Basic Trope: The Hero or an ally thereof is given the villain's job after defeating them. * Straight: Bob catches Eve, his supervisor, leaking trade secrets. Their boss Alice fires Eve and promotes Bob to replace her. * Exaggerated: Bob, a random clerk in one of the company's franchise stores, goes over the accounts and discovers that Eve the Vice President is embezzling funds in order to pay an assassin to kill Alice. As a reward Alice gives Bob the position after firing Eve and having the cops haul her off. * Downplayed: Bob (a PI hired to investigate some leaks) is aided in taking down Eve by Claire and Dan (a member of the mid-management and one of his trusted underlings). Alice thanks Bob and pays him his fee, then promotes Dan to Eve's former position and gives Claire a pay