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Puppet King

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Puppet King	comment	When the nominal leader of a nation — most commonly some form of royalty — is secretly a figurehead controlled by other elements, whether inside or outside the government. Usually the real power will be a Regent for Life, a scheming consort, a Government Conspiracy, a Dragon-in-Chief, or a particularly skillful Evil Chancellor. On paper, the general populace will think that the nominal ruler is really the one in charge, but it could very well be an Open Secret to anyone who closely observes the political sphere. As for what the actual monarch thinks of all this, they may be trying desperately to get power back, may be content with the status quo as "the way things are meant to be", may be too busy having fun to care, or in some extreme cases may not even know themself the extent to which they're being played. In some cases, this will be built right into the system of government, though only the highest officials will know that. Often the protagonists will help open the Puppet King's eyes and help him take his government back. This trope could backfire on the puppeteers if they pick the wrong person for the job. A puppet who turns out to be The Chessmaster or a Magnificent Bastard and gets a Reassignment Backfire can seize power for real, turning on his would-be controllers with a vengeance. Does not apply to cases like most modern-day monarchies, where the true power lies in elected officials while the monarch is a ceremonial role whose only real job is spreading goodwill. The government has to at least make a show that the ruler is calling the shots to qualify for this trope. Has nothing to do with the Teen Titans villain Puppet King, who is an Evil Sorcerer with the body of a literal puppet, or puppets that play the part of kings in Puppet Shows, or King Friday XIII from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Also not to be confused with Puppeteer Parasite or People Puppets. Compare Shadow Dictator, Behind Every Great Man, and Decoy Leader. Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster and The Puppet Cuts His Strings are subversions. A usually more mundane example may be a Clueless Boss. See also Our Presidents Are Different and Puppet State.
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Puppet King / int_103a54ea	comment	The King of Enrich from Shining the Holy Ark is being controlled by his Evil Chancellor (via evil spirits) into reviving her race of people.
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Puppet King / int_1161f77d	comment	Disgaea Dimension 2: The Krichevskoy Group, feeling that Laharl is unfit to be Overlord, decide to use their loyal knight, Barbara, to not only oust him from the throne, but then become this, allowing them to rule the Netherworld through her. Barbara doesn't mind it, but the Fall of Overlord Laharl ending shows how badly this backfires; since Barbara was conditioned her entire life to follow others' orders, the inability to think for herself becomes quickly apparent, and within a small timeframe her group is ousted, causing the Netherworld to fall back into a state of anarchy.
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Puppet King / int_1363b6e1	comment	Discussed in the fourth Noob novel. TÃ¶ne FÃ¶rk is the rightful heir to the Coalition's leadership, but performed a Heelâ€“Face Turn to avoid getting captured and possibly killed by the men of Lorth KordigÃ¤n, who took over the Coalition by force. When they meet again, Lorth KordigÃ¤n attempts to spin his defection into him abandoning his people. TÃ¶ne replies that even if Lorth KordigÃ¤n had left him alive and let him take his rightful position, he would have probably done everything he could to make him into this trope.
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Puppet King / int_13a61240	comment	Played straight with Snoke. The Rise of Skywalker revealed he was a homunculus created by the Sith Eternal, ruling the First Order in the Emperor's stead.
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Puppet King / int_13a8a9fe	comment	Magic20: In Off to Be the Wizard, the late King Stephen and his son King Arthur are this to Merlin. When Jimmy first came to Medieval England (like most time-traveling hackers, he got caught updating his bank account balance), he decided that he would become the mythical Merlin and insists that everyone calls him that. He heads to London and convinces King Stephen to rename the city "Camelot" and his son "Arthur" (born Eustace). Eventually, "Merlin" becomes the de facto ruler of "Camelot", with the King always going along with his "suggestions". "Merlin" builds a new palace of pure gold and commissions a large statue of him, Stephen, and Arthur, with "Merlin" looking more dominant of the three. After Jimmy's defeat by the other wizards, they tell Arthur that he's now free of "Merlin"'s tyranny, only for Arthur to look at him in confusion and ask what he should do now. Since he's never been a true ruler in his life, he has absolutely zero experience in ruling his kingdom.
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Puppet King / int_1559e891	comment	The Saga of Seven Suns: Literally built into the Terran Hansa Charter. The Great King is a monarch who acts as the Hansa's public face and is a focus for loyalty, but the Hansa Chairman (a career politician publicly seen as the king's assistant) is the one really calling the shots behind the scenes, and the king has no influence over policy.
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Puppet King / int_1682583	comment	This was also used in further Universal Century installments, specially in the case of one Mineva Lao Zabi. She's a seven-year-old girl and the last descendant of the Zabis, but the one truly in command is her tutor and the governor of the Axis, a Dark Action Girl known as Haman Kahn.
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Puppet King / int_179e4fcf	comment	"The Mayors": King Lepold of Anacreon, whose government is really controlled by his Evil Uncle, Prince Regent Wienis. By the end of the story, he's puppeted by the Foundation, instead, as they control the Divine Right of Kings.
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Puppet King / int_17fa5f0a	comment	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: We have a Puppet Minister of Magic, Pius Thicknesse, who is being controlled by Yaxley via the Imperius Curse, who in turn answers to Lord Voldemort. In the movie version, Thicknesse seems to be an active Death Eater himself rather than just a pawn, though the hierarchy of him-Yaxley-Voldemort is otherwise intact. In the same book, we have the Death Eater Severus Snape serving as the new Headmaster of Hogwarts, acting as Voldemort's representative at the school in the wake of his rise to power; though in his case, he turns out to have been loyal to Dumbledore all along.
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Puppet King / int_1858fe06	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Elias just can't help but be controlled by someone. The first time, it was Geoffry St. John, who tried to make it so that he and his Secret Service was a much better choice than Sonic and the Freedom Fighters. Second time, Elias' own father Max attempted to be this way, refusing to give up the past.
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Puppet King / int_19b87fc	comment	Summer Crowns: As Warden of the North, the crippled and drug-addled Brandon Stark becomes this to the Three Regents (Roose Bolton, William Dustin, and Rodrik Ryswell), who do their best to tarnish his image so that they can eventually take direct control.
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Puppet King / int_1a5d1224	comment	In The Mental State, Commissioner Viceman, a notoriously right-wing official, suddenly starts making a lot of liberal changes to the state prison system. Unbeknownst to his colleagues and even the inmates themselves, his reason for doing this is because he is secretly being blackmailed by one of his own prisoners, Zack State. Once he has the dirt on Viceman, Zack essentially serves as the supreme authority in prison, despite his fellow inmates only ever speculating about just how much he is really responsible for.
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Puppet King / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In Dragon Age: Origins, if Alistair becomes King while not hardened he becomes this. The person with true power can be Anora if they are convinced to get married, the Warden if they become the Chancellor or Arl Eamon. He doesn't seem to care. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the three individuals vying for the throne of Orlais are the sitting Empress Celene, her cousin Duke Gaspard, and the elven spymaster Briala. Since elves normally can't pursue politics, the closest you can come to having Briala rule is by letting Celene get assassinated, installing Gaspard as Emperor, and blackmailing him into letting Briala order him around behind the scenes.
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Puppet King / int_1cdbedf3	comment	In Black Sky, this is the reason why Erica Lanza refuses to run for Vongola Decimo Boss; while they have the proper bloodline to qualify, they're fully aware that they would become this for Xanxus. Interestingly, while they wouldn't actually mind letting the other run things behind the scenes, they're concerned about setting a precedent for "unfit" heirs being taken over by more competent subordinates.
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Puppet King / int_1de234dc	comment	In Destroyermen, the Empire of New Britain Isles (located where Hawaii would be on our Earth) is officially ruled by Governor-Emperor Gerald McDonald. However, in reality, the Empire is run by the Honorable New Britain Company, which primarily makes it money by enslaving women. Not only do the Company higher-ups control much of the navy, but they enforce their control by the presence of their equivalent of The Political Officer on each ship, who are, officially, only observers. Except no captain would dare disobey for fear of reprisals and Kangaroo Courts. Furthermore, the Company higher-ups appear to be in league with the Holy Dominion (mainly located in Mexico) and are paving way for a Dom invasion. Only with the help of The Alliance, the Empire manages to throw off the Company yoke and join the Alliance against the Dominion and the Grik. Gerald McDonald once again rules the Empire (until he's assassinated by his own people, and his teenage daughter Rebecca Anne McDonald becomes the Governor-Empress. Unlike her father, she's ruthless and completely dedicated to the Alliance cause).
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Puppet King / int_1e015a5d	comment	The novelization of the original Star Wars film, which actually preceded the film's release, specifies that Palpatine was a wealthy merchant turned Senator and made Emperor by a junta of warlords who were the true power in the Empire. In The Empire Strikes Back, an early script has Vader speaking not to the Emperor, but to his Vizier, Sate Pestage.
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Puppet King / int_210767ac	comment	In the Crusader Kings series, rulers who have vassals that are too powerful can be reduced to this. Most players will attempt to avoid such situations if they are the rulers; if they are said vassals, to encourage and capitalize on it.
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Puppet King / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem Gaiden, Lima IV may sit on the Zofian throne, but it's his Evil Chancellor Desaix who holds all the real power. The story proper begins when Desaix dispenses with all pretense and has Lima IV assassinated. King Mordred of Etruria in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade was once The Good King, but fell into a deep depression after the murder of his son. As a result, High Chancellor Roartz and Nobleman Lord Arcard take advantage of this to control the country behind his back and side with Bern during the war. Empress Sanaki of Begnion in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance was intended as one of these by the senators, and made Empress when she was only 5. She's well aware of how corrupt the people really running the country are, but is powerless to do anything about it herself. Unfortunately for them though, she's a lot smarter than they anticipated and manages to lead Ike and co. into exposing the senate's laguz slave trade, and joins the army that eventually dethrones the senate in Radiant Dawn. In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ionius IX is nominally the head of the Adrestian Empire, but the lords of the other Imperial noble houses take advantage of his declining health and advanced age, and conduct a shadow campaign to steal all of his power and influence. After Edelgard journeys to the capital to succeed her father as Emperor, her first act in her new position is to have all of the corrupt lords deposed and arrested, putting the seat of power back in the hands of House Hresvelg. A Black Eagles-aligned Byleth can personally witness this. Done twice over in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. When Thales launches a surprise attack on Edelgard after her defeat at Arianrhod in Dimitri's story route, he places a powerful mind-control spell on her and puts Duke Aegir in charge as the regent of The Empire under the pretense of Edelgard recovering from a serious injury and being unable to perform her duties as emperor, with Thales directly telling Ludwig he expects him to fail. Later, the duke uses this literally during the battle of Ailell when he parades around a still-brainwashed Edelgard to force those still loyal to her to defend him from the Kingdom, Alliance, and Church armies, expecting her presence alone to boost the Imperial army's flagging morale.
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Puppet King / int_2212773a	comment	Parodied in the Angel episode "Smile Time", where the creator of a kid's puppet show is a human being controlled by the literal demonic puppets that act in the show.
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Puppet King / int_23bc247b	comment	In Equestria: A History Revealed, the Lemony Narrator stumbles upon the fact that the rulers of Saddle Arabia may have been replaced by a more pro-Celestia leadership. She doesn't really give this much thought though, and just moves on. Given that her essay was made to reveal these hidden conspiracies, and this is the first event she covers that actually has potential to be seen as an actual conspiracy, this seems to be quite the overlook.
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Puppet King / int_26baf6f7	comment	In Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus it's revealed that Hitler himself is still alive but by this point, he's an utterly senile and incontinent old man secluded in a secret base on Venus. It's abundantly clear he hasn't had any real power in decades, with people like General "Deathshead" and Frau Engel ruling in his stead.
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Puppet King / int_27777760	comment	The head of Global Dynamics on Eureka is apparently assumed to be this for the Department of Defense. In season 4, this is subtly hinted at being the reason Fargo landed the job in the altered timeline.
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Puppet King / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Naruto it was eventually revealed that Yagura, the Fourth Mizukage and ruler of the Village Hidden in the Mist, was mind-controlled by someone who claimed to be Madara Uchiha. The extent to which he was aware of his control is unknown. After what's shown of Yagura's true personality, however, it can be assumed that he was probably under complete and utter control of Tobi.
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Puppet King / int_32c541e6	comment	FÃ¼hrer King Bradley from Fullmetal Alchemist and he knows it. He is the Homunculus Wrath and only the figurehead to the real leader, Father. For his entire life, he served Father's will and had very little freedom of his own. It is why he cherished his wife, as it was the ONLY thing he willingly chose with that very freedom he had.
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Puppet King / int_33dd1d90	comment	In Half-Life 2, the alleged Big Bad, Dr. Wallace Breen, is actually a figurehead for the Combine Advisors, who are the true Big Bad, having chosen him as their puppet, making Breen a Big Bad Wannabe.
