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The Neidermeyer

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The Neidermeyer	comment	The military equivalent of the Sadist Teacher. A commanding officer with zero respect for his troops, and probably plenty for himself. He clearly, and often egregiously, displays incompetence, cowardice, inexperience, willingness to sacrifice his men for his own glory while keeping himself safely out of harm's way, an obsessive desire to get promoted, or is just a psychotic-level hardass. As a result, his authority is resented by the men in the trenches, and his orders are only obeyed because chain-of-command says so. In more upbeat war shows, he's usually forced to learn An Aesop about his awful command style and adjust his behavior in a way that either changes him into a likable officer or results in his resignation, demotion, or transfer to a more suitable post. In these cases, this character is portrayed sympathetically. In more cynical war movies, there will be no escape from this petty and obnoxious brute, and the men simply grouse and wait for the day someone on the opposing side will get lucky and catch him in the crosshairs. In some cases, he'll usually be the villain of the story. The troops might even conspire to frag him themselves if they get tired of waiting for the enemy to do the job. If he is too tough to frag, though, the (un)lucky survivor of his tirades will become either a Yes-Man with no more backbone than he started off with, with a sense of "loyalty" to him, or The Dragon who seeks to become his successor when he dies/moves on. In a best-case scenario, the successor may show much competence and merely view the man as a Cynical Mentor or Drill Sergeant Nasty, but not always. In this case, the other troops will remain as spiteful as ever, but find that the converted will easily take care of any sort of mutiny they try to pull off. A Drill Sergeant Nasty just acts like one, with the purpose of turning recruits into soldiers. A Sergeant Rock may act like one but is nonetheless held in high regard because he wouldn't put his men through anything he wouldn't go through himself. The Neidermeyer may believe he is either or both. If he's a crusty, tough-as-nails long-term veteran commanding officer who has lost touch with reality and is filled with irrational hatred and paranoia against a specific foe, he's a General Ripper. See also Miles Gloriosus for a broader application of this trope. This trope goes often goes hand in hand with The Peter Principle: the leader has simply advanced or been promoted to a level too high for his capabilities. Also goes hand in hand with Weakness Is Just a State of Mind, where the leader thinks that someone's lack of drive is a deliberate decision, rather than a medical problem or depletion of strength. The polar opposite of this trope is "A Father to His Men" (into which the Neidermeyer may well evolve). There is also the Veteran Instructor, an instructor who has distinguished himself in battle and now is teaching new recruits, fully cognizant and respectful of the realities of war and training, which typically earns considerable respect from his trainees. In many cases, a General Failure is basically a Neidermeyer with greater rank and thus even more scope for causing damage. If the Neidermeyer is a temporary replacement for the usual Reasonable Authority Figure, it may also be a Tyrant Takes the Helm story. The Sister Trope - a low-ranking leader, such as a non-commissioned officer, lacking in authority or hated by his men is Gung Holier Than Thou. Named after the infamous blowhard ROTC commander Doug Neidermeyer from the movie Animal House. Fun fact: "Neider" in German means "Envier", making Neidermeyer's name a Meaningful Name. Completely unrelated to the founding editor of CurbsideClassic.com. Or the Hockey Hall of Famer.
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The Neidermeyer / int_101bfcd7	comment	The Sengoku Basara portrayal of Mitsunari is also not far from this. A psychotic individual who was formerly a Sycophantic Servant to his lord Hideyoshi, he expected the same degree of fanatical loyalty. In his case, however, it wasn't so much that he was a jerk more that he's insane and had No Social Skills. Mouri Motonari on the same game is even worse and has been around long before Mitsunari was included. Basically, this is a guy is a complete jerk who pretty much treats his own soldiers as nothing but pawns that he can toss into the middle of fire of his plans, with them dying in friendly fire in his plans that will also decimate his enemy. And he will claim that it's all his genius that brings victory, rather than the commitment and the sacrifices of his soldiers, meaning that he hogs all the glory. The soldiers do not question his authority at all despite the mistreatment, because Motonari is that much of a battle genius that they have no hope of winning if they don't follow his orders. This is also portrayed in gameplay, as Motonari is one of the few characters whose attacks will affect and damage allied troops, a trait shared with the resident Ax-Crazy Sadist monster, Akechi Mitsuhide.
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The Neidermeyer / int_135f2b36	comment	In Doom: Lieutenant Weems from Knee-Deep in the Dead. He was so incompetent and cowardly that he ordered his men to fire on a bunch of harmless monks protesting their war efforts, mistaking them for suicide bombers even after one of his scout Arlene told him they were harmless. Fly decked him for that, and that's why he is stuck on suspension in the cafeteria on Phobos when everything goes to Hell. Throughout the novel Fly has unflattering thoughts about Weems, believing that he's the kind of guy who would side with the alien invaders if it meant saving his own skin. Fly finds the bodies of Weems and another soldier who had entered a suicide pact after the aliens trapped them in a Fate Worse than Death by fusing their heads together, after that he feels too much pity to hate the man anymore. Hidalgo in Infernal Sky invokes this. He doesn't want to get close to the squad and he's the "new guy" among True Companions. Hidalgo introduces himself by stating he's not going to fraternize with them, demands proper uniform maintenance, and tells Fly that almost saving the world nearly makes up for punching his last CO. Fly's natural dislike of officers, their experience with Lt. Weems, and the high stakes of the mission lead Arlene to suggest killing Hidalgo if he's a liability. In time the whole squad warms to each other, only to suddenly Drop a Bridge on Him when a teleporter malfunction causes Fly to Tele-Frag Hidalgo.
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The Neidermeyer / int_14461185	comment	Isen Ryer in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team is one of these - he spends his entire time suspecting Shiro Amada of betraying the Federation and sends a GM Sniper on him when he finally deserts; has a We Have Reserves mentality towards his troops, going so far as use his own men to detonate their own Mobile Suits to destroy a Zeon base and thinks nothing but the idea of being promoted.
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The Neidermeyer / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla MonsterVerse fanfiction, Alan Jonah doesn't start out as this but he quickly ends up this way as his Sanity Slippage progresses. Two of Jonah's soldiers are outraged that Jonah doesn't even think about his men's welfare when refusing to get them away from the severed Ghidorah head's Brown Note, and once Jonah's Tested on Humans is exposed, one of the Mook Lieutenants is blinded by rage, whilst another of Jonah's troops doesn't need much further prompting before she pulls a Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
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The Neidermeyer / int_16645366	comment	Lieutenant Bennett from The Cruel Sea. A lazy bully. Instead of being shot by his own men, he fakes illness to get out of the war.
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The Neidermeyer / int_16fc4335	comment	A couple generals in Urtho's army in The Black Gryphon. Troops of all species dread being placed under their command because they're known for using tactics that would be gloriously victorious if they ever worked, but since they never work, are instead suicidally stupid. It eventually turns out they're traitors, and they plan on losing every time.
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The Neidermeyer / int_1728937a	comment	Chief Inspector Snape in the Diamond Brothers series towards Tim Diamond, who used to work for him in the police force. When Tim gets arrested for acting suspiciously around a dead body in The Falcon's Malteser, Snape is thrilled to have him locked up.
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The Neidermeyer / int_191b34f3	comment	Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday in Fort Apache (modeled on the real-life George Armstrong Custer) is an arrogant martinet to his own men; out of class snobbishness, obstructs the path of True Love between his daughter and a young lieutenant because the latter is the son of an Irish noncom; sees war as a path to personal glory; provokes a conflict with the Apaches that better diplomacy could have avoided; and, worst of all, gets most of his regiment slaughtered through tactical incompetence and stubborn refusal to listen to Captain Yorke, who knows the Apaches much better. For all of that, Yorke credits him with improving the quality of the regiment through his strict discipline.
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The Neidermeyer / int_19a23a42	comment	Deconstructed in The Bounty by Lt. William Bligh. He's an unpleasant, surly man whose crew regards him with contempt, and he makes a few questionable decisions. He's mostly concerned with accomplishing The Bounty's mission with maximum efficiency, and alienates Fletcher Christian with his seeming disregard for them. However, he's actually quite lenient to his crew by the standards of his time and only starts becoming truly nasty when they become actively insubordinate after circumstances force them to take extended shore leave in Tahiti. He's ultimately mutinied against not because of anything he did personally, but because his crew simply don't want to be sailors any more.
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The Neidermeyer / int_1a1a594f	comment	Battlefield: We are losing this battle! Start fighting or I will find someone who can! A few games (including some in this series) offer one player on each team a "command" role. Depending on the game, this role's importance varies from pivotal to merely important. Some games (thankfully) offer mechanisms to depose commanders who fit this trope.
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The Neidermeyer / int_1b021fcb	comment	Itsuki Marude from Tokyo Ghoul is established as a loud-mouthed Jerkass primarily interested in making himself look good. Everything points towards him being this, until he's actually out in the field as Commander — when his troops are pinned down by a sniper, he berates several for not doing anything. Then he snatches a rifle from one and takes the sniper out with a single shot. For the rest of the operation, he proves to be a skilled commander concerned about the well-being of his men. He's still an over-bearing, self-important asshole, though.
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The Neidermeyer / int_21f00169	comment	In the Lord Darcy short story "The Spell of War", Darcy, a young officer at the time, chooses not to notice that the commander of his unit—who'd been a tyrant and endangered the men—had a bullet entry wound on his back from a pistol...received when he'd been facing an enemy sniper who was using a rifle. The man responsible for this Unfriendly Fire then goes on to do a Redemption Equals Death when he learns that the Captain's orders weren't really suicidally stupid (Though this was due to chance, not any hidden genius on the late Captain's part).
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The Neidermeyer / int_247422c7	comment	The Honor Harrington series is overflowing with these, including: Pavel Young, and every one of his friends and/or relatives. Any senior officer appointed by the High Ridge government, with the one exception of Khumalo. Turned on its head by High Ridge's distant cousin Michael Oversteegen, who turns out to be an exceptional officer and thoroughly despises his incompetent, selfish relatives, and by Augustus Khumalo, an aristocratic officer who was barely middle-of-the-road until the Talbott Quadrant blew up in his face and he shocked everyone — up to and including himself — by proving himself to be a thoroughly competent, honourable leader who backed Aivars Terekhov to the hilt despite the possible repercussions and had the good sense to get out of the way of his subordinates with far better tactical ability than himself. Most of the "People's Commissioners" in the People's Republic of Haven's navy, with the notable and plot-important exceptions of Eloise Pritchart, Everard Honeker, Denis LePic, and Denis Jourdain. A huge proportion of the Solarian League's senior officers are incompetent morons who arrogantly keep sending fleets (also tending to be commanded by morons) of a space navy that hasn't seen a real war in centuries against a technologically superior enemy that has managed to get most of their incompetents weeded out and the good ones given a great deal of experience thanks to the war they just ended.
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The Neidermeyer / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons, Principal Skinner was shot in the back when he was a sergeant in Vietnam when trying to get Joey Heatherton to put some pants on. The depiction of his army career is the same as his current one, just with soldiers replacing Willy. That's assuming he's telling the truth in any of his flashbacks, what with him not really being Seymour Skinner.
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The Neidermeyer / int_2823179d	comment	In The Dirty Dozen, Wladislaw is in prison awaiting execution for shooting his commanding officer, who, according to Wladislaw, was absconding over the hill with all of his unit's medical supplies.
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The Neidermeyer / int_2c32fd4d	comment	Iron Grip has the Fahrong/Confederacy, where apparently every officer above the Sergeant is this and everybody below it is Cannon Fodder.
