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* ''Fanfic/TheDevilAndTheDeepBlueSea'': PlayedWith; Yassen claims that SCORPIA is willing to let their assassins retire after their contracts are up, while board members are usually assassinated instead. [[spoiler:Yassen himself is forced to join the board, and one of the reasons why Dr. Three joins forces with him and Alex is because he wants to retire.]]


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* ''Fanfic/FearsOfInfinity'': Since Innocence users are so rare, the Black Order goes to considerable lengths to keep them working for them. This ranges from perks like giving them special treatment to ''tying them down'' if they attempt to run, even going so far as to [[spoiler:transplant the brain of a dead Exorcist into a new body]]. The only reason why the Order isn't forcing the ''Avengers'' to stay with them is because the weapons they wield aren't a ''true'' bond with Innocence.
* ''Fanfic/IncenseAndPowderedDiamond'': Quarrel ''tries'' to leave the Teeth peacefully in order to answer her cousin Vista's request for help, only to find that they refuse to let her go. It doesn't help that Hemorrhagia lies to the Butcher about what's going on.
* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'': After the first challenge leaves one of the contestants presumed dead, the first player to be eliminated pleads to be allowed to stay, pointing out that their team is already down a player. When Brett asks [[TheStoryteller his mother]] why they didn't take the chance to escape, she explains that the contestants were afraid of what Chris might do to anybody whom he thought was ''deliberately'' trying to get voted off.


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* ''Fanfic/TheWeedverse'': Joining Celestia's [[PraetorianGuard Immortal Solars]] is a full-time commitment; you're expected to be MarriedToTheJob. ''Fanfic/TheOneThatGotAway'' centers around one pony spending her final hours with her long-time friends before officially joining the guard.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Ancienverse}}'': DARC doesn't take kindly to [[spoiler:Reeree]] betraying the group, which results in [[spoiler:her death]].
* In ''Fanfic/AutumnArc'', Roman is fully aware that Cinder will kill him and Neo if they attempt to leave her employ. This is why he sends Neo to gather information about [[spoiler:Jaune Arc]], planning to use them as leverage.
* ''Fanfic/CobysChoice'': Any Marine who has a Devil Fruit or has attained the rank of Captain or higher isn't allowed to quit, as the powers of the former are too coveted while the latter tend to know secrets that the top brass don't want leaking out. The best anyone who wants to leave the service can hope for is being allowed to retire to a pre-approved Island; more often, they just get reassigned doing things that don't involve being on the front lines.
* ''Fanfic/DeadOnArrivalMHA'': {{Defied|Trope}} by Overhaul; if someone wants to leave his service, he prefers letting them go without a fuss rather than forcing them to remain. After all, that's a good way to breed resentment and disloyalty. His only condition is that they can't provide any information about him or his operations to his enemies.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/ElectricPhoenix'': Negaduck lets Megavolt quit the Fearsome Five; however, he also makes clear that he won't be merciful if Megavolt ever shows his face to him again.
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* PlayedWith in ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'': Kyoko fully expects that the Magius employ this, and spends her whole "exit interview" with Oriko trying to get her to reveal as much. However, while it ''usually'' applies, Oriko has already figured out how to spin Kyoko leaving to her advantage, so she lets her go without a fight, much to Kyoko's confusion.


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* ''Fanfic/WhatYouKneadNaruto'' features a {{Downplayed|Trope}} example when Kakashi decides to retire as a shinobi. The Sandaime protests that he's far too valuable to ''quit''; Kakashi retorts that he's been faithfully serving their village since he was ''[[ChildSoldiers five]]'', and that he wants to learn how to be a ''person'' before it's too late. They eventually reach a compromise, allowing Kakashi to retire from active service while remaining in the reserves. Years later, Hiruzen convinces him to serve as Team Seven's jounin instructor by asking him to help ''Sasuke'' realize that he's more than just an "avenger".
* In ''Fanfic/WishCarefully'', nobody is allowed to quit being a Death Eater in Voldemort's Wizarding England. Nor is anyone allowed to refuse to ''become'' one.

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'''Cult Member:''' ''[to another one]'' Guy has a point...