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Puppet King / int_3501cc23	comment	Gentleman Bastard: The Bondsmages of Karthain are casual Super Supremacists who make a sport out of throwing the city-state's elections; unknown to the general population, the political parties are functionally indistinguishable except for which Bondsmage faction is manipulating them. Gives a whole new meaning to "political theatre".
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Puppet King / int_36395288	comment	King Dedede provides the Kirby series a quite literal example. While Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Dream Land 3, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards all have the King possessed, Kirby's Epic Yarn and Kirby: Triple Deluxe takes it one step further by having the games' Big Bad & Dragon using him as a puppet via Marionette strings.
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Puppet King / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the three individuals vying for the throne of Orlais are the sitting Empress Celene, her cousin Duke Gaspard, and the elven spymaster Briala. Since elves normally can't pursue politics, the closest you can come to having Briala rule is by letting Celene get assassinated, installing Gaspard as Emperor, and blackmailing him into letting Briala order him around behind the scenes.
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Puppet King / int_3a128f25	comment	Cycles Upon Cycles: The members of the Citadel Council are reduced to this by their respective governments after their botched negotiations lead to a brief war with the Koprulu Alliance, wherein the Council forces are curbstomped and the Batarians are almost wiped out by the Zerg. The member nations of the Council take more control over international politics, leaving the Councilors themselves as little more than figureheads.
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Puppet King / int_3a632145	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_3a632145	comment	The Dementia of Magic chapter "The Royal Prisoner" reveals this to be the fate of Queen Breznial. She's fully aware of it and angry at her situation, but since she's powerless, all she can do is try and escape on her own.
Puppet King / int_3a632145	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Dementia of Magic (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_3a632145
Puppet King / int_3b0fa3aa	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_3b0fa3aa	comment	Dream SMP: It is an open secret that all of the known monarchs ruling the Greater Dream SMP faction have little to no actual political power, with Dream acting as The Man Behind the Man. This comes to an end once Dream is imprisoned, allowing the current monarch Eret to turn the faction into a force for good.
Puppet King / int_3b0fa3aa	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dream SMP (Web Video)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_3b0fa3aa
Puppet King / int_3df2b35a	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_3df2b35a	comment	"The Psychohistorians": The Emperor isn't named, because they're unable to directly affect the plot. Chief Commissioner Linge Chen, of the Commission of Public Safety, is the true power behind the throne. This has to be explained to Gaal Dornick, because he's from a backwater planet, and initially assumed he could rely on a hearing with the Emperor to escape unjust political imprisonment.
Puppet King / int_3df2b35a	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_3df2b35a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Psychohistorians	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_3df2b35a
Puppet King / int_3e8c09b9	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, it turns out that King Fritz, who initially appears as a stern, decadent king, is in fact just a senile figurehead who would give Trevor Slattery a run for his money. The real king is Rod Reiss, Krista/Historia's father.
Puppet King / int_3e8c09b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_3e8c09b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Attack on Titan (Manga)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_3e8c09b9
Puppet King / int_3f3abe9	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_3f3abe9	comment	In Rick and Morty episode 'The Tales From The Citadel', this was revealed to be the original plan of the Shadow Council of Ricks to orchestrate the election, let a Morty take over so that the Citadel appears progressive, while the Council rules from the shadows like they always did. Evil Morty had other plans, though.
Puppet King / int_3f3abe9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Rick and Morty	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_3f3abe9
Puppet King / int_4037825e	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_4037825e	comment	In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Emperors Shao and Xian are this. Shan is the puppet of Dong Zhuo, while Xian is the puppet, initially, of Dong Zhuo, but ultimately of Cao Cao. In Wei, Cao Fang, Cao Mao, and Cao Huan end up as puppets of the Simas.
Puppet King / int_4037825e	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_4037825e	featureConfidence	1.0
Romance of the Three Kingdoms	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_4037825e
Puppet King / int_41b0198a	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_41b0198a	comment	The White Vampire Court in The Dresden Files, Lara controlling her father, the King, after the book Blood Rites.
Puppet King / int_41b0198a	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_41b0198a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dresden Files	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_41b0198a
Puppet King / int_43ad18a	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_43ad18a	comment	In Glorianna, the senile King Arven is manipulated by his brother Vasgor. And Duke Thanaktos is literally a zombie puppet, controlled by the wizard Zorko.
Puppet King / int_43ad18a	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_43ad18a	featureConfidence	1.0
Glorianna (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_43ad18a
Puppet King / int_43c93e54	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_43c93e54	comment	Sleepless: Lord Helder is the "second son of a lord's third daughter" with no real power and he's desperate to gain any shred of authority he can — first by courting his cousin Crown Princess Rellen, and then by marrying Lady Poppy when King Surno tells him to give up pursuing Rellen. Helder realizes that he and Poppy would be behind any potential children of Rellen's in the line of succession, but he's smart enough to realize that Poppy is the only member of the court to have gained Rellen's trust and confidence. On their wedding night, he tells Poppy that her influence over Rellen means they could rule Harbeny from the shadows.
Puppet King / int_43c93e54	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_43c93e54	featureConfidence	1.0
Sleepless (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_43c93e54
Puppet King / int_468bebb0	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Guards! Guards! the goal of the Elucidated Brethren is to set up one of these with themselves holding the reins. The idea is that they will get a chap with the usual characteristics (noble, not too bright, does what he's told), have him seemingly slay a dragon they summoned (and subsequently banish), and reap the rewards. Unfortunately the dragon turns out to be Not Quite Dead, and then things get interesting... According to Unseen University's Bursar, all of the Archchancellors are supposed to be this. Seeing almost all of them get killed off by Klingon Promotion before doing anything important, the only thing they needed to do was sign papers. That all came to an end when Mustrum Ridcully was put in charge... along with the Bursar's sanity. In Pyramids Pteppic becomes King of Djelibeybi with plans to modernize, only to discover he has doesn't even have the power to pick his lunch. High Priest Dios knows exactly what the king should be doing and what decisions he should be making, so he announces the king's commands and everyone nervously ignores Pteppic protesting that he said the exact opposite. He ends up rescuing someone he sentenced to death from his own dungeons and fleeing the country.
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Discworld	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_468bebb0
Puppet King / int_4771fb78	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_4771fb78	comment	Tora! Tora! Tora!: Emperor Hirohito is described as being quite opposed to the alliance with Germany and war with America. It also doesn't matter what his opinion of the matter is, as the Cabinet holds all the real power in the government and allow him to attend meetings as a formality.
Puppet King / int_4771fb78	featureApplicability	1.0
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Tora! Tora! Tora!	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_4771fb78
Puppet King / int_49a88435	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_49a88435	comment	The Empire attempt to do this with the female lead Princess Ashe in Final Fantasy XII. Let's just say that the Empire give up on this plan real fast.
Puppet King / int_49a88435	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_49a88435	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_49a88435
Puppet King / int_49a88442	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, we have Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo, the young Lalafell ruler of Ul'dah. Despite being the ruler, the real power goes to the Syndicate, a gathering of people in which she is part of, comprised of Royalists, who side with her and ruling by her hand, and the Monetarists, who seek to line their pockets with Gil through power. Nanamo gets incredibly fed up when the majority Monetarists reject the refuges from Doma that she decides to Abdicate the Throne and dissolve the monarchy, turning Ul'dah into a republic. The plan gets derailed when the Monetarist Lalafell Teleji Adaleji learns of this plan and attempts to assassinate her. When she recovers, she's still ruler, but fellow Monetarist Lolorito, who learned of Teleji's plan and prevented her assassination, gave her all of Teleji's assets along with some of his own so she could have some power.
Puppet King / int_49a88442	featureApplicability	1.0
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Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_49a88442
Puppet King / int_4a90c60b	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_4a90c60b	comment	The White Queen: King Henry VI's brief return to the English throne finds him staring vacantly and barely able to talk, while Lord Warwick runs the country.
Puppet King / int_4a90c60b	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_4a90c60b	featureConfidence	1.0
The White Queen	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_4a90c60b
Puppet King / int_4dfeb58c	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_4dfeb58c	comment	The Elminster Series: Belaur, the oldest prince of Athalantar, hires many mages to help him secure the throne. However, they're the ones truly in charge afterward, though he doesn't seem to care, being far more interested in drinking and bedding beautiful women.
Puppet King / int_4dfeb58c	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Elminster Series	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_4dfeb58c
Puppet King / int_5022a2c4	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5022a2c4	comment	Emperor Lao Tzu from Xena: Warrior Princess is an almost literal example. When his health deteriorated, his wife Lao Ma (who was also Xena's former mentor/possible lover during her time in China) placed him in a magically-induced coma and proceeded to rule in his name, undoing his tyrannical rule but letting him take credit for the good deeds she accomplished. What makes this almost literal is that she would prop him up in the palace gardens once a month to assure people that he wasn't dead.
Puppet King / int_5022a2c4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xena: Warrior Princess	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5022a2c4
Puppet King / int_5082a6a	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5082a6a	comment	The King of France in The Three Musketeers is a puppet to Cardinal Richelieu.
Puppet King / int_5082a6a	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_5082a6a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Three Musketeers	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5082a6a
Puppet King / int_5268a4ed	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build: Prime Minister Masakuni Mido ends up as one to Namba Industries. The moment he refuses to do what they say, their CEO has him assassinated.
Puppet King / int_5268a4ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_5268a4ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Kamen Rider Build	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5268a4ed
Puppet King / int_53b30902	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_53b30902	comment	In Valkyria Chronicles, Princess Cordelia starts out firmly under the thumb of her regent, Prime Minister Borg. Changing her breakfast menu is the first decision she made in sixteen years of life (probably half a joke), but she becomes more independent by the end of the game.
Puppet King / int_53b30902	featureApplicability	1.0
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Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_53b30902
Puppet King / int_53f9ae8a	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_53f9ae8a	comment	I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What?: King Medyrsjn of Central rules a desolate kingdom flanked by two much more powerful Empires, either of whom will have him assassinated the instant he shows signs of standing up to them or favoring their rival. His day-to-day survival is dependent on his ability to never outright endorse or refuse any offer from either empire, and to maintain the facade of dissolution and gluttony that makes him appear non-threatening.
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I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What? (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_53f9ae8a
Puppet King / int_56e10d85	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Lord of the Rings: King ThÃ©oden of Rohan was effectively turned into one puppet until Gandalf snapped him out of it. In the movies, this was due to literal Mind Control, while in the books Evil Chancellor Wormtongue was "just" a very Manipulative Bastard who used mundane means and the king's advancing age to get actual control of the government handed over to him. The Fall of NÃºmenor: Sauron is taken to NÃºmenor as a prisoner, but before long he has become Ar-PharazÃ´n's chief advisor, and he takes even less time to become the real power behind the throne. All he need do is whisper 'Great kings must have their will' in Ar-PharazÃ´n's ear, and the king will do whatever Sauron wants, convinced that he is doing his will instead of Sauron's.
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Tolkien's Legendarium (Franchise)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_56e10d85
Puppet King / int_5755b96a	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Lord Shojo is an insane old man who listens only to Mr. Scruffy, his cat. He really cultivates the image so that people don't kill him — if you're being manipulated, there's no point in killing you. The Empress of Blood is expected to be this. As it turns out the rulers of the Empires of Blood, Sweat, and Tears are all puppet rulers each controlled by two members of Tarquin's old adventuring party. They absorb countries one by one while pretending to protect them from the other empires. To stop anyone realizing the pairs exchange members, they depose the figurehead, and they rename the countries on a regular basis.
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The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5755b96a
Puppet King / int_5908ee91	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5908ee91	comment	In Skyrim, High Queen Elisif the Fair is jarl of Haafingar and nominally the ruler of the province of Skyrim. In practice, the ongoing civil war means that General Tulius of the Imperial Legion is in charge of the loyal part of the province, and Elisif's inexperience means she defers to her late husband's circle of advisors when it comes to ruling her province. For example, upon hearing a complaint of mysterious happenings in a spooky cave, Elisif orders a full legion of soldiers to investigate, before her Steward, Falk Firebeard, suggests a more "tempered" approach, which Elisif immediately endorses before declaring the matter settled. Should the Stormcloaks win the Skyrim Civil War and Ulfric becomes High King, Elisif will remain jarl, stuck serving the very man who killed her husband.
Puppet King / int_5908ee91	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5908ee91
Puppet King / int_5a3533fe	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5a3533fe	comment	In My Name Is Earl, Darnell is in Witness Protection for refusal to kill one of these. The puppet king in question was a child, and Darnell secret agent Harry Munroe couldn't bring himself to harm a child.
