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This is a variation of The Emperor. Maybe he's a dictator who controls half the universe with an iron fist, whom no one dares to oppose. Maybe he can order a planet destroyed and no one will so much as try to object. You will probably expect his title to be three pages of Badass Boast, probably ending with something pompous like "The Magnificent." Or maybe he is a Reasonable Authority Figure who recognizes that blatant displays of power, even just by holding the title "Emperor", may cause unnecessary complications in the affairs of state. Either way, his title is short, simple, and unpretentious, quite possibly little more than a job descriptor. His authority doesn't come from his title; it comes from himself. Also, it's a perfect way to escape responsibility. You don't rule anything, after all; you're "just a citizen." It can demonstrate how well you've stayed attuned to the common people and their needs, or shameless propaganda to present such an image. It may also be necessary to not violate tradition, the constitution or both. Say your country has a century old aversion to having a king. Well, if you are just the "hereditary first citizen" you are not a king, are you? Or your country's constitution has term limits on the presidency. Surely there Ain't No Rule against being "head of the national guard" forever? The pretense that he is just a Permanent Elected Official is common. May preside over a Hereditary Republic. This is Truth in Television, Older Than Feudalism, and much more common in Real Life than in fiction. See also Modest Royalty and Reasonable Authority Figure. Contrast The Magnificent, I Have Many Names and Authority in Name Only. Often found ruling a People's Republic of Tyranny. |
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In John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series, the protagonist, Decius Metellus, a staunch republican living in the early years of Octavian/Augustus's reign, despises him so much that he refuses to refer to him except by his innocuous title of "First Citizen", which Decius is fully aware is a cover for the fact that the Emperor holds absolute power. | |
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Played straight in Champions Online. In Multifaria, the Big Bad, Shadow Destroyer, is called "Citizen Harmon". | |
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In Ãœber, Maria Katyusha takes over Russia after killing Josef Stalin and dissolving the Soviet Union. Given that she is a Super-Soldier with reality warping powers who could very well declare herself any grand title she wants in a god-like power trip, instead she adopts the title of "protector" since she plans to replace communism with anarchy. | |
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Honor Harrington: Robert S. Pierre of the People's Republic of Haven uses the title Chairman of The Committee of Public Safety, or simply Citizen Chairman in direct address. | |
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Hank Scorpio in The Simpsons is the an evil corporation executive and a supervillain that ultimately takes over the East Coast of the United States, but he claims to dislike being called Boss or anything that elevates him above others, so he insists his employees call him by his first name. | |
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Dolf in Alfred J. Kwak does this when he creates a National Crows Party and uses it to seize power in Great Waterland, in a clear satire of the rise and fall of Nazism. Like Hitler's Führer, he demands that others refer to him exclusively as "The President" or "President Dolf". Note that he does this in a country that has apparently been a monarchy for many hundreds if not more years, and where this title doesn't seem to have been widely if at all used prior to Dolf's adoption of it. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Vanellope ends up as this, after renouncing the throne and crown and settling for "president" instead. | |
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In Half-Life 2, the leader of the entire Earth is Administrator Breen. This may be an aversion, though, since Breen turns out to be just a figurehead of the alien conquerors with very little actual power. Gordon Freeman is an inversion, as his crimes have earned him the label Anti-Citizen One. | |
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In The Homestuck Epilogues' Candy Timeline, Jane becomes this. She is only techincally in charge of several corporations, but is functionally a fascist dictator. | |
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Discworld: The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, whose title simply means "member of a political family". The fact the Patricianship tended to be limited to certain families for some time blunts that it was technically an elected office: in Night Watch it's mentioned that the guilds elect him, and the Patrician has an official residence. But one man, one vote... he's the man, so he gets the vote. The Archchancellor of Unseen University likes to describe his position as being "first among equals". Though he puts more emphasis on the "first." Ponder Stibbons, who wields more-or-less absolute power over the University by virtue of being the only one who ever does any work, doesn't actually have a title at all - at least not one that explains his power. His power ultimately stems from holding seventeen staff positions simultaneously, each of which has an unimportant title associated with it, each of which gives him a council vote. By giving him more positions than the other members of the council combined they turned him into a majority voting block and quorum all by himself. This went completely unnoticed until he called attention to it to stop a wizard civil war from igniting in an emotionally charged moment, and afterwards the wizards decided something needed to be done to reduce his power... so they asked Ponder to deal with it. Goes further than most with Granny Weatherwax, who doesn't even have a title. Witches don't have leaders, and while there are many idiosyncratic reasons for that one of the big ones is that Granny wouldn't approve of such a thing. She's also referred to as one of the most respected leaders they don't have. The dwarfs' word for their King literally translates to "senior mining engineer" — an understated gesture of authority, given the vast network of mining communities that constitutes the dwarf homeland. Kings are elected by the senior mining leaders and are the final word in dispute resolution. |
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Final Fantasy XII: Vayne's official title is "Consul", but he insists that the citizens of Rabanastre don't even use that to address him. Instead, he requests that they address him as "Vayne" and treat him like any other citizen. The irony is, as a mortal literally chosen by a god, he could legitimately declare himself Emperor... except the god who chose him was branded a heretic by the pantheon, meaning it was in Vayne's best interests to take as few titles as possible. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, the Crystal Exarch's epithet is a result of his refusal to be called a "king" despite earning himself unquestioned authority over the Crystarium. The people wound up calling him the Crystal Exarch for his ties to the Crystal Tower and his leadership. His real name, G'raha Tia, could be said to count as well. Seeker of the Sun naming conventions label males as "Nunh" if they are in a position of leadership, or "Tia" if they are not. Y'shtola (also a Seeker herself) observes that, as leader of the Crystarium, he would be perfectly justified in calling himself "G'raha Nunh" if he wished, but he continues to introduce himself as Tia. | |
