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No One Sees the Boss

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No One Sees the Boss	comment	Hello, Troper. I see you've come to learn more about the No One Sees The Boss trope. Don't worry, I can take care of that for you. While I'm not the trope you're asking about, you can deal with me just as you would him. You see, no one sees that particular trope, ever. This trope (that is, the trope that is not me) is often used in conjunction with Mysterious Employer, The Don, the Big Bad, the Greater-Scope Villain, the God of Evil, the Hidden Villain, and villains which are Made of Evil, when the bad guy in question is The Ghost. Supposedly, the guy exists, and almost every person you see acts as his eyes and ears. At the same time, no one has any idea who they are or what they look like, or even if "they" really are a "they". There are also the examples where the Boss may want people to think they don't exist at all. They might employ one trusted servant whose job is to relay the Boss's words. Almost every ordeal the characters suffer through was caused, known, or controlled by them. Often, it's as simple as it sounds: The Boss exists, but is simply reclusive. But sometimes, the person in charge only exists as a title, rather than a name and is simply replaced by a successor if they die, step down or are killed by said successor. Other times, the Boss spends most of their time as a faceless mook and is Hidden in Plain Sight the whole time. And lastly, there's the version where there actually IS no Boss, and it's actually been the Dragon-in-Chief, The Omniscient Council of Vagueness or a Cult that's been running the show by pretending to follow The Master's orders. This can sometimes be used by the forces of good as well, but it's not very common. Some heroic cases where this may apply are Mission Control, The Chosen One, The Big Good or The Fake Ultimate Hero. This trope (which is certainly not speaking to you now) is a Sub-Trope of The Ghost, The Powers That Be, and The Masquerade in combination. Like the first two, the character never makes an appearance with enough weight to establish whether theyâ€™re real or not, but this is done deliberately either by the Mooks or the Manipulative Bastard themself. Sometimes, the Exact Words "no one sees the boss" are used, or some variation thereof like "no one knows what they look like" or "they may or may not exist". Any information given will usually be Shrouded in Myth like, "I heard the boss was born after Cthulhu raped Beelzebub and the baby clawed their way out of the womb and ate both parents' souls". Before The Reveal (if there is one), any origin will be Multiple-Choice Past. The point is, if it's not being done in-universe, it's not this trope. Usually, the audience doesn't even know themselves, but this tends to vary depending on its importance as a Plot Twist. See also Shadow Dictator. If the Boss's shadowy image is more ominous than their actual character, they may also be The Man Behind the Curtain. Now, please write your examples below, my Troper friend. I am sure that the real No One Sees The Boss trope will put them on display so fast that it'll almost seem as though they were on this page the whole time...
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No One Sees the Boss / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Although he's supposedly "all-powerful", Prismo answers to an unseen and unnamed superior who is heavily implied to be the Top God of the setting. We never see or hear this boss, at best they communicate to subordinates via a golden handset that has one angel wing and one devil wing that descends from some unknown location (seen in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake).
