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One of the surest signs that the king, president, or CEO has gone completely off the deep end is when he appoints one of his pets to a senior position within the government or company. Don't dare to question Incitatus — he outranks you! (What's that, Mr. Incitatus? Why yes, the person who wrote the above paragraph is being disrespectful!) Sir, I regret to inform you that the horse has decided you are to be executed for rudeness. Doesn't apply if the animal is intelligent and capable of communication, and could reasonably handle the demands of the office. No, in this case you'll be lucky if the animal is housebroken. This trope can also be Invoked by rather more cunning rulers; either as a symptom of Obfuscating Insanity, a way to install a Sock Puppet in a position of power ("Well, Incitatus agrees with me, so I'm afraid it's two votes to one"), or both. The second of these overlaps with Loophole Abuse: there Ain't No Rule you can't make a horse consul! Also, it doesn't necessarily have to be an animal — making a statue a vice president would also qualify. If you're lucky with this variant, you'll be dealing with a Companion Cube which will prove surprisingly competent as long as it stays funny. The new appointee may also be the Puppet in Consulting Mister Puppet. Closely related to Pet Heir, the next branch down the crazy tree. See also Crazy Cat Lady. Not to be confused with the Australian progressive metal band of the same name, though they did naturally name themselves after the Trope Namer. |
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In one episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, there is a rather loopy corporate executive who took investment advice from his dog (There was mention of him once trying to buy-out General Motors because the dog chased a Buick). By the time of the episode, Sparky the dog had been dead for months — but his owner had him stuffed and mounted in his office and still took investment advice from it. | |
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One Andermani Emperor tried to do this for his potted plants in the backstory of the Honor Harrington novels. He was quietly deposed by his own sister, who, by common agreement, was one of the most successful Andermani Emperors of all time. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Deep Space Homer", an inanimate carbon rod from the nuclear reactor was honored as Employee of the Month (much to Homer's chagrin), and after Homer accidentally "used" a different Inanimate Carbon Rod to lock the door on the spacecraft after he broke it, it was given its own ticker-tape parade. In "C.E.D'oh", Burns reveals the nuclear plant is actually owned by a canary, so that if the government ever conducts a proper investigation, the canary is the one that will go to jail. Mr. Burns implies that this is standard practice, saying "Standard Oil was once owned by a half-eaten breakfast." Homer is shown at the very bottom of the nuclear plant's employee hierarchy via a chart (the canary being at top, with Burns directly below him). Directly above Homer is the inanimate carbon rod. In "Homer's Enemy", Burns made a dog a vice president. Mr. Burns loves this trope. In "The Last Temptation of Homer", it was shown that he had, aside from hiring an illegal Iranian immigrant worker, also hired a duck named "Stewart" as a low level employee who tows nuclear waste (he also berates it to "get back to work!" when it briefly stops to catch its breath). This may be less outright insanity and more Mr. Burns' cheapness combined with a callous disregard for life. Later in the episode Burns is scanning the security monitors, trying to find a pair of employees who are not currently fighting with each other to send as his representatives to a convention; not only is the duck seen fighting another employee, he's winning. In "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Homer briefly quit his job. When he returned to the plant he found he had been replaced with a chicken. Which he later ate. "Sideshow Bob Roberts" had most of the Springfield Republican Party mistakenly assume the mayoral candidate they've chosen to back was a water cooler. They seemed to think it would make a fine representative. In "Homer's Triple Bypass", Homer is in hospital after a heart attack. Lenny and Carl stop by to wish him well, and mention that they had a hell of a time replacing him. Cut to Homer's work station, and we see that he has been replaced by a brick. |
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Looney Tunes: In Ballot Box Bunny, Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam are running against each other for mayor. They were defeated by a dark horse candidate. An actual dark horse is the town's new mayor. (Mare?) Bugs doesn't count, since he's a Talking Animal. The new mayor only neighs. In Heir-Conditioned, Sylvester the Cat is left the sole inheritor of a vast fortune from his deceased mistress, but after dealing with Elmer Fudd serving as his financial advisor, urging him to invest the money, followed by his cat friends who listened to Elmer's lecture, Sylvester is left wishing that his mistress had found a way to take it with her. |
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In The Adventures Of Business Cat the titular character appoints his mouse toy to multiple positions in the company. | |
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King Steve of 8-Bit Theater has a coffee stain named Rodney as his right hand man. He also briefly lost his kingship to a length of string. | |
