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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' toys with the trope - Angel is originally viewed as a villainous [[Emotionless Girl]] created by "God" to sabotage the SSS in her capacity as "Student Council President", but {{spoiler|is actually not so different from them}}. Later, when Angel herself falls victim to the SSS' schemes, she {{spoiler|gets fired and is replaced by her deputy who}} becomes a God complex authoritarian, fitting the trope. Later when she is {{spoiler|"promoted" back to her regular position}}, she attempts to play the Tyran to the SSS once more {{spoiler|to buy time for her and Otonashi's [[Batman Gambit]] of making other students disappear}}.
* Erika Furudo in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', to a completely murderously sadistic extent.
* Makoto Isshiki in ''[[RahXephon]]'', who later becomes an [[Unwitting Pawn]].
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* Heidi Jackson when she takes over Hard 8 Enterprises in ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''.
** In the same vein, whenever Weird Pete finds himself GMing. Despite being one of the most laid back players in the series, whenever he picks up the dice behind the screen, he falls back on his old-school taskmaster persona. His tools are the [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]] and the [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|Murderous Falling Rocks]]. Along with the demerit system, which he assigns for pretty much everything that can be conceived as insinuating that the GM is wrong. Gain 50 demerits, lose a level. At least he's kind enough to offer the option of letting players work off their debt at his game shop: An hour of 'volunteer' work knocks off one demerit.
* [[Averted]] by captain Ben Daimio from ''[[BPRD]]'': when he arrives to take up the position of field team commander, he specifically states: "Don't want anybody to worry about my changing things around here. You guys have a system, it works. Stick to that". And indeed he doesn't try to make any radical changes. Except for making [[Our Homunculi Are Different|Roger]] [[Monster Modesty|put some friggin' pants on]]. And later he changes his mind about that, too.
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* In the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Picture of Innocence'', Barnaby is taken off a case when he becomes one of the suspects and is replaced by the pencil-pushing bureaucrat Martin Spellman, much to Jones' disgust.
* On ''[[NYPD Blue]]'', the first time Lt. Fancy leaves, his replacement definitely fits the trope. Fancy sees what's going on, and arranges to get her removed and comes back. Subverted when he leaves again--everyone (especially Andy) is expecting another tyrant, but the new guy turns out to be OK.
* While DCI Jim Keats doesn't outright take leadership of CID, and while he's a lot subtler than your typical Tyrant, his role in ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' is that of an authority figure who tries to implement some serious changes, going against the grain and established protocol in an effort to - hopefully - usurp the current leader. {{spoiler|Not only does he fail, he reveals his [[Satan|true nature]]. There have been theories that he's tried to take over before, in the guise of Frank Morgan in ''Life on Mars''.}}
* The replacement Kosh on ''[[Babylon 5]]'', to the point that {{spoiler|Sheridan actually plots his murder.}}
** Also Emperor Cartagia, who turns out to be batshit insane and kills most of his advisers for trivial reasons (and keeps their heads to talk to them). His final plan? To become a god by {{spoiler|letting the Vorlons destroy Centauri Prime}}. The worst part is that Londo helped put him in power, as he and Lord Refa believed they could control him. Boy, did that plan backfire.
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* In ''[[Jack of All Trades (TV series)|Jack of All Trades]]'', Governor Croque once goes to prison and his wife takes over for the duration. She decides to start executing villagers to force the Dragoon to reveal himself. In another episode Jack and Emily have to aid Croque in looking good in front of his superiors, since otherwise he might be replaced by someone who is actually a threat.
** Any episode where Croque's brother Napoleon shows up, he immediately takes over (being [[The Emperor]] and all), forcing Dragoon to try to get him off the island as fast as possible.
* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', Chris after he becomes acting City Manager. He institutes a number of changes, including the UST-inducing ban on workplace dating, in addition to shaking up the Parks Department by giving everyone new assignments that they're unsuited for. However, Chris is quite a nice guy; he's simply oblivious to the fact that not everyone is as efficient, cheerful, and professional as he is.
