The Emperor: Difference between revisions

** A common derivative is a once-great benevolent Emperor who has grown senile and surrounded by corruption.

** A [[Knight Templar]] Emperor tries to be this, but usually ends up becoming one of the above.

** Roughly half of the [[The Roman Empire|Roman Emperors]] depicted in fiction will be of this sort. The other half will be [[The Caligula|Caligulae]] to a man.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** The fluff suggests that the Emperor was actually a pretty decent guy, and the Imperium's current [[Moral Event Horizon]]-crossing policies (i.e. galactic genocide against all non-humans) are misinterpreted perversions of the Emperor's original intent.

*** Just to make this more complicated...the more we have seen about him, especially in the [[Horus Heresy]] series, the more he seems to be a morally ambiguous figure straddling the line between [[Messianic Archetype]] and [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]. He definitely wants the best for humanity, but in the interests of this he [[Flat Earth Atheist|ruthlessly suppresses religion]] in an attempt to starve the Chaos Gods, and, while not as xenocidal as his later "regents", offers human colonies influenced by alien socities the stark choice of abandoning their prior ways and alliances or complete destruction. He is also quite the dick to his clone-sons, out of an insufficiently justified belief that his intelligence and psychic powers grant him an [[Omniscient Morality License]].

* [[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]] has Emperor Yoshiro, who also believes in [[Authority Equals Asskicking]].

* Emperor Strada from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', a Rare good guy example. {{spoiler|He gets killed off by Lord Deus in the second episode of the game}}

* In a figurative sense we have [[Street Fighter]]'s Sagat, whose [[Red Baron]] title is "Emperor of Muay Thai". He has no political power, but '''is''' one of the most [[Badass]] fighters in the whole series.

* Out of all the rulers seen in [[Fire Emblem]], the ones that hold the Emperor/Empress title are few:

** [[Fire Emblem Akaneia]]: {{spoiler|Hardin}};

** [[Fire Emblem Jugdral]]: Second Generation's {{spoiler|Alvis, formerly the Duke of Velthomer, who becomes Emperor after marrying the Princess of Grandbell and unifying a good part of the continent under his leadership}}. Also, {{spoiler|Celice at the end of the game}}.

** [[Fire Emblem Tellius]]: Sanaki, Empress of Begnion. {{spoiler|Though technically speaking, the true Empress should be her long-lost older sister, [[Rags to Royalty|Micaiah]]; she becomes the Queen of Daein instead.}}

 

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