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* Colonel Kurtz from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''.
* [[There Will Be Blood|Daniel Plainview]]
* Many characters in ''[[Milagro Beanfield War]]'', but especially Kyril Montana, played by [[Christopher Walken]].
* Referenced in ''[[Touch of Evil]]''.
* Clark Nelson in ''[[Mothra]]''.
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* El Gringo in the Mexican film ''Herod's Law''
* Clayton in [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[Tarzan]]''.
* Perhaps some of the characters in [[The Proposition]]?{{context}} <!--MOD: Go ahead, look it up, and then come back and tell us yes or no. An explanation why would also be good. -->
* Chinese martial arts movies set between the late 1800s and mid 1900s often have [[Evil Brit]] versions of this (see for instance ''The Legend of Drunken Master'' and ''[[Ip Man]]''). Depending on the date of the setting, the [[Imperial Japan|Japanese]] will play this role instead of or in addition to the Europeans.
* The title character in ''His Majesty O'Keefe'', played by [[Burt Lancaster]], is one of these, an American sea captain who cheats and cons and gets himself named king of the island of Yap in his zeal to take over the island's copra trade. He's a little bit nicer than the usual example of the trope, being opposed to slavery and racism, but he still seems to view it as his sovereign right to take what he wants from the island, whether the natives want to go along or not. He eventually is shown the error of his ways... [[Values Dissonance|and becomes a]] [[Mighty Whitey]] [[Values Dissonance|instead]].
* Peachy Carnehan and Daniel Dravot of ''[[The Man Who Would Be King]]'', who plan to use their British military training and a supply of smuggled arms to take over the tribes of Kafiristan (now a part of Afghanistan).
== [[Literature]] ==
* Kurtz from ''[[Heart of Darkness]]''.
* Mister Guillermo Danger from ''[[Doña Bárbara]]'', the [[Trope Namer]]. We get introduced to him by seeing him gloating on his hunting trophies, enabling the alcoholism of a character to appropriate his land, and preying in a fifteen-year-old girl <ref>Granted, this [[Values Dissonance|is in an age where that girl was considered of a legitimate marriageable age]] and indeed she ends hooking up with the main hero, but the way Danger approaches and treats her is quite predatory</ref>. While Bárbara, the main villain of the book, has a [[Freudian Excuse]] for her actions, he enjoys his [[Moral Event Horizon|horrible acts]] just because he's bored. When he realizes that he don't have the protection of the local ''caudillo'' anymore he [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|immediately packs and leaves the place.]]
* [[Molesworth|Basil Fotherington-Thomas]] in [[Kim Newman]]'s [[Alternate History]] novella ''Tedy Bear's Picnic'', where he has become his world's equivalent of Colonel Kurtz.
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