These Tropes Have Been Promoted

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Tropes about characters getting rank increases.

Tropes:

• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: If you are badass, people promote you.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: Story ends with character being crowned ruler of the land they just saved.
• The Chain of Command: Shows just how big a deal a promotion is by showing their position within the command structure (e.g. being promoted from lieutenant directly to colonel jumps several ranks, making it seem much more impressive).
• Deathbed Promotion: A soldier at or near the point of death is honored by being formally elevated in rank.
• Declining Promotion: Character gets offered a promotion, but turns it down.
• Depending Upon the Undependable: Characters get promoted even though their hiring person knows (or should know) of their egregious incompetence.
• Disappointing Promotion: Receiving a long anticipated promotion only to discover it's not as fulfilling as you imagined it would be.
• The Dilbert Principle: Incompetent characters are promoted first.
• A Doormat to His Men: Despite his high rank, this character is too nice to exercise the necessary authority.
• Easily Elected: A position of power is easily obtained by random people, who may or may not even want the authority, with no screening process or proper protocol
• Earned Stripes: A character's appearance changes as they rank up.
• Felon's Failson: A criminal's offspring who is nowhere near as respected or competent as their parent.
• Field Promotion: Character receives a promotion by order of a superior without going through committee.
• Heroism Equals Job Qualification: Someone is promoted because they saved the day. They may or may not be qualified for their new job.
• Kicked Upstairs: Promoting someone into an unimportant post to prevent their incompetence from messing everything up.
• Klingon Promotion: Kill your superior and get his job.
• Limited Advancement Opportunities: Characters that should be promoted but aren't, because it would break up the cast.
• Meaningful Job or Cushy Job: The cushy job is often a promotion to a higher administrative position.
• More Senior Subordinate: A senior member voluntarily lets their junior get the promotion.
• Nepotism: Easy promotion due to close ties with whoever's in charge.
• Non-Promotion: More authority and responsibility without the perks.
• Passed-Over Promotion: Averted trope, in which a much hoped-for promotion is not given.
• The Peter Principle: A character's promotion is based on skills that aren't needed, making them incompetent at their job.
• Promoted to Scapegoat: An unqualified character is put into a high position as part of a scheme.
• Promoted Without Prerequisites: A character is promoted to a position despite not meeting all the requirements.
• Promotion, Not Punishment: Character is promoted for their transgressions instead of punished.
• Rank Up: Character is promoted in-show.
• Redemption Promotion: After turning good, previously incompetent bad guys become good at their jobs.
• Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Character uses seduction and sex appeal to get a promotion.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Sometimes, at least, when the new boss was already part of the setup.
• Up Through the Ranks: Veteran enlisted soldier becomes an officer.
• Usurping Santa: Character takes the place of a holiday mascot.
• You Are in Command Now: Character underranked for a position ends up with it because his superiors are unavailable (usually by being dead).