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No One Sees the Boss / int_13d88835	comment	Cowboy Bebop (2021). The Syndicate is run by three Elders who keep their faces hidden behind masks. After Vicious launches The Coup to kill them and take over the Syndicate himself, his wife Julia deposes him in turn, chaining Vicious up in her basement. She tells him that given this tradition no-one will think it strange if she ostensibly relays his orders while secretly running the Syndicate herself.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_1eaa5fe5	comment	Rogue Planet: The mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot is ruled by "The Magistrate", who very few people ever get to see, who lives off in an isolated palace far from the inhabited parts of the planet. Anakin and Obi-Wan get a rare invitation to meet him, but Obi-Wan feels something's subtly off about the affair. Actually, the real Magistrate's been dead for several years, and the palace destroyed. Sekot herself has been filling in with a hologram to try and avoid suspicion.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_21810fae	comment	RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: In the non-canon Nightmares Yet to Come, the shadowy group of ponies responsible for the plot operate like this when dealing with victims (with the hint that there's some Mouth of Sauron action going on when the head honcho wants to speak to someone). When they rough up Greengrass, he demands to speak to the one in charge. They show up, and it becomes clear that it's stopped being a conversation Greengrass is going to walk away from.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_227431b6	comment	In Runaways, the 1900's gang called the Sinners were run by a mysterious pair whom only the Maneater ever saw. This is because the bosses were Dale and Stacey Yorkes, Gert's time-travelling criminal parents. This creates some serious problems when Chase and Xavin try to join the Sinners.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_25cf8a59	comment	The Shadowy Figure of Stinkoman 20X6 is always shown as a silhouette, even during Level 10 when he becomes a recurring enemy. He finally subverts this in his boss fight, where he reveals himself as Z Sabre, the 20X6 version of Coach Z.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_261c8d3f	comment	Parodied in The Simpsons two-part episode "The Great Phatsby". Homer and Mr. Burns gate-crash a party at a mansion and desperately want to know who's it is. After getting answers like "No one's ever seen him" and "There are rumors' he doesn't exist" from a bunch of people one person just calmly points them to his office.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_26674ed5	comment	"The Colonel" in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Specifically, at one point you're directly asked if you've ever met him in person or know any name for him besides "The Colonel". Raiden can't give a good answer, and it's because The Colonel is essentially an AI construct who was never a real person.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_266e6d91	comment	Don't Care High: The Principal has abandoned any effort to exert authority over the school, and the students don't even know his name. He just spends all day in his office, working on PA announcements which emphasize the Sucky School nature of the place and which he reads off like comedy sketches while doing his best to avoid dealing with anyone or anything else.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_2847c135	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The mysterious mastermind behind Project Centipede, known only as The Clairvoyant. He seems to live up to the name, staying several steps ahead of the SHIELD agents as if he can read their minds and foresee their actions. The Clairvoyant never meets anyone in person, giving orders to Centipede operatives only by telephone or text message. In reality, he is a turncoat SHIELD agent with high-level security clearance, which he uses to read SHIELD's files (including the psychological profiles, mission reports, and planning documents of other agents).
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No One Sees the Boss / int_3106477d	comment	There was a story arc in The Phantom newspaper comic where the Phantom busted a gang whose leader spoke to his underlings via radio from a secret location and had never been seen. He turned out to be the mousy-looking accountant type who collected the gang's takings.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_32422cb3	comment	Robin Masters from Magnum, P.I., with Higgins as his front man. The last episode seemed to clear it up, but then...
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No One Sees the Boss / int_376264ab	comment	Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov, revolves around the enigmatic Mule- a galactic conqueror who orchestrates a takeover of the entire galaxy. Despite the Mule's description being revealed in the very first words of the book, this is later discounted. Throughout the story, the Mule himself, his appearance, and the equally mysterious power that enabled him to overthrow the galactic authorities so quickly, are kept under absolute secrecy by his forces. And then, at the end, It turns out he was with the main characters the whole time.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_37a9b865	comment	Nightfall (1990), by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg: Mondior, leader of the Apostles of the Flame cult, turns out to be fictitious (seen only in video simulations). His "spokesman", Folimun, is the real leader of the group.