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Cult of Personality
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A cult of personality refers to the massive adulation of a political or historical figure. The Other Wiki defines it as "when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and, at times god-like public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise." Often the subjects of cults of personality are treated as gods, held responsible for the good things affecting a country, policies are tied to a certain figure and epoch. The cult may often claim outlandish accomplishments for the subject in order to bolster their popularity. On the other hand, heroic stories about the subject's life may be endlessly repeated in order to reinforce the cult. They generally double as a Snowballing Threat since more subjects increase their manpower. Cults as frequently represented in fiction are self-created but in practice, cults can also be developed independently of the subject's active will and desire. After a person's death, the new cult is hijacked by parties or other factions so as to claim a certain tradition, which otherwise does not really exist in the present for them to claim, and so give their new and fresh ideas an aura of legitimacy and continuity in the eyes of the people, who otherwise would see the new team as merely a political outsider and new upstart. Cults often derive from new regimes and revolutions. It is also present in the kingdom and The Empire where a new ruler, if he is an Unexpected Successor, The Conqueror, The Usurper, or *gasp* a woman, would need to go out of their way to make their ideas presentable and acceptable to the people with memories of the Ye Goode Olde Days before this upstart with their fancy new ways arrived. In this manner, a cult of personality is merely a highly cunning PR stunt. The word "cult" is usually used to refer to a small religious group, but it can also mean "devotion to a saint" in Christianity and this is where the phrase comes from. It was first used in a political sense by Karl Marx, but was popularised by Nikita Khrushchev when he denounced Stalin in 1956. It is also distinct from state-sponsored cults and government enforced religious policies and reforms. A Cult of Personality is distinctly political in character and is usually identified as a common feature of 20th Century dictatorships such as Nazi Germany, North Korea, Maoist China and Stalinist Russia. When the ruler running a Cult of Personality takes one step further to declare themselves a god (where they may or may not literally become one), it may result in a God-Emperor. See Self-Made Myth for self-made cults. |
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Similar to Dr. Doom above, Magneto has built one of these around himself in the mutant community, to the point where even after multiple failures he is still seen by a good portion of mutants as their best hope for survival. He even led a group for a time, the Acolytes of Magneto, that worshiped him as a mutant messiah. | |
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The Belgariad: has two examples; Zandramas and Urvon who both rally up the Angarak race to their personal cult by claiming to be the prophesied Child of Dark and therefore candidates for godhood. | |
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Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Youichiro Kanzaki was this for the United Sanctuary branch while he was running the place. All the members of the branch — mostly teens and pre-teens — had taken his "Weakness is a Sin!" philosophy to heart, willingly undergoing Training from Hell and chanting the slogan as something akin to a Survival Mantra (or Madness, depending on how you see it), and Kanzaki was the epitome of strength. Even when he publicly lost to Chrono Shindou and quit his job, there are still people who worship him and closely followed his activities. Jaime Alcaraz admits at one point that to Aqua Force users, Leon Soryu is something akin to God for reviving the clan, and goes on full The Knights Who Say "Squee!" mode when near him. |
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In The Simpsons episode "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore", Homer Simpson travels to India after the Nuclear Plant is outsourced, where he becomes corrupted and takes over, establishing himself as a God. The rest of the family travel to India where they meet Mr. Burns, who takes them in his boat to the plant. When they reach the plant, they find all of the workers chanting to Homer and that they have painted his face on a large silo. Homer is dressed like Mola Ram from Temple of Doom and the workers are bowing to him as he sits on a throne. Turns out they just liked Homer's American labor benefits of personal days, coffee breaks, and "mylar balloons on your birthday." | |
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Borderlands 2: Handsome Jack is the Joker CEO version of Comstock; the only thing he does more thoroughly than inflicting pain on the "bandit" citizens of Pandora is plastering his masked face persona across everything Hyperion. EVERYTHING. | |
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Nemesis the Warlock: Tomas de Torquemada builds the Termight death cult entirely around his person and forces everyone to worship him as the immortal god-dictator of mankind. Sometimes this is Played for Laughs by combining this with The Merch — Terrans can buy Torquemada's memoirs, Torquemada posters, Torquemada action movies, Torquemada busts, and Torquemada pillows and pyjamas! | |
