I Can Rule Alone: Difference between revisions

 

Some [[Magnificent Bastard|especially cunning]] Villains give the [[We Can Rule Together]] speech, allow the hero to fall, and then reveal that...:gasp: they were [[I Lied|lying]] about sharing! [[Villains Never Lie|Who would have thought?]]

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== Film ==

* Erik Lensherr (aka Magneto) from ''[[X-Men: First Class|X Men First Class]]'' agreed with everything [[Big Bad|Sebastian Shaw]] said. Unfortunately, Shaw [[You Killed My Father|has killed his mother]].

 

== Literature ==

* Played with in ''[[Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]''. Luke is set up as Palpatine's heir apparent and ''pretends'' to be the Emperor to execute a mass [[Heel Face Turn]] from the Imperial soldiers. It doesn't work out. (Hint: {{spoiler|That black armor isn't paint!}})

* Inversed in the Fate/Zero light novels (see quote), Rider was asking Gilgamesh to rule the world together with him.

 

== Video Games ==

* Quite common in ''[[Star Wars]]'':

** Kyle Katarn in the dark side ending for ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Knight]]'', as mentioned above.

* In ''[[Dark Messiah of Might and Magic]]'', this is one of Sareth's options. Xana will actually advise you to do this instead of freeing the Demon Sovereign, since by that point she'd rather follow your lead than his.

 

 

* In ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'', [[Red Skull]] turns his son into a creature of immense power, Electro, and then proceeds to expand on how he is now going to conquer the world with Electro by his side. Electro asks why he should stand by anybody's side when he is the one with all the power, zaps his surprisingly [[Genre Blind|unsavvy]] daddy and takes off to claim the world for himself.

** His son also brings up the point that the Red Skull risked his life in the experiment. The Red Skull dismisses his son's complaints, saying that the risk was "minimal". This didn't exactly endear him to Electro.

** [[Big Bad]] Makuta [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Teridax]] used his Brotherhood to complete his grand plan to seize power, committing [[Grand Theft Me]] on the resident [[Physical God]] and basically ''becoming one'' with the entire known world (revealed to be a [[Sapient Ship|truly gigantic robot]]), allowing him to control everything inside of it and then use it to conquer other planets. The moment this hijacking works out (and even a bit before that) he begins killing off his own species, as he believed the Makuta were the only ones with the knowledge and power required to execute "The Plan". While the original plan was for the rest of the Brotherhood to rule alongside their leader, only a few of them even thought of the possibility that they could be betrayed. Since their entire motivation for overthrowing the Great Spirit in the first place was pride and jealousy at being eternally below him on the ladder of power, of course Teridax didn't trust any one of them to not try and do it against ''him''.

* A variation in the ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' original series story "The Riddle of the Gold": the Maharaja tells Dr. Zinn's agent that soon they'll be the richest, most powerful men in the world. The agent poisons the Maharaja and declares, "There is room for only one richest, most powerful man in the world ... and he is Dr. Zinn." The agent is ''NOT'' Zinn in disguise. That's loyalty.

 

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