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In various media, it seems that certain [[Big Bad|powerful villains]] have a rather inflated view of themselves. Sure, the heroes might have their leader's face as a symbol for their team, but the various Big Bads and dictators want to go a lot further than that, and will place their name absolutely everywhere. Their base may actually be shaped like them, the flags may have a stylised icon of the Big Bad in place of the Jolly Roger and heck, they might even have [[Mecha-Mooks]] and vehicles very much influenced by their appearance. This trope will also always be used if the whole "
The defacement and toppling of this decoration in public view is an effective and common way to illustrate [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified|a revolution against the despot]] or liberation by an external power is in progress without using much screen time. This often occurs in real life, where fallen statues are popular images for demonstrating fallen regimes.
See also [[Conspiracy Placement]], [[Shrine to Self]], and [[Sigil Spam]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[One Piece]]'': Various Pirate bosses model their Jolly Roger after their own appearance.
** The main cast end up collectively known as the "Strawhat Pirates", simply because their leader wears one, and he had one drawn on their Jolly Roger.
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** And recently it's been revealed that {{spoiler|the straw hat originally belonged to Gold Roger himself, who looked shockingly much like Luffy before he grew his mustache; it's safe to say that the straw hat has a rich history that's only recently being noticed by the world of ''[[One Piece]]''.}}
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* DC Comics example: the planet Apokalips is simply covered with images and statues of [[Darkseid]], usually paired with slogans such as "Die For Darkseid."
== Film ==
* ''[[Dudley Do-Right]]'': Snidely Whiplash puts his face on everything, including his flag. It's not the face of the actor Alfred Molina, but the cartoon Snidely's face.
* The 1989 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movie had the Joker put his face on his vehicles. I think it was the comic book face, though, rather than a Nicholson Joker cartoon. Well Nicholson's face is pretty similar to the comic incarnation of the character's so maybe it was a Nicholson Joker cartoon.
* In the movie ''[[Labyrinth]]'', Jareth's face subtly appears throughout the
* ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'': Elliot Carver has his face displayed on banners all over the place.
* In the fifth ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' film, the Ministry of Magic has a giant curtain with Cornelius Fudge on it. It gets destroyed in the climax.
* "Father" from ''[[Equilibrium]]''.
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* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'': Big Brother.
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* ''Doctor Who'', [[Doctor Who/Recap/S5/E01 The Tomb of the Cybermen|Tomb of the Cybermen]]: The tomb complex where the Cybermen lie in suspended animation has big Cyberman-heads stenciled on the walls here and there.
* As a [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'', Principal Blackman's portrait appears all over Flatpoint High; it seems every classroom has one, like the flag in a real American school, and it's even on the back of the letterman jackets.
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* Dwight Schrute of ''[[The Office]]'' had one posted in the entrance to the Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch office during his brief stint as Regional Manager.
== Tabletop Games ==
* The Orks in ''Warhammer 40,000'' are rather fond of painting crude ork warboss heads on ''everything''.▼
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* Bowser in the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' series has an icon of his face on various evil objects, machines and the Jolly Roger flag on the airships (and a portrait of his face on the front).
* The ''[[Wario Land]]'' series' latest game has the Shake King's face both on the flag of his pirate ship and on the intruder alarm for each stage.
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* Weasleby's Lair from ''[[Henry Hatsworth]]'' has this on spades. The eponymous [[Quintessential British Gentleman]] claims that the brigand's state is not what he had expected, but that his taste in decoration is "as questionable as [he] thought".
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▲* The Orks in ''Warhammer 40,000'' are rather fond of painting crude ork warboss heads on ''everything''.
* Redcloak from ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]''. At least, I assume that it's his face on the banners... all goblins look alike to me.
** That is so stick-figure-ist.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': The forces of the Municipality are represented by a stylized King of Town logo.
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* On ''[[Samurai Jack]]'', Aku's face is everywhere, even in advertising. Even the architecture resembles him.
* ''The King and the Mockingbird''. The [[Big Bad]]'s face was all over everything, and the heroes is imprisoned in a factory that makes even more portraits of him.
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* In the third season of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]],'' Firelord Ozai's face is all over ''everything'' in the Fire Nation. Statues, posters, whatever. It's an abrupt change from the first two seasons when he was [[The Faceless]] as the Gaang roamed the Earth Kingdom.
== Real Life
* Germany under Hitler, the Soviet Union under Stalin... you aren't an Absolute Ruler unless your mug is plastered on every surface.
* Don't forget the most iconic real-life version of this trope: Chairman Mao in China.
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* Author David Yallop (in ''To the Ends of the Earth'') relates how disconcerted he was to find the ruler of Syria staring at him from a poster while he was doing his business in a public toilet.
* Che Guevara's famous photo is now used to market capitalist T-Shirts. The Cuban government naturally use the iconic image themselves, a big version appears on the side of Interior Ministry in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución.
** Recursion Subversion: [https://web.archive.org/web/20120531022629/http://store.theonion.com/product/che-wearing-che-tshirt-tshirt
* These were ''everywhere'' in Libya during [[Muammar Gaddafi]]'s reign. [[Kill It with Fire|They were cheerfully torn down and burnt by rebels whenever they captured cities]].
* Used to awesome effect by a [[Tunisia
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