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_39f32df7	comment	The unseen head of SPECTRE in From Russia with Love and Thunderball, whose identity is concealed even from his own criminal executives (but not his Right-Hand Cat). The following film You Only Live Twice had Blofeld's identity revealed to the audience, and he works among hundreds of mooks who see his face without a care.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_43576f5	comment	In Supernatural, this trope is the reason that Heaven is so screwed up. Apparently only four angels have ever actually seen God, which doesn't include Joshua, the only angel He seems to really talk to. As a result, half of the angels don't even believe God exists and some of them have decided that there's no point trying to obey their errant father and that they might as well do whatever they want. The few who do believe in their Father and are loyal to Him express it in different ways, and the whole situation eventually degenerates into an outright civil war.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_43f52aa9	comment	Count Hassildor of Skingrad in Oblivion is famously reclusive, unusually Long-Lived, rumoured to be a powerful sorcerer, and well-loved by his subjects despite his isolation. His affairs are managed by his stewards, who are quick to remind people that he doesn't take visitors. When the player persists in requesting a meeting, it's revealed that the Count is actually a vampire, but a good guy and a conscientious ruler nonetheless.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_4505668c	comment	The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: Adam Selene, leader of the Revolution. Plenty of people see him on video screens, but no one gets to meet him in person, because he doesn't actually exist. He's a figurehead invented by the real mastermind of the Revolution, whose true identity is concealed from almost everyone because he's a sentient computer. When Adam Selene addresses the citizens of Free Luna, the video and audio are entirely computer-generated.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_4bcaa9d6	comment	Triptych Continuum: Murdocks, the head of the eponymous anti-Diarchy news group, conspicuously never appears in public, sending underlings on his behalf to all negotiations and interactions, and when someone starts asking one of those underlings questions about Murdocks, the underling freaks out.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_4d5b6107	comment	There's a popular adage: "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist." That specific phrasing was popularised by The Usual Suspects, but it's actually a much older idea.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_4ea10091	comment	In Grandia II, The God of Light, Granas, has been dead for centuries and the pope of the church that supposedly worships him is actually devoted to Valmar, the God of Darkness.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_4f9a3b9f	comment	In Plain Sight, the US Marshals transport a man who is the go-between for a mysterious female assassin known as "Lola", who agreed to inform on her after being caught in a sting. It turns out There is no "Lola", he is the assassin, and he let himself be caught just so he could get at a target in the jail he was being held at, confident his lieutenants would free him from the marshals.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_510a425b	comment	In The Man Who Was Thursday, the Big Good who hired all the policemen to infiltrate the anarchists has never actually been seen, allowing each policeman only one brief conversation in a darkened room. Meanwhile, no one seems to have met the Big Bad Sunday at all. They're the same person.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_533dcd8e	comment	Rio Lobo: Ever since first establishing his hold over the area, sinister land baron Ketcham rarely ventures off his well-guarded ranch, leaving Sheriff Hendricks to oversee his interests, and rule over the townspeople. This is implied to be motivated by cowardice, given the number of enemies he has.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_5666e22b	comment	In the Deptford Mice trilogy, no one has ever seen the Big Bad living God of Evil Jupiter, not even the rats who worship him. He can see things anywhere through an extension of himself in Madame Akkikuyu's Crystal Ball. It turns out the reason he never lets his rat minions see him because he's actually a monstrous cat.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: Mr House runs New Vegas with a force of Securitron robots and the three tribes brought in to run the casinos, following his edicts from the sealed tower of the Lucky 38 casino. Even when the Courier becomes the first person to enter the Lucky 38 in memory, House communicates with them through a computer console. This leads to some of House's disgruntled underlings to refer to him as "Mr. Not-At-Home." If the player decides to break in to his chamber and kill him, the Courier discovers a withered husk of a man who has been in suspended animation for 200 years.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond The unseen head of SPECTRE in From Russia with Love and Thunderball, whose identity is concealed even from his own criminal executives (but not his Right-Hand Cat). The following film You Only Live Twice had Blofeld's identity revealed to the audience, and he works among hundreds of mooks who see his face without a care. Used for a Bait-and-Switch in Octopussy. The title character's face is not revealed to the audience until Bond meets her face-to-face, making it look like she's a Blofeld-type villain. However while she is the leader of a criminal organisation, she turns out to have no hostile intent towards Bond.