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The Neidermeyer / int_303e911d	comment	Combat Kelly and his Deadly Dozen: In a Crossover with Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, Captain Conner, the martinet son of a general, is given command of both the Deadly Dozen and the Howling Commandos. He cracks under the strain of facing real combat for the first, and his indecision nearly gets both the Dozen and the Howlers killed, forcing Fury to relieve him of command.
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The Neidermeyer / int_32926c5b	comment	Tarkin's Fist: The Imperial High Command is riddled with these. Convinced by their experiences in the Clone Wars that conquering a technologically inferior faction like the Earth will be an easy affair, the Imperial High Command finds itself totally unprepared for the protracted meat grinder the planet turns out to be. They largely prove unable to adapt, pushing the Imperial Army on Earth to the brink of mutiny. Imperial Commissars appointed by Theater Commander Vulnert Seco prove so incompetent and wasteful that they manage to drive the clones under their command into open desertion during the invasion of New Zealand.
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The Neidermeyer / int_32c541e6	comment	Brigadier General Fessler from Fullmetal Alchemist might have set a record in shortest time between showing up and being offed by his own troops: a few pages, or a few minutes in-story time. In his few pages of life, his only plan of attack in a guerrilla war is to charge, he only thinks of glory for himself, and when the enemy attempts to surrender he refuses, at which point a very different commander archetype, Colonel Basque Grand has had enough and shoots him at point-blank range so that he can take command. Maes Hughes' immediate reaction is to deem the shot a stray bullet, and everyone agrees (no planning was involved).
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The Neidermeyer / int_35af2104	comment	While not in a military organization, Sergeant Fred Colon quickly becomes this after being promoted to Acting Captain in The Fifth Elephant. By the time Carrot returns to resume authority, Colon has fired or driven off all members of the Watch, with only a handful hanging around informally enforcing the law. Fred's an unusually sympathetic example because he's not a bad man, he's just been handed much more responsibility than he's qualified for and he knows it, but he's the most senior sergeant by date of rank and semi-official third in command after Vimes and Carrot so he's kind of stuck with it. The massive amount of stress he's under is impairing his judgement to the point where he's on the edge of a breakdown, and in the last scene from his point of view before the action switches back to Uberwald he's reduced to staring at the wall and whispering, "Commander Vimes is going to go spare..." Luckily for Fred, Sam is a bit preoccupied when he gets back, and by the time he arrives to reclaim his office Carrot has sorted it all out.
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The Neidermeyer / int_367f632a	comment	In the computer spin-off Dawn of War, Imperial Priests often shout "WE LOST BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL WEAK!" when their squad regains morale.
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The Neidermeyer / int_3cf58b7f	comment	Two in Hornets' Nest: Colonel Jannings, who smugly says that the Della Norte Dam that the Americans want to destroy is impregnable, over the objections of Wehrmacht officer Captain von Hecht. He insists further their "obvious" target is the Grimaldi Tunnel. Surprise, surprise, the dam is in von Hecht's district, while the tunnel is in Jannings'. Although never said outright, Jannings appears to be attempting to discredit the outspoken, anti-Nazi (or at least anti-SS) von Hecht and wrest control from a defanged Wehrmacht by insisting resources and men be sent to him, not von Hecht. We never do get to see what his reaction is when he's told the dam got blown up, sadly. Major Taussig, one of Jannings' subordinates. Like his superior, practically everything goes in one ear and out the other, and even when actual evidence comes up, he ignores it if clashes with what he previously believed. Von Hecht ends up growing tired of his stubbornness and lack of foresight, and just plain frags him, 'Nam style.
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The Neidermeyer / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: Though a non-military example, Dr. Kelso is this to the entirety of Sacred Heart Hospital. This trope comes to the fore as a plot device in one episode when he becomes particularly inspired by this trope when a veteran lands in his hospital's care. The vet tells Kelso of his former sergeant's leadership, though ultimately the sergeant united the troops underneath him through their hate towards him. Against the backdrop of this, the hospital's productivity was falling as the staff were becoming too enveloped by an ongoing, literal coffeehouse debate around the war in Iraq. Kelso resolves the issue by suddenly announcing that he was canceling the staff discount for coffee, except for his own. When asked to explain why, his response was "Why the hell not?" and to walk away. However, ultimately subverts the trope in that he takes it upon himself to be the one they can all hate in order to unite them on a common front. After he retires, he becomes a pretty nice guy.
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The Neidermeyer / int_3f0c27bb	comment	Deputy Marshal Fetlock in the Laura Caxton series at least hovers on the edge of being this. Caxton's allies Clara Hsu and Officer Glauer acknowledge that Fetlock's adherence to the rules isn't a bad thing in itself, and respect that he would have accepted his own sentence if he was ever brought up on the charges that led to Caxton being arrested, but his adherence to the law prevents him from recognising that his strategies won't work when dealing with vampires. Fetlock's determination to keep his troops alive just means that the vampires are killing innocent civilians instead, his refusal to believe Caxton when she claims that Justinia Malvern (the oldest living vampire in the series) isn't dead after a prison riot gave Malvern two years to make a new plan, and when he finally tries to go after the vampires he gets his entire team killed because he relied on a show of force rather than ask for Caxton to offer her expertise.
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The Neidermeyer / int_41963414	comment	Averted in The War Against the Chtorr ("A Matter for Men"). The hero Jim McCarthy, having just been made an officer after killing a rampaging Chtorran; tries to bully Dr. Fletcher out of some Chtorran specimens. First, she takes him down a peg by showing McCarthy that the Chtorran he 'killed' is still very much alive. Then she points out that everyone wants to look up to their superiors, so an officer's job is to inspire people, not boss them about. She finishes by congratulating McCarthy on his shooting and asks him to bring flowers next time. McCarthy is highly embarrassed but learns from the experience. In "A Season for Slaughter" however, when pushed too far by incompetent Major Bellus, McCarthy doesn't educate this Neidermeyer, he demolishes him. On worldwide live television.
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The Neidermeyer / int_468bebb0	comment	General Lord Ronald Rust from the Discworld novels doesn't actually get shot by his own men in Jingo, but his overbearing superiority and tactical incompetence make it very tempting. As a captain in Night Watch, he is knocked unconscious by his own men when he orders them to fire on civilians. Corporal Strappi from Monstrous Regiment. While not in a military organization, Sergeant Fred Colon quickly becomes this after being promoted to Acting Captain in The Fifth Elephant. By the time Carrot returns to resume authority, Colon has fired or driven off all members of the Watch, with only a handful hanging around informally enforcing the law. Fred's an unusually sympathetic example because he's not a bad man, he's just been handed much more responsibility than he's qualified for and he knows it, but he's the most senior sergeant by date of rank and semi-official third in command after Vimes and Carrot so he's kind of stuck with it. The massive amount of stress he's under is impairing his judgement to the point where he's on the edge of a breakdown, and in the last scene from his point of view before the action switches back to Uberwald he's reduced to staring at the wall and whispering, "Commander Vimes is going to go spare..." Luckily for Fred, Sam is a bit preoccupied when he gets back, and by the time he arrives to reclaim his office Carrot has sorted it all out. Vimes hasn't promoted Fred from Sergeant (or Nobby from Corporal) because, despite the fact they're senior to almost everybody in the Watch (Colon even has seniority on His Grace himself), they're perfectly happy in the ranks they hold and really aren't suited for anything higher anyway. Actually, nearly every general in the armies of the Sto Plains (the area in which Ankh-Morpork lies) counts as this since their general battle strategy is to hurl their men at the enemy and receive "glorious casualties" since apparently the number of fallen men equals how great the battle was for them. If they actually win anything, that's a nice albeit unimportant bonus. They see the famous general Tacticus as a dishonorable military leader because he had the distinct tendency to win battles and wars and bring most of his soldiers back alive. The official metric goes something like this: First, both sides throw their men at each other. Then, you subtract your casualties from their casualties, and "if the answer is a positive sum, it was a glorious victory".
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The Neidermeyer / int_49ad83ee	comment	Commonly invoked in World of Warcraft for various Alliance and Horde commanders. At this point, it's hard to tell whether they are the exceptions or the rule. The actual racial leaders (with the exception of Garrosh Hellscream) tend to avoid this trope, but the player character frequently has to deal with various NPCs/questgivers that do fit the trope, especially on the Horde side.
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The Neidermeyer / int_4aacb232	comment	North and South (U.S.): Elkanah Bent treats Orry and George like scum. He gets Orry crippled by Mexican artillery. Orry cripples him, he murders Orry then George hangs him.
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The Neidermeyer / int_4c095a1f	comment	In The Transformers: Megatron was competent but selfish. This and his ego led him to do quite a few stupid things and abandoning Devastator in one episode. To be fair, it's really Starscream that was made out to be incompetent by the cartoon's writers, though his comic and toy bios show that he is far more brilliant. Starscream himself usually ends up as one of these whenever he's given the reigns. He's no fool, being very book-smart and a skilled fighter, but he's a roundly terrible commander; he often ends up getting betrayed or losing control of his own plots. The comic book Spotlight: Megatron shows the titular character being positively enraged at Starscream after he managed to, in three years of the former's absence, turn the aftermath of what had been a decisive and wide-ranging Decepticon victory into a complete rout that left troops cannibalizing each other to avoid starvation. A later comic, The Transformers: Robots in Disguise, however, would reveal Starscream's true calling: politics. The real gem, however, is Galvatron. This insane psychotic warfreak shot at his own troops and did more damage to his own army than the Autobots. Needless to say, if it weren't for a number of certain extenuating circumstances, the Decepticons would have recycled Galvatron a long time ago, no matter how powerful he was. Said circumstances mainly being that, because of the backstabbing treachery endemic in their ranks, the first thing that would happen when Galvatron got slagged would be civil war breaking out due to there being no clear-cut successor to Galvatron's rank. And this would doubtlessly be fatal to the Decepticons, due to them being stuck on a burned-out world and barely scraping together enough fuel, parts, and ammo to survive from day to day. Sentinel Prime from Transformers: Animated is an example this kind of character among the good guys. Even in his younger days, he had zero respect for his peers, blaming the more responsible Optimus for Elita-1's presumed death (on an excursion that was Sentinel's idea to begin with), and as soon as he gained a command of his own, promptly began treating his men like worthless garbage, causing poor Bumblebee and Bulkhead much pain and suffering. He remains a jerk in the present day, taking every opportunity to viciously mock Optimus and his team's lower positions. Grimlock is occasionally shown to be a bit of a Neidermeyer in the comics when he's put in command of units other than the Dinobots, largely because most Autobots aren't used to doing things The Spartan Way like the Dinobots are and Grimlock being unwilling to accommodate them. When he briefly took over the Autobots he threw the rulebook out the window. Many sub-commanders within the Decepticons fit into this trope, but none moreso than Motormaster, leader of the Stunticons. His team is a big ball of crazy, and he loves to do things like order the silence-fearing Wildrider to remain quiet on missions. The intense loathing that the rest of the Stunticons have for Motormaster causes their combined form Menasor to be utterly uncontrollable as none of his component minds are able to work with their leader's.
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The Neidermeyer / int_4c949405	comment	Mr. Peevly from Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!. Any respect the zoo animals give him is purely tongue-in-cheek.
