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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.
* In mainstream ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', Annam is the [[Top God]] among the pantheon of giants, and is an [[Expy]] of Zeus. Much like Zeus, he is has had dozens of consorts and concubines (the numerous children he has sired who squabble over who has the right to be his heir causing him no end of trouble) but has no equivalent of Hera or any actual wife to share his throne with. Living alone in the Hidden Realm - an extra-dimensional mansion where clocks and hourglasses measure the lives of every living being in the cosmos - it is believed by many that great Annam is a sad and lonely fellow who longs for a companion he can truly confide in, something he has never managed to obtain.
* 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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