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*** The WAC will merge its football league with that of the ASUN Conference, forming a new entity tentatively known as the "ASUN–WAC Football Conference". The two leagues had established a football-only partnership in 2021; while both had their own conference schedules in 2022, they kept that partnership active. In both seasons, the WAC–ASUN partnership had a single automatic berth in the FCS playoffs.

* ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Almanzo's school has gone through several teachers in ''Farmer Boy'' because a gang of older boys comes every winter to beat them up. No teacher has ever finished a winter term, and at least one was beaten so badly he died of it later. Everyone expects the same thing to happen to nice, young Mr. Corse, until he uses a [[WhipItGood blacksnake whip]] to drive them off.

gone AxCrazy. In the last episode of ''Gluhen'', Rex discusses forming a ''fifth'' incarnation of the team.

* ''Manga/VladDraculea'': The narration in Chapter 1 states that Wallachia has seen thirty-two voivodes in a single century due to its geopolitical instability as a small nation between two powerful ones, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary.
* ''Anime/WeissKreuz'': Kritiker personnel in general have a very high mortality rate. The protagonists go through three direct superiors and four [[TheHandler handlers]] over the course of the series, and they themselves are something like the fourth incarnation of Weiss, the members of the previous incarnations having either been killed or [[/folder]]

%%* ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' is the first to survive her role.

** 2023: New Mexico State and Sam Houston will leave to join C-USA.

* D-class personnel are the Wiki/SCPFoundation's equivalent of {{Red Shirt}}s. They're recruited from death row inmates for a reason: as if the extremely lethal positions they're given aren't bad enough, D-class personnel are killed one month after being demoted to this level. Exceptions are very rare, usually for skill sets (even the Foundation needs lab techs), the poor schmuck's a living victim of an SCP's effects retained for study, is [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-181 the SCP in question]], or [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1055 required to keep containment]].

* European football coaches, especially when the team is going through a crisis. Clubs facing relegation have managed to go through half a dozen coaches in one year.

(When this happens to the cast or crew of a show or group, it's LongRunnerCastTurnover, RevolvingDoorCasting, or RevolvingDoorBand.)

* In Season 12 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', the Reds and Blues learn that the leadership for the Federal Army of Chorus and the New Republic has changed multiple times because of previous leaders dying. General Doyle admits that his initial position before his superiors bit it was personal secretary to the brigadier. [[spoiler: Given that the mercenaries Locus and Felix are PlayingBothSides to commit mutual genocide, it should come as no surprise.]]

* Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_The_Fall page]] dedicated to cataloging all the former members of The Fall.

* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'': Nadja and Lazlo's [[TheRenfield familiars]] regularly die in bizarre, ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''-esque accidents, forcing them to constantly find new ones and causing Nandor's own familiar Guillermo to be even more overworked. Partway into season two they try to put a stop to the cycle by getting their most recent dead familiar revived as a VoodooZombie. It... [[CameBackWrong doesn't go well]].

* ComicBook/TheDefenders has an even greater turnover rate then the Avengers. Though it's mostly remembered for featuring ComicBook/TheHulk, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/SilverSurfer, and ComicBook/SubMariner, this lineup has never lasted long, and the team's lineup changes and shifts pretty much constantly from run to run. Chances are, if you can name a B-to-C-list Marvel hero who was active during the 70s and 80s, they were probably a member of the Defenders at some point. Part of the reason for this is that a conceit of ''Defenders'' was TeethClenchedTeamwork and a general lack of unity aside from focusing on weird or mystical challenges, which meant characters could regularly quit or join.

* ComicBook/TheDefenders has an even greater turnover rate. Though it's mostly remembered for featuring ComicBook/TheHulk, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/SilverSurfer, and ComicBook/SubMariner, this lineup has never lasted long, and the team's lineup changes and shifts pretty much constantly from run to run. Chances are, if you can name a B-to-C-list Marvel hero who was active during the 70s and 80s, they were probably a member of the Defenders at some point. Part of the reason for this is that a conceit of ''Defenders'' was TeethClenchedTeamwork and a general lack of unity aside from focusing on weird or mystical challenges, which meant characters could regularly quit or join.

