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See also [[Rite of Passage]], a catalog of initiation ceremonies into adulthood. [[Deadly Graduation]] is a subtrope that involves killing (real or faked).
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== Pleasant ==
=== General ===
* [[Knighting]], of course.
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
*In the pilot of ''[[Blue Bloods]]'' the youngest Reagan to join the NYPD stands in a row of [[Fair Cop|handsome or beautiful]] young cops in [[Bling of War|spiffy blue]] in an impeccabable paramilitary parade. First the Police Commissioner gives a speech about [[With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility]]. Than they come forward to receive their badges to the sound of a band playing, ''Start spreading the news.''▼
▲*In the pilot of [[Blue Bloods]] the youngest Reagan to join the NYPD stands in a row of [[Fair Cop|handsome or beautiful]] young cops in [[Bling of War|spiffy blue]] in an impeccabable paramilitary parade. First the Police Commissioner gives a speech about [[With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility]]. Than they come forward to receive their badges to the sound of a band playing, ''Start spreading the news.''
=== [[Video Games]] ===
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* Moist von Lipwig has to undergo an initiation in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
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=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Some high school and college hazings have a nasty habit of turning into sexual assault, such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201150149/http://www.oliverwillis.com/news/2008/09/23/las-vegas-robertson-high-school-football-sodomy-hazing-causes-controversy/ this Las Vegas (New Mexico, not Nevada) high school football incident.]
** If this ''Rolling Stone'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101195100/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/confessions-of-an-ivy-league-frat-boy-inside-dartmouths-hazing-abuses-20120328 story] on Dartmouth hazing is to be believed, it's less sexual assault and more [[Nausea Fuel]]. (One word: vomlet.)
* The [[The Spartan Way|egoge of Sparta]] if tales are to be believed (and given their shortage of warriors there is probably at least something to them). They included being beaten as a child. Forced to live on
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Getting initiated into ''[[The Unit]]'' involves a [[Training Accident]] scenario. One case involved a [[Man On Fire]].
* The ''Order of the Bat'Lithe'' on [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' is the highest Klingon award for valour in battle. It consists of solemnity, partying, boisterousness, all to various degrees. But the most important part is a final [[The Spartan Way|endurance test]] that involves eliminating anyone who cannot [[Drinking Game| hold his or her liquor.]]
* The miniseries of ''[[The Winds of War and War and Remembrance|War and Remembrance]]'' (the second series in the duology) first starts with several [[Rated M For Manly|tall, square-faced]] [[Semper Fi|Marines]] raising a flag over the coffins of the Pear Harbor dead, thus [[Due to the Dead|honoring the slain]] and [[Icon of Rebellion|defying the enemy]] at the same time. The second scene is of [[The Captain|Victor Henry]] being boated out to his new command in [[Bling of War|gleaming navy whites]] and being piped aboard by the bosun. It is initiating Victor to his new command and initiating the whole US Navy to combat operations in [[World War 2]].
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* As written up by William Poundstone in his book ''Big Secrets'', the initiation ceremonies of the Knights of Columbus can mix all of these, depending on how much the pledges are taking the events at face value. It includes solemn oathtakings, a quiz in which the initiates are meant to learn humility (and start studying Scripture) through failure, some rough and potentially humiliating treatment (the worst aimed at members playing candidates), which is intended to lead into a series of increasingly stress-filled events culminating in (the simulation of) a federal agent accidentally shooting a lodge officer. Presumably, after the reveal that everything was scripted and the candidates' original faith in the organization was justified, there's a pleasant period of socialization.
* The initiation into the Israeli Paratroop Corps involves "ascending to Jerusalem"-that is doing a forced march up the Temple Mount to the spot where they receive their berets.
* Basic training for any branch of the armed forces probably covers all four bases; a long period of extreme physical and mental exhaustion with occasional bouts of ritual humiliation by your instructors if you screw up, relieved by the odd moment of comedy as you and everyone else in the same predicament bands together to make the best of it, with a solemn and dignified ceremony at the end when you join your unit.
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* Feudal or military service is usually initiated by an [[I Gave My Word|oathtaking]] at minimum. The initiation ceremony is likely to be elaborate and include a lot of other things. Sometimes it is more elaborate and includes hearing tales, taking part in political fosterings, martial arts training, etc. But oathtaking is likely to be the culmination. This is likely to be to the head of state or in America, the Constitution. In times past, breaking an oath could at minimum [[Fate Worse Than Death|shame one's family]] and it could possibly bring down divine wrath.
**Organized Crime imitates this (or, for the cynic, rulers are a more respectable elaboration of organized crime making this come full circle). One can often see this in cop shows.
* The [[w:Mithraism|Mithraic]] mystery cult popular among soldiers in the later days of Ancient Rome had a series of ranks including Crow, Bridegroom, Soldier, Lion, Persian, Sunrunner, and Father. It is odd that Persians were so appreciated when they were after all the enemy. Perhaps they were thought to be a [[Worthy Opponent|worthy]] one. Not much else is known about them as they were very secretive (they were mysteries in the normal sense as well as the religious), but it is known they met underground and carved chambers for themselves.
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