I Renounce My Position

What happens when someone deliberately puts From Rags to Bankruptcy into play, giving up their job and job-associated stuff in the process. Sometimes, they can give up positions that they take as hobbies or even their secret identities.

Can be the result of performing an Insignia Rip-off Ritual or Turn in Your Badge on themselves.

Contrast Innocent punishment, You Are Fired, and "Jetson, You're Fired!", where the person's position is taken away by an ex-employer (often for a crime the former didn't commit) rather than renounced by the former.

As some of these examples contain spoilers, it's best to go through the works mentioned below before reading the rest of this page.

## Examples

* After John Schnatter, founder and former CEO of Papa John's Pizza, uttered a racial slur (we can't say which slur it was, for obvious reasons), he resigned from Papa John's altogether.
* *Miraculous Ladybug*:
	+ Hawk Moth renounces his Miraculous, albeit temporarily, to become The Collector.
	+ Chloe performs an Insignia Rip-off Ritual on herself, in order to take the Bee Miraculous to New York. Marionette reclaims it before she even leaves France, and with her parents deciding to stay together, she's still stuck in France anyway.
* *The Crucible*: "I quit this court!"
* To quit being a *Pokémon* trainer, one must first release *all* of his/her Pokémon and end their Pokémon journey. Alternatively, if one becomes a Pokémon professor, they can keep their Pokémon, but must *still* end their journey unless for research purposes nonetheless. Naturally, this is impossible in the games.
* *Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends*: In "Cookie Dough", Mac not only tells Bloo he's no longer his friend (they reconcile at the end of the episode), he also quits his job, the only one to do so as everyone else was fired.
* After RKO General was banned from broadcasting in 1987, they decided to sell off *everything*, even their non-broadcast divisions, making this a straight example and an Innocent punishment example at the same time.
* Subverted in one episode of *SpongeBob SquarePants*; within the episode, Mr. Krabs sells his restaurant to a few businessmen in order to retire. The moment he sees they were making synthetic patties, he changes his mind and buys it back... but not without ruining Carl's vision of it beforehand.
* In the *Spyro* series, Bianca quits being evil in order to use her magic to help Spyro.
* Subverted in *The Godfather*: "Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."
* *Animal Crossing New Leaf*: Provided you reached the closest thing to a Satisfactory Conclusion the game offers, you can sell your entire town to Nook for tons of bells and renounce your position as Mayor in Town A to become Mayor of Town B. If you decide to take a break from the game, the town is gone with no compensation.
* *Codename: Kids Next Door*: If one renounces their position in the eponymous organization (and they *have* to when they turn 13), not only do they quit, they also renounce their memories, in a process known as "decommissioning".
* In *Guilty Crown*, when Gai is brought back from the dead, he made it clear that he renounced his position at Funeral Parlor by cutting off Shu's arm (the latter does gain a synthetic arm via a new Genome).
* A Cocotama contractor, if they reveal their existence, essentially unintentionally renounces their position, as the Cocotamas revert back into regular objects.
* Similarly, revealing the secret of Dog Paradise also counts as renouncement of a dog's position in it, with a permanent transformation in the process.
* Akari Sakura of *Jewelpet Twinkle* comes close to giving up drawing manga when she learns that Ruby had to leave for an extended period of time, but is encouraged to keep doing it.
* Daniel J. D'arby of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure* unintentionally renounces his position as the world's greatest gambler when Jotaro decides that D'arby's ante be that he tell Dio's secret.
* Najimi of *Doujin Work* avoids doing this when she learns that if she became a professional manga artist, she'd have to give up doujinishi (which is untrue in the real-life manga industry, as evidenced by Bkub Okawa and *Pop Team Epic*).
* Nanamine of *Bakuman* also did an unintentional example, but he knew it was coming either way: the moment his manga team bails out, he decides to work on his manga himself with little help from anyone besides his editor until it got cancelled. He was forced to renounce his relationship with Jump altogether the moment his next manga failed to make it to even the top 3.
	+ Eiji ended his own manga at its peak rather than drawing it out for profit.
* Haruhi Fujioka of *Ouran High School Host Club* is relieved of her debt to the titular host club and can do this at any time when it's revealed the host club would be dissolved after the Ouran fair. Luckily, it doesn't and she stays anyway.
