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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"The only person with whom I felt any kinship with died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him. His vision of a united world... well, it was unprecedented. I wanted...'' needed ''to match his accomplishments, and so I resolved to apply antiquity's teaching to our world,'' today. ''And so began my path to conquest. Conquest not of men, but of the evils that beset them."''
|'''Adrian Veidt''', ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]''}}
[[Wide-Eyed Idealist|Youthful idealism]] can be a beautiful thing. There are few things audiences love more than the idea of a gifted [[Teen Genius|teenager]] (or sometimes simply a young adult) who can see what's wrong with the world and, after initially feeling [[Samaritan Syndrome|overwhelmed and powerless]] in the face of a [[Crapsack World]], deciding that they need to do something about it.
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{{examples}}
== Anime
* ''[[Death Note]]'': all of the four main characters have the mental qualifications to be this, but only Light is idealistic enough to follow this route.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Lelouch vi Britannia.
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* Hunter Rose aka ''[[Grendel]]'', genius writer by day and hitman by night, takes control of a criminal empire spanning from Atlanta to Montreal with NYC at the centre.
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', Harry is very much this trope, and can't really understand why no one's tried to take over the magical world with a working knowledge of scientific principles in the past.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The title character in the Korean serial [[The Epic|epic]] ''Jumong''.
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