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Pointy-Haired Boss

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Pointy-Haired Boss	comment	While The Peter Principle states that all managers are incompetent by definition, The Dilbert Principle claims that the most incompetent and irrational workers will be Kicked Upstairs to a managerial role with an opaque title and few (if any) tangible deliverables note Manager of Strategic Horizontal Liaison Initiatives, so they will no longer disturb the productive flow (at least in theory) of the organization's real work. This is the origin of the Pointy-Haired Boss. Incompetence, Inc. is the natural habitat of the PHB, but just about any organization with a large hierarchy will do. Occasionally he will be surrounded by very competent workers when Conservation of Competence is in effect. Very often such a boss is not merely incompetent but evil; the kind of guy who takes all the credit for their employees' success but blames them for their own failures. In these cases they can be more contemptible than the CEO whom they serve: while the CEO is only concerned with padding the bottom line (thereby keeping the company humming along), the Pointy-Haired Boss will sink to any depths to protect their job—a job little better than that of their subordinates, yet one the PHB is completely unqualified for—and will cut the knees out from under employees to make themselves look competent. On other occasions, they may have been competent and serious about their job at one point or another, but a combination of having to deal with a bunch of angry employees with (frequently unfounded) axes to grind and higher-ups who were around only to micromanage to hell and back and act as nuisances eventually drove them to stop giving a damn altogether and be just barely competent enough to not attract the ire of the upper management. Less experienced examples may instead feel overwhelmed or unprepared, especially if they're leading an unfamiliar team, and thus compensate by leading with an iron fist and using lots of Make an Example of Them to show employees just how much they mean business; the likelihood of this happening rises greatly if they suspect that their inexperience is being taken advantage of. This typically leads to a vicious cycle, as the people under them will rightly view them as power-tripping assholes who don't know how to lead, which leads to even more excessive displays of dominance, which in turn causes the employees to hate them even more, and the cycle continues until the manager is reassigned or fired or the employees mutiny. Occasionally they'll also hold the title of Benevolent Boss as well if they're not too competent at handling the actual work yet have the social intelligence to deal wisely with their workers. All too often this is Truth in Television; one technical term is "manglement", a portmanteau of "mangle" and "management". Compare with the military's General Failure. Shares a lot of overlap with a Clueless Boss. Though not unheard of, this trope has nothing to do with actual, pointy-haired bosses or Boss Battles. Not to be confused with bosses with Spiky Hair.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_10bc0a19	comment	Night Watch Discworld gives us two examples in the past version of the title organization. The first is Captain Tilden, a decent enough man who was a competent military leader, but is woefully unqualified to run a police organization. The (largely corrupt) Watch runs rings around him. Later on he is replaced with the future Lord Rust, a General Failure who is a far more dangerous sort of stupid. Vimes winds up laying him out with a single punch and effectively taking command himself (which he was arguably doing anyway under Tilden).
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_13a8a9fe	comment	The actual medieval ruling family in Magic 2.0 is revealed to be deeply stupid and must be constantly managed by the wizards to prevent disastrous decisions.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_14a837ea	comment	Dr. Phage in Awful Hospital, though it's not so much a case of idiocy as it is a case of being insanely weird even by the hospital's standards, along with a bad, bad case of Blue-and-Orange Morality. His thought process is so darned alien he looks like an utter moron.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_15bd4cf4	comment	Hamnpork, leader of the Clan in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, didn't take the shift to sentience particularly well, being fairly old at the time. By the time the book rolls around, Hamnpork is reduced to being a figurehead for Peaches and Darktan. However, unlike most pointy-haired bosses, Hamnpork is well aware that his leadership qualifications are from a different time, and while he is clearly unhappy about it, he is willing to let Darktan and Peaches call the shots and quietly groom Darktan as his successor. Also, while Hamnpork isn't much of a peacetime leader, he is a highly competent scrapper and solid, if unimaginative, small-unit tactician (he managed to gain and hold authority well into his old age, at a time when Asskicking Leads to Leadership was in full effect) and puts those skills to good use when called upon to do so.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_168c4727	comment	In Guild Wars 2 the Arcane Council ostensibly represents the best and brightest of the Asura race, but in actuality it consists of those lacking the political savvy or intelligence to avoid being Kicked Upstairs. Unfortunately this means the Asuran governing body is prone to poor decisions and sharing their own misery with everyone else.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_18a82dcc	comment	Grossology: The Director, whose lack of competence at his job can largely be narrowed down to the fact that someone thought it would be a good idea to make a neurotic Neat Freak the head of an agency that specializes in dealing with disgusting things.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_1946778	comment	Commander Alvin Theodora from Demon Fist fits this perfectly, although he got his position by nepotism rather than being Kicked Upstairs. Idiot? Check. Doesn't realize it? Check. Rude and dismissive to subordinates? Check. Narcissist? Double check.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_26ef42e7	comment	George Fennec of Kevin & Kell is owner of Hare-Link, but only got that position because his daughter, the former owner, wanted to avoid a potential conflict of interest situation when her mother wanted her to promote her new stepfather. He makes hardly any useful decisions for the business except for once filling in for Kevin as a representative for a deal with Carrot Computers, and tends to be quite distracting. When he passes out after it dawns on him that his pregnant rabbit wife will likely have a litter of babies rather than just onenote It really is just one, though, Kevin notes that they can finally get some work done. George is actually a benign example. His ex-wife was emotionally blackmailing their daughter into firing her boyfriend's father and promoting her step-father, and Fionna did not want, so that George offered her a way-out. And he seldom makes business decisions because he trusts Kevin to run the company with as little interference as possible, since Kevin had been the company founding and owner for the longest time.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_2777c062	comment	In Are You Being Served?, much of the senior staff at Grace Brothers could fit this category. Mr. Rumbold is the most blatant example, but a recurring theme is that everyone in a position of authority at the store is incompetent in one way or another; Captain Peacock is a blowhard, Mrs. Slocombe is far too self-absorbed to be much help to anything except for her pussy, Mr. Grainger is worn-out and well past the point when he should have retired, and Young Mr. Grace is virtually senile. Only Mr. Humphries can handle additional responsibilities while escaping mostly unscathed.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_2d1084bc	comment	Beavis And Butthead: The manager of Burger World has to deal with Beavis and Butt-Head's shenanigans — constantly goofing off at work, harassing customers and delaying/withdrawing their orders, having no standards of sanitation when dealing with the food (which has gotten the place shut down by the health department more than once), etc. And yet, he never even bothers to fire them for any of this or keep them in line, instead just telling them to get back to work.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_2ec27115	comment	Teen Titans Go!: Robin is literally and figuratively a Pointy-Haired Boss.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_305df7a4	comment	Rose Trellis (at least most of the time) in On the Fastrack.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_34e5ea29	comment	A Mr. Show sketch about downsizing features a boss (played by Tom Kenny) who ends up firing many of his employees in order to boost profits... then notices he's the only one sitting at the table. Realizing he's the only one left, he goes mad from the isolation until his assistant brings him back to earth. He thanks her then fires her.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia has the CPU services. While every service has a few of these (read: everyone in it above the Troubleshooters' clearance, plus everyone at the Troubleshooters' clearance, plus the T-Shooters), only CPU will deliberately promote them.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_3873ab30	comment	Gene Crenshaw from The Speed of Dark rose to the top through his skill at bossing people around despite having no practical abilities. He tries to either shut down the autistics' section or force them all into a cure because he thinks their accommodations are too expensive, even though they're some of the most productive workers in the company. He also disrupts the middle managers' work by calling pointless meetings just so he can look important in the big chair. When one of his underlings dares to complain about his unwillingness to work with the team, he says, "I'm a natural leader. My personality profile shows I'm cut out to be a captain, not crew.â€¦ My gift is inspiring others and giving a strong lead."
