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* ''[[Batman Begins]]'' has a minor example, as the CEO takes over Wayne Enterprises soon after Bruce loses his parents. Near the end of the film, Bruce simply decides to [[Awesome Yet Practical|discreetly buy stock until he was the majority shareholder.]]
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Prince Caspian]]''—the central plot in the movie, as well as the book.
* The [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]] movie features this when Richie's parents go missing (presumed dead). Cadbury is named the benevolent regent of the Rich estate...until the scheming van Dough frames Cadbury for their murder and takes the regent role by force.
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* The only ruling queen of the Kingdom of Judah, Athaliah, was regent for her son Ahaziah. She operated as more of a co-ruler with her son and orchestrated the murder of a number of other claimants to the throne.
* When Edward VI died, his regents tried to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne so they could retain power.
* The Shoguns of Old Japan were like this trope. The legitimate ruler of everything was officially the Emperor, and the Shogun was more likely than not just a warlord who happened to have the biggest military force around. Officially, the Emperor is under his "Protection" and any act by the Shogun is the Will of the Emperor. Emperors tended to agree. The ones that lived anyway.
** This is effectively how the Fujiwara clan controlled Japan. The family provided regents for the Emperor in his minority, continued to serve as powerful advisors through his reign, then often "persuaded" him to abdicate in favor of a young heir so they could act as regents again.
** It become something of of a precedent in Japan. When the samurai rebelled against the court and reduced the entire court, emperor as well as the Fujiwara regent, into their figurehead, the shogunal Kamakura government itself was taken over by regents just 7 years after Minamoto Yoritomo had taken the title of shogun. The next 134 years, all shoguns were themselves figureheads, as was the whole imperial court still including the regent for the Emperor...
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** It was widely believed that [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] planned that, should be conquered ''China'', he's going to transplant the entire Japanese political system to China—the emperor would move to Beijing, Toyotomi's cousin would continue to be his Regent for Life, while Hideyoshi himself would ''continue'' to be [[Just the First Citizen]] ("Regent for Life emeritus"). The problem is, Chinese sees Regent for Life as something not as peaceful an institution... see below.
** ''Kampaku'', one of the three titles used for Regents for Life in Japan, is in fact a historical [[Memetic Mutation]] of sorts—it comes from the example of Huo Guang in China, below, and literally means the phrase "to present" in that example's context.
* And after [[World War
** In fact, Karl I (the last Austro-Hungarian emperor) had never officially abdicated and travelled twice to Hungary to try to reclaim the throne, only for Horthy's forces to stop him.
** One of the reasons why he turned down being king ''himself,'' against the wishes of supporters for a Horthy dynasty, was that he thought himself unworthy for the throne.
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** It's also speculated that she killed the wife (who happened to be pregnant), as well as her sister empress.
** She held onto the throne until she died, and her three-year-old nephew Puyi became the last emperor of China.
** Lu Zhi, wife of Liu Bang of Han, is another Chinese example. She presided as the power behind the throne for three emperors up until her death.
** Tang Dynasty Empress Wu Zetian was probably a semi-example. She ruled as regent for two of her sons, and seized power at the age of 66 to become the only woman to rule as Huangdi in her own right.
** Huo Guang of Western Han is a rare benign example, being the most powerful person in China between 87 B.C. to 68 B.C. He served as regent for three emperors, deposed the second of the three, and the third was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to ask others to present matters to Huo ''before'' him—yet he has no intention to usurp the throne and his deposition of an emperor is commonly seen a way to deal with an heir that is [[The Caligula|an absolute nightmare]].
** There're actually too many examples in the Chinese history to quote here—while most dynastic changes in China between the third to the tenth centuries were the direct consequence of a military coup, the leader of the coup would not immediately usurp the throne. They would, however, sit as a Regent for Life for a period of time before "persuading" the emperor to abdicate in their favour.
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** Not quite; the hypothetical regent would have been Victoria's mother, not Conroy himself (among other things, there is no way an Irish commoner would have been accepted as regent, a role never given out to people who weren't members of the Royal Family). Conroy would have been the power-behind-the-regent in such an arrangement, and believed that he would enjoy considerable influence with Victoria even after she took the throne, but it turned out she wasn't as fond of him as he thought. And even if she had signed the document, it wouldn't have mattered. Parliament would never have consented to such an arrangement
* Birger Jarl of Sweden (1210-1266), first [[The Man Behind the Man]] of his brother-in-law King Eric "the Lisp and Lame" and managed to get his underaged son Valdemar to be declared King after his death and made himself his regent. Then he beat down a rebellion from several nobles who concidered that cheating.
** Fun fact: Valdemar was in his late 20's when his father died. One can just imagine the tension in the Royal Court between the now adult King and his father who had been the de facto ruler for decades.
* Adelaide, Marchioness of Susa and Countess-Corsort of Savoy, outlived all her sons and was the effective ruler of Savoy until halfway through her grandson Humbert II's rule.
* Johann Friedrich Struensee was royal physician to the schizophrenic King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish government. He rose in power to a position of ''de facto'' regent of the country, where he tried to carry out widespread reforms. His affair with Queen Caroline Matilda caused scandal, especially after the birth of a daughter, Princess Louise Augusta, and was the catalyst for the intrigues and power play that caused his downfall and a dramatic death.
* Francisco Franco was officially Regent of the Kingom, amongst other jobs. Despite popular belief he was not a Fascist but an Ultra-Conservative and a Monarchist (the Fascist party came to despise him for this), and was ostensibly holding power until the rightful King stepped in... though he did'nt actually say who that was until 6 years before his death. The man in question was the son of the Legitimist pretender [[Big Damn Hero|Juan Carlos]], who upon Franco's death promptly declared a liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy.
* Prime Minister Rainilaiarivony of Madagascar is generally thought to have been [[The Man Behind the Man|the man behind the woman]] for Queens Rasoherina, Ranavalona II, and Ranavalona III. Incidentally, all three of them married him.
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