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* ''Fanfic/OneForAllAndEightForTheNinth'' sees this PlayedForLaughs; In an effort to protect all of the female first-year students from Mineta's ExtremeLibido, Principal Nezu decides to put them in different classes. The moment he learns that all of the girls are being assigned to ''his'' class, Aizawa promptly attempts to quit, but is blithely overruled. His coworker Vlad declares that if ''he'' has to deal with his own students' drama, it's only fair that Aizawa does as well.



-->'''Mercurio:''' ''[ordered to shoot the protagonists]'' Sir, I'd like to... [[KilledMidSentence resign from my]]-- ''['''Blam!''']''\\
'''Gnl. Delatombe:''' ''[puts away his still-smoking gun]'' [[BondOneLiner Resignation accepted]].

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-->'''Mercurio:''' ''[ordered ''(ordered to shoot the protagonists]'' protagonists)'' Sir, I'd like to... [[KilledMidSentence resign from my]]-- ''['''Blam!''']''\\
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'''Gnl. Delatombe:''' ''[puts ''(puts away his still-smoking gun]'' gun)'' [[BondOneLiner Resignation accepted]].



'''Jude:''' ''[practically rolling her eyes]'' You're ''never'' out.

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'''Jude:''' ''[practically ''(practically rolling her eyes]'' eyes)'' You're ''never'' out.



'''Col. Rhumbus:''' Boys... it'd be a ''shame'' to have to kill you now. ''[drives off]''\\

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'''Col. Rhumbus:''' Boys... it'd be a ''shame'' to have to kill you now. ''[drives off]''\\''(drives off)''\\



* ''Literature/SaveTheEnemy'': [[spoiler:Zoey's mom was an assassin specializing in slow-acting poisons. She [[ContractOnTheHitman was killed]] for wanting out.]]



---> (IMSLO is) A retroactive order mandating that, no matter when you'd been conscripted, once you were in, you were in for as long as they wanted you -- or until you got killed. Either way, it was kiss your planned life goodbye. Imperial Military Stop Loss Order. An alternative translation, scrawled no doubt on a 'fresher wall somewhere by a [[BathroomStallGraffiti clever graffitist]], had caught on over the last few years: "I'm [[UnusualEuphemism Milking Scragged]]; Life's Over."

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---> (IMSLO --->(IMSLO is) A retroactive order mandating that, no matter when you'd been conscripted, once you were in, you were in for as long as they wanted you -- or until you got killed. Either way, it was kiss your planned life goodbye. Imperial Military Stop Loss Order. An alternative translation, scrawled no doubt on a 'fresher wall somewhere by a [[BathroomStallGraffiti clever graffitist]], had caught on over the last few years: "I'm [[UnusualEuphemism Milking Scragged]]; Life's Over."



--> Jana Kolbe, recently of the Sonnenkinder's External Projects Executive."\\

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* ''Literature/SaveTheEnemy'': [[spoiler:Zoey's mom was an assassin specializing in slow-acting poisons. She [[ContractOnTheHitman was killed]] for wanting out.]]



--> '''Salem:''' The Lopto order does not tolerate traitors. That's the rule...

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* ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024'': The first season finale reveals [[spoiler: practically every other "Smith couple" eventually decides to try and leave and their boss sends a special pair out to eliminate them. Prior to this, when the Mr. and Mrs. Smith couple featured in the series meet with said special pair for dinner, they tell them that their original plan was to make a certain amount of money and then part ways. Their response is laugh at this uproariously, asking if they really think they could just breakup and quit, as if the companhy is that open-minded.]]

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* ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024'': The first season finale reveals [[spoiler: practically every other "Smith couple" eventually decides to try and leave and their boss sends a special pair out to eliminate them. Prior to this, when the Mr. and Mrs. Smith couple featured in the series meet with said special pair for dinner, they tell them that their original plan was to make a certain amount of money and then part ways. Their response is laugh at this uproariously, asking if they really think they could just breakup and quit, as if the companhy company is that open-minded.]]open-minded]].
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* ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024'': The first season finale reveals [[spoiler: practically every other "Smith couple" eventually decides to try and leave and their boss sends a special pair out to eliminate them.]]