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Citizen Dawn, from Sentinels of the Multiverse, is a superhuman supremacist worshipped by her followers as a god. Nonetheless, all superhumans in her faction, including herself, are merely called "citizen." This actually has a gameplay effect; if you're unlucky enough to flip her card to the Nigh-Invulnerable side, she'll only flip back once enough citizens are in play - which is one fewer than the card would have you believe, because she counts as one. | |
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In Anno Dracula, Count Dracula rules The British Empire not as a king, but as "Prince-Consort". Queen Victoria was reduced to a vampire bride and little more than a puppet to him, whose existence is the only thing legitimizing his claim. After being dethroned, he becomes supreme leader of the Central Powers while using the mere title of "Graf" (Count in German), though he is technically outranked by Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor Franz-Joseph, Sultan Mehmed V and Tsar Ferdinand, therefore is a Dragon-in-Chief. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, General Tarquin likes to publicly claim he is simply the top general of the Empress of Blood. He and his priest friend really run the empire and their four other friends (formerly the other members of their evil adventuring party) run two other empires, making them the de-facto rulers of a third of the continent altogether. The empress being a particularly dimwitted dragon helps with that charade, and they kill anyone who is too close to finding out that Tarquin has more powers than "just a general" should. | |
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Chairman Drek from the first Ratchet & Clank game. Runs an organization that may as well run the entire Blarg homeworld, not to mention is in charge of a lot of their military power. Subverted more and more during the course of the game as he keeps getting more and more prefixes until he's "Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek", despite how he's not actually gaining anything for the title promotion. | |
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Ulfric Stormcloak in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is effectively the ruler of half the province of Skyrim at the start of the game and can potentially rule over all of it after the Civil War questline is completed, depending on which side you support. Yet, his official title is that of Jarl (the ruler of a single hold) instead of High King. He insists on being called that because he wants to wait for the moot to officially elect him as High King, as per tradition. | |
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In Metal Gear Naked Snake goes through a lot of military organisations (most of them NGO Super Powers) as their leader, first is the Mercenary outfit MSF (Military Sans Frontiers) until it's blown up, then the Diamond Dogs which is basically a beefed up version of the previous organisation, both are situated on oil rigs out at sea. Then he goes on to be in charge of Special Operations FOXHOUND and a large military fortress on the southern tip of Africa known as Outer Heaven, and then his own nation of Zanzibar Land. Throughout all of this he takes no military or political rank, simply being known as Big Boss. Revolver/Liquid Ocelot himself manages to become the most powerful man in the world by taking control of every weapon in the world using his GoP system. Yet he never takes any kind of rank or title, only ever being mentioned or addressed by his code name. |
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Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas denies being in charge of the Dead Horses, saying that he is only their warchief. However, it becomes clear to the Courier that they respect and fear him in equal measure to the point where if he told them to "Jump", they would have done so immediately without bothering to ask "How high?" | |
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Yogi's Gang: Smokestag Smog. He lives in a castle made of smog and convinced the people of Smog City to think the smog from his factory is a good thing but, as he claims whenever someone asks if he's the Mayor, he's really just the number one citizen. Another character is later revealed to be the Mayor and Smog is never shown to have anything to do with how the city is ruled. | |
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A slight variation occurs in Exalted; while the Scarlet Empress herself has the usual fancy titles, her Dynasty is a different matter. Although being a member of one of the Great Houses confers significant opportunities for and possession of power as a matter of course, there are no titles that automatically come with it (and even the titles one gains from taking actual positions in government are fairly humble; Senator, Satrap, Minister, etc.). The heads of each House are some of the most powerful people in the Realm, but are known merely by their personal names. | |
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A variation in Overlord as the title of lord is still a noble one, an overlord is simply meant as a lord that has power over other lords. In the games however the Overlord ends up ruling much of the known world, so whilst technically correct that he would have power over other lords, in practical terms he would have power equal to that of The Emperor. | |
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General Maximillianna in Fans! is the military dictator of her timeline, and has conquered who knows how many more, but she still only wants to be addressed by her rank or the honorific associated with it ("Sirrah"). She has no interest in self-bestowed titles, taking satisfaction only in those she's earned or taken by conquest. | |
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S.S.D.D.: The Anarchists take this a step further. The highest leadership position is Acting First Advisor; the position of First Advisor is reserved for their founder, who is still officially missing in action and has never been formally declared Legally Dead even centuries past his natural lifespan. (And it's none-too-subtly suggested that there might be more to this than sentimental reverence.) Position is obtained purely by merit, and the ability to get people to follow suggestions. Disregarding advice can get a person promoted, or demoted, depending on how it works out. Anyone trying to politic their way into position is promptly shot. | |