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_38edabf0	comment	Bill Lumbergh in Office Space doesn't do much besides orchestrating useless events and badger his employees, who universally dislike him. He puts up a veneer of affability, but reveals himself to be a Mean Boss in the only time he has to actually do something — namely, instead of informing Milton that he's being let go due to downsizing, he quietly moves his office to the basement and has him kill cockroaches after he's already been removed from the company payroll. Even the two hatchetmen he hired start grilling him after getting an inkling about how he's run Initech.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: Fudge is definitely there by the fifth book, though Hagrid's remarks about him in the first book suggest that he was never a particularly effective leader. Even before he takes his level in jerkass, he is willing to send Hagrid to Azkaban on the mere suspicion of having opened the Chamber of Secrets just so that the Ministry appears to be taking action, and considering the nature of Azkaban, that's not a very nice thing to do.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_3c20669a	comment	Pie in the Sky: Assistant Chief Constable Fisher has risen to his current rank by politicking and taking credit for the hard work of others, primarily Detective Inspector Crabbe. He is often seen trying to manipulate events to his own advantage, with a tendency for his manipulations to blow up in his face. Crabbe describes him as possessing a "strange mixture of complete stupidity and naked ambition".
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_3c3aec97	comment	Paradise PD: Chief Randall Crawford specializes in cutting corners, resulting in an unkept working environment; he sets up a prohibition just to spite his wife (who is also the mayor of Paradise); he gets distracted during most of his cases; and he fails to keep his dysfunctional workers in line.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_3cbd6db6	comment	In Reaper there's Ted, the manager of The Work Bench who skirts the line between this and Bunny-Ears Lawyer. While Ted is a jerk that almost no-one likes, he seems fairly good at his actual job. It doesn't help that the main characters are slackers with bigger fish to fry. Until he gets fired, for excellent reason. His replacement, Andi, is more willing to let their habits slide.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_3f10d191	comment	M. Bubbles in the game "Job Job" from The Jackbox Party Pack has a management style that could broadly be described as unhinged, over and above that required to construct a hiring process where each employee assembles their answers from random words and then anonymously votes on each others' ideas. Some of the random lines that come out at various stages in the game inform us that they sometimes use applicants' resumes on vision boards, store important documents in the trash and do things like ordering a bidet without bothering to find out what that is first. During the period where the players are assembling their answers, they'll mostly sit at their desk staring into space with crossed eyes and their tongue out.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_3fbd173e	comment	Mr. Kornada from Freefall takes this trope to extremes: he was repeatedly Kicked Upstairs despite his rampant incompetence in the vain hopes that another company might try to hire him. Not only does he follow the Mean Boss archetype in general, he makes it a point of pride not to know anything about his work, let alone anyone else's — which nearly leads to the entire colony collapsing.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_44e08ee8	comment	Homicide: Life on the Street: Detective Gharty is incompetent both as a beat cop and as the head of IAD but turns out to be proficient when he finally lands as a homicide detective. When he is finally re-promoted to head the homicide division in the finale movie, he loses some of his competence again, becoming a shill for the department brass. It is noted that he's not entirely incompetent in the role, but in Giardello has some pretty big shoes to fill — and many of the other detectives note that "he ain't no Gee." Gharty is treated as a rather sympathetic case. While he is intelligent and capable, it has been shown on multiple occasions that he really isn't suited for the rough life of a Baltimore police officer and should have retired years ago (he has earned two citations for Bravery in the past). Gharty also seems painfully aware of how unsuited he is but still helps the main characters and tries to protect them from Gaffney. Averted cynically with Roger Gaffney. He is shown as an incompetent detective, especially when compared to the main characters and is rerouted to a dead-end department, but sleazes his way to a high-end position and gets the Captain's spot Gee had earned. Given the show's cynical view of the bosses, Gaffney fits in perfectly among men with even less moral standing than himself and who happily abuse power for their own ends. Captain George Barnfather is a mercurial, petty man who's never done any actual police work and instead got his position through political savvy and sucking up to the bosses. He's not particularly competent and at one point gives crucial information about a case away during a press junket. When Bayliss angrily calls him out for screwing up the investigation, Barnfather holes himself up in Giardello's office until Bayliss apologizes.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Night Watch Discworld gives us two examples in the past version of the title organization. The first is Captain Tilden, a decent enough man who was a competent military leader, but is woefully unqualified to run a police organization. The (largely corrupt) Watch runs rings around him. Later on he is replaced with the future Lord Rust, a General Failure who is a far more dangerous sort of stupid. Vimes winds up laying him out with a single punch and effectively taking command himself (which he was arguably doing anyway under Tilden). Many books involving Vimes have him involved with pointy-haired bosses somehow, usually in the form of the Ankh-Morpork aristocracy or Military figures. He usually tends to tell them what they want to hear and ends up doing what he was going to do anyway by deliberately misinterpreting orders. (And while Vetinari isn't a PHB, he knows enough about how Vimes usually acts that he gives orders that work better when Vimes reacts this way.) Hamnpork, leader of the Clan in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, didn't take the shift to sentience particularly well, being fairly old at the time. By the time the book rolls around, Hamnpork is reduced to being a figurehead for Peaches and Darktan. However, unlike most pointy-haired bosses, Hamnpork is well aware that his leadership qualifications are from a different time, and while he is clearly unhappy about it, he is willing to let Darktan and Peaches call the shots and quietly groom Darktan as his successor. Also, while Hamnpork isn't much of a peacetime leader, he is a highly competent scrapper and solid, if unimaginative, small-unit tactician (he managed to gain and hold authority well into his old age, at a time when Asskicking Leads to Leadership was in full effect) and puts those skills to good use when called upon to do so.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_4faa524b	comment	Vortex is a literal example in Infinity Limited. Not only is his hair pointy, he is slightly dimmer than his assistant Plankton, who more often than not correctly points out the flaws in Vortex's plans.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_50b9a0e2	comment	The Phantom of the Opera: Deconstructed with Opera managers Richard and Moncharmin in the original book: Everybody knows they get their jobs thanks to their connections, that they play petty politics with the singers instead of recognizing their true talent, and they solve any problem firing those employees involved... except those who can defend themselves. Nobody really respects them and they are accustomed to cruel pranks, and that is the cause they never take seriously the Phantom's menaces and think that Debienne and Poligny's warnings are just a Practical Joke... until the Falling Chandelier of Doom incident.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_50f64209	comment	Sidekick: Professor Pamplemoose thinks he knows how to run a school right, despite being a total idiot.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_530772d	comment	Bored: How Playtech stays afloat with Rowan as the store manager is a mystery for the ages. He can't grasp that sales are meant to at least look good for the customers, he regularly allows Ben to get away with stealing merchandise by finding no flaw in his Insane Troll Logic, and has docked Adam's pay ("You're getting a massive paycut") so many times it's a miracle he's getting paid anything at all. And woe to any employee (sorry, "low socio-economic peasant") that drops a company pen or a spoon in his presence...