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Discussed in Shadows over Meridian. When Jade reveals that she plans to have the people of Meridian want Phobos back on the throne, Raythor and Miranda point out that Phobos is not loved by the people, with Phobos bitterly admitting that Elyon had that even before she set foot on Meridian. But as Jade retorts, the people don't love Elyon, they love the idea of her; they were not used to the idea of a man on the throne, and believed that once she was crowned, Elyon would take things back to normal or bring a utopia. Jade then explains how for all of Phobos' faults, he was trained as a noble and brought peace (if a fragile one) to the realm between the different races. The Rebellion then destroyed that peace, while Elyon is a normal Earth girl with no training to rule, allowing the Rebellion to cause problems for the commoners with their obsessive rooting out of any suspected Phobos loyalists. Jade believes that all they have to do is reveal Elyon's failings to the public, and her reign will fall apart. | |
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Implemented by Timmy's Dad in The Fairly Oddparents episode "Father Time". Timmy destroys his father's childhood trophy with heat vision so he goes back in time to stop his dad from winning the race that got him the trophy in the first place. Timmy succeeds, but his father is sent to Dictator School as punishment for losing the race and Timmy returns to his time to find that his dad now rules the world, and forces everyone to only think happy thoughts, always smile, and call him "father", reinforcing this with video surveillance and billboards claiming that "Dad is always watching!" | |
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A key part of the Forsaken in World of Warcraft is their blind obedience to Sylvanas which was second only to revenge on the Lich King. Her face is the dominating feature of the forsaken icon, their Elite Mooks are to a man Expys of her, a female Elf, in a primarily human organization. Actually enforced by Sylvanas herself, who pushes the narrative that she's the only one who cares about them and all the livings want them dead(er), to the point that, in Before the storm, she killed anyone who had even a non-negative interaction with their living relatives, because letting them be would undermine her power. | |
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In Overlord (2012), the denizens of Nazarick treat Ainz as an infallible God-Emperor, due to being programmed during their origins as NPCs to be loyal to the player members of the guild, of whom Ainz is the only one left. To his credit, Ainz is uncomfortable with the worship and keeps trying to encourage them to think more for themselves beyond automatically deferring to his will. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: Caesar's Legion is a cult following Caesar himself. Legionnaires are brought up (or brainwashed, if they're not born into it) being taught that Caesar is the Son of Mars, charged with conquering the entire world to bring civilization and purpose to land otherwise concerned with nothing but meaningless survival. Caesar himself realizes that this model will almost certainly result in the Legion collapsing with his death, and so is attempting to conquer New Vegas so that he can transfer the cult to the city and have his legacy survive him. | |
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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four created "Big Brother," who was always watching. Citizens were brainwashed to love him as a father figure and devote their lives to his glory. | |
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Mobile Suit Victory Gundam's Zanscare Empire gives us Queen Maria's cult, which is secretly organised and controlled by Fonse Kagatie. | |
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A Clockwork Orange: Alex adores classical music in general and Ludwig van Beethoven particularly (the film distills it just to Beethoven). | |
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This trope appears as a perk in Fallout and Fallout 2, where it makes NPC reactions positive regardless of your Karma Meter, allowing you to talk to NPCs that you've royally pissed off. Note that due to karma not actually affecting NPC reactions, the perk is functionally useless. | |
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Frank Herbert intended Dune to be a deconstruction of this (and in the process invoking another trope), with Paul Muad'dib becoming trapped by the popular perceptions of him, leading to his Fallen Hero status and his son Leto becoming a literally inhuman tyrant for thousands of years. Ironically, the book itself has almost become one, some fans call it the "sci-fi bible." The book has gone on to be considered an absolute masterpiece. |
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The BioShock series uses this, somewhat with Rapture's Andrew Ryan, but most prominently with Columbia's Zachary Comstock, who uses giant posters, statues, buildings, and audio messages to spread his message and paint himself as an all-knowing Messiah. | |
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In Steven Universe, all of the Homeworld Gems literally live to serve the Diamond Authority. Peridot expresses confidence that they're literally perfect, and she's probably not alone. This is seen a bit more frighteningly at the end of Season 3, where several Gems show the detrimental effects on someone's sanity this can have, and how fanatical they are to their Diamonds despite the Diamonds clearly not returning their devotion. | |
