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The Chains of Commanding

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The Chains of Commanding	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Authority means a lot of things: Sure, when everything's going well, everyone has to listen to what you're saying; you don't need to do the stupid parts of whatever your group is doing; you're probably less poor than your underlings; and you get to look fine in your boss garb. But, when things don't go quite as well — which can easily be a permanent state — it results in one side effect above all else: stress (which also happens to be loaded with side effects). That is, if you actually care about the people you're leading. High-ranking characters can be full of angst. They feel lonely, because strict protocol has to be observed — they want to beware of showing bias to friends and family, after all — and because no one acts natural around them. They have to make the Sadistic Choice and can't always Take a Third Option; they may need to make plans that allow for their friends dying. If they overlook something and can't adjust to it in time, they may get their people killed and feel that It's All My Fault, and end up with incredible guilt. For every failure they have to be willing to be held accountable publicly when others are looking for someone to blame. They worry about the neighbors invading, about marrying for strategy, about breeding an heir, about the natural disaster that destroyed half the crop, about that backstabbing relative of theirs eying the throne on which they sit. The worst part is that they shouldn't even complain aloud and should reject any sympathy, as that would leave them looking weak. Not that that notion is always obeyed. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })This can be the consequence of Be Careful What You Wish For. If they crack under the stress and are usurped as leader, they'll frequently cry "I'm Still the Leader!" The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask and some Wise Princes are royals who suffer a lot from this trope. Sometimes the reason for Prince and Pauper, if the ruler decides to escape and leave a double to bear the burden. Not to be confused with the chain I beat you with till you understand who's in ruttin' command here, nor is it the same as the Chain of Command, which was renamed to Slave Collar (and is completely unrelated). See also Being God Is Hard for the chains of being in charge of all Creation.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_16fc4335	comment	Discussed all over the place in the Heralds of Valdemar series, with every good ruler (including mercenary Captains like Kerowyn) feeling the pinch of isolation and responsibility for their people. In Valdemar, the position of Monarch's Own Herald is explicitly to give the King or Queen one person around whom they can relax and be themselves; one Herald they can trust completely and come to for brutally-honest advice.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_17655771	comment	In Shadows of the Apt, why Selma can't leave his band.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_1819e748	comment	In "The People of the Black Circle", Yasmina tells Conan the Barbarian that she is queen and must return.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_183eda76	comment	In Sean Bean Saves Westeros, the "real life" Sean Bean is transported into the land of Westeros of A Song of Ice and Fire. Now living as Ned Stark during the War of Five Kings, not just playing him on TV, Sean Bean has to order his followers to their deaths and watch many of them die. War Is Hell follows.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_1bdeba5a	comment	This is really common with the X-Men. Cyclops practically OWNS this trope. Notably, despite having a reputation for being a crybaby thanks to Ink-Stain Adaptation, he's such a stoic that he rarely, if ever, actually whines about his difficulties publicly, instead choosing to brood alone when faced with difficulties. As a result, In-Universe he's often given a hard time by the people he's leading because they don't think he cares about the things he's doing, which is the exact opposite of how he feels. The Utopia era is probably the best example of this trope in play, as Scott was charged with protecting the last remnants of the mutant race (which were down to about 80) as several groups began actively trying to Kill Them All. To do so he moved them to a secured base off the coast of San Francisco, formed a secret splinter team without a no-killing policy, and created many battle plans to combat the many threats they face, but as soon as any of the team find out about the darker things he does to protect them, he's given a vicious What the Hell, Hero? speech by people who've done things just as bad themselves. Surge is made the leader of the New X-Men, and after a string of Heroic BSODs, cracks. A bus full of depowered mutants is blown up right in front of her, she tries to get Prodigy to hate her so he'll leave Xavier's and be safer for it, it doesn't work and he breaks up with her (even after discovering this) and she has to deal with the older X-Men who do not take the younger generation seriously, even though, by this point, they've proven themselves to be a capable team. So when Xavier returns after all of this, she is really pissed off.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_22046752	comment	Borgen practically runs on this. It's revealed that When You Coming Home, Dad? is in full effect in Borgen, and many politicians divorce or have their marriage ruined because of this. By the end of season 1, this happens to Birgitte too.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_224204f3	comment	Wildwing from The Mighty Ducks when he was put in charge by Canard, just before he disappeared.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_227431b6	comment	Nico Minoru of the Runaways. She ended up with the job only because her ex-boyfriend, the original team leader, betrayed the team and then died. She did okay for a while because she had Karolina cheering her on and Gertrude handling the practical matters. But then Karolina admitted that she had feelings for Nico, and when Nico rebuffed her, she left the team and found love with a Skrull. Karolina later came back, but then Gertrude died and Chase ran away (he came back eventually.) She fell back on Victor for a while for emotional support, but then he cheated on her. Things stabilized for a while, but then the events of "Home Schooling" came along - the Runaways' home got bombed, Old Lace died, 12-year-old Klara suffered a concussion and went berserk, and Chase ran away again and then got hit by a car. Thankfully, Nico somehow managed to pull the team back together in time to deal with Dark Wolverine, but she probably won't be winning any awards for leadership anytime soon.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_23465101	comment	Wings: after Joe leaves Nantucket in 'Joe Blows' due to being overworked, Brian discovers how difficult it is to operate a business.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_2442edf2	comment	Prince Josua from Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. He dislikes it so much that in the end he gives over to Simon and becomes an Innkeeper. Gladly. Simon seems to like the taste of power better.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_247422c7	comment	Survivor's guilt and assorted associated emotions send Honor Harrington into nearly crippling bouts of depression on several occasions. (Fitting for a character based on Hornblower, above.)
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The Chains of Commanding / int_26fbef	comment	Queen Christina can't deal with being queen anymore when it stands in the way of true love and happiness. So she abdicates.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_2989f1b9	comment	Into the Storm (2009) shows the harsh decisons of leadership take quite a toll on Churchill.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace implies that this is happening to Chancellor Valorum in its novelization, as he sounds and looks significantly older than a member of his house at his age should, burdened down by laws, protocol and ultimately his very own heritage, which all make it easy for the corrupt senate to work around the tired man.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_2d316ba2	comment	Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) suffers through this, and it becomes the focus of his character arc during the first half of the fourth season.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_2ee70095	comment	Micaiah and Prince Pelleas go through Part III of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn losing a war and being the bad guys of said war because Pelleas followed his Treacherous Advisor's advice and signed a Deal with the Devil.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_2fee008d	comment	Rossiu from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Simon actually has to save him from committing suicide.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_32c541e6	comment	Colonel Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist. He calls an ambulance for his subordinate when he himself is practically dying from his injuries and blames himself for absolutely everything that goes wrong.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_33379487	comment	The King's Speech shows what Albert went through growing up in the royal family and later, being the king after his brother abdicates. Shortly after he is declared king, he breaks down because he has no idea how to handle the pressure. Reference to how constrictive the business of "kinging" shows up over and over again in the film, from beginning to be end, spoken by all three kings (George V, Edward VIII, and George VI). As constitutional monarchs, they have virtually no power. But they have a great deal of responsibility in meeting the expectations of their people that limit their freedom to do as they choose.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3436752a	comment	In Medici Cosimo, the son who wanted to be an artist, is picked to lead the family bank (one of the largest in Europe, with a great deal of political power) because of his ingenuity and ruthlessness at need. He most explicitly does not want this, and years later is baffled by his own son's eagerness to get involved in the family business and signoria politics. More, he visibly struggles with his guilt over all the things he does in his family's interests, spending much time praying for forgiveness.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_35f5d687	comment	Henry feels the full effect of this as he wanders through the camp in disguise on the eve of battle listening to the concerns of the ordinary soldiers in Shakespeare's Henry V. He soliloquizes about it after. His son, Henry VI also has a similar scene in one of his own plays, but unlike his father, Henry VI can't handle it and ends up overthrown and murdered. Henry VI wasn't all there to begin with, and Shakespeare didn't gloss over it all that much. Henry V's father Henry IV also felt this way, as he'd seized the crown from the unworthy Richard II in a popular revolt and wasn't sure he was up to the task of being king. Richard II himself thought (and talked) about this a lot too. It was one of Shakespeare's favorite "king" tropes.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_382ee557	comment	Cyclops practically OWNS this trope. Notably, despite having a reputation for being a crybaby thanks to Ink-Stain Adaptation, he's such a stoic that he rarely, if ever, actually whines about his difficulties publicly, instead choosing to brood alone when faced with difficulties. As a result, In-Universe he's often given a hard time by the people he's leading because they don't think he cares about the things he's doing, which is the exact opposite of how he feels. The Utopia era is probably the best example of this trope in play, as Scott was charged with protecting the last remnants of the mutant race (which were down to about 80) as several groups began actively trying to Kill Them All. To do so he moved them to a secured base off the coast of San Francisco, formed a secret splinter team without a no-killing policy, and created many battle plans to combat the many threats they face, but as soon as any of the team find out about the darker things he does to protect them, he's given a vicious What the Hell, Hero? speech by people who've done things just as bad themselves.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_388da417	comment	Space Battleship Yamato: Okita carries a heavy burden, one which Susumu is hesitant to carry himself; one which includes ordering men and women to their deaths because of one's own mistakes. Okita directly says in a conversation with Susumu after the latter had Yuki destroy the connector to the third bridge before a latched-on Gamilas weapon can blow up the Yamato, but throwing away the lives of those on the third bridge in the process, that there's no way those who have not commanded can understand the pressures the two of them are under.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_39696bda	comment	Dead State is all about this. Turns out that being the leader of a group of survivors during a Zombie Apocalypse isn't an easy job.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3b91d912	comment	Evangelion 303: Misato wants to have a very familiar and close relationship with her pilots, but when she is on duty she has to be stern, severe and chew them out when they screw up. In chapter 15 she told her best friend sometimes she hates her job. Colonel Nagato is an instructor has to put up with a lot of crap from his pilots only because he is trying to teach them and he has such a "ridiculous" rules like "not drinking or consuming mind-altering substances as you are learning to fly an experimental jet fighter".
