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** Jacqueline Renier, who is perhaps the queen of this trope. Intensely monophobic, she has to spend her time with her vicious family, all of whom hate her, and will transform into a wererat in the company of anyone she actually cares for.
** In summary: it ''really really sucks'' to be a Darklord.
* Mainstream ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has a few examples:
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** Some believe this is true for Asmodeus, the setting’s equivalent of [[The Devil]]. A [[Fallen Angel]] who became Overlord of Hell, he rules with an iron fist and continually plots to conquer the Upper Planes and consume all of existence. Thoroughly evil, elegant, arrogant, and supremely confident… Yet, the handful of brave souls who have entered his citadel at the bottom of the bottom of the lowest layer of Hell (and managed to escape) find a splendid palace that reflects wealth, opulence, and majesty… which seems empty and exudes an aura of melancholy. The vast halls resonate an aura of despair and the sound of soft weeping. Some believe that, given his reputation as [[The Chessmaster]] and [[The Corruptor]] who excels at the [[Xanatos Gambit]] (and at least one source claiming he is a primordial source of evil that is older than the gods) it is likely this is a ruse done to make enemies believe he has a weakness, or maybe to invoke sympathy from them to make them easier to manipulate, but then, it is possible that the idea of faking regret ''is itself'' a ruse to prevent his subordinates from believing he has a weakness. With a [[Manipulative Bastard]] like him, it is hard to tell.
* The God-Emperor of [[Warhammer 40,000]]. Let's face it. His obesession being the survival of mankind, he has really lost everything, his sons, the atheism he tried to build up in his Imperium, his self-respect, many other things, now spending eternity living in mind-wracking pain, being kept alive by the Golden Throne he sits on, being forced to watch how everything he built has rotten and become a shadow of its former self... he doesn't have anything left.
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