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_607f6b7	comment	From Inspector Gadget, Doctor Claw.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_611c72dc	comment	In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse Section 31 novels, the eponymous organisation is run by a figure called Control, who only appears to the Directors, and even then only as a Sinister Silhouette generically-humanoid hologram with a disguised voice. It's generally believed by the Directors that one of them could eventually succeed to the position, but further research suggests that this has never happened. Control is actually a three-hundred-year-old AI data monitoring program that decided "report any suspicious activity to appropriate authorities" wasn't enough of a response.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_69bb33c	comment	Talzo's boss in Kirby Adventure stays hidden in the shadows for most of the comic and makes very few appearances, with our heroes not even becoming aware of his existence until much later on. He is eventually revealed to be Miracle Matter.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_6abf16c2	comment	Big Finish Doctor Who: In "Spare Parts", no-one on Mondas sees The Committee anymore. Because the Committee no longer exist as individuals. When the Doctor goes investigating the palace they reside in, their room is empty. They've become the first Cyber-Planner.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_6c1d09b3	comment	President Eden, leader of the Enclave in Fallout 3, is unseen, with Dragon Colonel Autumn, being the only one who knows his true identity. He seems to spend his time broadcasting messages about the glory of pre-nuclear holocaust America that they will restore on the Enclave's radio station. Eden is later revealed to be an Artificial Intelligence on a mainframe computer which runs for Raven Rock, who took over the Enclave after the previous leader was killed.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_6e1b85a0	comment	Sam Gold in Revolver (2005). He does exist. Kinda. But he's all in your head. Sorta. He's in everybody's heads. Metaphorically True. And he's also Satan. Maybe. This movie is weird like that.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_6ed09d93	comment	The monsters of Big Mouth and Human Resources get their assignments from a tube and seem to know nothing about the person in charge, in the season 5 finale Nick after reaching a Rage Breaking Point insists on seeing him to complain about the monsters he's gotten so far and after pushing his way into his office, finds out it a fully live-action Nick Kroll the creator of the show.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender has a variant, with a twist: The Dai Li do this with the Earth King, in order to enforce their chief Long Feng's monopoly on his ear and control of his authority. The Gaang eventually had to fight their way into his throne room, and then found out that he didn't even know of the Forever War with the Fire Nation.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect: The Illusive Man is a version of this. He's a Control Freak who likes to keep tabs on his operatives, but face-to-face interaction with anyone outside them is apparently quite rare. Shepard is a unique case, which early in Mass Effect 2 Miranda is a little sore about. The Shadow Broker has never been seen by anyone—not even his closest operatives. Turns out that the Broker is a Legacy Character, the current iteration being a yahg, a primitive species that are pretty much good at anything they care to try. He's later killed by Shepard and Liara, and to cement how good he was at his job, Liara takes his place without anyone knowing there was a change. In fact, this is exactly how the yahg took control from the previous Broker.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_7f51ba9e	comment	Near the end of Paradox Bound, after the death of Archibald Truss, one of his Bodyguard Babes (the other one was killed too) plans to run his banking empire in this manner, acting as his errand girl, while actually making all the decisions herself.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_8ba4613a	comment	L from Death Note counts in the first volume. For all intents and purposes he fits as a Big Good version, but his character is fully introduced in only the second of twelve volumes (his name remains a mystery).
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No One Sees the Boss / int_8d817ccb	comment	Up until the very end of Season 5, Jacob in Lost appears to give some sort of orders but is never seen. When Locke demands in Season 3 that Ben take him to see Jacob, it turns out that Jacob apparently doesn't exist at all... or does he?
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No One Sees the Boss / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: In one episode, the errand boy is actually the boss, but nobody realises because the real boss was around, but is now in a coma. Another episode centers around a street gang whose leader only communicates with one lieutenant via email, because the lieutenant murdered him and has been emailing himself to become the gang's de facto leader.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_8d84a932	comment	In the first half or so season of Soap, the head of the Mafia was like this. (He later appeared, negating his this-trope-ness.)
