You Kill It, You Bought It: Difference between revisions

* This is how the last of [[The Holders]], the Holder of Legion, got his job. In turn, if you complete the stupendous task of gathering the other 2537 Objects, your only way to get the final one is to kill him and become Holder of Legion yourself.

* In episode 4 of the flash animation series ''Bad Guys'', ''Bad Guys Go To Hell'', the green guy killed the devil and took his place as ruler of Hell. Then it turns out the blue guy ''killed'' ''[[God]]'' last week [[Oh Crap|and took his place]] as [[God Is Evil|supreme deity]]. Now everyone in Heaven has to spend an eternity in hard labor building Him a giant palace. The Bad Guys quickly decide that Hell is better since you "only" get hot pokers shoved up your ass over there, and just go to Hell. Going back and forth between the two places isn't very hard anyway since they are right next to each other.

* In Karen Wehrstein's Philosopher in Arms, the protagonist is forced into a gladiator-like fighting arena. When the fighters kill someone, they inherit everything they have. Since these fighters are all forced into the arena, that usually just means slaves, jewelry, and other gifts from fans, but the protagonist has to kill one man who was integrated into society and returned to the arena just to fight him. He ends up inheriting the man's home, wife, children, and teaching position at the university.

* According to [[The Dark Id]], [[Drakengard|Caim]], after {{spoiler|being killed}}, went on to become the new Grim Reaper after submitting an application that said, "I murdered the shit out of the last guy."

* In [[Futurama]]. Fry accidentally drank the Emperor of Trisol, thereby assassinating him. He was then crowned the new emperor. In fact, pretty much ''all'' of the emperors got their jobs by [[Klingon Promotion|drinking the current emperor]].

** Indeed, they have placeholder portraits for "Fry's assassin" and "Fry's assassin's assassin"

*** Those assassins utterly fail to drink Fry, because he is solid, not liquid like Trisolians.

* Subverted in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Rusty discovers a cult of personality living under the Venture Compound. They worship his father through a set of video tapes of personal hygiene. Rusty proceeds to "kill" their god by removing the tapes, thinking they will make him their new god. {{spoiler|They don't.}}