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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': Jinx initially serves as a high ranking enforcer for The Chairman, being the one ghost with a genuine desire to cause misery rather than simply [[TheDreaded following him out of fear.]] She's left as the only ghost who still wants to spread misery after his defeat, with even the Ghost Council simply moving on. But after stealing the Chairman's robe from Scratch, she makes her own attempt to become the new Chairman by using its dark powers to take over both the Ghost World ''and'' the Human World, once again causing fear and misery in The Chairman's name.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': Jinx initially serves as a high ranking enforcer for The Chairman, being the one ghost with a genuine desire to cause misery rather than simply [[TheDreaded following him out of fear.]] She's left as the only ghost who wants to spread misery after his defeat, with even the Ghost Council simply moving on. But after stealing the Chairman's robe from Scratch, she makes her own attempt to become the new Chairman by using its dark powers to take over both the Ghost World ''and'' the Human World.

Compare and contrast DragonTheirFeet, DragonWithAnAgenda, TheStarscream, and BastardUnderstudy. TakeUpMySword is the heroic equivalent. Sometimes overlaps with AsLongAsThereIsEvil. While they are very similar, there's a crucial difference between this trope and being The Starscream: the Dragon was not directly involved with the Big Bad's downfall. There are many a Starscream who will become this if they outlive the BigBad, but most examples of this trope were not obsessed with becoming the BigBad in the first place, they merely [[OpportunisticBastard are opportunistically]] took the role because it was offered to them by fortune on a silver platter. They just get as much as they can so to say. There is a grey area with this, as sometimes the Dragon "drags his feet" or has his own agenda, but so long as he displays at least nominal allegiance to the core leadership, he's not the Starscream. The opposite of this trope is DemotedToDragon, where characters who were previously {{Big Bad}}s in their own right become [[TheDragon The Dragons]] to a new BigBad.

* ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone'': While the [[spoiler:Wicked Devout's]] Generals Indigo, Scarlet, Hazel, Tangerine and Orchid are only acting as CoDragons to the Wicked God in technicality, they all serve as the deity's lieutenants who have clear-cut loyalties to the Wicked God. [[spoiler:After becoming a deity by consuming a dust from the remains of the evil deity, they later continue the Wicked God's EvilPlan by planning to revive their master with a worthy vessel after Touya defeated him, making themselves the newest threat that Touya and his allies have to face.]]