Klingon Promotion - Television Tropes & Idioms

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* Dearg from ''MyRoommateIsAnElf'' attempts this while playing Offices and Busisnessmen.  He tries to get Griswold's executive power by shooting him.  Doesn't work out [[http://myroommateisanelf.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=11 too well for either of them]].

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* Dearg from ''MyRoommateIsAnElf'' attempts this while playing Offices and Busisnessmen.  He tries to get Griswold's executive power by shooting him.  Doesn't work out [[http://myroommateisanelf.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=11 too well for either of them]].

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* Dearg from ''MyRoommateIsAnElf'' attempts this while playing Offices and Busisnessmen.  He tries to get Griswold's executive power by shooting him.  Doesn't work out [[http://myroommateisanelf.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=11 too well for either of them]].

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15/Nov/09 at 12:58 PM by Ekron Dye 99.0.67.64

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* One can become a Captain in ''{{Bleach}}'' this way (like Kenpachi Zaraki).
* ''ShingetsutanTsukihime'' superficially follows this: the protagonist kills the female lead early in the show, only to find her resurrected but, thanks to his actions, somewhat depowered. He then has to cooperate with her for the rest of the show, hunting down vampires.
* In ''[[{{X1999}} X/1999]]'', The Sakurazukamori is a clan of assassins with only one member at any particular time. The fate of the Sakurazukamori is to choose to die at the hands of the one they love most who then takes their place and repeats the cycle. Yes, it's a weird series with so many masochistic characters that want to be killed.
* The headband rules of ''{{Afro Samurai}}'' fall under this. If one has the number one headband, they are considered god and only the number two can challenge him. The person who has said latter headband though can be challenged by anyone.

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[[AC:{{Anime}} & {{Manga}}]]
* One can become a Captain in ''{{Bleach}}'' this way (like Kenpachi Zaraki).
* ''ShingetsutanTsukihime'' superficially follows this: the protagonist kills the female lead early in the show, only to find her resurrected but, thanks to his actions, somewhat depowered. He then has to cooperate with her for the rest of the show, hunting down vampires.
* In ''[[{{X1999}} X/1999]]'', The Sakurazukamori is a clan of assassins with only one member at any particular time. The fate of the Sakurazukamori is to choose to die at the hands of the one they love most who then takes their place and repeats the cycle. Yes, it's a weird series with so many masochistic characters that want to be killed.
* The headband rules of ''{{Afro Samurai}}'' fall under this. If one has the number one headband, they are considered god and only the number two can challenge him. The person who has said latter headband though can be challenged by anyone.

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12/Nov/09 at 04:44 AM by DHBirr 76.232.157.40

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*** So in fact it was originally "Terran (Imperial) Promotion."

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09/Nov/09 at 09:23 PM by 205.234.53.15

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* In Jack Chalker's Four Lords of the Diamond series, the four planets of the Warden Diamond, as a dumping ground for all the sociopaths, criminals, scum, villainy, and political opponents that the interstellar human empire decided weren't worth killing (or mindwiping) use this method for their internal hierarchies.  On the one planet where this is frowned on, it still happens if you can frame or con someone higher up the chain of command to make them look bad so they get jailed, demoted or transferred for being stupid enough to fall for it.

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09/Nov/09 at 09:05 PM by Goldfritha 64.148.8.206

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AsskickingEqualsAuthority is when you get a ''society'' that works based on this trope. TheEvilPrince tends to see the world this way, due to his position.

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AsskickingEqualsAuthority is when you get a ''society'' that works based on this trope. TheEvilPrince tends to see the world this way, due to his position.  Occasionally, a superior can forestall it with KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand.

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07/Nov/09 at 05:54 AM by batfan 198.138.135.89

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*[[{{Batman}} Batman: The Dark Knight]], when the Joker recruits through 'Tryouts', forcing the [[{{Mooks}} Mooks]] of a rival gangster to kill each other with pool cues.

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*TheDarkKnight, when the Joker recruits through "Tryouts," forcing the [[{{Mooks}} Mooks]] of a gangster that he just killed to kill each other with pool cues for a spot on The Jokers "team."

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06/Nov/09 at 02:57 AM by Tiktaalik 68.81.231.147

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* This is pretty much how Kormir became a god in GuildWars: Nightfall, and for that matter what happened after Grenth defeated the previous god of death, Dhuum. It's implied Grenth wasn't the first, too.

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** In the TNG episode "A Mater Of Honor", where Riker serves abord a Klingon ship in an officer exchange program, the subject of KlingonPromotion comes up; it's mentioned that offing the captain if he becomes unfit for command is one of the first officer's ''duties''.  Later, when the Klingon captain's misunderstanding threatens the Enterprise, Riker finds a way to exploit this rule, though in a rather more human and less bloody manner.

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** In the TNG episode "A Matter Of Honor", where Riker serves abord a Klingon ship in an officer exchange program, the subject of KlingonPromotion comes up; it's mentioned that offing the captain if he becomes unfit for command is one of the first officer's ''duties''.  Later, when the Klingon captain's misunderstanding threatens the Enterprise, Riker finds a way to exploit this rule, though in a rather more human and less bloody manner.

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26/Oct/09 at 08:59 PM by MichaelJJ 208.180.115.66

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* In the ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic, Lien Da and Kragok [[SelfMadeOrphan murdered their father Luger]] in order to become Grandmasters of the Dark Legion. Of course, Kragok ended up [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder double-crossing his sister]] and taking leadership for himself.

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