Puppet King / int_5a3533fe	featureApplicability	1.0
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My Name Is Earl	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5a3533fe
Puppet King / int_5ada53ed	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5ada53ed	comment	In the James Bond movie Licence to Kill, not only does the drug lord Franz Sanchez have the president of Isthmus (quite literally Panama in all but name) Hector Lopez on his payroll, but in one scene reveals that he cut the president's pay in half just to get his attention, and when the president confronts Sanchez, Sanchez writes a check for the correct amount while saying, "You were awfully quiet when I got arrested. Remember, you are only President...for Life."
Puppet King / int_5ada53ed	featureApplicability	1.0
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James Bond	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5ada53ed
Puppet King / int_5afbc0cb	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Implied in Undertale in the ending where you kill all of the bosses except Papyrus. He and Sans note in the final phone call that while Papyrus acts as a figurehead and encourages the people, Sans is handling all the paperwork behind the scenes.
Puppet King / int_5afbc0cb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Undertale (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5afbc0cb
Puppet King / int_5bd0554b	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5bd0554b	comment	Blackhand from Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Rise of the Horde is the warchief of the Horde, but the real power is between the hands of Gul'dan and the Shadow Council. Blackhand himself knows it but doesn't care as long as everybody thinks he is the most powerful orc around.
Puppet King / int_5bd0554b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Warcraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5bd0554b
Puppet King / int_5c62d4d8	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5c62d4d8	comment	King Jeffrey from Dragomir's Diary is known for his stunningly amoral decisions and general stupidity. Yet as his time as a king draws to a close it becomes apparent that he's not fully in control of himself, and the true mastermind behind his idiocy may, in fact, be the player who controls the video game he inhabits.
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Dragomirs Diary	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5c62d4d8
Puppet King / int_5e150650	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted features Regent Fokuf, the only person to sit on the throne of the Realm since the Scarlet Empress disappeared — the main reason being that everyone wanted a witless fool who could easily be bent to their whims. Fokuf basically spends his days rubber-stamping documents and wanking to the Immaculate Texts, and it's stated that if the Scarlet Empress returns, she'll likely destroy him for the insult of daring to sit on her throne.
Puppet King / int_5e150650	featureApplicability	1.0
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Exalted (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_5e150650
Puppet King / int_5f5b8099	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_5f5b8099	comment	The Parselmouth of Gryffindor: Cornelius Fudge is a mere figurehead, with Hermione as the power behind the ministerial chair, through his constantly asking for her advice because he has no idea how to deal with any sorts of responsibilities.
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Puppet King / int_6234eae7	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_6234eae7	comment	Other Gundam examples include Queen Maria of the brutal Zanscare Empire, who is on the whole a very kind and decent woman who is painfully aware of her lack of real power. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing had Duke Dermail attempt to make Relena Peacecraft into one of these when he gave her the title "Queen of the World", but she went and turned that into a truly authoritative position and ended up reforming the Rommefeller Foundation into a benevolent pacifistic state.
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Mobile Suit Victory Gundam	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_6234eae7
Puppet King / int_625f8f3	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_625f8f3	comment	In the 2015 anime/manga of The Heroic Legend of Arslan, for all intent and purpose, King Innocentius's brother the Prime Minister and High Priest Bodin are far more active and respected within the Lusitanian ranks. Innocentius himself is very gullible and easily manipulated, essentially approving whatever they want to do.
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The Heroic Legend of Arslan	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_625f8f3
Puppet King / int_626a75bc	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_626a75bc	comment	Jin and Ragna's sister Saya, now the Imperator of the NOL, in BlazBlue: Continuum Shift has been turned into this by Terumi. It wouldn't be the first time he's mind raped somebody into pulling a Faceâ€“Heel Turn. In BlazBlue: Chronophantasma, it is subverted by Saya, who is revealed to be possessed by Hades Izanami, the Goddess of Death, and she had been playing Terumi and Relius the entire time. She later backstabs them after they became useless to her. Then in BlazBlue: Central Fiction, it is Double Subverted, as Hades is revealed as a Literal Split Personality of Saya, and Terumi and Relius use her to run NOL while they manipulate in secret, though she still has a level of autonomy and seems perfectly fine with her position.
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BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_626a75bc
Puppet King / int_626f9a7	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_626f9a7	comment	In Legends of Chima, Cragger is the ruler of the gators, however his sister Crooler uses the pollen from Persuader Plants to make him do whatever she tells him.
Puppet King / int_626f9a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Puppet King / int_626f9a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Legends of Chima	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_626f9a7
Puppet King / int_6274c8ee	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_6274c8ee	comment	Ark: Empress Cathabel of the Storrians, whose title is just in name only, for every single authority of leadership has been delegated to her treacherous advisor, Vizier Baramanda, who's manipulating the Empress into giving him full control over the planet.
Puppet King / int_6274c8ee	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ark	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_6274c8ee
Puppet King / int_629cd094	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins, if Alistair becomes King while not hardened he becomes this. The person with true power can be Anora if they are convinced to get married, the Warden if they become the Chancellor or Arl Eamon. He doesn't seem to care.
Puppet King / int_629cd094	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dragon Age: Origins (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_629cd094
Puppet King / int_6365ff3a	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_6365ff3a	comment	Dragon Quest V: King Korol is the leader of Order of Zugzwang, but Ladja is the one who is really calling the shots. When Korol is defeated by the heroes, Ladja appears to tell him he is nothing but a pawn who has outlived his usefulness and execute him.
Puppet King / int_6365ff3a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dragon Quest V (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_6365ff3a
Puppet King / int_640d9be1	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_640d9be1	comment	King Mordred of Etruria in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade was once The Good King, but fell into a deep depression after the murder of his son. As a result, High Chancellor Roartz and Nobleman Lord Arcard take advantage of this to control the country behind his back and side with Bern during the war.
Puppet King / int_640d9be1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_640d9be1
Puppet King / int_645d2bd1	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_645d2bd1	comment	Warbreaker: God-King Susebron is an example of one who knows and accepts his own role as a symbol and his priests' role as the actual administrators — at least, until his young wife Siri convinces him otherwise.
Puppet King / int_645d2bd1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Warbreaker	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_645d2bd1
Puppet King / int_675ecd3e	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_675ecd3e	comment	In the final mission of The Outer Worlds, in an anti-Board path provided you have sufficiently high speech skills you can convince Chairman Rockwell, head of the Board, into being your personal lackey, with the epilogues stating that he ends up enforcing the protagonist's will upon the rest of the Board.
Puppet King / int_675ecd3e	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Outer Worlds (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puppet King / int_675ecd3e
Puppet King / int_67855503	type	Puppet King
Puppet King / int_67855503	comment	Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle: Ragreed Forus attempts to become this. He takes part in an attempted coup to take over the New Kingdom, with the help of the Heiburg Republic. As a surviving noble of the Old Empire, he would ostensibly become emperor of a resurgent Old Empire while in reality being a puppet of the Heiburg Republic. Ragreed is fully aware of this but doesn't care, thinking that it's fine as long as he gets the privileges of being emperor. Raffi, the queen of Atismata, spends much of the series being lead around by Prime Minister Nulph and the four great noble houses. Volume 16 shows that she's fully aware of this and despairs at how little purpose she has in life. Fugil offers to solidify her rule using the power of the Ruins and she accepts, but this trope is still in effect because now she's depending on Fugil rather than the kingdom's political factions. While their interests align for the time being, it's obvious that Raffi's good fortune will be lost if Fugil betrays her or if the protagonists weaken the power of the Ruins.
Puppet King / int_67855503	featureApplicability	1.0
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Puppet King / int_68237790	comment	In Pathfinder, the land of Numeria is ruled by the barbarian king Kevoth-Kul, known as the Black Sovereign. In truth, however, he spends most of his time in a hedonistic drug-addled haze, with the Technic League (the ones supplying the drugs) being the real power. It's something of an open secret, but to say so is to invite a quick death. The Iron Gods adventure path for First Edition gives the PCs the opportunity to break the League's power and help Kevoth-Kul escape his addictions and reclaim true authority. When Second Edition updated the setting to incorporate the events of the 1E adventure paths, this option was confirmed as canon.
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Puppet King / int_68959742	comment	Suikoden IV: After the Kooluk Empire takes over Razril, they set up Snowe Vingerhut with a false title and duties that keep him away from his homeland so that he doesn't see its decline firsthand. Thanks to their manipulations, along with those by his father, Snowe sincerely doesn't realize what's going on, taking everything at face value and believing that the bargains they struck with the empire were all for the best.
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Puppet King / int_69ccce0e	comment	In Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, Buzz Windrip is a puppet dictator, with his right-hand man Lee Saranson really pulling the strings. Saranson's lust for power drives him to exile Windrip after an aborted assassination attempt.
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Puppet King / int_6a5a6be5	comment	Annventure of a Lifetime: The Mysterious Figure/Ego Koibito becomes an Evil Overlord in-training who launches a takeover of Blackwater Country and builds an entire Egopolis with her name and color motif plastered everywhere. But she only got her power as a result of a Deal with the Devil, and the devil in question, Tyrannia, orders her around and is clearly the true driving force of the takeover. When the Figure fails to defeat Ann, instead regaining her memories, Tyrannia unceremoniously offs her for failing to uphold the deal to kill Ann.
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Puppet King / int_6a8aff51	comment	In The Stormlight Archive, Alethkar was multiple nations until it was united by Gavilar. Unfortunately he was killed, a lot of the people currently ruling parts of Alethkar used to rule nations in their own right, and his son Elhokar doesn't have nearly the strength of will his father did. As a result, he's fairly ineffective. In the second book, Gavilar's brother Dalinar starts trying to make the king more of a uniting figure. But between Dalinar's forceful personality and Elohkar's indecision and general lack of competence, even people who like Dalinar think it just makes the king look like his puppet.
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Puppet King / int_6a8ce345	comment	Avatar: Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Earth King was so completely controlled by Evil Chancellor Long Feng and his Dai Li that he didn't even know he wasn't really in control of the Earth Kingdom until the heroes helped set things straight. In the finale, Fire Lord Ozai grants his position to his daughter Azula, right before turning it into a puppet position by naming himself Phoenix King. This comes as a slap in the face to Azula and exacerbates a Villainous Breakdown that's been brewing for a while. In Season 4 of The Legend of Korra, averting this trope is part of the reason why Kuvira usurps the United Republic-backed Prince Wu and crowns herself Emperor of the above-mentioned Earth Kingdom (which she renames "Earth Empire"). After Kuvira's defeat, Wu decides to abolish the monarchy altogether and let the people of the Earth Kingdom choose their new leaders.
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Puppet King / int_6bf2a9ce	comment	Dungeon Twilight: Early in the series, Herbert separates himself from the Dark Entity. Fayez Ul-Rahman, the leader of the assassin's clan, take advantage of this by being the strongest faction but leaves Herbert as the Great Khan to avoid infighting and pretend to renew his loyalty in public. He makes it clear to Herbert and his daughter that he is in charge and Herbert'll be nothing more than a figurehead.
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Puppet King / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: The archduke of Ehrenfest has a complicated relationship with this trope: Up to the scene in which archduke's identity is revealed, he was letting his maternal uncle and mother get away with various dubious activities. He spends part of the aforementioned scene announcing that he's putting his uncle and mother under arrest because they have become more trouble than they're worth. It later turns out that one of the archduke's cousin's children was reluctant to become a retainer in the archduke's household because he considered him to be essentially a puppet to his mother. After her arrest, many of the archduke's mother's allies are persuaded that the archduke is being manipulated by the man who's closer to being his Cloudcuckoolander's Minder and Hypercompetent Sidekick in reality.
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Puppet King / int_6e1d5f36	comment	In the Farscape three-parter, "Look at the Princess", both the Peacekeepers and the Scarrans are conspiring to put a ruler amenable to their interests on the throne of a neo-feudal planet. There's also Dominar Rygel XVI, a literal puppet king.
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Puppet King / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Empress Sanaki of Begnion in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance was intended as one of these by the senators, and made Empress when she was only 5. She's well aware of how corrupt the people really running the country are, but is powerless to do anything about it herself. Unfortunately for them though, she's a lot smarter than they anticipated and manages to lead Ike and co. into exposing the senate's laguz slave trade, and joins the army that eventually dethrones the senate in Radiant Dawn.
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Puppet King / int_70606a03	comment	Queen of Shadows plays with this a little. While the line of Queens are the ultimate authority of the Shadowkhan Empire, most administrative power lies in the hands of the Circle of Generals, though the reigning Queen can override them at any time. Also, any attempt to try and actively reduce the Queen into an actually powerless figurehead (like Jirobo has been trying to do) is seen as something only lowly humans would try to do.
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Puppet King / int_7110fae1	comment	Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica's Cloche is officially the Holy Maiden of the Grand Bell, leading the people of Metafalss in the War Against the Goddess Frelia. In truth, she starts as an isolated young woman closely monitored by the Grand Bell's upper crust, especially Alfman Uranous.
