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In some stories the Big Bad casts a shadow over everyone: they might be afraid of him, they might be his minions, or they might be the heroes trying to defeat him. Then there's this guy. A certain type of character falls outside the pattern: a villain too ambitious or individualistic or just too stubborn to accept the supremacy of the Big Bad. Instead, this villain actually dreams about overthrowing the guy everyone else fears and taking his place. Sometimes he is a (grudging) servant of the Big Bad; sometimes he is entirely outside the established power structure. In rare Noble Demon or Anti-Villain cases, he may be actually loyal to the Greater-Scope Villain, and feels his direct boss isn't. In any case, if the Big Bad ever stumbles or shows weakness, the Starscream will be there, ready to kick him out of the Astrotrain. A good way to tell a true Starscream apart from the run-of-the-mill opportunists who ally themselves with the Big Bad hoping to share in the spoils (and who would only take over if the Big Bad was already taken out, or they were otherwise handed the opportunity on a golden platter) is through his emotions. If he is privately seen boiling with anger and seething with hatred over his boss ordering him around and being forced to say "Yes sir" all the time, then his supposed boss should watch out for him. One of the dominant traits of a typical Starscream is resentment at playing a subservient role, and this bitterness is proof that he is the real thing. Depending on the nature of the character, he may be an overly optimistic fool or someone who might actually be able to pull it off. If the character is badass enough, the heroes might be forced to try to stop him from toppling the original villain. Usually fond of playing Commander Contrarian to their boss' schemes (deservedly or not), who will normally Neck Lift them into kowtowing to their will. It can be hard to justify why the Big Bad keeps them around and doesn't Shoot the Dangerous Minion, but it may be so the Big Bad has a reason to always keep his guard up (and thus can rest assured that he will never become too complacent). Or perhaps the Starscream is simply a powerful asset whenever he actually obeys the main villain, so it's worth keeping him around despite the risk of betrayal. In some cases, the Starscream may actually start the series as a staunchly loyal supporter of the Big Bad. Unfortunately, when the boss turns out to be an inept General Failure who's more interested in juggling the Villain Ball than actually succeeding, the Starscream becomes fed up with the boss's idiocy and decides that the villainous organization would be more successful with him in charge. A former Big Bad who has been Demoted to Dragon by a new, bigger and badder villain is very likely to become the Starscream as well, biding his time while plotting against the new Big Bad in order to reclaim his former seat of power. Not the same as The Dragon getting a promotion when he survives the Big Bad's downfall — that's Dragon Ascendant. Also not to be confused with Dragon Their Feet, where the Big Bad's right hand man screws his boss over by being strangely absent at a bad time. Compare and contrast Dragon with an Agenda, who has different goals from the Big Bad but is at least nominally loyal and generally won't turn on the Big Bad unless said goals are threatened. If The Starscream succeeds in taking over the mantle of Big Bad from his superior, the former Big Bad may have actually been a Disc-One Final Boss. If he was consistently portrayed as the more dangerous or important of the two to begin with, then he's also a Dragon-in-Chief. Many a Dragon-in-Chief doesn't care about openly taking over because they know that they are the one really in charge, though some are too egotistical to pretend any longer and go into full betrayal mode. If it turns out that the apparent Dragon was the true Big Bad all along, using his "boss" as a decoy or puppet for his schemes, then he is The Man in Front of the Man. Quite strongly related to the Rule of Two, where this is expected and quite nearly mandated. Also often carries strong undertones of Ambition Is Evil— it is the ambition to seize the Big Bad's throne for himself that drives a Starscream to betray his boss, after all. Many examples can end up being The Millstone if their schemes consistently screw up the Big Bad's plans enough to let the heroes keep pulling off wins. See also Bastard Understudy, with a similar attitude but more subtlety and patience, and The Dog Bites Back, for when the attacker has not planned but takes advantage of weakness (and/or Right Makes Might if said attacker was actively abused by his new victim). Heroes almost never have this problem, because while sometimes subordinates do turn against them, they rarely stay with the heroes afterwards, as a Starscream often does. (Maybe this is one big reason heroes win far more often than villains do; they do not make a habit of allying themselves with folks who they obviously can't trust.) The Lovable Traitor is probably the closest counterpart on a hero's side, but even folks like that rarely ever have malicious intent like the Starscream does. Often involves Nice Job Fixing It, Villain. All examples prone to suffer from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. A Starscream's chances are better if he's a Chessmaster Sidekick. A particularly brilliant Starscream might choose to play the Long Game as he patiently waits for his chance to seize power. If the Starscream waits until after his master is eliminated by outside forces to make his move, see Evil Power Vacuum. Important Note: This trope has been subjected to some misuse. This trope only applies when the Big Bad's Underlings are actively trying to take his or her job. If for example you have a Decadent Court where everyone holds the King or Queen in high regard and is constantly vying for their approval rather than their position, then that's not this trope. Sub-trope of Evil Versus Evil. Opposite trope of The Creon, who will do anything in his power to stay second-in-command at all costs. Contrast Sarcastic Devotee, Professional Butt-Kisser, and Villainous Friendship (where The Dragon and the Big Bad trust each other as friends). For instances where everyone is a Starscream, see Deck of Wild Cards. May be the despicable party of a Sympathetic Villain, Despicable Villain duo, if the former master becomes sympathetic. May lead to an Enemy Civil War. It also seems Starscream himself has a few things to say to us here... whatever they are, they'd better be related. noreallife |
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We're Alive: Scratch, who is at the very least a Dragon with an Agenda who has set off on her own to get revenge on Pegs for killing Latch. But as of Chapter 24 she may be looking to overthrow Durai. Gatekeeper was also this to Marcus. In Chapter 19 he staged a coup to take control of the Colony. |
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Abismo Negro had his own Starscream when Mr. Niebla left CMLL to join (read:takeover) AAA's Vipers Revolucion in 2007. The rest of Revolucion ended up taking Niebla's side and ejecting Abismo Negro, replacing him with Black Abyss. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Zigzagged with Dr. Starline. Though he initially serves the role of The Dragon, obeying Eggman's every whim, he is genuinely happy with serving the doctor... at first. Issues upon issues of Eggman chastising his methods, ignoring his suggestions and causing more trouble for everyone involved ultimately leads him to try to take matters in his own hands, and even then he only does so to help the situation out and so that the man will realize his mistakes. Meanwhile, Eggman seeing Starline as this trope played straight is precisely why he's booted out. Interestingly, it's only long after he's no longer working with Eggman that he decides to plot to overthrow him proper, demonstrating clear bitterness and resentment and actively speaking about his plan to outdo him. This didn't last though. After successfully hijacking Eggman's base, Starline went back to admring the doctor's work and decided to enact his original plan i.e trying to convince the rotund scientist to conquer the world together then rule as "equal minds". Starline then learned in the worst way possible that Eggman will never share anything. |
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J-WITCH Series: It eventually becomes clear midway through Season 1 that Daolon Wong is only serving as one of the Co-Dragons of Prince Phobos in order to use him to gain the Heart of Meridian for himself, and is planning to usurp him when the time is right. The other Co-Dragon, Lord Cedric, is later revealed to also have his own plans to betray Phobos when the time is right. At prodding from Tarakudo, Cedric and Wong eventually team up to usurp Phobos, while plotting to double-cross each other afterwards. In the Season 2 midpoint chapter "Return", the Ice Crew, dissatisfied with the idea of Phobos gaining Elyon's power and the Fire Demon Chi, plot to steal the former themselves. Hak Foo independently tries to do the same as well. |
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Wonder Woman (1942): The position of the Emperor of Saturn's most trusted slaver advisor appears to be equally Evilesse's and Mephisto's. Unsurprisingly, when the Emperor outlaws slavery, they betray him and try to start an interplanetary war in response. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): For some part of the comic, Robotnik's nephew Snively served as his increasingly untrustworthy lieutenant, and eventually set in motion a plan to destroy Robotnik. In "Endgame" he actually succeeds in erasing the original Robotnik from existence. Robotnik/Eggman has stated that he knows that Snively and several of his Grandmasters are planning to turn on him, but precisely because of that they serve him to their fullest, because they want to take over a strong empire. He actually applauds Lien Da for an underhanded attempt and chastises Snively for a sloppy one. Eggman has another reason for encouraging his Grandmasters to plot against him, he actually finds it fun to have enemies to defeat, seeing it as just a game to him. But he wants them to be aware of the consequences if they lose. Also there's Miles, Tails' Evil Twin from Moebius. Originally loyal to Scourge (Sonic's counterpart), he eventually convinced the rest of the Suppression Squad to turn on him, and soon after set himself up as their new leader. Conquering Storm is a low-key one but any advantage she see against Eggman, she more then willing to take such as providing Snively with the Iron Oni to use against Eggman. Lien-Da Desposed of her Great-Great-Grandfather to gain the role of Grandmaster and tried to overthrow the Iron Queen. This didn't work out too well however. She then became one to Eggman. He in fact saved her from dying because he's amused by having his underlings trying to kill him as part of his "game." Kragok was this to Lien-Da - he had agreed to share power as the Grandmaster after they did away with their father, only for him to take the entire thing. |
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The Chaotic Masters: Tirek is planning to claim Raven's powers for himself and use them to usurp Trigon. | |
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Overlord DVD: Omnivac would love oh so much to connect to the internet and take over the world before van Doomcock gets a chance, but Doomcock is wise to his scheming and keeps him locked up in the center of the earth, well away from the internet. | |
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X-Men: Marvel Comics' Fabian Cortez plays the trope straight, betraying Magneto and "killing" him. Magneto later took him back in his ranks out of need for his abilities, but promptly took his revenge when he no longer needed him. Ultimate X Men sees Wraith rebel against the officers above him when they attempt to shut down Weapon X and uses the enslaved Professor X to have the building they're in blown up. |
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When Bun-bun captains a pirate ship in Sluggy Freelance, his Jerkass behavior inevitably drives every single one of his first mates to try and kill him. Bun-bun actually encourages this, since he "feels safer knowing where the next mutiny is coming from." Ironically, his first first mate, Blacksoul, who gave him the idea, wasn't actually trying to mutiny, though Bun-bun thought so. | |
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Mikami becomes this in A Cure for Love upon realizing that his "God" is a sickly teenaged junkie that has said bye-bye to reality. | |
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Cyber Six: Jose goes from an ambitious "Well Done, Son" Guy to this when he finds out Von Richter plans to destroy "his" city. He pulls it off, too; his actions not only inadvertently save the city, but also cause the deaths of Von Richter and possibly Cyber Six herself, as well as the end of the series. | |
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After it was publicly revealed that Lord Voldemort was actually a Half-Blood in Harry Tano, Lucius Malfoy decides to reorganize The Death Eaters into a new organization; working behind the scenes within the Ministry to overtake it from within as a small part of a plot to use a worldwide mind control spell. Lucius is defeated when Stonehenge: the nexus of the mind-control spell is destroyed by The Heroes, and when he retreats to the Malfoy Estate, Draco is already waiting for him as he shoots his father before turning him over to the authorities. | |
