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== Live -Action TV ==
* U.S. President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov from ''[[24]]''.
* In ''[[Read All About It]]'', Dunedon, the evil ruler of Trialveron, is also secretly Don Eden, mayor of our heroes' home town on Earth.
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** In Series 1, a Slitheen wearing the skin of a mid-level politician manages to become Acting Prime Minister by offing the real one and being the highest ranking elected official around during a time of crisis. Presumably he would have been replaced as soon as the panic subsided, but it gives the Slitheen all the time in power they need to spark a nuclear war and destroy the earth.
** In "The Five Doctors", Borusa, Lord President of Gallifrey, seeks to manipulate the Doctor's first five incarnations into recovering Time Lord founder Rassilon's fabled secret of immortality for himself so that he might rule Gallifrey forever.
* In ''[[Torchwood]]: Children of Earth]]'', there's Prime Minister Green. True, the whole leadership of the government reluctantly goes along with the plan of handing ten percent of the world's children over to the 4-5-6, but they didn't really have any choice, and they're shown to take no enjoyment from crossing this [[Moral Event Horizon]]. However, at the end of the miniseries, when the 4-5-6 have just barely been defeated in time, Green proves himself to be truly morally corrupt by gleefully announcing how he plans to blame everything on the Americans. This proves to be the last straw for his cabinet, and they blackmail him into standing down.
* ''[[Babylon 5|]]''{{'}}s President Clark]]: Assassinated the old leader? Check. Iron-fisted regime? Check. Tried to tempt, coerce, and finally smash the heroes? Check, check, and most definitely check. Of course, since this is ''Babylon Five5'', status quo is not god, and he eventually loses.
** His final act as president before offing himself is to set all [[Kill Sat]]s in Earth's orbit to fire at the planet. Luckily, the good guys manage to stop them in time.
* Various alternate realities in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' where Senator Kinsey managed to become President.
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*** Nothing beyond "Stop the SGC from using the Stargate so that the National Institute of Defense can use it to make Earth safe by killing anything that isn't from Earth", anyway.
* Evil Governor Colonel Montoya from ''[[Queen of Swords]]''.
* In a couple of ''[[Smallville]]''{{'}}s [[Bad Future]]s, [[Manipulative Bastard|Lex Luthor]] is shown to either be President, or running for it, as a very intimidating [[Man in White]] with a [[Red Right Hand]].
** In the [[Distant Finale]], set in 2018, {{spoiler|Lex has just been elected. Uh-oh.}}
* A 4th fourth-season episode of ''[[Sliders]]'' ("California Reich") has a man, Governor Schick, running for President with a very good chance of winning... until the heroes expose the truth behind his "Repatriation Center" concentration camps. The guy's platform? "America for Americans" (a meaningless slogan for a nation of immigrants) and plans to deport anyone whose genes don't match with his ideal American, even if your great-great-grandparents were born in the U.S. That essentially means "anyone non-white". Somehow, he manages to impose this rule on his own state and ship countless people off to camps... and then they get turned into mindless drones called "Eddies" as cheap labor.
 
 
== Music ==