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Puppet King / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Earth King was so completely controlled by Evil Chancellor Long Feng and his Dai Li that he didn't even know he wasn't really in control of the Earth Kingdom until the heroes helped set things straight. In the finale, Fire Lord Ozai grants his position to his daughter Azula, right before turning it into a puppet position by naming himself Phoenix King. This comes as a slap in the face to Azula and exacerbates a Villainous Breakdown that's been brewing for a while.
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Puppet King / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: During the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, they had an occupational government with Bajorans serving as puppet rulers. When the Cardassians left Bajor, the surviving collaborators largely left with them, and were soon after exiled from Bajor. When Cardassia joins the Dominion, they at first install the ambitious Gul Dukat as their puppet ruler, even though he and Weyoun - the Founders' toady-in-chief - try to maintain the illusion that Dukat is not a puppet ruler. When Dukat loses his sanity and is captured by the Federation, the Dominion installs dull yes-man Damar as leader of the Cardassian Union; he ends up being a puppet controlled by Weyoun. When Damar sees how far Cardassia has fallen under his "leadership," he decides that enough is enough and declares rebellion against the Dominion; the Dominion soon replaces him with another puppet, Legate Broca, who remains unquestioningly loyal to the Founders even when he's about to be executed after the Cardassian Fleet defects.
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Puppet King / int_755931eb	comment	In Dune, Emperor Corrino is the absolute ruler of the known universe, but he needs to heed the demands of the Spacing Guild, without them the galaxy will be completely isolated from each other. The Guild demands for the Emperor to kill Paul Atreides, or else Paul will stop the flow of spice in Arrakis which everyone depends on.
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Puppet King / int_76c01b30	comment	The V for Vendetta comic had a puppet dictator. Originally he was a strong, visionary leader (and of course an evil fascist), but over the course of the story, he slowly withdraws from actually running the country, and though he remains an important public symbol and figurehead, leaving one of his ministers to basically assume real control of the government.
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Puppet King / int_77184a72	comment	The Victorious/iCarly/Sam & Cat fic series "More Moons than Our Eyes Can Recount and Store" reveals that Sam is essentially this for Dice's company; since Dice is a minor he can't legally own his company himself, so initially his mother was the legal head of the company, but Dice has since signed legal authority over to Sam.
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Puppet King / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, the Diamonds are presumed by the lower-ranking Gems to rule the Gem Empire equally, but in truth, this is not the case. Pink Diamond spent millennia begging her sisters for her own planet to colonize. When they finally decided to do so, they gave her the Earth. Pink assumed that the planet was uninhabited. But when she discovered that it was already brimming with life, she wanted to cease Gem operations on the planet and leave, but her sisters wouldn't allow it. Pink tried her hardest to gain approval to shut down the Earth colony, but the only result was that her sisters took control of the colony while leaving her as a puppet to her oblivious subjects. Finally fed up, Pink decided to stage her murder and lead a rebellion against her sisters.
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Puppet King / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: The Modern Lion Steel Corporation was formed when a hunter, Lawrence, found an Artificial Intelligence Robot Maid Alice sealed away, who was The Remnant of the Precursors company, and Lawrence acted as a proxy for Alice rebuilding the company in the modern era. Lawrence crewed the ranks of the corporation through his massive number of offspring, who ended up forming a Cyberpunk equivalent to a Decadent Court jockeying for influence.
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Puppet King / int_7d5e43b0	comment	Parodied in The Goodies Rule — OK? with the Goodies setting up a literal puppet government using the cast of The Sooty Show. Unfortunately things soon get out of hand, culminating in Chequers being demolished by a giant Dougal and Zebedee. At the end democracy is restored, only for a credits gag to reveal the politicians are puppets being controlled by the Goodies, who in turn are puppets controlled by series producer Jim Franklin.
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Puppet King / int_7d8c61a2	comment	In the backstory of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mandalore the Lesser, the previous leader of the Mandalorians, was a pawn installed by Imperial Intelligence to ensure that the Mandalorians allied with the Sith during the Great Galactic War. He was eventually killed and replaced by a non-puppet leader, but their alliance with the Sith remained in place, even after the old Mandalore's puppet status was revealed.
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Puppet King / int_7f88571c	comment	The Earth Alliance in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny is made up of several of the world's most powerful nations, including The Atlantic Federation, Eurasia, and other major power blocs in Easa Asia, Africa, and South America. Yet despite that, the agenda is really being controlled by Blue Cosmos, and several other major anti-Coordinator lobby groups, headed first by Murata Azrael and later by his successor, Lord Djibril. It's Blue Cosmos who pulls the strings; the Earth Alliance just follows along.
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Puppet King / int_7fb63996	comment	The Fifth Season: Yumenes in theory has an Emperor, but in practice he's little more than an expensive ornament. The bureaucrats—particularly those who control the earthquake-manipulating orogenes—are the ones who really run the show.
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Puppet King / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: King ThÃ©oden of Rohan was effectively turned into one puppet until Gandalf snapped him out of it. In the movies, this was due to literal Mind Control, while in the books Evil Chancellor Wormtongue was "just" a very Manipulative Bastard who used mundane means and the king's advancing age to get actual control of the government handed over to him.
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Puppet King / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: "A Piece of the Action" provides the page quote. The crew find themselves on a planet of gangsters who are constantly fighting one another, and Guile Hero Kirk offers to set up someone as a puppet leader of The Federation, which he pretends is The Syndicate, in order to bring peace to the world. In "Patterns of Force", what happens when a Starfleet historian ignores history and tries to bring back the Nazis for a Planet of Hats? He ends up giving drugged speeches for an Evil Chancellor. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: During the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, they had an occupational government with Bajorans serving as puppet rulers. When the Cardassians left Bajor, the surviving collaborators largely left with them, and were soon after exiled from Bajor. When Cardassia joins the Dominion, they at first install the ambitious Gul Dukat as their puppet ruler, even though he and Weyoun - the Founders' toady-in-chief - try to maintain the illusion that Dukat is not a puppet ruler. When Dukat loses his sanity and is captured by the Federation, the Dominion installs dull yes-man Damar as leader of the Cardassian Union; he ends up being a puppet controlled by Weyoun. When Damar sees how far Cardassia has fallen under his "leadership," he decides that enough is enough and declares rebellion against the Dominion; the Dominion soon replaces him with another puppet, Legate Broca, who remains unquestioningly loyal to the Founders even when he's about to be executed after the Cardassian Fleet defects.
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Puppet King / int_817acecf	comment	The comic book series Fables has a literal puppet emperor. Gepetto, who's still playing humble woodcarver, is actually in charge.
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Puppet King / int_81e45937	comment	BAD END THEATER: The Underling is the smallest, weakest, and most easily manipulated member of the demons. In one of the endings, the other demons bully and peer pressure the Underling into killing the Overlord and becoming their new leader.
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Puppet King / int_841e72e9	comment	In A Man of Iron, Tywin Lannister idly entertains the notion of a Warden of the North being loyal to the Lannisters, as seen when he lets Antony Stark take residence in the Westerlands and become his bannerman. Of course, Antony is far down the succession line, but a man can dream... With the Civil War looming on the horizon and Jon Snow's adoption by Antony, Tywin feels no qualms about wiping the entire Stark family out and introducing Jon as new Lord of Winterfell. He reasons it would keep the Northern lords happy — Jon being from the Stark bloodline - while giving the bastard the opportunity to avenge himself from Catelyn Stark's scorn by supplanting her children.
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Puppet King / int_85cc0eab	comment	In Pacific Overtures, the Emperor of Japan, when the real power was wielded by the Shogun, is literally played by a Bunraku puppet. The musical employs this trope to ingenious means toward the end when a full-bodied actor literally emerges from the puppet as the Emperor grows out of this trope and commands the superior power.
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Puppet King / int_8609f49	comment	Grrlpower: Galytn is "managed" by Deus, the head of Machina Industries, but officially ruled by King Indinge Junior, who is presumably fairly okay with having immense wealth and no responsibilities whatsoever. (He may be motivated by his father, the late King Indinge Senior, who refused Deus' offer, hence why he's late.)
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Puppet King / int_86312631	comment	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: One variety of bad king is being controlled by the Dark Lord mentally, along with their elite soldiers.
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Puppet King / int_863b7825	comment	Yes, Minister: The transition of Jim Hacker from MP to PM is one of these, with the civil service hoping to find a replacement for the outgoing PM who isn't controversial or decisive in any way, but will let them get on with what they see as their job (namely, running the country rather than the politicians). They seize upon Jim, and for the most part Sir Humphrey manages to keep Jim following the policies he wants... usually.
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Puppet King / int_86814cc3	comment	Final Fantasy II has Emperor Mateus, the ruler of Palamecia. The novelization of the game implies that he and all of the previous Emperors of Palamecia were the puppet kings of Satan. This ends up backfiring when Mateus dies and proceeds to take over Hell.
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Puppet King / int_86814cd0	comment	Played with in Final Fantasy IV. Cecil and the party think this is what's going on in the kingdom of Baron, with the king being manipulated by Golbez, the new leader of the Red Wings armada, in order to steal all the crystals with the kingdom's military strength. However, the real king of Baron has been dead since before the game even started, and has been replaced by Cagnazzo, the Fiend of Water, who is under Golbez's command.
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Puppet King / int_8756f1a5	comment	The Twelve Kingdoms: Youko Nakajima/Queen Sekishi realizes she is on her way to becoming this sometime after her coronation because the court ministers had become accustomed to power over the long absence of a monarch, and use her inexperience to easily keep her from making any significant decisions. So she goes incognito to learn about her own country. This leads to her becoming involved in a rebellion against the corrupt portion of her government, which in turn results in her taking direct control of the army, thus solving that little problem.
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Puppet King / int_88383ee7	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Bradley is the Homunculus Pride and is controlled by Dante in her never-ending use of the Amestris military as a tool of despair to make people create Philosopher's Stones. However, since Dante couldn't care less about day-to-day issues of the nation, Bradley has a lot more autonomy in this version than his original counterpart and seems to take an inordinate amount of, well, pride in his own leadership.
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Puppet King / int_8ac4e993	comment	Quite common in the various Gundam series. The first Mobile Suit Gundam series had this. By the time the action rolls, Sovereign Degwin Zabi's power over Zeon was heavily diminished due to his old age and his son and heir Gihren's manipulation. And it gets worse after Degwin's youngest son, Garma, dies; the old man's thrown across the Despair Event Horizon, Gihren plots more and more, and then... This was also used in further Universal Century installments, specially in the case of one Mineva Lao Zabi. She's a seven-year-old girl and the last descendant of the Zabis, but the one truly in command is her tutor and the governor of the Axis, a Dark Action Girl known as Haman Kahn. According to other sources, Haman Kahn herself was this close to play the trope straight at age sixteen, after her father and former leader Maharajah died and she was appointed as the Axis governor by the Zeon military, hoping she'd be easy to control. She was NOT. The Earth Alliance in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny is made up of several of the world's most powerful nations, including The Atlantic Federation, Eurasia, and other major power blocs in Easa Asia, Africa, and South America. Yet despite that, the agenda is really being controlled by Blue Cosmos, and several other major anti-Coordinator lobby groups, headed first by Murata Azrael and later by his successor, Lord Djibril. It's Blue Cosmos who pulls the strings; the Earth Alliance just follows along. Other Gundam examples include Queen Maria of the brutal Zanscare Empire, who is on the whole a very kind and decent woman who is painfully aware of her lack of real power. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing had Duke Dermail attempt to make Relena Peacecraft into one of these when he gave her the title "Queen of the World", but she went and turned that into a truly authoritative position and ended up reforming the Rommefeller Foundation into a benevolent pacifistic state.
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Puppet King / int_8adae002	comment	I, Claudius. The senators decide to play along with Caligula's delusion that he's a god, thinking that a mad emperor will mean they will have the real power. They discover otherwise, to their cost.
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Puppet King / int_8d84363c	comment	Rome: Using this trope, Octavian tricks Cicero into making him consul, suggesting that he wants the title out of vanity and that, being so young, he would require Cicero's constant guidance. He quickly demonstrates otherwise by marching his legionnaires into the Senate. Invoked by Cleopatra, who refers to herself as a Puppet Queen in order to present a submissive face to Julius Caesar so it will be in his interest to support her taking the throne, which her brother (a Royal Brat who is too arrogant to accept the reality that Egypt is a vassal state of Rome) currently holds. However, she has no intention of staying that way. She has a child with Caesar and plots with Marc Antony to have her son inherit the Roman Empire
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Puppet King / int_8da301a6	comment	Chasing Dragons: The Norvoshi Government in Exile formed by the pragmatic faction after the reactionaries' coup is technically led by the priest known as the Voice of Noom, but Chief Archivist Mycan Banderis quickly reduces him to a figurehead and sets himself up as Chief Minister.