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The Neidermeyer / int_4efe76f6	comment	Col. Owen Devereaux in The Man from Colorado is regarded by his troops as a terrible martinet. (This is actually another manifestation of the Sanity Slippage that is turning him into a Blood Knight.) It is best demonstrated by his arresting Sgt. Jericho Howard for dereliction of duty for drinking instead of being on sentry duty...one the day the war ended!
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The Neidermeyer / int_52c8adde	comment	Gotrek & Felix: Bosendorfer is a Greatsword commander who's very jealous of his authority, and consequently very displeased at the easy superiority Felix shows over him at every turn by being more skilled, more courageous, and better-liked by his own men. It doesn't help that he has a bad case of Inferiority Superiority Complex, only being in command due to the death of his (much more skillful) older brother. Gotrek once served under a Bretonnian pirate hunter, who had determined to attack a Norscan pirate in his island lair. And to motivate the men, he burned the ship once the men were ashore. But when they got to the pirate's lair, they found he'd seen the smoke from the ships and promptly cleared out. The captain was murdered that very night, and the crew survived as well as they could until they joined a passing pirate ship.
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The Neidermeyer / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Master Pong Krell has a reputation for getting more clone troopers killed under his command than any other Republic General. He's rude and dismissive to them, calls them by their numbers instead of their preferred nicknames, and orders them to attack head-on with no cover instead of taking their suggestions of better tactics. He's doing it on purpose, intending to defect to the Separatists after making a dent in the Republic's forces.
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The Neidermeyer / int_53b30902	comment	General Damon of Valkyria Chronicles. A completely inept commander who only attained his rank because of his noble status. He holds all of the militia as Cannon Fodder, possibly all of Gallia's citizenry, as his solution for attacking a notably larger Imperial force is to draft all the citizens they could into the militia and throw them all on a frontal assault. Bastard even had the balls to claim Welkin's victory at Ghirlandaio as his own. Though Selvaria's Final Flame in the citadel made that a sort of good thing.
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The Neidermeyer / int_5413e001	comment	Day of the Dead (1985): Rhodes is this trope to an almost ridiculous degree. Constantly screaming at everyone around, attempting to take control of every situation by force, ordering his men to kill people for minor offenses... they really should have found someone more mentally stable to be in his position. Granted, his command has really only just started as the film opens. As at least one of the COs above him (Commander Cooper) has just died.
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The Neidermeyer / int_58c5259c	comment	The Rifleman: Had one episode where an Army Major was this to his troops and the civilians of North Fork. Fortunately, everyone in North Fork realized how insane his military command was, and his superiors got a message from Lucas McCain about his incompetence, recalling the Major back to headquarters. However, the Major spun the story, claiming that his superiors needed his command elsewhere, even leaving his Lieutenant with this message: "Lieutenant, remember, the key to command is a firm hand, discipline!" Even more during the episode: He refused his men water (in the deserts of New Mexico) before the events of the episode, and one of his men was shot when he did steal some water, and the man's wound was not tended to, even in the jail. He was also set to be executed the next day. (He got better.) He mentioned how his men cracked under pressure from the enemy, costing him a promotion, when in fact he sent them in deliberately and they were shot to pieces. He called out one of his men for "resting" after a four-hour duty shift tending the jail his deserter was imprisoned in and ordered his Lieutenant to add another hour to his duty shift. (The man had collapsed from heat exhaustion.) Even the Major's Yes-Man Lieutenant started to question his command at this time, as he actually gave the man some water behind the Major's back. He attempted to place Lucas McCain, a civilian, under arrest for going behind his back to his superiors about his insane incompetence. (Civilian arrests by military officials are prohibited if you didn't know.) He attempted to place the town of North Fork under martial law. (To circumvent the civilian arrest rule.)
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The Neidermeyer / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf also had the ship's backup computer Queeg 500, who was installed for an episode when the crew got sick of Holly's incompetence. Queeg turned out to be so strict that even Rimmer got sick of him. And then it turns out that Queeg was Holly all along.
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The Neidermeyer / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Excessively righteous Blossom. His military career was marked by repeatedly getting a battalion whittled down to about company size, and he made it very clear to everyone who would listen that he viewed this as a result of the incompetence of his soldiers. Especially hilarious since he is very talented - at personal combat - but has exactly no ability to recognise what his talents are, leading to both military and civilian careers crafted from incompetence and menacing with spikes of fail. Tepet Lisara also qualifies. Out of jealousy, she got her cousin, an actually competent officer, removed from command, and devised the strategy that effectively ruined her House's standing within the Realm. Though that particular failure is never realized, she is still Reassigned to Antarctica for general incompetence, where she delights in assigning up-and-coming male officers to menial or suicidal tasks for petty amusement.
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The Neidermeyer / int_62aa95a6	comment	The Lost Fleet has so many examples that there's an entire battleship squadron informally designated as a dumping ground for problem captains. Captain (later Admiral) Geary has to spend as much time and energy dealing with the messes caused by their poor leadership, recklessness and occasional bouts of outright insubordinationnote he ended up acting fleet commander mostly because there Ain't No Rule that says time spent being a Human Popsicle doesn't count towards seniority by date of rank, which a lot of other officers were not-unreasonably a bit unhappy about, not to mention the war was going so poorly that morale was in the toilet and good order and discipline were hanging by a thread already than he does fighting the actual enemy, even before one particularly extreme example decides to go the Klingon Promotion route. And then there's Captain Falco, who was a competent officer once but let a few successful engagements go to his head and became an arrogant Glory Hound underneath the charm and charisma.
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The Neidermeyer / int_67d6ff2e	comment	Lt. Col Brett C. Shelton, his second-in-command Major Ellis and the headmaster Colonel Cochran in Child's Play 3.
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The Neidermeyer / int_69d15cc0	comment	General Thunderbolt Ross from the Marvel Cinematic Universe is one too, only caring about preserving his military career and even viewed with disdain for his disgraceful actions by fellow military members who are also superheroes Captain America, The Falcon and War Machine.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6a3fbb7c	comment	Starscream himself usually ends up as one of these whenever he's given the reigns. He's no fool, being very book-smart and a skilled fighter, but he's a roundly terrible commander; he often ends up getting betrayed or losing control of his own plots. The comic book Spotlight: Megatron shows the titular character being positively enraged at Starscream after he managed to, in three years of the former's absence, turn the aftermath of what had been a decisive and wide-ranging Decepticon victory into a complete rout that left troops cannibalizing each other to avoid starvation. A later comic, The Transformers: Robots in Disguise, however, would reveal Starscream's true calling: politics.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6a76e8cd	comment	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes: Prince Shahid of Almyra sees himself as a military genius, but in truth, he's an arrogant idiot whose strategies boil down to throwing an ungodly amount of troops at the enemy until they're dead. While the army he commands is huge, he has no clue how to effectively maintain it, meaning that most of his men are starving and demotivated. He's also a domineering bully towards them, sending them to their deaths while hurling insults and threats their way.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons the piscoloths are described as the sergeants of the yugoloth race. They are so cruel to their subordinates that said subordinates tend to gang up and murder them whenever given half the chance.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress: Sufficiently unhappy nobles act this way, ordering beatings and hammerings to any dwarf that ignores (or is incapable of fulfilling) their demands. Unsurprisingly, players tend to respond to such behavior with their own form of capital punishment.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6db69657	comment	Lt. Ito and Capt. Tanida from Letters from Iwo Jima, though if anything they're mild examples of what the real Imperial Japanese Military was like.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: Captain Crais. Initially, it's indicated that this is the result of Revenge Before Reason in his pursuit of Crichton for accidentally killing his brother. Flashbacks in "The Way We Weren't," however, reveal that he was always a whackjob and a jackass hated by all around him. When Scorpius steps up to take his command away from him at the end of Season 1, none of his officers so much as object, let alone side with him. Commandant Mele-on Grayza, as well. She's outright incompetent in executing her attempt to recapture Moya, totally inept in managing diplomacy with the Scarrans, and is harsh and unforgiving of her subordinates, and berates Braca for actually listening to what his people are telling him (case in point: Braca accepts the explanation of a Peacekeeper weapons tech who tries to advise him that a Leviathan-killing missile is not ready for active deployment, but Grayza overrules him and forces him to order its use anyway. Sure enough, Moya's crew figures out a way to fool its tracking system. Grayza summarily sends the weapons tech to the Aurora Chair). It culminates at the end of season 4 with Grayza ordering her ship to battle when her attempts to negotiate with the Scarrans break down (thanks in no small part to Crichton and his crew undermining the whole process to make sure the Scarrans can't get wormhole knowledge from a captive Scorpius) rather than go home in disgrace. It's really telling that when Braca relieves her of command and she orders him to be shot, no one is even inclined to follow her orders.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6e884bf9	comment	Dick Dastardly, period, on his own show Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines. The General believes him incompetent (just there to collect flight pay), Zilly tries to shirk his duties, and Muttley isn't above using blackmail to weasel a medal from him. Klunk is the only pilot that gives him an iota of respect.
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The Neidermeyer / int_6edca17b	comment	Captain Ramsey in Crimson Tide is an enormous jerk to his entire crew aboard the SSBN under his command. When informed by his XO, Lt. Commander Hunter that crew morale is low and that they might need some words of encouragement from their beloved captain, Ramsey takes the opportunity to chew them all out over the intercom for being lazy and feckless. Later, Ramsey goes into full-blown General Ripper mode when he is convinced that his orders to fire the missiles have not been countermanded, despite a cutoff in communications right when the counter-order is sent. He is even ready to start shooting officers when most of the crew mutinies to avert a nuclear apocalypse.
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The Neidermeyer / int_70814599	comment	General George Hammond from Stargate SG-1 was originally intended to be such a character, as this was how most commanding officers/superiors were treated in other television shows at the timenote except for Donald P. Bellisario's JAG. After talking with a U.S. Air Force consultant — who pointed out that a man who rose to Hammond's position wouldn't have got there if he had no respect for his inferiors, and vice versa — he was rewritten to be the show's Reasonable Authority Figure. Multiple times he's shown bending the rules or outright breaking them to get the job done.
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The Neidermeyer / int_72262aee	comment	Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender started out the series disliked by his crew, as he constantly pushed them while hunting for Aang. He eventually got a little better when Iroh told the crew about Zuko's seriously messed-up backstory, and Zuko risked his life to save a crewmember in the middle of a storm, allowing Aang to escape in the process. Zuko and the crew started to respect each other a little—at least enough for his second-in-command to stop challenging him to fights to the death. Of course, this trope goes without saying for every member of the Fire Nationâ€™s top brass.
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The Neidermeyer / int_73a1e39	comment	Chicago Fire: Deputy Commissioner Gorsch in Season 7. When Gorsch was a candidate, Chief Boden gave him a bad performance review, recognizing rightly that this guy was a desk jockey, not a smoke eater. Gorsch then slimed his way up the ranks to a position where he could hover around the firehouse and try to drive Boden to quit — and make everyone's life miserable in the effort.
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The Neidermeyer / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Valiant", Tim Watters, the Acting Captain of Red Squad, has deluded himself into thinking that he is destined for greatness which causes him to lead his squad of inexperienced cadets on a suicidal mission that gets them all killed. Even worse is his second in command Farris who, instead of demonstrating actual leadership qualities, bullies and berates others into line.