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In Innocence Once Lost sidestory After the War the leader of the humans and his successor after the previous one is assassinated both use this title, it's implied it started as a joke but due to Future Imperfect humans use it unironically now. | |
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In GURPS Alternate Earths, on the timeline of Cornwallis, the totalitarian Russian Dominate is headed by First Citizen Boris Gromov. | |
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In Codex Alera, Alera is ruled over by the First Lord, who is presented as the "first among equals" with the rest of the Realm being ruled by High Lords who preside over each major city, and the First Lord officially being the ruler of Alera Imperia, the chairman of the Senate, and the executive commander of the combined Legions in times of war. Unofficially, the First Lord rules over all of Alera and the High Lords bow to him. This causes trouble when the Succession Crisis erupts. | |
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Earthdawn sees the leader of the globe-spanning Theran Empire being named the First Governor instead of "emperor." However, this is an Enforced Trope — one of the founders of Thera summoned several massive earth elementals to create a Sphinx statue that would sit outside the First Governor's palace, watching him for signs of corruption (including making Thera into an empire), and would go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge at its discretion. Not taking up the Name of Emperor is a safeguard against that, even though Thera essentially HAS become The Empire. They also make sure to make the expansive First Governor's Mansion is mostly invisible from the outside, though it's unlikely such a powerful magical construct would be fooled. | |
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Black Tide Rising: Both main antagonists in River of Night do this to different extents, based on their respective flavors of Wasteland Warlord — Harlan Green dubs himself Governor of the territory controlled by his army of Gleaners, but disavows any ideas of democracy by making it clear that he'll be ruling things as a Feudal Overlord (nonchalantly agreeing with a new recruit's assessment that by "Governor" he means "Baron"). Johanna Kohn, meanwhile, upon manipulating herself into absolute leadership of her refuge site, settles for simply being called "Administrator" (and in fact insists on being called "Acting Administrator" to sell the facade of not being a dictator). | |
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In Tik-Tok of Oz, there is a land where everyone is a king or queen except that the guy with the position of ruling over all these kings and queens is "the Private Citizen". Even he gets a fancy title, namely "the Great Jinjin," but his subordinates still get to have the regal titles that the Private Citizen doesn't. | |
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And by the time of Foundation's Edge, the Foundation controls half the galaxy, and its highest political office is still "Mayor". | |
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In A Thing of Vikings, this is Played for Laughs. You see, Stoick the Vast of Berk is the chief of a small Norse tribe in the Hebrides, not some distant and aloof king surrounded by protocol. He's but a village headman in touch with his populace... except that he has an air force. His son and heir, the polymath, is leaving the underpinnings of the 11th century Eurasian economy curled up in the corner crying for their mothers. He has not only conquered southern Ireland after an unprovoked attack but also seized London by force and handed the thrones of England-Denmark to a claimant of his choosing. Unsurprisingly, it remains a low-key running gag that everyone outside of his immediate circle switches to more exalted terms of address when he is out of earshot. | |
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Lynette, First Citizen of Vault City in Fallout 2. Lovingly referred to as "First Bitchizen" by the fan community. Oddly enough, while the title fits, she makes it very clear that she is the leader (more clear than it seems she actually is - she says autocratic rule is absolutely necessary for a government to function, yet she can be overruled by a Council). Joshua Graham from Fallout: New Vegas denies being in charge of the Dead Horses, saying that he is only their warchief. However, it becomes clear to the Courier that they respect and fear him in equal measure to the point where if he told them to "Jump", they would have done so immediately without bothering to ask "How high?" Also in New Vegas, played for laughs in the case of Tabitha. As a crazed Super Mutant who controls the State of Utobitha (a.k.a. Black Mountain), her self-appointed title is "Best Friend Tabitha". |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Although Long Feng had worked very hard to be Regent for Life over Ba Sing Se and the Earth Kingdom, he retained the simple title of Grand Secretariat. Some seventy years later in The Legend of Korra, Kuvira commands a massive army and is effectively the military dictator of the self-same nation - now the Earth Empire - but does not appear to hold any official rank whatsoever. She is referred to as the "Great Uniter", is addressed occasionally as "your Eminence", and Mako refers to her as "your emperor" in a conversation with one of her lieutenants, but those are just aliases/compliments, not actual titles. According to Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, her official title was "Interim President". One benevolent example is Suyin Beifong: as the founder and leader of Zaofu, she doesn't seem to have an official title, though her seniority is clearly acknowledged by others. |
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Cradle Series: Eithan Aurelias introduces himself as "the greatest janitor in existence". While this is not technically a lie, it's a very disingenuous way to describe his status as the Abidan Reaper, a Physical God charged with destroying corrupted Iterations to keep them from poisoning healthy ones. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: After Gul Dukat takes over the Cardassian government, he retains the title Gul, roughly equivalent to a colonel or navy captain: The Terok Nor novels suggest that, having served under a succession of Legates who are little more than Obstructive Bureaucrats, he's developed something of a grudge against the position. Dukat's former protege Damar and successor as the head of Cardassian government clearly didn't feel the same way; he jumped straight from Glinn (roughly equivalent to a major) to Legate, skipping the rank of Gul entirely. As Sisko noted in the quote above, Dukat did hold the rank of Legate once, an award for supporting the Detapa Council's coup over the Central Command. Dukat lost that title, though, when he brought Ziyal back with him. A half-Bajoran daughter didn't exactly play over well, even with the civilian government, and he was demoted to freighter duty, and ultimately left to fight the Klingons on his own. |
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The Black Company's first (arguable) Big Bad. Sorceress-queen with near-Physical God powers. Ruler of an entire continent, and conquering more. Known simply as The Lady. | |