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In A Royal Affair, King Christian demands that his dog, Gourmand, is made an honorary member of the privy council. | |
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The encyclopedia parody The Onion Book of Known Knowledge portrays President James Buchanan as The Caligula and claims that after murdering his running mate John C. Breckinridge, Buchanan appointed his dog as Vice President instead. | |
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The same applies to a man who ran as Elmo, though he had no chance, as he only got three votes. | |
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Discworld: A past Patrician of Ankh-Morpork (the aptly named "Mad Lord Snapcase", though most Patricians had names like that) appointed his horse as a city councilor, though it is pointed out that it wasn't a bad councilor compared to some of the others, which included a vase, a heap of sand, and three people who had been beheaded. In Making Money, when Topsy Lavish dies, she leaves 50% of the shares in the bank to her dog, Mr Fusspot (who already owns 1% of the bank, giving him a majority and making him chairman). She then left the dog to Moist von Lipwig, forcing him to take control of the bank, which was her plan all along. The Discworld Companion states that the Sto Plains village of Scrote has elected a dead body as its Mayor for several decades. The first time it was because the candidate died in mid-election (but was still more popular than the alternative); after that, the villagers really liked how the late Mayor hadn't raised taxes or embezzled town funds. There is the (in-universe) historical example of St Ossory's ass (his donkey, not his behind) which was made a bishop in the Omnian church.note The parallel in The Bible is the tale of Balaam's ass, who developed enough sentience to rebuke the prophet Balaam for not doing God's will. |
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Kazakhstan's Minister of Culture (and top pornstar) is a chimpanzee named Johnny the Monkey. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Marius Leitdorf, the Mad Count of Averland had this with his warhorse, Daisy Kurt von Hellboring II, on whose advice he relied on as much as any of his advisors. | |
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In Making Money, when Topsy Lavish dies, she leaves 50% of the shares in the bank to her dog, Mr Fusspot (who already owns 1% of the bank, giving him a majority and making him chairman). She then left the dog to Moist von Lipwig, forcing him to take control of the bank, which was her plan all along. | |
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In The New Adventures of Invader Zim, at one point Norlock claims that the Trope Namer incident was his idea. Though he also states that he and Caligula were both blind drunk at the time, and Norlock didn't think he'd actually do it. | |
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The president of the Henchmen Guild in Nodwick is a hamster. Of course, the hamster only got appointed to membership in the Guild by its owner, the previous president. It was elected president at the next election due to all people present and voting being drunk. The hamster's re-election (for life) was due to the guild steward being bribed. The hamster was eventually revealed to be sentient and actually super-powered, but the event that caused that occurred after her election and she spent most of her time after that still pretending ot be an ordinary hamster. | |
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In American Dad!, the secretary of Steve and Roger's sort of real detective agency is a stuffed bear named Teddy Bonkers, something Steve eventually gets fed up with. | |
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Discussed in Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son. "Henote the Cardinal de Retz is persuaded that when Caligula made his horse a Consul, the people of Rome, at that time, were not greatly surprised at it, having necessarily been in some degree prepared for it, by an insensible gradation of extravagances from the same quarter." (letter 50) | |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has a justified example near the end of the series. Iino appoints Gomanosuke (a pet cat that lives near the school and is well known for wandering the school grounds) to be her General Affairs Officer when she's elected Student Council President since she's having trouble finding qualified people to fill the positions. Given that Shirogane went his entire second term without having the position filled and Iino's council is also noted to be far more efficient, it probably isn't that big of an issue. | |
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The Great North: In Season 2 "Dances With Wolf Adventure", it revealed that Lone Moose has three counselperson where two of them are Roy and his pet eagle, Toby, and together they hold 2/3 majority of the town counsel. It's apparently very common for animals to hold government positions in Alaska; a guinea pig was once lieutenant governor. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "The Klimpaloon Ultimatum'', a warthog was elected mayor of Danville in 1805. The warthog filled his cabinets with his relatives, and the public became so fed up that they not only removed the warthog from power but also wrote a law preventing a warthog from having a position of power ever again. | |