** The office of Chief Judge (pretty much the dictator of Mega City One) has seen a pretty high turnover rate since the start of the comic, with many not being in office for more than five years tops. Several Chief Judges have been murdered or committed suicide during their terms. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Judge Dredd himself has always refused the big seat.

** 2022: Chicago State will leave, while the WAC will gain three new members, two with football and one without. The new football members will be Incarnate Word (''also'' from the Southland Conference) and Southern Utah. As for the non-football member, remember UT Arlington from 2012–13? Well, they're coming back.
** 2023: New Mexico State and Sam Houston will leave to join C-USA, and Lamar will return to the Southland.

** 2005: When Conference USA got raided by the Big East, C-USA responded by luring Rice, SMU, Tulsa, and old-line member UTEP. The WAC responded by adding Idaho, New Mexico State, and Utah State. Things then settled down until the early-2010s realignment cycle, when this went [[UpToEleven into overdrive]]:

* While professional sports doesn't have quite the extreme turnover rate of college sports, a team ravaged by injuries can experience it. The 2015–16 [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Memphis Grizzlies]] took this UpToEleven:

* ''Anime/WeissKreuz'': Kritiker personnel in general have a very high mortality rate. The protagonists go through three direct superiors and four [[TheHandler handlers]] over the course of the series, and they themselves are something like the fourth incarnation of Weiss, the members of the previous incarnations having either been killed or gone AxCrazy. In the last episode of ''Gluhen'', Rex discusses forming a ''fifth'' incarnation of the team.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The division of the Japanese government department for hunting devils known simply as Public Safety is a revolving door of agents. As the lowest-ranked division that fights strong devils and [[MeaningfulName the first line of defense against ones that directly attack civilians and bystanders]], it's full of agents who find themselves in over their heads. Public Safety agents typically get promoted from divisions that take on weak, mostly harmless devils before they become threats, and as a result, [[AnyoneCanDie these agents very frequently die in the line of duty]], or voluntarily quit after a short time, because they didn't realize the enormous danger their jobs have suddenly put them in. Except for Denji and Power, those who ''do'' remain seem to suffer from varying levels of PTSD, not to mention physically degrade themselves using PowerAtAPrice. Kishibe, the agency's greatest agent, says Public Safety agents have to be crazy to take their jobs and ''[[SuccessThroughInsanity even crazier]]'' to survive them.
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* This is also the case with Head's manservants in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingScrewOnHead''.

* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
** The office of Chief Judge (pretty much the dictator of Mega City One) has seen a pretty high turnover rate since the start of the comic, with many not being in office for more than five years tops. Several Chief Judges have been murdered or committed suicide during their terms. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Judge Dredd himself has always refused the big seat.
** Averted by Psi-Division, which has had Judge Shenker in charge for over twenty years.

* Being a prosecutor in ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'', as the Prosecutor Office realized that they lose their prosecutors by them either quitting or [[AmoralAttorney getting arrested for some crime]]. They don't have much hope for Klavier to the point of betting when and how he going to leave. [[spoiler: Inverted that Klavier ''does'' leave his position when he and Apollo's crimes are nearly exposed.]]
* The Kingsguard in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSevenKingdoms'' has it worse than the one in [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]]: one has been dismissed, another is a prisoner and at least five have died in less than a year.

* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'': No nanny can cope with the entire Von Trapp family, until Maria comes along. She was the ''twelfth'' governess whom Captain Von Trapp had hired since his wife died. He tells her he hopes she's more successful than the last governess, who stayed only two hours.
* Equally ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' is the first to survive her role.
* And Film/MaryPoppins.
* In Creator/WaltDisney's ''Film/TheHappiestMillionaire'', the Biddle family have a very hard time keeping house staff, mainly due to Mr. Biddle's penchants for keeping alligators in the conservatory and hosting mixed Boxing/Bible study classes. The only people they seem to be able to hold onto consistently throughout the movie are butler John Lawless and housekeeper Mrs. Worth.
* The main premise behind ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada''.
* ... as well as Film/MorningGlory, also by screenwriter Aline Brosh [=McKenna=]. Becky Fuller (Rachel [=McAdams=]) is the fourteenth executive producer at Daybreak in eleven years.
* In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Darth Vader goes through several commanding officers, often [[YouAreInCommandNow promoting the person under them in the process]]. One amusing scene has him force strangle the elderly Admiral Ozzel who [[YouHaveFailedMe had failed him]] while talking with his ship's Captain, Piett. As the admiral gasps his last, Vader says, "YouAreInCommandNow, ''Admiral'' Piett." Piett's face is priceless as he doesn't know whether to look grateful or worried. His first command is to then have his predecessor's body removed.
* Mr. Thackery was one of a string of teachers in ''Film/ToSirWithLove''; the kids drove one of his predecessors to suicide.
* The live-action ''Film/{{Casper}}'' movie. The villainess Carrigan brings in a priest (specifically, Father Guido Sarducci from Saturday Night Live), ''[[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Ray Stantz]]'' and even a wrecking crew. Eventually, the protagonist's father, a psychic psychiatrist, is contacted to try and exorcise the house.
* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'': Spinal Tap's drummers have a tendency to expire in a number of strange ways. Two of them spontaneously combusted.

