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Naturally, led by the [[Student Council President]]. If the student council is not only powerful, but more powerful than the adults, then they have a [[Teenage Wasteland]].
Note that in Japan, this is an exaggeration of [[Truth in Television]], as the Student Councils actually ''do'' have power over the approval ''and funding'' of student clubs. Clubs are ''[[Serious Business]]''
In terms of rank, about the only [[Authority Tropes|authority trope]] arguably as low as this is the [[Landlord]]. For the only other lower step, see [[Club President]]. For the next step up, see [[Student Council President]].
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* ''[[CLAMP School Detectives]]''; note that this series has absurdly powerful student councils for each grade division, leading to (say) the chairman of the Elementary Division Council consulting with the chairlady of the Kindergarten Division Council over plans for festivals that shut down all actual schoolwork through to the University level for weeks.
* ''[[Best Student Council]]'': This trope is pretty much the premise of the show. The eponymous student council has military, law enforcement, and intelligence/ninja divisions, and is pretty much hand-picked by its president, Jinguuji Kanade, for reasons that she mostly keeps to herself. President Kanade believes in not restricting the freedom of the students, which limits the near-absolute control the council could otherwise exert.
** Part of the island split to reveal a ''
* Another example of the student council using their absolute powers for good is ''[[Gakuen Sousei Nekoten]]'', where its members join forces with their cat familiars to fight the minions of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] to prevent it from being released and sparing mankind from its ancient wrath.
* ''[[Chou Kuse ni Narisou]]''
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* This seems to be common in [[Yuri]].
** '[[Mariasama ga Miteru]]'' revolves around one.
** ''[[Strawberry Panic!
* ''[[Manabi Straight!]]'' is a [[Deconstruction]] of this, about a group of girls [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] who are newly forming a Student Council. A theme of the series seems to be that kids aren't allowed to be kids anymore and the notion of an Absurdly Powerful Student Council takes itself far, far too seriously.
* Parodied in ''[[Karin]]'' with the three student council presidents of Ren's boarding school.
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** Also, in another VN/Anime by Key, ''[[Clannad]]'' takes this up to eleven by having Tomoyo using the student council as authority IN THE TOWN ITSELF to save the sakura trees that are important to her. (Especially ludicrous since that's NOT the only school in town, even if somehow the student body did have any voice) Her intentions are good and all, but the truth of the matter is that "Student Council president" does not give one a community voice.
* One of these types of Student Councils appears to be the focus of ''[[Seitokai no Ichizon]]'', though they tend to get distracted by [[Conversational Troping]] so often it's a wonder they get anything done.
** A wonder, or rather
* ''[[Hayate X Blade]]'': The Council consists of the school's best Sword Bearers, who decide what exactly goes on within the school; [[Student Council President]] Hitsugi can do almost anything she wants, including the spontaneous creation of rules, for reasons not much more complicated than her own amusement.
* In ''[[Asura Cryin]]'', the student council can give an authorization to kill. Can't get much more powerful than that.
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