Basic Trope: An elected official who is never removed from office.
- Straight: Mayor Bob is mayor of Trope City in the beginning of Alice and Bob and through the series' entire run.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is immortal, Really 700 Years Old, and has been the mayor ever since Trope City was founded.
- Bob keeps getting re-elected despite loads of corruption scandals, many extramarital affairs, and getting many speeding tickets.
- Downplayed: Bob is serving his third term as mayor, which already is longer than usual in the town.
- Justified:
- Bob is an honest mayor, respected and beloved by the whole town.
- Bob has connections that enforce his Ultimate Job Security.
- Bob has won easily many times before, so nobody bothers running against him anymore.
- Bob runs a People's Republic of Tyranny, and the "democratic process" is rigged to keep himself in power.
- Bob is the King of an Elective Monarchy; the next election will take place when he either dies or abdicates.
- Inverted: No mayor of Trope City has ever served a full term.
- Subverted:
- Trope City finally gets fed up with corrupt, stupid mayor Bob and elects Charles in his place.
- The various Mayor Bobs only sound like they are a single person to outsiders.
- Mayor Bob has never been removed from office, but that's because Trope-City has been absorbed into Tropopolis during his tenure, rendering the office void.
- Double Subverted: Charles turns out to be even worse, and Bob is elected back into office in the next election.
- Parodied:
- Despite never having registered to run in an election, Bob has been re-elected for ages and many times on end.
- Bob continues to get re-elected as hall monitor of his school ... many years after graduating.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some jurisdictions have long-serving elected leaders, while others have a very High Turnover Rate.
- Bob's first stint as mayor of Trope City lasts a full four-year term, then he loses his re-election bid. Some time later, he wins the mayoralty back and goes on to serve another eight terms before retiring. In the next mayoral election, he runs one last time and wins but, for whatever reason, he doesn't serve his whole mandate.
- Averted: Trope City's law forbids mayors from staying more than two terms in charge.
- Enforced:
- Status Quo Is God
- Bob is a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of someone who occupied some political office for a long time and was never voted out of office.
- This is a Space-Management Game; the player needs to remain "permanently elected" in order for them to continue playing indefinitely.
- Lampshaded: "I can be re-elected in this town no matter what I do."
- Invoked: Mayor Bob pursues initiatives that end up making him a Universally Beloved Leader. Meanwhile, if there are term limits, he pushes for them to be extended or removed, and if there aren't, he doesn't call for them to be instated.
- Exploited: People who need mayoral approval to do something learn to tailor their proposals to appeal to Bob specifically.
- Defied: Bob is such a Mayor Pain that even his political allies are trying to persuade him to retire.
- Discussed: "Bob's been mayor for a long time here. Personally, I think it's time for a change."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob is The Ghost and all the oldest people in town say he's been around since they were young.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob campaigns well but governs poorly, so he wins over the dumb masses with big promises and mismanages the town in every possible way — and those who see him for what he is don't care to stop him.
- Conversely, Bob governs so well that the rest of the townspeople rely on him to be mayor and nobody prepares for his inevitable retirement or death. When one of those happens, things in Trope City stop working as well as they should because the new mayor is ill-prepared and unskilled.
- Similarly, even one especially good executive figure isn't everything. Even Bob needs councillors and bureaucracy to help him make policy and sign off on his initiatives, and if they can't co-operate, the city won't work as well as it should.
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