* Gol D. Roger technically couldn't quit when he was already dying, but what he can do is bury his treasure at the end of the Grand Line, then turn himself in.
* *Doraemon*: The Martians renounce *the planet they came from* upon seeing the Earth at the end of the episode they appeared in.
* *The Powerpuff Girls (1998)*: The Beat-Alls split up when Princess Morbucks, Fuzzy Lumpkins and Him all renounce their positions as members of the organized crime group, going on crime sprees without Mojo Jojo. The Powerpuffs subsequently take all of them to jail.
* *The Fairly OddParents*: Similar to *KND* above, not only do godchildren renounce their fairies when they're revealed, everyone who found out gets mind-wiped.
* A variation on *Family Guy*: Peter falls asleep on the job and thus unintentionally renounces his job at the toy factory. Case in point: not too long after he wakes up, he's sent to his boss' office and promptly shown the news reports of the dangerous toys, and then fired.
* This is how season five (and the Cartoon Network US run) of *Totally Spies!* ends- Alex, Sam and Clover all retiring from WOOHP. They're needed back in season six, though.
* In one episode of *The Simpsons*, after Homer catches Bart doing one of his pranks, the latter is forced to renounce his status as a prankster... until he's needed to get Apu his store back.
	+ Speaking of Homer, he once ruined his brother Herb's entire business, causing the latter to disown the former. The last words Herb said to Homer that episode were "As far as I'm concerned, I have no brother".
* In the *South Park* episode "Margaritaville", one of the moves the government can take in the face of a failing business is "Sell to China", which can be seen as this. Fortunately, the choice is made at random, with an insurance company getting bailed out as a result.
	+ Randy Marsh (Stan's father) once quit his job as a geologist to become a Wall-mart (the show's parody of Walmart) employee. Later in the season, he has his old job back.
	+ To avoid their awards being taken by force, whenever anyone who cheated decided to come clean about their actions, they usually give the awards back before they make their speech. Case in point: Jimmy did this when he revealed he cheated at the Special Olympics, and Stan did it before he revealed that he cheated at the Pinewood Derby.
	+ When Butters was temporarily a vampire (long story), he tried to do this. It never worked. He did later successfully renounce his status as a vampire by... burning down Hot Topic.
	+ In "Taming Strange", Intellelink Centurion basically amounted to "you renounce any Intellelink software and hardware" and the Intellelink employee being driven to suicide.
		- By the end of the same episode, Ike quits being Foofa's manager and goes home with Kyle.
	+ The Jonas Brothers renounce their rings because they discovered that the rings were being used by Disney for... let's just say things that go against the rings' name. Mickey Mouse did *not* take it lightly.
	+ In *The Stick of Truth*:
		- You can betray Cartman's side and join Kyle's.
		- If you betray Kyle's side, Craig will end up joining Clyde's side.
		- And of course, Princess Kenny eventually betrays *all three sides*- Cartman's, Kyle's, and Clyde's- in order to become evil. And eventually a Nazi Zombie.
	+ Subverted in "Raising the Bar", when it looks like Cartman was about to renounce his former self... and then proceeds to make things worse. If that wasn't an example of the bar being lowered super-low in-universe, then James Cameron's deep-sea trip *is*.
	+ A threatened boycott was enough to make the boys give up their crowdfunding dreams and head back to school.
* In *I Got a Rocket!*, this happens when the Duckies close their restaurant "for stinkin' ever" due to the success of Rocket Dogs.
* Retsuko, after an incident where she was almost killed by a stalker, ends up quitting the OTMGirls. Remember, this is the same Retsuko who is more-or-less immune from a different trope.
* In the *Freaky Stories* segment "The Chatty Monk", the titular monk who only uttered two words each year broke his silence with "I quit".
* While Moguro usually makes sure one is fired if his plan to ruining a client's life involves said client's job, there are several episodes of *The Laughing Salesman* where he doesn't intervene should one want to (or is forced to) quit, mainly because he or she is not the episode's client anyways:
	+ When Kariya Asako exposes her boss, he ends up quitting to avoid being fired by the higher-ups.
	+ Nakada is the only one of Douki's friends to *avoid* being fired, considering he *runs* the bar he works at; instead, he (or Naoko) closes it down due to a divorce.
* *I My Me! Strawberry Eggs*: After being outed as a man, Hibiki quits. He was going to be shown the door anyway, but he realized he couldn't fight it and left before being officially fired.