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Puppet King / int_8e72ff07	comment	Days of Infamy, a Harry Turtledove alternate timeline series, features Japan invading Hawaii following the Pearl Harbor attack. Mirroring the establishment of the puppet emperor Puyi of Manchukuo the Japanese military places a local noble with a dubious pedigree as the new King of Hawaii.
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Puppet King / int_8eb018a3	comment	Shovel Knight: King Knight was the first knight to join the forces of the Enchantress, who allowed him to usurp the throne of Pridemoor Keep and take over the kingdom on her behalf.
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Puppet King / int_8f62bacf	comment	The Empire Novels' Pebble in the Sky: The High Minister, leader of the Society of Ancients, is a pawn in the schemes of his own Secretary. The High Minister is, in theory, an absolute dictator with the power to dismiss Secretary Balkis and assign the post to someone else. However, they rely on Balkis for just about everything related to their job.
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Puppet King / int_909d04d2	comment	In the Neomorphs series, after the Visser rebuilds the Yeerk Empire into the New Yeerk Order, the Council of Thirteen offers him the position of Emperor. The Visser turns them down, sticking to his military title, simultaneously reducing the Emperor (and the rest of the Council) to figureheads, who at best are planetary governors of the Yeerk homeworld. Later on in the series, it's shown they're pissed about this, and the new Emperor (the Visser's twin) is gathering forces to retake control from him.
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Puppet King / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: This is what the rebel Aes Sedai faction intend when they summon Egwene Al'Vere to become their version of the Amyrlin Seat. Because she is so young and not even completely trained, they assume they will have no trouble pushing her to any aim they have in mind, while presenting the image of a united group. What they don't consider is that she has unbreakable Heroic Willpower and wholly takes Siuan's lessons in political maneuvering to heart, so within a book or so she has them dancing on her strings and becomes the strongest Amyrlin in centuries. Rahvin the Forsaken installs himself as Queen Morgase's consort under an alias and reduces her to a puppet through mind-control magic. Also, the Sharan monarchs secretly have always been controlled by the Ayyad Magical Society, who publicly present themselves as servants to the throne. The kings of Amadicia are effectively figureheads, as the Children of the Light Church Militant organization eclipses them in political and military power.
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Puppet King / int_90feccf9	comment	Latchkey Kingdom: After the Duke of the "new Angelonian territory" of Laglands died shortly after the birth of his heir and there was nothing suspicious about that at all, the Duchess remarried another Angelonian noble, this time one with a much more hands-off approach to ruling a conquered kingdom.
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Puppet King / int_915885e3	comment	In The Bride of Adarshan, Alec realizes that this is what the nobles are trying to turn him into when his brother, the actual king, falls ill and someone has to temporarily become his replacement. As a prince and therefore someone in a position of authority, but as someone who has no actual supporters or influence, he'd be the perfect pawn.
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Puppet King / int_91684031	comment	In PokÃ©mon Black and White, N was officially the leader of Team Plasma, a group of Well-Intentioned Extremists who intended to separate PokÃ©mon from humans under the belief that the latter group abuses PokÃ©mon, but his advisor Ghetsis was secretly manipulating N and by extension the entirety of Team Plasma so he could take over the planet by being the only one allowed to own PokÃ©mon.
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Puppet King / int_91cf7917	comment	Foundation Series: "The Psychohistorians": The Emperor isn't named, because they're unable to directly affect the plot. Chief Commissioner Linge Chen, of the Commission of Public Safety, is the true power behind the throne. This has to be explained to Gaal Dornick, because he's from a backwater planet, and initially assumed he could rely on a hearing with the Emperor to escape unjust political imprisonment. "The Mayors": King Lepold of Anacreon, whose government is really controlled by his Evil Uncle, Prince Regent Wienis. By the end of the story, he's puppeted by the Foundation, instead, as they control the Divine Right of Kings.
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Puppet King / int_92917f8b	comment	MLP Next Generation: Love Conquers All! Avarice Takes It All!: After Gilda becomes Empress of the Griffons, she finds herself out of her depth and reliant on the "advice" of her brother Nox, who was already manipulating the ongoing war for his own ends under their father Stratus before killing him and becoming a Black Lantern. And on top of that, her own military only pays lip service out of loyalty to the throne, and don't respect her authority at all.
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Puppet King / int_935a39be	comment	The Subspace Emissary mode in Super Smash Bros. Brawl eventually reveals that Master Hand (the Big Bad of the previous games) is literally being puppeteered by new villain Tabuu. Ganondorf (the only other villain still standing at that point) immediately turns on him with this revelation, only to be stricken down effortlessly by Tabuu's Off Waves.
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Puppet King / int_93acba01	comment	In Fire Emblem Gaiden, Lima IV may sit on the Zofian throne, but it's his Evil Chancellor Desaix who holds all the real power. The story proper begins when Desaix dispenses with all pretense and has Lima IV assassinated.
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Puppet King / int_95bd5a8e	comment	The villain's plot in Dishonored is based around the conspirators who murdered the Empress of Dunwall turning Emily, her daughter, into one of these so that the Lord Regent can rule in her stead. Then, when they're all dealt with by Corvo, by the Loyalists. Hell, the DLCs for the game are based upon preventing this from happening as well, only in that case it's due to a Grand Theft Me plot.
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Puppet King / int_999855bb	comment	In Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death, Sandro forms an alliance with an ambitious but foolish necromancer named Finneas Vilmar. He acts as Finneas' top advisor and helps him secure the throne of Deyja so he can rule it in secret. Sandro even refers to Finneas as his puppet king in his narration. In the end of the last campaign "Specter of Power" Finneas cuts his strings by tricking Sandro into attacking an innocent Deyjan lord and Sandro is imprisoned by the angry Deyjan court.
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Puppet King / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: "A Piece of the Action" provides the page quote. The crew find themselves on a planet of gangsters who are constantly fighting one another, and Guile Hero Kirk offers to set up someone as a puppet leader of The Federation, which he pretends is The Syndicate, in order to bring peace to the world. In "Patterns of Force", what happens when a Starfleet historian ignores history and tries to bring back the Nazis for a Planet of Hats? He ends up giving drugged speeches for an Evil Chancellor.
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Puppet King / int_9ab32c13	comment	In the Pony POV Series, it's eventually revealed that Dark World Discord has long since been reduced to this. By all outside appearances, he's an Evil Overlord ruling with an iron fist, but he's actually trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop by Nightmare Eclipse, a potential future Twilight Sparkle who turned his Villain World into his own personal Ironic Hell. Discord technically has freedom...but only if he's doing something Eclipse approves of (basically, something evil she can later hate him for), and she's capable of overlaying his own actions from a previous loop and forcing him to perform them against his will. It's gotten to the point Discord has long since performed a Heelâ€“Face Turn but she's keeping him from acting on it.
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Puppet King / int_9cde7dfb	comment	The Child Emperor in Akame ga Kill!, who is so deceived by his advisor, Minister Honest's, lies about the state of the empire that by the end of the series he pilots a Giant Mecha in an attempt to quash the rebel threat, and is ultimately decapitated after he fails to put down the revolution.
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Puppet King / int_9cefc9f8	comment	In Macross Delta, the current King of Windemere is just a child, having ascended to the throne following his father's passing. As such, all the real power is held by Chancellor Roid. Unlike being just left on the throne like other examples, the King is in fact the Wind Singer, whom Roid uses to further his own agenda by manipulating him into using his power to take control of those who are under the effect of Var Syndrome.
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Puppet King / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Throughout the series and backstory, this is what the position "King of Morrowind" has been ever since Morrowind's vassalization into the Empire under Tiber Septim. Septim was convinced by his Dunmeri General, Symmachus, to spare the young Barenziah, the sole survivor of her influential Dunmeri family after the Imperial Legion sacked Mournhold, for this reason. She would be placed in foster care until she came of age and then would be installed Queen of Morrowind, a figurehead ruler who would appease the Dunmer and look out for Imperial interests. The Tribunal Temple and Great Houses held any and all real power as far as the Dunmer people were concerned, while the position of "King" (or Queen) was an Imperial convention they had no need or respect for. Come Morrowind's Tribunal expansion, Manipulative Bastard and renowned Chessmaster Hlaalu Helseth (Barenziah's son) takes over as King and plans to change that... In the series' backstory, once the madness of Emperor Pelagius the Mad became too publicly apparent, he was declared unfit to rule, institutionalized, and his wife, Katariah, was made Empress Regent to rule in his place. Pelagius was Emperor in name only from that point until his death. Imperial history books as much as admits that Katariah was the de-facto ruler even before that point (one even suggests that having someone competent to actually keep things running was the entire point of Pelagius' father arranging the marriage), and the Regency mostly marked the point when even the pretense of Pelagius being in charge couldn't be maintained. In Skyrim, High Queen Elisif the Fair is jarl of Haafingar and nominally the ruler of the province of Skyrim. In practice, the ongoing civil war means that General Tulius of the Imperial Legion is in charge of the loyal part of the province, and Elisif's inexperience means she defers to her late husband's circle of advisors when it comes to ruling her province. For example, upon hearing a complaint of mysterious happenings in a spooky cave, Elisif orders a full legion of soldiers to investigate, before her Steward, Falk Firebeard, suggests a more "tempered" approach, which Elisif immediately endorses before declaring the matter settled. Should the Stormcloaks win the Skyrim Civil War and Ulfric becomes High King, Elisif will remain jarl, stuck serving the very man who killed her husband.
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Puppet King / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has a lot of this due to its focus on the politics of Westerosi nobility. Subverted by Joffrey. He is installed as one of these, but unfortunately, he is still officially the king, and consequently if he gives an incredibly stupid order in public, and indeed he does so several times, they can't just countermand him. However, once his grandfather, Tywin Lannister, comes to King's Landing, Joffrey plays this far straighter. Young King Tommen is a puppet for his mother, the Queen Regent Cersei. She actively discourages him from developing a backbone by making him beat his whipping boy when he tries to argue with her. Unfortunately, Tommen is betrothed to Queen Margaery from the rival House Tyrell, leading to both Cersei and Margaery seeking to exert control over Tommen. Robert Arryn is nominally Lord Paramount of the Vale but is young, sickly, and childish. The real power is with his mother Lysa. Then later, and more prominently, this power falls into the hands of his stepfather, Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish. If Littlefinger's drunken ramblings are to be believed, he is grooming Sansa Stark, who he is posing as his illegitimate daughter Alayne Stone, to be this for the North, the Vale, and the Riverlands — and possibly even all of Westeros, if his plan is indeed to covertly take over the whole continent using their combined might. The Princes of Pentos and Lorath are the symbolic leaders of their respective cities, but in both cases are figureheads, with both cities' magisters holding the real power. This is especially true in Pentos, where Princes tend to become human sacrifices when the city falls on hard times. In the backstory given in Fire & Blood, Aegon III was essentially one of these during his regency, with any attempt to make an actual decision shot down by the unbelievably slimy Unwin Peake. Eventually, Peake decided to just cut out the middle man and take over himself, by which point Aegon grew a spine. Once he turned sixteen, Aegon made clear he was definitively done being anyone's puppet, and told his regents to go forth and multiply.
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Puppet King / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Kurozumi Orochi technically holds the title of Shogun, but the ruler of Wano has always been Kaido. It's supposed to be a Villain Team-Up, but it's all but assured that without Kaido's power backing him, up Orochi would have been overthrown. When Kaido decides to enslave all of Wano and turn the entire country into a weapons factory, he beheads Orochi —showing that the vile snake never had a place in Kaido's operations. Following the Wano Arc, it appears that Buggy has set up a new organization that hunts members of the Navy with Hawk-Eye Mihawk and Sir Crocodile serving under him... but in actuality, Mihawk and Crocodile are calling the shots, and Buggy's henchmen and the Navy were just Comically Missing the Point. Mihawk convinces Crocodile to just go with it, as Buggy can serve as their figurehead while being targeted by their enemies. It's actually subverted in the end. While Crocodile and Mihawk are Buggy's superiors on paper, Buggy still is the one who everyone else in the organization recognizes as the boss and he isn't the total pushover that Crocodile and Mihawk assumed he was. When Buggy disregards Crocodile's and Mihawk's demands by sending the organization into the race for the One Piece with a charismatic speech, there really isn't anything Crocodile or Mihawk can do to stop it (Other than continue beating Buggy up, of course).
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Puppet King / int_9e418e1b	comment	The Three Musketeers (1973) / The Three Musketeers (1993): The King of France is a puppet to Cardinal Richelieu.
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Puppet King / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	Vic the Veep in The Boys is the Lethally Stupid Vice President of the United States who's entirely bought out by the Evil, Inc. Vought, who spend the majority of the series planning to assassinate the President for a hostile takeover of the country. Vic's idiocy ends up doing the job for them, but his reign is thankfully short-lived due to Homelander's coup.
