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There is an emergency, threatening the entire kingdom. Even the king admits he is not capable of dealing with it, so he finds his wisest and most able knight and grants that knight total power over the kingdom. Why? Because the king knows this knight is a man of honor and also loves his family more than he loves power. He will use this power only when it is needed, and no longer. And he's right. Once the kingdom is saved, that knight abdicates his position and goes home to his family. Often overlaps with Call to Agriculture, when the retired character decides to raise cabbages in manly obscurity. The Trope Namer is Roman general Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, who led Rome under the title of Dictator ("He who dictates") against an invasion. At the time, a dictator was simply a military leader given control over the country during war times but was expected to return power to the ordinary institutions of the Republic once the crisis was averted, as Cincinnatus had famously done. It was only centuries later with Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (or just Sulla for short), after the title of dictator had not been used for over a hundred years, that a Roman official attempted to abuse the dictatorship for his own gain, leading the word to pick up a decidedly negative connotation. Even Sulla, while abusing his dictatorial power in many ways and having arranged to not have a time limit on his dictatorship, still stepped down after a year. The first successful attempt to defy this tradition came without the actual (specific) title of dictator and resulted in the creation of The Roman Empire. Some Evil Overlords gain their power by feigning this and crowning themselves emperor when the time is right. Some might even have arranged for the emergency to happen in the first place. When played more cynically, it may overlap with Honor Before Reason. It can also overlap with Short-Lived Leadership and has heavy overlap with Gracefully Demoted. Subtrope of Reluctant Ruler. Compare The Last DJ (the character has the same integrity but often far less power or freedom), Abdicate the Throne (giving up power born into), The Creon (who will do anything to avoid being in charge) and The Caligula (treating their people badly). Contrast Regent for Life, Unfit for Greatness. See also I Will Fight No More Forever. And yes, the US city of Cincinnati is named after the trope-naming general. |
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Suikoden and II are both examples of this. In the first, the Hero leads a popular uprising to overthrow The Empire, and after it succeeds, he's offered the position of President of the newly formed Republic. In the sequel, you can find him in a small border town... fishing. One of his lieutenants has taken the role of President of Toran. Hero 2 potentially follows his example: I believe one of the possible endings actually has him taking up the mantle of the reformed Jowston Alliance, but the Best Ending has him turn away from the power, instead leaving power to his strategist and heading off to go Walking the Earth with his sister and best friend. | |
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Interestingly enough, in Suikoden V, it's the other way around. The 'Bad' ending has you leaving the kingdom you just helped save, while the Best Ending has you staying there to take up the mantle of Supreme General of the Armies, to protect the kingdom from any future dangers. The queen was also a 10-year old girl who had no intentions of getting married any time soon, especially after she was forcibly married to the enemy general that pretty much controlled everything himself, effectively making her a ruler in name only.The practice of making the Queen's husband the commander of the Queen's Knights was abolished. From that point onward the position is to be filled on the basis of merit, and the Prince was established by this point as both a great military leader and absolutely loyal to Falena, both qualities that seem to be in short supply. Plus, it's implied in the last cutscene that Lyon serves either as co-leader or second-in-command of the Queen's Knights and that she and the Prince either are or will end up married. | |
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Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance has Ike. All of the forces gathered would only follow him because of his straightforward, incorruptible, noble nature, so he reluctantly accepts the title of Lord. As soon as King Ashnard is defeated, he gives up the title and goes back to being the leader of his humble mercenary company. In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, some of Byleth's paired endings on the Crimson Flower route see them retire from their position as Adrestia's toughest general to a simpler life after the conflict ends. |
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In the Honor Harrington novels, the Worthy Opponent Admiral Theisman overthrows the tyrannical government and kills the dictator as soon as he gets a chance, effectively giving himself absolute power. The admiral then ensures that elections are held and eventually joins the new government as Secretary of War. He's also Chief of Naval Operations. He's noble, not an idiot. Being both the civilian and military head of the Navy means he can make sure there isn't another coup. At the same time, the new president's political opponents know of Theisman's preference for the rule of law and know that he would never act against them in an illegal manner. | |
