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[[File:Mr Gold.jpg|link=Once Upon a Time (TV series)|thumbnail|Would YOU make a deal with this man?]]
{{quote|''If you're going to take me on, son, you're going to have to bring your game up to a whole different level.''|'''[[Trope Codifier|Lionel Luthor]]''', ''[[Smallville]].''}}
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* [[Dallas|John Ross Ewing, II]]. That is all.
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* Al Swearengen from ''[[Deadwood]]'' slowly earns this title over the course of the second season when it becomes clear he's trying to bring order to the horrible frontier town in order to protect his dominance. Sure he orders hits on little girls, kills innocent people and generally does horrible things to everyone. Compared to [[Complete Monster|Hearst and his cronies]], Swearengen is practically a populist man of the people.
** Season 2? In just season 1 alone he is {{spoiler|shown to be behind almost every scheme that the protagonists run into, from the murder of the Norwegian settlers by road agents to the swindling and murder of Brom Garrett. All the while he insults Starr and Bullock to their faces while refusing to sell them their land, belittling and insulting his cronies. And he doesn't even need to pull a [[Karma Houdini]], because he's easily [[Ensemble Darkhorse|the most popular character]] on the show!!}}
* Commander Cain, commanding officer of the battlestar ''Pegasus'' in
** Starbuck calls Apollo this in the new series after he {{spoiler|flies through a conveyor system to fly under a Cylon base's defences and blow it to bits}}. More a congratulatory term for pulling off something insane brilliantly, but still.
* Gaius Baltar of
* Jack Donaghy - Titan, maverick, lover - from ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' ultimately personifies this trope, being a motivated, cutthroat corporate head who usually finds incredible ways to benefit both himself and his favorite underlings, usually while sounding totally ridiculous (see Season 2's scene in which he imitates Redd Foxx in order to aid a black movie star under his employ in coping with his family issues.... and actually manages to make it work. DY-NO-MIIITE!)
** Also from the same show, Devon Banks - Jack's archrival who manages in Season 2 to {{spoiler|seize control of NBC from Jack by marrying his bosses daughter and convincing the board to accept her as the new head who he then controls as a puppet. He eventually forces Jack (!) to resign from GE by moving his office to the 12th floor. }}.
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