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In any case, Bob is upset. All his years of hard work have gone unnoticed and gone to waste. He will often become bitter, [[Idiot Ball|do something stupid]], and end up getting himself fired.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Doctor Strange]]'': Baron Mordo was passed over for "Sorcerer Supreme" by the Ancient One in favor of relative newcomer Strange.
** Depends on the version. In the original comics version Mordo was planning to betray The Ancient One all along and Strange arrived in time to prevent it, so he ended up in the position.
* During his formative years in ''[[Start of Darkness]]'', a young Xykon from ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' got passed over for a position as one of two [[Co
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Get Smart (Film)|Get Smart]]'' (the 2008 movie): Max's application to become a field agent is denied because he was too good at collecting intelligence.
* ''[[Seventeen Again|17 Again]]'' had this at the beginning of the movie.
* In [[So Bad
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Happens many, many times in ''[[Dilbert]]''. In one example, the [[Pointy
** This is Scott Adams' way of showing how [[The Peter Principle]] works: the incompetent [[Kicked Upstairs|get promoted]] over the heads of the competent, because all in all, ''management'' is where they do the least damage.
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