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_538833a4	comment	In Retail, everybody at the level of store manager or higher is portrayed as a PHB, at best. Stuart, the original store manager in the strip, is the most prominent among them. He insists on following every corporate rule to the letter, even if the rules are impossible or self-contradicting, then gets angry at his employees when these rules inevitably can't be followed. Marla, the assistant store manager and the protagonist of the strip, is presented as much more realistic in her expectations by comparison, openly grumbling to her employees about what management expects of everyone. After the Rank Up of both Stuart and Marla, the latter becomes the store manager and actively tries to avoid becoming an incompetent manager. She largely succeeds, but the fact that Stuart now has more authority over her than ever makes this increasingly hard.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_54beed92	comment	Tetris (2023): Both Robert and Kevin Maxwell are shining examples of this. Robert Maxwell, the head of the Mirror Group, is a Corrupt Corporate Executive who doesn't pay his due royalties, defrauds the pensions of his own employees and built his empire on lies, false promises, backdoor deals with the KGB and White-Collar Crime while Kevin Maxwell is an an arrogant prick who looks down on anyone not his father, cancels deals signed by his representatives just because a better one came later and became the head of Mirrorsoft through the merit of being Robert Maxwell's son. Even Robert Stein eventually has enough dealing with them and cuts his ties after punching Kevin and delivering quite a scathing speech before leaving.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_55ef2655	comment	Kenan & Kel: Chris Potter is the owner of Rigby's supermarket and the superior to Kenan (and later Sharla). However, he seems incapable of taking care of his store, which is constantly vandalized by Kenan and Kel's shenanigans.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_563f5f0e	comment	Dougie in Enlightened is a sort of example. While he is actually rather good at programming, his people-management skills are horrible, and he is pretty socially inept.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_585e7a59	comment	Ted: Ted's boss at the Bay Colony grocery store hires Ted after he claims to have slept with his wife. When he finds Ted having sex with his girlfriend on top of the produce, his response is to promote him. Even Ted points out the guy has problems.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_58d80a4a	comment	Many books involving Vimes have him involved with pointy-haired bosses somehow, usually in the form of the Ankh-Morpork aristocracy or Military figures. He usually tends to tell them what they want to hear and ends up doing what he was going to do anyway by deliberately misinterpreting orders. (And while Vetinari isn't a PHB, he knows enough about how Vimes usually acts that he gives orders that work better when Vimes reacts this way.)
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_59b2199f	comment	Toothpick from Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. Although he's the resident Manchild, he is also cruel to his own employees.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Mettaton from Undertale is this according to Burgerpants, who describes MTT Resort as a "labyrinth of bad choices", and that's hardly an exaggeration. Among other things, the restaurant requires you to reserve everything — table, silverware, food, etc.; the fountain has been changed to a statue of Mettaton that misses the fountain, flooding part of the entrance hall; and you don't get room keys, so if you leave your room you have to pay to get back in. What's more is that, every time someone suggests a change for the better, Mettaton shoots it down with "That's not how they do it on the surface!"
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: Captain Frank Hollister is revealed to have only reached his rank through blackmail (from the lowly position of Doughnut Boy no less), implying that he is possibly even less qualified than Rimmer or Lister (though clearly cleverer and/or more ambitious). Rimmer manages to be this despite only being in charge of one person (or in the case of the books, the most unimportant group of workers on ship).
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_5fe6dff5	comment	In The Great War, host Indy Neidell explicitly compares General Conrad von HÃ¶tzendorf to the original PHB from Dilbert. Despite having a controversial reputation among military historians, the series emphasises von HÃ¶tzendorf's tendencies as a General Ripper who was at least partly responsible for the war breaking out in the first place, and expresses bafflement that he is still considered by some to be a military genius.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_60b5eb13	comment	Revenge Films: Ali's boss is an anger-prone boss who abused his power and kept saying that he would hit women if they were men. He especially bullied Ali by forcing her to attend a party at a seafood restaurant, despite the fact that she is allergic to seafood. When he saw that Ali wasn't enjoying herself, he says that he would punch her if she was a man. Ali egged him on and he actually decided to do it. This resulted in him getting fired and arrested.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: Deputy Director Avery Bullock tends to waste the CIA's funding on strip clubs, drugs, axial fans, and missile defenses. Additionally, he treats his employees like preschoolers, is easily fooled by obvious lies and deceptions, refuses to negotiate with terrorists even when his wife is held captive by them, and once moved Stan's office to the bathroom to make room for a new table.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_68ab9ddf	comment	The Developer's Life: Most of the time, The Boss is portrayed as an obnoxious dumb person who also doesn't understand a thing on how software programming is done.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_6ba673f9	comment	DAC Don Bevan from the pilot and season 1 in New Tricks. He is an empty suit, obsessed with bureaucracy and management buzzwords, and his only interest in UCOS is how it can improve his media profile. His replacement DAC Robert Strickland is actually genuinely interested in making the squad a success.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_6c1234ed	comment	Nobles in Dwarf Fortress tend to be like this. For instance, nobles will periodically ban and unban the export of their favorite types of materials (like iron). So, if the noble has recently unbanned the export of iron, you might take the chance to sell some iron items to a caravan... only to have the noble re-ban iron after the caravan has packed up and is heading off, but before they disappear off the edge of your settlement. Once that caravan disappears off the edge of your settlement, whoever helped export the iron will be punished. They will also mandate the production of goods according to their preferences, with zero respect for feasibility or even physical possibililty. Glass items will be mandated in locations with no sand to speak of, beds will be demanded made out of metal (outside of strange moods, wood is the only material that you can make beds with) and occasionally you'll get mandates for things made of slade, which is incredibly rare and cannot be mined or worked. Nobles with inconvenient preferences thus tend to suffer Unfortunate Accidents, like being given a room that turns out to be a drowning chamber.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_6ef03be6	comment	My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Principal Pixiefrog is hampered by his perpetual fear of lawsuits and his difficulties getting students and staff alike to take him seriously.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_742af508	comment	Department of Death Boss Don Copal in Grim Fandango might not have any actual hair, but if he did, it'd be pointy.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: Mallory, Archer's boss/mom, whose mind tends to fly on missions and who sometimes becomes an emotional wreck. Happens to the KGB as well in Season 3. Not that Major Jakov was especially competent, but he is eventually replaced by Barry Dylan, a former ODIN agent rebuilt as a cyborg. Which might be fine, as Barry was good at his job, but becoming a cyborg seems to have exaggerated his Bunny-Ears Lawyer tendencies into full-blown insanity. He has since been replaced by Katya Kasanova (also a cyborg and former agent), and it remains to be seen how competent she is.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_76e1ae72	comment	CatDog: Rancid Rabbit at his least villainous is this. Otherwise, he's a Mean Boss or even a full-out Bad Boss.