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TRON: Uprising: At first, Pavel appears to just be a Professional Butt-Kisser, but is slowly revealed to be this. He leaves Paige to die, keeps a powerful upgrade a secret from Tesler, tries to make Tesler look incompetent in front of Dyson, and then when Paige repeatedly rejects his offer of a Villain Team-Up, he begins to takes verbal jabs at her in front of Tesler. | |
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Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys: Rhesus-2 sometimes shows a rebellious attitude towards Nebula. When Nebula is incapacitated in the series finale, he doesn't hesitate to take control for himself. When he uploads his brain patterns into the Holo-boon generator, turning them evil, they turn against him after driving off the Space Monkeys. | |
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Robotomy: "El Presidente": Maimy shows interest in Thrasher solely to gain his trust so she can betray him for the position of school president. Her coup is stopped thanks to Blastus' butt monsters… who then also betray them the next day. | |
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The captain of Chrysalis army in My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic II Turns out he is a cyborg only pretending to be a changeling, who wants to take over Equestria with his robot army. | |
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The Simpsons: "The Fat Blue Line": It turns out that the long-standing supporting mobster "Johnny Tightlips" was not simply observant going above and beyond the code of silence, but his "passive-aggressive replies", "bitter looks" and "taciturn nature" were all in fact gigantic flags that he was dissatisfied with working for Fat Tony before he arranged to set himself up on top of the gang. | |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Logan, one of the members of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, challenges Butch for leadership of the gang. A well-placed Groin Attack puts a stop to that. | |
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There and Back Again: Viserys and Daenerys Targaryen are technically after the same goal (retaking the Iron Throne and punishing the "Usurper's Dogs"), but Daenerys from the show was sent back, planning to get rid of him at the first opportunity and claim the title from him. Jon Arryn's great-nephew and second-in-line Harry Hardyng believes that he should be Lord of the Vale, stating that Jon has gone soft in his old age. |
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Miraculous Ladybug: Big Bad Hawk Moth usually has insurance against his Akumatized minions attacking him in the form of withdrawing the Akuma that empowers them, but the tech-controlling Robostus managed to pull off a Starscream on him by hacking Hawk Moth's defense system, leaving the supervillain too focused on dodging his own missiles to withdraw the Akuma. | |
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In Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) there's Mikami in the second alternate ending where he kills everyone at the warehouse and takes Light's place as God of the New World. | |
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Hilariously enough, this is what Cobra Commander becomes after Serpentor becomes head of Cobra in season two of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. However, Serpentor was more than willing to leave Cobra Commander behind to be either captured by the Joes or to die in the miniseries in which he (Serpentor) first appeared. Cobra Commander then pointed out that sooner or later that the rest of the Cobra would realize that Serpentor was not perfect and that a scapegoat would be needed when things fail. Also, Serpentor usually never finds out about Cobra Commander's attempts to kill him. The closest Serpentor got to finding out was in the episode where Cobra Commander summoned an Eldritch Abomination to kill Serpentor, though Serpentor thought that the Joes were the ones behind the attack in the end. Bonus points for Cobra Commander being voiced by Chris Latta, the actor who also brought The Trope Namer himself to life! |
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Cashmere Sky: Titus is this to Lockridge, as he makes clear during his Motive Rant. Rather than going along with Lockridge’s plan to control the poisonous fog that's taken over most of the world, he plans on sabotaging the project so that the entirety of Ion Valley is covered in it, killing millions in the process. | |
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In Meet the Robinsons, Hypercompetent Sidekick Dor-15 is actually manipulating Bowler Hat Guy to create a Bad Future where she will control humanity. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Baxter Stockman plays this role whenever he's working with The Foot, and will take any opportunity to be a thorn in the Shredder's side. If you want your Mad Scientist's loyalty, here's a tip: don't punish him by way of Malevolent Mutilation for every single operation gone wrong until he's more machine than man. He can make said machine very big and very nasty, and he'd probably rather use it on you than the Turtles. | |
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Chaos Fighters: Chemical Warriors-RAKSA has Harlion who took over the mayor's monument from Ortla. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: At the end of Linkara's Lord Vyce story arc, it is revealed that Linksano was actually this all along, spying on Vyce for Linkara so that he could be the conqueror of universes. | |
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SWAT Kats. Lieutenant Steel has his eyes set on replacing Commander Feral as leader of The Enforcers. Unlike most examples, Steel is trying to be leader of a heroic organization. Although Steel himself is the least heroic of the Enforcers as he displays all the qualities the Trope Namer has. He is complete suck-up to Feral, even praising his worst ideas, while mocking him behind his back. The moment Feral is out of commission, Steel makes his move, even once abandoning Feral to his fate. And like the Trope Namer, he's a total coward who just want to throw orders. The moment he's forced into being Feral's co-pilot, he reveals he has no combat training and gets airsick in the jet. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983): Evil-Lyn, who many a times has worked behind Skeletor's back for her own purposes. There's even been a few times when Skeletor was aware of her treachery. Unlike Megatron, Skeletor doesn't take kindly to this and usually attempts to make her pay with her life. However, Evil-Lyn usually gets lucky and manages to get a little leverage over Skeletor that forces him to accept her back into his ranks. In the 2002 version, her betrayal almost cost her her life and her soul. The show seriously compromised the Never Say "Die" policy when Skeletor tried to punish her by sacrificing her to an Eldritch Abomination which seem to have more than a few things in common with the things you see in Cthulhu Mythos. She survived because her dad told He-Man that Skeletor was planning a Human Sacrifice that would make him more powerful, conveniently leaving out the fact that it was Evil-Lynn. He saved her anyway when he saw it was her (commenting to himself that "I'm probably going to regret this later.") He was right, of course; she wasn't grateful at all. Skeletor later changed his mind, admitting that he somewhat admired her for taking the initiative (although he did threaten a worse punishment if it happened again). And that may well have happened if the series had continued. She made plans to ally herself with Hordak that, unfortunately, were never resolved due to the cancellation of the series. Trap-Jaw could be considered a serious Starscream too (or at least he was once) if the origin given in his issue of the Icons of Evil limited series comic book (based on the updated version of the cartoon) could be considered canon. In the plot of the story, he is depicted as far more clever than he is in the cartoon, and he raises an army of warriors from stragglers in the Dark Hemisphere to wage a coup against Skeletor, but fails, the loss of his jaw and right arm (resulting in the cybernetic replacements) resulting from a brutal and bloody showdown with Skeletor himself, which he loses. At the end of the story, he's working for Skeletor again, and when Evil-Lynn asks him why, his response is, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Skeletor himself was one to Hordak. According to Word of God, if the 2002 incarnation hadn't been yanked due to the network fouling things up, Skeletor would've been a successful Starscream. In the '80s version, both Beast Man and Clawful had Starscreamish tendencies. Beastman only passively resented Skeletor and intended to wait for a good moment, but Clawful threatened to overthrow Skeletor to his face and then laughed off his threats. (Of course, Clawful was dumber than a box of hammers, especially in the remake. Clearly, he wasn't a threat.) |
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Evil-Lyn, who many a times has worked behind Skeletor's back for her own purposes. There's even been a few times when Skeletor was aware of her treachery. Unlike Megatron, Skeletor doesn't take kindly to this and usually attempts to make her pay with her life. However, Evil-Lyn usually gets lucky and manages to get a little leverage over Skeletor that forces him to accept her back into his ranks. In the 2002 version, her betrayal almost cost her her life and her soul. The show seriously compromised the Never Say "Die" policy when Skeletor tried to punish her by sacrificing her to an Eldritch Abomination which seem to have more than a few things in common with the things you see in Cthulhu Mythos. She survived because her dad told He-Man that Skeletor was planning a Human Sacrifice that would make him more powerful, conveniently leaving out the fact that it was Evil-Lynn. He saved her anyway when he saw it was her (commenting to himself that "I'm probably going to regret this later.") He was right, of course; she wasn't grateful at all. Skeletor later changed his mind, admitting that he somewhat admired her for taking the initiative (although he did threaten a worse punishment if it happened again). And that may well have happened if the series had continued. She made plans to ally herself with Hordak that, unfortunately, were never resolved due to the cancellation of the series. | |
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8-Bit Theater: The Light Warriors are pretty much what happens when the entire team is made up of different stripes of Starscreams. Black Mage is an Ax-Crazy lunatic who wants to murder his teammates, Red Mage is a conniving opportunist, Thief regularly backstabs the others despite already being leader, and White Mage is an Anti-Villain who screws the party over for justified reasons (preventing them from causing further havoc once Sarda/Chaos is defeated). Fighter isn’t a Starscream, but that just ends up making him the Dumb Muscle that the others have to split between them. Meanwhile with the Dark Warriors, Drizz'l tries to be this to Garland. He eventually manages to pull it off and makes the team slightly less ineffective... for about a day. |
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Scarface (1932): Tony constantly and openly tests Lovo's authority. When Lovo finally sends assassins, Tony kills him and takes his place. | |
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This repeated itself in Scarface (1983) with Tony Montana, dreaming of bigger and better things than working for Frank Lopez and kills Lopez after Lopez sends assassins against him. | |
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RWBY: Adam Taurus, though not to the actual Big Bad of the series. It's discovered at the end of Volume 4 that he's planning a coup against the leader of the White Fang, which he carries out in the second episode of Volume 5. | |
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G.I. Joe: Rampage in G.I. Joe Extreme. Rampage has his sight set to SKAR's leadership (to the point he even mutters "Things won't be satisfactory until I'm in control of SKAR" right in front of Iron Klaw) and undermine Iron Klaw's authority by stockpiling weapons, running his own operations and disobeying orders to not attack Inter-Alliance targets. Iron Klaw is fairly quick to catch on to Rampage's treacherous nature and only keep him around due to him being useful as a weapon supplier. When Rampage finally makes an over attempt to take control of SKAR, Iron Klaw lets him rot in prison when his attempt to attack Fort Knox fails and is deeply opposed to the notion of freeing him when representatives of SKAR's other division propose to do so. Hilariously enough, this is what Cobra Commander becomes after Serpentor becomes head of Cobra in season two of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. However, Serpentor was more than willing to leave Cobra Commander behind to be either captured by the Joes or to die in the miniseries in which he (Serpentor) first appeared. Cobra Commander then pointed out that sooner or later that the rest of the Cobra would realize that Serpentor was not perfect and that a scapegoat would be needed when things fail. Also, Serpentor usually never finds out about Cobra Commander's attempts to kill him. The closest Serpentor got to finding out was in the episode where Cobra Commander summoned an Eldritch Abomination to kill Serpentor, though Serpentor thought that the Joes were the ones behind the attack in the end. Bonus points for Cobra Commander being voiced by Chris Latta, the actor who also brought The Trope Namer himself to life! The Baroness gets a moment of this as well in the episode where she obtains a power to subjugate men. To be fair, nearly every member of Cobra High Command, be they Destro or Dr. Mindbender, practically plays this trope to the hilt. Nearly every episode has their schemes foiled by G.I. Joe because one of them decides to hijack the scheme for their own ends and leave Cobra Commander out in the cold, causing him to foil the scheme in an attempt to take back the credit in the process! |