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* ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024'': The first season finale reveals [[spoiler: practically every other "Smith couple" eventually decides to try and leave and their boss sends a special pair out to eliminate them. Prior to this, when the Mr. and Mrs. Smith couple featured in the series meet with said special pair for dinner, they tell them that their original plan was to make a certain amount of money and then part ways. Their response is laugh at this uproariously, asking if they really think they could just breakup and quit, as if the companhy is that open-minded.]]
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* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' novel ''Final Fantasy VII The Kids Are Alright: A Turks Side Story'' (also known as ''Final Fantasy VII Lateral Biography Turks -The Kids Are Alright-'') reveals that the Turks are this type of organization. Even if you think you're retired, you can be called back in at any time.

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* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' novel ''Final Fantasy VII The Kids Are Alright: A Turks Side Story'' ''Literature/FinalFantasyVIITheKidsAreAlrightATurksSideStory' (also known as ''Final Fantasy VII Lateral Biography Turks -The Kids Are Alright-'') reveals that the Turks are this type of organization. Even if you think you're retired, you can be called back in at any time.
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* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': The Grandmaster's gladiators are unable to leave due to having chips embedded in their flesh that shock them if they disobey. Nevertheless, the Grandmaster refuses to call them slaves and insists on calling them "prisoners with jobs".

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* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': The Grandmaster's gladiators are unable to leave due to having chips embedded in their flesh that shock them if they disobey. Nevertheless, the Grandmaster refuses to call them slaves and insists on calling them "prisoners "[[DistinctionWithoutADifference prisoners with jobs".jobs]]".
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* ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024'': The first season finale reveals [[spoiler: practically every other "Smith couple" eventually decides to try and leave and their boss sends a special pair out to eliminate them.]]
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* ''Film/BloodInBloodOut'': The title refers the the practice of the gangs portrayed in the film -- the only way to join is by killing someone (blood in); the only way to leave is by dying (blood out).
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* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', when Denji's first recruited by Makima she tells him that he'll be killed if he refuses to become a [[DemonSlaying Devil Hunter]], but he doesn't really care because of the [[OnlyInItForTheMoney good pay]] and [[TheVamp his crush on her]]. [[spoiler:When he attempts to run away with Bomb Girl however, Makima kills her so [[EvilPlan he has no more reason to leave]]. After Makima's HeelFaceReincarnation into Nayuta he seemingly found a way out, only for Public Safety to [[IHaveYourWife use her life to blackmail him]] into doing their bidding while keeping him under SinisterSurveillance 24/7.]]

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* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', when Denji's first recruited by Makima she tells him that he'll be killed if he refuses to become a [[DemonSlaying Devil Hunter]], but he doesn't really care because of the [[OnlyInItForTheMoney good pay]] and [[TheVamp his crush on her]]. [[spoiler:When he attempts to run away with Bomb Girl however, Makima kills her so [[EvilPlan he has no more reason to leave]]. After Makima's HeelFaceReincarnation into Nayuta he seemingly found a way out, only for Public Safety to [[IHaveYourWife use her life to blackmail him]] into doing their bidding TenMinuteRetirement while keeping him under SinisterSurveillance 24/7.24/7. When he finally comes ''out'' of retirement, they immediately [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect him]].]]
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* ''Literature/{{Spellster}}'': The King's Hounds are enlisted forever. Leaving whilst alive is not an option.
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** During the Onigashima Raid, [=CP0=] places special emphasis in making sure that [[spoiler:Who's Who]] does not survive the night, being a former [=CP9=] agent who failed a crucial assignment, [[YouHaveFailedMe was imprisoned for his failure]] and escaped before becoming a pirate. While what information he may possess in the present is several years out of date and thus no longer a threat to the World Government, allowing him to escape with his life leaves a bad precedent.
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* ''Film/The6thDay'': After discovering what Drucker has been doing and causing his wife to die a second time, Dr. Weir tries to quit, which would also doom Drucker's cloning program. Since Drucker can't afford to lose him, he decides to kill the original Weir and then clone him and his wife from their latest syncordings so he won't remember turning against him.
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* The "blood in, blood out" code of prison gangs involves this: to join such a gang, one has to kill someone, and the only way to leave is in a body bag.