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The Simpsons: Given a nod during a re-enactment of Julius Caesar. Caligula (Homer) comments that Caesar (Mr. Burns) is insane, not to Moe, but to the horse next to him. | |
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Love & Pies: In the Rival Season Pass, Betty mentions that Brumhilda the goat was once made mayor of Appleton. | |
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During World War II, Bugs Bunny was made an honorary United States Marine Private in 1943 and was promoted up the ranks to Master Sergeant before his honorable discharge. Similarly, Donald Duck is an Army Buck Sergeant. | |
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On 30 Rock, Don Geiss stacks the board of directors with "the most reliable collection of sycophantic yes-men this side of an Al Franken book signing: His golf cronies, his army buddies, a collection of unemployable family members and his hunting dogs." It's unclear how intelligent the dogs are, but they're apparently capable of staying seated at the table and voting in some fashion. In a more literal example, in numerous episodes Kenneth mentions the mayor of his hometown is a horse. (Though, in one, it's possible he said, "Our mare wears a pantsuit". He is from a one-horse town.) |
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A Brief History of Equestria: Chancellor Puddinghead, being an Expy of Caligula, naturally did something like this. Specifically, she appointed her pet parrot to her cabinet, and when it died, simply had it stuffed and insisted on it keeping the post. | |
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In one episode of M*A*S*H, the 4077 treat Corporal Cupcake, a German shepherd. | |
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NCIS: In the episode "Ships in the Night", Abby gives CGIS Agent Borin a sympathy card for the recent death of a Coast Guard mascot, and remarks to Gibbs that these mascots have their own service records, commendations and even assigned berths aboard ships. Inverted in that, being an Animal Lover, she finds nothing odd about it: | |
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One of the many signs that the Helmacrons from Animorphs are completely insane is that all of their leaders (or ship captains at least) are examples of this trope, being corpses. They believe that the best leaders never make mistakes. Since the living inevitably make mistakes, dead people are the best leaders. Of course being "promoted" this way doesn't really hurt them at all since all Helmacrons have Born-Again Immortality. | |
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In Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Big Al of the Q-Force loses the position of Chief Science Officer, a position he is unquestionably the most qualified for of the team, to Skrunch the Monkey. Skrunch was later Vice President under Qwark, who was appointed president of the Polaris Galaxy prior to Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One. | |
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Non-villainous example: In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, after Professor Daitokuji's death, his cat Pharaoh becomes the de facto headmaster of the Osiris dorm. It's likely they couldn't find a teacher who wanted the position, as the Osiris dorm was traditionally for failing students and those expected to fail, the only ones willingly rooming there were those allied with Judai and those protesting the school's policies for some reason. Not that running the dorm was a big job; by season three, the number of official Osiris students started to dwindle until Judai—who had earlier turned a promotion down—was the only one left. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, when the scandals at Hal's company finally come to light one of the many revelations is that the chief financial officer had his dog on the board of directors. Hal himself is disturbed that he had CCd the dog on several memos. | |
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In Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, after trying to remove Hanpen, a stray cat, from the grounds of Nijigasaki High, Setsuna, the school's Student Council President, changes her mind after discovering that Rina had been taking care of the cat and could not bring it home with her. While pets were forbidden at the school, nothing says that a cat cannot be assigned as the student council's official trekking officer, and Setsuna makes such an appointment accordingly to allow Hanpen to remain. Ai even lampshades the strangeness of this. | |
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Big City Greens: The mayor of Smalton is a dog named Beans, who runs unopposed after every tenure and always wins. One time, Cricket put up Phoenix as a nominee, and to make her appear better, he creates a fake video with Remy convincing the town that Phoenix is helpful. The video works and Phoenix wins, only to get disqualified after she accidentally plays the video's outtakes which exposed Cricket's lies about her. | |
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There is the (in-universe) historical example of St Ossory's ass (his donkey, not his behind) which was made a bishop in the Omnian church.note The parallel in The Bible is the tale of Balaam's ass, who developed enough sentience to rebuke the prophet Balaam for not doing God's will. | |
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In Heir-Conditioned, Sylvester the Cat is left the sole inheritor of a vast fortune from his deceased mistress, but after dealing with Elmer Fudd serving as his financial advisor, urging him to invest the money, followed by his cat friends who listened to Elmer's lecture, Sylvester is left wishing that his mistress had found a way to take it with her. | |