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In Paranoia, of course a bunch of your subordinates are plotting to take you down and take your place, or at least cut you out of the loop so they can wield the real power. | |
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Wonder Woman: The Duke of Deception is Ares/Mars' right hand man and he's repeatedly attempted to betray the war god who granted him his powers. During the few times Duke of Deception managed to succeed in usurping Mars, his own daugter Lya proved to be the Starscream to him. Lya successfully usurped Deception for a time, but when he regained power he banished Lya to Earth. Wonder Woman (1942): The position of the Emperor of Saturn's most trusted slaver advisor appears to be equally Evilesse's and Mephisto's. Unsurprisingly, when the Emperor outlaws slavery, they betray him and try to start an interplanetary war in response. Circe, longtime Wonder Woman villain, was revealed to be this to the Magic Goddess Hecate in Justice League Dark (vol.2). As part of her origin she was granted a portion of Hectate's power to enact a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on her home city in exchange for becoming an acolyte of Hectate. Eons later she manipulated the Wonder Woman-led JLD team to have Hectate killed so all her remaining power would transfer over to her to become the new Goddess of Magic. |
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Faust: Love of the Damned: Claire tries to kill her demon master M and take control of his organization The Hand by convincing his doctor to sabotage the routine injections that M needs to sustain his human body. He recovers soon enough, and is none too pleased. | |
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Geryon is a subversion: a subordinate of Asmodeus who was punished for placing his loyalty to Asmodeus above his own ambition, because loyalty is weakness in Baator. Which is ironic, because Dante's Geryon was the "Beast of Fraud". | |
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While Hob isn't shown actively plotting against Cain in RoboCop 2, he did resent being Forced to Watch as Cain had Dirty Cop Duffy gutted, and he took advantage of the fact that he himself was Straight Edge Evil whereas Cain and Angie were Getting High on Their Own Supply to use Angie's addiction against her and usurp control of the Nuke Cult after Cain is hospitalized. He is among those killed when OCP sends Cain, now converted into RoboCop 2, after them and the mayor. | |
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Shadow Raiders: Emperor Femur's chancellor Pelvis regularly drips poison on his boss's dinner slugs. And they're "good guys", sort of. | |
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O'Halloran's constant attempts to usurp the Chairman in Building 12 certainly qualify. | |
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In KateModern: The Last Work, the Shadow is this to Rupert van Helden. It is left ambiguous whether he succeeds or not, but Word of God is that the Shadow killed Rupert. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, in episode "Setting a President", everyone gets fed up with Mr. Herriman's unjust rules and the whole house leads on Frankie, who offers generosity and compassion, to defeat Herriman in the upcoming election as the new president of the house. Bloo serves as the Starscream, as he also joins the election to overthrow Herriman in wanting to abolish all rules and shower everyone with candy and money if they keep him in power. | |
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Rico in Judge Dredd, who murders Chief Justice Griffin and takes over control of Griffin's evil plan. | |
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Grimian of Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5 is an incredibly persistent Starscream, his constant attempts of usurping command from Kalus almost becoming a Running Gag. His last attempt at taking over is heavily implied to be his last. You can only push Kalus so far... Krocomodo was originally this trope for the Vandals before Grimian booted him out of it. Another one who actually succeeded is Zemerik. He was originally Krytus' Dragon but gained free will and overthrew him, imprisoned him and his team, then became a Dragon Ascendant, serving as one of the Big Bads in season 1. Unfortunately for him, Krytus was freed in season 2 and took the role back by force. |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, Assassins' Guild leader Lord Downey is seen to get paranoid about Joan Sanderson-Reeves - a woman who Lord Vetinari himself recommended to Downey as a mature candidate for Guild membership. Joan not only passed the demanding and exacting Mature Students' Course while in her forties. She became first a Dark Council member and then Deputy Guild Mistress. At the current point on the timeline she is a loyal and diligent deputy who is strongly tipped to become the first ever Guild Mistress. Downey is seen to regret being School Bully to Vetinari in the long-ago past, reflects that Joan is a far better poisoner than he is, and uneasily notes that she pours the tea at Dark Council meetings. He is, by the time of the fic Strandpiel, asking himself if he will live to enjoy a long and well-deserved retirement. He also notes that Vetinari has advanced his deputy to the social rank of Dame — an intermediate step to her being ennobled as a Lady. | |
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By the time of the Total Drama chapter's epilogue, Courtney has convinced Zim to plot to overthrow the Tallest and take control of the Irken Empire himself. | |
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The Mouth Of The South Jimmy Hart openly coveted Jerry Lawler's Power Stable, The King's Army, but was cowardly and relegated to managing who King would send him. When Lawler was hospitalized in a football game however Hart announced he was putting the proverbial bullet in Lawler and crowned "Precious" Paul Ellering as the King. Lawler put Hart back in his place rather easily after healing. | |
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Dusk and Dawn: Eclipse wants to unite the Elements of Harmony to overthrow Nightmare Moon for the good of Equestria. | |
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Bionic Six: Glove. Which is most amusing since Glove, like Rasp, was voiced by Frank Welker, the original voice of Megatron. | |
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Corky Romano: It turns out Pop's right-hand man Leo turned informant so he could take over the business after he's taken out by the FBI. | |
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Moonstone of the Thunderbolts and Dark Avengers. This goes back to her Masters of Evil days. | |
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Gantu on Lilo & Stitch: The Series. While not actively attempting to overthrow Hamsterviel, he does take opportunities to break away from him. When he got 627 and Dupe, for example. | |
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Sentinels of the Multiverse: When OblivAeon emerged, he captured Grand Warlord Voss and had him Reforged into a Minion. Voss, however, had plans of his own. If Voss is on the table when you defeat the third phase of OblivAeon, he steals his "master's" power and takes over, forming a fourth and final phase of the battle. The Challenge Mode for OblivAeon has Voss on the table from the start and makes him invulnerable until OblivAeon is defeated; as Challenge Modes often reflect what happened in the in-universe comic books, it's likely Voss overthrowing OblivAeon is what "canonically" happened. | |
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Another ROH example with Adam Cole, the former "leader" of The Kingdom, the promotion's primary opposition to Bullet Club. After Kenny Omega forcibly took over Bullet Club, it was decided the best way to handle the longstanding Cole problem would be to appease him by throwing their entire support behind making him ROH Champion. Himself being a Bastard Understudy, Omega probably should have known this wasn't going to work and Cole turned out to be much more blatant in his power grabs than Omega ever had been, going so far as to delay Omega's reentry into the United States so he could keep lording over the ROH Bullet Club members unopposed. To this end, Cole was kicked out in favor of another Bullet Club enemy, Marty Scurll, who they believed could be appeased with money, and the more loyal Cody was moved into Cole's position. | |
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Dreamscape: Keela became The Dragon of the Master of the Dammed so she could betray and kill him when the opportunity was just right. | |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim: During the climax of Season 1's Story Arc, Norlock hits his breaking point with working for Zim and betrays him, stealing the control node for Project Domination from him. | |
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Riff-Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He pulls it off. | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show | hasFeature |
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Homestuck: Jack Noir. In every Sburb session, Jack is strongly predisposed to loathe the Black Queen and will seek to overthrow her wherever possible. While normally he just begrudgingly offers to help the players dethrone her as he did in the trolls' session, in the kids' session he gets an opportunity more suited to his tastes in the form of an Infinity Plus One Bunny - he uses it to kill the Black Queen, take her Ring of Power, go One-Winged Angel, take command of Derse for himself, and obliterate both the Prospitian and Dersite armies on the Battlefield. All because he really hated the harlequin/princess hat he had to wear. In the kids' session, he has taken on the title of "Sovereign Slayer". He's earned it. The Condesce shows signs of chaffing under Lord English. Subverted with the versions of DD, the Post-Scratch Dignitary often talks about ambitions of Condesce or Jack Noir, but while he respects ambition, he really doesn't care to scheme with or against anyone. |
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Bane based the Rule of Two off of a holocron left by Darth Revan. True to form, Revan's apprentice, Malak, tried to assassinate him while he was fighting off a Jedi team sent to capture him. | |
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Westeros: An American Musical: Due to the play parodying A Song of Ice and Fire, the Bolton-Stark dynamic is depicted as part of the story in the form of Roose Bolton killing Robb Stark himself all while having plans to seize the Stark lands from a common enemy who invaded them. | |
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Green Lantern: Mongul of the Sinestro Corps. Subverted in that Sinestro had a backup plan in case of an insurrection or attempted leadership coup. It doesn't end well for Mongul. And before Mongul came onto the scene, Superboy-Prime was the Starscream, planning to betray the Sinestro Corps' "guardian", the Anti-Monitor, and kill him in revenge for the Anti-Monitor's destruction of Prime's entire universe. Bleez began sowing seeds of discontent among the Red Lantern horde once the ongoing series started, which partially resulted in Atrocitus restoring her intelligence. She's made her ambitions much more apparent since then. |
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In Fever Dreams Light exploits this trope when cornered he tells the investigators that he was coerced into working for the REAL Kira and then betrayed him and though he conveniently can't go into details, he has now backed Kira into a corner so he can't kill anymore. L realizes to his frustration that he can't prove it either way. | |
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Challenge Of The Go Bots: Zero had been the leader of the Renegades, and Cy-Kill stole the job from him after defecting from the Guardians. Zero had every reason to resent Cy-Kill, and he wanted his job back. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Redcloak is this to Xykon. He is more subtle than other examples, and is content to wait until Xykon has outlived his usefulness before making his move. And Tsukiko is this to him until she tries to take his position, which gets her killed. In Xykon's backstory, he asked his friend, Yydranna, why she was trying to talk to him instead of plotting her (formerly their) dark master's downfall given her new promotion to head minion. She said she'll have time for that later. Like after lunch. |
