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* In [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'', this is not actually played for laughs, but rather used as social satire to show how ridiculously overblown royal ceremonies were in Tudor England.
* In ''[[Land of Oz|Ozma of Oz]]'', the Tin Woodsman's army consists of 100 soldiers, only one of whom is not an officer. The one time they actually fight, All the generals give the order to attack, which is then passed down to all the officers of the next rank down, and so forth until every officer has sounded the order to charge in decreasing order of rank, at which point the one private attacks the Nomes.
* In ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|Harry Potter]]'' when the mail arrives one morning, we get this exchange as the Dursleys and Harry are having breakfast:
{{quote|'''Vernon''': Get the mail, Dudley.
'''Dudley''': Make Harry get it.