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In The Warlord Chronicles, rather than being a King, Arthur is a warlord sworn to safeguard the realm and the throne until his nephew Mordred comes of age and becomes King. Arthur is just fine with this since he just wants to live a normal life and is happy to step aside. The series takes a dark route with this. Although most of the world's misery is caused by the overly ambitious types like Cerdic, Sansum, Lancelot, and multiple other kings and princes, the fact that Arthur never takes the throne for himself (even after seeing how Ax-Crazy Mordred is) undoes all of his efforts. | |
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Suikoden Tactics/Rhapsodia, however, has Lino indicating that he plans to name Hero 4 as his permanent successor. Neither of them realizes that the hero is actually Lino's son, who was presumed to have died at sea as a young child, and thus was always supposed to be his successor. | |
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Koei seem to like this trope, in fact; before that, they pulled something similar in the spin-off series Samurai Warriors, in the PSP port of the first game to be precise, where at the end of Oda Nobunaga's 'good' storyline, he vanishes without a trace along with his wife, leaving instructions that his top generals are to divide the land up equally between them (and that his by-then-former manservant was to kill them if they ever came to blows); in his monologue to his wife afterwards where he explains his reasoning, he explicitly states that "the people don't need a king; what they need are options". | |
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Dumbledore in Harry Potter. It is stated that Dumbledore was offered the post of Minister for Magic multiple times but refused it, preferring to remain the headmaster at Hogwarts. Only in the final book is it fully understood why: in his youth, Dumbledore was tempted into joining Gellert Grindelwald's quest to take over the world and find the Deathly Hallows. Afterward, Dumbledore realised that he could not be trusted with power. | |
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World of Warcraft: In the expansion Cataclysm, Thrall steps down as Warchief of the Horde in order to resume his shaman studies and figure out what's going with Azeroth's elementals, and he names Garrosh Hellscream in his place. This was a very controversial move, since Thrall is very well-liked, both by in-game politicians and by players, while Garrosh is the complete opposite. And then, after Garrosh is deposed by combined efforts of the Alliance and the Horde (including Thrall, who realized that appointing Garrosh was not his brightest idea), Thrall's handpicked successor to Garrosh, Vol'jin, was reluctant to accept the title of Warchief, seeing himself as not worthy and only yielding when he saw all the Horde leaders acknowledge him. |
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The Mayor of the planet Jean in Freefall is a variation on the second half of this trope: while she was comfortable in her position of power, the situation the planet underwent was too fast and drastic for her to adapt; feeling this meant she was no longer capable of ably leading the planetary government, she made the decision to pass on her authority to her assistant. | |
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The Dresden Files: The post of Blackstaff. The Blackstaff doesn't command the council, but he is immune to all its laws. Those laws mostly forbid using highly-addictive dark magic. The wizard assigned the post is entrusted to use powers the Council denies itself under all other circumstances, and to stop using them when the need is over, even though stopping means mentally wrestling with major supernatural evils. The blackstaff isn't just a title, incidentally: The post seems to be bound to an actual staff (which is white, and gradually turns black as the user uses dark magic). Whether the staff actually absorbs the bad mental impulses or just serves as a yardstick for 'how dark can you get right now and still bounce back' isn't revealed. The Knights of the Cross can be this trope. The Knights of the Cross wield three Holy Swords whose hilts each contain one of the nails used to crucify Jesus Christ.note Respectively each of the swords represents one of the following Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love. Each Sword is considered like a Supernatural Nuke on the battlefield against the forces of darkness. Being a Knight is, as they say, a Calling. However, it isn't a lifetime commitment with retirement only by a wooden box. The Knight can retire at any time. According to their long-lived nemesis, most Knights in human history are men or women who picked up a Sword for one mission and then let it be assigned to someone else afterward. The Knight was simply in the Right Place, at the Right Time to make a difference.note According to the Author, at one point in history George Washington once wielded the Sword of Hope for a time during the Seven Years War and then set it down. |
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The Power Rangers in Space/Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series crossover Lost and Found sees the returned Canard basically speculate that he was a version of this for Wildwing, taking on the role of leader and assembling the strike team to attack Draganus so that Wildwing could become their true leader. Wildwing initially protests that Canard is the real team captain, but Canard counters that he was only in charge back on Puckworld due to his military experience, whereas Wildwing has assembled the other Ducks into a genuine family even when he doesn't have any actual command structure or authority to make them follow his orders but has still earned their respect. | |