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The Neidermeyer / int_74c5b2f3	comment	Advance Wars: Days of Ruin: Admiral Greyfield. A complete coward and a sub-par commander whose greatest skills are taking credit for victories, and shifting blame for losses. He threatens execution for any failure to follow his orders to the letter, especially the order to win the battle. His cowardice is so much that he relentlessly hunts down any that don't adhere to absolute rule no matter how many of his own men are sacrificed or caught in the blast of the super weapon used to kill a single dissenting captain, even resorting to executing enemies after surrender. Lin even implied that he was a subpar commander at best and faked his results. "Captain" Waylon (Note the quotation marks), who unsurprisingly ends up working for Greyfield, is another example. After you rescue him and his unit (and he leaves), his wingmen defect and join your unit specifically because he was this but they felt following him was the only way to stay alive in the apocalyptic wasteland.
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The Neidermeyer / int_75149ccd	comment	Imperial captain Joak Drysso, in command of the Super Star Destroyer "Lusankya" in the X-Wing Series. Near the end, with his ship damaged and obviously beyond hope of winning the battle, he refuses an offer for surrender and orders the engines to full power, with the intention of ramming the planet and dying with his ship and crew in a blaze of glory. He is promptly shot by a subordinate, who then acts as captain and accepts the offer to surrender.
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The Neidermeyer / int_761813a6	comment	Band of Brothers had two real-life examples although the research done in the book that the series is based on has some flaws and thus doesn't fully match with the actual events as they took place: Captain Herbert M. Sobel is portrayed as a petty tyrant whose harsh training earns him resentment from the men under his command. While his tactics did make his soldiers tougher and Sobel was there every step of the way during that training, his total incompetence in field exercises causes a number of his NCOs to flat-out refuse to serve under his command. It causes a big incident within the command structure that has Sobel reassigned and several of the NCOs punished & replaced. The real Sobel did eventually see combat and did a good job, but he never mentally got past being relieved of his original command and the actions of those who essentially committed a mutiny to get him out. The survivors of Easy Company believed he had died soon after the war and he never appeared at any of the reunions. Lt. Norman Dike, who is given command of Easy Company during the war. It is implied that he got his position due to his pedigree and family connections but is himself an "empty uniform" who can only feign competence, as well as repeatedly abandoning his troops on the frontline, relying on Sergeant Lipton to maintain order. After breaking down during an assault, Dike is immediately replaced with the vastly more competent Ronald Speirs. In reality he fought bravely and well in Normandy, and then in the assault on Foy he was actually severely wounded and unable to lead the attack further rather than freezing & breaking from the strain of command.
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The Neidermeyer / int_7668653a	comment	Zaeed Massani of Mass Effect 2 was apparently this, considering the fact that all his stories usually end with getting all of his men killed and info discovered in Lair of the Shadow Broker reveals that a major element for his betrayal by the Blue Suns was his inability to ensure loyalty. In fact, he's actually a poor choice for an end-game Fire Team/Distraction Leader.
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The Neidermeyer / int_769da46e	comment	Corporal Strappi from Monstrous Regiment.
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The Neidermeyer / int_76d5650d	comment	Lieutenant Pavlov Dill in Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation was one of these, though he's more incompetent than mean. He's also basically The Political Officer in the unit, which makes his soldiers detest him even more. Dax is quick to call him a coward who hides behind rhetoric. Although, when Sahara confides in him about her psychic visions, he tries to help her as best he can.
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The Neidermeyer / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: Holly Blue Agate from "Gem Heist" and "That Will Be All" is in charge of the Quartz guards at the Zoo, and she seems to have nothing but contempt for them or any other "lesser" Gem (like Pearls and Rubies) while relentlessly sucking up to "higher" Gems (like Sapphires and the Diamonds). Holly Blue's ill treatment of her subordinates leads to them just sitting back and laughing when the Crystal Gems defeat her in a humiliating fashion and escape with a kidnapped Greg in tow. Given how Yellow Diamond describes an Agate's purpose is to "terrify", it seems this behavior is standard procedure for Agates.
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The Neidermeyer / int_7a7a1a86	comment	Lt. Gorman in Aliens certainly qualifies for this, due to his relative inexperience, General Failure at managing the alien attack, rear-echelon tactics and the resulting lack of respect from his troops. However, this is subverted later in the story in that he tries to apologise for being a bad officer, has no trouble submitting command to a more experienced and competent subordinate, and shows great personal bravery, even attempting to save the Marine who despised him the most.
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The Neidermeyer / int_7aafb9d4	comment	Battle's classic World War I story Charley's War has several examples: Most officers tend to fall under this category, but the worst of all the Lieutenant Snell. He actually makes Charley wait until he's had his tea before reading the message Charley had risked his life to bring him, asking for support for his overwhelmed comrades. This is just after knocking Charley out and using him as a human shield. To him, soldiers are simply expendable and the war is just a sport with him holding a Bodycount Competition with other officers while they shoot wounded Germans during ceasefires. He even gets Charley's unit wiped out on the final day of the war in one last, pointless push that finally resulted in his death after being corroded by an acid sprayer. Mills considers him the Big Bad of the strip. Lieutenant "Monkey Face" Volmar is Blue's hated commanding officer in the Legion, who—according to Blue—tend to punish his soldiers for disobeying his orders even if they are often inflexible and futile to achieve. He develops a deep personal hatred towards Blue and their coming to blows is what leads Blue to desert. Not that the French officer corp was better since they sent in a group of untrained Sengelese soldiers to the front as part of the "test" to see their performance in trench warfare, which their lack of knowledge in dealing with machine guns nearly got them annihilated. Sergeant Bacon is an NCO example. As a military police NCO, he makes the lives of Charley, Ginger and Weeper hell when they get temporary respite from the trenches back at the camp. He is in charge of administering "Field Punishment No.1", which involves drilling soldiers at high speed in full kit, lugging rocks over and back and lashing them to the wheels of artillery pieces for up to two hours a day. He also arranges "parties", which is basically tying the offending soldier to a tent pole and administering a beating. He's also a coward, with the implication that he joined the Military Police to avoid being sent to the front. The Scholar is a milder example in that he started out as a regular Tommy and got recommended to go on an officers' training course. When he returns, he shows his inexperience and is pompous around Charley. Most of the training staff at Etaples are horrible individuals, who take sadistic pleasure in putting experienced soldiers through Training from Hell to the point where the entire camp mutinies.
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The Neidermeyer / int_7ac43256	comment	Lee Linjun from Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2 quickly makes himself known as a complete jerk. He constantly argues with the pilots (especially Excellen and Katina), is clearly jealous of Tetsuya (even though Lee outranks him and commands a ship), and fully cements himself as a Neidermeyer when he makes it clear that everyone is expendable, and he really doesn't care if any member of the crew lives or dies. Then he just defects to the Shadow Mirrors. Lee apparently lost his wife and parents during the events of the first game (6-months prior) and hasn't had time to deal with his grief. He's too much of an ass for fans to feel much sympathy toward, but it does help explain his irrational behavior.
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The Neidermeyer / int_7da2ca56	comment	The International Fleet is full of them in the second Formic Wars trilogy (prequels to Ender's Game). Colonel Vaganov is an especially dangerous example because he's very smart and good at playing the career game. He quickly singles Mazer out as a competent marine and does what he can to use Mazer for his own advancement. When Mazer disobeys his self-serving order for the good of humanity, Vaganov has him arrested and treated inhumanely, thinking that Mazer is playing his own career game and is trying to undermine Vaganov, before sending him to be court-martialed by an admiral, who's a good friend of his. Word of God is that the authors had to add this element to the prequels in order to stay true to the one-off line about Mazer from the original novel involving him being court-martialed twice and being largely unknown. The only way for someone like him to be court-martialed would be for the IF to be full of corrupt careerists, who resent competent officers and sabotage them. The Mazer in Prison comic (taking place between the prequels and the original novel) has Mazer holding himself hostage in order to force the IF to replace the careerists with competent officers. It works. Notably, there are times when Vaganov isn't entirely wrong, such as when he sends Mazer and Bingwen into a dangerous situation rather than take the safer option in order to obtain more intel on the Formics. The revised mission ends up discovering that the Hive Queen is breeding daughters in asteroids in order to serve as local commanders, allowing her to focus on better controlling a smaller number of soldiers. Bingwen manages to kill one of the daughters with a crossbow bolt through the eye and then igniting the hydrogen in the asteroid. This leaves an intact Formic warship with no crew to study. In Ender's Game, Bonzo Madrid, as commander of Salamander Army, proudly over-disciplines his boys (and Petra) with a sharp tongue and a quick backhand. He is particularly resentful of Ender being assigned to his command as underage and untested New Meat, and so puts him under strict orders to hang back and do absolutely nothing in battles, with the goal of gaming Ender's efficiency rating (no points will be deducted for missed shots if he never draws his gun) so he will be easier to trade to another army. When Ender sees Salamander losing one battle to Leopard Army—due to poor morale, no less—he springs into action at the last minute and inflicts just enough casualties to prevent Leopard from claiming victory. Bonzo rewards Ender for having turned a loss into a draw by beating him up because "no good soldier ever disobeys."
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The Neidermeyer / int_7e86f5f5	comment	In Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd Edition scenario "Fornerond's Last Stand", the High Elf general Fornerond Breezenimble (who happens to get killed immediately before the actual battle) is described to have been a completely incompetent nincompoop.
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The Neidermeyer / int_7fc78282	comment	Many Orc officers in all versions of The Lord of the Rings. It is considered quite normal for an orc to be hated by his subordinates and keep them in line largely through rigorous abuse, to the point that orcs that aren't tend to be seen as uncommonly good. UglÃºk of Isengard, for instance, is actually held in decent regard by his fellow Uruk-hai, but he is utterly despised by the orcs of Mordor and the Misty Mountains that he travels with, and the feeling is nothing if not mutual—he largely maintains order in his band by decapitating a few grunts whenever they start getting uppity.
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The Neidermeyer / int_81692f99	comment	Given the rate of promotion in the Star Trek universe, could this be Lieutenant Styles from the Original Series episode "Balance of Terror"? If so, he wasn't a very nice person back then, either. The lieutenant's name was spelt "Stiles", sadly.
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The Neidermeyer / int_82439e64	comment	The Office: Dwight Schrute becomes the civilian equivalent whenever he is given even the slightest amount of authority. Gareth Keenan, Dwight's equivalent (and character model) in the original British series, takes it even further since he was a Territorial Army soldier (think National Guard) who insisted on his status as Deputy Team Leader after David Brent and who stood on a largely non-existent authority.
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The Neidermeyer / int_82ff90e9	comment	Two characters that are likened to each other in All Quiet on the Western Front: the psychotic, sadistic drill sergeant that the main characters train under, and the high school teacher that coerced all of his students into joining the military.
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The Neidermeyer / int_83d81bd4	comment	Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War: Orson Perrault, the commander of the protagonists' airbase, is this as well as corpulent, a horrible shot (he doesn't know that how emptying the magazine into the doorway where the targets were when the lights went out is a bad idea), and without giving Wardog Squadron and Pops a chance to explain themselves he assumes them all to be spies. Somewhat mitigated by the fact that Hamilton convinced him that they were spies before they even landed, and that Pops had a past of his own that put him under suspicion. Lieutenant Colonel Ford attempts to land his plane on Sand Island despite the island being under attack and being told to wave off by the base. When Chopper lets slip that he thinks he's completely nuts and/or stupid, Ford threatens to write him up when he lands. It gets cut off when an enemy plane shoots him down.
