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Compare and contrast [[Dragon Their Feet]], [[Dragon with an Agenda]], [[The Starscream]], and [[Bastard Understudy]]. [[Take Up My Sword]] is the heroic equivalent. Sometimes overlaps with [[As Long as There Is Evil]]. While they are very similar, there's a crucial difference between this trope and being The Starscream: the Dragon was not directly involved with the Big Bad's downfall. There is a grey area with this, as sometimes the Dragon "drags his feet" or has his own agenda, but so long as he displays at least nominal allegiance to the core leadership, he's not the Starscream. The opposite of this trope is [[Demoted to Dragon]], where a character who was previously [[Big Bad]] in their own right becomes [[The Dragon]] to a new [[Big Bad]].

 

 

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**** Darth Maul was pretty much the only Sith Apprentice who ''didn't'' buy into this system; [[Word of God]] has stated that he would have been perfectly content to wait for Sidious to die of natural causes before taking his place. Of course, he never got the chance to do that, but still, that makes him more of a [[Bastard Understudy]] than a [[The Starscream|Starscream]].

* Grimer from ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'' is loyal to his master until the very end, but when he realises that Robotnik is insane, and unfit to serve, he quits and retreats to the shadows. {{spoiler|He chessmasters his way into discrediting Sonic, leaving Mobius to the mob, and starting a destructive chain reaction of volcanoes before escaping to another universe. He appears near the end to gloat to Sonic, as a hologram. Badass.}}

** A better example would probably be [[The Starscream|Snively]] after he succeeded in [[Killed Off for Real|killing]] the original Robotnik and [[Klingon Promotion|taking over his empire]], or the period after {{spoiler|Eggman's [[Villainous Breakdown]]}} when he allied with the Iron Queen; however, both these times, Eggman eventually showed up/ {{spoiler|recovered}} and put him back in his place.

* ''[[Green Lantern]]'': After [[Sinestro]] {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]ed and rejoined the Green Lanterns}}, his Dragon Arkillo took control of the Sinestro Corps.

 

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