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Tylor in Irresponsible Captain Tylor is given full control of Earth's fleet at one point, but he doesn't even use it to fight the battle he's supposed to fight. | |
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Discussed in The Dark Knight, where Harvey Dent explicitly compares Batman to the Roman elected dictators and instantly gets called out by Rachel, who says that such a system eventually led to powerful men appointing themselves dictators and eventually Julius Caesar and the death of anything resembling representative government in Rome. Later in the movie, Batman hands the power to tap into people's cell phones to Lucius Fox, knowing that his objections to the methodology would mean that it was ONLY used in a dire emergency. Sure enough, after the Joker is apprehended, Fox types his name into the computer that did the spying, just like Bruce told him to, and the whole thing self-destructs. | |
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Which would not be the last time the universe had an evil Cincinnatus. Thanos's goal in Avengers: Infinity War is to collect all six infinity stones and use them to eliminate half of all life. He claims that when he's done this he'll rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. He succeeds and keeps to his word. In Avengers: Endgame, he's shown to have retired on a Paradise Planet and has destroyed the infinity stones. The Avengers are shocked he isn't out trying to rebuild his forces or conquer more worlds. Though the fact that using the stones left him crippled to the point of no longer being able to fight probably also played a role in his decision. | |
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In The Lost Fleet Captain Geary is promoted all the way to Fleet Admiral, a rank that existed but had never actually been held by a person, he accepts only on the condition he be allowed to be demoted back to captain after the mission he is given. Although he didn't object too strenuously when he got promoted back to regular Admiral soon afterwards, because he got a bit of Loophole Abuse of his own done in the brief interval when himself and his Love Interest were of equal rank and not in the same command structure... | |
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In Suikoden IV, the ruler of Obel, Lino En Kuldes, gives your hero a seal proving his authority and willingly serves under your command. This gets thrown in his face during the events at Na-Nal, where their chief mocks Lino and flat-out states he has no power anymore. However, he doesn't take back the seal until you're ready to liberate Obel, at which point he breaks out the kingly robes and gives the enemy fleet his 'I'm Back, Bitches' speech. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki in Thor manages to be an evil version of this trope (though if anyone could make one of the most inherently noble tropes evil...). While at first it looks like he's aiming to be Regent for Life, his entire plan only fully formulates after he's been handed power on a plate — secretly create a crisis by making a deal with the enemies of Asgard, avert said crisis in a highly visible fashion by backstabbing said enemies and eliminating their entire planet, and then gracefully step down again with a new reputation as a devoted son and a hero of the realm when his father awakes. He gets a fall through a black hole and the subsequent destruction of his already fragile sanity in return for his trouble, leading to his return in The Avengers as a newly minted, glassy-eyed world conqueror. Which would not be the last time the universe had an evil Cincinnatus. Thanos's goal in Avengers: Infinity War is to collect all six infinity stones and use them to eliminate half of all life. He claims that when he's done this he'll rest and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. He succeeds and keeps to his word. In Avengers: Endgame, he's shown to have retired on a Paradise Planet and has destroyed the infinity stones. The Avengers are shocked he isn't out trying to rebuild his forces or conquer more worlds. Though the fact that using the stones left him crippled to the point of no longer being able to fight probably also played a role in his decision. |
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Dynasty Warriors: Dynasty Warriors 6 portrays the Wei leader Cao Cao this way in his, Dian Wei's, and Xiahou Dun's endings. Feeling that the newly-unified Chinese nation did not need a bloodstained conqueror as its leader, Cao Cao abdicated to go off on a journey, leaving administration and governance of the land to specifically-trusted advisors. Koei seem to like this trope, in fact; before that, they pulled something similar in the spin-off series Samurai Warriors, in the PSP port of the first game to be precise, where at the end of Oda Nobunaga's 'good' storyline, he vanishes without a trace along with his wife, leaving instructions that his top generals are to divide the land up equally between them (and that his by-then-former manservant was to kill them if they ever came to blows); in his monologue to his wife afterwards where he explains his reasoning, he explicitly states that "the people don't need a king; what they need are options". |
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance has Ike. All of the forces gathered would only follow him because of his straightforward, incorruptible, noble nature, so he reluctantly accepts the title of Lord. As soon as King Ashnard is defeated, he gives up the title and goes back to being the leader of his humble mercenary company. | |