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The Neidermeyer / int_84809b33	comment	Lt. Cole Phelps of L.A. Noire is such a Niedermeyer that it actually winds up driving most of the game's plot. Cole being paralysed with fear at a convenient moment ensured that he was the last man standing after a night fighting the Japanese on Okinawa, which made him a war hero and he rose rapidly through the LAPD as a result. His Marines, infuriated at this, decided to steal massive crates of guns and drugs from the military because they thought they deserved to get rewarded as well. Cole's order to burn out an enemy cave that turned out to be a field hospital gives one of his men massive PTSD and he is later revealed as the serial arsonist. This also so enrages the unit's medic that he actually shoots Cole in the back and later goes on to lead the aforementioned heist.
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The Neidermeyer / int_880cfa15	comment	Hogan's Heroes: Colonel Crittendon, a bumbling and incompetent British officer whose ludicrous plans and go-getter attitude often cause the Heroes to have to try and sabotage his schemes so that he doesn't get them all killed. The Heroes' plans to murder him weren't entirely sarcastic. Colonel Klink himself is this on the German side. During one of the many times Klink was sentenced to death by firing squad, the entire garrison of Stalag 13 (including Schultz) volunteered for said firing squad. In fact, three guards that had previously deserted returned to volunteer as well. Notably, Klink gets this from all directions: not only do his men (and the Allied prisoners) detest him for his incompetence, cowardice, and ego, but everyone above him in the German chain of command knows that he's massively incompetent. The only reason he hasn't been sent off to the Russian Front is that Stalag 13 hasn't had a single successful escape (thanks to the Heroes working behind the scenes) since he took command.
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The Neidermeyer / int_88603e58	comment	Sergeant Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe called him on his uniform obsession multiple times, eventually leading to Patton threatening to shut down Stars and Stripes altogether to stop troops from reading the strip. Eisenhower himself stepped in and shut Patton down over this, and ordered Patton to leave Mauldin strictly alone. Eisenhower understood that the Willie and Joe comics (which depicted a pair of low-ranking infantry soldiers on the front lines) were very good for morale and that Mauldin himself was highly regarded by the enlisted men.
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The Neidermeyer / int_8b1224bd	comment	In the McAuslan books, the sole Neidermeyer in a mess full of Sergeant Rock types is the hapless Sergeant Baxter. It isn't entirely Baxter's fault: he's just been overpromoted and even as a Corporal lacked experience and ability. His inexperience and incapacity for the rank (bestowed after the more able Sergeant Telfer is demobilised) cause problems. It even reverses the usual relationship with his lieutenant: Dand McNeill is forced to reprimand him at least twice.
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The Neidermeyer / int_8d814070	comment	MASH: Major Frank Burns is probably the most visible example. An incompetent doctor, a stickler for draconian discipline, loud, obnoxious, entitled, bullying, and often blaming everyone but himself for his own idiocy, Burns is disliked by every single person in the 4077th MASH unit, except for his lover Margaret Houlihan, who's also one of these (as elaborated on below). This is especially notable because he's an officer and not enlisted. MASH also had several Foe of the Week commanders who either learned a lesson or were otherwise removed from command by the doctors. When Major Burns left the series (due to having a psychological breakdown caused by the marriage of Major Houlihan - which led to him causing havoc in Tokyo while on RnR), the Army, in its infinite wisdom, promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel and gave him a cushy job in a stateside Veteran's Hospital... which is extra disconcerting given that Major Burns was always made out to be an incompetent doctor, has no friends in high places, and the Army historically had a medieval attitude towards officers who go wacko. Margaret Houlihan is this herself in the beginning. Insecure in herself because her father is a career officer who really wanted a son to follow in his footsteps, and aware that opportunities for a female officer are limited, she is harsh on her nurses and feels alienated and alone. After the departure of Burns, she mellows out and passes on from her own Neidermeyer stage, becoming a competent and compassionate officer, learning from Potter, Hawkeye, and BJ. Hawkeye and Winchester both had their opportunity to be Neidermeyers when given the chance to command. Anyone other than Blake or Potter in charge of the 4077th ends up as this trope. The difference between them and Burns is that these episodes set up an An Aesop about the difficulty of true leadership when the rest of the main cast calls them out on it, and they see the error of their ways. Not so much in the earlier seasons. In the Season 3 episode "Officer of the Day", Hawkeye's command of the 4077th was treated as little more than a day at the office; he essentially spent the whole period doing what he always did, albeit while having to deal with a visit from Colonel Flagg. Fridge Brilliance is that, since his command lasted only a day, and an uneventful one (save for Flagg's visit) at that, Hawkeye didn't have to deal with the rigors of command that Blake went through on a day-to-day basis. Subverted in one episode where a group of British soldiers are brought in. Their wounds aren't life-threatening, but they're in a bad shape and need several weeks to recuperate. Their commanding officer shows up twice demanding that they be discharged and sent to the front as soon as possible, accusing them of laziness and calling Hawkeye a "mollycoddler". The third time he shows up, Hawkeye rushes to intervene, only to find him chatting amicably with the wounded, listening to their letters from home, and generally acting like A Father to His Men. When Hawkeye asks him what brought on this change, the officer replies that he would never speak the way he had to someone who was dying or seriously injured, and his men know him well enough to realise that, so when he comes in demanding they return to action immediately, it reassures them that they're going to be okay and they don't lose hope, which he describes as "being cruel to be kind". Furthermore, the officer's decency is proved when Hawkeye tells him that giving tea to soldiers with abdominal wounds is giving them peritonitis; he immediately agrees to follow the doctor's advice and stop the practice.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9007d588	comment	The MP sergeant in The Inglorious Bastards. All he has to do is transport the Bastards to a prison, but he has to be an arrogant and abusive jerk about it. When some of the prisoners attempt to escape during a German air raid, the sergeant shoots them in the back. Tellingly, when the prisoners turn the tables on their captors, the sergeant is one of the only ones they kill.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9068877a	comment	Sarge of Red vs. Blue is this type of leader, a bloodthirsty madman whose plans are fueled by his irrational hatred for the lazy and insubordinate Grif and his enemies the Blue team, being the only one to make Serious Business of the otherwise cold war between the two. Nonetheless, he is usually followed by the other soldiers, particularly the kiss-ass Yes-Man Simmons. Or he would be if he wasn't so funny. The best order he's ever given was "Scream like a woman!" Sarge is an awful leader, but a brilliant Mad Scientist. To date: three robots, one with a 10-megaton nuclear warhead hidden inside of it, one cyborg, one weather control machine, and one successful transfer of cyborg's organs into a near-dead human. He does show merit as a leader during several moments in season 8, most notably when he trusts Grif to help him take down Agent Washington, and later to help him rescue The Alpha device and take down The Meta. He spends most of the series as this trope, then Character Development finally morphs him into Sergeant Rock late in the eighth season. Simmons during his brief stint as leader of the Blood Gulch Reds.
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The Neidermeyer / int_90a7abc7	comment	Ratty from Mr. Bogus will often fill this role, whether it's bossing around his incompetent sidekick, Mole, or trying to one-up Bogus, without any success.
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The Neidermeyer / int_96f1ceb4	comment	Captain Harris in the Police Academy series. Like many other examples on this page, his heart only beats for the thought of a promotion and a chance to fire, or failing that, humiliate the meddlin' upshoots as well as he can. This being a humorous series, he always ends up humiliated himself.
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The Neidermeyer / int_98748baa	comment	Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid: Charlotte is second in authority only to Akira and is this trope to a ridiculous degree. Taking every possible opportunity to Kick the Dog, resorting to violence and murder for every little thing... Akira of all people really should have found a more mentally stable person to be in Charlotte's position.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9b20d10c	comment	Captain Stillman from Stripes. An example of his incompetence: he orders a mortar to be fired while it is still being targeted, so there is no idea whatsoever where it will go. It ends up being fired at Sergeant Hulka's squad.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9bde233c	comment	Oberleutnant von Nogay from C.K. dezerterzy. Loudmouthed, abusive, and cruel. When his commanding officer, Major Wagner, chews him out for brutalizing the soldiers, von Nogay goes as far as to threaten him.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9c652ce5	comment	Bojack from Dragon Ball Multiverse, according to the novelization.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9d25ef9a	comment	Yo Yogi!: Dick Dastardly usurps Yogi's position as the head of the LAF (Lost And Found) section of Jellystone Mall and becomes a Neidermeyer to Yogi's friends. Later on, two kidnappers trick him into abducting Augie Doggie and he's now afraid of being sent to prison. He tries to get Yogi's friends to help him rescue Augie but they won't follow him, so he brings Yogi back.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Seen a couple of times in the Night's Watch in A Song of Ice and Fire. Ser Alliser Thorne insults and berates all the boys he's supposed to train, without actually giving them anything in the way of instruction. Meanwhile, the few pages' worth we see of Ser Waymar Royce has him mocking the lower-ranking but more experienced rangers under his command every time they display caution or prudence.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Ax-Hand Morgan gives Luffy an extra reason to kick some ass by executing dissenters and making everything about himself while abusing his authority. You even find out later the only reason he was promoted to a position of authority was because of Kuro's Batman Gambit which involved hypnotizing Morgan and everyone else into thinking he captured the notorious Captain Kuro. Spandam can be considered one. He is too inept for his position, only cares about his own career, and not about whom he will sacrifice to be seen as a hero. That extends to his own subordinates.
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The Neidermeyer / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	Same goes for Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, who deals with soany straight examples in his career that when he comes under the command of the competent, friendly and reasonably General Van Voytz, he responds like an animal confused why a predator isn't eating him!
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The Neidermeyer / int_9f3bc7e3	comment	Generation Kill has several: Captain America, Encino Man ("Echo Mike"), Sgt. Maj. "Fucking" Sixta, though he was only acting that way to give the troops an outlet for their frustration, and though he's an NCO, "Casey Kasem". (After the events of Generation Kill however, Kasem proved to be more akin to Sergeant Rock as a platoon sergeant when it came to combat.)
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The Neidermeyer / int_a1117942	comment	General Colbert from Tekkaman Blade is also a real piece of work. Much like Miwa, he too is a racist (so much so he works with Murata Azrael in both Super Robot Wars Judgment AND W), treats The Hero like a traitorous piece of filth even though he's the most effective means of defeating the Radam. Add in the fact he's also a pretty shameless General Ripper as well, and you've got a total asshole of a Neidermeyer as a result.
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The Neidermeyer / int_a183d57f	comment	Zapp Brannigan of Futurama, who's especially fond of saving himself by sacrificing those under his command. Samples: Lampshaded when he had to assign Fry (a soldier in that episode) a punishment, we get this exchange, showing that Kif is an even worse boss than Zapp:
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The Neidermeyer / int_a49a890c	comment	Perhaps not surprisingly, an issue of Garth Ennis's Preacher features two examples of these. One is an incompetent lieutenant who gets a VietCong bullet when he's dumb enough to wear his officer's stripes bars while on patrol, and the other is a jerkass sergeant who Jesse's father and Spaceman kill after he gets one of their friends killed.
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The Neidermeyer / int_a68aab11	comment	Miwa Sakimori from Daimos is this, and a General Ripper. He mostly hides behind his soldiers or Daimos itself from danger. And when opportunity presents itself, he'll show his extreme racist tendencies by shooting actually harmless Brahmins. And all that's in his mind is... well, you guessed it, promotions.
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The Neidermeyer / int_ab2ac1cd	comment	Enlisted: 2LT Schneeberger. He goes out of his way to be as obnoxious as possible to everyone lower ranking than him, including a Command Sergeant Major (who may be lower rank but is meant to be viewed as a mentor by junior officers). Also has a tendency to steal the credit for anything that goes well, regardless of how much influence he had over it.
