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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Duke Rastar in ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight'' is a minor villain who's [[Les Collaborateurs|collaborating with]] the [[Big Bad]].▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Sheriff of Nottingham in every single version of ''[[Robin Hood]]'' is a textbook example.▼
* Baron Luthor in the medieval [[Elseworld]] comic ''[[Superman]]: Kal''.▼
== [[Film]] ==
* Lord Farquaad in ''[[Shrek]]'', who, on top of everything, wants to make the transition to full-blown king.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* The villains ''[[Zorro]]'' fights against are of this kind as well.
* [[Honor Harrington]] as Stadtholder of Grayson is a good example.
* As are the Vorkosigans in [[Vorkosigan Saga]].
* Baron Trutzdrachan in ''[[Otto of the Silver Hand]]''.▼
* Governor Gesler in the [[William Tell]] legend, who forces the hero to shoot at the apple on his son's head after Tell is disrespectful; his abuses of power end up inciting the Swiss to rebellion.▼
* Comendador Guzman in Lope de Vega's play ''[[Fuente Ovejuna]]''; eventually the whole town, tired of his abuses, murders him and [[I Am Spartacus|assumes the guilt collectively]].▼
▲* Baron Trutzdrachan in ''Otto of the Silver Hand''.
* Baron Front de Boeuf in [[Walter Scott]]'s novel ''[[Ivanhoe]]'', who imprisons and [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortures]] a rich Jew, trying to get hold of his money.
* The King of Town in a [[Homestar Runner]] episode.▼
▲* Lord Farquaad in ''[[Shrek]]'', who, on top of everything, wants to make the transition to full-blown king.
▲* Baron Luthor in the medieval [[Elseworld]] comic ''[[Superman]]: Kal''.
* Quite a few planetary leaders in ''[[Firefly]]'' act like this, especially Rance Burgess in "Heart of Gold". Canton's Magistrate Higgins, in "Jaynestown", had actual serfs.▼
* Norman Arminger in S. M. Stirling's first three books of the [[Emberverse]] series. Feudalism is the standard M.O. of most post-Change societies, to some degree, but only Arminger breaks out the iron collars.
* Another S. M. Stirling example: [[The Draka|Draka]] Landholders are basically this in all but name.
▲* Duke Rastar in ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight'' is a minor villain who's [[Les Collaborateurs|collaborating with]] the [[Big Bad]].
* The Harkonnens in ''[[Dune]]''.
* William Hamleigh in ''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]''. He provides Stephen with armed soldiers and is left alone because of Stephen's weakness as a ruler. He uses this position to tax his serfs to death and rape any woman he sees fit.
* The nobility of Perquaine in ''[[The Redemption of Althalus]]'' seemed to consist entirely of examples of this.
* Subverted in ''[[Malevil]]'', a French post-[[World War III]] novel were the survivors live in an old castle that survived the nuclear holocaust. Emmanuel owned the property before the war, but despite the new desperate world order and the castle returning to it's original function, he does everything in his power to share authority with this friends, a tiny democratic survivalist society rather then him as an old-fashioned king.
** This is later [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] in a pissing contest over power with [[The Big Bad|Fulbert]]. Fulbert keeps assigning himself increased power over Malevil from his [[Corrupt Church]] in La Roque. Emmanuel attempts to answer to his ridiculous claims with one of his own; claiming that 600 year old documents from the [[Hundred Years' War]] give the Lord of Malevil power over the fief of La Roque and that by owning the property he is the new Lord of Malevil. What was meant as sarcasm and satire is taken as [[Completely Missing the Point|actual legal authority by his friends]].
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' most characters are part of the feudal nobility and the entirety of Westeros is one massive feudal realm.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Quite a few planetary leaders in ''[[Firefly]]'' act like this, especially Rance Burgess in "Heart of Gold". Canton's Magistrate Higgins, in "Jaynestown", had actual serfs.
== [[Oral Tradition]], Myths and Legends ==
▲* The Sheriff of Nottingham in every single version of ''[[Robin Hood]]'' is a textbook example.
▲* Governor Gesler in the [[William Tell]] legend, who forces the hero to shoot at the apple on his son's head after Tell is disrespectful; his abuses of power end up inciting the Swiss to rebellion.
== [[Theatre]] ==
▲* Comendador Guzman in Lope de Vega's play ''[[Fuente Ovejuna]]''; eventually the whole town, tired of his abuses, murders him and [[I Am Spartacus|assumes the guilt collectively]].
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* The King of Town in a [[Homestar Runner]] episode.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Most rulers in [[Real Life]] lived in a system like this. Historically even the largest [[The Empire|empires]] were composed of states within states within states in a complicated matrix, rulers of each domain being capable of making war on their own behalf. Whether or not these local authorities were recognized as constitutional varied, but the system remained similar in many places. To this day this arrangement seems to be the case in a number of states which often causes political difficulties for those from countries unused to the system.
* In [[Dark Age Europe]] a lot of feudalism (like a lot of the other "darkness" of the time) was caused by lack of easy access to capital. To stand up for himself and (on the rare but not impossible chance that he cares about such things) protect his subjects any king needed a lot of muscle and without money the only thing to pay said muscle in was land. This had the disadvantage that the warrior given the land would
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