Inadequate Inheritor: Difference between revisions

 

May be related [[The Wrongful Heir to the Throne]]. If the inadequate inheritor actually gets the position, through guile, lack of other candidates or sheer luck, they may either turn into a surprisingly good leader once actually in that position, or they will become a [[Sketchy Successor]]. Compare [[Game Between Heirs]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime, Gozaburo Kaiba was heavily disappointed in his son Noah because he wasn't dedicated enough to be heir of his company (not to mention the fact that he was ''[[Virtual Ghost|dead]]''). So instead he adopts an orphan and gives him some [[Training from Hell]] to make him just such a ruthless manager as he himself is. Not his brightest idea, since this one is competent ''and'' evil enough, and takes over his adopted father's company quite rapidly, [[Self-Made Orphan|driving him to suicide]].

* Quain'tana from ''[[Drowtales]]'' is not necessarily a villain, but has been disappointed by at least three daughters looking to succeed her before settling on Ariel {{spoiler|who is really her granddaughter.}}

 

* JT, the crack gang leader made famous for letting grad student [http://sudhirvenkatesh.org/ Sudhir Venkatesh] stick around with his gang. Venkatesh writes about how, toward the end of his career, JT tried to rebuild his gang in new areas but was largely thwarted by prospective gangsters being more interested in whether they can get a new bicycle if they join the gang than in JT's dreams of power and wealth.

* Inverted by [[L'État, c'est moi|Louis XIV]] and his eventual successor Louis XV. On his deathbed, Louis XIV told his young great-grandson that he would be a great king, and warned him to avoid making war as much as possible, describing it as the "ruin of the people". Unfortunately, Louis XV ignored his great-grandfather's advice (possibly because he was only four at the time) and proved to be a woefully inept king before passing the throne to the even more incompetent Louis XVI, who proceeded to run France into the ground and lose his head in the [[French Revolution]].

 

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