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** King Steve was ([[Klingon Promotion|briefly]]) [[Lost Him in a Card Game|usurped]] by a piece of string, [[Companion Cube|who was]] less [[The King of Town]] and more [[The Caligula]].
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Not quite the king, but the Emperor of ''[[The Town]]'' is a nudist lech who does no ruling, and is, currently, completely vanished.
* As noted above and the former [[Trope Namer]], [[Homestar Runner|the King of Town in ''[[Homestar Runner]]''. He's treated as a rather loopy old relative who isn't going to let go of his delusions, and he ''does'' own a castle, which he lives in, but he rarely shows any signs of having any kind of authority. In the "Strong Badia the Free" episode of ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', however, he imposes a retroactive e-mail tax, and no sooner does Strong Bad find out about it than he is put under house arrest for failing to pay it. Strong Bad and several of the other characters get fed up with him and secede from his rule, addressing him as "The Of Town".
** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Because it's also his name, see.]]
** While he doesn't hold any actual power, he is the actual employer of The Poopsmith, who is also his sole enforcer for The Municipality, the [[Ko T]]'s armed riot police. So, in essence, his authority extends as far as The Poopsmith and anyone who's on the far end of The Poopsmith's billy club. "Strong Badia the Free" actually lampshades the fact: Strong Bad is in the middle of answering an email, telling the writer that the [[Ko T]] is pretty much harmless since he's too old and demented to do much damage, when the King barges in, Poopsmith in both riot gear and tow, to inform Strong Bad that he's delinquent on his taxes.
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*** In this capacity he does minimal damage, because his subjects consist of a small array of inanimate objects, and anyone willing to put up with him for an hour or so while they hang out on a small patch of tilled ground that Strong Bad rents from Bubs (that's right, rents).
* President [[The Nostalgia Critic|Critic]] of ''[[Kickassia]]'', following the takeover and renaming of Molossia (see [[Real Life]] section).
** The Critic of the ''[[That Guy With The Glasses]]'' site too. He tries to reassert his authority, really he does, but he will nearly always get walked over and then give up.
* The Mayor of ''[[Ink City]]'' presents himself as an [[Ultimate Authority Mayor]], but is generally viewed by the residents as this. It doesn't help that he tends to keep to himself and not interact with anyone unless they manage to hit one of his [[Berserk Button]]s hard enough. When he lies low during the World Split crisis, he gets called out HARD upon his reappearance.
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==