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Major Monogram drifts into this sometimes. While in most cases Doofenshmirtz is usually doing something to warrant sending Perry to stop him, there are a few instances where Doofenshmirtz is usually taking an off day such as going on a blind date, meeting an old teacher, going to a convention, actually being sick, etc., but Monogram doesn't really bother to look into these case and send Perry to "stop him" anyway. Then again, even in those occasions, Doofenshmirtz was doing something that should be stopped. In the blind date, Doof had developed a device to deprive people of their emotions if his date failed; to impress the "old teacher", he tried to blow up the moon; the convention was for evil scientists so, there was a reason to think someone (even if it wasn't Doofenshmirtz) would do something Perry should stop; when he got run over by an ice cream truck, he tried to hit the truck with a giant tire. Even when Major Monogram sent Perry to Doofenshmirtz because Doof was picking up empty bottles for recycling, it turned out it was for some plot ("It's green and evil! I call it 'greevil'!"). On top of that, it's sometimes implied that Perry is OWCA's best agent, while Doofenshmirtz is their least serious threat. Doofenshmirtz himself proves to be this for Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated; both his daughter and his Minion with an F in Evil proved to be more competent than him.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Conklin, the Principal of Madison High School, is a competent administrator, albeit in the Repressive, but Efficient mold. He is also very pompous, for example being known to answer his phone "Principal's Office, Osgood Conklin himself speaking!". He also likes to take credit for his teacher's good ideas ("Public Property on Parade"), force them to type his reports ("Aunt Mattie Boynton"), and of course blame his teachers when something goes wrong ("The Dancer"). He also abuses his position for petty gains; in "Carelessness Code" he fines students and uses the money to place a bust of himself in the library in place of the bust of Julius Caesar. In "Home Cooked Meal" he simply breaks school rules to secretly store his family's meat in the cafeteria freezer. Still, on occasion he shows himself to have a Hidden Heart of Gold. In "Hobby Show", for example, his hobby is shown to be fixing broken toys to donate to underpriviledged children. Therefore, other than a outright villian, he's more of a Frenemy to Miss Brooks.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_7d20ef2c	comment	W.A. Thornhump was a literal Pointy-Haired Boss in Bloom County, and predated the boss from Dilbert by a decade. This was only reflected in his looks, though; he was evil, but not incompetent.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_8075edc8	comment	Brickleberry: Woody Johnson started a forest fire to impress a higher-up, siphons park funds for his birthday party, keeps a bear cub as a pet after one of his workers ran over and accidentally shot the cub's parents, signs permits indiscriminately (and often under the influence), keeps a bunch of grossly incompetent employers around (even though Ethel is said to be the only one who actually does her job and can be trusted with responsibilities, and he can't fire Denzel since there's a high chance he'll sue for racial discrimination), etc. Really, it's a long list.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_82439e5c	comment	The Office (UK): David Brent also seems to have some sales skills, but is a terrible boss. He's extremely self-centered and spends most of his energy trying to get his employees to think he's cool rather than manage the office properly. Word of God responded to criticisms that Brent would never reach a management position with a retort that a brief look around any kind of corporate-style organization (including The BBC) would reveal that major positions were being filled by people who were even worse than Brent.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_82439e64	comment	The Office: Michael Scott is a classic illustration of The Peter Principle: he was (and is) a genuinely superb salesman, which got him promoted to the post of Regional Manager — a job he is absolutely unqualified for. Though he can be selfish and petty, his employees are generally competent and sometimes back him when it's important enough. His evil tendencies fade over time, but his general inability to manage remains. His branch is always one of the top performers within the company, at least. Andy Bernard is (along with Pam) the weakest paper salesman, but he gets promoted to regional manager. He terminates a major account on a technicality and the office works better during the three months he's not there. Note that this is entirely due to retcon; when he first took over, he was actually shown to be a decent boss who the others liked working with, but in season 9 his entire character took a sharp turn. Jim, the branch's best sale person next to Dwight, finds himself victim of The Peter Principle after he becomes co-regional manager. When he explains to Michael all the things he did wrong, Michael admits he made the same mistakes when he first became manager. Ryan, who was only a temp, somehow managed to convince his way into becoming the office's corporate supervisor, but it's shown he's a petty, vindictive, and selfish boss who is committing mass corporate fraud to hide how badly he's running things. He's fired and arrested, but then hired back in a non-explicit position because Michael just had an unexplained affection for him. Pretty much everyone in Corporate is shown to be this as time goes on. Michael's direct supervisor, Jan, starts off as the Only Sane Man but quickly devolves into an unstable wreck thanks to her toxic romance with Michael and gets fired. Later, Dunder Mifflin in general goes under due to the rampant incompetence of every other department, leading them to be bought out by Sabre. Robert Califronia, who takes over as CEO of Sabre, is charismatic but completely insane, and he allows Nellie to take over Andy's job while he's on leave despite her obvious incompetence, simply because he was attracted to her. The sole exception seems to be David Wallace, the CFO, but it's apparent that he was not good enough to counter the incompetence of everyone below him.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_83264fb1	comment	Many of the Network Supervisors of the Bastard Operator from Hell series certainly are this, but it's semi-justifiable in that a position with such a high turnover rate probably doesn't particularly attract the employment agencies.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_83a6f507	comment	ISO Administrator Mike Goss in Defying Gravity. He grinds subordinates' faces in their mistakes while refusing to admit to or back away from his own.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_880cfa15	comment	The laughably incompetent Colonel Klink of Hogan's Heroes. It's been mentioned that he's from noble stock, so he most likely got the position through nepotism more than any real leadership ability. He confirms in one episode that his family pressured him into the military to get rid of him. However, he is also a career officer with decorations for bravery in World War I; he used to be a pilot. It is almost certain he got promoted to his current position in an attempt to get rid of him, both as a bumbling fool and as a non-member of the Nazi party. On the Allied side we have Colonel Crittendon, a British Army officer who constantly is picked to lead sabotage missions into occupied Europe despite apparently having an abysmal track record keeping his men alive. Every time he shows up, Hogan and his group have to work around his stupidity making their job harder. It's actually been mentioned that Crittendon has been the sole survivor of multiple resistance cells that he's been assigned to "help." Unfortunately due to the way that rank works (Hogan is also a Colonel, but Crittendon has seniority because he's been one longer), the Heroes have no choice but to try and undermine him without directly doing so.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_89bf8ce	comment	In 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy is promoted to oversee the production of Liz's comedy show after having invented a microwave. He seems to be a competent businessman, but clearly has no understanding of comedy. Note that he acted more pointy-haired in earlier episodes. This had all but disappeared by the second season. All of his summer shows were great hits, chief among them MILF Island.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_8ab885d6	comment	Ralph, Sally's original boss in Sally Forth.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake exhibited signs of this, as he was a good doctor but an almost criminally incompetent administrator (though not quite as dim as in the movie). Radar practically ran the unit, only requiring Blake to sign off on documents. One time he got Blake to sign blank pieces of paper even as Blake railed about not knowing what he's signing. That said, Blake was never malicious and generally did try to do the right thing even if he didn't know exactly how to do it. (One wonders how, as described in an 8th season episode, he was able to shape Radar into the Hypercompetent Sidekick depicted in the series.) Hawkeye himself, while regarded as the best surgeon, did not do well when put in charge of the unit. Anytime that situation presented itself, his friends would have reactions in the realm of "Oh God, NOOOOO!" That said, Hawkeye was perfectly aware that he had no talent for leadership and tried to refuse command. Any commanding officer other than Colonel Potter usually got portrayed this way. Major Winchester would abuse the position to wallow in perks and creature comforts which he felt were his due. And that's not even getting into Major Frank Burns...
