History PlayingWith / AlmightyJanitor

** Alice, who's so pathetically ranked as to barely warrant mention, routinely spars with deities and wins.

** Alice gained her skills through [[WorthlessForeignDegree Wikistanian education, which isn't recognized in Troperia]].

** GeneralFailure. Alice is way high up on the chain, but barely competent.

Back to AlmightyJanitor.

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* '''Discussed''': "We can't pick Alice for our team to go fight Emperor Evulz! She's just the janitor." "But the low-ranking ones are always the strongest! She's our secret weapon!" "Come on, the only creatures she fights are dust bunnies. This isn't a movie."
** All janitors hired at [[MorallyCorruptBanker Meaner & Meaner Brothers Bank]] are given an extremely extensive, thorough and attuned test that detects anybody who would try to be this trope. Those the test detects are then given the opportunity to apply to be employees at Corporate or be denied entry. Janitors who are hired are also given five-decade probation and subjected to extreme surveillance [[ProperlyParanoid on the off chance they were so good they fooled the test]] (including bonuses if they have options that advance the bank, to see if any of them bite).
** All janitors hired at Meaner & Meaner Brothers Bank have a particularly iron-clad clause in their [[ComicallyWordyContract absurdly extensive contract]] that explicitly says "if you are a janitor, you will ''stay'' a janitor, no matter how good your ideas or attempts at manipulation. If you want to be a CEO, request to be hired on the damned 'get to CEO' track". The clause is there to smoke out the ones who obfuscate. The clause also has a sub-clause for bonuses if the ideas actually benefit the bank, [[DumbassHasAPoint for the "broken clocks" to get something out of it]].

* '''Defied''': Alice actively tries to get promoted.

** Due to the setting, Alice's gender, social, political, or racial background close the doors for her, regardless of her skills

** AuthorityEqualsAsskicking

** Alice uses her low ranked position to secretly run the organization she works for.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice is unusually skilled for her position, but not blatantly so.

** Alice's skills depend on being in a position where nobody'd really notice her, and who pays attention to the janitor?

** Due to the setting, Alice's gender, social, political or racial background close the doors for her, regardless of her skills

** Alice is great at everything [[ModernMajorGeneral except with anthing actually relevant to the story]].

** Alternatively, Alice didn't directly do what we though she did, but did the job of a commanding officer in organizing those who did, displaying an uncanny talent that's going to waste.

** Alice is a has exceptional leadership and tactical abilities that she occasionally uses in the field. She routinely displays abilities suited to high-ranking commanding officers when allowed, but can't be promoted farther, as she's not trained as an officer. While offered many incentives to be promoted, she prefers not to undergo the additional training, as she wishes to continue to be in the field. Higher-ranked officers routinely make bets on whether the new incentives and arguments will get her to change her mind, and often allow her 'suggestions' to become their orders.
** Alice is extremely skilled and highly qualified for a leadership position, but she's only employed as a janitor at a big powerful business. THEN she reveals that she's actually the mastermind of the whole whole operation, and only acts as a janitor to maintain confidentiality. BUT in the end we find out that not only is she NOT the mastermind of the operation, it turns out she isn't even a janitor.

** Alice is an extreme case of BrilliantButLazy, and a promotion to a higher rank would imply a lot more work and responsibilities for her, so she [[ObfuscatingStupidity downplays her skills]] to fool her superiors and stay on a lower-profile, but more relaxed job.

* '''Conversed''': "This isn't fair! Alice was the one that saved everyone's arse back there, and instead of being her the one recieving the new rank, the superiors promote that [[SmallNameBigEgo vain and conceited fool]] Trevor?! What the hell!?"

** Alice's superiors are perfectly aware of her great talents, and that's precisely the reason they actively keep her in a low position: If they gave her the opportunity to grow, she would eventually turn into a menace to their power and ambition. And to make themselves sure that she doesn't abandon the organization to look for a better position, they use [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse nasty extortion tactics]] to keep her binded. This lack of recognition and constant pressure eventually turns her into a mentally unstable individual.

** Alternatively, Alice's knowledge that she far outstrips her peers gives her [[InsufferableGenius a massive superiority complex]]. However, this heavy pride is the one thing that keeps her stuck on her low position. The superiors cannot trust someone that's not a team player with a greater rank.

** Alice is God, and she still devotes her life to making sure everything is spotless.

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