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* In a deleted scene from ''TheTerminator'' one of the fallen cops asks Kyle to take up his gun.

* In a deleted scene from ''[[TheTerminator]]'' one of the fallen cops asks Kyle to take up his gun.

* Isildur taking up his father's sword, Narsil, in the backstory to ''TheLordOfTheRings'' (after it broke). Generations later, a new sword was forged from Narsil's shards, and this sword passed into the hands of Aragorn, who continued the war against Sauron.

* ''KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'': [[spoiler: Aqua takes up Eraqus' keyblade when returning to Land of Departure aster his death, and start wield it after loosing her own to save Terra-Xehanort.]]

* The [[SoBadItsHorrible execrable]] ''{{Lensman}}'' [[AdaptationDecay anime]] opens with a Lensman crash landing in front of the hero, and passing his Lens along before he dies.

Related to HerHeartWillGoOn, DeterminedWidow, WarriorWidow (still in YKTTW). In its darker forms, leads to FeudingFamilies, or may be a genesis to, or simply another stage in, the CycleOfRevenge.

->''It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the King, took up his father's sword!''
-->'''Galadriel''', ''LordOfTheRings'' (movie version)

* Combined with PassingTheTorch in ''DoctorWho'''s "[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]", which, despite the time differential (it aired two years after the revival premiered), can be seen as Classic Who passing the torch to New Who.

Well, now what? Do we have a DownerEnding, and {{the bad guy wins}}? No, no, we need a replacement Hero. Someone who will take up TheHero's sword (and other weapons/[[MagicAndPowers superpowers]]) and go on to defeat the villain. This can be literal, invoking ItWasAGift, or metaphorical. When it's not only literal but the {{MacGuffin}}, the subtrope [[{{ptitleb1tr71kq}} I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]].

Related to HerHeartWillGoOn, DeterminedWidow, WarriorWidow (still in YKTTW). In its darker forms, leads to a FeudingFamilies, or may be a genesis to, or simply another stage in, the CycleOfRevenge.

* The BigReveal of the heavily [[MindScrew Mind Screwed]] ''MetalGearSolid'' series turns out to be that [[spoiler: the entire situation with ''Outer Haven'', ''Metal Gear'', ''Les Enfants Terrible'', ''the Patriots'', and ''FOXDIE'' is just the result of a small group of people fighting about how to best continue the work of ''The Boss''. [[{{Understatement}} Things got really out of hand!]]

* [[CaptainAmerica Bucky Barnes]] came [[DeathIsCheap back from the dead]] only to see his former hero Steve Rogers get asassinated, in time to pick up his Mighty Shield.

When it happens to superheroes or supervillains, it is often the case of {{Legacy Character}}s.

Well, now what? Do we have a DownerEnding, and the bad guy wins? No, no, we need a replacement Hero. Someone who will take up TheHero's sword (and other weapons/[[MagicAndPowers superpowers]]) and go on to defeat the villain. This can be literal, invoking ItWasAGift, or metaphorical. When it's not only literal but the {{MacGuffin}}, the subtrope [[{{ptitleb1tr71kq}} I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]].

* In ''DragonQuestIII'', the Hero does this for his/her father, Ortega(Who dies battling a demon atop a volcano. By falling in.)
* In ''NinjaGaiden'', Ryu Hayabusa takes up his father's dragon sword after he is killed in a duel.

* In Simon Spurrier's {{Warhammer 40000}} novel ''Lord of the Night'''s BackStory, the Night Haunter had named Sahaal his heir and decreed that he should [[ItWasAGift receive]] the [[RequisiteRoyalRegalia ''Corona Nox'']] as a symbol of that. Which was why it's being lost was so important.

* In ''ChronoTrigger'', Frog takes eventually takes up the legendary Masamune in memory of his brother-in-arms Cyrus, who was killed just as the sword was recovered.

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*In ''{{Wicked}}'', Elphaba hands the Grimmerie off to Glinda before "melting."

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* ''FearStreet Cheerleaders'' by R. L. Stine does this [[spoiler:halfway through the first book, with the seeming protagonist boiled to death, but her sister continuing to fight the being that killed her.]] And no, I'm not going to add "{{Or So I Heard}}."
** I know what you mean. It's a pretty badass trilogy for being about cheerleaders.

** And before that with [[spoiler:Joe to Kamina]], and later with [[spoiler:[[PassingTheTorch Simon to Gimmy]].]] Forgetting this was always a running theme led to [[BitterSweetEnding some outcry]].

** And before that with [[spoiler:Joe to Kamina]], and later with [[spoiler:[[PassingTheTorch Simon to Gimmy]].]] Forgetting this was always a running theme led to a lot of outcry over [[BitterSweetEnding the ending]].