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_8d84ebc5	comment	Taxi: The rarely-seen owners of the Sunshine Cab Company, Mr. McKenzie, and later on, Mr. Ratledge, seem not to give a damn about the welfare, let alone the comfort of either the drivers or the passengers, this being the focus of a couple of episodes, including the two-parter "Shut It Down", which deals with a strike caused by the cabs being in dangerous conditions of disrepair. But perhaps the biggest proof of their incompetence is their keeping someone like Louie as dispatcher, Mr. Ratledge not even caring about him stealing spare parts for selling them in the black market.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_8fc868f5	comment	The Brittas Empire revolves around one of these running a previously ordinary leisure center. Gordon Brittas can, through sheer tactlessness and incompetence, induce psychological breakdown in pretty much anyone who visits the center. He stops by groups of happy people to offer well-meant "words of encouragement" and they storm off crying. He insults visitors until they're willing to pull a gun over a dispute about a cup of coffee. He tries to settle a problem with an unruly child, and ends up getting the center attacked by a Roman Recreational Society complete with war-elephants. His behavior did inspire many people to have the "I Spy Brittas" game where they have company outings to his center and score points every time they witness his various hand gestures and idiosyncratic tics and hear his various speeches. Bonus points if you get him to talk about The Dream.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks: Captain Carol Freeman. Though sheâ€™s competent enough to be be a captain of a Starfleet ship and recognizes certain flaws within the organization, Freeman has a major chip on her shoulder due to feeling a supposed lack of respect from them. She can be a major butt-kisser, can be very vindictive if crossed wrong and can employ ideas without thinking them through.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_90a126e1	comment	Ava Coleman, the principal of Abbott Elementary, is by far the least capable member of the school's staff, and a selfish and flighty woman in general — in the pilot, she uses up the entire budget on a huge, expensive sign with her picture on it, rather than anything that would benefit the school such as textbooks or new rugs. According to Barbara, Abbott's most senior teacher, Ava is only the latest in a long line of pointy-haired principals thanks to the underfunded Philadelphia public schools. The ninth episode, "Step Class", reveals that she can be quite competent and even creative when she wants to be, as she easily befriends the children and teaches them a solid dance routine. And the many vacation days she takes are mostly spent caring for her grandmother.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: Dr. Drakken is generally clueless about almost everything except his Mad Scientist projects, relying on Shego to do most of the fighting and stealing.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_90b9ae74	comment	Both Yuans in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. At one point, Shao dismisses a plan for being "too sensible."
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls In Morrowind, Mages Guild Archmage Trebonius Artorius is a shining example. He actually is an incredibly talented Battlemage, which helped him to rise through the ranks of the Guild. However, he quickly proved hopelessly incompetent at managing Guild affairs. His mainland superiors responded by promoting him further (in the Kicked Upstairs fashion) and putting him in charge of the Guild branch in the most backwater district in the Empire where he could cause the least amount of trouble. He let in a badly disguised spy (whose credentials even had High Chancellor Ocato's signature spelled wrong), spends his time giving his underlings Impossible Tasks and sending them on Snipe Hunts, all while generally acting petty and immature to those who offend him. When the Player Character comes to him for assignments, he sends you on a task to learn about the disappearance of the Dwemer and is shocked when you actually manage to find a plausible answer. Then he sends you on a mission to kill all of the Telvanni councilors. While there is a peaceful way to deal with him, it leaves you as the co-head of the Guild with Trebonious, which is obviously less desirable. You can instead challenge him in a duel to the death for his position, receiving it as a Klingon Promotion if you win. However, need we remind you that he is, despite his other flaws, a very talented Battlemage? (Ironically for this trope, he is also completely bald.) The Mages Guild seems to encourage this trope. Unfortunately, in line with The Peter Principle, being a skilled user of magic does not automatically translate into being a skilled administrator. The Absent-Minded Professor nature of many skilled mages also does not help. Jeanne Frasoric, the head of the Bruma Mages Guild Hall in Oblivion, is a ditzy, scatterbrained mage with delusions of self-importance. She is also almost totally inept at magic, and only got her position as branch head due to her connections, something she brags about constantly, oblivious as to what that actually says about her. None of her subordinates respect her, and several pass the time pulling pranks on her. She's hardly the only Guild Hall leader in Cyrodiil in this regard, either.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_9d7c8202	comment	Kenzou Momoi, the section chief of the Welfare Division, from Servant Ã— Service is more benevolent than the usual example, but no less incompetent. Appearing in the form of a remote-controlled stuffed rabbit, he is never seen doing any office work and is as prone to slacking off as the Brilliant, but Lazy Hasebe. He seems concerned about his subordinates' well-being, but usually expresses this by pestering them while they need to focus on their jobs and becoming their Head Pet. When he was accidentally kidnapped/sold by a kid who thought he was a normal stuffed animal, his subordinates agree that they're not missing anything in his absence. They only get him back out of obligation rather than any sort of urgency.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	Regular Show: Pops is the boss at the park, but he's incompetent, childish, clueless, and very naive. However, unlike most examples of this trope, he's a Benevolent Boss. He's an incredibly sweet man and always has a kind word for everyone. Everyone at the park really likes him, even though he's an oddball. Benson is the opposite, frequently threatening to fire Mordecai and Rigby for unfair or mundane reasons.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_9f7e416d	comment	The Ozpin Files: Ozpin steals Glynda's shoes, delays financial reports for silly reasons, and hasn't noticed that Beacon has teachers other than Port and Oobleck.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Zapp Brannigan, a celebrated space captain who can't fly his way out of a wet paper bag. He puts all the work on his assistant Kif and takes any credit he can. His strategies for any threat are usually Attack! Attack! Attack!, sending hundreds of Red Shirts to their demise while he sits back and does nothing. The only reason he hasn't gotten himself offed note other than that one time, but you know because circumstances usually prevent it from happening and at best he walks away with a few bruises. Fry becomes a literal one of these when... That '80s Guy bought out Planet Express and promotes Fry to the position of Vice-Chairman simply on the fact that they were both from the '80s.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: Dr. Venture considers super-science to be a more productive use for the future. After becoming the CEO of JJ's company, Rusty immediately fired the entire board of directors, ignoring how much more profitable and easier JJ's setup was, causing the company's stocks to plummet. There's a reason why nearly everyone calls him the world's dumbest scientist.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a65b3e0f	comment	Alexi of Mimpi Metropolitan becomes this when he decides to run his own business. Just like when he's outside of work, Alexi is an eccentric Upper-Class Twit who changes his mind on the whim and cares more about his own gratification than any actual job, leaving his employees confused about what they are supposed to do.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a77de360	comment	Dilbert: The TV incarnation of the Boss focuses more on him being a Cloudcuckoolander rather than a flat-out Mean Boss, though in earlier episodes, he was much more outwardly evil.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a895e9d3	comment	Cave Johnson from Portal 2 combines this trope with Mad Scientist for a blend of gross fiscal mismanagement, Inhuman Resources, and revolutionary super-science wasted because he can't figure out what it might be actually good for (e.g. marketing gel that bounces with 100% elasticity as a dietary supplement).