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Streets of Rogue is an odd case, possibly being an aversion in-universe but certainly appearing to play this trope straight by real world expectations. The city has a mayor like any other and the mayor goes by their title of mayor, nothing unusual there. However, the mayor in this setting is effectively an omnipotent dictator with complete authority to decree anything on a whim and who has an army of police willing to kill anyone on command. Due to the intentional ambiguity of the setting it's anyone's guess whether they should have a more impressive title and are just sticking with "mayor" to downplay their position or if that is just the average expected level of power for any given mayor in that world. | |
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In Look to the West, Rodrigus Alfarus, the de facto leader of the Societist Combine in its early years, has the title of "Kapud", commander of the Celatores (which looks a lot like an army, but Societism teaches that war is always wrong, so it can't be), and is outranked by the Zonal Rejes, except that he's the one that appoints them. Combine diplomats claim bewilderment when countries negotiating with them ask for confirmation by such a minor civil servant, although this is probably an affectation. This comes back to bite him when the Danubian Societists — who follow a heterodox version of Societism, and appointed their own Rej unilaterally — also pretend to believe he's a minor civil servant. | |
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X-Wing Series: Two years after Return of the Jedi, Ysanne Isard has gained control of the largest Imperial Remnant faction and rules from Emperor Palpatine's palace on Imperial Center (i.e. Coruscant). She never changes her official title away from that of her prior post, Director of Imperial Intelligence. | |
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While there is disagreement on this point, one theory (popularized by The Cartoon History of the Universe) about the ritual anointing of kings in ancient Judea was that it was derived from the Egyptian practice of anointing (placing or pouring sanctified oil on the head) of royal governors. The theory holds that this was meant to reinforce in the king's mind that he was only acting as The Lord's governor. | |
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Flash Gordon (2007): In the re-imagined series, Ming is no longer "Emperor Ming the Merciless" who dressed like rulers of Ancient China. Instead, he prefers a military uniform and the self-appointed title of "Benevolent Father". His subjects, though, still occasionally call him "Ming the Merciless" behind his back. And his daughter is still called Princess Aura. | |
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The titular hero of Lohengrin refuses the title of "Duke of Brabant" in favor of the more functional "Protector." (In Wagner's original script the title was "Leader" — Führer — but that is usually changed these days for obvious reasons.) | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Darth Marr is only one of approximately a dozen Lords of the Dark Council at any given time, but is their de facto leader, which in turn makes him essentially the regent of the entire Sith Empire when Emperor Vitiate is silent. The reason for this is that he does his level best to stay out of the chronic backstabbing of Sith politics and focuses on keeping the Empire itself intact, which means the other Lords of the Council mostly trust that he isn't secretly trying to undermine them. With the death of the Emperor's current host body in the Jedi Knight storyline, he becomes even more powerful, and forms a Big Bad Duumvirate with the Sith Inquisitor PC after Rise of the Hutt Cartel, which lasts until his death in Knights of the Fallen Empire. Despite being a Sith Lord, Lana Beniko goes by her full name rather than a Sith title/name. Occasionally she'll be referred to as "Lord Beniko" or "Minister Beniko" but more often than not everyone just calls her Lana. |
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Kris Longknife: Ray Longknife's rival Henry Smythe-Peterwald XII initially goes by "First Citizen", although he later declares himself a German-style emperor to one-up Ray, who has been crowned a king. | |
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In Allods Online, Yasker, the ruler and archmage of the Empire, is styled simply "Leader". Not Emperor, not even Archmage. | |
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Wasteland 3: Within the game's Alternate History, after completing his second term as President, Ronald Reagan remained in power under the newly-created office of "Elder Statesman". Numerous attempts on the Elder Statesman's life were made, enough that the US Government developed a presidential limo that was basically KITT from Knight Rider. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Though the Stewards of Gondor aren't kings, they control the nation with the same authority the now-defunct line of kings had. Aragorn would have a harder time claiming the long-vacant kingship if not for the suicide of Denethor, the last Ruling Steward, the death in battle of his first son Boromir and near-death of his second son Faramir, although it turned out the second was fine with handing over control to Aragorn. (It probably helped in the latter case that Aragorn clearly intended to spend a good chunk of time in the north reestablishing Arnor as a kingdom, leaving his Gondorian Steward—i.e. Faramir—to run things in the south while he was away.) The Lady Galadriel of Lothlórien controls everything that happens and can read the minds of intruders into her realm, keeps her people safe from Sauron, and is one of the oldest beings in the world, but is simply called the Lady or the White Lady. Though this is at least partially because her name itself is considered a Badass Boast among elves. Elrond, while "mighty among Elves and Men" and fairly powerful, is simply called "Master Elrond". Elves barely have any concept of "rank"; while they attach prestige to lineage, an individual's actual power mostly derives solely from other elves being willing to follow him (though if a given leader doesn't make many mistakes, other Elves will tend to prefer status quo to revolution). Their political model is basically, in anthropological terms, a pre-chiefdom tribal one, like that of the Sioux or Apache. (Which makes sense, since most of the time they have no need for an order of succession.) Mind you, the Elves do have more traditional sophisticated monarchies, and in ages past there were many Elf kingdoms,note The First Age had more than you can realistically count, while Gil-galad ran a decent-sized kingdom in the Second Age. but in the Third Age the only proper kingdoms of Elves remaining in Middle-Earth are that of Thranduil at the northern end of Mirkwood (Legolas's people) and Lothlórien (of which Galadriel styles herself "Lady" but everyone recognizes her as a queen in all but name). The other remaining Elven kingdoms are in Valinor. |