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The Neidermeyer / int_abc65d15	comment	Last of the Summer Wine: Had Foggy Dewhurst, a former corporal in the Army. Subverted in that he's now a civilian now, and even when he was in the Army, he was only a sign writer, and thus probably never saw any action. This doesn't stop him from constantly finding reasons to boss Compo and Clegg around, often pretending he's genuinely interested in helping other people. He's so determined to inflict his will on them that on one occasion, he started strangling Compo, completely unprovoked because he simply thought he was going to embarrass him. Too bad the vicar's wife saw him... Subverted with his predecessor, Cyril Blamire, who was also a corporal in the Army and similar to Foggy - right down to the mustache - but unlike him, Blamire was content with his retirement and, despite bickering constantly, was good friends with Compo and Clegg.
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The Neidermeyer / int_afc86b0a	comment	In Ender's Game, Bonzo Madrid, as commander of Salamander Army, proudly over-disciplines his boys (and Petra) with a sharp tongue and a quick backhand. He is particularly resentful of Ender being assigned to his command as underage and untested New Meat, and so puts him under strict orders to hang back and do absolutely nothing in battles, with the goal of gaming Ender's efficiency rating (no points will be deducted for missed shots if he never draws his gun) so he will be easier to trade to another army. When Ender sees Salamander losing one battle to Leopard Army—due to poor morale, no less—he springs into action at the last minute and inflicts just enough casualties to prevent Leopard from claiming victory. Bonzo rewards Ender for having turned a loss into a draw by beating him up because "no good soldier ever disobeys."
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The Neidermeyer / int_b27fdd6d	comment	Everybody in a position of authority in Catch-22 falls under this. Except perhaps Major — De Coverley, he's more of a Memetic Badass with an awe-inspiring reputation and fearsome appearance, but no real authority beyond renting apartments. Like anyone who's not a complete bastard, he dies or disappears. And Major Major, who really just wants to be left alone.
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The Neidermeyer / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In Invader Zim: Zim is shown to be this type of leader in the episode Hobo-13 in that he needlessly sacrifices his squadmates so that he himself can get to the end of the obstacle course, including using his last remaining soldier as a battering ram to open a door. The Drill Sergeant (ironically played by R. Lee Ermey) who meets him at the end chooses to fail Zim due to his horrendous leadership skills and challenges him into combat in order to pass (which Zim does by cheating). The Tallests are seen as worse than Zim, being a pair of petty, self-serving, and egomaniacal jerkasses, treating everyone beneath them with contempt and mockery, particularly the shorter Irkens. In fact, the Irkens are a race of Neidermyers.
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The Neidermeyer / int_b5b18520	comment	Major Payne has Cadet-Sergeant Dotson. A mediocre-at-best troop leader who does nothing but kiss up to the Major in charge, talk down to his fellow cadets, and look out for his own interests. When it becomes clear Payne is not impressed by him and treats him as badly as the others, he quickly begins confiding alongside them to bring Payne down and has no problem whatsoever letting Stone own up to all responsibility for their antics, and when Stone is punished by being made the new Cadet-Sergeant Dotson calls it quits and whines to his dad to get transfered to a new school. He appears in the finale on Stapleton's team, the school that always wins, cheats in the footrace against Stone by kicking him in the ankle hard enough to put Stone out of commission, gets punched in the beezer by Williams for it, and his team ultimately loses when Tiger does an impressive job leading their final parade in lieu of Stone.
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The Neidermeyer / int_b91fac15	comment	Lt. Col. Tall (Nick Nolte) in The Thin Red Line. He has veins in his teeth. Partly subverted in that he secretly has a low opinion of himself... and his tactics work.
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The Neidermeyer / int_ba4f9669	comment	My Way: Pretty much every single commanding officer Jun-shik follows. Colonel Tatsuo forms suicide squads from his garrison and in the face of a hopeless battle against Soviet tanks, refuses to call retreat for the remnant of the Japanese forces. A Russian Commissar sends a group of POW conscripts into a kill zone of the German forces, also shooting anyone who tries to retreat. At D-Day, a German officer locks Jun-Shik and Tatsuo in a room with two machine guns, forcing them to fight off the American landing.
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The Neidermeyer / int_bac7e6dc	comment	Major Erich Kaempffer in The Keep. He's a ruthless, narrow-minded bully, even by the standards of the insanely brutal SS Einsatzkommando. When German soldiers begin dying under mysterious circumstances, Kaempffer is sent to handle what the SS believes to be the work of La RÃ©sistance. His first act on arriving is to have three people shot for unclear reasons, take over from the more experienced Captain Woermann and generally ignore everything he says. Bizarrely, after being led to believe Glaeken can be useful to him in discovering the identity of the keep's owner(s) when Glaeken resists arrest, kills an SS soldier, and is then shot and seemingly killed himself, Kaempffer not only doesn't care about his dead man but also doesn't seem to realize that the one (as far as he knew) probable link to finding out what he so desperately wanted to know just got shot off of a cliff.
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The Neidermeyer / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Most of the Commissars in Warhammer 40,000. In fact, the 'Nam-inspired Catachan Jungle Fighters require a special saving roll before the game even starts to prevent them from fragging the Commissar (Oops, sorry sir!). Similar to the Dinobots example listed below, one of the reasons Imperial doctrine normally prohibits Space Marine commanders from leading large-scale actions and campaigns in which the Marines and Imperial Guard fight together is that they tend to work the normal troops as hard as their Super-Soldier battle brothers, often with fatal results. Common Imperial Guard tactics employed usually boil down to "throw men at it by the regiment like a battering ram until it breaks." A noted battle cry of commissars is, "We will drown them in our blood and crush them under the weight of our own dead!" Every Imperial Guard officer above Lieutenant (and sometimes below) is either incompetent, a jerk, a glory hound, cowardly, or any combination of those. This goes up even into the Munitorium. The officers of the Death Korps of Krieg are a weird subversion- they are possibly the most brutal commanders in the Imperium and treat their men like they're completely expendable. But the men don't care because they believe they are expendable, a Korpsman's sole purpose is to take an enemy bullet and quietly die to make room for the next one. In Krieg regiments, the Commissar's job is to prevent soldiers getting themselves killed in pointless attacks. A Medal of Dishonor goes to Lord General Lugo, whose first act in Honor Guard is to order Gaunt and his men to step up their attack timetable to retake a holy temple, which subsequently explodes into a warp vortex (long story). He pins the whole thing on Gaunt and assigns Gaunt to lead a convoy as punishment. He shows up again in Sabbat Martyr, where he's playing a minor character from his previous appearance as the reincarnated Saint Sabbat. This time, however, fate bites him in the ass when the girl actually becomes the reincarnated saint (again, long story), and he spends much of the rest of the book standing around looking dumbstruck, which for him, is not much of a stretch. Subverted by Ciaphas Cain, naturally, who is certainly aware of this trope. He treats his men well and while he does genuinely care about them, he finds comfort in the fact that not being like every other Commissar in the guard greatly reduces his chance of being the victim of friendly fire. He actually comments on how a great many Commissars die "heroic deaths" suspiciously far from the front lines. He spent his later years attempting to teach commissar cadets to subvert this trope, with admittedly mixed success (most who are chosen for the Commissariat are simply not the right personality type to be taught how to lead through respect rather than fear). Cain certainly wants to avoid such a fate; "I want to die in a bed, preferably someone else's." Same goes for Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, who deals with soany straight examples in his career that when he comes under the command of the competent, friendly and reasonably General Van Voytz, he responds like an animal confused why a predator isn't eating him! On the other hand, there's the legendary Lord Commander Solar Macharius, whose armies conquered a thousand worlds for the Emperor in the space of seven years. There's also Lord Castellan Ursarkar Creed of the Cadian 8th, Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken of Catachan, and Commissar Yarrick, who wears a Power Klaw he ripped off of an Ork Warboss, all of whom are competent and admired by their men. In the computer spin-off Dawn of War, Imperial Priests often shout "WE LOST BECAUSE YOU'RE ALL WEAK!" when their squad regains morale. There was Commander Kubrik Chenkov of the Valhallan Ice Warriors is an extreme example of this. His main tactic is sending legions of his own men straight at the enemy base without tank or artillery support or using them to draw enemy fire for his other forces, but unlike most cases, his tactics really work. Similarly, some Space Marine commanders are capable of commanding large-scale operations; Marneus Calgar of the Ultramarines, Azrael of the Dark Angels, and Logan Grimnar of the Space Wolves have all had success in commanding Imperial Guard troops.
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The Neidermeyer / int_bcdcf629	comment	Sentinel Prime from Transformers: Animated is an example this kind of character among the good guys. Even in his younger days, he had zero respect for his peers, blaming the more responsible Optimus for Elita-1's presumed death (on an excursion that was Sentinel's idea to begin with), and as soon as he gained a command of his own, promptly began treating his men like worthless garbage, causing poor Bumblebee and Bulkhead much pain and suffering. He remains a jerk in the present day, taking every opportunity to viciously mock Optimus and his team's lower positions.
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The Neidermeyer / int_be47eb2c	comment	Down Periscope: Lt Marty Pascal, the executive officer of the submarine Stingray, gets his comeuppance when he tries to mutiny against Dodge and no one will stand with him. Dodge and the crew dress as pirates, blindfold him and force him to Walk the Plank - right into the net of a fishing ship that takes him back to base. He thought they were actually going to kill him, though. Rear Admiral Graham counts too. He is only concerned with his career and his idea of what the US Navy should be like. He specifically gives Dodge a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits crew he personally selected, all of them rejects from his "perfect Navy" (although one of them is put on the Stingray because he's too good at his job). He pulls rank on the commander of the Orlando and then orders Knox's men around like a bunch of recruits, smugly claiming that "the Admiral has the con". He's also a Straw Hypocrite, as he himself cheats his way through war games in order to improve his standing but feels completely justified in that (even though the whole point of this particular exercise is to explore the potential vulnerability of the Navy to an unorthodox terrorist with an old diesel sub).
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The Neidermeyer / int_c00034c2	comment	Sergeant Snorkel in Beetle Bailey, but far more so Lt. Fuzz. Whenever he gets the opportunity to command troops. Snorkel's men do respect him as a soldier - they just really don't want to be soldiers, and are rarely seen in the field (which for the strip means war games and exercises) where this becomes apparent. Fuzz tries to copy Snorkel's treatment of subordinates and adds in his complete incompetence and desperation for recognition. Mort Walker admitted that he based Lt. Fuzz on himself as a young officer, who was obsessed with doing absolutely everything by the book.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond had a couple appear in different episodes: Lt. Col. Ray Butts quickly earns the ire of every member of the 58th when he assumes command, drilling them hard in exercises that seem only to highlight his own skills. Played with, however, in that he is ultimately revealed to genuinely care about the Marines under his command. Lt. Herrick zigzags this trope, in that despite his actions and attitude, the men under his command revere him, while those of equal or higher rank are disgusted.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Stargate Universe: Colonel Telford is the Neidermeyer in his early appearances. He utterly ignores not only the very immediate and life-threatening problems facing the crew in favor of the rules but also completely ignores the fact that his host body is in terrible shape the first time around. In the episode "Earth", he usurps Young's command (albeit on orders from higher up) and nearly gets the entire ship destroyed. To add insult to injury, he abandons Destiny while this happens (which Dr. Rush had actually expected him to do and thus arranged the whole show just to make him look like an ass). Thankfully, this last one does not go unpunished; Young, having learned his lesson, never gives Telford the opportunity to try again, and burns him pretty good back on Earth for his actions. It also turns out that he's Brainwashed and Crazy, explaining a lot of his actions.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c0d295c4	comment	Due to the open-ended nature of the story, it is entirely possible that both brothers in Team Fortress 2 count as this. All of the mercs on both teams start haphazardly next to the other side, and can just run to battle in about 4 seconds, and everybody should die at least once. Given that the announcer seemed to be looking for this setup, it may be the brothers were intended to both become "the Neidermeyer".