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a91702e4	comment	Shiny Objects Videos: The boss in "Magiconomy" is perfectly willing to banish his employees to the nether dimensions for making suggestions he doesn't like.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a91bc619	comment	9 to 5. Franklin Hart is a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot, and the boss of the three main characters.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a984638b	comment	Allen Gregory: Richard De Longpre, a sexually depraved Manchild who prides himself on being the seemingly successful CEO of the corporation he inherited from his father; In fact, he is so dysfunctional on every level that his own board of directors assume most of the actual work in running the company, with Richard relegated to carrying a worthless title while maintaining the illusion that he's the one in charge. And that's to say nothing of his heir apparent, Allen Gregory...
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_a99d173	comment	Uncut Gems: Howard is an excellent gambler but a horrible boss. He completely ignores an upset employee to fawn over his new opal. He alienates his partner, Demany, and nearly drives away Julia, his most loyal worker. His criminal troubles constantly put the shop itself in danger.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_b0fba5f1	comment	Many of the managers and restaurant owners featured on Kitchen Nightmares have no clue how to run their businesses properly, which causes the food to become subpar or outright dangerous to eat and drives the restaurant thousands of dollars in debt. Gordon Ramsay will chew these types out and instruct them on how to improve, but sadly, some bosses are too far gone, and their restaurants close even after Ramsay fixes things up.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_b36d9563	comment	Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake exhibited signs of this, as he was a good doctor but an almost criminally incompetent administrator (though not quite as dim as in the movie). Radar practically ran the unit, only requiring Blake to sign off on documents. One time he got Blake to sign blank pieces of paper even as Blake railed about not knowing what he's signing. That said, Blake was never malicious and generally did try to do the right thing even if he didn't know exactly how to do it. (One wonders how, as described in an 8th season episode, he was able to shape Radar into the Hypercompetent Sidekick depicted in the series.)
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_b54df0a6	comment	Scaredy Squirrel: Nestor is the manager of The Stash n' Hoard, but doesn't even know how to run the place right.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, Mages Guild Archmage Trebonius Artorius is a shining example. He actually is an incredibly talented Battlemage, which helped him to rise through the ranks of the Guild. However, he quickly proved hopelessly incompetent at managing Guild affairs. His mainland superiors responded by promoting him further (in the Kicked Upstairs fashion) and putting him in charge of the Guild branch in the most backwater district in the Empire where he could cause the least amount of trouble. He let in a badly disguised spy (whose credentials even had High Chancellor Ocato's signature spelled wrong), spends his time giving his underlings Impossible Tasks and sending them on Snipe Hunts, all while generally acting petty and immature to those who offend him. When the Player Character comes to him for assignments, he sends you on a task to learn about the disappearance of the Dwemer and is shocked when you actually manage to find a plausible answer. Then he sends you on a mission to kill all of the Telvanni councilors. While there is a peaceful way to deal with him, it leaves you as the co-head of the Guild with Trebonious, which is obviously less desirable. You can instead challenge him in a duel to the death for his position, receiving it as a Klingon Promotion if you win. However, need we remind you that he is, despite his other flaws, a very talented Battlemage? (Ironically for this trope, he is also completely bald.)
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_b5efd918	comment	Harley Quinn (2019): Harley is new to running her own crew since she broke up with Joker. Her desire to fast-track herself to recognition and overall immaturity mean that her crew have to deal with her schemes frequently escalating to extreme proportions.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_b6b24d18	comment	The IT Crowd: Denholm Reynholm is an Affably Evil CEO who is fairly insane and rather terrifying to the IT staff due to his unpredictable and occasionally illogical behavior. Denholm's son Douglas, who succeeds him, is a would-be lothario and idiot Manchild. He once checks to see whether a gun is loaded by sticking it in his mouth and pulling the trigger. Because he has the hots for Jen, however, he's much more friendly with the IT department.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_b7b888f7	comment	Dexter: LaGuerta got her job on talent for political maneuvering, and is in way over her professional head, showing no apparent ability as a detective. Her behavior toward subordinates could also qualify as harassment in some cases (such as her nowhere-near-subtle sexual overtures toward Dexter). This was introduced in the TV adaptation as well, but was gradually dropped over the first season and disappeared completely by the middle of the second, along with her infatuation with Dexter.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_babeae6a	comment	Godzilla vs. Kong: Mark Russell, who works in a managerial role at Monarch, is completely useless throughout the crisis. His ignores all his daughter's warnings which could have derailed the conflict out of personal bias, and he doesn't see the human villains' plot or the emergence of Mechagodzilla under Ghidorah's control coming until it's too late. Hopefully, Monarch hired someone more competent after the film's ending and after the damage that was allowed to happen because of his ineptitude.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_bac68947	comment	In The Heat, Detective Mullins' boss is an incompetent and jaded version of this, and ends up as the Butt-Monkey of Mullins constantly looking for his balls.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_bb3b1afb	comment	The Mighty B!: Mary Gibbons is a sadist of the Honey Bee Academy but doesn't even know how to run a school properly.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_bd960b7c	comment	Mullet Boss from Basic Instructions is both a terrible leader and a terrible person, with a management style heavy on random whims and self-interest. If you complete a project for him under deadline, he'll give you less time to do the next one; if he thinks it's amusing, he'll make you stay late or come in on the weekend. And he can't be fired without incurring a contractual penalty.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_be92dd7	comment	Life's Little Instruction Book implores the reader to look out for these kinds of people:
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_bf24c7bb	comment	Played deadly serious in Chernobyl. All three of the guys in charge of Chernobyl power plant are horrible - Dyatlov insists on going forward with the test despite everything that went wrong and later sends people to their deaths because he just can't accept what happened, Bryukhanov is a Professional Butt-Kisser whose only thought after reactor #4 exploded is to cover his own butt, and Fomin bullies those under him and is also in such denial that he tells Sitnikov to go look at the exposed reactor core to see if it really had exploded (it had, but even after Sitnikov reports this Fomin denies it). All of them take Never My Fault to the extreme, and their only real purpose in the story is to hamper response to the accident and cause it to get worse. An exploded reactor would be bad enough without letting it continue for weeks.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_c2ebb41c	comment	Close Enough: Mr. Salt is shown to not quite have it all together when running his business. Examples include giving large workloads and errands to employees to complete in extremely short timespans, trying to handle a controversy involving a condom in a can of lima beans with crazy publicity stunts, and forgetting the password to the company safe.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_c36a5db1	comment	Mr. Deity is often treated as this to the Celestial Bureaucracy and the universe itself. He tends to rely on needlessly complicated and not at all thought-through plans and knowingly allows all kinds of awful things into his creations even when there's no real reason to.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_c7912cea	comment	Jimmy Two-Shoes: Lucius Heinous VII, although he is technically a Pointy-Horned Boss, being Satan and all. If it wasn't for Heloise, Misery Inc. would completely fail to live up to its name.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_c79d691a	comment	Mike in Between Failures is self-aware and trying not to be one of these, but his management training was inadequate to prepare him for the job, and those in charge of him have fobbed him off on one of the least important branch stores rather than trying to help him.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire has several outstanding examples, both in city government and the Baltimore Police Department, with almost all authority figures fitting in somewhere between Corrupt Corporate Executive and Pointy Haired Boss. The running theme throughout the show is that all organizations are fundamentally crippled by management acting to get themselves promoted rather than succeed at their mission.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_cac1f772	comment	Captain Brass comes off very much as an incompetent and biased boss in the first episode of CSI, but it may just be that his promotion put him in over his head — when he is demoted to Homicide in the second episode, he becomes every bit the equal to the crime lab folks in professional competence. His demotion to a position of competence is actually a violation of The Peter Principle; something that is even rarer in real life than it is in fictional entertainment.