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The Following has a cult centered around James Carroll, who is himself cultishly devoted to Edgar Allen Poe. | |
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Rebuild World: Katsuya, a Satire of the Stock Shōnen Hero, enters the story popular with his fellow young hunters and followed by a Battle Harem. When Viola asks the Femme Fatale Carol why she didn't try to seduce Katsuya despite having met him, Carol explicitly describes the friends around Katsuya as a cult which feels terrifying to deal with. This cult, mainly represented by the women who force their way into his unit, eventually extends to literally hundreds of hunters and dominates his Private Military Company Drankam. This is the result of a Psychic Link network from him being an old world connector. The reason he developed this and not Akira, is because he's open hearted instead of paranoid. The link involves shared emotions to a degree and makes the people in it Not Himself. They fall unconscious when Katsuya dies, and most survivors form a Renegade Splinter Faction bent on getting revenge on Akira. | |
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The dystopia in Equilibrium centers around the mythical figure of "Father." The movie was heavily influenced by the work of George Orwell. | |
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Fallout: This trope appears as a perk in Fallout and Fallout 2, where it makes NPC reactions positive regardless of your Karma Meter, allowing you to talk to NPCs that you've royally pissed off. Note that due to karma not actually affecting NPC reactions, the perk is functionally useless. Fallout: New Vegas: Caesar's Legion is a cult following Caesar himself. Legionnaires are brought up (or brainwashed, if they're not born into it) being taught that Caesar is the Son of Mars, charged with conquering the entire world to bring civilization and purpose to land otherwise concerned with nothing but meaningless survival. Caesar himself realizes that this model will almost certainly result in the Legion collapsing with his death, and so is attempting to conquer New Vegas so that he can transfer the cult to the city and have his legacy survive him. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's OZ has Treize Khushrenada, who is so charismatic and revered that when the Romefeller Foundation attempts to demote him OZ splits into two factions, one of which calls itself the Treize Faction and seems to have no goal other than to restore Treize to power. | |
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In Chainsaw Man, the titular hero ends up with a fan club that evolves into one of these, calling themselves the "Chainsaw Man Church for World Peace". The whole thing is revealed to be masterminded by the Famine Devil, and in order to quell their influence and retain control over the nation the corrupt Japanese government tries to strongarm Denji into retiring. It's later revealed to have been an elaborate Genghis Gambit by Fami to make Denji stronger through humans' fear by having her followers wreak havoc in his name. | |
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Black Mirror: The Waldo Moment presents a Britain 20 Minutes into the Future where one forms around a cartoon bear running in a by-election as a joke. The animator and voice actor for Waldo quickly finds himself being subsumed by his alter-ego, and then things go From Bad to Worse. The story ends with Waldo losing the by-election, but his influence over the public is such that he can incite violence against politicians and he eventually becomes a figurehead for new world order. Waldo's creator ends up a homeless alcoholic who gets tasered and beaten by police for throwing a bottle at a Waldo poster. The Fridge Horror of this is that Stalin was a mortal man and his cult died with him; Waldo is a cartoon character who can live forever as long as the people behind him keep bringing in new voice actors to play him. | |
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The Helenists in Neo Yokio are obsessive fan girls that revolve their fashion and lifestyle around Helena. They eventually transform into an actual cult when they attempt to sacrifice Kaz in a ceremony to summon demons so they could be possessed just like Helena was. | |
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Gundam: Universal Century gives us several Zeonic personality cults, modeled on Zeon Zum Deikun (after his death), the Zabi family (especially Gihren), Lady of War Haman Kahn, and Ace Pilot Char Aznable (who is also Zeon Zum Deikun's son and heir). Mobile Suit Victory Gundam's Zanscare Empire gives us Queen Maria's cult, which is secretly organised and controlled by Fonse Kagatie. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing's OZ has Treize Khushrenada, who is so charismatic and revered that when the Romefeller Foundation attempts to demote him OZ splits into two factions, one of which calls itself the Treize Faction and seems to have no goal other than to restore Treize to power. |
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Ninjago: Dragons Rising: Empress Beatrix of the Imperium, whose painting hangs on every wall of every room. Any mention of her by her subjects is instantly met with a reverent "all glory to the good empress!" She's also a nutcase who passes down laws like giant shoulderpads being mandatory on weekdays, and singing off-key being punishable by public humiliation. | |