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Puppet King / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In PokÃ©mon Black and White, N was officially the leader of Team Plasma, a group of Well-Intentioned Extremists who intended to separate PokÃ©mon from humans under the belief that the latter group abuses PokÃ©mon, but his advisor Ghetsis was secretly manipulating N and by extension the entirety of Team Plasma so he could take over the planet by being the only one allowed to own PokÃ©mon. In PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Ghetsis attempts to do this again with Giovanni, though he doesn't get as far with this plan as he did with N.
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Puppet King / int_9fc6d946	comment	In the backstory given in Fire & Blood, Aegon III was essentially one of these during his regency, with any attempt to make an actual decision shot down by the unbelievably slimy Unwin Peake. Eventually, Peake decided to just cut out the middle man and take over himself, by which point Aegon grew a spine. Once he turned sixteen, Aegon made clear he was definitively done being anyone's puppet, and told his regents to go forth and multiply.
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Puppet King / int_9fc8a1cc	comment	In The Raven's Plan, after the rebelling slaves and the Second Sons take over Mereen, Daario appoints Hizdahr zo Loraq as ruler of the city. Hizdahr quickly realizes that Daario will be the one really in charge, with him just as a figurehead.
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Puppet King / int_9ff1dc28	comment	Multiple schemes in King of the Castle involve the nobles trying to reduce the King to a powerless figurehead who answers to their every command. The Propaganda scheme involves the Barons of the March rallying the people behind their charismatic claimant, and if they reach the third stage, they can vote to either depose the King in a coup or provoke a civil war and offer emergency "assistance" that becomes permanent, rendering the King's title purely ceremonial until their death. The goal of the Possession scheme is for the Counts of the East to make the ruler a Meatpuppet King by summoning one of two demons to possess them, forcing them to do the East's bidding on behalf of their claimant until they are no longer needed and quietly murdered. One possible outcome for the Monopoly scheme, in which the Patricians of the Coast privatise the entire kingdom by buying it out from under the King, involves the King being allowed to keep the throne, but only as a corporate mascot for the Patricians, who hold the true reins of power. The Doppelganger scheme, which is available to multiple regions, revolves around finding a lookalike for the King, whom they lure into a trap in which the ruler is murdered and replaced with the double. The double, a peasant from the scheming region, has no real power and immediately abdicates in favour of the region's claimant (after which they are quickly murdered). The Intimidation scheme, to which multiple regions have access, entails bribing or Blackmailing the Palace watch into either swearing loyalty to the region's claimant or stepping down in favour of soldiers more loyal to the region. For the final stage of their scheme, they can vote to either assassinate the King with the Watch's co-operation or simply threaten to do so unless the King obeys their every request (an arrangement that lasts until the King dies in a hunting "accident"). The goal of the Subterfuge scheme, which can be pursued by multiple factions, is to undermine the reputation of the King's inner circle and force them to resign in favour of nobles from the scheming region. If the scheme reaches its third stage, the nobles can vote to either order the King to abdicate or turn them into a meaningless figurehead who only does as the new inner circle commands. If one of the regions succeeds in getting their claimant onto the throne, continuing the Dynasty reveals that the nobles from that region - whichever it may be - are hoping that they will make all the important decisions while the King just does as they're told, and they begin making backup plans immediately just in case they decide the King can't be relied upon to be a mindless puppet.
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Puppet King / int_a0ff9e30	comment	In Pyramids Pteppic becomes King of Djelibeybi with plans to modernize, only to discover he has doesn't even have the power to pick his lunch. High Priest Dios knows exactly what the king should be doing and what decisions he should be making, so he announces the king's commands and everyone nervously ignores Pteppic protesting that he said the exact opposite. He ends up rescuing someone he sentenced to death from his own dungeons and fleeing the country.
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Puppet King / int_a34424eb	comment	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches: in the story "Foreign Devils", The Guangxu Emperor starts out as this. Officially, he is the leader of China but in reality, prince Tuan has all the power because of his many allies and formidable army. The Martian invasion, which cripples Tuanâ€™s army, provides the emperor with a chance to finally take back power however.
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Puppet King / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass has the Tianzi or "Child of Heaven", who technically is supposed to be the leader of the Chinese Federation and the heir to the old imperial tradition... but in practice, the current one is a Shrinking Violet pre-teen who's kept away from her people by her council, the High Eunuchs, who rule the country as they wish. However, not everything is lost: Tianzi has a Knight in Shining Armor-like protector in her bodyguard, the very badass Li Xingke, who holds Undying Loyalty for her after she spared his life and has decided to give her the power she needs to help China and the world. Comes up again in the finale where Schneizel has set himself up as supporting Nunnally as the future Empress of Britannia over her brother Lelouch. Though it's in part a play on Lelouch's Big Brother Instinct as well as shocking him with the fact Nunnally actually survived an incident a little over a month ago that he thought killed her, it's also setting up Schneizel to be the power behind the throne. Of course, Lelouch's confrontation with Nunnally in the Grand Finale shows Nunnally is much stronger than anyone thought and likely would have resisted it. That said, being stuck in a wheelchair would have greatly impeded her attempts to be a proper Empress if Schneizel wanted to control her.
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Puppet King / int_a4b1b4dc	comment	The Fall of NÃºmenor: Sauron is taken to NÃºmenor as a prisoner, but before long he has become Ar-PharazÃ´n's chief advisor, and he takes even less time to become the real power behind the throne. All he need do is whisper 'Great kings must have their will' in Ar-PharazÃ´n's ear, and the king will do whatever Sauron wants, convinced that he is doing his will instead of Sauron's.
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Puppet King / int_a535581a	comment	The Emperor's New Groove: It is implied that Emperor Kuzco's narcissistic/self-absorbed behavior was due to Yzma's influence when growing up, meaning she most likely attempted to control Kuzco while on the throne. Unfortunately for her, this backfires, resulting in wanting to directly take the throne for herself by murdering him.
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Puppet King / int_a806ea97	comment	Garrett, P.I. has a Puppet Kingpin in Chodo Contague, who suffers a debilitating stroke in Dread Brass Shadows. His co-Dragons take over the Outfit for a time by putting words in his mouth; when his daughter Belinda figures it out, she ousts them from power and exploits her comatose father in the same way. (The Dead Man's hinted the current situation may be more complex, but nothing's come of that in the last few books.)
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Puppet King / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy II has Emperor Mateus, the ruler of Palamecia. The novelization of the game implies that he and all of the previous Emperors of Palamecia were the puppet kings of Satan. This ends up backfiring when Mateus dies and proceeds to take over Hell. Played with in Final Fantasy IV. Cecil and the party think this is what's going on in the kingdom of Baron, with the king being manipulated by Golbez, the new leader of the Red Wings armada, in order to steal all the crystals with the kingdom's military strength. However, the real king of Baron has been dead since before the game even started, and has been replaced by Cagnazzo, the Fiend of Water, who is under Golbez's command. The Empire attempt to do this with the female lead Princess Ashe in Final Fantasy XII. Let's just say that the Empire give up on this plan real fast. In Final Fantasy XIV, we have Sultana Nanamo Ul Namo, the young Lalafell ruler of Ul'dah. Despite being the ruler, the real power goes to the Syndicate, a gathering of people in which she is part of, comprised of Royalists, who side with her and ruling by her hand, and the Monetarists, who seek to line their pockets with Gil through power. Nanamo gets incredibly fed up when the majority Monetarists reject the refuges from Doma that she decides to Abdicate the Throne and dissolve the monarchy, turning Ul'dah into a republic. The plan gets derailed when the Monetarist Lalafell Teleji Adaleji learns of this plan and attempts to assassinate her. When she recovers, she's still ruler, but fellow Monetarist Lolorito, who learned of Teleji's plan and prevented her assassination, gave her all of Teleji's assets along with some of his own so she could have some power.
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Puppet King / int_a9570fac	comment	Victoria: Bill Kraft refuses to become the governor of Maine and de facto leader of Victoria. But since Bill thinks of himself as a Prussian, his friends contact the last heir of the House of Hohenzollern, the Kaiser, who orders Bill to become the Governor. So, in a book where New England secedes from the rest of the United States, their chosen leader answers to a foreign monarch.
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Puppet King / int_af7f68ad	comment	Done twice over in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. When Thales launches a surprise attack on Edelgard after her defeat at Arianrhod in Dimitri's story route, he places a powerful mind-control spell on her and puts Duke Aegir in charge as the regent of The Empire under the pretense of Edelgard recovering from a serious injury and being unable to perform her duties as emperor, with Thales directly telling Ludwig he expects him to fail. Later, the duke uses this literally during the battle of Ailell when he parades around a still-brainwashed Edelgard to force those still loyal to her to defend him from the Kingdom, Alliance, and Church armies, expecting her presence alone to boost the Imperial army's flagging morale.
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Puppet King / int_b2efee13	comment	The Obsidian Chronicles: The Dukes of Manfort. In reality the Dragon Society runs the city and has for centuries, controlling the Dukes through having their chief advisors be senior members.
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Puppet King / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: King Tommen Baratheon, but unlike the books, TV!Tommen is a bit older (about 13 or so) and we see things from his perspective, allowing a deconstruction of this trope. He is young, naive, naturally passive, and the only parties who could teach him to rule on his own want to control him for their own reasons; as a result, he is very easily manipulated. Furthermore, he has no desire to become a dictator like his late brother Joffrey. Instead, he goes in the exact opposite direction and lets himself be controlled by literally everyone around him: his grandfather Tywin, his mother Cersei, his Small Council (who don't even bother telling him when they hold their meetings) and his wife Margaery — all of whom use Tommen to further their own agendas. Later, the religious leader, the High Sparrow, swoops in and wins him over to the Faith Militant's cause, which ruins everything the Small Council had planned. Anyone can pick up a puppet's strings if they're left lying around, after all...it all comes to a head when Cersei prevents Tommen from going to the sept where her trial is to be held and she murders nearly everyone in the previous sentence by blowing it up, explaining why she and Tommen were conspicuously absent. Tommen sees the destruction of the sept from his bedroom window and walks off the ledge. Whether he was distraught at the loss of his wife and faith or realized how powerless he was amid the machinations of those around him, his act of suicide was the one decision that was entirely of his own accord. Robert Baratheon lets himself become one almost voluntarily since it turns out he hates the trouble of ruling. Instead, he largely leaves governing to his small council while he eats, drinks, whores, and hunts. Subverted by Joffrey, who is installed by Cersei as one but his Stupid Evil tendencies mean he goes spectacularly off-script at the end of "Baelor" and leaves his puppetmasters powerless. During their respective tenures as Hand of the King, Tyrion invests no effort to make Joffrey into this trope because he realizes the futility of it and just does things without Joffrey knowing, while Tywin does as he pleases because he can intimidate Joffrey into not interfering. In Season 3 however, Margaery endears herself to Joffrey by playing to his sadistic side and using Obfuscating Stupidity to keep him from realizing she's manipulating him. Cersei disapproves of it, but Tywin is amused by it and lets it happen since at least finally someone is learning to control him. Even in Season 1, Renly and Littlefinger both try to set Joffrey up as a temporary puppet to Ned Stark, only for Ned's Honor to unravel their plans. While Mace Tyrell is officially the Lord of House Tyrell, Lord Paramount of the Reach, and Warden of the South, it's clear that the real brains of the family is Mace's sharp-witted mother Lady Olenna. In fact, she is the one whom male lords like Tywin address as their equal while the middle-aged Mace is seen with all the relevance of a child. It's also implied that she was running things even when her husband Luthor was alive. Robin Arryn is nominally Lord Paramount of the Vale, but he is young and childish, so the real power is his in the hands of his smothering mother Lysa and later his stepfather Petyr Baelish. In the final episode, with both Lysa and Baelish deceased and Robin now fully-grown, it appears he will finally become a dutiful leader in his own right. With the death of Sansa's father, her mother and her brother Robb, her younger brothers being presumed dead, her sister missing, and her second-oldest brother being illegitimate and sworn to the Watch, the Lannisters plan to use her name to take the North by marrying her to Tyrion Lannister. Though not explicitly stated, this is the apparent reason Bran is elected King of the [s]Seven[/s] Six Kingdoms. Beyond the rhetoric of a convict, the nobles apart from the Starks see Bran 'the Broken' as a physically sterile, mentally disabled figurehead. Due to his powers of clairvoyance, he is shown to be disconnected from the world and barely has an agenda of his own, leaving the nobles of Westeros with a fortune-telling machine that can show them exactly what they need to do to get what they want, and take all the credit for it. The joke's on them, though, as Bran's egalitarian objectives mean appointing commoners to the Small Council and slowly equalizing the balance of power between the nobles and commoners.
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Puppet King / int_b37c7a8d	comment	In Storm Over Asia, the Evil Colonialist British occupiers discover that a local Mongolian herder is a descendant of Genghis Khan. They set him up as a Puppet King. He eventually rebels and leads an army against the British.