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3ce03501	comment	Time Squad showed both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln suffering from this. Washington hated living in the limelight and the dealing with the stress of being idolized as the first President, and resented not having the time to start a family of his own. Lincoln felt suffocated by his reputation as "Honest Abe", with everyone treating him like an incorruptible symbol instead of a human being with his own darker drives, and briefly resigned from the presidency just so he could run around and indulge in being a jerk.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3defe34c	comment	Londo Mollari remarks that he started with no power and all the choice in the world, and ended up with all the power in the world and no choice at all. Not only are his hands tied by the complex political machinations, but he's also being controlled by a Drakh Keeper. In the end, he sulks in his throne room because he can't bear the thought of accidentally looking at the ruined Centauri homeworld and bursting into tears.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: In one of the more humanizing moments for Dr. Kelso, he puts Dr. Cox in charge of trying to figure out how to balance the budget without firing someone. Much to Cox's chagrin, he can't, and Kelso points out that he doesn't (always) make his decisions because he's a jerkass; sometimes, it's the only way to keep Sacred Heart running. Another great Kelso example is the end of an episode where J.D. shadows him all day trying to find something nice to say about him (but fails). Specifically on that day, Kelso put a rich patient ahead of a poor one for an experimental medical treatment that was his only hope (because the rich guy will now donate tons of cash to the hospital, allowing them to continue offering medical care to homeless and uninsured pregnant women). Kelso acts like it was an easy call that doesn't bother him, but the episode ends with him letting his guard down with nobody around. He looks incredibly shaken and forlorn as he walks to his car. After Kelso's retirement, Dr. Cox is made the new Chief Of Medicine, and quickly finds just how brutal the trappings of the job really are, and it quickly costs him both any time for actually practicing medicine, and time with his family.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Jean Kirstein from Attack on Titan struggles with the very idea that he's a natural leader, doubting his abilities and whether he even deserves that much power over whether others live or die. This leads to a My God, What Have I Done? moment after he's forced to use the deaths of several comrades as a distraction, and he nearly breaks down while wondering how many more died on his command. It takes the death of Marco, his best friend and loudest supporter to make him accept this responsibility and begin believing in himself. Commander Erwin Smith has had to make several tough calls regarding sacrificing his soldiers for the greater good but when things go bad, it usually falls on his head, particularly after the failure of the 57th Expedition. He usually has the fortitude to continue on but it's shown that even he has his limits.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3f35c69c	comment	King Glyn the First in the Deverry novel Darkspell.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_3f5b0d60	comment	In Princess O'Rourke, Maria doesn't want to live with all the obligations of being a princess especially since she wants to marry for love.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_405243c7	comment	On The 100, Clarke's character arc in Season 2 is built around how, by becoming her people's leader, she's forced to commit increasingly ruthless acts to keep them alive. By the season finale, she's come to view herself as Necessarily Evil, and can no longer bear to be around her friends and family, because seeing them just reminds her of the horrible things she did in their name. She views accepting this guilt as her responsibility, saying, "I bear it so they don't have to."
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The Chains of Commanding / int_41b0198a	comment	In Ghost Story, Harry Dresden nearly has a break down when he realizes that the choices he made in the previous book (leading his friends into a battle against the entire Red Court to save his daughter) may have been wrong, and caused more harm than good. Killing Susan to destroy the Red Court may have gotten rid of many evil monsters, but the power void left over means that equally bad things are scrambling to take the Red Court's place. The result is a chaotic unsafe world, where even the normals are noticing something bad is going on. Harry sees his friends suffering and can feel nothing but guilt.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_44b1ddb7	comment	Lampshaded in The Long Ships. Orm comments that:
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The Chains of Commanding / int_457b671e	comment	President David Palmer of 24 is a lot like this. President Allison Taylor more-so.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_461eb55e	comment	Wedge Antilles sometimes falls under this trope, mostly when pilots under his command are dying. He does have to write the letters back to their families and takes a little comfort that It Never Gets Any Easier. Mon Mothma, Garm Bel Iblis, and Bail Organa were the three most significant members of the Rebellion until Organa's death at Alderaan. After that, Iblis got uneasy about the way Mothma was directing things and left to make his own Rebellion. The events of The Thrawn Trilogy let Iblis see things differently. In Solo Command, General Han Solo shows a bit of this while commanding the task force sent after Warlord Zsinj. There's mention that all he could do was issue orders and hope they were so good that not many of his people died. They were never so good that none of his people died. Never.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_468bebb0	comment	That is one of the most defining characteristics of Samuel Vimes. Actually, there is no reason for him to be a Commander of the Watch... except that he's damn good at it. There's also Pteppic of Terry Pratchett's Pyramids. Although this is exacerbated by the fact that not only does he feel responsible for his people, but also he has absolutely no power despite being the king. And nobody bothers telling him. When he finally gets the enormity of the lie he's expected to live, he naturally absconds.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_4c095a1f	comment	Rodimus Prime in series 3 of The Transformers is often struggling with living up to the legacy of Optimus Prime, and at times is even willing to justify any excuse to give up command. A lot of this stems from his guilt of Optimus' death in The Transformers: The Movie and when Optimus returns for good, he happily returns the Matrix to the elder Prime. Rattrap was put in charge of the Maximals once in Beast Wars. He categorizes this responsibility as "a pain in the tail," and is perfectly happy to turn command back over to Optimus Primal. And even Optimus Prime feels it now and again. In one episode of Transformers Prime, for example, Bulkhead notes that he's never seen Optimus laugh... Or even smile.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_4c99197e	comment	In any Muppet production, any Muppet production, being the in-universe boss is stressful, mind-numbing, and taxes the limits of what a sane mind can handle. When Kermit hands control over of The Muppet Show to Statler and Waldorf, the two grumps realize find themselves unable to make any improvements. When Gonzo and Leon try a Hostile Show Take Over in The Jim Henson Hour, Kermit gladly lets them have the reins so he can take a break. In the premier episode of Muppets Tonight, Clifford was distracted by a phone call when Kermit asked who wanted to be in change of the show, and as such missed the cue to run with the other Muppets.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_4e9adf39	comment	In A Posse Ad Esse, Dolly starts feeling the cracks even before she truly becomes leader through no fault of her own. She's forced into the role by way of nobody else being mentally capable of or prepared for the position, but she feels incapable of speaking for everybody else and leading everybody in her state of mind at the time (that state of mind being depression playing up and an inferiority complex the size of Germany).
