Reassigned to Antarctica: Difference between revisions

* The main characters in [[So Ra No Wo To]] appear to have been assigned to an area with very little going on around them, although no real reason is given as to why they were assigned there.

* Happens to Anabuki Tomoko in ''[[Strike Witches]]''. For some reason, [[The Ace]] and the star of the propaganda movie is transferred to the middle of nowhere in Suomus and then having to raise a squadron out of some misfits. Naturally, she's pissed off.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The [[Black Panther]]'s State Department ally is reassigned to the arctic, probably because he befriended the man when the USA didn't like him or his country. Being a friend of Wakanda just means you get picked up in a ship when you get in trouble. Hurray!

* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'': When Hard 8 reinstates Nitro's GM credentials, it is with the provisio that he is only allowed to GM the Pee Wee Hackleague.

 

== [[Film]] ==

{{quote|'''Dreyfus:''' If she's not in your custody in five minutes, you'll be checking parking meters ''in Martinique!''}}

* At the end of ''G Force'', the government agent who constantly denounced and pestered the team is reassigned to Antarctica.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Tom Clancy]]: In [[The Hunt for Red October]]; the enlisted are told that if they reveal that the decommissioned submarine, used as a decoy wreck, was scuttled at sea then they would be Reassigned to Antarctica. Specifically, they will be sent to [[wikipedia:McMurdo Sound|McMurdo Sound]], which is an Antarctic research base.

* Chigago PD's Special Investigations (SI) department in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. The division is nominally for handling "weird" stuff, some of which is actually magic. However, it also happens to be professional Siberia in CPD-politics-land. Dresden comments on this from time to time, mostly because these are some of the sharpest, and bravest (Loup-garu incident anyone?) agents in the police force, but they either pissed off their previous bosses, or some major politician. Probably both. Or Marcone.

** To be sure, they don't ''universally ''land themselves there by being grossly competent and by contributing to civil order and [[Sarcasm Mode|such terrible things]], but the ones who stick around tend to be this. (The rest quit out. Or die.) It also helps that they have an honest-to-goodness [[A Wizard Did It|Wizard]], [[Big Damn Heroes|Harry]] [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|motherf***ing]] [[Badass|Dresden]].

* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|January Dancer]]'', Fa Li complained too often that the Rift was not watched closely enough and got sent there.

 

* Colonel Klink in ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' was often threatened with a transfer to the Eastern Front.

** As was Colonel von Strohm in ''[['Allo 'Allo!|Allo Allo]]''.

** It is sometimes implied that General Halftrack was put in charge of Camp Swampy because he's too incompetent to manage anything more important.

 

* In ''[[The Men From The Ministry]]'', the main characters' boss frequently threatens to reassign them to the Outer Hebrides.

* In ''[[The Navy Lark]]'', this is pretty much how the crew of ''HMS Troutbridge'' was assembled. The Admiralty's apparent thought process was to keep all the screw-ups and schemers in one place—namely one broken-down frigate. Given the [[Cloudcuckoolander|mental capacities]] of some of the admirals, though, this policy has [[Hilarity Ensues|the expected result]].

 

* ''[[Planescape]]'': When devils want to do this, the place they have is a Blood War battlefield called the Stinging Sands of Minethys. This place in Carceri used to have strategic value several millennia ago, but since then, both sides of the war have long forgotten why they were fighting over it, and the fighting has degenerated into tedious, grueling trench warfare. The fighting here is pointless, because no progress has been made by either side in over a thousand years, and the devils only persist because pride prevents them from letting the demons have it. Devils send subordinates here as a punishment.

 

* This is why not to have sex with [[Femme Fatale|Hedy]] in ''[[How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying]]''. The company president is after her as well, and there are plenty of jobs open in Venezuela . . .

 

* In ''[[BlazBlue: Continuum Shift]]'', {{spoiler|Hazama has Makoto assigned to Ikaruga to keep her from interfering with his plan to [[Mind Rape]] Noel and Tsubaki. The fallout of this plot is still in the air, but unlike all his other gambits, pulling off his work with those two is all the good he's getting out of this one. The negative fallout starts from one simple fact - ''she's alive and reunited with Noel!'' <ref>In ''Slight Hope'', Makoto visits the ''Wheel of Fortune'' timeline and witnesses some of its events, including a battle with Hazama himself, before Rachel sends her back to the active timeline. The rest of the fallout is likely to be explored in the next game.</ref>}}

* ''The Frontier'' mod expansion for ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' involves a whole regiment of New California Republic soldiers being exiled with their charismatic general to the northernmost fringes of the NCR's frontier, near what had been Portland, Oregon.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

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* In ''[[Decades of Darkness]]'', an [[Alternate History]] timeline, being transferred to the West African colony of Whydah is considered this for members of the American military. The American State Department's equivalent assignment is Liberia.

* In Reds A Revolutionary Timeline the United American Socialist Republics became Stalin's go to dumping ground for those too popular to kill.

* The [[SCP Foundation]] files make occasional use of this. For displaying either egregious stupidity or horrific violations of common decency, (i.e. rearranging the furnishings of a young blind girl for a laugh) someone can be reassigned to Keter duty. Keter is the classification used for objects or beings that show an active, intense hostility towards human life, civilization, or existence itself. As they often have to have incredibly difficult and precise means of containment and can cause significant destruction if they breach their containment, this tends to lead to a dangerous, short lived assignment for many of the people assigned to such duties.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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