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Do we have a trope for when a more senior member of an organization refuses to take charge of it after a leadership shake up, so a less senior member ends up as their superior? The closest thing I found was Declining Promotion, but that is much less specific... Examples I come up with mostly come from video games and involve the Player Character as the less senior leader figure and an NPC as the senior subordinate, like Kei Nagase in Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, Johnny Gat in Saints Row 2, and Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins.
Edited by Koveras