** Ron [[Lampshade Hanging|discusses]] the tendency for new city managers to shake things up and insist on doing things their own way. He loves this period ''because'' all of the changes are inevitably terrible and nothing gets done, giving him a chance to relax and eat doughnuts.
* In ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'', Supreme Commander Birdie fires Cruger in one episode due to Cruger's unwillingness to follow Birdie's ideas on strategy. Birdie gets the Rangers, and later ''himself'', into trouble very quickly due to his pride and his "split up the team regardless of circumstances" strategies.
* In one epsiode of ''[[The Slammer]]'', the Governor is arrested and replaced by a new governor, Mr Beltsem. Beltsem is a tyrant who mistreats both the prisoners and the guards, and suffers from 'show biz phobia'.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* An early arc of ''[[FoxTrot]]'' saw parents Roger and Andy leaving their eldest son Peter in charge while they went on vacation. Peter immediately started abusing the power they'd given him, making Paige and Jason follow all his demands. When they get sick of it and confront him, he responds by ''locking them in the basement''. Fortunately, Jason and Paige had tapes of Peter's reign and Peter himself told them he locked Jason and Paige in the basement, so he was punished accordingly.
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* His dad was certainly not a charmer, but Rufus Shinra of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' made it quite clear from his [[New Era Speech]] ('The old man ruled through money, I'll rule through fear') that he was going to be worse. Although {{spoiler|President Shinra destroyed an entire sector of his city, killing untold numbers, just to wipe out a terrorist hideout. Rufus 'died' defending the same city from WEAPON and then resurfaced alive and repentant, if still manipulative, in Advent Children}} ...YourMileageMayVary on whether he was actually worse or not.
** Indeed, Rufus's cruelty, which is mentioned several times throughout the game, seems to come off as [[Informed Ability]] when the most "evil" thing we see him do is order the execution of Tifa and Barret, though [[Smug Snake|Heidegger and Scarlett]] seemed to push the whole "create a scapegoat" aspect of it. Compare this to the ordered deaths of quite possibly several thousands of civilians and watching said Holocaust from the window of your office while opera is playing in the background.
* {{spoiler|Atlas, revealed to be Fontaine}} from ''[[
** Which, considering that Ryan's own restraints basically amounted to "don't screw with me or Rapture as a whole" that resulted in him trying to use sedative gas on the entire populace to maintain order, really goes to show just how [[Beyond the Impossible|ridiculously far]] he's prepared to go.
* Hideyoshi in ''Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams''. While Nobunaga was an all powerful man who sold his soul to the genma for his ambitions, you at least had the feeling that he had no ill will towards his enemies and was lost into his ambition, not trying to be a genma puppet or cause suffering to the people he wanted to rule. Hideyoshi, on the other hand, pretty much tries to turn the entire country and possibly the world into mind controlled monsters and has people used to make {{spoiler|Genma trees}} that will allow his plans to work. He's ultimately a pawn, but he went to lengths willingly that Nobunaga might actually be disgusted with.
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* "That Guy", the unfrozen '80s CEO of Planet Express and Morgan Proctor, Hermes' replacement bureaucrat from the "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" episode of ''[[Futurama]]''.
* The time auditor from an episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'', DVD (he removed the vowels from his name in order to be more efficient).
* Essentially the whole plot of the ''[[Adventure Time]]'' episode "Too Young." Although the earl of Lemongrab isn't evil or malicious in his intentions (he's more of an angry, inexperienced, spoiled child,) his style of ruling is summed up by his quote from the storyboards: "Anyone who disagrees or disobeys will be thrown into the dungeon." He isn't an intentional tyrant, but he does end up sending literally everyone in the Candy Kingdom to the dungeon for "one million years."
* One episode of ''[[Recess]]'' has Gus appointed as Acting King of the Playground while King Bob is away. His insane edicts culminate with enslaving the entire playground and forcing everyone to dig in the "cookie mines" (nobody's brave enough to ask why he expects to find cookies underground).
** In another episode Randall became one of these after blackmailing King Bob with {{spoiler|a photo of a dress he was forced to wear by his sister}}.
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