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Puppet King / int_b54d12c1	comment	Lost in Camelot has Bo claim that Uther is this for her; fae tradition automatically makes Bo the ruler of Camelot as the first fae to take up residence in that territory, but while Bo is willing to defend the kingdom from other fae, since she doesn't want to actually rule anyone she claims to more benevolent fae that she just lets Uther think he's still in charge, essentially claiming that Uther deals with the boring parts of ruling a kingdom for her.
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Puppet King / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage has Damien Moreau practically run San Lorenzo, at one point ordering the changing of the banking laws of the country to save himself money, with Ribera as his figurehead. When the team manage to steal the rigged election from them both they convince Ribera to turn on Moreau in exchange for a comfortable and peaceful retirement.
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Puppet King / int_b7bfa9a3	comment	In The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Ambrosius drugs the Raja into obedience, effectively becoming the country's ruler in the shadow.
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Puppet King / int_ba0e7416	comment	Alundra 2 has a literal example, as Baron Diaz took over Varuna Kingdom and replaced the King with a wooden puppet.
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Puppet King / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater had Volgin intending to place Brezhnev and Kosygin in the place of Khrushchev so he could manipulate them behind the scenes. On a related note, it is implied in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty that every single President of the United States since William Taft was used as Puppet Kings by the Patriots (in the case of the early formation, the Philosophers.).
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Puppet King / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The President of the Galactic Empire has no actual power, and exists to distract the public from the real leaders. The Emperor is even more useless, being kept in suspended animation for the last ten thousand years so they can still call it an empirenote Which sounds like a blatant Take That! to Warhammer 40,000, except that the book predates the game by several years. The galaxy is really "ruled" by the decisions of a delusional old man in a hut who refuses to believe in anything he doesn't experience empirically.
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Puppet King / int_bc531e07	comment	Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Princess Hertrude of the Principality of Fanoss, and her sister Hertrauda, are merely puppets for the War Hawk Government Conspiracy of Earl Garrett and The Black Knight, who rewrote the Principality's history to meet their ends. The situation ultimately moves towards Hertrude, after their defeat, serving as Dutchess under the vassalship and close supervision of the Kingdom of Holfort. In the Alternate Timeline Marie Route, the Fanoss situation develops differently. After The Black Knight's death, Garrett launches a coup and Civil War for the throne to use Hertrauda as The Scapegoat, being stopped by Leon in the nick of time, with Leon swearing to protect Hertrauda at Hertrude's Last Request, working together to rebel against Holfort.
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Puppet King / int_bc91f0e2	comment	In the Presence of Mine Enemies: After Buckliger is deposed in a coup, it's pretty blatant that the new official chief of state is a nonentity who is acting as the mouthpiece for the SS.
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Puppet King / int_bd54ba07	comment	Blazing Saddles: Played for laughs. The Governor is a childish idiot who regularly ignores his duties to fool around with his Sexy Secretary, and his cabinet appears to be comprised solely of Yes Men. The attorney general, Hedley Lamarr, effectively rules the state because the Governor will sign anything put in front of him. However, on the rare occasions the Governor decides he wants to get something done, Hedley can't openly defy him and has to subvert his will behind the scenes.
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Puppet King / int_bee47cbe	comment	Unsounded: Sharteshane's king was put on the throne by Lord Beadman, and is controlled by him.
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Puppet King / int_bf814b3e	comment	Riding the Dragon: Warlord Yoriyoshi tries to reduce Cecilia Kurita to this.
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Puppet King / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Drowtales: Played with in the Vloz'ress clan. Kharla'ggen has the mind of a child and is mostly just content to play with her dolls, and when Sene'kha, the woman holding the leash, dies everyone starts to scramble to gain control of her, but Kiel'ndia has other ideas. It's also been indicated that Kharla may have desires of her own. Ironically enough their greatest enemy, the Kyorl'solenurn, may be very similar to them in that regard. Shimi'lande is eventually revealed to answer to a council of Judicators who briefly discuss replacing her before deciding against it. This becomes much more obvious in chapter 42, title "Schism" when Shimi'lande is assassinated, and it's heavily implied it was the Judicators themselves, specifically Judicator Kyuusei, who were behind it. And her successor defies this trope - by pretending to play nice and turning her eyes away from The Chessmaster Judicators, Snadhya'rune sends her assassins after the Judicators first, giving her ample time to consolidate power. Unfortunately, with the Kyorls quickly transitioning from an oligarchy of academics to an actual theocratic dictatorship (plus the constant assassination attempts now focused solely on her), she quickly loses herself and resorts to genocide.
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Puppet King / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: When King Viserys' health starts to fail, his wife Queen Alicent takes on a more active role in governing alongside her father/Viserys' chancellor Otto. And when Viserys becomes too infirm to rule at all, Alicent and Otto essentially rule the kingdom "in his name" but simply follow their own agendas. And while Alicent was content to step aside and let her friend and Viserys' legitimate heir Rhaenyra claim the throne when the time came, Otto wasn't willing to let go of the power he spent decades building, so he orchestrates a coup against Rhaenyra to crown his bumbling teenage grandson Aegon solely out of male primogeniture, and once Alicent gets onboard with this plan as well, they clearly intend to use Aegon as a front to continue ruling.
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Puppet King / int_c3d129cd	comment	Ophis, the official leader of Chaos Brigade is this in High School DÃ—D.
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Puppet King / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, U.S. President Philip Mead is a figurehead for MJ12, deferring to Walton Simons on government policy according to in-game newspapers. It's also hinted most of his predecessors were this for the Illuminati for at least a century.
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Puppet King / int_c8c98633	comment	Subverted in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Premier Alexander Romanov was installed as the Premier of USSR by the US and Allies to make him one of these. Unfortunately, he's actually anything but and immediately use his newfound power to amass and rearm the Soviet military to invade the US itself.
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Puppet King / int_ca298d36	comment	Star Wars: Darth Vader: Queen Trios makes it clear that while she might be Darth Vader's puppet, she's still the absolute ruler of her world and she's entirely willing to follow Vader's methods of asserting her authority. Vader had massacred the previous royal family and left her in charge because a ruler unprepared for the position is easier to control. Trios ends up doing the same with the Sole Survivor of a family of rebel ore-barons, and looks to Vader for approval of her action. In one scene she even reprimands Vader for undermining her authority in front of her subjects, a point Vader concedes.
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Puppet King / int_ccc46b14	comment	Dominus Mundi : The King of Kings: Back when the Atlantean Empire still existed, there were a few cases when power rested in the hands of the Mother of Sovereignty (a dowager of sorts), the Divine Sovereign being more of a puppet to his mother than an actual ruler.
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Puppet King / int_ccceba90	comment	The Mongols use this in Medieval II: Total War. When the Golden Horde rolls in from the east, you'll find stack after stack of elite horse archers and heavy cavalry led by Dreaded Four Star Badasses... but the actual Khan and Khanzada are pathetic nobles with little to no command skill. This makes wiping out the Mongols by killing their nobles all the more difficult since if you kill this Puppet Khan, the title will eventually pass to a more qualified ruler, who then gets the boost to command afforded by being the faction's leader.
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Puppet King / int_cceb25de	comment	The Locked Tomb: Gideon the Ninth: Harrow's parents. Quite literally. While they're still the rulers of Drearburh in name, Harrow controls them and everything else in practice. She's been coming up with increasingly elaborate vows (of silence, fasting, etc) for them for years to explain why they never speak or appear anywhere that's not a public event. Harrow started this con to avoid meeting a similar fate—when her parents died, she was only ten, and she knew that if word got out, she would end up somebody's vassal in fact if not name. (Something similar happened to the Fourth House; due to their Barons' tendency to die gloriously and young in battle and leave their titles to literal fetuses, they're more or less an appendage of the more politically influential Fifth House.)
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Puppet King / int_cec99ed9	comment	Safehold: On paper, Grand Vicar Erek XVII of the Church of God Awaiting is the absolute ruler of the temple lands and leader of the dominant (and, at the start of the series, only) church on Safehold. In practice, he's so controlled by the Vicars known as the Group of Four that it's a common joke that he demonstrates his independence from his Chancellor by picking what shoes to wear in the morning. The only thing he is ever shown actually doing in the first nine books is delivering a traditional annual State of the Faith address to the senior clergy, which the Group of Four wrote for him. He's so ineffective that when a coup places Robair Duchairn in the Grand Vicar's throne at the end of book 9, the author couldn't be bothered to mention what happened to the official holder of that position, only the fate of the puppetmasters.
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Puppet King / int_d2df44f8	comment	Time Out of Time: Tristan acts as the keeper of the market for Balor (who Glamours himself into his "Animal Tamer" disguise) in the absence of the Filidh.
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Puppet King / int_d42b5268	comment	The Star Wars: Roleplaying Game. Following Emperor Palpatine's death at the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire is in total disarray. For the next two years the Rebels, who are now the New Republic, sweep through Imperial territory getting closer and closer to the capital Coruscant. In the midst of this Imperial Admiral Oxtroe realizes that the war is lost and tries to negotiate with the Rebels a compromise that keeps some of the Empire in place. Her plan is to place Palpatine's grand-niece on the throne. However, she's only 11 years old. She would be nothing more than a powerless figurehead (see constitutional monarch) while the New Republic leadership would run the government, including any military forces. Before the negotiations could take place however, Oxtroe is assassinated, possible by an agent of Grand Admiral Thrawn.
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Puppet King / int_d448d760	comment	The Nameless Mod: The nominal leader of Planet Deus Ex is Despot, but ultimate authority actually lies with an entity of which most civilians — and officials — aren't even aware.
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Puppet King / int_d47b7f5f	comment	Dunevon, the four-year-old king of the Copper Isles in the Trickster's Duet. Rubinyan and Imajane are his regents and take the opportunity to be even more tyrannical than their father was. Later, kill him so Rubinyan can just take the throne outright. This is defied on the raka side — after Sarai elopes, Dove takes her place in their plans but makes it very clear that she is not going to be one of these.
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Puppet King / int_d4f9ccf	comment	The Sultan in Disney's Aladdin is completely under the control of Grand Vizier Jafar, thanks in large part to a Hypno Ray staff. Late in the film, Jafar uses his magic to turn him into a literal puppet king, Iago operating him like a marionette and quipping "Puppet ruler wanna cracker?"
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Puppet King / int_d52b0ce6	comment	In Barbie as the Island Princess, this is the plan of Queen Arianna. She has raised and trained her daughter Princess Luciana to be the perfect wife for Prince Antonio and to always obey her mother. She plans to drug Antonio and the rest of the royal family after the wedding, so they will sleep forever and eventually die, and states her intentions to rule through her daughter:
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Puppet King / int_d56cd064	comment	Power Rangers Zeo: After King Mondo is defeated, leaving the Machine Empire without a ruler, Rita and Zedd create the robot Louie Kaboom, and have him usurp the throne so they can secretly control the empire through him. The plan fails however when Goldar and Rito lose the remote, allowing Louie to go rogue.
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Puppet King / int_d8cdb76	comment	Mega Man Zero 3: Copy X Mark II is this for Dr. Weil, a fact everyone from the Resistance to even Harpuia is aware of except for Copy X himself. Copy X repeatedly insists that Dr. Weil and Omega are loyal followers all on the basis the former brought him back to life and makes him commander of Neo Arcadia's armed forces, not once realizing Dr. Weil was always using him to simply gain power and force aside any competitors such as the Four Guardians. In the end, Weil sets up Copy X Mk. II to die fighting Zero and abandons him completely, with X himself having to spell it out to the copy who, in a rage, tries to go One-Winged Angel, only to hammer in the final nail of the coffin himself by triggering a self-destruct put inside his body. Weil then legally assumes control of Neo Arcadia and puts all the blame on Zero and the Resistance, with no checks and balances on his power as anyone else is either dead, stripped of their power, or completely in his pocket.
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Puppet King / int_db96ded4	comment	In Season 4 of The Legend of Korra, averting this trope is part of the reason why Kuvira usurps the United Republic-backed Prince Wu and crowns herself Emperor of the above-mentioned Earth Kingdom (which she renames "Earth Empire"). After Kuvira's defeat, Wu decides to abolish the monarchy altogether and let the people of the Earth Kingdom choose their new leaders.
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Puppet King / int_dc3fc6db	comment	In Himenospia, Himeno uses her wasp-like brainwashing powers to take over her hometown after her infected mother and classmates are all killed by the police. She tries to be a reasonable ruler and make a utopic nation but is outplayed and manipulated by practically everyone else in the story. In particular, Nagisa, her bully-turned-friend who suggested the creation of Himenospia in the first place, was for the previous 50 years actually a fellow wasp queen dead-set on luring and killing the American queen Serena.