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The Neidermeyer / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder Goes Forth: General Melchett. Melchett is distraught by the death of his pigeon "Speckled Jim", yet blissfully uncaring about the fifty thousand men a week dying in the trenches. His bizarre tactics that help expedite the latter include "doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before" and "climbing out of [the] trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy". Sadly, both are widely thought to be Truth in Television... Captain Blackadder himself is an example, albeit a mild one. His subordinates adore him, while he treats them with cold contempt and considers them useless idiots... which, in his defense, they mostly are.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c43d0826	comment	Captain Queeg of Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, and the movie and play (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial) based on it, could almost be the Trope Namer. It is often used in media as an alternate name for this trope.note Queeg himself, however, actually deconstructs this trope; while his behavior in the book certainly fits, the climax of the novel reveals that he actually had quite a distinguished career in the Atlantic before transferring to the Pacific Theatre but the long deployment had left him shattered and suffering from extreme "battle fatigue," and the crew's mistreatment of him and assuming he was just an insane coward only exacerbated his behaviour, resulting in his indecision during the typhoon that caused the titular mutiny.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "Planet of Evil", Salamar seems to be like this crossing over with Insane Admiral of a sort. His orders are always wrong, he is quick to blame the Doctor and Sarah-Jane, and is over-zealous about doling out his own version of justice on them over circumstantial evidence; Especially when one of the many killings in the episode happens on the bridge, far away from the sickbay, where Salamar plans to eject them into space in caskets. Plus, he always asserts his authority as a Controller (presumably the far-future equivalent of "Captain"). Thankfully, he bites the dust when Sorenson's animalistic form drains the life from out of his body, and Vishinsky takes over as Controller.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: Admiral Konstantine, an arrogant and incompetent Glory Hound who only ever accomplishes anything when someone like Grand Admiral Thrawn is babysitting him, which he repays with resentment. This behavior ultimately gets him killed and costs the Empire a vital victory; during the Battle of Atollon, Konstantine is ordered to keep his ship (an Interdictor not meant for direct combat) in a safe position so the Rebels cannot escape via hyperspace, only to instead chase after Commander Sato's carrier when it looks like he's trying to flee, all for the sake of gaining personal glory for taking out the Rebel Leadership. Naturally, it turns out Sato was faking a retreat so he could turn and ram the Interdictor, destroying both ships and opening a path for a single rebel ship to escape and call for reinforcements.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c755be3c	comment	The Unknown Soldier: Staff Sergeant Sinkkonen is both a cocky martinet and a completely incompetent barracks warrior. Lieutenant Lammio is a tentative aversion. While he is an immensely skilled tactician and brave to the point of insanity, he is just as cocky as Sinkkonen, has No Social Skills and no humanising weaknesses whatsoever. His men hate him. Corporal Lehto is another aversion: he is shown to possess psychopathic and antisocial tendencies, and he bullies Pvt. Riitaoja relentlessly, but he is not incompetent nor a coward. His men fear him.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c874a1b9	comment	Sergent Reynard in Amnesia: The Bunker is utterly despised by his men for being a needlessly cruel and belligerent bully to the men under his command, with it being implied he gets away with it (and potentially only holds the rank or sergent) because he manages to look good to the officers and is friends with M. Fournier, their commanding officer. He ends up being the first victim of The Beast, actually Lambert mutated into a feral form. Not only did he kill Reynard in a spectacularly more brutal fashion than any of his other victims, but this was before he had fully lost control of himself.
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The Neidermeyer / int_c9831b2f	comment	Played for comedy in two Twisted Sister videos, "We're Not Gonna Take It", the Neidermeyer is an irate dad; in "I Wanna Rock", the teacher is one. Either way, the guy ends up as the Butt-Monkey and is played by the original Neidermeyer, Mark Metcalf (helps the former song ends with Dee Snider mimicking the picture caption atop this page). Metcalf also appears in one video by Lit.
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The Neidermeyer / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: Lieutenant Charles Marimow is referred to as "The Unit Killer" and a man who "does not toss away talent lightly. He heaves it with great force." At a higher level, both Burrell and Rawls are like this to the commanders beneath them, often using the COMSTAT meetings to berate and humiliate them for failing to win the drug war each month.
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The Neidermeyer / int_cdedd56a	comment	Capt Marcus of Exo Squad is the worst example. He's both a General Ripper and General Failure all rolled into one. His battle plans usually involve rushing to fight a foe without proper planning or preperation, then being overwhelmed by that foe while he either freezes up or panics.
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The Neidermeyer / int_cede3f7	comment	Colonel Pitts in The Eagle Has Landed. Piqued at being ordered back to the US (he is considered too inexperienced to participate in D-Day) he launches an attack on the church where the German Fallschirmjager (paratroops) are holed up without doing a proper recon, completely missing the germans hidden at various points in the village and wiping out his entire platoon; to top it all he gets killed by Joanna Grey while trying to kill her with a grenade; since they were played by Larry Hagman and Jean Marsh respectively this spawned a thousand t-shirts saying "Rose (from Upstairs Downstairs) Shot J.R! (from Dallas)"
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The Neidermeyer / int_cf5c0f55	comment	Kraze and Kanaan from Suikoden, who you'll grow to hate very much early on in the game. Kanaan is more or less a classic example of a real dirtbag who wants all the glory to himself but hides behind his soldiers. Kraze is more or less the same, but at least he he isn't given the option to be spared unlike most of the Imperial commanders.
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The Neidermeyer / int_d1710608	comment	The Sharpe books were full of these. Some of them learned their lesson (kind of), some of them just ceased to be Sharpe's problem, and some were mercilessly bayoneted by their own troops. Sharpe himself was The Neidermeyer for a while after he first became an officer. And yes, his men did attempt to kill him. Luckily for him, that's easier said than done.
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The Neidermeyer / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): Crashdown attempts to lead a squad on a hostile planet surface after a crash-landing. Things go wrong. He gets two of the squad killed then is shot by Gaius Baltar when attempting to force a needless suicide mission. Though his fatal flaw is more due to inexperience and inflexibility than anything else. It's not that he doesn't care about those under his command, but rather his incompetence and focus on "accomplishing the tactical mission" no matter how ill-advised that mission might be gets in the way of listening to a more experienced non-commissioned officer (who he begins to resent as undermining his authority). When doing his job as an ECO he's not bad at all. He just wasn't cut out or trained for ground combat.
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The Neidermeyer / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	Captain Jasper Stone from Deadlands was a really bad version of this. He was shanked by his own troops in the Battle of Gettysburg... only to rise as an undead and become Death's right-hand man.
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The Neidermeyer / int_d806f895	comment	Hell's Kitchen: Gordon Ramsay follows this trope in this show and any of his American-produced shows. However, Ramsay's behavior in the UK original of "Kitchen Nightmares" puts him much more in the Sergeant Rock personality trope. He may be harsh on the incompetent or misguided cooks, but he's doing it so the diners get the best experience and the cooks realize their own potential.
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The Neidermeyer / int_dc3af006	comment	In Paths of Glory, General Mireau sends a division on a suicide mission to attack a heavily fortified German position just for the possibility of getting himself a promotion. After the attack fails, he blames the soldiers and orders random soldiers from the division to be executed for cowardice.
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The Neidermeyer / int_dfabfce5	comment	Colonel Henry Favors from Red Dead Redemption 2 is an especially nauseating Neidermeyer; a cowardly, incompetent Drama Queen who humiliated himself and wrecked his career during the Civil War, he somehow got made liaison to the Wapiti Indian tribe in Ambarino, with hopes that he could keep the peace with them. He instead does everything in his power to anger, hurt, and provoke them in an idiotic attempt to start a war where he can â€œreclaim his honorâ€� and make himself look like a hero to the brass back in Washington. Instead, they send Officer Lyndon Monroe to find out what the hellâ€™s going on, and Favours ends up trying to frame Monroe for treason and murder him to keep his plans hidden. Ultimately, his provocations succeed in causing the war he wanted... only for it to end near-immediately when Favours gets himself (and most of his men) killed in the very first battle.
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The Neidermeyer / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer brings us...Buffy Summers, who turned into this with the way she treated the Potentials and refusal to come up with a plan that did not result in more deaths. When Faith returns and shows she's a pretty decent Sergeant Rock Buffy flips completely (Faith is described as her most hated enemy) forcing things to come to a head.
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The Neidermeyer / int_e41a3473	comment	Frostpunk: Your predecessor captain in the Fall of Winterhome campaign was a vicious idiot who is singlehandedly responsible for the city's ruin, and for almost dragging other settlements into it from beyond the grave. First, if you've been playing the game long enough as soon as you start you can realize the whole city's been planned, all by him, in the stupidest of ways you'd only do if you had never played before, and passed the most authoritative, least supportive or helpful laws in the book that you cannot repeal, and loved enforcing them upon the populace. Then he drove the city's vital Generator (the one thing keeping the Antarctic-at-best temperatures at bay) to such extents and ignored so many warnings about it that he damaged it and nearly caused an explosion, and ordered half the city to be executed on the streets for rioting about it. And even after he got dragged out of office and repeatedly shot for being incompetent, the generator was so damaged its eventual explosion became inevitable, forcing everyone to either evacuate on a dreadnought with uncertain destination or freeze to death/get eaten by men freezing to death.
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The Neidermeyer / int_e42289f8	comment	Bazil Broketail: Porteous Glaves, the newly appointed commander of the 8th Regiment in book two, is an Upper-Class Twit who bought his current position with money (a practice thoroughly despised by professional soldiers, but allowed by authorities of Argonath as a source of income) solely and only to further his political career. He spends most of the time throwing his weight around, acting as if his position of commander allows him to do whatever he wants and being generally obnoxious and arrogant to everyone around him. When the 8th Regiment is sent on campaign to Ourdh, he quickly proves to be an abysmal and incompetent leader, abusing his troops for little to no reason, showing no commanding skills whatsoever, and acting queasy and cowardly when in real battle. Turrent is a relatively mild example. He knows the rules and regulations inside and out, is overly strict when it comes to following them, and makes sure the dragonboys under his command do everything by the book, no matter how trivial it is. When they fail to appease him — even by doing something as inconsequential as not cleaning a part of equipment nearly good enough — he will gleefully punish them. Especially Relkin. On the other hand, he used to be a dragon squire himself, so he surely knows what he's doing (unlike his successor Wiliger) and eventually warms up a bit. Delwild Wiliger, a new commanding officer of the 109th Dragon Squadron in book four, starts out as this. He comes from an aristocratic family and was transferred to Bazil's unit from an elite regiment at his own insistence, despite having absolutely no previous experience with dragons. As a leader, he suffers from terrible mood swings, switching between being needlessly harsh and overbearing towards his subordinates and outwardly nice and friendly. He also has a very delicate ego, and likes to vent his frustration over any slight (real or imagined) — no matter how petty it is — on his troops. However, he is still an experienced soldier in his own right, shows considerable personal bravery in combat and after watching his soldiers getting killed in a horrible manner during the battle at Tog Utbek, he undergoes a change into a genuine Father to His Men.