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Iroh of Avatar: The Last Airbender is a brilliant general, arguably the greatest firebender of his era, and a staunch leader in the fight against the Fire Nation and its lust for conquest. As brother of the tyrannical Ozai, he could fight Ozai and take the throne for himself. But he recognizes that fighting his brother will merely look like a familial power struggle, and leaves that task to the Avatar. And he has no desire to rule, letting his nephew take the throne instead, himself retiring to run a tea shop. | |
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The page quote comes from Worf in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Tacking into the Wind". After killing Chancellor Gowron (who had been misusing his power and throwing away the war effort for his own political gain) in a Duel to the Death, Worf becomes Chancellor through right of combat. As the other Klingons in the room start to hail Worf as the new Chancellor, Worf stops them and immediately abdicates power to General Martok, who he sees as the best military leader. | |
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Battle for Wesnoth: At the epilogue of Legend of Wesmere, Kalenz is unanimously chosen to be the High Lord of the Elves since the Elven Council were killed by Landar. After preparing the elves for any potential war against the orcs, Kalenz quickly retires once he feels his work is done. | |
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The quarian ship Captains and fleet Admiralty in the Mass Effect franchise exist to be this. The Migrant Fleet technically exists under a state of emergency martial law (as it has been for centuries) but in practice, most decisions are handled by an elected civilian council, both on the level of individual ships and on the level of entire sectors of the fleet in a federal-type government known as the Conclave. However, the Admiralty can invoke a deliberate override of anything the Conclave chooses as an exercise of emergency powers but are required to resign from their positions immediately after the emergency has passed, or face arrest and prosecution if they refuse to do so. This helps keep the otherwise unrestricted exercise of power in check. So far, the Admiralty override has only been invoked four times in the three centuries of the fleet's existence. | |
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Supreme Chancellor Obi-Wan Kenobi: Obi-Wan is thrust into the position by a senator who is exhausted with the now ten-year-long Clone Wars and finally says enough is enough and knows from their past experience with Obi-Wan that he is perfect for the role because he loathes the politics but is up to the duty. Hilarity Ensues as Obi-Wan struggles with a job he detests but lives up to. | |
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In the novelization of Kingdom Come, "Cinncinatus" is the title of the chapter when Wonder Woman flies to the Fortress of Solitude and convinces Superman to come out of retirement. | |
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Girl Genius: Boris Myshkin-Dolokhov is put in command of the empire when the Baron is out of commission and Gil is missing and he hates it. | |
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Lord Gekkei from The Twelve Kingdoms leads the revolts against the Knight Templar King of Hou, but doesn't take over as temporary ruler until the kirin of Hou is reborn and then able to choose a new king. The noblemen have to insist a lot to convince him to start re-organizing the ravished lands as de facto ruler. | |
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The Knights of the Cross can be this trope. The Knights of the Cross wield three Holy Swords whose hilts each contain one of the nails used to crucify Jesus Christ.note Respectively each of the swords represents one of the following Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Love. Each Sword is considered like a Supernatural Nuke on the battlefield against the forces of darkness. Being a Knight is, as they say, a Calling. However, it isn't a lifetime commitment with retirement only by a wooden box. The Knight can retire at any time. According to their long-lived nemesis, most Knights in human history are men or women who picked up a Sword for one mission and then let it be assigned to someone else afterward. The Knight was simply in the Right Place, at the Right Time to make a difference.note According to the Author, at one point in history George Washington once wielded the Sword of Hope for a time during the Seven Years War and then set it down. | |
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Monk: The novel Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu sees Monk temporarily reinstated to run the San Francisco Police Department's homicide division during a police strike, with three other eccentric or hotheaded detectives who've been kicked off the force (all of whom have handlers of their own) to be his squad. The squad continues operating even after a police officer is killed, which prompts the striking cops to return to duty to catch the killer. Once the cop's killer is caught, the police union use this as a bargaining chip with City Hall to get their demands, and the strike ends, upon which Monk's unit is disbanded. Monk reluctantly concedes while Natalie makes the acquaintance of the other detectives' minders. | |
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Mark Anthony promised to follow the example of Cincinnatus when his term as Consul ended in Rome while negotiating with Caesar's killers to preserve all their titles (and legitimizing Ceasar's will as not that of a tyrant). Unsurprisingly he never planned or had to abide by it after a certain famous speech at Caesar's funeral changed the political landscape to his favour. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: After a effectively becoming the savior of their world, and his status as the Driver of the Aegis and the Master Driver, it's revealed that Rex, years after the end of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, chose to settle down in his quiet hometown of Fonsett Village in Leftheria with his wives Pyra, Mythra, and Nia, their children together along with Azurda and presumably Dromarch. | |