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Fairies of the Shattered Moon: Lampshaded when Esper Rosenflos/Summer Rose accepts emergency powers in Atlas in the wake of the Schnee Manor bombing, the death and reanimation of General Ironwood to launch a coup against the Atlas Council, and the implication of COMMAND ESR in it all (All According to Plan since she and ESR are the same person and were prepping the kingdom to being conquered by Salem, even if she truly believes she's doing the right thing). She even quotes the trope itself. | |
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In Shogun, Nakamura took on the title Kanpaku after uniting all Japan under his rule. It just means "Chief Advisor," since he was supposed to be the chief advisor for the Emperor. After retiring, he took on the title Taiko (meaning 'retired kanpaku'), and continued ruling Japan until his death. | |
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Gargoyles provides a less villainous example with Oberon, whose sole title is Lord of Avalon, even though for all intents and purposes he's a Physical God who rules the Third Race as King (and allows his wife Titania to use the title "Queen"). His sense of egalitarianism seems especially odd, since as a rule he's not exactly humble. Word of God is that the title is Oberon's attempt at humility, and he does consider himself to be humble - he's just too arrogant to be any good at it. The rest of the Third Race puts up with him because their previous ruler, Oberon's mother Queen Mab, was The Caligula outright, and even Oberon looks good next to her. He was also actually pretty reasonable compared to Titania, originally; her being a Royal Brat led him to divorce her and exile the whole race from Avalon for several centuries. However, the centuries among mortals caused her to mellow and develop while he remained the same because he didn't think he had any lessons to learn. | |
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In the Pony POV Series' Epilogue/Dark World timeline, Discord constantly refers to himself by (usually random) titles that imply he's an elected official, rather than an Evil Overlord. | |
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Girl Genius: Baron Klaus Wulfenbach: Despite reluctantly controlling most of Central and Eastern Europe, Klaus Wulfenbach seems content with the lowly title of Baron. For those of you unfamiliar with noble titles, this is like the Chief of Naval Operations insisting on being called Lieutenant; in most systems of nobility it's not the absolute lowest title, but it's close. He also uses this to rub everyone's noses in the fact that yes, they're princes and dukes and whatnot, and according to their rules of succession he wasn't eligible to assume the title even of Baron Wulfenbach (due to being the patched-together and reanimated remains of three Wulfenbach brothers killed in a lab accident), but an illegitimate heir to a minor house was the one who ended the Long War which was destroying Europa. Would-be king of Europa Martellus claims that this was the Baron's biggest mistake, saying that if he had crowned himself Emperor, all of the nobles would have gladly followed him. Refusing the title was refusing to play the game, an insult the noble houses couldn't forgive. It's unclear if he's right, but it turns out that Klaus had a plan for that too—his son is Skifander royalty, on his mother's side. The von Mekkans are seneschals of Heterodyne Lords, and this responsibility includes running the city of Mechanicsburg. They are heads of the shadow government since Wulfenbach conquered the city, but their only official title is "Doom Bell Ringer." To give an idea of just how humble this title is, the Doom Bell is automated. (This is not to mention that it never rings when there's no Heterodyne in residence.) Vanamonde, the current Seneschal, doesn't even seem to have an office, as he prefers to do all of his work at his favorite coffee shop. |
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The Walking Dead (2010): Philip Blake and Pamela Milton are the iron-fisted autocratic rulers of Woodbury and the Commonwealth, respectfully, and both use the title of "Governor". | |
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"The Merchant Princes": The Commdor of Korell, Asper Argo note "The Well-Beloved" claims that Commdor simply means "the first citizen of our Republic". Dr Asimov spends a paragraph to comment on the phenomenon: | |
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Rome: In HBO's show, this is Octavian's Insistent Terminology name for his position. A consummate politician, he knows that Romans still despise the notion of a king and thus makes himself one in all but name. | |
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Chasing Dragons: At the height of his power while exiled in Myr, Rhaegar effectively rules the city-state, but never styles himself king. Instead, he settles for the titles of Governor of the South and Protector of the City. Viserys eventually becomes King of Volantis in all but name, after being elected to a Triarch seat by huge public approval and granted direct control of all military assets, which grants him greater power than the other two Triarchs. After pro-slavery reactionaries seize control of Norvos, Mycan Banderis is officially just the Chief Minister of the resulting Government in Exile formed by the ousted pro-abolition pragmatists, with the priest known as the Voice of Noom being the nominal head of state. However, he quickly reduces the Voice to a Puppet King and wields all the real power, and when Norvos itself is liberated from the reactionaries, he rules it effectively as a dictator for a year before other members of the government can arrive to reestablish control. |
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Many of the leadership titles in Battletech are somewhat modest for rulers who hold executive power over dozens and sometimes hundreds of worlds and billions of citizens. While the Lyran "Archon", the FedSun "First Prince" and the "Captain-General" of the Free Worlds League are somewhat impressive, the Draconis Combine is ruled by a "Coordinator" and the rulers of the Capellan Confederation are simply referred to as "Chancellor" (both are military dictatorships where the ruler holds absolute power). Inverted with the "Lord Protector" of the Taurian Concordat, as the protector only has power over the Concordat's protection through the Taurian armed forces and the Taurian constitution (and a very powerful legislative and judicial system) heavily limits their power over civilian life. The title of "First Lord of the Star League" started out that way: A news broadcast graphic during the intro cutscene of the most recent game adaptation even outright describes him as "first among equals". Although despite the fact that the setting had been a Feudal Future for two hundred years at that point, the post didn't become a truly straight example until much later; initially there was a council of "High Lords" made up of the rulers of what would go on to become the Successor States, and the First Lord's ability to overrule them was greatly limited. The day when that ceased to be true is generally agreed to be the point when the Star League started to fall apart. |