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In the Turning Red fic Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda, in chapter 8, Jason Vaugn is revealed to actually be the second-in-command of the PCA, who overthrew their original leader by fooling the government into thinking he had performed treason, simply to make a profit and because he didn't like the way the PCA did things. | |
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New Gods: Desaad, Torture Technician and advisor for Darkseid. | |
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In Exalted: Princess Magnificent With Lips Of Coral And Robes of Black Feathers was forced by her bosses to work for the First and Forsaken Lion; she's not happy about that arrangement at all, and plots his downfall. The Green Sun Princes are practically designed to be this to their Yozi masters. Half the charms in the Broken Winged Crane book are dedicated to allowing the GSPs to break free and to become something even more powerful than the Yozis. |
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In The Teacher of All Things, Machinedramon/Neo Saiba's Metalgreymon is this towards Piedmon and Apocalymon. While he succeeds in his Batman Gambit to use the Digidestined and Metalseadramon's forces to take out Piedmon, his plans to defeat Apocalymon require the use of the Digi-Mental, which Tai no longer possesses or has knowledge of its location. | |
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In The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout, the thought of overthrowing Drago after he had conquered the world certainly has crossed Dagur's mind. Or maybe he'd take up knitting. | |
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In Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters, Daolon Wong starts off as totally loyal to Prince Phobos. But when Phobos indulges in a bit of You Have Failed Me torture on him, Wong loses all respect for the prince and begins plotting to gain the power to overthrow him and seize control of Meridian for himself. He's joined in this by his friend the Tracker, and by Cedric, who was already a Dragon with an Agenda who'd been manipulating Phobos to his own ends for years. Wong's plans ultimately fail because, ironically, he gains his own Starscream in the form of his Shapeshifter lieutenant Roberta, who is talked into betraying him as part of Cedric's own larger plan. | |
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Transformers Animated: Cybertronian Genesis: The usual suspect, of course. And this time, Sentinel is along for the ride as well! | |
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In The Last Jedi Kylo Ren kills Supreme Leader Snoke — not, as Rey hoped, because of a Heel–Face Turn like Vader in Return of the Jedi, but so he can then take over the First Order. It's implied also that General Hux has shades of this; his first instinct upon seeing Kylo unconscious is to reach for his blaster to finish him off, but then carefully put it back when Kylo wakes back up. | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Abomination is The Starscream to Baron Zemo. Abomination is an interesting example since before joining Zemo, he was a loyal Dragon to the Leader. | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! | hasFeature |
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When The Nostalgia Critic becomes the president of Kickassia, his Distaff Counterpart The Nostalgia Chick becomes an ambitious Sarah Palin lookalike vice-president who tries to assassinate him every five minutes or so. Fortunately for the Critic, he obliviously dodges every murder attempt she makes. | |
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Malachai in Children of the Corn (1984) isn't happy how the Dark Messiah Isaac is leading the children, so he betrays him and sacrifices him to He Who Walks Behind The Rows. | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun: Scramanga's Personal Mook Nick Nack. Unusually, Scaramanga knows that Nick Nack wants to kill him and uses it to his advantage by having Nick Nack hire assassins to kill Scaramanga, which enables him to keep his own skills up. If one of these killers takes Scaramanga out, Nick Nack will inherit everything. | |
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Miraculous Knight features the last of the Villain Team-Up dissolving when the Joker decides he wants Ladybug and Cat Noir's powers for himself and kills Hawk Moth. | |
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In Marvel's The Eternals, Druig's made a career of this. Over half a million years ago he decisively ended the Eternals' first great civil war by betraying his grandfather, the Omnicidal Maniac Uranos, and he's never looked back. In modern times he actively seeks out the chance to betray the Eternals and side with Thanos, then betrays Thanos at the crucial moment to take power himself. The great Machine which monitors and resurrects the Eternals describes him as "the snake", and it's not wrong. | |
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Lord Sopesian and Lord Glozelle seek to overthrow King Miraz in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by provoking him into accepting Peter's challenge of a mano-a-mano sword fight in hopes that he'll be killed. When this doesn't happen, Sopesian stabs Miraz in the back. Glozelle gets a Heel–Face Turn, though. In the book, Glozelle is the one who stabs Miraz to death, as revenge for his ex-leader insulting him before the duel with Peter takes place. Both him and Sopesian end up killed in battle. | |
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Batman Beyond: Paxton Powers is an odd case. You could technically say he was a successful Starscream killing his father Derek (or so it seemed) and taking over Wayne-Powers as CEO, even though he really only did so because he lucked out. The thing is, Paxton became a rather pathetic replacement, not at all like the dangerous and ruthless tycoon his father was. Squandering his newfound position on wine, women, and song, neither Bruce Wayne nor Terry took him seriously at all, and when he eventually got greedy and double crossed the Royal Flush Gang after hiring them to steal artifacts, he was hauled off to jail. (And he pretty much ruined the Royal Flush Gang's once stellar reputation in the underworld in the process.) Paxton did threaten to buy the courts and have Barbara Gordon and the rest of the police department working in the sanitation department when his lawyers were done, but that was likely an empty threat. The important thing is, Wayne was finally able to regain full control of his company again. | |
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Iron Man villain the Controller, constantly attempts to betray and overthrow his boss The Hood. The Hood is well-aware of this, but Controller is too useful to kill, which Controller was quite aware of. Eventually, though, Controller ended up pushing Hood too far and Hood responded by taking a third option; namely, taking one of Controller's slave discs (which basically force anyone wearing one to do whatever someone else wants, while leaving them self-aware) and slapping it onto Controller permanently. | |
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Thor: Ragnarok: Loki had gained the Grandmaster's trust in order to secure a position as one of the latter's aides. Loki was secretly plotting to overthrow his boss so that he could have Sakaar all to himself. | |
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The drow from pretty much any setting of Dungeons & Dragons do this on a regular basis to each other. It's rare to find one in a position of leadership that didn't gain her position by betraying her predecessor. Mothers generally expect that their strongest daughter will eventually assassinate them and take over the family. Different noble houses will betray each other to rise in the power structure, individual drow will try to murder and overthrow their superiors, make alliances with enemies and double-cross allies, and so on. That said, they will set aside their bickering and unite against a greater external threat, or simply when their demonic goddess Lloth orders them to, because no one disobeys the spider goddess. Lolth herself, in 4th Edition, has an exarch named Enclava who has betrayed her not once, but twice. Amazingly, Enclava has not been punished and is still Lolth's exarch, possibly because Lolth can't help but admire her audacity. |
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A Thing of Vikings: Dagur's right-hand man Savage is the real Man Behind the Man in the Berserkers, and plans to overthrow Dagur as soon as Dagur sires an heir on Savage's daughter Rodhlaug. Several of Drago's generals rebel against him in an Enemy Civil War, some because they hate him for being a foreigner ruling over them, others just wanting his power for themselves. |
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In Sodom and Gomorrah, the city of Sodom is ruled by Queen Bera. Her right-hand man is her brother, Prince Astaroth, who is secretly conspiring with the neighbouring Elamites to attack Sodom so that he can overthrow Bera in the chaos and ascend to the throne himself. However, the arrival of Lot and the Hebrews complicates his plan, as they allow Bera to talk them into defending Sodom against the Elamites as part of the price for settling on the opposite banks of the Jordan, and when the Elamites attack, Bera knows enough to insist that Astaroth not leave her side throughout the battle so that she can keep an eye on him. She then pulls a Batman Gambit on both Lot and Astaroth that leads to the former killing the latter, eliminating the threat to her rule. | |
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Peter Pan & the Pirates: Mullins mostly as a counterpart to Smee’s Sycophantic Servant of Captain Hook. Although Starsky has the role sometimes he is less vocal in his questioning of Hook’s plans. Of course Hook is pretty badass in this version (and helps that is voiced by Tim Curry) and a very competent villain and his plans are generally very good. Mullins and Starky’s questioning is more related to point out Hook’s futile obsession with Peter Pan and how they waste their lives there when they can be pillaging somewhere else. | |
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In Monsters, Inc., Randall assures Mr. Waternoose there will not be witnesses to their plan in a manner that implies he intends to eventually betray Mr. Waternoose. | |
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Castlevania (2017): Almost as soon as she arrives on the scene in Season 2, Carmilla starts plotting to usurp Dracula's role as leader of the vampires. After recruiting Hector to help, she tricks him into sending the castle to a town now controlled by her loyal forces, so that they can ambush Dracula's loyalists and invade the castle. The arrival of the heroes cuts the fighting short, and after Dracula's resulting death fighting them, Carmilla prepares to fill the void left behind. | |
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In Treasure Planet, Scroop, the second-in-command to the pirate Long John Silver, seems more like the main antagonist of the film than the Cyborg. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Snively constantly grumbles over having to serve the Doctor, but doesn't actually attempt to harm him. By the Second Season he has blatantly come to resent his uncle's abuse and makes a few shrewd plans behind his back (he once attempted an attack on Knothole while Robotnik was gone, and was savvy enough to make alterations to his base that would ultimately save his life when Robotnik stabbed him in the back and left him to die in it). He simply plays along until Robotnik is seemingly destroyed in the final episode, then is seen donning his uncle's trademark yellow cape. He does, however, resemble Starscream in voice, especially considering his voice is done by Charlie Adler. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Valmont betrays Shendu right after he betrays him. He plans on robbing him of his palace, but fails. Next, he pulls an Enemy Mine on Jackie to remove Shendu from him. | |
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Chaotic: Lord Van Bloot is a lieutenant of Chaor, supreme ruler of the Underworld, that really wants the bigger chair. The latest sets in the card game reveals that he has allied with the M'arillians to achieve his goals of ruling the Underworld (even thought that would just make him a mere governor if the M'arillians succeed in taking Perim). | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender. Ozai to Firelord Azulon. To precisely what extent he masterminded his father's death is uncertain, though he was deeply pleased with the results; his initial intent was to maneuver one-up on his brother, the heir Iroh, his father's favorite. Then Zuko becomes a benevolent version to his father after being crown prince for half of season 3. Like his father before him he does this by out-manoeuvring the favoured child. |
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In Matt Wagner's Mage: The Hero Discovered, Emil Grackleflint. | |
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In The Four Gospels Judas, of course, betrays Jesus for some silver. Jesus, being the son of God, was aware that Judas was planning to betray him but let it happen Because Destiny Says So. YMMV, since according to the Gospel of Judas, Jesus requested Judas to betray him, as Judas was the only disciple who truly understood his message. | |
