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[[File:neidermeyer.jpg|link=Animal House|frame|"A PPPLEDGE PPPIN!!!"]]
{{quote|''"Get up, you faggots! Get up and fight!"''
|'''Neidermeyer''', ''[[Animal House]]''}}
{{quote|''"Stop '''exploding''', you cowards!"''
|'''Zapp Brannigan''', ''[[Futurama]]''}}
A commanding officer with a complete lack of respect between himself and the troops. Because of his demonstrated [[General Failure|incompetence]], [[Miles Gloriosus|cowardice]], [[Armchair Military|inexperience]], [[We Have Reserves|willingness to sacrifice troops]] for [[Glory Hound|his own glory]] or to get promoted, or just being a [[Jerkass|psychotic level hard-ass]], his authority is resented by the men in the trenches, and his orders are only obeyed because chain-of-command says so.
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** Sentinel Prime from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is an example this kind of character among the ''good guys''. Even in his younger days, he had zero respect for his peers, blaming the more responsible Optimus for Elita-1's presumed death, and as soon as he gained a command of his own, promptly began treating his men like worthless garbage, causing poor Bumblebee and Bulkhead much pain and suffering. He remains a jerk in the present day, taking every opportunity to viciously mock Optimus and his team's lower positions.
*** And it got worse when {{spoiler|he became acting leader of the Autobots. How did that happen?}}
*** [[Word of God|The head writer]] stated that his portrayal was meant to be evocative of the
** Grimlock is occasionally shown to be a bit of a Neidermeyer in the comics when he's put in command of units other than the Dinobots, largely due to the fact that most Autobots aren't used to doing things [[The Spartan Way]] like the Dinobots are and Grimlock being unwilling to accommodate them. When he briefly took over the Autobots he threw the rulebook out the window—literally.
** Many sub-commanders within the Decepticons fit into this trope, but none moreso than Motormaster, leader of the Stunticons. His team is a big ball of crazy, and he loves to do things like order the silence-fearing Wildrider to remain quiet on missions. The intense loathing that the rest of the Stunticons have for Motormaster causes their [[Combining Mecha|combined form Menasor]] to be utterly uncontrollable as ''none'' of his component minds are able to work with their leader's.
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