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The Chains of Commanding / int_4ee42f1	comment	Primus of the Omega Men always felt this, often drifting dangerously close to wangst.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_4f243b7f	comment	In X-Statix, Anarchist finally got a shot at leading the team after the "Bad Guy" incident wreaked havoc on Guy Smith's reputation. It caused his Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to get much, much worse, and he hated it.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck this seems to be a running element of the aspect of Blood. Thematically it's tied to society, the networking of people working together but in most instances come up as the pressure of maintaining a unit in conflict. Symbolically it's represented as chains and red tape and is an aspect characterized by The Fettered.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_5283bd72	comment	Prominent in Protector of the Small. Keladry learns about it when she commands a refugee camp, having to hide emotional displays (even more than she usually does) and deal with a myriad of problems, from the huge (how to defend the place with a handful of trained soldiers) to the petty (dammit people stop bickering). She also makes sure she takes a turn doing the muckiest jobs in camp so no one else can justify refusal. King Jonathan and his son Roald are also hit with it. Jon has to walk a political tightrope so he can make reforms without inciting conservatives, mages, temples, and commoners to rebel, and he can't go near the Scanran border without his top general scorching his ears for putting himself in danger. Roald has similar problems—as page and squire he's very careful to avoid creating a clique and in the war he's barred from the front lines, plus he has to put off his wedding.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_538ba773	comment	In The Machineries of Empire, Cheris has to do many terrible things and sacrifice a lot of her people to win, and even though she knows there's no better way, it still weighs heavily on her.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_5666e22b	comment	In the Deptford Mice books the two highest-ranking offices on the side of good are those of the Starwife and the Holy One. Nevertheless, no one would relish being chosen as either. Essentially it means being Blessed with Suck. For all the power the positions afford, they mean being doomed to a lonely existence made even more miserable by being granted an extended lifespan.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_56786928	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise, Fire Lord Zuko gets to learn that actually ruling his war-torn and demoralized country is going to be more difficult than simply overthrowing his despot of a father. His father, in prison, points it out.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_57bad31c	comment	In My Huntsman Academia, Izuku is humbled, honored, and terrified by his position as the leader of Team MNVW when all of his teammates are probably more competent than him in a fight. Because of this, he takes all of his duties very seriously to the point of disregarding his own well-being, chastising himself when his teammates end up more injured than he is (even while he's breaking his own fingers to help them). He also packs his schedule so tightly to improve himself that Weiss has to threaten to hurt him in order to get him to sit down and consider leaving time for rest after he suggests that he take up a job to supplement the team's income.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_587db2f9	comment	In Halo: First Strike, Fred-104, Master Chief's second in command, suffers from a mild bout of this when he takes the rest of the Spartan-IIs down to defend the planet Reach. It doesn't help when four Spartans die just in the initial drop - already the most to die in a single mission in the unit's history.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_587e509f	comment	In "Black Colossus", Conan must restrain his Blood Knight tendencies because he is responsible for his men.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_58e3b9fc	comment	In The Last Ship, poor Jeff Michener was a horribly depressed government functionary mourning the death of his entire family when he discovered that he also happened to be the de facto President of the United States. He was so unprepared to take command that it came as a relief to him when the Chosen cult found him and decided to make him their puppet. After the crew of the Nathan James rescues him, he tries to kill himself, and he feels so lost that he nearly has an anxiety attack while trying to decide what to have for lunch.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_5921531a	comment	Mitsuru Kirijo of Persona 3 feels these all too keenly, though some of it is self-imposed. She is the club leader of SEES, the sole force capable of fighting Shadows, and is thus directly in charge of the battle against them as well as responsible for the welfare of the team. But more than that, she is mercilessly driven by the guilt she feels as heiress of the Kirijo Group, who were responsible for their creation in the first place. Or so it seems. After her father's death, she breaks down entirely, because it was his guilt she worked so hard and sacrificed so much of herself to erase. With him gone, she sees no point in anything. Harsher in Hindsight when you realize Takeharu, though clearly a caring parent, never knew the depth of her love and devotion to him; he merely chastised her for feeling guilty over something that wasn't her fault and trying to do too much on her own.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_59da62aa	comment	Deconstructed with Ranger Chief Hanlon in Fallout: New Vegas. The stress of overseeing a long war of attrition he sees as ultimately unwinnable causes him to start faking contact reports in order to demoralise his own side, so they can get on with losing it decisively enough that they'll be driven out of the region. If the player chooses to reveal this, he kills himself.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_5b075d7c	comment	Fable III beats the living hell out of the player with this trope. As the Prince or Princess of Albion, you spend the first half of the game gathering allies to overthrow your tyrannical brother, promising them that you will make things better once the throne is yours in return for their support. Then you discover exactly why Logan ruled his kingdom with an iron fist; he knew an Eldritch Abomination would be at his doorstep within the year, and had to impoverish the rest of the country in order to fund the army that would save it. You then have some very difficult choices to make if you're trying to be a good leader; if you keep all your promises and dig deep into the treasury to improve the country, its people will be adore you and be happy - for one year before being annihilated, but if you scrimp and save on everything to fend off its impending doom you'll be a traitor, oath-breaker and hated throughout the land - but your kingdom will live on even though its people despise you. Logan suffered under the same weight of command. His quote from the Fable III page isn't a Caligula-esque rant. It's a statement of absolute fact. Somewhat subverted in that the gameplay mechanisms allow the player to Take a Third Option in relatively painless fashion: just let the game run long enough for real estate income to compensate for the losses you'd take, and you get to keep all your promises to your allies without sacrificing a single life.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_5c5251b6	comment	HERZ: Misato is Director of HERZ. Her organization is the only thing standing between the humanity and total annihilation. Throughout the years she has been forced to make many distasteful things that she feels conflicted and remorseful about to ensure the future of her family and the survival of the humanity. In the process she has become grimmer and more serious, and too similar to Gendo Ikari to her liking.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_5cf2cc92	comment	Not that modern monarchs do much actual "commanding," but the young King Richard in The Palace struggled to reconcile his role as monarch with his political views, love life, and so on.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_5d02c262	comment	Surge is made the leader of the New X-Men, and after a string of Heroic BSODs, cracks. A bus full of depowered mutants is blown up right in front of her, she tries to get Prodigy to hate her so he'll leave Xavier's and be safer for it, it doesn't work and he breaks up with her (even after discovering this) and she has to deal with the older X-Men who do not take the younger generation seriously, even though, by this point, they've proven themselves to be a capable team. So when Xavier returns after all of this, she is really pissed off.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: General George Hammond of Stargate SG-1 has it tough as head of Stargate Command. He has to juggle the conflicting issues of his SG teams and their safety, the Air Force, the president, other politicians, and of course, the safety of the galaxy as a whole. The point is driven home when Jack O'Neill is promoted and takes over for Hammond and almost quits because "he can't fill Hammond's shoes". Same thing with Dr. Weir, Colonel Carter, and Mr. Woolsey during their respective times as the leader of Atlantis in Stargate Atlantis. While the IOA likes to interfere and chew them out for not following protocol, they always refuse to make decisions, instead leaving the leader to make the tough calls and then deal with being chewed out for making said tough decisions (vicious cycle, no?) Later in Stargate Universe, Jack O'Neill chews out Colonel Young for hesitating and making the wrong (no) call, pointing out that literally moments ago Colonel Carter left two people to die so her ship and crew would be saved.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_630755ab	comment	In the Codex Alera book Princeps' Fury, Gaius Sextus gives a rather impassioned (for him) speech about the incredible amount of Dirty Business he's had to do over the years, not to mention the general stresses and downsides of his office, in order to keep his realm together and allow his people the luxury of not having to take his choices. He then goes on to add that if he really hated his main political opponent as an enemy, he'd hand him the crown himself and retire.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_63398d01	comment	In the Halo: Evolutions story The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole, this is believed to be the reason why Admiral Cole, the man who was leading humanity's forces against the Covenant, seemingly decided to fake his death and live somewhere far away from the war.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_634b4cab	comment	Wing Commander Academy: Tolwyn teaches this lesson to Blair on several occasions.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_64b51b44	comment	King Ralph. Ralph, after many public screw-ups, comes to understand the responsibilities and sacrifices of being a king. Despite getting some lucrative business deals with an African king, he decides he is not cut out for the chains, and hands them over to Cecil, his undersecretary, who himself didn't want the chains, but humbly accepted them.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_6c5e0560	comment	Emperor Saihitei aka Hotohori of Fushigi Yuugi suffers from this a lot.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_6c6b89db	comment	As seen in the Supergirl/Green Lantern crossover Red Daughter of Krypton, Guy Gardner is the unofficial leader of the Red Lanterns who haven’t sided with Atrocitus. It’s a very distressing job leading a team of psychotic, short-tempered, berserk Blood Knights with little regard for authority, especially when he tries to be the voice of reason, and his new role has driven a wedge between him and his former friends, his family…
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The Chains of Commanding / int_6e907c1	comment	This is the reason that Morpheus grew tired of his role as Dream and committed indirect suicide.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_70814599	comment	General George Hammond of Stargate SG-1 has it tough as head of Stargate Command. He has to juggle the conflicting issues of his SG teams and their safety, the Air Force, the president, other politicians, and of course, the safety of the galaxy as a whole. The point is driven home when Jack O'Neill is promoted and takes over for Hammond and almost quits because "he can't fill Hammond's shoes".