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The Wheel of Time. Subverted. In his role as leader of the Asha'man, Mazrim Taim takes the title M'Hael, which literally just means "leader" in the Old Tongue, something that doesn't seem that impressive. However, taken without specifications, it carries the implication that he leads everyone and everything, making it a rather grandiose title after all. After Taim gets promoted to the Forsaken in the last book, he actually changes his name to M'Hael. Played straight with the leader of the Aes Sedai, disputably the most powerful monarch in the land and analogous to medieval and renaissance popes, whose title of Amyrlin Seat is literally just the name of the chair she sits in. Even "Aes Sedai" itself means "Servant(s) of All". |
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Revanche Cycle: Veruca Barrett insists she's merely the "mayor" of Winter's Reach, when she's actually an iron-fisted dictator with an elite force of killers under her command. She gives a speech about how she's really just an average citizen and the people of the Reach are all equal; the crowds eat it up, even though it's patently untrue. | |
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The version of King Louis Philippe in Aviary Attorney both tries to claim this trope and constantly shows that he doesn't believe in it at all. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: In "Bread and Circuses", Kirk & co. come across a Roman Empire-analogue planet where Kirk's buddy Captain Merrick has become First Citizen Merikus. Subverted in that it's clear he has no power whatsoever. It appears the only reason for keeping him around is to lure other Federation ships to restock their gladiator supply. In "Plato's Stepchildren", the leader of the powerful immortals goes simply by his name, Parmen, saying that "philosopher-kings have no need of titles". |
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In the second book of Erebus Sequence, the de facto new queen disdains the title which would normally come with her role. This reflects a dislike of the traditional power structures of the kingdom rather than either humility or public relations. | |
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"Search by the Mule": The Mule rules a volume of space equivalent to one-tenth of the galaxy, according to the Encyclopedia Exposita prefacing this work, and goes by the title of, yes, First Citizen. Part of this stems from his innate inferiority complex, as he was aware that no matter how impressively he titled himself, he could never change the fact that he was physically misshapen and comically deformed. Instead, he is content to rule with unchallenged Psychic Powers ensuring perfect loyalty from his highest-level minions. A successor to the title appears in "Search by the Foundation", purely to preserve the illusion that they are as militarily powerful as the Mule. | |
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Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy XII: Vayne's official title is "Consul", but he insists that the citizens of Rabanastre don't even use that to address him. Instead, he requests that they address him as "Vayne" and treat him like any other citizen. The irony is, as a mortal literally chosen by a god, he could legitimately declare himself Emperor... except the god who chose him was branded a heretic by the pantheon, meaning it was in Vayne's best interests to take as few titles as possible. In Final Fantasy XIV, the Crystal Exarch's epithet is a result of his refusal to be called a "king" despite earning himself unquestioned authority over the Crystarium. The people wound up calling him the Crystal Exarch for his ties to the Crystal Tower and his leadership. His real name, G'raha Tia, could be said to count as well. Seeker of the Sun naming conventions label males as "Nunh" if they are in a position of leadership, or "Tia" if they are not. Y'shtola (also a Seeker herself) observes that, as leader of the Crystarium, he would be perfectly justified in calling himself "G'raha Nunh" if he wished, but he continues to introduce himself as Tia. |
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Ambergris was founded by a whaling fleet turned pirate. So first rulers of the city-state are called the Cappan (a regional pronounciation of "Captain") which started under the captaincy of Mazinkert I and continued under his descendants. | |
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Victoria: William Kraft is officially merely a state governor, and John Rumford merely Quartermaster General on the Army General Staff. Between the two of them, they nevertheless effectively control the whole Confederation. | |
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In the Legacy of the Force novel series, Darth Caedus (formerly Jacen Solo) is effectively the absolute ruler of the Galactic Federation of Free Aliances by the last novel of the series before being cut down by his sister Jaina Solo. However, he never takes any title more grandiose than his military rank of Colonel. | |
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Game of Thrones: The obvious leader of the ruling council of Qarth refers to himself as "simply a trader of spices." Everyone else just calls him "the Spice King". | |
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A variant occurs in Downfall. After Eva Braun marries Hitler an officer briefly stumbles over what to call her, since they never bothered to come up with a title for the wife of a Führer. She tells him to just call her Frau Hitler (in English, "Mrs. Hitler"). | |
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Warhammer 40,000 The Tau apparently have a dozen words for variations on "First among equals". The Ethereals especially are just one of five equal castes, and definitely not a ruling class of any kind. Also, the Emperor of Mankind. Even though his soul is literally crafted from the human sacrifices of thousands of psychics, deep down he's just another human who has his seriously dickish moments. He established himself as the Be-All-End-All messiah of Mankind while explicitly declaring that he was NOT God, that a God of Humanity NEVER existed, and that the reason why he is in charge is because he's the most powerful human in the galaxy, period. Unfortunately, this goes horribly wrong, especially when it came to his overly-religious son Lorgar. 10,000 years later, the inverse has happened; everybody worships him as a god, so he now has the power of one, but he's also dying. His "son" Roboute Guilliman took the title of "Lord Commander of the Imperium" following the Emperor being placed in the Golden Throne, and effectively ruled the Imperium as a second emperor for a time until he was fatally wounded in battle. He reclaimed the position after being revived 10,000 years later. |
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In The Annihiliation Score, Mo mentions reporting to an Assistant Undersecretary at her briefing at the Department of the Interior, and points out that this is not a junior flunky but "a frighteningly senior civil servant". | |
