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=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* Another evil example: in the [[BattleTech]] Universe, both Grand Duke George Hasek-Davion and Duke Frederick Steiner each schemed in the 3020s to take over their nation's thrones.
* Duke Venalitor from the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Grey Knights]]'' novel ''Hammer of Daemons'' is definitely evil. Being a follower of Khorne, it came with the territory.
 
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* Count [[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]] - Errm... Evil.
** Vlad the Impaler, on whom Dracula was based, [[Reality Is Unrealistic|was actually a "voievod" or "domn" (meaning "lord" or "ruler")]]. Romanians didn't have the title of "prince" until [[World War OneI]], and then it was just because a foreign house of noble kin came to rule. The "voievod" was initially a military title, sort of like the Duke—in the beginning, the ruler was actually ruling only during times of war, the rest of the time, he was just a simple nobleman. Things had changed by the time Vlad the Impaler came to rule, though. "Count" was a title more commonly used by the neighbouring Hungarian Empire, where [[Bram Stoker]] got most of his information from.
*** Whatever translation that one puts on Vlad the Impaler's rank...it was considerably higher than Count. Or, to put it another way...calling him "Count Dracula" would have all but guaranteed your impalement.
* Another vampire: ''[[Carmilla]]'', Countess of Karnstein, from Sheridan Le Fanu's novella.
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* The [[Fantastic Caste System|lighteyes]] of ''[[The Stormlight Archive]]'' have gotten a little power-mad over the centuries, which tends to drown out the ones who actually are honorable.
* Several conspirators in [[Robert E. Howard]]'s [[Conan the Barbarian]] story in "[[The Phoenix on the Sword]]".
* Practically every aristocrat (and no shortage of the common-but-rich) in the world of the [[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]] series is a spoiled, myopic monster who lives in luxury to put Versailles to shame, while the cities they rule over are [[Crapsack World|dystopian affairs]] with enormous poor populations. Only three noble characters are portrayed sympathetically. Particularly monstrous is the so-called Amusement War in the demi-city of Salon Corbeau, a sort of living chess game played for galleries of rich merchants and nobles using impoverished and desperate peasants who volunteer in exchange for a pittance of money and room and board. Whenever a "piece" is captured, he or she is subjected to whatever ghastly punishments the players desire- torture, beatings, stoning, rape, anything short of killing them deliberately - and none of the aristocrats see anything wrong about this.
** There's also mention of a noblewoman who Gentled (reduced to mindless husks wholly devoid of their own volition who have to be prodded to eat, excrete, or move) kittens so her sons could torture them with knives, because they were bored.
* Most of ''[[The Talisman]]'s'' aristocrats in the Territories are either evil or cowed into submission. The worst is Morgan of Orris and those working directly for him.
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