Meet the New Boss: Difference between revisions

 

Compare with [[Full-Circle Revolution]], when this happens to [[La Résistance]] after a successful coup. See also [[He Who Fights Monsters]] for where the new boss didn't start out the same as the old boss, but became that way in the process of deposing him.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The last three seasons of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' each revolved around a different group of villains looking for a [[MacGuffin]] needed to achieve world domination. They did so by extracting different [[Anatomy of the Soul|manifestations of a "soul"]] from random humans in the hope of getting the special one they were seeking, but most of the time ended up only getting blanks.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

{{quote|''[[Altum Videtur|Ave! duci novo, similis duci seneci!]]''}}

** Hell, they just come right out and say it in English, too.

* Napoleon in [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Animal Farm]]''.

* In the ''[[Belgariad]]'', the people of Nyissa actively and ruthlessly engineer this: In order to ensure their Queen's [[Legacy Immortality]], they train 20 girls into behaving, acting, and thinking like her. When the Queen dies (which means they killed her because her age started showing), they pick the best impersonator and kill the 19 others, starting the cycle anew.

 

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has the Goa'uld and the Ori. Both pretent to be gods, both want to rule the universe.

** The Ori might qualify as actual [[Jerkass Gods]], though.

** Before that, the horrific Sokar, a Goa'uld overlord banished by his kin for his [[Even Evil Has Standards|great evil]] and now back for vengeance, was replaced by... the horrific Anubis, a Goa'uld overlord banished by his kin for his great evil and now back for vengeance. And they were even played by the same actor!

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' was positively horrible about this while it was still set on Earth. It starts out with Rita Repulsa, whose motivation was to conquer Earth starting with Angel Grove, sticking to the tactic of sending the same squad of incompetent Putties and a single [[Monster of the Aesop]] in easily defeated waves. Once she got usurped by Lord Zedd, he pretty much just maintained the same status quo. They were then replaced with the Machine Empire, who pretty much did the exact same things. Turbo comes along and we meet the new threat, Divatox, who also quickly settles into doing the same things (often with a bomb thrown in somewhere for good measure.) She's followed by Astronema. The leader of the [[Legion of Doom]] chooses a newcomer to go after the Rangers, and she starts out by laying waste to NASADA and trying to take out the Rangers' shuttle... but soon settles into doing exactly the same things as the others, for at least the first half of the season.

** After the Zordon era, taking on the [[Super Sentai]] formula in which a new season equals total overhaul, sometimes the [[Big Bad]] within a series will be defeated and a new one will come to power. It will be a momentous occasion... but the first episode after the transition will also consist of the new villain using the same methods as the first. [[Power Rangers Wild Force]] was a bit different, though, with Mandilok being much more proactive than Master Org.

 

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== [[Real Life]] ==

* Many Eastern Europeans found Soviet rule under Stalin to be little different from Nazi occupation.

* [[Fidel Castro|Castro]] under [[Cuba]]. Overthrew the corrupt Batista, introduced a totalitarian communist regime.

 

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