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Neomorphs: When the Visser reorganizes the Yeerk Empire into the New Yeerk Order, he refuses the position of Emperor, instead continuing to go by his rank title. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Equestria is ruled by two immensely powerful, immortal, thousand-plus-years-old, quasi-divine Winged Unicorns... who call themselves princesses. They're not the bad guys, but the difference between what they could call themselves and what they do is immense. The Season 5 premiere introduces Starlight Glimmer, a Well-Intentioned Extremist who styles herself as the "founder" of a City with No Name in which everypony has surrendered their cutie marks and individual talents in the name of equality.note She is later revealed to be the source of the magic responsible for "freeing" ponies of the "false promise of their cutie marks". |
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In the last book of the Mistborn: The Original Trilogy, a minor villain named Quellion has taken over the city of Urteau and turned it into a Dystopia where former nobles are gathered up, locked in a building, then burned alive, while the common people are subject to increasingly strict regulation according to Quellion's ideas of how people should live. Despite being effectively a king, due to his "anti-noble" stance claiming a noble title would be counterproductive, so Quellion instead calls himself "the Citizen". | |
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In Nip and Tuck, the Show Within a Show Rebel Cry features a Royal Brat who, though calling all the shots, is merely "Madame Chairwoman". | |
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Blake's 7: First Citizen Hower of planet Obsidian is a rare non-villainous example, or at least a True Neutral one, being the leader of a secretive colony of ostensibly Perfect Pacifist People who turn out not to be all that perfect on closer inspection after the Liberator and Servalan's ship turn up in orbit. | |
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In Back to the Future: The Game, Marty returns to an alternate 1985 in which Dr. Emmett Brown started a romance with teetotaler Edna Strickland in 1931, never saw Frankenstein, and instead used his enormous brain to create Edna's version of the perfect society in which alcohol and all other vices are illegal, all activity is monitored by cameras, and "troublesome" people are brainwashed into compliance. This version of the Doc calls himself "First Citizen Brown" and genuinely believes he is the benevolent leader of a utopia, until the Marty from the original timeline snaps him out of it. | |
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Timeline-191: After the End sees Japan's military government collapse at the end of the Fourth Pacific War, being replaced by a syndicalist revolution. The leader of this new government subsequently grants himself the title of "People's Friend". | |
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Likewise, in King's The Dark Tower series, John Farson is a warlord who accumulates a significant enough force to bring down Gilead, one of In-World's few remaining stable states. Farson is referred to in-universe by the title "The Good Man." | |
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In Stark's War, the protagonist would rather still be referred to as plain "Sergeant" than get a new title after leading his rebellion, though his fellow sergeants do manage to persuade him to differentiate himself with "Commander" ("General" being right out, even though that's the job he's now doing). | |
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Inverted in A Divine (Romantic) Comedy, where it's revealed that after the Boiling Isles' post-canon restructuring into a republic, Raine was elected leader and granted the title of "Sovereign", but despite the implications of being called such, they have worked hard to just be a first among equals and avoid being a tyrant. | |
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons: The player, who has near-absolute control over the layout of the island and the locations of nearly all of its buildings, is simply known as the Resident Representative. | |
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Paulo Abacar the Elder of Malê Rising, though he'd spit in your eye if you told him that. As the founder of the Sokoto Republic, Paulo was the man who held the nation through despite his aversion of absolute power. | |
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In the first two books of The Starchild Trilogy, the Planner is officially just the man in charge of making sure that the dictates of the great Planning Machine, which is in charge of protecting and preserving mankind, are carried out properly. In practice, of course, he has great latitude in interpreting the machine's instructions, and is a dictator in all but name. | |
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In Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto, Lorenzo de'Medici calls himself this, but the other leaders in Italy — namely, Cardinals Rodrigo Borgia and Giuliano Della Rovere — see through it, fearing the destabilizing effect his death will have on the political situation. The play ends before he dies, but he is known to be very ill. | |
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Some seventy years later in The Legend of Korra, Kuvira commands a massive army and is effectively the military dictator of the self-same nation - now the Earth Empire - but does not appear to hold any official rank whatsoever. She is referred to as the "Great Uniter", is addressed occasionally as "your Eminence", and Mako refers to her as "your emperor" in a conversation with one of her lieutenants, but those are just aliases/compliments, not actual titles. According to Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game, her official title was "Interim President". | |
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In Atlas Shrugged, the top U.S. governmental position is "Head of State," and its occupant is always referred to simply as "Mr. Thompson"; unimpressive titles both. It's a matter of speculation exactly why the United States no longer has a president in this Alternate History (have they formally abolished the US Constitution?); though Rand said that she wanted characters like Mr. Thompson to seem like mediocrities, and calling him "the President" would have given him a dignity he wasn't supposed to have. | |
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Meredith Stannard in Dragon Age II during the game's Act 3. On paper, she is merely the Knight-Commander of the Templars in Kirkwall, but following the Qunari invasion which results in the murder of the local ruler, she takes control of the free city as an transitional leader, but prevents elections to select a proper replacement to turn Kirkwall into a Police State. The only person capable of reining her in is Grand Cleric Elthina, and even she is very hands-off and mostly allows Meredith to do what she wants. | |