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No One Sees the Boss / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: Sir from the fourth book constantly has his face surrounded by a cloud of cigar smoke, so even though he frequently occupies the same room as the protagonists, they never actually see him, at one point making them wonder if he is Count Olaf in disguise. Babs in the eighth book has the belief that "Children should be seen and not heard", therefore as she is an adult, she should be heard and not seen. Because of this, she communicates with all of her employees of an intercom system, even going as far as to never enter her own office, and instead places a intercom on her desk to speak to whomever enters.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_9096e12c	comment	CarnivÃ le gave us Management, who never emerges from his caravan and has his orders relayed by Samson. Once Jonesy works up the courage to enter the caravan only to find it empty. Samson claims that Management has the power to make himself incorporeal, but Jonesy naturally thinks Samson is just pulling the fake boss trick on them. At the end of the episode however, Samson enters the caravan and gets spoken to by Management directly. He still remains The Faceless until Season 2, where it's revealed that his self-isolation is mainly because he lost an arm and both legs during World War One.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_914ba844	comment	The Wizard of Oz: "But nobody can see the Great Oz! Nobody's ever seen the Great Oz! Even I've never seen him!" Turns out there's a good reason for that.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_93f15e1d	comment	Goth, the big boss of the syndicate in Et Cetera, due to highly-secretive and indirect contact being enforced among the higher-ranks in order to keep the drug operations running. As such, he isn't seen at all until the final book.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_95521c97	comment	In The Spectacular Spider-Man, no one but Hammerhead ever gets to meet the Big Man, New York's premier gang lord. His organization either take their orders from Hammerhead or more rarely get to talk to the Big Man over speakerphone (overseen by Hammerhead). This is because the Big Man is a well-known and respected philanthropist who can't risk anyone being able to connect him to the underworld. Subverted in Season 2, when the Big Man starts losing faith in Hammerhead's competence and begins meeting with his henchmen in person, causing Hammerhead to turn Starscream against him.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Wilson Fisk keeps himself very insulated from the criminal activity he is overseeing, and that extends to having the majority of his henchmen get their orders from an intermediary rather than from Fisk directly. In the first season, Fisk has almost all of his orders relayed to his underlings by James Wesley, up until Wesley is murdered by Karen Page. His downfall ends up happening when Nelson & Murdock get their hands on Carl Hoffman, a corrupt cop that Fisk had personally intimidated into killing his hospitalized partner to keep from talking. In the third season, Fisk is under "house arrest", which means that he's able to give direct orders to the corrupt FBI agents ostensibly "guarding" him. For other henchmen, he has Felix Manning act as an intermediary to relay his orders.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_9c038f65	comment	Accidental Detectives: In Sunrise at The Mayan Temple, SeÃ±or Castillo, the owner of the archeological site, is constantly away on business while his assistant Roderick Kay manages things. Many of the locals believe Castillo to to be the embodiment of a god demanding Human Sacrifice, while Kay claims that there are rumors that Castillo is dead; having been sacrificed to that very God, and the local police consider him a person of interest in smuggling operations. It eventually turns turns out that Castillo is an Invented Individual and Kay is the real boss.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind By the time of the game, the Tribunal were forced into this after Dagoth Ur cut them off from their source of power. Previously, Vivec and Almalexia walked and worked among their people, offering guidance and performing miracles. Now, they remain almost exclusively in their temples, communicating with only a few high ranking Temple officials and personal guards. The third Tribunal god, Sotha Sil, was reclusive to begin with and has gone so far into seclusion that even Temple officials can admit they don't actually have any contact with him (they don't even know where he is, as his Clockwork City is hidden). While most of the Thieves' Guild hideouts are Open Secrets, the actual Guild Master stays well hidden. You'll only find out where he hides out once you've risen to a high rank in the Guild. Justified, since he is a high priority target for the rival Cammona Tong. Count Hassildor of Skingrad in Oblivion is famously reclusive, unusually Long-Lived, rumoured to be a powerful sorcerer, and well-loved by his subjects despite his isolation. His affairs are managed by his stewards, who are quick to remind people that he doesn't take visitors. When the player persists in requesting a meeting, it's revealed that the Count is actually a vampire, but a good guy and a conscientious ruler nonetheless.