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* The "blood in, blood out" code of prison gangs involves this: to join such a gang, one has to kill someone, and the only way to leave is in a body bag. One would be in prison anyways, so it wouldn't make any difference.
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* ''VideoGame/EternalChampions'' (and ''[[UpdatedRerelease Challenge from the Dark Side]]'') has Shadow, who was part of an assassin agency. When she found herself [[HitmanWithAHeart sympathizing with their victims]] and unable to kill anymore, she [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident "threw herself off"]] the roof of their headquarters -- they gave her no other way to leave.

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* ''VideoGame/EternalChampions'' (and ''[[UpdatedRerelease Challenge from the Dark Side]]'') has Shadow, who was part of an assassin agency. When she found herself [[HitmanWithAHeart sympathizing with their victims]] and unable to kill anymore, she [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident [[NeverSuicide "threw herself off"]] the roof of their headquarters -- they gave her no other way to leave.
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** The truth is that when enlisting in the United States armed forces, you ''do'' agree to enlist for the entire duration of stop-loss and inactive ready reserve. Your enlistment contract is absolutely unambiguous about the possibility of stop-loss and inactive ready reserve. Now, ''recruiters'' and the personnel handing you the contract are usually quite loathe to bring up the topic for some reason...

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** The truth is that when enlisting in the United States armed forces, you ''do'' agree to enlist for the entire duration of stop-loss and inactive ready reserve. Your enlistment contract is absolutely unambiguous about the possibility of stop-loss and inactive ready reserve. Now, ''recruiters'' and the personnel handing you the contract are usually quite loathe loath to bring up the topic for some reason...
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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E7MammonsMagnificentMusical Mammon's Magnificent Musical]]", having finally had enough of Mammon's abuse, Fizzarolli decides to quit being the face of Mammon's brand after delivering a ClusterFBomb in [[TheVillainSucksSong song form]]. Mammon becomes infuriated because Fizz is his biggest money-maker, and goes OneWingedAngel as he furiously rants at Fizz for his audacity. Before things can escalate, [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Asmodeus]] jumps at Fizzarolli's defence in his own demon form and gets Mammon to back off by publicly admitting he loves Fizz, leaving Mammon with no way to {{blackmail}} either of them into forcing Fizz to stay. However, before [[KnowWhenToFoldEm taking his leave]], Mammon warns Asmodeus that he ''will'' regret revealing that secret.

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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E7MammonsMagnificentMusical Mammon's Magnificent Musical]]", having finally had enough of Mammon's abuse, Fizzarolli decides to quit being the face of Mammon's brand after delivering a ClusterFBomb in [[TheVillainSucksSong song form]]. Mammon becomes infuriated because Fizz is his biggest money-maker, and goes OneWingedAngel as he furiously rants at Fizz for his audacity. Before things can escalate, [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Asmodeus]] jumps at Fizzarolli's defence in his own demon form and gets Mammon to back off by publicly admitting he loves Fizz, leaving Mammon with no way to {{blackmail}} either of them into forcing Fizz to stay. However, before [[KnowWhenToFoldEm taking his leave]], Mammon warns Asmodeus that [[WeWillMeetAgain he ''will'' will regret revealing that secret.secret]].
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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E7MammonsMagnificentMusical Mammon's Magnificent Musical]]", having finally had enough of Mammon's abuse, Fizzarolli decides to quit being the face of Mammon's brand after delivering a ClusterFBomb in [[TheVillainSucksSong song form]]. Mammon becomes infuriated because Fizz is his biggest money-maker, and goes OneWingedAngel as he furiously rants at Fizz for his audacity. Before things can escalate, [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Asmodeus]] jumps at Fizzarolli's defence in his own demon form and gets Mammon to back off by publicly admitting he loves Fizz, leaving Mammon with no way to {{blackmail}} either of them into forcing Fizz to stay. However, before [[KnowWhenToFoldEm taking his leave]], Mammon warns Asmodeus that he ''will'' regret revealing that secret.
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* In ''Literature/TheShipWho'', [[ManInTheMachine shellpeople]] graduate with ''tremendous'' debt between the costs of enshellment and of being installed into [[SapientShip spaceships]] and {{Space Station}}s. [[TheFederation Central Worlds]] is broadly benign and doesn't like the phrase "IndenturedServitude", so shellpeople are paid salaries with bonuses for various assignments that can go towards repaying that debt. But in many circumstances they have to cover their own repairs, and if paired with incompatible [[HandyHelper brawns]], "divorce" incurs its own fee. Some struggle for centuries to pay their debt. Plenty just give up on it, not seeing indenture as too bad. Shellpeople who owe a ''lot'' are pressured into more assignments with less choice than ones who owe less.
** Helva manages to reach Buy-Out in a mere ten years and notices that her base chief is trying to fudge the numbers. Once those are hammered out he tries to get her on the hook to be refitted in such a way that she's given a new debt. [[spoiler: While thinking about freedom, Helva finds herself feeling empty. Between [[LivingShip being a ship]] and her own conditioning driving her to find Courier Service satisfying, she doesn't have a lot of options and finds the idea of working for a company, rather than the higher good she'd been trained for, distasteful. She winds up contracting back into Service and accepts that new debt - though she drives a bargain to become a freelance agent, with more choice in the matter and at a higher rate of pay.]]
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* In ''Film/{{Pathology}}'', Ted attempts to quit the murder club after learning that many of the killings have not be {{Vigilante Execution}}s as he was led to believe but rather innocent people murdered for sport. Even though Ted can't go to the police because of his own involvement, Jake does not let hiim quit and tells hhim that he has enough evidence to be able to frame him for all the murders.