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The Chains of Commanding / int_7244e221	comment	In The Traitor Son Cycle: The Red Knight is often uncertain on what to do and the death of every one of his subordinates hits him, but he has to pretend that everything is alright and he always has a plan, because everyone's faith in him rides on his reputation as a brilliant badass. When Aneas finds himself in command for the first time, he almost breaks down under the need to project an aura of calm and inability to ask anyone for advice because he has to look like he has all the answers.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_73d7930f	comment	Sisko lives and breathes this trope from day one of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has to deal with the volatile and extreme politics of Bajor, the machinations of the Cardassians, the Dominion War, his role as Emissary of the Prophets, an (initially) uncooperative first officer, and the difficulties of single fatherhood on top of his regular duties as the commanding officer of one of the busiest and most strategically important space stations.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_7559ae0b	comment	Heavy lies the crown for any poor sap born into the Atreides bloodline, especially highlighted in Dune Messiah for Paul, God-Emperor of Dune for Leto II and Chapterhouse: Dune for Odrade. Alia cracks under hers in Children of Dune.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: In Halo: First Strike, Fred-104, Master Chief's second in command, suffers from a mild bout of this when he takes the rest of the Spartan-IIs down to defend the planet Reach. It doesn't help when four Spartans die just in the initial drop - already the most to die in a single mission in the unit's history. In the Halo: Evolutions story The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole, this is believed to be the reason why Admiral Cole, the man who was leading humanity's forces against the Covenant, seemingly decided to fake his death and live somewhere far away from the war.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_76686539	comment	A video game example: Mass Effect has two missions where you have to make a very, very unpleasant choice. First, you get to choose which of your human squad members dies. There is no way to find a third option: the one you choose to leave behind will die spectacularly. And then in the downloadable content, you can either let the terrorist who is trying to drop an asteroid on a multi-million population human world go, or he'll kill the three miners that he took hostage on the asteroid. You cannot talk him out of it and you cannot disarm the mine before he sets it off if you choose not to let him go. Comes to a head for the player in Mass Effect 2, where during the final mission, if you make the wrong decisions for the various jobs and tasks, your crew members can get killed one by one. For an NPC example, Ronald Taylor tried to invoke this trope as an excuse for his flying leap over the Moral Event Horizon (basically, he got stranded on an alien world, and killed most of the men and forced the women in his crew to serve as a harem). If you choose the Paragon option, Jacob calls out his father as being a horrible, selfish man who didn't make the best of a horrible situation, but rather turned a horrible situation to his advantage at the expense of his fellow human beings, and only called for help when the situation became untenable. He then disowns his father. This is arguably the driving theme of Mass Effect 3, along with the theme of sacrifice. Garrus and Shepard have a conversation at one point talking about the "ruthless calculus" of deciding who lives and who dies, and party members will express concern about Shepard throughout the course of the game as the weight of the decisions s/he has to make in the war against the Reapers take their emotional toll. Towards the end of the game, when Shepard fails on Thessia and the Asari homeworld is completely lost, s/he very visibly cracks under the strain, and it just gets worse from there.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_7668653a	comment	Comes to a head for the player in Mass Effect 2, where during the final mission, if you make the wrong decisions for the various jobs and tasks, your crew members can get killed one by one.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_7668653b	comment	This is arguably the driving theme of Mass Effect 3, along with the theme of sacrifice. Garrus and Shepard have a conversation at one point talking about the "ruthless calculus" of deciding who lives and who dies, and party members will express concern about Shepard throughout the course of the game as the weight of the decisions s/he has to make in the war against the Reapers take their emotional toll. Towards the end of the game, when Shepard fails on Thessia and the Asari homeworld is completely lost, s/he very visibly cracks under the strain, and it just gets worse from there.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_79d7d5bd	comment	A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script: In this The Silmarillion story, elven king Finrod had to be calm, rational, responsible and level-headed for several centuries to hold himself together, hold his kingdom together, hold the Alliance against Morgoth together, mediate between their short-tempered relatives, compatriots and all free people in the sub-continent and take care of his subjects. And he often had to treat people like pawns to achieve some greater good. He was so sick and distressed that when he finally got killed he actually found the Afterlife relaxing.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_79dd20c6	comment	The titular queen on Victoria struggles with her newfound power. Though she genuinely seeks to be a good and fair ruler, she also struggles with the idea that she must be politically impartial, for the most part; even when it comes to people or ideas she feels very strongly about as an individual, she must be seen to be fair as queen.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_7a0b8fa6	comment	Homer Simpson, of all people, invoked this trope to cheer Bart up when he was bitter about losing the election for class president. Homer points out that Bart would have had to do a lot of extra work without getting paid, and he wouldn't even have been able to do anything cool because of it. When he realizes just what he would have had to put up with if he'd won the election, Bart actually feels a lot better.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_7d67d66e	comment	Richard II himself thought (and talked) about this a lot too. It was one of Shakespeare's favorite "king" tropes.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_81692f99	comment	Long story short, pretty much every captain from Star Trek feels this at some point. This includes all the spin-offs, and even one shot captains often wind up feeling the burden of command before their spot is over. Readers of the Horatio Hornblower books can pick out scenes that mirror ones from the novels, which were a direct inspiration for the series. Really, this has been in Trek ever since the very first pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, where Captain Christopher Pike discusses the possibility of resigning, tired of being responsible for the lives and deaths of his crew. One episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation features Troi taking the bridge officer's test, which she keeps failing until she realizes that the win condition is saving the ship by sending a virtual crewman to certain death. This in turn ties into an earlier episode where, due to an accident, Troi is stuck as the senior most officer on the bridge but her rank was conferred based on her counselor position, not her technical or command experience. So she has to rely on the junior officers to explain the situation to her and make a gut call which, based on the above latter episode, she made wrong. It's only by luck that her decision didn't get anyone killed, something that she acknowledges which is what leads her to seek that bridge officer qualification later on. Starting with TNG, the captain often isn't permitted to enter dangerous situations as Kirk frequently did; the first officer goes in their place, because the captain is the single most indispensable person on the ship. Sisko lives and breathes this trope from day one of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has to deal with the volatile and extreme politics of Bajor, the machinations of the Cardassians, the Dominion War, his role as Emissary of the Prophets, an (initially) uncooperative first officer, and the difficulties of single fatherhood on top of his regular duties as the commanding officer of one of the busiest and most strategically important space stations. Janeway started to embody this trope over the course of Star Trek: Voyager. Entire episodes would revolve around her being forced to make tough calls about whether or not to compromise the Federation's ideals in order to help get Voyager home. She's much more isolated than the other captains, who can apply to (or have to answer to) Starfleet, but cut off in the Delta Quadrant she's more like the captain of an old wooden ship far from home port.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_817acecf	comment	Prince Charming of Fables is almost the living incarnation of this. Introduced as a shallow, self-absorbed womanizer (and down on his luck) he became Mayor of Fabletown. And he was rapidly overwhelmed by the bureaucracy. Yet it was clear that he was doing his absolute best to lead the Fables, fight their enemies, and ultimately serve their goals, whether they voted for him or not. Moreover, he eventually led them to war and sacrificed himself to win. Looking back at the earlier issues, it's clear that he was still the shallow self-absorbed womanizer, and yet even from the start he was the brilliant self-sacrificing soldier.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI has the royal Figaro brothers, princes both. When their father died neither wanted to take the throne, and the succession was settled by a coin toss. Edgar threw the coin. Sabin got his freedom. The coin was double-headed.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_86c3beca	comment	Baron Wulfenbach from Girl Genius could easily compare his job to herding cats and is implied to be constantly exhausted from stopping various Ax-Crazy Mad Scientists from going out of control, but he's the only thing preventing Europa from collapsing into blood-soaked anarchy. As proven when he drops a time-stop on Mechanicsburg, trapping himself in the center, and two and a half years later Europa has indeed collapsed into blood-soaked anarchy. Here and here. He also punishes someone who has displeased him by putting him in charge of a city. Admittedly, it includes the threat of being sent to Castle Heterodyne at his very first slip-up. Later, we catch up with him in Castle Heterodyne.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_86c97cd7	comment	Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid. Captain Testarossa has Sousuke Sagara pulled off guarding his Bodyguard Crush Kaname Chidori, as he's the only one who can pilot the Arbalest. When her normally respectful subordinate starts giving her attitude about this, Tessa's frustrations over her job, and Sousuke's devotion to Kaname as opposed to her, finally spill over.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_88c4f91c	comment	Henry V's father Henry IV also felt this way, as he'd seized the crown from the unworthy Richard II in a popular revolt and wasn't sure he was up to the task of being king.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_88c4faa2	comment	His son, Henry VI also has a similar scene in one of his own plays, but unlike his father, Henry VI can't handle it and ends up overthrown and murdered. Henry VI wasn't all there to begin with, and Shakespeare didn't gloss over it all that much.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_8960fd02	comment	In Vinland Saga this happens to Canute — not in the least because holding his position of power makes him act in ways he'd previously find repellent.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: Queen Kasile of Ataidar compares ruling to "juggling bowling balls" and regularly vents her frustrations about this economic policy or that difficult minister to Eric, her best friend.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_8a9dceb	comment	Shadow Police: As the characters note in Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?, Quill, as the team's leader, is the one least able to lean on his colleagues' support and help, and is therefore the first to crack under the phenomenal stress they're all under.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_8d814070	comment	One episode of MAS*H saw the main characters follow the British tradition of Boxing Day by having the enlisted and officers switch roles for the day. Of particular note are Colonel Potter's and Klinger's switched roles. Colonel Potter gains new respect for Klinger when he finds out just how much work is involved in being company clerk and Klinger gains new respect for the Colonel when he learns just how much weight the burden of command carries and having to be responsible for making extremely tough decisions.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_8d817ccb	comment	Jack from Lost is a very reluctant leader.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_8d84363c	comment	Rome. After a slave brings Pompey the Great a message that Julius Caesar's army is advancing, he's faced with a decision: should he fight or flee? Pompey then talks of how envious he is of the slave, who has all his decisions made for him.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_8dd8ec81	comment	In the manga of Sailor Moon, Minako Aino / Sailor Venus is shown struggling under the pressure of her role as the leader of the Sailor Senshi. When she temporarily lost her powers in the Dream Arc, unlike the other Inner Senshi, Minako has an existential crisis because being the leader of the Senshi and Serenity's closest guardian, is the only thing that truly matters to her. It culminates in her lashing out at her friends when they talk about the Outer Senshi, because Minako believes that they respect the Outers more than her. Wanting to prove to herself and the Inners that she was a worthy leader, she runs away trying to infiltrate the Dark Moon Circus by herself, risking her own life and the livse of others in the process.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_90c73dda	comment	Jake from Animorphs. It is very understandable, given that he's tasked with fending off a secret Alien Invasion of brain slugs (whose human hosts include his older brother) and his only allies are a bunch of kids like him, an alien warrior cadet and a race of Actual Pacifist androids. Exemplified when Rachel acts as leader for a short while and experiences the same issues, making her wonder whether being leader was the enviable position she once thought it was.