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Downfall: Hitler's refusal to leave Berlin, despite clear signs that the city is lost before the Soviets even invade, opens the door for many Nazi officials to claim power for themselves at the expense of their Führer. Göring sends a telegram stating that if Hitler doesn't reply soon, he will assume that the leadership in Berlin has been incapacitated and thus shall take command of the Third Reich. Hitler, prodded by Bormann and Goebbels, sees this as a naked coup and, after ranting and raving about Göring's incompetence, expels his former Number Two from the chain of command. Himmler has been negotiating with the Western Allies in hopes of ensuring that he'll rule some form of Nazi Germany after the war. He even claims that Hitler was either sick or dead and thus authority of the Third Reich would pass down to him. Like with Göring, Hitler flies into a tantrum, expels Himmler from his inner circle, and then orders his capture and immediate execution. |
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In The Council Era, a Mass Effect fanfic taking place around 83 CE (in the first half), both salarian advisor Tyrin Lieph and krogan advisor Halak Marr eventually overshadow their respective bosses (The Council for Tyrin, Krogan Overlord Kurvok for Halak) in terms of power and prominence. Tyrin is temporarily Councilor after the asari Councilor gave him the title, and later was elected as Councilor after the salarian Councilor's death. Before this, he consistently manipulates the Councilors in order to further his own gains. He'd been conspiring to push himself into the upper political echelon in order to "improve" the galaxy as he saw fit for approximately 30 years. Telia and Roraan (the Councilors he served) were just collateral damage when he finally could start making ripples in the galaxy. |
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Heathers: Heather Duke is the second in command of the Heathers clique and serves as a Butt-Monkey for Chandler whenever she, sometimes unknowingly, steps out of line. However, upon Chandler's death, she takes up the role of the leader and unapologetically becomes the new Chandler after spending so long in her shadow, even going as far as taking her red scrunchie, and in some productions, stealing her signature "red" look as opposed to her normal green. | |
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In the Batman comic miniseries Gothic mob boss Morgenstern is recklessly ambitious, serving asa Commander Contrarian to Ottavio, The Don who is above him in rank and power, going out to his way to poison Ottavio to take over the City's organized crime even though there's an immortal psychopath after both of them. Killing Ottavio under those circumstances 1) Is fairly unnecessary given Mr. Whisper's attempts to kill him. 2) Means that with Ottavio dead, Morgenstern is the last one left and thus Mr. Whisper is ready to start going after him and 3) Makes Batman even more disgusted with Morgenstern and less likely to intervene to save his life (although he does try in the end). | |
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Inner Demons: Shortly after her Face–Heel Turn, Scootaloo reveals herself to be plotting against Queen Twilight Sparkle — as she explains to Rainbow Dash, she'll help Queen Twilight crush the heroes and conquer Equestria, then stab her in the back and take the throne for herself, making herself look like a hero in the process. She eventually makes her move Queen Twilight is weakened by the magical strain of freezing the sun in place for a permanent twilight and researching a way to ascend to Alicorn-hood (this is also Pragmatic Villainy, as Scootaloo knows she stands no chance against Queen Twilight if she ascends), but is herself attacked by the eternally-loyal Trixie. She also reveals during this that she's deluded herself into believing that she's the Master of Harmony (The Chosen One foretold to defeat the Queen of Darkness) and tries to paint herself as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who only served Queen Twilight in order to get close and end her evil. Queen Twilight calls bullshit on this. Trixie defeats her in their fight, and Queen Twilight punishes her for her treachery by subjecting her to perpetual pain. | |
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Whispering Smith: Whitey Du Sang is The Dragon to Big Bad Barney Rebstock. When the Posse is closing in on the gang at Rebstock's ranch, Rebstock tells the rest of the gang to scatter while he holds the posse off for as long as possible. While the rest of the gang obeys, Du Stang stays behind; believing that Rebsock plans to betray the gang to the posse and keep the loot for himself. He confronts Rebstock and kills him before attemping to steal the loot and dying in a shootout with the posse. | |
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Tsui from The Dragon Family manages to be the Starscream of another Starscream, introduced as a loyal follower of the benevolent Godfather, Lung, but turns out to be working with Lung's traitorous subordinate, White Wolf. With Tsui's assistance, White Wolf managed to set up Godfather Lung on a meeting where he gets fatally stabbed, before Tsui arranged for White Wolf's thugs to infiltrate the funeral parlor and massacre everyone to take over the whole organization. But just as White Wolf congratulates Tsui on a job well done, and that he's looking forward to having Tsui as a partner in the future, Tsui backstabs and kills White Wolf with a Deadly Hug, revealing he just Starscreamed his way through two bosses and all the way to the top. | |
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Krypto the Superdog: "Mechani-bot": Snooky Wookums. When the titular villain usurps Mekanikat's ship control, Snooky doens't loose the time to join him instead of defend his master. Considering Mekanikat's Bad Boss tendencies, this was to be expected. However his new boss wasn't better, and Snooky ended up as a janitor. When Mechani-bot was defeated, Snooky cleames he was in Mekanikat's side all the time. | |
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Dr. Beljar in The End of Ends. | |
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Lord Vaako is a true believer among the Necromongers, so he will blindly follow the orders of the Lord Marshal. While it's clear that the thought of usurping his master's throne has at least occurred to Vaako before, his power-hungry wife actually has to convince him to openly challenge the Lord Marshal, and even then, Vaako only does so after he's convinced that the Lord Marshal has failed his duties. | |
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Cobra Commander from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. | |
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Iznogoud: The comic's entire schtick is the Grand Vizier wanting to overthrow the none-too-bright and overly-trusting caliph, failing every time. In France, Iznogoud is the go-to character for the Starscream archetype, and his catchphrase "I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph" is euphemistically applied to similar situations. Made particularly hilarious when Sarkozy (also a short, excitable Number Two) became president. | |
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Captain Vole from Girl Genius finds himself promoted into this role, Gilgamesh Wulfenbach having decided that having a Super-Soldier as The Starscream and still being alive will give others pause if they consider attacking him. | |
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John Laurinaitis acted as if he was supporting Triple H during his early time as COO in 2011. It became quite clear that he was behind the scenes trying to make Triple H look like the bad guy by having members of the roster come to him with their issues, and sucking up to the Board of Directors in order to be appointed as the head of Raw after they decided to take Triple H off due to the walkout. Even Vince McMahon himself was displeased that Triple H, the guy who took over his operating duties, was being overruled by the board. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: Yeemick the goblin has a vendetta against Klarg the bugbear, who he claims is a Bad Boss, and blackmails the party into trying to kill him. His plan lasts exactly long enough for the party to tell Klarg, who kills him in a spectacular fashion. | |
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The Starscream | |
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Macbeth in Shakespeare's play of the same name, although we really don't learn enough about Duncan to determine whether he could be considered the Big Bad or not. Macbeth succeeds, but never manages to completely control Scotland and is himself overthrown. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Toffee is initially hired by Ludo to make his monsters more efficient. He succeeds with flying colors, and then uses his success to usurp Ludo's command and tosses him out of the castle. | |
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The Starscream | |
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In Death Note AU Heart of an Assassin this is what happens if you try and force Kira to work for you. | |
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The Starscream | |
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In Empire Snape is this to Dumbledore. | |
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Empire / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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The Starscream | |
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Kim Possible: In A Sitch In Time, after Drakken and his Villain Team-Up squad are arrested, Shego decides to use the Time Monkey to take over the world twenty years later, although it's not that much of a shock when you think about it. She was actually very successful, even managing to have the other villains under her thumb. If it wasn't for the huge Reset Button that was set at the end of the movie due to Ron breaking the Time Monkey, she would've been known as the most successful Starscream in history. Though that's what she gets for telling Ron she was the one responsible for him being moved to Norway and separated from Kim. Though technically, she only did it because Drakken convinced her, so that's what she gets for listening to Drakken. You'd think she'd know better, especially as the ruler of the world. | |
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Dino-Riders: Rasp, although not to the consistency of the trope namer. Interestingly, his voice actor was the same who did the voice of the original Megatron, Frank Welker. He also voiced the Big Bad, Krulos. This more-or-less means that he was trying to backstab himself. | |
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In Up the Front, after General von Kobler orders Colonel von Gutz to kill himself, Colonel von Gutz chooses to shoot him dead and take over. | |
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In The Bridge (MLP), the Big Bad Bagan recruits Queen Chrysalis to his Villain Team-Up. Being who she is, Chrysalis instantly begins plotting to trick him into helping her fully restore her Evil Mentor Grogar, the Nexus of Dark Magic, at which point she fully expects the two to fight and Grogar to win. A glimpse of a Bad Future implies she succeeds in restoring Grogar and the two going to war with each other. King Sombra teams up with her as well when he's resurrected. | |
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Evil Con Carne: General Skarr constantly plots to overthrow Hector Con Carne and take over Evil Con Carne. Unfortunately, Skarr's Butt-Monkey status means his schemes are utterly hopeless. Skarr got a taste of his own medicine in "Day of the Dreadbot", where he manages to overthrow Hector by reprogramming Hector's new robot army to be loyal to himself, only for his robot son Junior to re-reprogram them to be loyal to Junior. Skarr was proud of Junior for overthrowing him, however. |
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In Oz (Caliber), the Wicked Witch Mombi is this to Ruggedo the Nome King: serving him and aiding in his conquest of Oz while secretly planning to topple him and take the throne for herself. | |
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Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm: Shang Tsung is resurrected by Shao Kahn, reigning arch-villain, Emperor of Outworld, and his former boss. Shang Tsung quickly decides that he'd rather overthrow him, but his plans don't get very far. Later, in the season (and, as it turned out, series) finale, he makes a better-planned effort to overthrow him and very nearly succeeds before both villains and the rightful queen are sent running, and there are still two factions left fighting for the throne. Long story. Oddly enough, all forecasts say that he's somehow measurably more evil than Shao Kahn, so Outworld may have dodged a bullet. | |
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The Starscream | |
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Frank from Once Upon a Time in the West. He spends most of the movie testing Morton's authority, and later betrays his employer. | |
