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** During an arc on Geoff Johns' Avengers run, America got a Secretary of Defense called [[Meaningful Name|Dell]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Rusk]] {{spoiler|The Red Skull, yes that's an anagram}}. Who gassed large parts of the country with the Crimson Mist virus.
*** Dell Rusk led to quite a bit of [[Fan Dumb]] and/or [[Unfortunate Implications]] because the story ran around 2003 or 2004 and he shared the same initials as the ''actual'' Secretary of Defense at the time, Donald Rumsfeld, but come on, it really is {{spoiler|an anagram for "red skull"}}, so there's not much else they could have used. "Led Lurks", perhaps.
**** Except for "John Smith", the Anglicization of 'Johann Schmidt', which happens to be his real name... and also a name that makes the heroes look infinitely less stupid for ''not'' guessing that he's the Red Skull, precisely because its perhaps the most common name in the English language.
* President Leland McCauley in ''[[The Legion of Super Heroes]]'' (postboot version) turned out to be immortal supervillain Ra's Al Ghul in disguise.
* The atomic war that originated the ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' mythos came around because President "Bad" Bob Booth stole an election, went around seizing the resources of foreign countries, and then ''openly'' announced he was going to start nuclear war with ''everyone'' if they didn't shut up. And then started it. (In "fairness", he thought America's nuclear screens would keep it safe from retaliation. ''They didn't.'')
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* In ''[[Zombo]]'', Donald Trump is president of Earth, and when he isn't an unholy spawn of George Bush and Ronald Reagan, he runs the planet like ''[[The Apprentice]]''. Also, he [[Kick the Dog|shredded a puppy]].
* In ''[[Captain Britain]]'', Mad Jim Jaspers is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... and also a [[Reality Warper]] whose powers drive him completely insane. He becomes a supervillain in two different [[Alternate Universe]]s and leads campaigns to wipe out the world's metahuman population so he can play with the world undisturbed.
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