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While the default leader titles in Stellaris don't fit this, at least contextually (High Technician sounds a lot more impressive in a society centered around powerful computers calculating the most efficient ways of governance), they are subject to player customisation — so it is entirely possible to design a People's Republic governed by a First Citizen and have the government type be Despotic Empire | |
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The Prisoner (1967): An almost literal example, where every citizen of the Village is known by number rather than by name. The official in charge of the Village is known simply as "Number Two." (The nature of Number One is one of the arc mysteries.) | |
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The Prisoner (2009): The remake takes it even further, with there actually being no "Number One" and Number Two genuinely being the sole ruler. Apparently, the lack of a "Number One" is to remind the Villagers that they are all public servants, even their leader. (Apart from 2, the closest thing to a 1 is his wife, identified as M2.) | |
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For Want of a Nail has both of the dictators of the United States of Mexico doing this: Benito Hermion spends most of his reign after seizing power referring to himself by the simple title of "Chief of State", only shifting it to "Emperor of Mexico" near the end. And interestingly enough, it's only when he does that that Kramer Associates decide he's gone too far and engineer a coup to bring him down. Vincent Mercator later does this several different ways — first, after the Military Coup he engineers following the chaos of the Global War, he has his nominal superior Field Marshal Garcia rule as a Puppet King. Then, after a few years, he takes direct power but doesn't promote himself past his normal rank of Colonel. And finally, when he eventually sets up a facade of democracy, he doesn't get himself elected President, but rather settles for the position of Secretary of War (while the newly elected President is another Puppet King). |
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Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series: Two years after Return of the Jedi, Ysanne Isard has gained control of the largest Imperial Remnant faction and rules from Emperor Palpatine's palace on Imperial Center (i.e. Coruscant). She never changes her official title away from that of her prior post, Director of Imperial Intelligence. In the Legacy of the Force novel series, Darth Caedus (formerly Jacen Solo) is effectively the absolute ruler of the Galactic Federation of Free Aliances by the last novel of the series before being cut down by his sister Jaina Solo. However, he never takes any title more grandiose than his military rank of Colonel. |
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The title of "First Lord of the Star League" started out that way: A news broadcast graphic during the intro cutscene of the most recent game adaptation even outright describes him as "first among equals". Although despite the fact that the setting had been a Feudal Future for two hundred years at that point, the post didn't become a truly straight example until much later; initially there was a council of "High Lords" made up of the rulers of what would go on to become the Successor States, and the First Lord's ability to overrule them was greatly limited. The day when that ceased to be true is generally agreed to be the point when the Star League started to fall apart. | |
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1632: Mike Stearns goes through a handful of official titles, but they are mostly (at least to the ears of his 17th century contemporaries) relatively negligible. Prime Minister of the United States of Europe (before he - intentionally - loses reelection), a mere general among many in the army of Gustav Adolph of Sweden - the people however only refer to him as "the Prince of Germany" - a funny title for an erstwhile Union organizer from Appalachia. Prince also directly derives from the Latin Word princeps, the title the Trope Namer Augusts wanted to be referred to; it's no accident that the German word for it, Fürst, sounds like "first". | |
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Babylon 5: Averted Trope with Citizen G'Kar. He was offered absolute power for organizing the Narn Resistance and participating in the assassination of Emperor Cartagia, but he refused and only accepted his old position of an ambassador. Nevertheless, his fans continue to pester him until the end of the series. Indeed, they pester him more and call him a prophet after the accidental publication of his (unfinished) memoirs (whose philosophical content leads it to be declared a holy book, much to G'Kar's embarassment if not displeasure). | |
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In Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto, Cesare hears Lorenzo de'Medici referring to himself this way in a speech, and, this being the premier manga for beautifully illustrated history lectures, tells the reader all about how that was what Augustus called himself. | |
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In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Nines Rodriguez is very insistent that he is not a leader of the Anarchs, but just a soldier that's survived longer than any other (given that the Anarchs are, well, anarchists, pretending otherwise would be very hypocritical). Despite this, he's obviously the de facto leader of the Anarchs in downtown L.A., since they all look to him for leadership and follow his advice. Of course, given how the anarchs operate, he didn't exactly pick his role or take the position by free will, and is instead thrust into his position through respect from the other anarchs in Los Angeles. For a bit of contrast, we do have Isaac, the Baron of Hollywood, and he doesn't hold nearly as much authority over the Anarchs as Nines does, even with a title. |
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Crusader Kings II: If the Germanic (Norse/Saxon) pagan faith is reformed into an organized religion (The Old Gods DLC), the ruler who does the reforming almost always becomes a religious leader with secular power not unlike an Islamic caliph. The title of "fylkir" will display on their and their successors' character sheet in preference to any other title, and simply means "leader" in Norse. Other pagan reformers (available with the Holy Fury DLC) generally get a title meaning something like "high priest", e.g. Slavic pagans "velky volhv". | |
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Revolution: President and General Bass Monroe of the Monroe Republic. The name alone is scary enough. | |
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Dwarf Fortress: Rulers immediately lose their titles upon death and don't really reclaim them if reanimated as they aren't part of the civilization (which already has a ruler, on top), so the game has to resort to job titles. As a result, no matter how opulent the tomb or how important the interred one was to that civilization's history, disturb them and the mummy that rises to curse you for disturbing their peaceful slumber just bears a title like Beekeeper Mummy, Clothier Mummy or even Peasant Mummy. | |
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