tell how much she despises Malevola.

* In ''OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', (the animated series) Malevola [=DeVil=] (Cruella's mother) named Cruella her sole heir when Cruella finally had the guts to tell how much she despises Malevola.

* One of the reasons [[Literature/TheWarGods Tomanak]] selects Bahzell as a champion is that Bahzell is willing to argue with him about anything. This tends to upset those who worship Tomanak in a more conventional fashion.

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* Wolfram and Heart are in the habit of promoting people who try to overthrow the firm, culminating in handing [=CEOship=] to archrival {{Series/Angel}} ("You've earned it").

* When [[BabylonFive Londo Mollari]] gets permission to divorce two of his three wives, two of them compete to be the most sickenly sweetly loyal and subservient wives you could ever see. He divorces them both and keeps the one who found that beneath her dignity, saying "with you, I always know where I stand".

--->--Tomanak, [[Literature/TheWarGod god of war and justice]] to his newly chosen champion

The BadAss has achieved high rank: king, ceo, crimelord, whatever. He's done so by sticking up for himself and what he believes in, and never taking abuse from anyone. He's pretty settled in when he notices a problem: he's surrounded by gutless [[YesMan yes men]]. They're weak. They crawl before him. They [[InadequateInheritor can't possibly]] take over his role if he were to step down.

--->--Tomanak, [[Literature/TheWarGod god of war and justice]] to his newly chosen champion]]

* One of the reasons [[Literature/TheWarGods Tomanok]] selects Bahzell as a champion is that Bahzell is willing to argue with him about anything. This tends to upset those who worship Tomanok in a more conventional fashion.

* When [[BabylonFive Londo Mollari]] gets permission to divorce two of his three wives, two of them compete to be the most sickenly sweetly loyal and subservient wives you could ever see. He divorces them both and keeps the one who found that beneath her dignity, saying "with you, I always know where I stand".

* When [[Babylon5 Londo Mollari]] gets permission to divorce two of his three wives, two of them compete to be the most sickenly sweetly loyal and subservient wives you could ever see. He divorces them both and keeps the one who found that beneath her dignity, saying "with you, I always know where I stand".

* When [[Series/Babylon5 Londo Mollari]] gets permission to divorce two of his three wives, two of them compete to be the most sickenly sweetly loyal and subservient wives you could ever see. He divorces them both and keeps the one who found that beneath her dignity, saying "with you, I always know where I stand".

* [[Webcomic/GirlGenius Klaus Wulfenbach]] ''deliberately'' makes mistakes in unimportant things to make sure his son, Gilgamesh, is willing to call him on them. It's said that if Gil fails, Klaus will "break him down for parts and try again". Gil finds the testing "tiresome".

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Examples:

The BadAss has achieved high rank: king, ceo, crimelord, whatever. He's done so by sticking up for himself and what he believes in, and never taking abuse from anyone. He's pretty settled in when he notices a problem: he's surrounded by gutless YesMen. They're weak. They crawl before him. They [[InadequateInheritor can't possibly]] take over his role if he were to step down.

* [[Webcomics/GirlGenius Klaus Wulfenbach]] *deliberately* makes mistakes in unimportant things to make sure his son, Gilgamesh, is willing to call him on them. It's said that if Gil fails, Klaus will "break him down for parts and try again". Gil finds the testing "tiresome".

* Wolfram and Heart are in the habit of promoting people who try to overthrow the firm, culminating in handing [=CEOship=] to archrival {{Series/Angel}} ("You've earned it").

* Wolfram and Heart are in the habit of promoting people who try to overthrow the firm, culminating in handing =CEOship= to archrival {{Television/Angel}} ("You've earned it").

* Literature/DiamondAge centers around an "attempt to add an element of subversion to our institutions" so that the next generation will contain people like this.
* Wolfram and Heart are in the habit of promoting people who try to overthrow the firm, culminating in handing CEOship to archrival Television/Angel ("You've earned it").

* Cornelius Stuyvesant, the richest man in the world, in the GrimnoirChronicles makes Francis his sole heir, saying "You’re the only one worth . . . a bucket of warm piss . . . in . . . in the whole lot". Their previous conversation was when Cornelius disowned him for taking a moral stand against the Imperium.