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Looming Gaia: A Matuzan queen once declared a cat named Sprinkles to be the heir to her throne. She died soon after, and the kingdom was ruled by the cat for three days, until it was usurped by one of the queen's children. | |
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In The Outer Worlds DLC, "Peril on Gorgon" while at a bar called The Sprat Shack, the bartender tells the Player Character that in order to avoid legal trouble, the place is actually legally owned by a sprat (space rat) that's somewhere on another huge ship called The Groundbreaker. The fact that no one can tell sprats apart is the whole point. | |
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In Gordy the head of a major corporation hands over control to the title character, a small pig, upon his death. The film treats this as a good thing. | |
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Judge Dredd: Chief Judge Cal, who was based on Caligula, appointed his goldfish to the position of Deputy Chief Judge. The Judges once put an orangutan as a candidate to show the people how ridiculous democracy was and how good their regime was. The orangutan won by a landslide and is considered one of the best leaders Mega City One ever had. |
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In Ballot Box Bunny, Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam are running against each other for mayor. They were defeated by a dark horse candidate. An actual dark horse is the town's new mayor. (Mare?) Bugs doesn't count, since he's a Talking Animal. The new mayor only neighs. | |
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In Fossil Fighters: Champions, the player and his friends are tasked at one point with finding a princess who has entered the tournament in secret, being shown a picture of a girl and her dog. The punchline to this sequence is that the princess is the dog (the girl's her retainer). This is lampshaded as absurd, but it apparently works for the country. | |
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Jellystone!: Non-animal example in "Gorilla in Our Midst." Although Yogi, Boo-Boo, and Cindy are the ones to awake Grape Ape from his food coma, mayor Huckleberry instead presents a medal to the easel on which Touché Turtle and his compatriots used to brainstorm solutions on. | |
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In Princess Celestia Hates Tea, Celestia mistakenly bestows "a rather impressive portfolio of executive powers" on an ornamental vase while in a heated argument with an incompetent doctor. | |
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This is revealed to be the reason that names in the Oversaturated World are similar to their Equestrian counterparts. At one point, a king appointed his horse Glitterhoof (see Crusader Kings II below) as his successor, and the nobles agreed that the horse was a better option than the king's sons. Combined with some clever proxy ruling and surprisingly good luck, the horse-led nation conquered most of Europe in a few generations, and people began using horse puns in their language as a result; the kingdom later collapsed, but the naming convention stuck around. | |
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In an episode of The Golden Girls, Rose tells of how her Uncle Gustaf ran for the position of St. Olaf water commissioner against his horse. And lost. | |
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The South Park episode "Douche and Turd" had a camp of PETA members who had a goat (one that was a doctor, apparently) as their leader. | |
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In Wander over Yonder, Wander finds a creature who he calls Captain Tim, having mistaken a nametag for a man it ate as being for the creature itself. Wander subsequently gives Captain Tim over to Lord Hater as a pet. Hater makes "Captain" the creature's actual military rank and thus outranks most, if not all of his minions. | |
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In Babylon 5, Emperor Cartagia established "The Shadow Council" to advise him on matters of state. Unfortunately, it was composed entirely of the heads of Centarum representatives who had opposed his alliance with the Shadows. | |
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Before joining Sturgeon's Law, Pierce was senior vice president under such a CEO. | |
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In Crusader Kings II, if your character has the Lunatic trait, you can get a random event where you decide to appoint your horse as your chancellor. Previously, this just dismissed the current chancellor and left the position vacant, but a later patch made the event generate an actual horse character named Glitterhoof to fill the position. Naturally, someone took it to the logical extreme and used an exploit in order to make a horse the ruler of the restored Roman Empire. | |
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On Gravity Falls, it is discovered that the real town founder was Quentin Trembley, a cloudcuckoolander extraordinaire who was once elected President in a landslide (as in, every other candidate was buried by one). Among his acts during his short term, he appointed babies to the Supreme Court. Those same babies later helped erase him from the history books. | |
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