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The Dreamstone: Urpgor intends to claim the titular MacGuffin for himself, betray and overthrow his master Zordrak and crown himself Lord of Nightmares. Urpgor is a more subdued example. Although he really does dwell over the possibility of Zordrak expiring and leaving him ruler of Viltheed, his betrayals are more often to preserve his job as right hand man, sabotages any schemes or resources Zordrak comes into possession of that would render him redundant (knowing from experience that the demonic overlord would turn on him the moment he doesn't need him anymore). He did make an attempt to take possession of the Dreamstone with his Auntie, though an argument over power led to him betraying her, considering even working under Zordrak a more tolerable position. | |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man: Pretty much everyone's Dragon in the gang war arc, especially Hammerhead, which is surprising because he seemed to be extremely faithful toward his leader. However, he is understandably fired by said boss shortly after they (or at least the boss) were arrested. | |
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Besides the Will of Evil: Chrysalis used to be Reiziger's second-in-command during his reign, but made herself queen after his defeat. When he returns to reclaim his control of the changelings, she's not happy about becoming a lieutenant again. So she tries to usurp power from him. It ends poorly. Very poorly. | |
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In Rocky V, Rocky Balboa chooses Tommy Gunn as his protegé, and as Gunn rises through the ranks, George Washington Duke finds a way to become his manager, while keeping Rocky as his trainer. After G.W. Duke visits Rocky's house and outlines the new scenario which would be mutually beneficial, Rocky tries to warn Tommy Gunn that dealing with Duke would lead to disaster. Tommy storms off, tired of living under Rocky's shadow, and fights Union Cane for the title, only to learn that Cane didn't win the title from Rocky, which leads to Tommy challenging Rocky. After several refusals, Rocky challenges Tommy to a street fight when he attacks Rocky's brother-in-law Paulie, and Rocky thrashes Tommy and punches Duke afterwards when he threatens to sue Rocky. | |
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W.I.T.C.H.: Cedric eats Phobos unexpectedly after Phobos agrees to give "a fraction of his power" — which he decided to interpret as 3/3, 4/4 or equivalent. | |
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Sonic the Comic: Robotnik fought against Commander Brutus, a robot with an indestructible body and a copy of his own brain patterns, who started off as Robotnik's Dragon and then rebelled against him. Robotnik himself was briefly The Starscream when he was allied with the Drakon Empire and then to Princess Kupacious both times he succeeded. |
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Bruno Sammartino and his 1980 feud with Larry Zbyszko. In a twist of this trope, "The Living Legend" was very much a face and was grooming Zbyszko to become the next megastar of wrestling. But the trope kicks in wherein Zbyszko grows more and more frustrated that his time in the spotlight is still coming, and eventually asks for a challenge match against his mentor. The famous match saw Sammartino counter Zbyszko's moves at every turn, and every complaint that Zbyszko had that Bruno wasn't giving him a fair chance was ignored. Eventually, Zbyszko lost his patience and brutally beat Sammartino into a bloody heap. The aftermath made Zbyszko – the Starscream – into a hated heel and set off a violent feud that ended in a steel cage at New York City's Shea Stadium. | |
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Nebula: Jupiter is one bordering on obsessive; it seems like nearly all his time is devoted to undermining Sun in one way or another. All his attempts are unsuccessful, though, or just end up Poking The Poodle. | |
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David Otunga showed signs of this toward The Nexus leader Wade Barrett. When the Nexus was in a situation where all of the members faced other WWE superstars and Barrett told the other members to either win or be kicked out of the group, Otunga was quick to point out this applied to Barrett as well. He expressed his desire to win a battle royal to determine the #1 contender to Randy Orton's WWE championship, which didn't impress Barrett. On the same night, he tried to make friends with John Cena, knowing that Cena was unhappy being a part of the Nexus and was the most likely member of the group to turn on Barrett. This backfired, as Cena was able to eliminate Otunga and justify his actions by telling Barrett what Otunga was trying to do. He led the Nexus on an invasion of WWE Smackdown (without Barrett) and failed miserably, with Barrett pointing out that the next time he decides to undermine his leadership, he should be successful about it. Barrett for his part seemed well aware of Otunga's discontent, and on a number of occasions put him in some really bad situations because of it, such as forcing him to forfeit the Tag Team Titles to Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater, or forcing him to wrestle Edge with the stipulation that he'd be fired if he lost. He seemed to have the rest of the Nexus on his side of the struggle; all of them left Barrett to be beaten down by Cena alone. Interestingly, he didn't seem to have a problem when CM Punk became the new leader of the Nexus. | |
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Ultimate X Men sees Wraith rebel against the officers above him when they attempt to shut down Weapon X and uses the enslaved Professor X to have the building they're in blown up. | |
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Herr Starr is this to Allfather D'Aronique, head of the Grail worldwide conspiracy organization in Vertigo's Preacher. Starr saw the ridiculously obese leader as a ruthless, deluded madman who would utterly destroy the world in the course of supposedly trying to "redeem" it with his plan to stage the Second Coming, and resolved to kill him upon their first meeting. Starr ultimately succeeded, dumping the gigantic glutton from a helicopter, right on top of the brain-damaged, inbred descendant of Jesus Christ that D'Aronique intended to unveil to the world as the New Messiah. | |
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Babylon Bee: Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are often spoofed to have a relationship like this with articles in which Harris is reviewing her own VP picks right after just having become VP Pick herself and musing about having him involuntarily euthanized after he twisted an ankle. | |
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Magic: The Gathering loves these. Storyline-wise, Tezzeret is turning into one. But more gameplay-wise, you get your choice of the Lord of the Pit and Force of Nature. Arabian Nights gave us four djinn who do this. All of which are creatures that are powerful, at least for the cost to summon them, but use up a resource or hurt their controller directly. The Juzám Djinn listed above is considered the best, both among those djinn and among creatures in general when it was introduced. Most new players will still react to such things as "Any card that hurts you is bad," but many experienced players have been more than happy to deal with the drawbacks of creatures like these. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: The Lead Eliminator eventually tires of taking orders and tries to revolt. He promptly gets "unmade". Though he eventually comes back as a One-Winged Angel, the true villain of the special. | |
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In Elysium Delacourt plans a coup because she feels the current president doesn't have what it takes to lead. Kruger later kills Delacourt in order to seize control of Elysium for himself. Karma's a bitch. | |
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Elsewhere in the D&D game, several Ravenloft darklords have Starscreams on the payroll. One of the most powerful darklords, Azalin the lich-king, actually used to be a Starscream, before he left Strahd's domain and service. In so doing, Azalin gained his own domain, so that one was a draw. | |
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The Immortal Game: In a similar vein to Dusk and Dawn above, Nihilus obediently obeys Titan's orders to hunt down the Mane Six — so she can take the Elements of Harmony (which Titan doesn't know exist) from them, corrupt them, and use them to overthrow Titan and establish herself as the new ruler of Equestria. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle: Boris Badenov tried many a time to stab his boss Fearless Leader in the back. When you're dealing with evil spies, what do you expect? | |
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Maverick Storm in The Pre Despair Kids. He's gotten a promotion in the Alternate Universe spinoff Ask The New Hope's Peak, leading his own faction of the remnants of despair. | |
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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien :Vilgax is eventually Demoted to Dragon by Diagon. When he reappears for the Grand Finale he loudly proclaims his Undying Loyalty to Diagon. Ben immediately calls him out on his bullcrap, believing that the real Vilgax isn't loyal to anyone but himself. Ben is completely right. Vilgax also manages to be a successful Starscream, tricking Diagon into attacking an energy absorbing device — bad news for Diagon since he's an Energy Being — sealing (possibly killing) him. | |
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Jack the Giant Slayer: Fumm clearly doesn't care for Fallon and goes out of his way not to help him when Fallon falls into the fire moat. | |
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One of the main villains of The Raid 2: Berandal is Uco, a spoiled mob prince who is planning to murder and usurp his father, established crime lord Bangun. Uco has his own Starscream as well, the manipulative underworld fixer Bejo, who is the one goading Uco into the whole scheme, all the while planning to assassinate him and then take over. | |
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In the Marvel comic book stories of G.I. Joe, Serpentor immediately becomes this to Cobra Commander. He successfully coerces Cobra Commander and Destro into a situation where they apparently get killed and then takes control of Cobra. Unknown to him, to Cobra and to the Joes, the two actually survive; they part ways and the Commander briefly conspires with one of his Crimson Guardsmen, who eventually kills him out of anger when CC has a Villainous BSoD moment. (Long story; He does come back... almost 40 issues later!) This Guardsman then completes his Starscream moment as he decides to take the identity of Cobra Commander and wrest control of the organization from Serpentor. The Baroness, being the only one in Cobra at the time who has the credit of having seen Cobra Commander's true face, goes along with the ploy and proclaims to the whole organization that he's the real deal. Serpentor, unable to prove her wrong, then goes back to Starscreaming; plotting behind this Cobra Commander's back to get rid of him and bring Cobra back under his control. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): For some part of the comic, Robotnik's nephew Snively served as his increasingly untrustworthy lieutenant, and eventually set in motion a plan to destroy Robotnik. In "Endgame" he actually succeeds in erasing the original Robotnik from existence. Robotnik/Eggman has stated that he knows that Snively and several of his Grandmasters are planning to turn on him, but precisely because of that they serve him to their fullest, because they want to take over a strong empire. He actually applauds Lien Da for an underhanded attempt and chastises Snively for a sloppy one. Eggman has another reason for encouraging his Grandmasters to plot against him, he actually finds it fun to have enemies to defeat, seeing it as just a game to him. But he wants them to be aware of the consequences if they lose. Also there's Miles, Tails' Evil Twin from Moebius. Originally loyal to Scourge (Sonic's counterpart), he eventually convinced the rest of the Suppression Squad to turn on him, and soon after set himself up as their new leader. Conquering Storm is a low-key one but any advantage she see against Eggman, she more then willing to take such as providing Snively with the Iron Oni to use against Eggman. Lien-Da Desposed of her Great-Great-Grandfather to gain the role of Grandmaster and tried to overthrow the Iron Queen. This didn't work out too well however. She then became one to Eggman. He in fact saved her from dying because he's amused by having his underlings trying to kill him as part of his "game." Kragok was this to Lien-Da - he had agreed to share power as the Grandmaster after they did away with their father, only for him to take the entire thing. Sonic the Comic: Robotnik fought against Commander Brutus, a robot with an indestructible body and a copy of his own brain patterns, who started off as Robotnik's Dragon and then rebelled against him. Robotnik himself was briefly The Starscream when he was allied with the Drakon Empire and then to Princess Kupacious both times he succeeded. Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Zigzagged with Dr. Starline. Though he initially serves the role of The Dragon, obeying Eggman's every whim, he is genuinely happy with serving the doctor... at first. Issues upon issues of Eggman chastising his methods, ignoring his suggestions and causing more trouble for everyone involved ultimately leads him to try to take matters in his own hands, and even then he only does so to help the situation out and so that the man will realize his mistakes. Meanwhile, Eggman seeing Starline as this trope played straight is precisely why he's booted out. Interestingly, it's only long after he's no longer working with Eggman that he decides to plot to overthrow him proper, demonstrating clear bitterness and resentment and actively speaking about his plan to outdo him. This didn't last though. After successfully hijacking Eggman's base, Starline went back to admring the doctor's work and decided to enact his original plan i.e trying to convince the rotund scientist to conquer the world together then rule as "equal minds". Starline then learned in the worst way possible that Eggman will never share anything. |
