Career-Building Blunder: Difference between revisions

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== Film ==

* In ''[[Starship Troopers (~~Film~~)|Starship Troopers]]'', Rico is leading the squad when one of his team is shot during a live-fire training exercise. Rico expects to be drummed out, but shows such responsibility that Zim, his sergeant, recommends administrative punishment instead, allowing Rico to stay. Rico, however, declines the invitation, due to his sense of shame, and opts to leave the infantry in disgrace. {{spoiler|However, after the Bugs destroy Buenos Aires, his home city, he requests to be reinstated and finished his training.}}

* In ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]]'', Rico is leading the squad when one of his team is shot during a live-fire training exercise. Rico expects to be drummed out, but shows such responsibility that Zim, his sergeant, recommends administrative punishment instead, allowing Rico to stay. Rico, however, declines the invitation, due to his sense of shame, and opts to leave the infantry in disgrace. {{spoiler|However, after the Bugs destroy Buenos Aires, his home city, he requests to be reinstated and finished his training.}}

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** This happened, in a rather unusual way, to Bevel Lemelisk, one of the designers of the original Death Star. He had been responsible for the exhaust port flaw on the original Death Star. The Emperor [[You Have Failed Me|had him executed for that blunder]]...and then used a Sith technique to transfer his consciousness to a clone body. Lemelisk was then placed in charge of redesigning the Death Star. And every time he made another mistake, the Emperor would execute him [[The Many Deaths of You|in some new gruesome manner]], then transfer his consciousness to a clone body again.

* Piankhy, the title character of ''The Black Pharaoh'' by Christian Jacq, does this to a village leader who betrayed him, not before scaring him a bit by shaking a knife.

* ''[[~~Artemis Fowl (Literature)|~~Artemis Fowl]]'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons, one of them being that she failed once and failed bad, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.

* ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'': Julius Root is hard on Holly for several reasons, one of them being that she failed once and failed bad, and she must thus be the best to have that one failure be minimal compared to the rest of her actions.

* For Sherlock Holmes, it was 'The Adventure of the Yellow Face.' He was way off the mark, and arrived at the wrong conclusion. Fortunately, the case resolved itself before he could make too big a fool of himself.

{{quote| "Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you."}}

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== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[House (TV)|House]]'':

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'':

** In Season 4 Thirteen fatally confounded a diagnosis by accident. Dr. House reasoned that Thirteen would be incredibly attentive to detail after that case.

** Thirteen helps an astronaut further her career in spite of medical considerations that could have made NASA wary. House simply concluded that his patient would be the safest astronaut NASA could possibly hire, given how informed she was about her condition and how desperate she was to do her job well. Plus, it meant she had to get breast implants in order to secretly save her lungs. Yay!

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* ''[[CSI]]'': Grissom is told to fire Warrick because Warrick left a scene and, as a result, rookie CSI Holly Gribbs is killed. Grissom tells Warrick that he's already lost one CSI, and that he doesn't want to lose another. Warrick then becomes one of the most reliable members of the team.

** To be precise, Grissom's stated reason for not letting Warrick go is that if he fired Warrick for making a mistake, he'd also have to fire himself and the rest of the team, because they've ''all'' made mistakes at one time or another.

* ''[[~~Hells~~ Kitchen ~~(TV)~~|Hells Kitchen]]'': [[The Mean Brit|Gordon Ramsey]] has the best member of the losing team reason why his teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls both of these men out and has them defend themselves, and then finally picks for who ''would'' have been the elimination the actual worst player, {{spoiler|someone on the other team, who was feeling smug and relieved.}}

* ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]'': [[The Mean Brit|Gordon Ramsey]] has the best member of the losing team reason why his teammates should either leave or stay. He then calls both of these men out and has them defend themselves, and then finally picks for who ''would'' have been the elimination the actual worst player, {{spoiler|someone on the other team, who was feeling smug and relieved.}}

* ''[[Life On Mars]]'': {{spoiler|Sam's modern policing style allows a criminal to go free who subsequently puts a woman working in CID in a coma. After a hilarious fight with Gene in the woman's hospital room, Sam assumes Gene will want to kick him off the team. Gene fires back with "Are you joking? You've got to put this right. She's not giving up and nor should you."}}

* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' pulls this one when Chris {{spoiler|turns out to have been corrupt. Gene decides that the shame of still working in CID with everyone knowing what he did will be his punishment.}}

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== Religion and Mythology ==

* ''[[~~The Bible (Literature)|~~The Bible]]'': Peter denies Christ three times, Christ makes Peter the head of his church, making this [[Older Than Feudalism]].

* ''[[The Bible]]'': Peter denies Christ three times, Christ makes Peter the head of his church, making this [[Older Than Feudalism]].

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[The Transformers (~~Animation~~)|Transformers Generation 1]]'': Aerialbot Silverbolt is scared of heights and screws up during a mission. [[Benevolent Boss|Optimus Prime]] promotes him to Aerialbot leader, knowing that the responsibility will take his mind away from his fears.

* ''[[The Transformers (animation)|Transformers Generation 1]]'': Aerialbot Silverbolt is scared of heights and screws up during a mission. [[Benevolent Boss|Optimus Prime]] promotes him to Aerialbot leader, knowing that the responsibility will take his mind away from his fears.

== Real Life ==