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This trope is specific to when an organization changes to rules to allow more people to join, as opposed to situations for the elite organization making a special exception for an especially talented individual who otherwise wouldn't have been able to join.
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== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[
* This is commonly cited in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fan fiction for the unimpressive quality of the average auror serving the British Department of Magical Law Enforcement -- the idea that Voldemort and the Death Eaters had so decimated the ranks of the aurors during the war that Harry ended that the DMLE was forced to lower recruiting standards and rush training in order just to get bodies into the field -- and some/many/all (depending on the story) of those substandard aurors remain on the force over a decade later.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[
* Happens in ''[[Under the Dome]]'' by [[Stephen King]]. After the town is cut-off from the outside world via [[Some Kind of Force Field]], the town's leaders make the decision to deputize some young adults in order to beef up the police force. These young adults? The town selectman's [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|sociopathic son and his delinquent friends]].
* The Manticorian Navy in ''[[
* [[Harry Potter]] is accepted in the advanced Potions class because the new teacher has lower standards than Snape's.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* From professional wrestling, you have the nWo <ref>New World Order</ref> of the WCW. This was one of the things that soured the storyline, causing the eventual implosion of the WCW.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
* There have been feminists who demand that the standards to becoming a firefighter be lowered so that more women can join, prompting massive protests from women who measured up to the original standards.▼
* Conscription has this effect on armies. The army is forced to accept many barely fit recruits who don't want to be in it either.▼
* Jokkingly mentioned by [[Dave Barry]] in regards to universities being so desperate for students they now accept people they wouldn't have allowed to work in the boiler room.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the Sith Warrior storyline of ''[[Star Wars:
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Justice League]]'' does it, when they go ''[[Heroes Unlimited|Unlimited]]'', resulting in the recruitment of oddballs who have to be expelled later, like the Huntress.
* On ''[[The Simpsons (
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Best Friends Forever" Kenny dies and ascends to Heaven in order to command Heaven's army against the forces of Hell. He is told by the angels that they used to only let Mormons into Heaven, but they started to let others in order to increase their army's size.
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* There have been feminists who demand that the standards to becoming a firefighter be lowered so that more women can join, prompting massive protests from women who measured up to the original standards.
** In general, there have been complaints from various minority groups that standards in a profession be lowered so that those minorities can join the profession in question. This usually leads to racism, in that some people outside the profession think ''all'' minorities in that profession are not as competent as the non-minority professionals.
▲* Conscription has this effect on armies. The army is forced to accept many barely fit recruits who don't want to be in it either.
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