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece has a few examples: Crocodile, Hero of Alabasta, turns out to be Mr. 0, leader of the Baroque Works organization, fomenting revolt. We, the audience, know this right away, but In-Universe agents of his organization are kept in the dark, only receiving orders through The Dragon, Miss All-Sunday. The fact that Vivi, an infiltrator to Baroque Works, learned this information (which she relays to the Straw Hats and the audience) is why she's marked for death by the organization. The World Government runs on this trope. Few have ever seen the Five Elder Stars and interacted with them, and only they know Imu, their only superior, exists at all. The former is outright enforced by law: Marines that aren't at least a Rear Admiral are strictly forbidden from laying eyes on the Elder Stars, and there's no indication what happens to civilians who do the same (but considering how fond the World Nobles the Elders lead are of having people Made a Slave, it's likely not good). In the Egghead arc, Saint Jaygarcia Saturn arrives on Egghead, and is seen by a low-ranking Marine - the Elder in question blows off his head with a glance for his insolence. More than once, we're told that the Four Emperors hold such an iron grip on the New World and have so many territories and powerful subordinates under their control, a lone pirate group attempting to challenge one of them would be unlikely to even see the Emperor, never mind get a chance to fight them.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_9e81cf3c	comment	In The Goon no one sees Labrazio, as he conducts all his business through the Goon. Because the Goon killed him years ago.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_a2abcb5e	comment	Played with in Keeping Up Appearances. When Hyacinth travels on the QE2 cruise ship, she is desperate to meet the captain, and to dine at his table. When all her efforts to meet him fail, she then wonders if the crew have lost the captain.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_a2add1d3	comment	In Splatoon 2's Salmon Run mode, Mr. Grizz is portrayed as just a bear statue with an antenna on it, and the player never gets to see who is really speaking through said statue. Splatoon 3 reveals that this is because he has bigger fish to fry...
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No One Sees the Boss / int_a33d74a4	comment	The Creator in Sword of Truth. While the earlier books almost flat out show that he exists, later books start to imply that he's a figurative entity that has no actual consciousness, but is the essence of all good and righteousness. The same is NOT true of his opposite, the Keeper of the Underworld.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_a806ea97	comment	In Garrett, P.I., crime boss Chodo Contague has a stroke and his daughter Belinda takes over his organization, claiming to relay his orders.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_ac8b90f5	comment	In Mage: The Ascension, no one ever sees the members of the Technocracy's inner council, though you may be promoted to join the inner circle if you prove yourself competent enough. The problem is that the image of unseen leaders is so ingrained in the organization, and since the Technocracy are Mages despite their insistence otherwise, anyone who gets promoted in the inner council will cease to exist and become part of the Hive Mind haunting the council room.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	Jade Empire has a rare heroic example in Master Radiant, head of the Black Leopard School. None of the students see him personally, save for the most senior student and his assistant, First Brother. This is because Master Smiling Hawk drained Master Radiant's energy, killing Radiant and resulting in him becoming a ghost. Depending on how you complete the quest, Radiant will either die at your hands or leave First Brother in charge of the school.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Danger Mouse tries to talk to the U.S. President in "The Statue Of Liberty Caper," but the Commander-In-Chief is surrounded by Secret Service agents.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_b27fdd6d	comment	Catch-22: Major Major Major Major has left explicit orders that no one is to be let in to his office while he is occupying it. Major Major Major Major has left; you can go in now.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_b565ccc5	comment	Loki (2021): The Time Variance Authority is run by "The Time-Keepers", three mysterious beings who oversee the proper flow of time. While they appear in artwork throughout the TVA's offices and orientation videos, the only person allowed to meet with them in person is Judge Ravonna Renslayer. After being captured Loki and Sylvie are finally granted an audience with the mysterious beings. The Time-Keepers turn out to be elaborate animatronics acting as a front for "He Who Remains", a Variant of Kang the Conqueror who's the real creator of the TVA.