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An unintentional example appears in Joker (2019), after Arthur kills three violent drunks on a train in self-defence (because they were beating him up). The lower-class public rallies behind the murders, since they were of wealthy WayneTech employees, and it is believed mistakenly that the killer was a vigilante who targets Gotham's corrupt monied class. Arthur finds that his clown persona is idolized as a symbol of economic and social inequality in Gotham, and once he completes his transformation into the Joker, comes to revel with his violent followers and the destruction they cause. | |
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In Iran, a cult of personality developed around Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and after his death, Ali Khamenei. Their quotes are often used along with those of The Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad. | |
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The Isle of Rangoon: The Rangoons revere Jim Henson as something between a universal father figure and a creator god and Kermit The Frog is his first, favored son. His birthday is basically Christmas for them and is a national holiday on the isle. | |
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British satirical magazine Private Eye skewered excitable people in the ruling Conservative Party who, during The '80s, were explicitly saying that any criticism of Margaret Thatcher, however slight, was tantamount to treason. They ran a spoof of Commando war comics where Thatcher was elevated to The Fuhrer, mighty beloved leader and guardian of the Thousand Year Right, where Tory Party conferences became uniformed affairs held at Nuremberg. This was to make the point that a cult of personality focused on an infallible strong leader is not a healthy thing for any country to have, least of all a notional democracy. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Dio Brando (or as he renamed himself, just ＤＩＯ) has such insane charisma that he, despite being basically a recently awakened vampire in the contemporary world, with no money or occupations, obtained a large following alongside extensive monetary resources in a short amount of time. He has followers from various parts of the globe willing to kill and die for him, to the point the most fanatical ones are willing to commit suicide on his word. His remaining right-hand man, Enrico Pucci, was willing to orchestrate a complex plan that Dio entrusted him with alongside avenging his fallen friend's death. Dio's charisma is outright compared to Hitler's and other tyrants of history. | |
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In Peanuts, Schroeder is a near-obsessive fan of Ludwig van Beethoven. | |
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Game of Thrones: Season 5 introduces the High Sparrow, a rare anti-hero/ambiguously villainous version of this type of normally malevolent group leader. He leads the Sparrows, a group of hardline religious fanatics that are not above beating up prostitutes or forcing people to walk naked through the streets as 'atonement' but are also a humble medicating order helping the poor and downtrodden in King's Landing. | |
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The Horatio race in Endless Space is a race made entirely of billions of clones of one insane rich man, Horatio. He's essentially worshipped by them, to the point that one available hero is a Horatio that escaped being destroyed for being "aberrant" due to having similar qualities to him. | |
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The early Imperium in Warhammer 40,000 managed one of the more ironic ones. The Emperor of Mankind was explicitly anti-religious and rejected any claims about his own divinity... but had no problem being treated with an excess of awestruck respect. Characters in the early Horus Heresy books constantly refer to him as "the Emperor, beloved by all", if that helps contextualise the obsessive devotion he instilled into the early Imperium. It's really not surprising that, despite his avowed rejection of godhood, the underground cult that deified him became the state religion following his confinement on the Golden Throne; the general culture was already primed to treat him like a god, even if he rejected the specific title of "god". | |
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Unsounded: Queen Maharaishala Sonorie of Cresce is extremely popular among her people, controls the press and has her portrait above an offering table in homes and shrines across the country. The near worship of the queen is not universal, there are plenty who are upset with her because she is not more on their northern neighbor, but it is very prevalent. She works hard to maintain her kind ethical motherly image and hides the less savory work she oversees. | |
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Snowpiercer: Many of the passengers hold Mr. Wilford in reverence as the one who created Snowpiercer and perpetually works to keep the engine eternal. More heavily shown if you watch the show with subtitles, as it capitalizes the pronouns when people refer to him, a trait usually reserved for talking about God. | |