* ''Film/GoodWillHunting'': The therapists Will Hunting goes through before Robin Williams comes along.

* In the Wrestling/HulkHogan film ''Film/MrNanny'', Hulk's character Sean Armstrong enters the household just as the kids send another nanny packing. The cook tallies off another name on a short list and explains;
-->'''Corinne:''' This is like the roach motel; 'The nannies check in...'
-->'''Armstrong:''' '...But they don't check out.' Well, that doesn't seem like a long list.
-->'''Corinne:''' Huh! ''(Pushes button on list, revealing it's a '''very''' long list folded over several times)''
* ''Film/MenInBlack'' - it's implied that no-one stays K's partner for long, which is why he spends the first movie training J as a *replacement*, who neuralizes him the same way K did his last partner at the start of the movie. By ''II'', a dissatisfied J has started dismissing and neuralizing his own partners so quickly the boss is getting annoyed.
* After Frank's wife died in the original ''Film/YoursMineAndOurs'', he tried to get a house keeper to mind his 10 children, all of whom were angry over their mother's death and father's negligence (he spent much of his time gone in the Navy). They were all shown storming out horrified at the children. The final housekeeper actually set up the first real meeting between the main couple when she embarrassed his eldest daughter to the point that she fainted, necessitating a trip to the infirmary where Helen works.
* In the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'', the leader of the IMF is a different person in each film, usually played by a prominent actor (notably Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Fishburne, Tom Wilkerson, and [[spoiler: Alec Baldwin]]). The position appears to be political in nature (akin to a cabinet secretary), so given the 4-6 year gap between each film, it is plausible that the position changes every election cycle or so.

* Passepartout's predecessors in ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' couldn't live up to Phileas Fogg's exacting standards.
* In Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive'' series, Afra Lyon takes up the role of second-in-command of Callisto Tower, where the Prime in charge, The Rowan, has gained a reputation for going through them like gum (a combination of candidates being unwilling or unable to cope with her temperamental nature and her simply sending them packing because she didn't like them). He becomes her best friend and later, [[spoiler:her son-in-law]].

* Almanzo's school has gone through several teachers in ''[[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Farmer Boy]]'' because a gang of older boys comes every winter to beat them up. No teacher has ever finished a winter term, and at least one was beaten so badly he died of it later. Everyone expects the same thing to happen to nice, young Mr. Corse, until he uses a [[WhipItGood blacksnake whip]] to drive them off.
* Mayors in the Dr. Sam Hawthorne mysteries by Creator/EdwardDHoch died in various impossible manners.
* In Creator/DianaWynneJones's ''Literature/TheLivesOfChristopherChant'', Christopher goes through a long string of governesses; in this case, however, they have no trouble with Christopher himself, but rather can't tolerate the stormy relationship between his parents.