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_924bb56e	comment	Dollhouse's Adelle Dewitt feels this trope pretty hard, though most characters are unaware of how much it weighs on her, thanks to her Queenly Mask.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9264f35d	comment	In The Goblin Emperor, Maia suffers from this. From the loads and loads of jewellery the emperor has to wear, to having his marriage arranged for political reasons because he has to produce a heir, to the bodyguards who follow him everywhere. He has grown up very lonely, and desperately wants a friend, but one of his bodyguards explicitly tells him that they cannot be friends.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_95e58696	comment	Queen Arika from Mahou Sensei Negima! grew up sheltered but isolated, and maintained a marble demeanor with everyone she met. Near the end of the war twenty years ago, she had to make some very hard choices, resulting in the world being saved but her own kingdom being destroyed, with the survivors scattered. The Megalomesembrian Senate had her arrested, publicly blamed her for pretty much the whole war and sentenced her to death — which she went along with because she figured it would help her people. Good thing the Ala Rubra had a clever plan.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9744a26c	comment	Prince Karl Heinrich spends much of The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg wishing he could have fun with his friends or be happy with the barmaid he's fallen in love with, but the duties of being Crown Prince keep calling him back.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9804a8e2	comment	In "The Scarlet Citadel", Conan reflects that he can not sell his subjects, even though at first he took the throne for only his own benefit.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9a7088bc	comment	Really, this has been in Trek ever since the very first pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, where Captain Christopher Pike discusses the possibility of resigning, tired of being responsible for the lives and deaths of his crew.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9b018733	comment	One of the key themes in Kubera is "Who do the gods pray to when they are in despair?" It's implied that more than a few problems (such as the god Kubera's plan that kickstarted the plot, or the Nastika Gandharva's desperate attempts to save his clan and find his daughter) happened solely because the primeval gods disappeared, leaving the other gods and god-like beings with no idea what to do, and no one to go to for advice. In a more comedic example, the side novel states that the primeval gods made Indra the king of the gods just so they could dump more of their paperwork on him.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9ce851a3	comment	This trope is discussed in the Malcolm in the Middle episode where the special-ed class runs away, and Hal leads a group of body builders that decided to follow him around. After Dewey asks Hal a question about leadership (Dewey had been hiding the special-ed students who were living in the neighborhood's treetops, who had blackmailed Dewey into keeping their location secret, but was now thinking of telling on them), Hal responds by saying that people think that being a leader means having people looking up to you and doing what you want, but really being a leader means sometimes making hard decisions and telling the truth to the people that look to you for guidance, which will likely leave them disappointed.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls series' backstory, the legendary Yokudan/Redguard hero Frandar Hunding reluctantly became the leader of the Ansei, also known as "Sword Singers/Saints", an order of Master Swordsman so skilled they could create blades from their very souls, during the Yokudan War of the Singers against the forces of the corrupter Emperor Hira. Ever the Guile Hero, Frandar led the Ansei to victory despite being outnumbered thirty to one. However, he would continue to struggle with this decision and many others he made as leader for the rest of his life. Due to being considered "red with blood" by the citizens of Yokuda, he chose to self-exile to Tamriel, becoming one of the first Yokudans to settle there.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire King Robert Baratheon either fits this trope or is a subversion, as he leaves most of the ruling to his Hand while he drinks and whores. Ned Stark plays it completely straight though. He becomes said Hand just because the king commands him to do so, although he would rather stay home and govern his peaceful land instead of the whole realm. Ned's son Robb also starts to suffer from it when his bannermen declare him King In The North. Cersei Lannister in book 4: with the deaths of Joffrey and Tywin, and her underage son Tommen sitting the throne, she is (at least on paper) the most powerful person in the Seven Kingdoms. It makes her go through Sanity Slippage. Daenarys Targaryen, especially in book 5 when she is very conflicted on wanting to do the right thing, and still retaining her power. The whole point of the Iron Throne is that it is an incredibly uncomfortable chair, meant to symbolize the difficulty and hardship of being king. The problem is, the only one of the various contenders who understands that is Stannis and he believes that being Robert's heir means he has to take the throne, no matter how much he may or may not want it.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Fleet Admiral Sengoku from One Piece is a very tragic example. He obviously has to do things he doesn't like as befitting his position, and even ends up getting screwed by his own superiors when he's not having to handle pirates. The last straw was the World Government's decision to cover up a mass breakout of several extremely dangerous Impel Down prisoners just to save their reputation. While Sengoku may have done questionable things over the years, he has acted for the good of the world. However, the World Government's decision to cover up the entire incident all together was so bad that he retired on the spot. Two years later, though largely retired, he still maintains a position within the Marines with less responsibility and is far more relaxed and cheerful. Several other Marines are shown to struggle with this trope. Garp actively avoided it, refusing any and all attempts to promote him to Admiral and stepped down to a lower rank in the same manner as Sengoku over the coverup. Kuzan had no interest in Sengoku's job, but stepped up when learning Akainu was also nominated, having even fought a ten-day duel with him over the position. After the timeskip, it's already wearing on Sakazuki, with his bosses the Five Elder Stars pushing him to make decisions even his ruthless sense of justice doesn't agree with for the sake of the government saving face at the cost of the Marines' honor.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing's President Bartlet frequently finds himself feeling the full weight of his authority, especially when what the job calls for goes against his personal beliefs.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_a40b1126	comment	Independence Day features a moment of this for President Whitmore. After they narrowly escape the destruction of Washington, he sits silently on Air Force One, reflecting on how millions of Americans have just died on his watch.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_a79d1e14	comment	Twelve O'Clock High: The film is a character study about command, and is still used to teach U.S. Air Force officers. The movie opens with Colonel Keith Davenport, commanding the 918th Bombardment Group, being relieved after accusations of "over-identifying" with his men. Brigadier General Savage takes over the group temporarily to rebuild the command structure. Lieutenant-Colonel Gately, the second in command, is accused of failing to support the original C.O. and is exiled to command the "Leper Colony", a B-17 with all the underachievers of the group assigned to it. Savage introduces harsh methods of training, and in hoping to set a stern example, begins to succumb to the same pressures of command that Davenport did. Harvey Stovall, the group adjutant, remarks that "the only difference between Davenport and Savage is that one of them is a couple of inches taller." At the end of the film, Savage breaks down from the stress, too, and Gately takes over. Much of the film is possibly Truth in Television in that the screenwriter based the story heavily on actual officers of the 306th Bombardment Group.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_a8269bb	comment	What About Witch Queen? has captain Soren Nexø, who feels all the deaths around him hard - perhaps to hard for his mental health, as he keeps on telling himself that it's his fault and he should've done better, as he promised his men to protect them. Finally, his commander gives him a short Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! that seems to help a little.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_aa48b0d5	comment	Played to an extreme in horror film Eye of the Devil. Philippe de Montfaucon is a rich marquis with a large estate and a whole town of commoners to work the vineyards on that estate. But if the vineyard fails, whoever is marquis has to give himself up in a pagan Human Sacrifice to restore the fields to fertility.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_aca14883	comment	In Tiberium Wars, Commander Karrde regularly feels the weight of the chains when his troops suffer and die for him. On the other end of the spectrum, Commander Rawne feels the weight only when he fails. Chapter 18 even has a discussion between Commander Karrde and the retired Colonel Nick Parker, who talks about how inhuman war has become, and how he keeps forgetting the faces of all those he's commanded and sent to their deaths. There's also Brother-Captain Alvarez and his decision to execute his remaining wounded soldiers to prevent possible rape or torture at the hands of the GDI, which continues to haunt him up to now.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_afc86b0a	comment	The instructors at Command School do this on purpose to Ender in Ender's Game. They in fact deliberately engineer scenarios both inside and outside the simulator to teach Ender that he can never count on anybody but himself to help him.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b1c94339	comment	Horatio Hornblower has this as a defining character trait as he rises through the ranks. He grapples with the knowledge that his orders will cause some of his men to die, the sole responsibility for any mistake at sea (even ones made by the Admiralty) will fall on him, and he feels as though he constantly needs to put on the act of a completely imperturbable stalwart despite private fears of death and dismemberment. (He tends to go a little overboard with his ruminations, or a lot overboard when he fails to live up to his own impossibly high standards.) He exhibits a much milder (and somewhat more palatable) form of it in each of the miniseries based on the novels.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b2991ccb	comment	Shi Ryuuki of Saiunkoku Monogatari also counts, once he finally decided take up his role as The Emperor seriously.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Robb starts to feel them when his father's departure and his mother's breakdown leave him in charge in "The Kingsroad". By "Baelor", he's led an army to war and and sacrificed two thousand men for victory. Things only get worse as the war drags on and some of his men start to lose faith despite his victories. In Season 3, his leadership decisions start to put him at odds with some of his more prominent men. Daenerys starts to feel them in Season 2, when her people become dependent on her. They only get heavier as her responsibilities increase. She realizes that being a ruler and being a conqueror are not the same things. As Tyrion notes, being a ruler means that they have to be "terrible" and he is pleased that Daenerys is "the right kind of terrible", that is the kind "that prevents her people from being even more so." Dany doesn't like making compromises and concessions to the nobility of Slaver's Bay but she does so anyway, to build some kind of peace in Meereen and moderate multiple factions, and on returning to Westeros, she doesn't like dealing with the picky norms of Westerosi feudalism, namely their endless grudges, feuds and prejudices against Dothraki but decides to proceed slowly if only to prove I Am Not My Father. Alliser Thorne tells Jon that a commander will always face criticism for his decisions, but if he ever begins second-guessing himself he will become indecisive, an even worse trait than being wrong. Jon sends his friend Grenn and five others to hold the crucial inner gate even though he knows it is likely a Suicide Mission. Slightly touched upon with Tywin. He has Seven Kingdoms to run during an open rebellion and the ship of fools and schemers that he governs does not make it any easier. When Tyrion casually asks him if he's enjoying the position, Tywin finds the query outlandish and repeats back the question in disbelief. In the books, Kevan speaks earnestly about how Tywin is a stern but just man of duty doing a tough job for decades with little appreciation or reward. Cersei has moments of fragility and self-pity where she laments the hardships of the regency that have fallen on her. Given her pettiness and dismal management, nobody really empathizes with her.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b3708bb4	comment	One of the center themes in U-571.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b40e88da	comment	In The Service frequently comments upon the fact that an officer must be beyond human frailties and emotions, always having a can-do attitude and a readiness to lead...even when they don't. One of the main characters, asked why he hasn't dissolved into a wreck after a disastrous boarding action saw half of his team killed, responds thus:
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b6886bfd	comment	Kirk spends much of Star Trek Into Darkness coming to terms with his fear of failing the crew he's supposed to be leading. In Star Trek Beyond the fear has diminished, but he's started to have second thoughts about pursuing a goal "forever out of reach." Ultimately he decides to stay in command.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b7870bb0	comment	March from The Sirantha Jax Series feels the weight of command so much that he's had more than one Heroic B.S.O.D. in his lifetime.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_b906a721	comment	Implied in Secret of Mana, when a little boy in the castle of Tasnica tells the protagonists that he hears Krissie crying at night.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_ba43d97	comment	The Dawn Patrol is about an Royal Flying Corps squad engaging in daily combat with the Germans during World War I. The commander, Major Brand, drinks to excess and is driven to the edge of collapse from the stress of having to send his men off to die every day. Courtney, his star pilot, thinks Brand is too cautious, but after Brand is promoted and Courtney is grounded by taking Brand's job as commander, he feels the same stresses.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_bb478d5e	comment	Bait and Switch's Captain Kanril Eleya mentions that, because the crew of her starship numbers over a thousand, it's impossible for her to know all of them. Despite the fact that they all know the risks of serving in Starfleet, she still feels guilty when people she doesn't even know die because of her orders. She rarely lets anyone else see this. See also this exchange between her and her operations officer-slash-boyfriend in The Wrong Reflection:
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The Chains of Commanding / int_bb4af8d3	comment	Aqualad from Young Justice ever since episode six has expressed that being leader is a burden. He has repeatedly attempted and thought about giving up leadership because his actions. During the episode "Disordered" he had accepted leadership after he explained why his team mates can't handle it: "Artemis is too raw and untrusting, Superboy is too angry, Kid Flash is too impulsive, Miss Martian is too eager to please everyone and Robin is too young for the burden." Robin may also count too. In "Failsafe" after Aqualad's (temporary) Heroic Sacrifice, he had to take control and intentionally sent Superboy on a suicide mission and the choice devastated him. He admits to Black Canary that while he can make hard choices and be The Chessmaster, he hates it, and no longer wants to be in command. In season two, Robin, now Nightwing, is leader of the team and is definitely feeling the weight of the choices he has to make. Even worse is that he seems to be pulling off Good Is Not Nice, and hates every minute of it. Captain Atom was too happy to relinquish his position as the leader of the Justice League once the situation stabilized enough for it.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_bc1dd429	comment	The Adventures of Kim Jong Un: Enforced in "Kim Jong-un vs. Kim Jong-il Part 2". Kim Jong-uam briefly convinces Kim Jong-un to hand power over to him, but the burden of running North Korea literally crushes him into nothing.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In William King's Warhammer 40,000 Space Wolf novel Grey Hunters, Ragnor feels this strongly when he receives a Field Promotion. Especially because one of his new subordinates was a man he had long hated and wanted to kill. He wonders whether, if this man died, he could tell whether he had done all he could or had secretly wanted him to die. In Lee Lightner's Sons of Fenris, Berek, though longing for the battle on the planet and knowing the fight would be renowned, nevertheless knows it is his duty to stay on shipboard, thinking that it is a situation where rank lacks privileges. In Wolf's Honour, Mikal feels heavily burdened by the role that fell on him when Berek was gravely wounded. He sees the unconscious leader and asks why him and is enraged when he realizes that the skald, Morgrim, listened to him. When Morgrim says that he will describe this as a warrior paying respects to his lord before battle, Mikal can not believe him and confesses to his doubts. Morgrim assures him that Berek felt the same way and that having not shirked his duty, he has not failed.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_be3bd6	comment	Lawrence of Arabia:
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond: this trope was used several times by the main characters.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Later in Stargate Universe, Jack O'Neill chews out Colonel Young for hesitating and making the wrong (no) call, pointing out that literally moments ago Colonel Carter left two people to die so her ship and crew would be saved.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c18d15ca	comment	The supplementary material being released in preparation for Starcraft II Legacy Of The Void is showing that Artanis, Hierarch of the united Khalai and Nerazim Protoss, is feeling these quite heavily. In the video "Reclamation," he ponders whether the impending attempt to reclaim the planet Aiur from the Zerg will be worth the immense loss of Protoss life it will cost. In the short story "Children of the Void," it's shown that he must perform a perilous balancing act regarding which actions he takes and does not take in keeping the two factions united. And in the comic "Sacrifice," it's shown that Artanis never wanted the position of Hierarch in the first place, and only took it because it was the only way to keep the two factions together.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c211d8bf	comment	In Star Trek Beyond the fear has diminished, but he's started to have second thoughts about pursuing a goal "forever out of reach." Ultimately he decides to stay in command.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c35714d6	comment	Subverted in Blackadder's Christmas Carol when Ebenezar Blackadder sees if he becomes bad his descendants will rule the Universe, the Ghost of Christmas Present's reaction is 'Maybe... Maybe... But would you be happy? Being ruler of the universe is not all it's cracked up to be - there's the long hours... I mean, you wave at people the whole time. You're no longer your own boss.' It doesn't work.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c43d0826	comment	The Caine Mutiny is almost This Page: The Novel. It's implied that it's what caused Queeg to go off the rails. The captain before him was somewhat eccentric; the one trained to replace him laments that he walks a razor's edge of correct decisions, with 100 manslaughters on either side.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who episode "The Two Doctors", a Sontaran admits to having made a "tactical error" and gives the excuse that "it's not easy being commander, the loneliness of supreme responsibility."
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The Chains of Commanding / int_c7fbcf5f	comment	Done in the Horatio Hornblower telefilms, of course, although since the viewer isn't actually inside Hornblower's thoughts it's less pronounced. "The Examination for Lieutenant / The Fire Ships" in particular revolves around this theme. While Hornblower studies out of a book to be examined by a board, his readiness for actual command is repeatedly tested as he witnesses and experiences what happens when captains make reckless decisions, when circumstances outside one's control imperil the lives of subordinates, and times where he can't do anything to make a man follow his lead. Hornblower ends up questioning if he's fit for promotion at all, but Captain Pellew says he's doing fine and living with such things is the price of being a leader.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_ca08598f	comment	In The Wire: Cedric Daniels is always struggling between the politics of higher-ups like Burrell, his own judgement, the pressure and Cowboy Cop antics from some of his more uncontrollable but competent detectives like McNulty, and the need to protect his more inept underlings like Pryzbylewski. Stringer Bell often expresses his frustration with the lack of talent he has available and the hardships of ruling the Barksdale Organization like a proper business. He compares himself to a CEO who has to take responsibility for mishaps and scandals while everybody else can be ducking and hiding. Present and discussed several times during Tommy Carcetti's term. As a previous white mayor puts it, governing the city means not seeing your family and eating shit from one community or another, day in and day out.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_cac20f89	comment	Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden of JAG has clearly has a difficult job as Judge Advocate General of the Navy, reconciling the often disparate interests of justice and policy-makers, not to many the many eccentric and unpredictable people under his command.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_cbbb2270	comment	Early in Tears to Tiara 2 Hamil is clearly unable to bear the pressure of command any longer, though he only shows it to Tart and Tanit. After his father dying in front of his eyes, he has had to feign stupidity and lead from behind the scenes to spare his people the worst of the rule of The Empire. Then circumstances forces him to rebel, and he knows full well the death and destruction that will follow. Both goddesses say they'll help carry the burden, and he quickly grows into a confident leader.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_ccf875f7	comment	Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner of Criminal Minds can be seen often second guessing his own decisions. The best example is in the second part of "The Fisher King", where, after scolding Agent Anderson for not staying with Elle after driving her home causing her to get shot, Hotch laments how he forget to tell Anderson to specifically stay with her after driving her home.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_cf69b21e	comment	Rattrap was put in charge of the Maximals once in Beast Wars. He categorizes this responsibility as "a pain in the tail," and is perfectly happy to turn command back over to Optimus Primal.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_d2ad1f34	comment	Forward has Mal get weighed down more and more as the series progresses, feeling greater amounts of guilt as he conflicts with his crew and his past decisions bring extra grief down on them.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_d31cdea	comment	The Hunger Games: Katniss gets a bad case of this when she's placed in command of what's left of Squad 451. Cue numerous It's All My Fault moments.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): Commander (later Admiral) William Adama. Seeing as how the military affairs of all that's left of mankind are in his hands, dropping the ball even once means humanity's last chance is gone. In the miniseries, at one point the Galactica is hit by a nuke. The damaged section's fires are endangering the ship and the automatic fire suppressors are out. Nearly a hundred of Tyrol's people are fighting the fires with handheld gear... when Tigh orders the section to be sealed off and the atmosphere to be vented, putting out the fires and killing everyone inside. Understandably, Tyrol tries to protest but not only Tigh is his superior officer, they don't really have a choice because if they wait until everyone gets out, the fire will reach the fuel lines and blow the whole ship to smithereens. Afterwards, Tyrol tries to appeal to Adama and almost breaks down in tears right then and there, had it not for Adama's Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! Death Glare.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: The main reason why the Soopreme Leader of the KND is chosen in a game of tag is because nobody wants the job, specifically for this reason (and the fact that it's tedious and consumes a lot of free time). Despite that, when Numbuh 13 is tagged and happily proclaims he'll be Soopreme Leader, he is instantly dogpiled by many surrounding operatives so one of them would get tagged. The job may suck, but they know that it keeps the place running and letting Numbuh 13 run it would doom them all. Unfortunately, because of this tradition, Father ends up becoming Soopreme Leader briefly because he gets himself tagged in the last few seconds of the game (Father was technically a KND member due to an earlier plot led to his DNA being put into the code module for active agents). In the end, Numbuh 362, despite earlier having stepped down as Soopreme Leader specifically because of this trope, ends up taking it back from Father because she's one of the few around who can do the job well.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_d723dd8a	comment	Lord Shojo from The Order of the Stick is the leader of Azure City and an order of Paladins. He does this by Obfuscating Stupidity as a Chaotic Good person. When one of the Paladins called him out for his underhanded tactics, he has some choice words in combination with To Be Lawful or Good:
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The Chains of Commanding / int_db30cf92	comment	In Warrior Cats, the Clan leaders realize that they may have to make some difficult decisions. One character points out that Onestar especially was hit hard by this: he's had to break old friendships to prove that his Clan stands alone. Firestar himself realizes in The Darkest Hour how hard it is to be a leader, because he realizes there's a chance that his entire Clan may be killed in battle because of his choice. Bramblestar's Storm deals mainly with Bramblestar struggling to lead his Clan.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_dbbf2001	comment	Prince Roger: The titular prince becomes this once he realizes that the Marines guarding him are people who have their own problems. It's bad enough while he's on Marduk but things become infinitely worse once they get off-planet and discover the real situation back home. By that point, there are so few of the Bronze Barbarians left that he's fanatic about keeping them safe and will do anything to reduce casualties on his side. His advisors are so concerned about this that they talk to his Bodyguard Crush to make sure that she'll serve as his "prosthetic conscience" to make sure that he doesn't just roll over the opposition with More Dakka when a less-violent alternative is feasible. Roger's fiancee has the same problem; As the advisors point out, both softly and loudly, her sacrifice is to marry Roger and live in a protected fishbowl for the rest of her life — no matter how hard that is for her, because it's her duty to the Empire.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Princess Voluptua takes her job very seriously, both as heir to the throne and as veicereign of Earth's solar system. Apparently, a lot of Nemesite royals and aristocrats are terrible jerks, whereas she's trying very hard to be a fair and just leader. She seems to be doing a good job, since even people who hate the Nemesites in general seem to respect her.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy often felt this way about her calling as the Slayer making her feel different. It bordered on what could be considered supreme egotism sometimes and when faced with one very tough decision about whether to kill Anya for restarting her vengeance demon ways she claimed that the Scooby Gang was not a democracy, that she's the Slayer and eventually all the tough decisions come down to her.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_e4732abc	comment	Same thing with Dr. Weir, Colonel Carter, and Mr. Woolsey during their respective times as the leader of Atlantis in Stargate Atlantis. While the IOA likes to interfere and chew them out for not following protocol, they always refuse to make decisions, instead leaving the leader to make the tough calls and then deal with being chewed out for making said tough decisions (vicious cycle, no?)
