Be aware that this trope is naturally prone to SPOILERS.
Times where someone takes up another's quest, mission or legacy after their death in Anime and Manga.
- Strongly implied to be Meg's eventual destiny in Burst Angel, after her partner Jo's apparent death and the destruction of RAPT.
- Code Geass ends with an interesting literal and metaphorical variation: Lelouch passes the Zero identity to Suzaku specifically so that he can become a hero by killing Lelouch per his plan to achieve world peace, using Lelouch's own goofy pink sword to do the deed, leading to a Bittersweet Ending.
- In Corpse Princess When Keisei dies and Ouri takes his place as a contracted priest.
- Death Note: L has a house of successors that would be alerted immediately in the case of his death. Two of them take up his fight against Kira. They don't get along.
- In Chapter 160 of Dr. STONE, Senku's grave injury thanks to a sniper leads him to pass the mantle of head scientist to Chrome. Though given the chance he will recover, this is a Downplayed Trope.
- This is arguably the character arc of Son Gohan throughout Dragon Ball Z; the entire series builds up his enormous potential as a fighter and learning to control it, which cultivates in becoming the first one to truly ascend past the Super Saiyan level and completely outclass his father, The Hero of the series to that point. After the Big Bad is defeated, Goku chooses to stay dead and leaves the safety of Earth to Gohan.
- In Fairy Tail, Silver Fullbuster grants his Devil Slayer Magic to his son Gray, who vows to finish Silver's goal to kill the demon E.N.D.
- Heart Catch Pretty Cure plays this oddly - the Call to Adventure dream Tsubomi, Erika, and Itsuki get implies Cure Moonlight died. Tsubomi even gets Moonlight's Kokoro Perfume. That's not the case - Moonlight is still alive, back in her civilian identity as Yuri and suffering from a very bitter 10-Minute Retirement.
- A villainous example occurs in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run with President Funny Valentine. If mortally wounded, he uses his Stand to go to a parallel universe, find his counterpart, and pass along his Stand and his quest, before dying. The counterpart then returns to the root universe and carries on as usual as the original Funny Valentine. There are a few hints along the story to indicate this has happened multiple times before it's actually shown to the reader.
- Kirby: Right Back at Ya!: After one fight against a particularly powerful demon beast leaves Meta Knight in a coma that can only be cured if the demon dies, Kirby naturally grabs his sword and heads off to fight it.
- The Lensman anime opens with a Lensman crash landing in front of the hero and passing his Lens along before he dies.
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has Lyle Dylandy take up his brother Neil's position as Lockon Stratos in the second season.
- My Hero Academia: "One For All" is a power that, unique among Quirks, can be passed down to someone else who the current bearer deems worthy. Izuku Midoriya receives it from his predecessor All Might, who received it from his predecessor Nana Shimura; they are not examples of this trope, instead being just Passing the Torch. However, everyone before them were examples. What inevitably happened was that the current bearer was horrifically injured in combat, and they had to pass the power on to whoever happened to be close by at the time. Nana was the first one who was able to pass it on peacefully (though she was still killed later, rather than being able to retire).
- Naruto:
- After the death of Sarutobi Asuma, Shikamaru inherits their weapon, his chakra-enhancing blades. He then uses them to avenge the fallen by taking down Asuma's killer.
- A villainous example is Madara passing his identity and plan on to Obito. Although this turns out more to be lending the sword, since Madara planned to eventually be revived from the dead to finish it, potentially sacrificing Obito in the process. Obito wasn't very keen on that.
- A villainous example from Saint Seiya: after being overwhelmed by Hyoga's Aurora Thunder Attack, Black Swan, knowing that Athena's Saints can easily defeat a move they've already seen, burns his Cosmo to teleport his master Ikki a memory of the attack (contained in the swan emblem of his helmet that he ripped off in the anime, or his own eye that he ripped off himself just for this purpose), also blowing himself up to mask his move with an attempt to take out Hyoga.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
- Simon takes up Kamina's place in the Gurren Brigade after his death.
- The ending has humanity taking the task of preventing the Spiral Nemesis from the Anti-Spiral after killing them.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Crow's duel disk and duel runner were originally owned by his late hero, Robert Pearson.
