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* Ambassador Rolf Heimlich becomes this to the [[Justice League of America|JLI]] for the first part of the "Breakdowns" arc due to Maxwell Lord being in a coma. Ultimately, it turns out {{spoiler|he's a mole planted by Queen Bee}}.
* 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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* When Doctor Maddox takes charge in ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''. She doesn't so much change the rules as do away with the small amount of leeway Doctor Kelso gave the staff.
* Edward Vogler from ''[[House (TV)|House]]''. Of course, there wasn't really a "regular" leader he was replacing, but Vogler did manage to pretty much take over the hospital and force them to run it his way. House, of course, opposed him at every turn and the rest of the main cast eventually came around as well.
* The [[Britcom]] ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'', 1976 season, episode "Forward Mr. Grainger": The lovable head of the Men's Department Mr Grainger gets a temporary promotion and instantly becomes a complete tyrant, even going as far as to fire one of the regulars. Then the real manager returns ahead of schedule and takes back his job, sends Grainger back to his, and Grainger realizes that he's dug his own grave.
* ''[[Crossing Jordan]]'' had multiple instances, one with Dr. Jack Slocum and another with Special Prosecutor William Ivers. The latter somewhat redeems himself in a later episode.
* Private Frazer in ''[[
* A curious example appears in ''[[Life On Mars]]'' in the form of DCI Frank Morgan, who temporarily replaces Gene Hunt when the latter is accused of murder. Contrary to the usual Tyrant, Morgan is -- compared to his fellow 1973 officers, at any rate -- a progressive, thoughtful and thoroughly competent administrator who only becomes a tyrant in that he's unwilling to put up with the sloppiness and ethically questionable conduct that Hunt encouraged. Sam Tyler, himself a progressive officer (with the excuse that he [to his knowledge] comes from 2007) finds himself actually admiring Morgan's methods even whilst he's trying to clear Hunt's name of murder. {{spoiler|Later in the season, Morgan does reveal a bastard side, however, in that he's [[Knight Templar|willing to go to any lengths]] -- including letting the rest of the team die in a botched undercover job -- so as to discredit Hunt and allow himself to take over and reform the department.}}
* Matt Webber in the ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Early Retirement".
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** Special mention must go to Lynn [[Mc Gill]], who is such a tyrant that they eventually just declare him unfit for command and arrest him.
* Captain Edward Jellico in the ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode "Chain of Command (Part 1)". He made sweeping changes which, while normal for a regular armed force, were rather unorthodox for the [[Mildly Military]] Starfleet. Notably, he finally put Troi in a standard uniform (which was much more flattering on her anyway).
** Something of a subversion, too, since he rescued [[The Captain|Picard]] and [[Out
* An episode of ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' had Mr. Mosbey fired and replaced by a Tyrant. It was all back to normal by the end of the episode.
* Admiral Cain from the remade ''[[
* In ''[[The Wire]]'' Lt. Marimo does this in the fourth season. In a bit of genre-savviness, the bosses who sent him to the unit did so specifically to disrupt the unit, not because they believed he would be a good boss.
* In ''[[Porridge]]'' (episode ''Disturbing the Peace''), Mackay is sent away, only to be replaced by the sadistic Napper Wainwright.
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== Theatre ==
* In ''[[Measure for Measure (Theatre)|Measure for Measure]]'', the Duke of Vienna disappears and leaves Angelo in his place. The Duke later explains that he did this specifically because he wanted this to happen, for the purpose of pulling a [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]] on Vienna.
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== Web Original ==
* Played with in the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' Cheat Commandos toon ''[http://www.homestarrunner.com/ccdo7.html 2 Part Episode]''. Admiral Flashfight is unambiguously one of these, but he's actually gotten the [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|Cheat Commandos]] to actually ''do'' something for a change instead of goofing around and [[Go
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical|A Very Potter Sequel]]'' has [[Alternate Character Interpretation|a rather different take]] on Dolores Umbridge, involving a couple [[Freudian Excuse|Freudian Excuses]], but she still acts as a tyrant during the second act. She doesn't really elicit the want-to-strangle reaction of the book and film versions, however, mostly because her behavior [[Crosses the Line Twice]].
* Maggie from ''[[Chad Vader]]''.
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