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Contrast [[Limited Advancement Opportunities]], where characters never advance in their position because that would force the writing team to separate the cast. The exact opposite of [[Kicked Upstairs]], where an unwanted and incompetent person ''is'' promoted, to get them away from the real work so they can no longer screw things up. See also [[Bothering by the Book]] and [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]. Also compare [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]], where the traits that would hold back a Last DJ get overlooked on account of how much of an asset the character is otherwise. Will very frequently overlap with [[Knight in Sour Armor]]. Music wise it overlaps with [[Music Is Politics]].

 

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* Harry Drinkwater from Allen Steele's ''Lunar Descent''. He obeys all FCC regulations to the letter, yet manages to get fired from every DJ position he's ever held.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]''

* Morgan and Duncan are treated this way by the Camberian Council in the [[Deryni]] novels. They are skilled and heroically loyal to their king (mentoring him in his youth despite efforts to stop them), they even rediscovered the Healing ability thought lost for ''two centuries'', yet they are repeatedly dissed by the Council for being rogue half-breeds. The Council even votes to make them liable to arcane challenge just when reactionary clergy are out to get them '''and''' there's an invasion in the offing. They get the chance to confront the Council directly once, and Morgan seizes it:

{{quote|"Do you presume to question our authority?" Coram asked carefully.