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* In an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Hawkeye and BJ are able to pull some strings (read: cash in on a favor from a winning poker game) and have Radar promoted from Corporal to Second Lieutenant. Unfortunately, Radar doesn't feel like he fits in with officers, and all of his enlisted friends want nothing to do with him after his promotion. By the end of the episode, [[StatusQuoIsGod he's a corporal again]].
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': At the end of season 7, Danny Messer secures a promotion to sergeant, which takes him out of the crime lab and down to the ground floor commanding beat cops. He's initially okay with it until one of his subordinates screws up and tries to pin it on him, leading him to request a "demotion" back to the crime lab.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': At the end of season 7, Danny Messer secures a promotion to sergeant, which takes him out of the crime lab and down to the ground floor commanding beat cops. He's initially okay with it until one of his subordinates screws up and tries to pin it on him, leading him to request a "demotion" back to the crime lab.lab in "[[Recap/CSINYS08E04 Officer Involved]]".
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* ''Film/Dune2021'': Leto Atreides accepts Emperor Shaddam IV's assignment to oversee spice production on Arrakis which was recently vacated by House Harkonnen, under the belief that making peace with the native Fremen is worth uprooting House Atreides and relocating there. Within the first couple of days, Leto encounters the state of disarray that Baron Vladimir left the place - broken equipment subject to being devoured by the Sandworms, a spice quota that is already woefully behind which if not met potentially jeopardizes the interstellar economy and also human life, an assassination attempt on his son, Paul, and, if that's not bad enough, a plotted coup by the original occupiers of the planet House Harkonnen, aided and abetted by the Emperor and his personal army, the Sardukar, and - to a lesser extent, the Bene Gesserit. For his trouble, Leto is captured, Arrakis is taken over, and although he nearly assassinates Baron Vladimir, he dies not knowing if his wife and son survived the coup.
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** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': In "Turn Up the Volume", Damon is encouraged by Karone to apply for a prestigious engineering position. Despite a competitor stealing one of his designs, Damon succeeds... only to turn it down once he learns the position involves supervising other engineers rather than doing any actually work.

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** ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'': In "Turn Up the Volume", Damon is encouraged by Karone to apply for a prestigious engineering position. Despite a competitor stealing one of his designs, Damon succeeds... only to turn it down once he learns the position involves supervising other engineers rather than doing any actually actual work.



* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 7, Ironwood promots Teams RWBY and JNPR to full Huntsmen, years before they're due to graduate. The heroes are initially underwhelmed because they've been so busy trying to save the world that getting the licence they originally wanted, as Weiss puts it, "almost feels trivial now". They're also struggling with the fact they're keeping vital secrets from Ironwood, and they very quickly discover that graduating doesn't make them feel any more capable of handing the scale of the threat the BigBad poses.

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 7, Ironwood promots promotes Teams RWBY and JNPR to full Huntsmen, years before they're due to graduate. The heroes are initially underwhelmed because they've been so busy trying to save the world that getting the licence they originally wanted, as Weiss puts it, "almost feels trivial now". They're also struggling with the fact they're keeping vital secrets from Ironwood, and they very quickly discover that graduating doesn't make them feel any more capable of handing the scale of the threat the BigBad poses.

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We don't really know what Mercury thinks of his promotion given that he already knows he's trapped there and he's mostly interested in getting out from under Cinder's thumb. Cleaning up the licence entry for accuracy.


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** In Volume 7, after spending the past 6 Volumes as Student Huntsmen, General Ironwood promotes Teams [=RWBY=] and [=JNPR=] to full Huntsmen, granting them licenses. The Teams are rather underwhelmed; Since Volume 3, they have been engaged in [[spoiler: Oz's secret war against Salem]], to the point where they had completely forgotten about getting licenses at all. "It almost feels trivial now." Weiss notes.
** Volume 8: After working as one of Cinder's henchmen for most of the series, [[spoiler:Mercury]] gets promoted into Salem's Inner Circle. [[spoiler:Mercury]] initially believes it's a great and important opportunity, only for it to be revealed that [[spoiler:Salem actually intends to destroy the world rather than conquer it]] and [[spoiler:he's shipped off to Vacuo for a mission with only [[AxeCrazy Tyrian]] as his partner]].

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''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 7, after spending the past 6 Volumes as Student Huntsmen, General Ironwood promotes promots Teams [=RWBY=] RWBY and [=JNPR=] JNPR to full Huntsmen, granting them licenses. years before they're due to graduate. The Teams heroes are rather underwhelmed; Since Volume 3, they have initially underwhelmed because they've been engaged in [[spoiler: Oz's secret war against Salem]], so busy trying to save the point where they had completely forgotten about world that getting licenses at all. "It almost the licence they originally wanted, as Weiss puts it, "almost feels trivial now." Weiss notes.
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