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* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' features an extremely powerful being called the Archive, which contains the sum total of all written knowledge on Earth. The job is passed down from mother to daughter - and, tragically, the current incarnation is an eleven-year-old girl whose mother killed herself shortly after her birth to avoid carrying the burden.
** The Archive herself said that the knowledge transfers at the moment of death leaving the parent brain dead, but she dosn't really mind as her mother lives on inside her head. Currently fans don't know who's right.
** Harry will occasionally quip that this trope is why he's Chicago's resident combat wizard/PI. A number of ''villains'' call him on it. Usually when they're explaining how he couldn't have ever won in the first place.
* Minor example from ''[[Jonathan Strange
** However, almost immediately afterwards someone comes by who's powerful enough not to care about such rules, and may well have just blasted him to bits and carried on.
* In [[Jack Chalker]]'s ''And The Devil Will Drag You Under'', a magic gem is guarded by the ghost of the last person who tried to steal it. The ghost is substantial enough to hold and use a sword, but not substantial enough to be hurt by one. He stands guard until the next thief arrives—then he kills the thief, freeing himself and recruiting his replacement.
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* The [[Doctor Who]] serial, ''The Keeper of Traken'', involved a planet where someone had to sit in a control chair to keep the planet running smoothly.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "into every generation a [[Chosen One|Slayer]] is born." A girl, [[Because Destiny Says So|chosen]] from {{spoiler|about 1800 Potential Slayers}} is selected to fight [[The Legions of Hell|demonic forces]] in order to prevent [[The End of the World as We Know It|Hell from taking over Earth]]. Once the current Slayer dies, the next [[Call to Adventure|takes her place]].
** Subverted twice in the series: once when Buffy dies [[Because Destiny Says So]], only to come [[Back
* In ''The Lost Room'', the Prime Object aka The Occupant is a person, just as indestructible outside of the titular room as the other Objects. The only way for him to stop being the Occupant is to enter the room and have someone kill him, at which point [[You Kill It, You Bought It|they become the new Occupant]].
* In the ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]'' episode "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime", the absurdly strict town of [[Meaningful Name|Stueksville]] has apparently only one public defender. It seems the way the job is filled is that if an [[Amoral Attorney]] passing through happens to get arrested, the current public defender tries to get their sentence reduced to "public service", in which case the attorney takes over the job and the previous public defender is finally allowed the sweet release of death.
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