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The Chains of Commanding / int_e5fd2cef	comment	Kimball Kinnison does a thorough job of kicking himself in the rear after a wrong assumption about just what he was facing caused the deaths of several Patrol members.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_e7e37776	comment	Though most of the time Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds doesn't show the stress that his job as Captain of the good ship Serenity would foist on him, there are a few occasional moments where he does show that weight of responsibility, particularly in the Big Damn Movie. Simon sometimes seems to feel guilty for not being a "good enough" (My word!) big brother, not least for having twinges of regret in River's presence. It must be awful having a little sister who can read minds.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_e8e4ae47	comment	Legion of Super-Heroes: The leader of the Legion Cosmic Boy, thinking he and Sun Boy are in private, decides to cut loose and rant about all the pressure he's under and how much the various idiosyncrasies of the other Legion members annoy him. To his horror, he discovers mere seconds later that the communications channel had been open the whole time and his entire screed was heard by every other member of the Legion. This ultimately leads to a dangerous schism within the Legion, and they only just manage to pull themselves back together in time to defeat the Big Bad. On another occasion, Cosmic Boy blows up at Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, telling them about the sacrifices he's made so they can be a happy couple and raise a family, forgoing relationships of his own so the responsibility of running the Legion doesn't weigh as heavily on them.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_e9e265b6	comment	Severa suffers from this in Secret Dreamer: as sub-commander of the pegasus knights, she has to consider what is best for her troops, and as the bodyguard of the Exalt, she has to consider what is best for Ylisse—even if it means denying her own feelings.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_eb3f769d	comment	In the Aubrey-Maturin series, Jack Aubrey occasionally ponders the depth of isolation imposed upon captains by regulation and social etiquette. Thankfully, he enjoys the relatively uninhibited companionship of his particular friend Dr. Maturin, who has an ambiguous position with regard to aforementioned regulations. In The Mauritius Campaign it's noted that the officers in the RN refer to their uniform buttons as "The Curse of God", in acknowledgement of the decisions sometimes forced upon them by their responsibility.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_ef076a36	comment	Janeway started to embody this trope over the course of Star Trek: Voyager. Entire episodes would revolve around her being forced to make tough calls about whether or not to compromise the Federation's ideals in order to help get Voyager home. She's much more isolated than the other captains, who can apply to (or have to answer to) Starfleet, but cut off in the Delta Quadrant she's more like the captain of an old wooden ship far from home port.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_f01be35d	comment	In Assassin of Gor Marlenus of Ar has to exile Tarl as punishment for his actions in the first book even after declaring Tarl a hero and friend. The decision is greeted with dismay even by Marlenus's adoring and loyal subjects, but as Ubar of Ar it is beneath his dignity to so much as explain his decision. (One of his trusted advisors has a quiet word with Tarl afterwards, acknowledging as he does that Marlenus would be angry with him for piping up.)
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The Chains of Commanding / int_f0f2563a	comment	Mufasa, in The Lion King, explains to his son, Simba, that being King is a lot more complicated than 'doing whatever you want'. After Mufasa's untimely death, the exiled Simba adopts a philosophy of 'Hakuna Matata' (No Worries) with his new friends Pumbaa and Timon, but comes to accept his responsibilities, fight for his homeland and those he loves, and be a responsible and worthy King.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_f349915b	comment	In the Dragonlance novels the young elven princess Laurana suffers from this during her time as the Golden General. The immense stress she is under ends up making her highly susceptible to Flaw Exploitation at the hands of her Arch-Enemy Kitiara. In The Qualinesti, Kith-Kanan's thoughts reflect the trope pretty much word-for-word: "He had given up his freedom to roam when he accepted the throne of Qualinesti. After all these centuries, he finally understood how his father, Sithel, had felt before him. Bound up in chains like a prisoner. Only a Speaker's chains weren't made of iron, but of the coils of resposibility, duty, protocol."
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The Chains of Commanding / int_f6eed39	comment	One of the main motifs in The Sopranos: Tony Soprano is very savvy about this issue and warns Dragon Ascendant Johnny Sack, who'd quickly fall victim from it, about the chains. Tony struggles with the position and is unable to decide which he feels more strongly: the stress or the benefits of being mob boss. Silvio doesn't last more than a few days as regent because the responsibility quickly takes a toll on his health.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: in several episodes the characters talk about the miseries of command. Londo Mollari remarks that he started with no power and all the choice in the world, and ended up with all the power in the world and no choice at all. Not only are his hands tied by the complex political machinations, but he's also being controlled by a Drakh Keeper. In the end, he sulks in his throne room because he can't bear the thought of accidentally looking at the ruined Centauri homeworld and bursting into tears. Ivanova has had several stories focused on this when she's put in charge in the absence of Sinclair or Sheridan. Usually these are B stories that play up her Straight Man character against the ridiculous demands of Babylon 5's diplomatic mission. Fairly often, Hilarity Ensues. Also, a recurring theme with Marcus Cole, her liason with the Rangers (and love interest), is how he feels she needs to be comfortable delegating some of her responsibility so she can tend to her own personal well-being. Delenn is so much The McCoy that it is impossible for her to have the job of being a stateswoman without suffering considerably from this. The unusual nature of the circumstances demanded someone like her. But it definitely came at a price as we see in those times when we catch a glimpse Beneath the Mask.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_f7730dc4	comment	This applies to Celestia particularly in Diaries of a Madman, where she's often shown to be stressed and isolated by her crown, as well as regularly placed in near impossible situations.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_faf84cd	comment	In Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Prince Sebastian LaCroix believes in this trope bigtime and delivers a rather eloquent speech on the subject (it's on the quotes page) after events of the game 'force' him to call a Blood Hunt on Nines Rodriguez, knowing it will throw Los Angeles into disarray.. This is rather undercut by LaCroix otherwise being a self-entitled jerk, not to mention that you later learn the whole thing was him playing to the gallery since he was behind the whole scenario with Nines to begin with.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_fca0567c	comment	Conan the Barbarian (1982). Discussed not only in King Osric's speech (see Quotes) but also the And the Adventure Continues bit in Conan the Destroyer, where The Narrator tells of how Conan will one day wear his own crown "on a troubled brow."
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The Chains of Commanding / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	Commander Walsh from Galaxy Rangers, especially in "Supertroopers." He was in charge of the Super Soldier project, and it blew up in his face.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_fdbace96	comment	In the Gravity Falls episode 'Boss Mabel', Mabel gets to run the Mystery Shack for three days while Grunkle Stan goes on vacation as part of a bet (whoever earned the most money would be the boss for the rest of the summer). By the end of the episode, we learn that when your employees are The Slacker and a Manchild, the only way to get things done is to get tough while using genuine monsters (or at least large intelligent ones) as your exhibits puts alot of people at risk, hence why fake exhibits are used, no matter how fake. When Stan returns and Mabel wins the bet (Mabel lost almost all her profits aside from 1$ repairing the damage to the shack but Stan had completely blown his winnings on the game show he was on by screwing up the final question), she gives the reins back to Stan, admitting the trouble in regards to managing the job.