* The ''Literature/AstraMilitarum'' novel ''Literature/FifteenHours'' is named so because that's the average life expectancy of new soldiers in the book's war zone.
* Jumpers from Literature/TheSiranthaJaxSeries. Jumpers are people born with the "J-Gene", which allows them to safely navigate ships during [[FasterThanLightTravel grimspace jumps]] (people without the J-Gene can't perceive the beacons left behind by [[{{Precursors}} The Makers]] while in grimspace, and thus would likely be lost forever). The problem comes from the fact that grimspace travel is like an addictive drug for Jumpers, causing them to experience orgasmic euphoria when jumping. Not only can this have severe psychological effects, but it can also cause brain lesions to form, which results in Jumpers eventually making a jump and coming out of it brain dead. This is called "navigator burnout syndrome" and means that Jumpers rarely live past 30, being constantly replaced; even individual ships will frequently go through multiple Jumpers throughout their active service.
* The [[Literature/AeonLegionLabyrinth Aeon Legion's]] training program is [[TrainingFromHell extremely brutal]] since the instructors can just [[GoodThingYouCanHeal heal the recruits from most injuries]]. The training's high standards eliminates many recruits the first day and many more drop out voluntarily. The training starts with thousands of recruits and ends with around a hundred.

** 2020: Cal State Bakersfield left for the Big West, and Kansas City returned to its previous home of the Summit League. Dixie State[[labelnote:*]]to be renamed Utah Tech in July 2022[[/labelnote]] and Tarleton[[labelnote:*]]one of two Texas schools that has recently dropped "State" from its athletic identity; another is in the bullet point immediately below[[/labelnote]] joined from D-II.

** 2023: New Mexico State and Sam Houston will leave to join C-USA.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E12DoublemeatPalace Doublemeat Palace]] has a suspiciously high turnover rate - it turns out to be because of a customer who loves the taste of the employees. Fast food servicing indeed.

* ''Series/DangerUXB'': Being about bomb disposal, mentions this early on.

* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': Schillinger goes through numerous [[TheDragon Dragons]] over the course of the series, almost all of whom wind up dying horribly. The only exception, Robson, is instead "only" put through a HumiliationConga that ends with him being kicked out of the Aryan Brotherhood.

** 2021: Four Texas schools joined: Abilene Christian, Lamar, Sam Houston[[labelnote:*]]the other Texas school that recently dropped "State" from its athletic identity[[/labelnote]], and Stephen F. Austin[[labelnote:*]]which dropped "State" from its athletic identity long before Sam Houston and Tarleton[[/labelnote]]. They had been set to join in 2022, but their arrival was accelerated when their prior home of the Southland Conference expelled them. The WAC also revived its football league, though at the FCS level instead of FBS.[[note]]Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and Jacksonville State joined for football only at that time to give the new WAC enough football teams for an automatic berth in the FCS playoffs. These schools will leave once their full-time home of the ASUN Conference starts its own FCS football league in 2022 or later... though Jacksonville State will leave FCS entirely to join C-USA in 2023.[[/note]]
** 2022: Chicago State will leave, while the WAC will gain ''another'' Southland member in Incarnate Word, and Southern Utah will join from the Big Sky Conference.

* UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's presidential administration has done this enough to fill [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resignations an entire Wikipedia page]]. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Enough Said!]]

** 2014: Idaho left for the Big West, and things finally slowed down again... although changes have continued to the present.

** 2020: Cal State Bakersfield left for the Big West, and Kansas City returned to its previous home of the Summit League. Dixie State and Tarleton[[labelnote:*]]one of two Texas schools that has recently dropped "State" from its athletic identity; another is in the bullet point immediately below[[/labelnote]] joined from D-II.
** 2021: Four Texas schools joined: Abilene Christian, Lamar, Sam Houston[[labelnote:*]]the other Texas school that recently dropped "State" from its athletic identity[[/labelnote]], and Stephen F. Austin[[labelnote:*]]which dropped "State" from its athletic identity long before Sam Houston and Tarleton[[/labelnote]]. They had been set to join in 2022, but their arrival was accelerated when their prior home of the Southland Conference expelled them. The WAC also revived its football league, though at the FCS level instead of FBS.[[note]]Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and Jacksonville State joined for football only at that time to give the new WAC enough football teams for an automatic berth in the FCS playoffs. Those schools will leave once their full-time home of the ASUN Conference starts its own FCS football league in 2022 or later.[[/note]]
** 2022: Chicago State will leave, while Southern Utah will join from the Big Sky Conference.

* The Guards in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', particularly the ones in Falador, have a roughly 100% turnover rate, and they're lucky to make it a couple of minutes without being randomly killed by players. A quest [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this in conversation between two of the guards, in which one mentioned that they have a life expectancy of about 30 seconds and then a npc come in and kills them both.