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The Neidermeyer / int_e542bff1	comment	The Secret Return of Alex Mack: Colonel Leonetti of the Italian Army totally mishandles the silicates situation, dismisses Terawatt, ignores advice from everyone else who has actual experience, relies instead on Five Rounds Rapid, and gets his own men eaten. Alex promptly dubs him "Colonel Stupidetti" for it and makes sure he isn't responsible for any more supervillain situations.
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The Neidermeyer / int_e5767c61	comment	Major Magnam from the Rogue Trooper story of the same name; his domineering, arrogant personality and contempt for regular soldiers lead to a Souther squad being slaughtered when they try to take a very well-fortified Nort installation. Rogue ends up sticking his biochip into a special containment device and keeping the gun on which it had been stored.
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The Neidermeyer / int_e694aadb	comment	Subverted by Ciaphas Cain, naturally, who is certainly aware of this trope. He treats his men well and while he does genuinely care about them, he finds comfort in the fact that not being like every other Commissar in the guard greatly reduces his chance of being the victim of friendly fire. He actually comments on how a great many Commissars die "heroic deaths" suspiciously far from the front lines. He spent his later years attempting to teach commissar cadets to subvert this trope, with admittedly mixed success (most who are chosen for the Commissariat are simply not the right personality type to be taught how to lead through respect rather than fear). Cain certainly wants to avoid such a fate; "I want to die in a bed, preferably someone else's."
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The Neidermeyer / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: Though he isn't shown on-screen, in "The Message", Mal and Zoe recount an instance where one of their superior officers acted exactly like this. However, in this case, the man was drunk off his rocker, and passed out, at which point one of the troops cut off the man's mustache and glued it to his own face.
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The Neidermeyer / int_e8054edf	comment	Raumpatrouille: Lieutenant Spring-Brauner has ambitions in this direction - if he could, he would like to replace the Orion's crew with robots - but luckily he is only General Wamsler's aide-de-camp with no authority of his own.
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The Neidermeyer / int_eddcc845	comment	Lieutenant Wolfe in Platoon, the leader of the titular platoon. An incompetent coward who is unable to control his own soldiers, he lets Sergeants Elias and Barnes do as they like (and the only order he gives is to burn down the village). US Army leadership classes have used Wolfe as an example of how a junior officer should not behave.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f186f924	comment	In Horizon Zero Dawn, the Nora brave Resh is named acting War Chief of the tribe in the absence of the regular War Chief, Sona, having gone missing during a disastrous reprisal attack against Eclipse after their slaughter at the Proving. Few of the remaining braves and volunteers are happy about it, and certainly not Aloy, whom he has a particular beef against because she is an Outcast elevated to a Brave, and then to a Seeker. Thankfully, there is a quest to find Sona and get her back to take command again.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f26c58d6	comment	Captain Bannon from World in Conflict is this trope to a T, panicking when faced with opposition his men should be able to handle, whining when fighting at a disadvantage instead of focusing on how to keep the fight going favorably, deriding the player's character for his competence, and shooting enemy infantry who were trying to convey their wish to surrender by waving white flags. In the end, however, he becomes arguably the most heroic character among the Americans followed by the narrative, volunteering to sacrifice himself to a friendly nuclear weapon so the approaching enemy will plow towards him into the blast radius, as retreating would've clued the Soviets in that something was wrong.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f3dc54b1	comment	In Adventure in Sahara, Captain Savatt is a martinet who lives to make the life of the men under command hell. His punishments include making one soldier stand watch on the walls of the fort for two days straight; without relief and without food or water. The soldier goes blind and falls from the wall to his death. His cruelty eventually lead the legionnaires to stage a mutiny.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f599977e	comment	Colonel Mckinsey from Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is a real piece of work that makes Perrault look like a saint in comparison. Unlike Perrault, who is willing to fight on the frontlines when his base falls under attack, McKinsey would rather have a desk job than fight on the front lines. He also hoards all of Spare Squadronâ€™s accomplishments to himself, and will throw any disobedience or criticism, no matter how minor, into solitary confinement. Heâ€™s so reprehensible, that even AWACS Bandog doesnâ€™t like him, and in the mission Transfer Orders, Trigger can shoot down his transport plane, and even though it will end the mission in failure, the player will be rewarded 1000 points for it, and Bandog will remark that the cargo was hardly worth protecting.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f6da9a18	comment	Sergeant Keroro is a cowardly, lazy, egotistical Manchild who'd rather play with toys all day than actually do his job and conquer the planet. But nobody except Giroro hates him for this.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f6e776bb	comment	Kong: Skull Island: Lieutenant Colonel Packard by the end. While he seems to be A Father to His Men, he has no problem with putting his obsession to kill Kong over the safety of whoever remains in his group. His men in turn are at first loyal to him, but once they realize just how far off the deep end Packard has gone and Slivko is the first one to mutiny, Packard loses all command over them.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f6f3a050	comment	In The Navy Lark Captain Povey frequently falls into this category with his obsession for hounding the Troutbridge crew out of the Navy. To be fair, the crew of the Troutbridge are completely incompetent/derelict in their duties.
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The Neidermeyer / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: In the movie "In the Beginning," General Lefcourt approached then-commander John Sheridan to be the first officer to Captain Michael Jankowski. Sheridan refused, stating that Jankowski was a loose cannon and referenced how so many of his peers thought Jankowski an incompetent risk-taker. In a twist, it is revealed that Hague knew this all along and wanted Sheridan to take the job since he needs someone competent to keep Jankowski in line. Soon after, Jankowski is present at first contact with the Minbari, when they decide to exterminate humanity. Surprisingly, this is not his fault.
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The Neidermeyer / int_fad63577	comment	Lt. Monroe, the quartermaster at Navrin Field in Fortress, is an asshole in every possible way. Luckily he's only in charge of the supply depot.
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The Neidermeyer / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: Captain Jeremy Baker in episode 3. He sends his men into the field for the sole purpose of forcing the enemy to waste bullets cutting them down and fails to anticipate an ambush...not once, but twice.
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The Neidermeyer / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Captain Edward Jellico from "Chain of Command" appears at first to be a Neidermayer, but as the two-part episode goes on it becomes clear he's a subversion rather than a plain example. His command style is hard and uncompromising compared to Picard's, he generates numerous complaints from his senior officers, and even removes Riker as first officer after Riker continually resists his changes. As time goes on, however, he spends personal moments with several of the officers and it is revealed as well that he's a loving father to his son. He points out that his job is to get the ship on a war footing, because it might well come to that, and proves himself extremely competent in this. He's also able to swallow his pride when needed. Eventually, some of his changes even stick beyond his tenure, such as having Counselor Troi wear a regular uniform.
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The Neidermeyer	processingCategory2	Authority Tropes
The Neidermeyer	processingCategory2	Gender Dynamics Index
The Neidermeyer	processingCategory2	Military and Warfare Tropes
The Neidermeyer	processingCategory2	The Bully
The Neidermeyer	processingCategory2	The Jerk Index
The Neidermeyer	processingCategory2	This Index Is Not an Example
Armored Trooper VOTOMS / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Genesis Climber MOSPEADA / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Robotech / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Tower of Druaga / int_bcd62843	type	The Neidermeyer
Les Tuniques Bleues (Comic Book) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Lobster Random (Comic Book) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Lucifer (Comic Book) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Punisher: The Platoon (Comic Book) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Rogue Trooper (Comic Book) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Superman & Batman: Generations (Comic Book) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Beetle Bailey (Comic Strip) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Shinra High SOLDIER / Fan Fic / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Boysof 85 / Fan Fic / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Killbles) (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
All Guardsmen Party (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Cadance of Cloudsdale (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
KillblessAMidsummerNightsDream	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
Kingdom Hearts: The Nintendo Version Remixed (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Tarkin's Fist (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Secret Return of Alex Mack (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Swarm of War (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Transformers: MHA (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Witches Rangers and the 141 (Fanfic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
A Few Good Men / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Adventure in Sahara / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Aliens / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Animal House / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Basic / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Breaker Morant / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
C.K. dezerterzy / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Casualties of War / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Child's Play 3 / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Crimson Tide / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Cross of Iron / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Day of the Dead (1985) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Die Hard 2 / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Down Periscope / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Earthquake / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Fort Apache / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Fortress (2012) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
49th Parallel / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Four Lions / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Good Morning, Vietnam / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Heartbreak Ridge / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Kelly's Heroes / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Letters from Iwo Jima / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Major Payne / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Aliens / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Most Wanted / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Mutiny on the Bounty / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Once Upon a Time in High School / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Paths of Glory / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Platoon / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
See You Up There / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Soldier / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Split Second (1992) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Stalingrad (1993) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Stripes / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Taegukgi / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Tai Chi Master / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Tales from the Crypt / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Bounty / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Dirty Dozen / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Eagle Has Landed / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Front Line / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Inglorious Bastards / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Keep / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Last Castle / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Last Circus / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Thin Red Line / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Three Stooges / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Troop Beverly Hills / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
We Were Soldiers / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Runaway Guys (Lets Play) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
All Quiet on the Western Front / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Angel in the Whirlwind / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Beka Cooper / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Catch-22 / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Ciaphas Cain / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Danny, the Champion of the World / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Doom / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
For Whom the Bell Tolls / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Generation Kill / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Kydd / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Lord Darcy / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Mister Roberts / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Monstrous Regiment / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Red Army / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Redwall / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Roxy Was Here / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
1632 / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Bounty Trilogy / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Caine Mutiny / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Dagger and the Coin / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Fifth Elephant / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Lost Fleet / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Naked and the Dead / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Shadow Campaigns / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Sum of All Fears / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Terror / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Unknown Soldier / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The War Against the Chtorr / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
DaleBrown	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
GordonRamsay	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
HonorsParadox	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
MisterRoberts	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
SupermanAndBatmanGenerations	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
TheLammio	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
TheNeiderMeyer	sameAs	The Neidermeyer
ThePresident	seeAlso	The Neidermeyer
Freezing (Manga) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Sgt. Frog (Manga) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Twisted Sister (Music) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Lions Led By Donkeys (Podcast) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Dollop (Podcast) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Another Life (2019) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Band of Brothers / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Chicago Fire / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Choujin Sentai Jetman / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Combat! (1962) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Enlisted / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Falling Skies / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Hogan's Heroes / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Kamen Rider Kabuto / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Malcolm in the Middle / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
North and South (U.S.) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Party Down / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Sharpe / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Siren (2018) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Space: Above and Beyond / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Tales from the Crypt / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Rifleman / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Unit / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Ultimate Force / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Battlefield 3 (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Black Sigil (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Call of Duty: Vanguard (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Call of Duty: WWII (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Crysis (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Frostpunk (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Iji (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Pathways into Darkness (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Resident Evil 6 (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Sabres of Infinity (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Shin Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Space Station 13 (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Spore (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
System Shock 2 (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
World in Conflict (Video Game) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Eddsworld (Web Animation) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Operation: Turnabout (Web Animation) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Plastic Apocalypse (Web Animation) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Unclassified Encounter (Web Animation) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Terrible Writing Advice (Web Animation) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Angels 2200 (Webcomic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Dragon Ball Multiverse (Webcomic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Katusha: Girl Soldier of the Great Patriotic War (Webcomic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Second Empire (Webcomic) / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Exo Squad / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Dreamstone / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Unicorn Wars / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer

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