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In Cat City, Grabovsky, the Bond-Mouse was called back from retirement like Cincinnatus. The evil cat boss, spying on the meeting of mice leaders, heard the reference and thought that Cincinnatus was a new secret agent (in Hungarian, "Cincin" is the onomatopoeia for the sound mice make), so he sent his assistant, Safranek, to look him up. This led to Safranek being tortured, as he unwisely told his boss that Cincinnatus was a historical figure, which is common knowledge. | |
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Maximus in Gladiator. After long years of slogging through the north, conquering for Rome, he just wants to go home to his family and farm, even when he realizes he is being offered total power in Rome. That, Aurelius says, is why it has to be him to steward the Empire until it can be a Republic again. | |
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Transformers: War for Cybertron: Orion Pax takes command of the scattered Autobot forces following the apparent death of Zeta Prime, becoming Optimus Prime. One Forever War later, and in the finale of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) he's finally able to turn over stewardship of Cybertron to an interim council (until proper elections can be held) and simply be Orion Pax again. | |
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W.I.T.C.H. had the "Heart of Earth" a.k.a. Lillian appoint three "Regents of Earth": Matt, Mr. Huggles, and Napoleon the cat. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Ned Stark's ancestor, Lord Cregan Stark, who was the Hand for a few days more than a century before the series began, was an example. At the end of the Targaryen civil war known as "The Dance of the Dragons" Cregan arrived in King's Landing just after Aegon II had been poisoned, meaning the throne passed to their nephew Aegon III, son of the claimant Cregan had been supporting. Cregan was named Hand by Aegon III and responded by punishing those responsible for Aegon II's death, feeling a King's murder must be punished even if it was a tyrant he was fighting against. Cregan's actions enabled a relatively stable reign for Aegon III, though the day after finishing the trials Cregan resigned the Handship and returned to the North, having been granted many rewards, and in exchange for pardoning Lord Corlys Velaryon, he married Alysanne Blackwood. | |
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In the season 4 finale of The West Wing, Zoey, President Bartlet's youngest daughter, is kidnapped. In response, the President acknowledges that he has to step down for the good of the nation. However, they've just lost their Vice President to a sex scandal, so they have to hand over power to House Speaker Glenallen Walken, a die-hard political opponent. And it's held true to form, as Glenallen and his staff do absolutely nothing non-essential with their power, basically leading the country long enough to find Zoey and then giving it back. And of course, he was rewarded for his patriotism by losing his job as Speaker, too, since he had to resign before he became President. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy: In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Zaphod Beeblebrox notes that the President of the Galactic Empire election apparently involved scanning his brains for any actual desire to hold the position — or, at least, any desire to take it seriously — and if found, would have dropped him on the curb with only the clothes on his back and two stumps where his heads used to be. The purpose of the Galactic President is to distract people from the question of who actually runs the Galaxy, since obviously, anyone who wants to shouldn't be allowed to. It turns out to be the Man in the Shack, who is unlikely to go mad with power, since he doesn't entirely believe the Galaxy exists. | |
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Lelouch vi Britannia from Code Geass, in a way. Soon after he conquered the entire world, he organized his own Suicide by Cop and gracefully left the scene. While he was on it, he also ensured that nobody would ever be able to do what he did, which is a good thing if you think about it. Of course, in this case, only a few people on Earth knew his real intentions, while the rest saw him as just another Diabolical Mastermind. | |
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In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Ben 10,000 (an alternate one, different from the one shown in the Original Series) mentions that he was President of Earth just long enough to defeat the third Vilgaxian Invasion. Gwen was more skilled at the day-to-day duties and is supposedly a shoo-in for a second term. | |
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Game of Thrones: When Jon Arryn dies, Robert seeks out Ned and asks him to be his new Hand of the King, thinking he is best suited to rule Westeros, despite Ned having no wish to take the job. Also, this was Ned's role during the rebellion. Basically, he won the rebellion for Robert, but never took advantage of this in any form and as soon as Robert sat on the throne, he missed the early stages of Robert's reign and went straight to Winterfell, bringing his sister's remains and his illegitimate son — baby Jon Snow — home with him. Ned never left the North since that, save for the Greyjoy rebellion. Arguably, his hurry of coming back to the North and reluctance to leave it may have something to do with hiding and raising Jon, who is actually Ned's nephew and the son of Ned's sister Lyanna Stark with Prince Rhaegar Targaryen. Ned spends the rest of his life protecting Jon from Robert Baratheon, claiming Jon as his own son and raising him as his own child alongside his children with Catelyn. | |