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The Chains of Commanding / int_ff9ab17f	comment	One episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation features Troi taking the bridge officer's test, which she keeps failing until she realizes that the win condition is saving the ship by sending a virtual crewman to certain death. This in turn ties into an earlier episode where, due to an accident, Troi is stuck as the senior most officer on the bridge but her rank was conferred based on her counselor position, not her technical or command experience. So she has to rely on the junior officers to explain the situation to her and make a gut call which, based on the above latter episode, she made wrong. It's only by luck that her decision didn't get anyone killed, something that she acknowledges which is what leads her to seek that bridge officer qualification later on.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
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Bone (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
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Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Tales of the Jedi (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Lion King: Wild Schemes & Catastrophes (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Sandman Universe (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
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X-Wing Rogue Squadron (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Young Justice (Comic Book) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
FoxTrot (Comic Strip) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Cyclops / Comicbook	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
All Alone With You / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
Fractured / Fan Fic	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
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A Man of Iron (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A Sword to Pass (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Accursed Ones (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
After That Fateful Night (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Ambition of the Red Princess (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Androgyninja's A Dose of Venom (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Avatar The Lost Reptile Bender (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Between Three Rogues (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Denial (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Danganronpa Class Swap (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dear Diary (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
ElementalsofHarmony	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
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Eroninja (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Exoria (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Forward (Peptuck) (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Game Reset (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Great Grand-Uncle Schimmelhorn's Toolbox (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Heartbeat Of The War God (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Knight of Salem (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Legionnaire (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Mortified (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
My Father's Son (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Nukume Dori (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
one day at a time (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
one day at a time (Nyame) (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
or did it eat the little girl? (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Princess Celestia Hates Tea (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Roads (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Sean Bean Saves Westeros (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Seeking Sato (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Sold to the Highest Bidder (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Son of the Seven Kingdoms (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Sonic Origins (Ri2) (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Space to Breathe (Naruto) (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Blade of the Void (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Karma of Lies (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Kings of Winter (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Negotiations-verse (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Order of Koaxia (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The True History of the Blackfyre Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Towards the Sun (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Unacceptable Sitch Series (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
XCOM From The Ashes Of Temples (Fanfic)	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
The Crimson Garment (Fanfic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A War / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Advise & Consent / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Ah Boys to Men / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Apollo 13 / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Battle: Los Angeles / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Beau Travail / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Behind Enemy Lines / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Black Panther (2018) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Cool Runnings / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Darkest Hour (2017) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Eye of the Devil / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Fantastic Voyage / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Glory / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Greyhound / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Heneral Luna / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Into the Storm (2009) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Justice League (2017) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Kamen Rider Zero-One Others: MetsubouJinrai / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Lawrence of Arabia / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Mary, Queen of Scots (2018) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Master and Commander / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Memphis Belle / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Midway (1976) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Midway (2019) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Never So Few / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Occupation / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Princess O'Rourke / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Queen Christina / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Red Dawn (1984) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Red Tails / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Reign of Fire / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Roman Holiday / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Runaway Train / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Serenity / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Serenity (2005) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Snake Eyes / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Space Battleship Yamato / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Star Trek Into Darkness / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The American President / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Core / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Dawn Patrol / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Departed / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Godfather / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Great Escape / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The King's Speech / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Last Jedi / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Peacemaker / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Rock / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Thor: Love and Thunder / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Thor: The Dark World / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Too Big to Fail / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Twelve O'Clock High / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
12 Strong / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
U-571 / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Validation (2007) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
We Were Soldiers / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Where Now Are The Dreams Of Youth / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Conan the Barbarian (Franchise) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dune (Franchise) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Full Metal Panic! / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Rakuin No Monshou / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A Bleeding Heart of Steel / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A Practical Guide to Evil / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A Song Of Wraiths And Ruin / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
A World of Laughter, a World of Tears / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Aubrey-Maturin / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Black Colossus / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Brave New World / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Captive Prince / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Catherverse / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Chapterhouse: Dune / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Children of Dune / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Delve / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Deptford Mice / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Destroyermen / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Deverry / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Division by Zero / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dragonlance / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dune / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dying With Her Cheer Pants On / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Emberverse / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Enchanted Forest Chronicles / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Ender's Game / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Fake Saint of the Year / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Full Disclosure / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Full Metal Panic! / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Generation Kill / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
God-Emperor of Dune / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Graceling / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Halo: Evolutions / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Halo: Shadow of Intent / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Hand of Thrawn / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Heir Apparent / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
HermeticMillenium	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
Horatio Hornblower / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Inheritance Cycle / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Jade City / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Kherishdar / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Leia, Princess of Alderaan / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Mahabharata / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Mockingjay / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Moribito / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Now Blooms the Tudor Rose / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
On the Edge of Eureka / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
100 Cupboards / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Ordinary Time / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Protector of the Small / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Railhead / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Rakuin No Monshou / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Red Rising / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Rental Magica / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Revolving Door / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Sentou Yousei Yukikaze / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Shadow Ops / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Sienkiewicz Trilogy / int_c12d724c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Skyward / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Smile of Condemnation / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Space Cadet (Heinlein) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Space Marine Battles / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Spinning Silver / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Starman Jones / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Swan Song / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Accursed Kings / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Arts of Dark and Light / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Autobiography of James T. Kirk / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Book of the Named / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Cinder Spires / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Enemy / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Forever War / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The General's President / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Goblin Emperor / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Hand of Thrawn / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Heroic Legend of Arslan / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Horse and His Boy / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Invincible / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Killer Angels / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Machineries of Empire / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Martian / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Marvelous Land of Oz / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The People of the Black Circle / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Phoenix on the Sword / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Priory of the Orange Tree / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Reality Saga / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Saxon Stories / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Scarlet Citadel / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Storm of M / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Ten Thousand / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Traitor Son Cycle / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Twice-Dead King / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The War Of M / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Winter Queen Contingency / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Unwind / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Vampire Huntress Legend / int_c12d724c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Village Tales / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Villager A Wants to Save the Villainess No Matter What! / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Volle / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
X-Wing Series / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Young Royals / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Gemmifer	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
PandoraH-M	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
Ptitlex87v782e	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
TalesOfTheJedi	seeAlso	The Chains of Commanding
TheChainsOfCommanding	sameAs	The Chains of Commanding
Bokura no Kiseki (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Evangelion 303 (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Hellsing (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
It's My Life (Imomushi Narita) (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
MÄR (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Please Save My Earth (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Smile Of Condemnation (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun (Manga) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Cavalier of the Abyss (Manhwa) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Witch Hunter (Manhwa) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Lullaby for a Princess (Music) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Luna's Reply (Music) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Communication (Roleplay) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Halcyon Days (Roleplay) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
High Fantasy World (Roleplay) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Super Smash Brothers Life Itself (Roleplay) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
To Boldly Go... A Starfleet Quest (Roleplay) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
deathhunters (Roleplay) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
AD: The Bible Continues / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Boardwalk Empire / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Bunk'd / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Chicago Fire / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Cocaine Coast / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Combat Hospital / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Deadliest Catch / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Designated Survivor / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Eretz Nehederet / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Firefly / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Flashpoint / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
For All Mankind / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Foundation (2021) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Halt and Catch Fire / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Homeland / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Horatio Hornblower / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
House of Cards (US) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Isabel / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Just the Ten of Us / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Legacies / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Malcolm in the Middle / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Marco Polo / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Masters of the Air / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Medici / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Narcos / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Party of Five (2020) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Power Rangers Samurai / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Rome / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Sea Patrol / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Sorjonen / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Spellbinder / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Star Trek: Voyager / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Stargate Atlantis / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The 100 / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Astronauts (2020) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Book of Boba Fett / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Caesars / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Crown (2016) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Hollow Crown / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Red Green Show / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Shannara Chronicles / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Sopranos / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The White Princess / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Victoria / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Wings / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Zeke and Luther / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Hamilton (Theatre) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Henry IV, Part 1 (Theatre) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Henry IV, Part 2 (Theatre) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Henry V (Theatre) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Made In Dagenham (Theatre) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Richard II (Theatre) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Prince of Egypt (Theatre) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Advent Rising (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Control (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dead State (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dying Light (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Fable III (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
King's Ascent (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Last Bronx (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Lost Ark (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Prayer of the Faithless (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Romancing SaGa 3 (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Secret of Mana (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Star Trek: Resurgence (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Suikoden V (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Suzerain (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Tears to Tiara 2 (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Campaign Trail (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
This Is The Police 2 (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Transformers: The Game (DS) (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
UED First Light (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Yes, Your Grace (Video Game) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Cupid Parasite (Visual Novel) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
More Than Comrades (Visual Novel) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Piofiore: Fated Memories (Visual Novel) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Soranica Ele (Visual Novel) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Adventures of Kim Jong Un (Web Animation) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Wolf Song: The Movie (Web Animation) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Adventures in Jedi School (Web Video) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
CGP Grey (Web Video) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Star Trek Continues (Web Video) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Verum (Web Video) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Beyond the Western Deep (Webcomic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Inverted Fate (Webcomic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Pacificators (Webcomic) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Wanderer's Library (Website) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Arcane / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Bambi II / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Dragons: Riders of Berk / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Exo Squad / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Justice League Ã— RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Monster High (2022) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Star Trek: Lower Decks / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Smurfs (1981) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Wing Commander Academy / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Samoan Dynasty (Wrestling) / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding

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