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Protagonists have a Work Ethic

I have two specific examples and I'm wondering if there's a trope for them, or if it could go to Trope Launch Pad and hope that others know more examples.

• In S.W.A.T. (the film), protagonist Jim Street is punished for his SWAT partner's misdeeds by being kicked off the SWAT team and is sent to work in the gun cage, a job that causes him to be mocked and belittled by his colleagues. Despite this harsh blow to Street's career, he is shown exercising, training, keeping his skills sharp, and he impresses another officer by going the extra mile on fixing up a battered old firearm to be good as new. This work ethic gives him another chance to rejoin a SWAT team.

• In TerraNova, protagonist Jim Shannon breaks the rules and comes to Terra Nova despite not going through the proper channels, making him seem untrustworthy to Terra Nova's leadership. He is assigned to agricultural duty, which is boring and tedious at best. But when he's tasked to clear vines from a 20-meter-high fence (and clearly this task has been neglected for a long time), he grabs a machete and gets the job done. The leadership watches as he does so, at least a bit impressed by Shannon's willingness to attack a thankless and dirty job with such gusto.