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind By the time of the game, the Tribunal were forced into this after Dagoth Ur cut them off from their source of power. Previously, Vivec and Almalexia walked and worked among their people, offering guidance and performing miracles. Now, they remain almost exclusively in their temples, communicating with only a few high ranking Temple officials and personal guards. The third Tribunal god, Sotha Sil, was reclusive to begin with and has gone so far into seclusion that even Temple officials can admit they don't actually have any contact with him (they don't even know where he is, as his Clockwork City is hidden). While most of the Thieves' Guild hideouts are Open Secrets, the actual Guild Master stays well hidden. You'll only find out where he hides out once you've risen to a high rank in the Guild. Justified, since he is a high priority target for the rival Cammona Tong.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_bdb01400	comment	Arachnid has this secret international organization of bug-themed assassins which is managed by front man Suzumebachi. Its members believe he is in fact the boss, but he states the real boss is already overseeing the Arachnid Hunt contest inside the Ouran High School. We soon learn that the boss is the local Student Council President, a creepy young girl named Sara. However, it turns out neither she nor the one she is revealed to be a servant of are really the boss. The actual boss is Yoriko, the heroine's supposed first friend. She has been in control of Japan for the past century thanks to a condition that makes her ageless for as long as she is able to mantain absolute mental control over somebody.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_bf0710c5	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: (Captain) Jack believes this to be the case when no one has seen the captain or heard him, instead taking orders from the first mate (his purported daughter), and starts a mutiny by getting the crew to realize it. Unfortunately, this backfires when it turns out Blackbeard is in fact very much present and in command.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_c5549725	comment	Maul: Lockdown: Radique is a powerful intergalactic arms dealer operating within the prison. Many (including the warden) believe that he's an Invented Individual. Maul begins to suspect he's Hidden in Plain Sight, posing as another prisoner. Neither is true. Radique is hiding in the prison's tunnel system.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_ca08598f	comment	In The Wire, an international crime syndicate is headed by a mysterious man known as "The Greek" who nobody outside the organization ever sees, regardless of how important their connection to the syndicate is. Instead, outsiders meet with The Greek's Number Two, a man called Spiros, usually at a run down little Greek diner with just a couple of booths and a little bar area. Everyone wonders who The Greek is, and no one ever realizes that he's the little old man with a kindly appearance who sips coffee and reads the newspaper at the bar, sitting just close enough to listen to Spiros and the people he talks with.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_cb07578d	comment	Snowpiercer: Mr. Wilford, the head of the train, never leaves the engine room and passes up most to all opportunities to speak to the train over the intercom. Until the last twenty minutes of the movie the audience could be forgiven for wondering whether or not he's an Invented Individual.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_cc019e34	comment	The mysterious boss in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse who gives out his orders from behind a curtain.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_cca936c2	comment	In The Sleeping Cardinal, Holmes explains that none of Moriarty's underlings know what he looks like, meaning none of them can implicate him if they are caught. He is shown delivering his threats to Roland Adair from behind a portrait of "The Sleeping Cardinal" and giving orders to the forger Godfrey through a speaker in the ventilator.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_d03aeb13	comment	In the Fall from Heaven II mod for Civilization IV, Sabathiel is never seen except by a few high priests. He actually left and the priests are ruling in his name
