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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* Prozen in ''[[Zoids]] Chaotic Century'' is a classic example, complete with trying to kill off the kid heir and prolonging a senseless war.
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* Miraz in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Prince Caspian]]'' started out as "Lord Protector" or some other title and slowly took on the title of king by disposing of anyone at Court opposed to him. He raised the true heir, his brother's son Caspian, as his own heir... until he had a son of his own, prompting Caspian to flee the proceeding murder plot.
* Queen Clothilde in [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s reworking of ''[[Swan Lake]]'' (''[[The Black Swan]]'') intends to 'dispose of' her son Siegfried after he marries and conceives an heir.
* The Stewards of Gondor in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' were a family of hereditary regents. Good ones, though. Unfortunately, the only one we actually ''meet'' in the books and films alike is Denethor, mentally unhinged by the loss of his favourite son, the hordes of Mordor at his doorstep, and finally by {{spoiler|the [[Evil Overlord]] himself through the seeing-stone which Denethor foolishly thought he could control}}. In the movies, possibly due to [[Flanderization]], he and Boromir both make it very clear that "[[Narm|Gondor has no king. Gondor]]''[[Narm|needs]]''[[Narm|no king.]]" The book, at least, implies that he was still loyal enough that he would return the throne to the rightful king, should one ever arrive.
** And in the book, Denethor would have a solid precedent for refusing to give Aragorn the throne: Aragorn's ancestor Arvedui tried to claim the throne of Gondor, and they turned him down.
* Cersei Lannister in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' becomes regent for her adolescent son, and is heading this way. ([[Smug Snake]] that she is, ambition is [[Mama Bear|not her only motivation.]])
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