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_ccfdfab1	comment	Kosugi from Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is a horribly abusive boss who runs his workplace like a sweatshop, constantly destroying his workers' self-esteem, paying them awful wages, and working them to the bone while slowly brainwashing them so they'll never leave him. His constant demands of Akira took a severe toll on Akira's mental, physical, and emotional health, and Akira exhibits symptoms of PTSD from working under him. He's also a crappy leader when things actually get tough, as he panics and runs away when zombies begin to overrun his camp, and is only saved by Akira's compassion.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_d1710608	comment	Sharpe: Several of the officers, particularly those who purchased a military commission simply because it was fashionable for a gentleman to be an officer. Never mind that they know absolutely nothing about tactics, strategy, or warfare in general.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: A figurative and literal example is shown in "The Service Dog." Ulgine Barrows, who sets up a charitable program where sighted people experience what it's like to be blind during the course of a day does so despite opposition from her supervisors. She also sports a hairdo with tufts that stick out on either side of her head like horns. The program is shelved immediately after Penny and Bolt have a bad experience with it.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Heavily lampshaded with Randy Marsh in the episode, "A Nightmare on Facetime". Years later, he came back to be this when running his pot farm, Tegirdy Farms.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_da92c130	comment	Lord Stanley the Tool from Erfworld. He is not only is a Pointy-Haired Boss, but he's also a Bad Boss who threatens to kill Parson for simply noting that Stanley is short, and an Evil Overlord. And to top it all off? He believes that he is holy, and on a Mission from God (though in his defense, there's a good chance that he is). However, this may fall under the "promoted beyond his capabilities" aspect of the trope, as he's a pretty savvy tactician and capable warrior. Although, as the story progresses he seems to be going through Character Development to be less of a Bad Boss, as he actually is putting effort into trying to be nicer to his subordinates, and he has shown several moments of competence, such as negotiating an alliance with the Juggle Elf tribe all on his own.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_df424ee8	comment	In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Nozaki's former supervising editor Maeno is one. He is more concerned with himself than with his job, and he doesn't seem to realize how much trouble he causes for everyone. Moreover, his incompetence caused several cases of embarrassing misprints (including Tyop on the Cover), and it was implied that he never actually read Nozaki's manuscript at all.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e365af07	comment	Dino Attack RPG has Elite Agent French Fries, who made several incredibly poor choices that had disastrous consequences. Of note are his decision to expose the previously top-secret campaign in Antarctica (at first seeming like a good idea, only to accidentally cause massive riots and escalate the already mounting tension between the idealist and realist sides of the team into a whole new level of violence). Later on, he attempted to perform a court-martial against George and Rotor with conflicting charges, implement a "brilliant" idea that involved everyone walking very slowly toward a horde of mutant dinosaurs, and finally got beaten up by several different people for his trouble.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e49abee7	comment	Code Monkeys: Mr. Larrity outdoes perhaps even the trope namer; the man has no clue how to run a video game company (other than knowing that Games = $$$), generally treats his staff like crap, displays unapologetic sexism, has been known to do such outrageous things as bet Gameavision on a clearly bad Poker hand (that includes cards not even found in a standard deck of cards, like a blue Uno Reverse)... one could go on forever and not even scratch the surface.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e579908a	comment	Relative Disasters has a number of these because of their subject matter. From the episode about the Roman invasion of Kush we have Gaius Cornelius Galla, who taxed non-Romans and put up statues of himself.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e6bfadc3	comment	Horns, the Weapon Brown version of Dilbert's PHB is decidedly not like the original. For starters we're introduced to him as he's murdering Mr. Dithers to take charge of The Syndicate. Then again he forces the Mad Scientist version of Dilbert to rush CAL-v1.N and HOBS' awakening and ignores "Dilbert's" warnings that the two are unstable and uncontrollable.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e7ec6e90	comment	Room at the Bottom (1967) has Mr. Powell, the Director of Internal Personnel at Titan Products, who is hopeless at keeping the workers under him happy and on-task. His superiors know this too, and don't give him much regard.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e8cd02cd	comment	Although Dylan Merchant in Hypnospace Outlaw is technically the second-in-command to his brother Adrian at Merchantsoft, he's the primary representative of the company you'll be seeing. Unfortunately. His sheer incompetence, particularly his habit of pushing updates to the Brain/Computer Interface without proper QA, makes him the single most destructive force in Hypnospace — moreso than even malevolent hacker T1MAGEDDON — and de facto Big Bad of the game despite incompetence and his efforts to hide it, not malice, being his primary traits.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e96b932f	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e96b932f	comment	In Made in Canada, Pyramid Productions CEO Alan Roy has no idea how to properly run a film and television production company. His management style is based on reading (but not understanding) best-selling business books, and his ideas for how to "improve" the various films and television series made by Pyramid are universally inane and/or inappropriate (such as re-casting a fly-on-the-wall reality series with himself and two other Pyramid executives as the contestants (leading the series to be cancelled), or lightening the tone of a gritty detective series to such absurd levels that an episode about a murdered prostitute is re-written to focus on a lost kitten (leading that series to be cancelled)).
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_e9a8ee1b	comment	The vacuous, hero-worshiping, management-speak spouting Gus in Drop the Dead Donkey. He would appear to be a living, breathing example of the Adams principle.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_f2012c59	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Pointy-Haired Boss / int_f2012c59	comment	Clarence's Big Chance: Clarence's boss may well be, given that he talks in chatspeak and that Generic Company in general seems rather incompetent.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_f2da188a	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Pointy-Haired Boss / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman: GCPD Chief Angel Rojas in the first two seasons. The man is incompetent, a glory hog, petty, an Ungrateful Bastard, and refuses to learn from his mistakes. He couldn't solve some of the Riddler's easiest riddles. On a couple of occasions, he's trying to take credit for Batman's work. He's a Mean Boss, openly belittling detective Ethan Bennett in front of his other subordinates just because Bennett supported Batman; this, along with the Joker's Mind Rape, drove Bennett to become the show's first Clayface. Even after Batman saved Rojas from Clayface and later Mr. Freeze and Firefly, he's still a jackass to him and when he learns Bennett's partner, Ellen Yin, was in an alliance with Batman, he fired her and used her as a hostage to get Batman to come to him, so he could capture him. Karma then bit him in the ass in the episode he pulled that last stunt, as the Trope Namer for The Commissioner Gordon had just debuted and became Commissioner, ergo outranking Rojas, and proceed to both end Rojas's manhunt for Batman and force Rojas to release and reinstate Yin.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_f6f3a050	comment	Commander, later Commodore, Povey from The Navy Lark. It certainly didn't help that HMS Troutbridge was crewed by the biggest screw-ups in the Royal Navy, but many of the messes Povey found himself in were entirely of his own making.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_f77dcb47	comment	Major Neuheim of Private Schulz is pretty much what Colonel Klink would be like if he was a die-hard Nazi.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_fd040008	comment	Breadwinners: Pumpers due to thinking as himself as The Ace and for having a massive ego.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_fd0e4b62	comment	The Brik Wars rulebook 2005 and 2010 has a picture of a pointy-haired minifig holding a piston to illustrate half-minds. Curiously, he was illustrating the cleverer mind, the other minifig was holding the pistol to his face.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls has Stan Pines, a shady grifter and cheapskate who runs a tourist trap called the MYSTERY (S)HACK, and uses every trick in the book to make a quick buck, Dipper even marks him as mediocre boss. However, Stan has a very deep and dark past which explains how and why he got to be who he is.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_fe30da6	comment	Arthur "Big Guy" Carlson, of WKRP in Cincinnati. Carlson's mother put him in charge of her station specifically so it would lose money and be used as a tax write-off for her corporation. When the new program director changed the format and the station started to make money, she wanted him fired.
