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This is distinct from [[Klingon Promotion]] because that is restricted to killing someone deliberately, for the express purpose of gaining their position. This trope doesn't need it to be deliberate and it's not about a position. See also [[Challenging the Chief]], a subtrope of [[Klingon Promotion]], which also has cases where someone accidentally ends up involuntary manslaughtering their way into an unwanted role.
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'': The students each keep the charms from the Assassins they defeat/kill/[[Never Say Die|send to the Shadow Realm]].
* In ''[[X 1999|X/1999]]'', {{spoiler|Subaru becomes the Sakurazukamori after he inadvertently kills Seishirou in a fight (even though Subaru is also head of the Sumeragis, eternal enemies of the Sakurazukas). He also takes Seishirou's place as a Dragon of Earth, despite being a Dragon of Heaven.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|to become the Sakurazukamori, Seishirou had to kill [[Self
** It is worth noting that Subaru was offered a choice - {{spoiler|if he accepts Seishirou's eye (and thus his power), Seishirou lives on through Subaru taking up his place. If he doesn't, he has nothing to live for anymore.}}
** It was also implied that {{spoiler|Sakurazukamoris can only be killed by the one they love most}}
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* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Soon in third movie, we learn that whoever kills Davy Jones has to take his place. Cue dilemmas for Will, who {{spoiler|swore an oath to kill Davy Jones}} and Jack, {{spoiler|who thinks it would be ''freaking awesome'' to be immortal.}}
** Except that he wouldn't be able to go to rum to get port...wait...that came out wrong...
* Parodied in the [[Abbott and Costello]] film ''The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap''. Lou accidentally kills an infamous gunslinger, and local law says that he must take care of the man's family. It turns out that the gunslinger had a very loud wife and a dozen unruly children. Lou eventually becomes sheriff of the town, and carries around a picture of his new family which he shows to anyone who looks like they might cause trouble. However, this eventually [[Hoist By His Own Petard|blows up in his face]] when the local outlaws learn that a railroad will be going through the widow's property and paying her a fortune for it, [[Stop Helping Me!|thanks to a lie Bud cooked up to get Lou off the hook]]. Lou whips out his picture and nearly gets killed by the greedy outlaws.
* Subverted in ''The Wizard of Gore''; after being sent on a drug-fueled hallucination adventure, Ed is knife-detoxed by Montag the Magnificent and offered the chance to take his place as a drugged up slave to "The Magician". Ed manages to invert his situation, drugging "The Magician" and taking over the entire operation himself.
* In "The Game" of the ''[[Highlander (Franchise)|Highlander]]'' universe, when one Immortal kills another, he receives all the deceased Immortal's ability and memories through the Quickening.
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* On ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Londo is a member of a Centauri dueling society, where it is customary for the winner to take the loser's family into his own. Londo's friend, who is about to be disgraced for protesting the war, challenges Londo and purposely loses to save his family from being dishonored along with him.
** Confirmed during "In The Beginning", where Londo tells the story of the Earth/Minbari war to the heirs of that family.
* In the [[
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** The Aztecs actually practiced something similar: every year they chose a young man to personify a god, and every year they sacrificed him. The sacrifice-to-be had no actual political power, though.
** Remarkably, this tradition still persists in many small English villages, but nowadays it's just a performance with no real weapons involved. It's called the mummer's play, usually done around Christmas time (the end of the old year).
* "You break it, you own it." - Secretary of State Colin Powell to [[George W. Bush]] before the Iraq War.
** In a way, applied to Vietnam, similar to the Lich King example above, kind of. The FRENCH broke it, then handed it to the US, then the commies wanted it, but the Americans didn't want to give it up, but then they did anyway, and then the Soviets broke it further. Now none of the three own it, after they took the mantle themselves after the fall of the union.
** And of course, one could mention that America ''killed'' the Soviet Union and ''bought'' the mujahadeen.
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