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* Shere Kahn in ''[[Tale Spin]]'' once made certain that his workers were freed from a corrupt underling who was working them to death.
{{quote|'''Shere Khan''': ''My dear, I desire only money and power. Unpresentable employees provide me with neither.''}}
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'':
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'':* This was the reason Ra's al Ghul deposed his son Arkady Duvall as a potential heir to his world-conquering empire; Ra's' entire shtick is his belief that [[Utopia Justifies the Means]], which includes making sure [[The Trains Run On Time]], so the prospect of using barbarous and inefficient tactics to ensure that (such as whipping hard workers for every little slip-up, or disposing of supposed interlopers by dunking them in molten lead, as Duvall does in the episode "Showdown") does not sit well with him, at all.
** Another episode has [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMd4S-LkywI the world's smartest mook.]
* Zordrak, of all villains, invokes this in ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' when Urpgor asks why he doesn't just ''kill'' [[Team Rocket|his bumbling minions Blob, Frizz and Nug]].
* In ''[[South Park]]'', "Fun With Veal"
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