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No One Sees the Boss / int_d2050b4c	comment	In Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, the Empress Of Time fits this trope, since her real identity is Kaileena, and her own underlings actually attempt to kill her at some points of the story.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_d6d59994	comment	Cool McCool: Always obscured by his huge chair, the only part of Cool's boss Number One ever shown are his arms, hands and a cigar.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_d77bd5a0	comment	The Apple Dumpling Gang: In the sequel, Big Mac is the unofficial boss of Bridger Military Prison and never comes out to the exercise yard.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_e278316b	comment	Number One in The Prisoner (1967), until the final episode anyway. Except not. Maybe.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_e8a0848c	comment	The Invisible Detective: Private Detective Brandon Lake only ever talks to people besides his Baker Street Regulars from behind a silhouette-outlining curtain and recruits Charles, the Earl of Frotherington to be his representative in meeting people who want regular updates from a respectable adult about his cases. Lake is an Invented Individual, with one of "his" regulars (Art) providing the silhouette and voice while wearing oversized clothes, while another (Jonny) uses a fishing rod to send messages from the others down to Art whenever he doesn't know what to say to Lake's visitors.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_e8bf42fd	comment	In Squid Game, the host of the Deadly Game is unseen for most of the series, and only the Front Man, the overseer of the games, communicates with him directly, even when the VIPs arrive to watch the games. At the end of the series, it turns out that the host is Oh Il-nam, the old man who competed in the games as Player #001, and supposedly died during the fourth game.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda: The mysterious benefactor behind the Initiative only acts via intermediaries, and in a flashback we do get to hear them speaking to Alec Ryder through a screen, which shifts from species to species every few seconds.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_ee916cd0	comment	Boy's Life: Moorwood Thaxter owns most of the big businesses and mortgages in town, and his word can dictate town policy. Moorwood hasn't been seen in public in years, though, and his Crazy Sane son Vernon announces his wishes to the town, with Tom suspecting that Vernon frequently lies about whether his dad actually wants something done due to how much nicer and community-minded Moorwood's supposed orders have gotten since Vernon began delivering them.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_f104cbdb	comment	In Vexxarr, Vexxarr is arrested by some kind of A.I.s who unquestioningly obey the "Master", who they never disturb in case he might be in deep meditation. When Vexxarr finally talks his way into a private audience, it turns out that the Master is a skeleton sixty years dead, having died when the ship's life support was ruined in a long-ago battle.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_f2ce02ea	comment	One Key & Peele sketch had Peele as an office worker who was constantly being given bad news by Key's character allegedly from a boss he's never seen. Suspicious, he eventually barged into his office and saw a broom puppet.... which then got up and started yelling at him.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_f36a428d	comment	In Bridge of Birds, nobody communicates with the current Duke of Qin except through his assistant, a timid little man called the Key Rabbit, who serves as an intermediary and holds the keys, as the name suggests. This is because he is in fact the Duke, Qin Shi Huangdi himself, having become immortal and apparently less recognizable than the portraits would suggest.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_f53fe2fa	comment	In one episode of Mission: Impossible, the IMF infiltrate a conspiracy of former Nazi leaders intent on establishing a Fourth Reich, allegedly lead by a bedridden official from Hitler's original Third Reich, whose bed is obscured by a curtain and who always gives orders through his Dragon. When it turns out the leader is just a dummy and a series of tape recordings, Rollin poses as the official (claiming to be recovering from his illness) in order to drive a wedge between the dragon, who knows the man doesn't exist and that Rollin can only be an impostor, and the rest of the conspiracy, who do not, and believe that the dragon is irrationally attacking their beloved leader.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_f7355f1e	comment	Remington Steele: Miss Holt named the eponymous agency because she didn't think she'd be hired if people didn't believe there was a man at the helm, sending her on her assignments. This trope starts out being placed perfectly straight, but then a man actually did show up to take on the role and name.
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No One Sees the Boss / int_ff2165b	comment	In Cold Case, a circus is ostensibly run by "Management". When pressed, the little person, who manages the carnies, replies that it's a group of investors from various parts of the world. It actually turns out to be the circus's resident giant, who is actually smarter than he lets on and is the real killer.
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