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{{trope}}
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''You earn your living like the other rats''
''You've no morality what do you care''
''You deal in poverty you buy despair"''
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
Can crossover with [[Almighty Janitor]].
In terms of rank, the [[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]]''.
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* 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]]''.
* Misae Sagara from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|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
* The landlady at Falling Apartments in ''[[Crayon Shin-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 ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|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.
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* Ethel and Fred Mertz in ''[[I Love Lucy]]''.
* Mrs. Dubcek on ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]''
* Mr. Barriga in ''[[El Chavo
== [[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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