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Loki in Thor manages to be an evil version of this trope (though if anyone could make one of the most inherently noble tropes evil...). While at first it looks like he's aiming to be Regent for Life, his entire plan only fully formulates after he's been handed power on a plate — secretly create a crisis by making a deal with the enemies of Asgard, avert said crisis in a highly visible fashion by backstabbing said enemies and eliminating their entire planet, and then gracefully step down again with a new reputation as a devoted son and a hero of the realm when his father awakes. He gets a fall through a black hole and the subsequent destruction of his already fragile sanity in return for his trouble, leading to his return in The Avengers as a newly minted, glassy-eyed world conqueror. | |
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George Washington is a principal character in Hamilton. The song "One Last Time" centers around his decision to not seek a third term of office: he would beat any other candidate easily, so stepping down allowed the process to go forward fairly and demonstrate that the nation was strong enough to survive without him personally leading it. The song closes with lines from Washington's actual Farewell Address. | |
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House of the Dragon: King Viserys has previously accused his brother Daemon of coveting his crown. Now, Daemon has won himself a kingdom in the Stepstones. If Daemon really wanted to be a king, this is his opportunity. Instead he abdicates. He doesn't actually want to be a king—he wants to hang out at court, cause mischief, and bang Rhaenyra. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Gauntlet of Fire", Spike manages to successfully win the title of Dragon Lord, making him one of the most politically powerful characters in the show. He uses this ultimate authority to give all of one (relatively unimportant) order note that being to order a dragon who has often bullied him to go back home and give a hug to every dragon he meets on the way before abdicating and passing the title over to the previous Dragon Lord's daughter, who he had befriended. In fact, he initially showed up to the event to ask permission to leave because participation was mandatory, only deciding to stay upon realizing that a jerk could gain with the position and the power it confers if he didn't at least try to participate. | |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor ran away from the position of President of Gallifrey at least twice. Of course, the life to which he was returning wasn't exactly peaceful, but he preferred Walking the Earth... er, universe. Mostly Earth. In "Death in Heaven", it's revealed that in the event of a worldwide invasion, one person may be elected as President of Earth by the UN and all the world's armed forces. Three guess who all the nations choose, and the first two don't count. Obviously, the Doctor doesn't like being President of Earth any more than he liked being President of Gallifrey, and wants to get rid of the responsibility ASAP. However, he'll still take advantage of the position in order to get Obstructive Bureaucrats to do what he wants... and to ride the Cool Plane. In a non-political example, the Doctor's status as a time-traveller and occasional Chessmaster means that he could easily get the timeline to do what he wants, and manipulate people and even planets long-term. However, he firmly believes that With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility and his companions provide helpful Morality Chains to stop him from believing that A God Am I. On the very rare occasions that he slips up... well, it's really not good. |
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Superman. He's the single most powerful man on Earth, and in various alternate universes (and on Superman: The Animated Series) the writers have shown that he could take over the world... if he wanted to. However, Superman, being reared as an idealist by the Kents, believes in using his powers to help the little guy. On multiple occasions, Lex Luthor and Darkseid have both expressed a complete inability to understand this ideal, as Lex is egomaniacal and power-hungry, while Darkseid is the god of tyranny. Superman's decision to use his powers to help others and his refusal to seize power is the reason why the Justice League members pretty universally consider Clark to be someone they can all believe in, and the reason why most citizens of the DCU Earth consider Superman to be their world's greatest hero. In the novelization of Kingdom Come, "Cinncinatus" is the title of the chapter when Wonder Woman flies to the Fortress of Solitude and convinces Superman to come out of retirement. |
