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== Videogames == |
== Videogames == |
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* In one of the ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' [[Visual Novel |
* In one of the ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' [[Visual Novel]]s, it's mentioned that working for the [[Big Screwed-Up Family|Ushiromiya family]] pays really well, but most servants can't handle the stress. |
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* In the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' game, it's implied the reason that the team refers to the player primarily by nicknames (specifically "Rookie") is due to this trope since your primary purpose after all is to be the team Guinea Pig for highly dangerous experimental technology. |
* In the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' game, it's implied the reason that the team refers to the player primarily by nicknames (specifically "Rookie") is due to this trope since your primary purpose after all is to be the team Guinea Pig for highly dangerous experimental technology. |
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{{quote|'''Venkman''': Ah-ah, no names, Ray. I don't want to get too attached to this one.}} |
{{quote|'''Venkman''': Ah-ah, no names, Ray. I don't want to get too attached to this one.}} |
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* The employees of the band [[Metalocalypse|Dethklok]] seem to have a high turnover rate in general, but the ''chefs'' they employ apparently have to be replaced so often that even the band members (who unknowingly cause death and destruction among almost everyone they come in contact with) believe them to be cursed. This seems to end with Jean Pierre, who suffers a horrible accident but survives and continues to serve them after being poorly sewn back together (they even write a song about it called, appropriately enough "Sewn Back Together Wrong"). |
* The employees of the band [[Metalocalypse|Dethklok]] seem to have a high turnover rate in general, but the ''chefs'' they employ apparently have to be replaced so often that even the band members (who unknowingly cause death and destruction among almost everyone they come in contact with) believe them to be cursed. This seems to end with Jean Pierre, who suffers a horrible accident but survives and continues to serve them after being poorly sewn back together (they even write a song about it called, appropriately enough "Sewn Back Together Wrong"). |
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** Just the training to become a Klokateer has a guaranteed fifty percent death rate: the very first task is to pair off and fight to the death. On the other hand, every recruit that makes it to the branding is insanely loyal. |
** Just the training to become a Klokateer has a guaranteed fifty percent death rate: the very first task is to pair off and fight to the death. On the other hand, every recruit that makes it to the branding is insanely loyal. |
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** Even Jean-Pierre's insanely loyal: right before getting in the accident, he said he'd rather scoop out his brains with a melon baller than miss the opportunity to serve |
** Even Jean-Pierre's insanely loyal: right before getting in the accident, he said he'd rather scoop out his brains with a melon baller than miss the opportunity to serve Dethklok—right after they detailed what happened to his predecessor. |
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* The Emperors of Trisol (the water people planet) of ''[[Futurama]]'' tend to last only a week on average. When Fry ascends to the throne we see his royal portrait is already followed by blank frames for Fry's Assassin and Fry's Assassin's Assassin. |
* The Emperors of Trisol (the water people planet) of ''[[Futurama]]'' tend to last only a week on average. When Fry ascends to the throne we see his royal portrait is already followed by blank frames for Fry's Assassin and Fry's Assassin's Assassin. |
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** It's implied a few times throughout the series that Professor Farnsworth was used to a somewhat high turnover of the flight crew until the present one managed to avoid death. The dangerous-sounding missions might have something to do with it. On one occasion when the crew doesn't return as soon as anticipated, Farnsworth is seen already welcoming a new crew to Planet Express. |
** It's implied a few times throughout the series that Professor Farnsworth was used to a somewhat high turnover of the flight crew until the present one managed to avoid death. The dangerous-sounding missions might have something to do with it. On one occasion when the crew doesn't return as soon as anticipated, Farnsworth is seen already welcoming a new crew to Planet Express. |
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== Web Original == |
== Web Original == |
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* Level-D personnel are the [[SCP Foundation]]'s equivalent of [[Red Shirt |
* Level-D personnel are the [[SCP Foundation]]'s equivalent of [[Red Shirt]]s. (They're recruited from death row inmates for a reason.) As if the extremely lethal positions they're given aren't bad enough, all Level-D personnel are killed one month after being demoted to this level. There is [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-181 one exception], but that's only because he's actually an SCP; a few others have also been exempted because they're needed for long-term study, and one particular set gets three months at least because their work is both vital to the Foundation, and requires technical skills they need to be trained in. Even the Foundation needs lab techs. |
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