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Line 27: * Several of the officers in ''[[Sharpe]]''. * [[Historical Domain Character\|Vice-Chancellor Nesselrode]] is portrayed as this in ''[[The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar]]''. * Hamnpork, leader of the Clan in ''[[~~Discworld/~~The Amazing Maurice and ~~His Educated Rodents\|The Amazing Maurice and His~~his Educated Rodents]]'', may have been competent as top rat before they became "educated". Once the rats become sentient, he's too old to make the adjustment to thinking and becomes a bit of a figurehead, nudged into doing whatever Peaches or Darktan want him to. Played with, as he later shows just why he became leader of the Clan during a [[Badass]] moment {{spoiler\|in the Pit}}. * George O. Smith's first "Venus Equilateral" story has a particularly memorable example... or at least a particularly memorable screwup by a PHB. The guy arrives, starts screwing things up and annoying people, tensions run higher and higher until there are pointless fights almost constantly... then an engineer swears, runs up to the center of the rotating station to get his bearings, then runs to the air plant - then runs to scream out the PHB. When the PHB arrived on the station, he'd done an inspection tour, and been confused by the air plant; he'd been expecting some manner of machine, but all he'd found was a big plot of sawgrass, '''''so he had some workmen clear it out...''''' * ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'': Deconstructed with Opera managers Richard and Moncharmin in the original book: Everybody knows they get their jobs [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections\|thanks to their connections]], [[Evil Is Petty\|that they play petty politics with the singers instead of recognizing their true talent, and they solve any problem firing those employees involved…]] [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections\|except those who can defend themselves]]. [[Stealth Insult\|Nobody really respects them and they are accustomed to cruel pranks]], and that is the cause they never take seriously the Phantom’s menaces and think that Debienne and Poligny’s warnings are just a [[Practical Joke]]… until the [[Falling Chandelier of Doom]] incident. Line 57: * ''[[The Wire]]'' has several outstanding examples, both in city government and the Baltimore Police Department, with almost all authority figures fitting in somewhere between [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] and Pointy-Haired Boss. Special note has to given to Maj. Valchek, however, who is rewarded for his incompetence by {{spoiler\|being made police commissioner}}. * This is how Major Norton was portrayed in [[Disney]]'s ''[[Davy Crockett]]'' mini-series, though he may have just seemed this way against [[Badass\|Davy]]. * In [[HBO]]'s miniseries ''[[Chernobyl (miniseries)\|Chernobyl]]'', Chief Engineer Dyatlov is portrayed this way due to his insistence to run the fateful security test that caused the explosion despite other plant personal trying to warn him that the conditions for that test were the incorrect ones, and then his stubborn denial that anything wrong ever happened at the place (even after, or maybe ''because of'' seeing the ruins of the exploded reactor) and trying to obstruct any action to control the disaster. In a scary turn, they only sightly exaggerated the antics of the real person, mostly by removing the mention of an incident that served as the [[Freudian Excuse]] for his radioactive stubbornness. == Music == Line 95: * ''[[Bug Martini\|Bug]]'' people have no hair - being bugs - yet you can spot [http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/one-mans-boss-is-another-mans-bane/ the pointy-haired ones] right away. * ''[[SSDD]]'' explains the mechanics of how this happens [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20080822.html here] (and following pages). * Principal Beau Vine in ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' seems to not have the slightest idea how to properly educate children and run a school, sticking to the very outdated belief that bullying is a good thing and successively enacting and cancelling a school uniform policy several times in a single school year based on how popular such policies were at the moment, among other things. == Web Original == Line 108 ⟶ 109: {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Characters As Device]] [[Category:Characterization Tropes]] Line 113 ⟶ 115: [[Category:Finagle's Law]] [[Category:White Collar Tropes]] [[Category:~~{{PAGENAME}}~~Competence Tropes]]