The Last DJ/Playing With

Basic Trope: A person is passed over for promotion, or even demoted, because they stick to their principles.

Straight: General Stoneblood refuses to promote Sergeant Jackson because he refuses to send his men on a suicide mission.
Exaggerated: General Stoneblood demotes Sergeant Jackson to Private for only killing half of the native village.
Justified: Sergeant Jackson's refusal to send his men on the suicide mission means that far more people will die as a result.
Inverted: Sergeant Jackson is a unrepentant Yes-Man who neglects his duties to curry favor with the general.
Subverted: General Stoneblood refuses to promote Sergeant Jackson because he refuses to send his men on a suicide mission... but then Jackson's men all go on to even greater heroics, and Stoneblood recants.
Double Subverted: ... and posts the newly promoted Sergeant Major Jackson to a base in the middle of nowhere.
Parodied: Sergeant Jackson is demoted, abused, and an assassination order is placed against him...because he refused to make General Stoneblood some coffee.
Deconstructed: Sergeant Jackson brings harm to the members of his unit because of his incapacity to treat his superiors with respect.
Reconstructed: ???
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: General Stoneblood gives Sergeant Jackson the promotion without a second thought.
Enforced: Limited Advancement Opportunities.
Lampshaded: "Hey, Jackson -- can you try not to anger the general this time?"
Invoked: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???