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Pointy-Haired Boss / int_fe36c8	comment	Hal Rhodes is the administrator LYNX Salvage sends to examine your team in Hardspace: Shipbreaker once the corporate overlords get wind of unionization talk. At first, he sounds reasonable, but that ends when he starts interfering in your work. He fills the comm channel with useless corporate motivational speak, overrules Weaver's authority as shift control, and remotely shuts down Lou's spacesuit to get her to do yoga breathing while she's floating toward the furnace with a load of scrap. He revokes privileges from the other team members for minor infractions and declares that LYNX literally owns the breakers and takes the ship that Weaver gave to you to repair. When the team finally takes industrial action, Hal goes off, ranting and threatening everyone, even deleting Kai's DNA backup as an example of consequences for their actions. Even when Kai sounds like he dies handling a ship's reactor, Hal still views the crew as expendable. When the Stellar Commission finally intervenes, LYNX pins the fault on Hal, keeping the upper management insulted from the massive changes forced through during union negotiations; he gets busted back down to the processing division, the job that he bragged made him just like the shipbreakers.
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Pointy-Haired Boss	processingCategory2	Characters as Device
Pointy-Haired Boss	processingCategory2	I Need an Index by Monday
Pointy-Haired Boss	processingCategory2	Index Failure
Pointy-Haired Boss	processingCategory2	Occupation Tropes
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Aggretsuko / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
My Hero Academia: The Two Heroes / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Ask a Pony (Blog) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Crime Syndicate (2021) (Comic Book) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Wanted (Comic Book) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Werner (Comic Book) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Candorville (Comic Strip) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Dilbert (Comic Strip) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Retail (Comic Strip) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
A Brief History of Equestria / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
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Babylon (Beautiful Fiction) (Fanfic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Hololive Apocalypse (Fanfic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Paragon (Kitsune Heart) (Fanfic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Steven Universe: Alternate Future (Fanfic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Bolt Chronicles (Fanfic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Chosen Six (Fanfic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Tournament of Kikai (Fanfic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
A Mighty Wind / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Black Scorpion / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Car Wash / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Charlie Wilson's War / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Clear and Present Danger / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Clifford / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Good Morning, Vietnam / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Hamossad Hasagur / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Heavyweights / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
In Good Company / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
In the Loop / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Long Shot / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Major Dundee / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Nicholas and Alexandra / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
9 to 5 / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
1917 / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Office Space / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Parenthood / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Richie Rich / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Running Out of Time / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Running Out of Time (1999) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Scaramouche (1952) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Scrooged / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Sorry to Bother You / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Suburban Commando / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Tetris (2023) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Charge of the Light Brigade / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Disaster Artist / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Double / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Twilight Samurai / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Uncut Gems / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Wanted / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Where the Spies Are / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Chuggaaconroy (Lets Play) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
A Confederacy of Dunces / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Backstrom / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Bastard Operator from Hell / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Big Trouble / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Catch-22 / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Debt of Honor / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
87th Precinct / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
14 (Peter Clines) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Mogworld / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Raising Steam / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Retief / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Ring of Hell	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
Scaramouche / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: A Stitch in Time / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Temeraire / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Book With No Name / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Boxcar Children / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Death of WCW / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Fourth Protocol / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Laundry Files / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Sum of All Fears / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Upon This Pale Hill / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
War and Peace / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Wizarding School Mysteries / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
EveryTownAmerica	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
Marketeers vs. Engineers	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
Office	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
Ptitleolsdue4jfzga	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
Ptitleslcsxy8v	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
RingOfHell	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
SalaryMan	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
Seraph	seeAlso	Pointy-Haired Boss
Gokusen (Manga) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Kodocha (Manga) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department (Manga) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Oishinbo (Manga) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Planetes (Manga) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Unearth (Music) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Relative Disasters (Podcast) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Deep Trouble (Radio) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
John Finnemore's Double Acts (Radio) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Adam Ruins Everything / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
After MAS*H / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Are You Being Served? / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Atlanta / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Bar Rescue / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Benson / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Borderline / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Callan / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Chasing Life / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Davy Crockett (1954) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Dexter / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Engrenages / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Fargo: Season One / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Hogan's Heroes / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Homicide: Life on the Street / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Hotel Hell / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
How I Met Your Father / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Isabel / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Kamen Rider Geats / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Kingdom Hospital / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Mad Men / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Made in Canada / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Major Dad / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Mayday / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Mimpi Metropolitan / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Mr. Show / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
NYPD Blue / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
New Tricks / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
PhoneShop / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Portlandia / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Powerless (2017) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Psychoville / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Reaper / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Roll Out! / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Room at the Bottom (1967) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Spy (2011) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Starhunter / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Beiderbecke Affair / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Brittas Empire / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The King of Queens / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Norm Show / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Office (UK) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Office (US) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Sandbaggers / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Smoking Room / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Streets of San Francisco / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
30 Rock / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Vegas (2012) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
W817 / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
WKRP in Cincinnati / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Welcome to Wrexham / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Wiseguy / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Delver's Guide to Beast World (Tabletop Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Ani (Theatre) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Death of a Salesman (Theatre) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Firebringer (Theatre) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Phantom of the Opera (Theatre) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Attack of the Earthlings (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Borderlands (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Crash Tag Team Racing (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Darwinia (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Death and Taxes (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Half-Life (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Hypnospace Outlaw (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Mercenaries (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Miss Management (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Oiligarchy (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Portal 2 (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Segagaga (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Time Bandit (2023) (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Total War: Attila (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Video Game) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Phantom of the Opera (MazM) (Visual Novel) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Metropolis (2023) (Web Animation) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
OverSimplified (Web Animation) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Chicken Wings / Web Comic / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Auralnauts Star Wars (Web Video) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Gurren Lagann The Satire (Web Video) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Jimquisition (Web Video) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Great War (Web Video) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Basic Instructions (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Between Failures (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
City of Dream (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Clueless Hero (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Insecticomics (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Kirby Adventure (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Lalin's Curse (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Misfile (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Olympus Overdrive (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Spying with Lana (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Subnormality (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Developer's Life (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Motley Two (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Noob (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Trenches (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Viral By Committee (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Weapon Brown (Webcomic) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Bromwell High / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Home Movies / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
M.O.D.O.K. (2021) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Ozzy & Drix / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Teen Titans Go! / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Batman / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
The Mask / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Tig 'n Seek / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
T.U.F.F. Puppy / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Wayside / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss
Akira Tozawa (Wrestling) / int_dc3b74bc	type	Pointy-Haired Boss

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