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{{quote| ''"You own a street and a block of flats''<br />
''You earn your living like the other rats''<br />
''You've no morality what do you care''<br />
''You deal in poverty you buy despair"''<br|[[The />Police]], "Landlord" }}
'''--''' [[The Police]], ''Landlord'' }}
 
In a series dealing with a character staying in apartment-style housing, a landlord is a common sight. The job description entails what one would expect: The upkeep of the building and grounds. However, while landlords are a diverse bunch visually, there is one hard and fast rule: Make them entertaining, or at the very least, intriguing.
 
The manager works as a logical and predictable [[Drop in-In Character]], while their apartment setting can house a slightly more realistic version of [[Pretty Freeloaders]] who, naturally, constantly visit the put-upon lead.
 
Can crossover with [[Almighty Janitor]].
 
In terms of rank, the [[Authority Tropes|authority tropes]] arguably equal are [[Badass Preacher]], [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], [[Good Shepherd]], [[Irish Priest]], [[Preacher Man]], [[Pedophile Priest]], [[Schoolteachers]], [[Sexy Priest]], [[Sinister Minister]] and [[The Vicar]]. For the next step down, see [[Student Council President]]. For the next step up, see [[Dean Bitterman]].
 
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The archetypal example is Otonashi Kyoko from [[Rumiko Takahashi|Takahashi Rumiko's]] ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]''.
* Urashima Keitaro from ''[[Love Hina]]'', In a rare example of being the lead character (and being male). His Aunt Haruka, though, fits the trope better.
* Hisakawa Maachi from ''[[Best Student Council (Anime)|Best Student Council]]'', who almost universally goes by "Kanrinin-san" ("Ms. [[Landlady]]").
* Hibiya Chitose from ''[[Chobits (Manga)|Chobits]]'' and ''[[Kobato.]]''.
* Sanzou Lulu from ''[[I My Me! Strawberry Eggs|I! My! Me! Strawberry Eggs]]''.
* Hirozaki Karei from ''[[Maburaho]]''.
* Aoba Kozue from ''[[Mahoraba]]''.
* Kasumi Tani from ''[[Hand Maid May]]''.
* Neneko Izumi from ''[[Dear SDearS]]''.
* Sarah Dupont, the [[Idol Singer]] and [[Team Mom]] from ''[[Kaleido Star]]''.
* Subversion: Aoi Sakuraba ''pretends'' to be the landlady in ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga)|Ai Yori Aoshi]]'', as her cover to not let people know she is Kaoru's girlfriend. The closest to a real landlady is actually her guardian and the local [[Apron Matron]], Miyabi Kagurazaki.
* Chitose in ''[[Chocotto Sister]]'', who was typically known as "Miss Manager" or "Miss Landlady."
* "The Landlady" [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|(no actual name known)]] in ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''.
* Otose from ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]''.
* Misae Sagara from ''[[Clannad (Visualvisual Novelnovel)|Clannad]]'', the supervisor for Sunohara's dorm. Apparently, it's very easy to influence her into violence against the immature rugby team members, such as practicing wrestling moves for peeking in the girl's dorm or drop kicks to people who don't clean their plates at dinner. And it's always awesome when she does. She even gets a sort of mini route that sees its resolution in Tomoyo's route.
* Miya Asama, the [[Big Good|landlady]] from ''[[Sekirei]]'' always sees herself as the [[Cool Big Sis]], though everyone else sees her as a [[Mama Bear]]
* Taeko of ''[[Otaku no Musume San-san]],'' whose tenants are slowly trying to make her into [[Maison Ikkoku|Kyoko]], starting with an apron with a chick on it and later naming the dog Soichiro.
* The landlady at Falling Apartments in ''[[Crayon Shin Chan-chan]]!'' "She should be nice to me, I come from a long line of slum lords." And [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Shin confuses "landlady" with "manlady". "She's just upset she'll never be a real lady!"
* Maiko Motohiro in ''[[OkusamaOku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo (Anime)|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' is the owner of the house where Ureshiko and Kagara lives, those it's Ureshiko who takes care of pretty much the entire household, since Maiko herself is quite old.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* Peter Parker's landlord from the ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]]'' films.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''The Blue Angel'', there's an [[Alternate Universe]] where the Doctor is just a suburban landlord. He's only got two tenants; it's mostly to justify why the characters would all live together despite the fact one of them, Compassion, is ordinarily a [[Sour Supporter]]. Also, he suffers from [[Through the Eyes of Madness|anxiety and delusions]]. Unusually, he's far and away the main character of the story and seems to have very little authority over his tenants; Fitz is almost his [[The Caretaker|caretaker]] and just ''try'' having authority over [[Broken Bird|Compassion]].
* Mrs Hudson, landlady of [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[The Watson|Watson]]. Only a minor character in the books, but many adaptations give her a bit more to do.
 
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* The ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series ''[[Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger]]'' (the one ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' was based on) had the Zyuranger's boss, an immortal sorcerer do this as his day job.
* This was once a popular character type in [[The Seventies|70's]] sitcoms: Bookman of ''[[Good Times]]'' and Schneider of ''[[One Day At a Time]]'' are examples.
** Also the Ropers (and, later, Mr. Furley) in ''[[Threes Company|Three's Company]]''.
*** And, of course, the Ropers in ''[[Man About the House]]''.
* Mr Balowski from ''[[The Young Ones]]''.
* Ethel and Fred Mertz in ''[[I Love Lucy]]''.
* Mrs. Dubcek on ''[[3rd Rock Fromfrom the Sun|3rd Rock From The Sun]]''
* Mr. Barriga in ''[[El Chavo Deldel Ocho]]'' is the landlord of the vencidad that serves as main setting for the characters. His main issue is collecting the fourteen months of overdue rent Don Ramon owes him. When Dona Florinda became a restauranteur, she rented a place that also belongs to him.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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** Who, curiously, is implied to have been summoned by the apartment rather than being the owner proper; to start with, there ''was'' no landlord, but someone commented on this deficiency and the maybe-sentient apartment complex obliged.
* The main characters from ''[[Absurd Notions]]'' eventually had Dr Ümlaut, the least caring professor ever, assigned as their landlord. He was also the least caring Landlord ever, not caring what the tenants did with their apartment.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Justice League]]'', "Hearts and Minds"; Despite being the Fasted Man Alive and a super-hero who has tussled with Darkseid and the Injustice League, the Flash is very ill-equipped to deal with John's psycho landlady when they need to break into John's apartment to find his Green Lantern power battery.
 
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