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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"If my trusted lieutenant tells me my Legion of Terror is losing a battle, I will believe him.. After all, he's my trusted lieutenant."''|[[Evil Overlord List]]}}
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It's not very leader like to give orders yourself when you're [[Take Over the World|trying to rule the world]]. Whilst you leave the hunting of the [[MacGuffin]] to your [[The Dragon|champion]] and the creation of the [[Doomsday Device|world ending device]] to your [[Mad Scientist]], who's leading your legions of terror? That's where the [[Mook]] lieutenant comes in.
The Mook lieutenant is the commanding officer of the evil army. He will be seen in the background to give orders, ask [[The Watson|boneheaded questions]] about the weather controlling device and give the [[Big Bad]] someone to talk to when [[The Dragon]] is a man (or woman) of few words. Very rarely in [[For the Evulz]], he's normally a career military man who views the heroes as [[You Rebel Scum|rabble]] and [[Just Following Orders|does not question orders]]. Has a high mortality rate [[You Have Failed Me...|where failure is concerned]]. More often than not he will look exactly like any other Mook, except that whilst all the other Mooks are wearing masks, [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic|the Mook lieutenant will not.]]
"Lieutenant" here refers to the position of right hand man in general, rather than a specific rank.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Naruto]]'': Arguably, Black Zetsu to Tobi.
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* ''[[Cutthroat Island]]'': The British forces in Jamaica are led by Lieutenant Trotter throughout the film.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': With Sauron in offscreensville for most of the trilogy, [[The Dragon|the Witch-King of Angmar]] relies on Gothmog, Lieutenant of Minas Morgul, to lead his army at the battle of Pellenor Fields.
** Earlier, Saruman uses Lurtz and Ugluk to lead his army of [[Elite Mooks|Uruk Hai]].
* ''[[Goldfinger]]''. Kisch, who commands the army of [[Mooks]] during the invasion of Fort Knox and performs minor minion roles before that.
* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'': Corporal Lyle Wainfleet
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* ''[[Sin City]]'' gives us a nameless leader in charge of the squad of cops who try to kill Marv and his parole officer. He is the only one with lines and is identified by the large eagle tattoo over his face.
* Sergeant Simon in [[The Movie]] of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros]].'' First appears as just a booking officer at the police station, but later serves more proper Mook Lieutenant functions like being Koopa's flamethrower-toting bodyguard and reminding him that humans evolved from apes, not mice.
== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', the Myrddraal are part
== Live
* ''[[Farscape]]'': Scorpius when on his peacekeeping command vessel discusses and gives orders to Captain Miklo Braca to give to the rest of his armada.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': In the episode "The Sontaran Stratagem", General Staal has his army on the ground led by Commander Skorr. Who promptly removes his helmet when he arrives.
* In ''[[Power Rangers SPD]],'' there are special, speaking blue [[Mecha-Mooks]] who command the standard silver ones. In ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]],'' there are a few isolated incidences of lone Styxoids (talking, staff-wielding [[Zombie Mooks]]) leading Hidiacs (babbling, hatchet-wielding standard [[Zombie Mooks]], though their acid-spitting power was a force to be reckoned with for about one episode.) but mostly those were a separate squad of [[Elite Mooks]].
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' sourcebook ''Cult of the Dragon'' introduced a necromantic spell "Undead Lieutenancy" which makes one intelligent undead command any lesser (by Hit Dice) undead that would heed the caster, and make them (within 60' radius) immune to [[Turn Undead]] unless the big guy is successfully turned.
== Video Games ==
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** [[Mass Effect 2]] has a rather odd version of this in the form of {{spoiler|The Collector General, who was at first thought to be the [[Big Bad]]. Like Saren before him, it was shown that the General was actually being controlled by the Reaper Harbinger the whole time. However, the General didn't command the mooks personally; rather, he acted as a conduit and mouthpiece for Harbinger to do the commanding, including possessing Collector infantry and turning them into [[People Puppets]]. True to the spirit of this trope, Harbinger ends up leaving the General to die in the exploding Collector Base after the General failed him.}}
== Web Comics ==
* Prime Minister Jirix from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''▼
* Bruce Moriatos from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''▼
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[The Dreamstone]]'': Sergeant Blob is the commanding officer of the Urpneys. Promoted in the very first episode after the previous one failed Zordrak.
* ''[[Shrek]]'': The Captain of the Guards.
* General Traag, commander of Krang's Rock Soldiers from the 1987 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]''
▲* Prime Minister Jirix from ''[[Order of the Stick]]''
▲* Bruce Moriatos from ''[[Our Little Adventure]]''
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