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Invader Zim: "Gir Goes Crazy and Stuff": Zim locks his usually hopelessly scatterbrained Robot Buddy Gir into "duty mode", forcing him to be focused and sane. Unfortunately, Zim himself is a total General Failure, and now that Gir is functioning properly for a prolonged period of time, he can realize just how much of a bungling, arrogant, hopelessly incompetent fool Zim is. So he openly turns on Zim and nearly kills him before Zim manages to undo his efforts, making Gir too stupid and distractible to think about betraying Zim anymore. | |
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The Ring of the Nibelung, when Alberich has taken over the Nibelung his brother Mime plans to overthrow him, which Alberich is aware of. After Alberich loses the Ring of Power he and Mime compete over it, and Alberich is delighted when Mime is killed by Siegfried. | |
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Harley Quinn (2019): When Harley backs out of her deal with Darkseid, Dr. Psycho takes control of the parademon army himself and, after acquiring a device that enhances his psychic powers, hypnotizes King Shark and Clayface into turning on Harley as well. | |
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Ninjago: Samukai, the king of the Underworld, who apparently wasn't too thrilled about having Lord Garmadon take the throne from him after being defeated by Sensei Wu. After the ninja bring the Golden Weapons of Spinjitzu to the Underworld, Samukai tries to use him being Multi-Armed and Dangerous to hold all four at once in an attempt to defeat Garmadon but is destroyed in the process. Later on there's Skales, who understandably believes he'd be better as chief of the Hypnobrai after Slithraa's initial blunder allows Lloyd to use his hypnosis against him. He succeeds in taking the position from Slithraa after defeating him in an arena duel. Over the course of the first two seasons he acts as a Starscream to three masters: Slithraa, Pythor, and Garmadon, overthrowing the first and third while the second does himself in. |
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In The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire, Petrie's uncle Pterano is the main Anti-Villain, but his subordinates Rinkus and Sierra plan to overthrow him and use the MacGuffin for their own purposes. | |
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Kulan Gath in Pathfinder: Worldscape serves Empress Camilla as her Court Mage, but also plans behind her back to the MacGuffin for himself so that he can rule all dimensions with it. He is successful in that he manages to have his master assassinated and steal her artifact... What he doesn't know is that his own agent was playing The Mole for the good guys all along and switched the artifacts. | |
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The Dark Crystal: SkekSil the Chamberlain tries to grab the emperor's scepter even before he's dead. This gets him exiled from the Skeksis' palace, and he spends the rest of the movie scheming to get back at them, or at least back into their good graces. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: Voller's plan for the Antikythera is to use it to travel back to 1939 and assassinate Hitler, so that way a more competent leader can take over and lead Nazi Germany to victory in World War II. It's heavily implied that Voller intends for himself to be said competent leader. | |
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Captain Frye from The Rock becomes the true Big Bad of the movie after he and his accomplice Captain Darrow kill Hummel and Baxter. | |
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Critical Role: Lucien, the Arc Villain of the final arc of the Mighty Nein campaign, is presented as The Dragon to a far more powerful enemy — Cognouza, a living, eternally hungry city of flesh that is a Mind Hive to thousands of tortured souls, led by the Somnovem, nine incredibly powerful beings driven mad by an eternity of torment. It seems at first that Lucien wants to join the Somnovem to bring order to Cognouza... but when the Nein finally meet him in the Somnovem's chamber, he throws about a dozen intuit charges (bombs that deal psychic damage, which Lucien is immune to) on the ground, bombs the Somnovem to death, and takes over Cognouza himself. | |
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Hector Barbossa from the Pirates of the Caribbean films was this to Jack Sparrow. Originally, Barbossa was Sparrow's first mate, until one day he and several other pirates on Sparrow's ship decided to get rid of their captain by throwing Sparrow overboard once Sparrow gave up the bearings to their treasure, and as a result Barbossa becomes their captain instead. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Find a Chaos warband, Ork mob, Dark Eldar Kabal, or Imperial planet. Find the next most powerful Marine, next biggest Ork, next most powerful Dark Eldar, or next highest-ranking noble. Congratulations, there's a 98% chance the person you've found fits the bill in a manner appropriate to the race in question. Except the Dark Eldar, as their rate of Starscreaming is close to 100%. The only person in their entire society not trying to overthrow his/her superior is Asdrubael Vect, and only because he has no superior to backstab. That said, although they are viciously competitive, the Dark Eldar will set aside their personal ambition and grudges when it comes time to execute a realspace raid for captives and plunder — they're scheming bastards, but they aren't stupid enough to sabotage their Kabal's success (and risk their own lives) by screwing up the battle plan. Incubi are also less likely to do so to their clients- their loyalty is based on salary (among each other it still applies, as they practice Klingon Promotion). The Chaos God Tzeentch is hope embodied, and thus presides among things like change, magic, mutation, and backstabbing (to the point where he has plans that depend on a previous plan failing). Any Chaos leader hiring a sorcerer without expecting them to betray him at any second honestly deserves everything that happens to him. |
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El Goonish Shive has the body-snatching aberration Sirleck, who quite blatantly plots to steal Magus's body once he regains it; of course, Magus knows this is going to happen and plans to kill him before he can, making this a case of Inevitable Mutual Betrayal. | |
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Benedict in Last Action Hero acts as The Dragon to the mob boss for most of the film, until he figures out what's going on and shoots his boss, becoming the new Big Bad. | |
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Unsounded: General Bell is secretly plotting a coup against Queen Sonorie, viewing her as too ineffectual to stop Alderode. Of course Bell wants Alderode wiped off the map, not just stopped from making incursions into Cresce, though given some of Sonorie's plots it looks like she plans to destroy the Aldish government herself. The more each of them are seen the less Sonorie, who was at first only known through the comments of those who dislike her, seems at all villanous and the more self-absorbed, bigoted and evil Bell seems. | |
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Harley Quinn: When Harley starts her own gang she gets several, including a remnant of one of Joker's gangs who is disappointed she isn't more violently destructive. | |
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Drowtales: Suu'be Nori'fu is this to Quain'tana, since Suu'be resents Quain for making her own daughter Koil'doarth no longer be the heir. Rosof says that if Quain were to let her heir Ariel train under Suu'be Ariel would probably die in an "accident" and Word of God is that Suu'be would try to get rid of Quain if she thought she could get away with it, while on the other hand Quain knows that she can't get rid of Suu'be, leaving them in a state of constantly pulling at each other. Finally reaches a head in Chapter 50, when Suu'be attempts a coup and tries to wipe out Quain's bloodline, ending with Quain herself delivering a Neck Snap to her traitorous Dev'ess. Sene'kha was also this to Kiel's mother Ven'ndia, and it's heavily implied that it was Sene'kha who coaxed Kharla into killing her. After Sene'kha took over Starscreaming seems to have become S.O.P. in the Vloz'ress. And collectively, all three Sharen sisters, Snadhya'rune, Sarv'swati and Zala'ess, pulled this on their mother, though she didn't know until the moment of the actual betrayal. |
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Pili Fantasy: War of Dragons:Â The Purple Queen serving the Eternal Empress, she seeks to reclaim her independence and take over the Empress' holdings in the process. Tai Huang-chun to his own master, asking him to kill the Big Good with his own life as payment, and then planning to take on whoever survived the epic battle. |
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Ace Combat: The Equestrian War has Red Cyclone. He remains loyal to General Silverbeak until chapter 14. | |
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Ostensibly Jack Napier in Batman (1989), though it's hard to tell if it's a straight example or a subversion. While he was the one who killed Carl Grissom, he did not do so as part of a plot to take over. He killed Grissom out of revenge, and then decided to take over his empire as an afterthought. Then again, comments Napier made in passing to both Alicia and Lieutenant Eckhardt suggest that he may have been plotting Grissom's murder sometime in the future, or at the very least was waiting for the old man to die. So it seems more of a foregone conclusion | |
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The Powers of Harmony: Eclipse chafes under serving Cetus — rather understandably, since Cetus is her creation and forced her into the role, plus the fact that Eclipse is aware Cetus will eliminate her once she's no longer needed. As such, she's plotting against her. Rarity, currently possessed by Eclipse, is trying to use this to her advantage. | |
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In The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, the original villain Dr. Valentine, who barely gets a few lines, is replaced by Martin, who now fancies himself the ruler of Thorn Valley. | |
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Star Wars: Legacy: Darth Wyrrlok is an unusual example: he betrays his master Darth Krayt only because he feels this best serves Krayt's own goal of a Sith-ruled galaxy. As he puts it: "Sometimes for the dream to live, the dreamer must die". High Moff Morlish Veed from the same series is a more traditional example, though his own shortsightedness means he generally winds up a pawn for more competent players. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Mean 6": The clone of Twilight Sparkle created by Queen Chrysalis secretly plots to steal the Elements of Harmony for herself and overthrow Chrysalis as soon as she is away from her would-be-ruler. And when Chrysalis finds out about her treachery, Clone Twilight nearly succeeds into beating the ex-changeling in a Beam-O-War, before being interrupted by the Tree of Harmony. During the final season, Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis and even Cozy Glow are recruited by new Big Bad Grogar for his Legion of Doom. They then proceed to spend the whole season working together to plot against their new employer and hijack his Evil Plan for themselves. King Sombra would have done this, had he survived. It becomes zigzagged in the end, as while the trio are successful and go on to become the Final Bosses of the series, it turns out that Grogar was actually Discord in disguise and the whole thing was meant to be a ploy to boost Twilight's confidence, meaning the trio were the actual threat of the season the whole time. |
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In the Underworld series: Kraven is this to everyone. He teamed up with Lucian to defeat the vampire elders, and then turned on Lucian. He's eventually Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves by the last elder Markus, who caught on to this act. Underworld: Blood Wars brings us Alexia, who conspires with the lycans against Semira, one of the two Big Bads in this film. The other Big Bad is Alexia's lycan lover, Marius. |
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Ring of Honor has an incredibly long chain of them. Alex Shelley was betrayed by Austin Aries, who was betrayed by Roderick Strong, who was betrayed by Davey Richards, who was betrayed by Kyle O'Reilly, who was betrayed by Adam Cole (though in the latter case, Cole had already surpassed O'Reilly but was afraid O'Reilly might be catching back up to him). | |