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Suikoden: Suikoden and II are both examples of this. In the first, the Hero leads a popular uprising to overthrow The Empire, and after it succeeds, he's offered the position of President of the newly formed Republic. In the sequel, you can find him in a small border town... fishing. One of his lieutenants has taken the role of President of Toran. Hero 2 potentially follows his example: I believe one of the possible endings actually has him taking up the mantle of the reformed Jowston Alliance, but the Best Ending has him turn away from the power, instead leaving power to his strategist and heading off to go Walking the Earth with his sister and best friend. In Suikoden IV, the ruler of Obel, Lino En Kuldes, gives your hero a seal proving his authority and willingly serves under your command. This gets thrown in his face during the events at Na-Nal, where their chief mocks Lino and flat-out states he has no power anymore. However, he doesn't take back the seal until you're ready to liberate Obel, at which point he breaks out the kingly robes and gives the enemy fleet his 'I'm Back, Bitches' speech. Suikoden Tactics/Rhapsodia, however, has Lino indicating that he plans to name Hero 4 as his permanent successor. Neither of them realizes that the hero is actually Lino's son, who was presumed to have died at sea as a young child, and thus was always supposed to be his successor. Interestingly enough, in Suikoden V, it's the other way around. The 'Bad' ending has you leaving the kingdom you just helped save, while the Best Ending has you staying there to take up the mantle of Supreme General of the Armies, to protect the kingdom from any future dangers. The queen was also a 10-year old girl who had no intentions of getting married any time soon, especially after she was forcibly married to the enemy general that pretty much controlled everything himself, effectively making her a ruler in name only.The practice of making the Queen's husband the commander of the Queen's Knights was abolished. From that point onward the position is to be filled on the basis of merit, and the Prince was established by this point as both a great military leader and absolutely loyal to Falena, both qualities that seem to be in short supply. Plus, it's implied in the last cutscene that Lyon serves either as co-leader or second-in-command of the Queen's Knights and that she and the Prince either are or will end up married. |
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Brütal Legend: After leading the Ironheade rebellion to victory and defeating the tyrant Doviculus in single combat, Eddie Riggs lets Lita, sister of the rebellion's late leader Lars, take the laurels for it and discretely slips away from the victory party, content to Walk the Earth. | |
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In Andromeda, Dylan finally manages to re-create the Commonwealth (although much smaller than the original one, which spanned three galaxies). The representatives of the various member worlds immediately try to get him to run for a Triumvir position (which wouldn't leave him as a sole ruler, but, still, his popularity is at an all-time high). Dylan refuses, saying he never wanted to be anything more than a High Guardsman. He later ends up regretting his decision, when the new leaders start making stupid decisions, and other characters point out several times that he had his chance to make sure things would go right this time and gave it up. Even earlier, when he finds a space station full of Nova bombs, capable of making stars explode, Tyr points out that Dylan could have his Commonwealth back... today. Dylan immediately rejects the idea, pointing out it would be nothing more than a dictatorship held in check only through fear. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, some of Byleth's paired endings on the Crimson Flower route see them retire from their position as Adrestia's toughest general to a simpler life after the conflict ends. | |
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In The Gamer's Alliance, when Gerard comes of age, his advisor Leon willingly abdicates the throne of Maar Sul to him. However, some people, most notably Geraden, see Leon as a usurper who only abdicated the throne in order to control the throne from behind the scenes. | |
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Meanwhile, the Jedi while ruling their own, tend to act as advisors rather than rule themselves. When they start to grow wary of Palpatine, Ki-Adi-Mundi suggests removing him from office. Mace points out that the Jedi would have to take control of the Republic to ensure peace. Yoda is clearly not happy about the situation. In Legends, they had to do this when a previous Chancellor grew too corrupt. They did eventually return power to the people. The Jedi were again forced to remove the leader of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances when its leader Daala turned into a full-blown tyrant, returning power to the civilian government once the immediate crisis had abated. | |
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Assassin's Creed III: As in real life, George Washington declares his intent to retire to obscurity after America gains its independence. Connor, whose opinion of the man has taken a severe hit, sees this as a form of cowardice. | |
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These people are called Ubars on Gor. Because of the extreme Gorean devotion to their honor codes, Ubars almost always step down and those who fail to do so are usually killed by the army. With one exception: Marlenus of Ar, who was loved by his army and people and remained Ubar perpetually. | |
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The title character in the Belisarius Series, who comments several times that all he ever really wanted to be was a blacksmith. | |
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In YuYu Hakusho, after Yuusuke inherits one-third of the Makai from his ancestor Raizen, the first thing he does is talk the other two world leaders into agreeing to a tournament-style election system to replace the warring monarchies. He participates because he's required to, does not win, and promptly goes home to his girlfriend. | |
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