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In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, it is revealed that the students, save for Nanami, were members of Ultimate Despair, a personality Apocalypse Cult devoted to the original Ultimate Despair herself, Junko Enoshima. Such was their devotion that when Junko died, the surviving Ultimate Despair members chopped up her body and replaced their own body parts with hers. Kuzuryu took one of her eyes in order to 'see her despair', while Nagito Komaeda chopped off his hand and attached one of her hands to the stump. By far the most disturbing is one member (heavily implied to be Mikan) trying to bear children using Junko's corpse. | |
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Cassandra from Doctor Who has this sort of relationship with her followers, with Chip even worshiping her as a god-like figure. She is an openly narcissistic and power drunk character, but in a bit of a subvertion, she does values the loyalty of her followers. | |
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Two Letters: The new Ladybug is widely admired throughout Paris, with everyone proudly declaring they support their heroine. Partly because her fanatic followers find anyone who doesn't do so extremely suspicious. Ladybug is also more than happy to turn her fans against anyone who displeases her. When Bob Roth stops paying into her secret Protection Racket, a stray remark about how he "doesn't support her" wrecks his record empire; a sculptor who produced a statue she disliked was run out of town after she complained about how they made her look 'homely'. | |
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Evita: The title character (a former First Lady of Argentina, who came from a poor background) becomes the subject of this. | |
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Phantasy Star III has mankind being split into two factions: Orakians and Layans, named for the two legendary heroes, Orakio and Laya. They've been at war for a thousand years, with Orakians using androids and raw hardy strength to combat the Layans' tamed monsters and magical techniques. | |
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Severance (2022): Kier Eagan, the founder of Lumon Corporation, seems to be something of a godlike figure for the severed workers. The employee handbook (the only book they are allowed to red) is formatted like a Bible and filled with his quotes. The severed floor is adorned with artwork depicting him, and at one point Ms. Cobel thanks him the same way one would thank God. She even has a shrine to him in her home to which she prays. There is even a hymn to the "chosen one Kier", which Ms. Cobel sings in an eerily cult-member-like manner, right before dispensing office discipline. | |
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Final Fantasy Tactics features Saint Ajora, a man who made miracles and helped the people before a Corrupt Church silenced him. As he died, a lightning bolt struck the church and the city was washed away in a great flood. Then again, this may have been Bloody Angel Ultima's disguise as a Dark Messiah to lead the public in a Path of Inspiration. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Horde Prime is a conqueror and destroyer of worlds whose only non-robot servants are numerous clones of himself. He does not allow his clones to have individual personalities or free will, instead conditioning them to treat him as a god and themselves as mere extensions of his power. | |
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In DARLING in the FRANXX, Papa, the leader of APE, is seen as an almost god-like figure by the plantations. This devotion gets to the point of the plantations' parasites saying prayers to him prior to meals. | |
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Universal Century gives us several Zeonic personality cults, modeled on Zeon Zum Deikun (after his death), the Zabi family (especially Gihren), Lady of War Haman Kahn, and Ace Pilot Char Aznable (who is also Zeon Zum Deikun's son and heir). | |
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Doctor Doom has built one around himself: the people of Latveria revere him. Or else. | |
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Expecting to Fall into Ruin, I Aim to Become a Blacksmith: All-Loving Hero Kururi, after being wrongly imprisoned in a Penal Colony, takes charge using Asskicking Leads to Leadership and manages the prisoners so well and fairly that they develop what looks very much like a cult. He later gets given the prisoners by the Crown Prince, to help make a railroad through his domain, but since they can't get along with regular workers, he makes the prisoners his Army of Thieves and Whores. | |
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Cult of Personality focuses on oWn (Our World Now) started by a rebel Medic waging war on both RED and BLU. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: En Sabah Nur emphasizes his god-like qualities to draw in potential followers. Bryan Singer highlights the character's role as a cult leader. | |
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In Zack Snyder's Justice League, Darkseid is the dreaded Evil Overlord of Apokolips, and his palace is adorned with stained glass depicting his face. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: The DJD has built a cultish structure around Megatron, which proves problematic when Megatron pulls a Heel–Face Turn and rejects the Decepticon cause. | |
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