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== [[Literature]] ==
* Rudyard Kipling's poem [https://web.archive.org/web/20140113093230/http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_gloster.htm "The Mary Gloster"].
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Stardust (novel)|Stardust]]'', the king of Stormhold is highly disappointed his sons haven't all killed each other to reveal an heir before being on his deathbed. He throws the royal topaz (ruby in the film) and tells them whoever fetches it first is the new king.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', a powerful evil wizard is so concerned with this, that he becomes undead, watching over his children until one is powerful enough to beat the others.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* JT, the crack gang leader made famous for letting grad student [https://web.archive.org/web/20130914214614/http://www.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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