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Puppet King / int_e04f934e	comment	In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ionius IX is nominally the head of the Adrestian Empire, but the lords of the other Imperial noble houses take advantage of his declining health and advanced age, and conduct a shadow campaign to steal all of his power and influence. After Edelgard journeys to the capital to succeed her father as Emperor, her first act in her new position is to have all of the corrupt lords deposed and arrested, putting the seat of power back in the hands of House Hresvelg. A Black Eagles-aligned Byleth can personally witness this.
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Puppet King / int_e22ed0ec	comment	Dan The Man: Stage 5 introduces the King, who is lazy, oblivious, barely wears any clothes and spends most of the time partying all day. When the fact that his castle has some enslaved Peasants forced to run on a deadly treadmill came to public, he is thought to be the one responsible for it. All of the actual ruling was done by the Advisor and his team of Corrupt Corporate Executives.
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Puppet King / int_e42289f8	comment	Bazil Broketail: Thrembode attempted to make the prince of Marneri into this, since he's a brain-damaged and easily manipulated fool, so he can be a pawn of Padmasa after becoming king. However, this is thwarted by the witches, who arrange some "accident" for him. The people of Kraheen worship Ajoth Gol Dib like a messiah, Kraheen armies fight in his name, and yet he holds no real power. He is just a religious figurehead, used by Padmasa to control the locals.
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Puppet King / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: In the young readers novella series The Glove of Darth Vader, the Empire is nominally headed by Trioculous, who claims to be Emperor Palpatine's illegitimate son. In actuality, Trioculous is an incompetent buffoon being used as a figurehead by the Central Committee of Grand Moffs, chaired by Grand Moff Hissa, who is himself an Unwitting Pawn of the Prophets of the Dark Side.
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Puppet King / int_e681b52c	comment	Toonatopia: The Animation Initiation: King SpongeBob is really just a figurehead for Plankton, who is pretending to be his own long-lost nicer twin cousin in order to manipulate him.
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Puppet King / int_e6b86f09	comment	In the Towers Trilogy, Farrow is ostensibly run by the hereditary leader Alden Kian-Farrow. In reality, he is addicted to drugs provided to him by the caster Ahrent Altaigh, who makes all the actual decisions.
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Puppet King / int_e799fdf1	comment	The Intimidation scheme, to which multiple regions have access, entails bribing or Blackmailing the Palace watch into either swearing loyalty to the region's claimant or stepping down in favour of soldiers more loyal to the region. For the final stage of their scheme, they can vote to either assassinate the King with the Watch's co-operation or simply threaten to do so unless the King obeys their every request (an arrangement that lasts until the King dies in a hunting "accident").
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Puppet King / int_e89f120b	comment	The first Mobile Suit Gundam series had this. By the time the action rolls, Sovereign Degwin Zabi's power over Zeon was heavily diminished due to his old age and his son and heir Gihren's manipulation. And it gets worse after Degwin's youngest son, Garma, dies; the old man's thrown across the Despair Event Horizon, Gihren plots more and more, and then...
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Puppet King / int_ea4c5e89	comment	Dark Shores: Urcon is a dreaded tyrant of Arinoquia, ruling with an iron fist and brutal force. When he is defeated, it turns out he is a frail old man and the actual ruler was one Ashok.
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Puppet King / int_ea7c1156	comment	In PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Ghetsis attempts to do this again with Giovanni, though he doesn't get as far with this plan as he did with N.
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Puppet King / int_eb5d7301	comment	Amphibia: King Andrias may appear to be the ruler of Newtopia, (And by extension, the entire titular country), but we see him taking orders from mysterious entity midway through the second season. In the third season, this entity is revealed to be The Core, a Mind Hive of Amphibia's past rulers and greatest scholars uploaded into a massive computer. The king just happens to be a frontman for the Core.
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Puppet King / int_ee384546	comment	In Cyberpunk 2077, V discovers a conspiracy in which somebody has been brainwashing Night City's new mayor Jefferson Peralez and his wife, implanting them with Fake Memories and altering their personalities with the apparent intent of... making them better politicians. The player never does discover who's responsible, and has the option of letting them go unopposed or warning Jefferson. If they go with the former, he becomes even more of a Reasonable Authority Figure and declares war on homelessness, but in the latter he becomes consumed by paranoia in an attempt to invoke The Puppet Cuts His Strings.
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Puppet King / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Latveria has a Prime Minister (and by implication therefore he's got to have a cabinet of some kind), but since DOOM is the unquestioned lord and master of Latveria, the Prime Minister's job is basically to deal with all the boring fiddly day-to-day details of ruling a country that DOOM can't be bothered with. Exactly how these Prime Ministers get the job is unclear, but they can be replaced (or replaced) whenever Doom feels like it.
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Puppet King / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: The Carja Sundom is split between two factions (the Sun and Shadow Carja) after the previous king went crazy and started up mass human sacrifices, promptly being overthrown and murdered by his second-oldest son Avad. The Shadow Carja refuses to acknowledge Avad's claim to the throne and are led by his younger brother Itaman... who is about six years old and obviously has barely any idea what's even going on. The real leaders of the Shadow Carja are the Sun-Priests and their enforcer Helis, who smuggled Itaman away from the Sundom capital during the coup and have set up shop in a nearby summer palace. Itaman's duties amount to looking regal and letting the Priests to speak on his behalf anytime something of note is happening. Eventually, Itaman's mother (who never approved of any this), defects to the Sun Carja and takes Itaman with her, robbing the Sun-Priests of their last vestige of legitimacy.
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Puppet King / int_f349915b	comment	Gilthas from Dragonlance looks like this (in fact, he was derisively nicknamed "the Puppet King"), controlled by the Dark Knights and a succession of Quisling Evil Chancellors, but he's actually one of the secret leaders of the resistance against his own rule, and his wife is the military leader of said resistance. Needless to say, the ones who thought they had him under control were not happy about this.
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Puppet King / int_f3e1f424	comment	Arthur is seriously flirting with this territory in Merlin due to the constant influence of and his desire to not tick off Agravaine.
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Puppet King / int_f74b5f80	comment	In Babylon 5, we see a succession of Emperors from the Centauri Republic. The monarchs are often powerless to elicit any positive change, even when their intentions are good. Taken to extremes in the case of the Regent and then Londo Mollari once he becomes Emperor. Both men have a Drakh "Keeper" surgically implanted in their bodies, controlling their movements and speech, once the Drakh covertly take over Centauri Prime. Cartagia was intended to be a Puppet Emperor for Lord Refa and his conspiracy. It... Didn't really work out (Or maybe it did while Refa was alive. He didn't actually appear in the series until after Refa was assassinated).
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Puppet King / int_fc281dbc	comment	The Sunne in Splendour: Henry VI is weak-willed and mentally ill, and he is controlled by either his wife or whatever powerful courtier is near him. But when the Earl of Warwick, puts the teenage Edward IV on the throne, he expects Edward to be a puppet and is very wrong.
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Puppet King / int_fc95bd6b	comment	The Last Emperor: Pu Yi as the ruler of Manchukuo under Imperial Japan's watch.
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Puppet King / int_fe5f7909	comment	Guards! Guards! the goal of the Elucidated Brethren is to set up one of these with themselves holding the reins. The idea is that they will get a chap with the usual characteristics (noble, not too bright, does what he's told), have him seemingly slay a dragon they summoned (and subsequently banish), and reap the rewards. Unfortunately the dragon turns out to be Not Quite Dead, and then things get interesting...
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Puppet King / int_ff8d0a13	comment	Mahu: In "Second Chance" there are many within the colonies and the royal army who believe prince Arius is just a puppet to his mentor and previously court mage Mr. Storm. Neither the mage nor prince Arius cares much about these rumors though.
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Compass of Thy Soul (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
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Earth's Alien History (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What? (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Let the Galaxy Burn (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Lost in Camelot (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Past Sins (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Purple Days (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Riding the Dragon (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Blacks, the Greens and the Reds (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Petriculture Cycle (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Royal Eminence (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Torn Prince (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
We Are The Nine (Fanfic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Aguirre, the Wrath of God / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Always Crashing in the Same Car / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Battlefield Earth / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Dave / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Pope John Paul II / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Rapa-Nui / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Rapa-Nui (1994) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Red Cliff / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Return of the Jedi / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Storm Over Asia / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Death of Stalin / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Last Emperor / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Three Musketeers (1993) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Thirteen Days / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Tora! Tora! Tora! / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Vice (2018) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Evillious Chronicles (Franchise) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Star Wars Legends (Franchise) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Rebuild World / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
A Day of Fallen Night / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
A Feast for Crows / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Anno Dracula / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Ave Xia Rem Y / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Belisarius Series / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Black Vein Prophecy / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Brig Scarlet Flamingo / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Darth Plagueis / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Deltora Quest / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Destroyermen / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Dolfi Et Marilyn / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Dune / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Elemental Blessings / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Fate of the Jedi / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Feed (2002) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Feet of Clay / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Fire & Blood / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
For Want of a Nail / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Guards! Guards! / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
I Became the Villain the Hero Is Obsessed With / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
I, Claudius / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
In the Presence of Mine Enemies / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Inheritance Trilogy / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Jade City / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Looming Gaia / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Magic 2.0 / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Married Thrice To Salted Fish / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Now Blooms the Tudor Rose / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Old Kingdom / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Overheaven / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Ranger's Apprentice / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Rebuild World / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Record of Lodoss War: The Crown of the Covenant / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Red Iron Nights / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Second Apocalypse / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Secrets of the Silent Witch / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Solo (James Bond) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Technomagia i smoki / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Accursed Kings / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Alexiad / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Bride of Adarshan / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Cousins' War Series / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Death of Russia / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Elenium / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Eye of Argon / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Fall of NÃºmenor / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Lost Metal / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Mayors / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Obsidian Chronicles / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Pilot's Love Song / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Priory of the Orange Tree / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Psychohistorians / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Quest for Karla / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Riyria Revelations / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Road To Avalon / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Royal Diaries / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Saga of Seven Suns / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Scarlet Citadel / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Wandering Inn / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The World of Ice & Fire / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Zombie Knight / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Three Dark Crowns / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Towers Trilogy / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Trail of Glory / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Villager A Wants to Save the Villainess No Matter What! / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Witch King / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Wraith King / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Star Wars Rebels Magazine (Magazine) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
AndrewJohnson	seeAlso	Puppet King
Altair: A Record of Battles (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
As the Gods Will (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Basara (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Getter Robo Āḥ (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Helck (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Kagerou-Nostalgia (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Kami-sama no Iu Toori (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (Manga) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Evillious Chronicles (Music) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Sound Horizon (Music) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Chapo Trap House (Podcast) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
AK47's ISOT Mapgame (Roleplay) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Ang Probinsyano (2015) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Boss / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Eureka / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Fall of Eagles / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Foundation (2021) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Isabel / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Kamen Rider Zi-O / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
King's War / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Mr. Queen / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Rome / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
ShÅ�gun (2024) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Spellbinder / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Strike Back / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Last Kingdom / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Outpost / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Rings of Power or the Seventh Ring of a Witch / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The White Queen / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Witcher: Blood Origin / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
When Things Were Rotten / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Chicago By Night (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Citadels (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
City of 7 Seraphs (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Queen of the Spiders (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Vampire: The Requiem (Tabletop Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein) (Theatre) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Pacific Overtures (Theatre) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Wicked (Theatre) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
America Rising 2 (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Armored Core V (Video Game)	seeAlso	Puppet King
Chicken Police (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Crusader Kings III (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Disgaea Dimension 2 (Video Game)	seeAlso	Puppet King
Emperor: Battle for Dune (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Final Fantasy XII (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Godherja: The Dying World (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Kenshi (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
King of the Castle (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
King's Bounty (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Let It Die (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Lil Guardsman (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Lugaru (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Mega Man Zero 3 (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Metro: Last Light (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
PokÃ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Red Alert From The Ashes (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
RoboCop: Rogue City (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Six Ages (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Sonny (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Space Station 13 (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Terra Invicta (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Legend of Banjo-Kazooie: The Jiggies of Time (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Total War: Three Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Triangle Strategy (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Vandal Hearts (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
War for the West (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Wizard101 (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Xenogears (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Adastra (2018) (Visual Novel) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Black Wolves Saga (Visual Novel) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Hate Plus (Visual Novel) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Lime-iro Ryukitan X (Visual Novel) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Summer Rose Court (Visual Novel) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
OverSimplified (Web Animation) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Overly Sarcastic Productions (Web Animation) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Qeios (Web Animation) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Unbiased History (Web Animation) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Final Fantasy In A Nutshell (Web Video) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
history of japan (Web Video) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Beyond the Western Deep (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Drowtales (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
NIMONA (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
OrangeLemon's Sannin Swap (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Supermegatopia (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Water Phoenix King (Webcomic) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Ark / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Blue Eye Samurai / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Disenchantment / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Justice Society: World War II / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Legends of Chima / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Princess Sissi / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Recess / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
The Prince and the Pauper / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Video Game) / int_5a100b90	type	Puppet King

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