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Cutie Mark Crusaders 10k: Pinkie Pie has a strong desire to lead the forces of Chaos, and is furious that her promise of power was waysided by Discord taking on Twilight as his second-in-command. The few times she attempts to challenge them directly, though, it's apparent that the two draconequuses vastly outclass Pie in terms of power and they're quick to put her back in her place. Halak forces Kurvok into retirement and becomes Overlord, but this is long after Marr began pulling the strings and became the real driving force behind the Krogan Rebellions. |
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Jimmy Two-Shoes: According to Word of God, Samy would overthrow Lucius if he had the chance. Considering his status, this seems unlikely. | |
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A variation in Survival of the Fittest: Hayley Kelly was playing the game in v4 mainly to protect her ex-girlfriend, Ema Ryan. However, when it came down to the wire, almost 30 students left, Ema Ryan decided she could do the rest on her own and killed Hayley, went on to become a late-game player who killed almost the same amount of people Hayley did (about eight, including Hayley herself), but ultimately died of her injuries when there was less than ten students left. | |
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Kurt Angle was this in the early part of the Main Event Mafia against Sting. Eventually, Angle got fed up with Sting not being evil enough and usurped his control of the group. | |
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Exo Squad: Draconis regularly plots against Phaeton, but his plans always come to naught. Phaeton eventually gets rid of him anyways. Typhonus also has a Starscream moment in the first season finale, when he responds to Able Squad taking Phaeton hostage by reminding them that everyone is expendable. It doesn't work out well for him either. |
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General Izor, of Dubious Company. Given that his boss is a Psychopathic Man Child Evil Overlord that throws hissy-fits involving conquering yet another country, and wants to become a god of war by sacrificing Sal, could you blame him? | |
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Rampage in G.I. Joe Extreme. Rampage has his sight set to SKAR's leadership (to the point he even mutters "Things won't be satisfactory until I'm in control of SKAR" right in front of Iron Klaw) and undermine Iron Klaw's authority by stockpiling weapons, running his own operations and disobeying orders to not attack Inter-Alliance targets. Iron Klaw is fairly quick to catch on to Rampage's treacherous nature and only keep him around due to him being useful as a weapon supplier. When Rampage finally makes an over attempt to take control of SKAR, Iron Klaw lets him rot in prison when his attempt to attack Fort Knox fails and is deeply opposed to the notion of freeing him when representatives of SKAR's other division propose to do so. | |
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In the Scarred Lands tabletop RPG, one of the villains is a being called Mormus, AKA The Jack Of Tears, who rules over his own part of the world. He has four lieutenants, and all but one of them is planning to usurp him and betray each other. Mormus's well aware of this, but he lets them continue their machinations just because it amuses him. | |
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Ignited Spark: Slice says that one of Nine's goals is to overthrow All for One and take his throne as the ruler of the world. Given how the older villain intends to dispose of him as soon as the Inner Circle's plans have been successful, it's a matter of who will betray the other first. Two Jerkass examples during the Sports Festival. Shinso and Monoma go out of their way to sabotage Itsuka's team for their own selfish reasons, Monoma due to his grudge against 1-A and Shinso to get rid of competition for the third event. Curious, who is well aware she is the most disposable amongst the MLA lieutenants, plans to overthrow Re-Destro and her colleagues, in order to seize control of the MLA and join Nine. Said opportunity presents itself with Re-Destro's death. |
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Back For Good: It turns out one of Doctor Doctor's Expendables, Maxime Peyron, was conspiring to usurp her and take over T.H.E.M. He doesn't reveal this to her until Chapter 8 when he shoots her and leaves her for dead in Siberia. | |
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In Jasper in Deadland, Mr. Lethe is furious that he was only given dominion over his namesake river while the other gods got better deals, and plans to overthrow the Roman pantheon starting with his boss, Pluto. | |
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Wolffy from Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf becomes one over the course of Great War in the Bizarre World, sapping the electric powers from Darton once he is able to and using them to not only become king of the Bizarre World himself, but to (what else?) catch the goats. | |
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One minion tries to be this in To Prevent World Peace. It, uh, doesn't end well for him. | |
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In Ratchet & Clank (2016), Dr. Nefarious is this to Chairman Drek. By the end of the film, he turns him into a sheep, and forcibly sends him off into space, and then takes over the Deplanetizer in an attempt to destroy the entire star system. | |
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Domino is this way towards Giovanni in the Pokémon: The Series fanfic The Dark Side of Innocence. After Giovanni's death, she takes the opportunity to become leader. | |
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In Apostle, cult leader Malcolm is overthrown by his More Despicable Minion Quinn. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: Giovanni notes that recently Proton is growing increasingly ambitious, too much for his taste. While it's not fully confirmed, a sidestory reveals that Proton is running projects behind his back, so Giovanni might have good reason to be concerned. | |
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Avengers: Infinite Wars: While the Sith already operate like this thanks to the "Rule of Two", an example is set to happen with Count Dooku. As the Sith plans are thrown off the rails with the arrival of the Avengers, and even further with Ultron's genocidal campaign, Palpatine refuses to accept he has been out-gambitted and deludes himself into thinking once their enemies have been defeated, he and Dooku can pick up from where they left off. Dooku does not share his dellusions, and is secretly plotting alongside Asaji Ventress and a select number of his Acolytes to overthrow Sidious and establish a new Sith Order. | |
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Astro City: The Deacon plays this role in "The Dark Ages". As second-in-command to Joey "The Platypus" Platapopulous, he covertly engineers events during the citywide gang war to pit the gangs against each other, destabilizing them all and pitting them into a collective stalemate. Then, with the city in chaos due to a Hate Plague, he kills "The Platypus", then seizes control of most of the city's underworld before the night is over. | |
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Mega Man Recut has future Protoman, who is successful, and Ice Man, who isn't. | |
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Webwork: Of all of Jade's minions, Tara/Tarantula is the most disloyal, primarily because she's a Fully-Embraced Fiend who enjoys using her new form to act out every monstrous desire she felt she couldn't as a human, and is disgusted at Jade wanting to maintain some kind of morality. When the Old Queen's spirit reveals that she views Jade as an Inadequate Inheritor for the same reasons, they make a pact wherein Tara will outright try to overthrow Jade in exchange for the Old Queen making her the new Queen. | |
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The Rock became this for Faarooq in The Nation of Domination, and eventually took over and retooled the stable to his own liking. | |
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Mercedes Martinez was this to Ivelisse Vélez during the latter's second run as SHINE Champion. Martinez had never really spoken well of Velez and despite joining her Sicarias stable, continued to try to win Velez's title and relied on her own Trifecta without the other Sicarias. This clear potential threat took attention away from a more covert but active one as Amber O'Neal of the rival C4 stable was turning Amanda Rodriguez into a mole within Las Sicarias. Only Thea Trinidad voiced any suspicions but she didn't think to raise them to the other Sicarias until after Rodriguez attacked Rosa Negra with a chair to distract Velez from LuFisto. | |
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Code Prime: Along with the Trope Namer himself, there's also Schneizel, who joins the Decepticons and sells out Britannia. He's basically Starscream's human counterpart, though more composed and mindful. Airachnid manages to be a bigger example than either Starscream or Schneizel. She really wants to be in charge so she can indulge in her sadism, and will humiliate her allies so she can look better and get promoted. In R2, she joins forces with Steeljaw, who seems to have his own agenda as well. |
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Necrophobia: Samerina Volcuzas is one to the titular dark guild's leader, Dieter Mengele. The only thing that's keeping her back from initiating her plans is the bomb that Dieter implanted inside her head. | |
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Miraculous: Uncertain Future: Lila had for a while allowed herself to be akumatized by Gabriel, and once she learned everything she needed about him, she killed him and stole the Butterfly Miraculous. | |
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Anakin Skywalker (a.k.a. Darth Vader) in particular. In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin believes he can overthrow Palpatine and rule the galaxy with Padme, likely foreshadowed in Attack of the Clones with his mistrust in Senatorial politics. Then he tries it again with Galen Marek in The Force Unleashed and its sequel, and then with his son in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Special mention given because it does not involve the typical Sith MO of killing their masters over power, for it seems more like Anakin does not like how Palpatine rules, and wants to supplant him and perhaps do it better. | |
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Wander over Yonder: Notably subverted with Commander Peepers. While he does attempt (with mixed results) to take over The Empire after Lord Hater abandons his post in "The Cool Guy," he prefers to work under Hater as he really wants to see him succeed. It probably helps that tiny Peepers has a hard time being taken seriously without Hater there to provide the intimidation factor. | |
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Fruit Incest has the Transfarmers characters, in which the appropriately named Starspray and Planescream both plot to overthrow their leader Cottontron as well as each other simultaneously. | |
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In The Matrix trilogy, Agent Smith starts out as a loyal (if somewhat disgruntled) Agent of the system, but eventually rebels and decides to just kill everybody, humans and machines, which ultimately forces both sides to make peace so Neo can stop him. | |
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Repo! The Genetic Opera has three Starscreams—the Largo siblings. Each of them would happily topple the other and can't wait until their father dies so they can get the top spot. Until the end of the film, where their father's crushing rejection of all three of them in favour of his ex-wife's kid causes Luigi and Pavi to stand behind Amber as she takes over the company. | |
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Mighty Max's Warmonger was Skullmaster's Dragon and Starscream throughout, and temporarily succeeded in replacing him. Skullmaster, in a rare attack of competence, set the whole thing up: Skullmaster being offstage encouraged the heroes to blow the spell that could stop (kill?) him on the Hydra instead. | |
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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: In the season one finale, Darrell takes over Boxmore from his father/creator Lord Boxman and has him launched into the sun. | |
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The Super Hero Squad Show: Silver Surfer starts out as an ally to the Super Hero Squad, then returns to Galactus with the Infinity Sword. The weapon corrupts the Silver Surfer to the point where he actually becomes more powerful and arrogant. His act of this trope involves what looks like an alliance with Thanos, whose Infinity Gauntlet now has all 6 gems, by shaking his hand. But at the end of the handshake, he rips off the gauntlet from Thanos and banishes him into the gauntlet. He then becomes the Dark Surfer. This is one of the few examples of a Face–Heel Turn pulling this trope off. | |
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If you're playing a Ventrue in Vampire: The Requiem, and you're not ruling a city, you're conniving and plotting to destroy and replace the current ruler. The Ventrue see the Daeva as this and they have good reasons for thinking this way. |
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