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* In ''Film/{{Pathology}}'', Ted attempts to quit the murder club after learning that many of the killings have not be {{Vigilante Execution}}s as he was led to believe but rather innocent people murdered for sport. Even though Ted can't go to the police because of his own involvement, Jake does not let hiim him quit and tells hhim him that he has enough evidence to be able to frame him for all the murders.
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* In ''Film/{{Pathology}}'', Ted attempts to quit the murder club after learning that many of the killings have not be {{Vigilante Execution}}s as he was led to believe but rather innocent people murdered for sport. Even though Ted can't go to the police because of his own involvement, Jake does not let hiim quit and tells hhim that he has enough evidence to be able to frame him for all the murders.
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* ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury'': One of the news reporters with whom O'Brien has a meeting prior to his travel to Guyana has gotten reports that the people at Johnsontown aren't allowed to leave and, legally speaking, unable to because Johnson seized their passports.
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** The Shichibukai are essentially mercenaries, pirates who work for the government to fight and scare off other pirates. So naturally, if one decides to quit, they go back to being pirates, i.e. public enemies #1. It doesn't help that the Shichibukai is made up of pirates with massive former bounties, so as soon as they quit, their bounties are reinstated, leading them to be high-profile targets. [[spoiler:With the annulment of the Shichibukai system, every one of them (barring Bartholomew Kuma who is now a mindless cyborg slave to the Celestial Dragons) is being hunted by the World Government.]]

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** The Shichibukai are essentially mercenaries, pirates who work for the government to fight and scare off other pirates. So naturally, if one decides to quit, they go back to being pirates, i.e. public enemies #1. It doesn't help that the Shichibukai is made up of pirates with massive former bounties, so as soon as they quit, their bounties are reinstated, leading them to be high-profile targets. [[spoiler:With the annulment of the Shichibukai system, every one of them (barring Bartholomew Kuma who is now a mindless cyborg slave to the Celestial Dragons) is being hunted by the World Government. Indeed, the Marines wasted no time, ''immediately'' sending out armadas to capture each of the Shichibukai the moment the announcement was made official.]]
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** The Big Mom Pirates also have this; once you're a part of the crew, you ''can't leave''. Big Mom claims that if someone of strength wants to withdraw, they must turn over one of their limbs, but according to her daughter Praline, ''no one'' has successfully lived to escape Big Mom's control. Only ''one'' of her daughters managed to pull this off, and as such Big Mom wants to ''kill her.''

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** The Big Mom Pirates also have this; once you're a part of the crew, you ''can't leave''. Big Mom claims that if someone of strength wants to withdraw, they must turn over one of their limbs, large portions of their lifespan, or even the lives of the person's friends, but according to her daughter Praline, ''no one'' has successfully lived to escape Big Mom's control. Only ''one'' of her daughters managed to pull this off, and as such Big Mom wants to ''kill her.''

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