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A sub-trope of ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections. Compare SleepingTheirWayToTheTop and RoyalFavorite. Can be one of the ways for someone to end up in the WrongLineOfWork, if they're incompetent in the field their relative puts them in. The opposite of this trope is CoattailRidingRelative. When this occurs among {{RPG}} players (romantically connected to the GM or otherwise), see DungeonmastersGirlfriend. In general, Nepotism may be an expected payback if someone who was VicariouslyAmbitious helped get somebody else into a position of power. When an authority figure deliberately tries to avoid this, they're engaging in AntiNepotism.
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A sub-trope of ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections. Compare SleepingTheirWayToTheTop and RoyalFavorite. Can Often goes hand in hand with UltimateJobSecurity, though it can be one of the ways for someone to end up in the WrongLineOfWork, if they're incompetent in the field their relative puts them in. The opposite of this trope is CoattailRidingRelative. When this occurs among {{RPG}} players (romantically connected to the GM or otherwise), see DungeonmastersGirlfriend. In general, Nepotism may be an expected payback if someone who was VicariouslyAmbitious helped get somebody else into a position of power. When an authority figure deliberately tries to avoid this, they're engaging in AntiNepotism.
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* Appears to be the case in one ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'' tale, "Message in a Bottle". The VillainProtagonist is a high-ranking Admiral of a WW-II era Japanese submarine at age 24... and [[YoungAndInCharge commands a vessel with a crew of 220]]. His uncle is the leader of the Japanese Secret Police ruling over Singapore during the war.
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* ''Series/{{AlloAllo}}'': Herr Otto Flick, the ruthless, yet incompetent head of the Nouvion Gestapo escapes being sent to the Russian Front only through the happy coincidence that he is the Godson of Heinrich Himmler.
