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* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': The ''Oficerskaya Klika'' of the All-Russian Black League are a collection of {{War Hawk}}s and maniacs plotting to unify the country and bring about the [[red:Great Trial]] -- a prophesized final war between Russia and Nazi Germany that will see the latter annihilated forevermore as revenge for the defeat of the Soviet Union and the twenty-year campaign of subjugation and humiliation of the Russian people they have inflicted. Nothing will be allowed to stand in the way of this [[red:Great Trial]], [[spoiler:not even nuclear holocaust and the end of human civilization on Earth, as long as Germany is destroyed.]]
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** Just below him is Ross's underling, Major Glenn Talbott, a slimy jerkass who was convinced Bruce Banner was an evil Commie spy from day one, was just as obsessed with getting the Hulk, even defying orders from ''the president'' to do so, and finding out that Banner ''was'' the Hulk made things so much worse. Eventually, he snapped completely, and went renegade, stole an experimental piece of hardware and tried to kill the Hulk with it. He ended up getting killed in the process, and has stayed so since. And good riddance.
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* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries:'' General Chasen, the Department H man behind Alpha Flight, Canada's premier super-hero team. He seems convinced Canada is in some kind of cold war with America, and views Wolverine leaving to join the X-Men as "defecting". He's also behind some military experiments to recreate the process that made Wolverine in the first place, and when they fail decides the best thing to do is abduct Wolverine and vivisect him.
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More accurately a War Hawk; Staedert doesn't have any particular obsession with the Dark Planet, he's just a "shoot first" kind of guy.
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* General Staedert in ''Film/TheFifthElement''. "My philosophy, Mr. President, is to shoot first and ask questions later. I don't like uninvited guests." He also has this exchange with the President of the Federated Territories, his commander in chief, after said President begins becoming hesitant about provoking the Dark Planet:
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-->'''Staedert:''' I ''don't'', Mr. President. [''fires anyway'']
-->'''Lindberg:''' Staedert?
-->'''Staedert:''' Yes sir?
-->'''Lindberg:''' I have a doubt...
-->'''Staedert:''' I ''don't'', Mr. President. [''fires anyway'']
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* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' villain General Nikolai Zakharov ''practically wrote the book on this trope''. He was at his worst during the Soviet-Afghan War, were his monstrous actions earned him the nickname: "The Man of Stone". His various atrocities include [[spoiler:gathering up entire villages and ''forcing them off the ledge of a cliff'', to callously '''''throwing an infant off said cliff when their mother begged him to spare their baby''''']]. In fact, his actions were so bad that the [[EvenEvilHasStandards Soviets had him fired for his actions]].
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* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' villain General Nikolai Zakharov ''practically wrote the book on this trope''. He was at his worst during the Soviet-Afghan War, were his monstrous actions earned him the nickname: nickname [[TheButcher "The Man of Stone". Stone"]]. His various atrocities include [[spoiler:gathering up entire villages and ''forcing them off the ledge edge of a cliff'', to callously '''''throwing an infant off said cliff when their mother begged him to spare their baby''''']]. In fact, his actions were so bad that the [[EvenEvilHasStandards Soviets had him fired for his actions]].
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* Arch-demon Niturni in ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm''. He sacrifices a whole platoon of demon {{Mooks}} [[spoiler:just to find out how good Validus' team is]].
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* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode “[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E15ChainReaction Chain Reaction]]” saw the SGC’s commanding officer General Hammond being temporarily forced to retire by the NID and replaced by General Bauer, who the NID believed would adopt a more ruthless style of leadership that it was felt Hammond lacked. Bauer’s orders to test a new naquadah-enhanced nuclear bomb completely destroyed a planet (albeit a potentially uninhabited one) and nearly endangered Earth because of his refusal to listen to his staff’s warnings, which contributed to the decision to put Hammond back in charge of the Stargate Program.
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* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode “[[Recap/StargateSG1S4E15ChainReaction Chain Reaction]]” saw the SGC’s commanding officer General Hammond being temporarily forced to retire by the NID and replaced by General Bauer, who Bauer. While Bauer wasn’t directly affiliated with the NID believed NID, others guessed that he was chosen for the role in the belief that he would adopt be a more ruthless style of leadership that it was felt leader in the campaign against the Goa’uld where Hammond lacked. was perceived as “soft”. After Bauer’s orders to actions nearly endangered Earth when he disbanded SG-1 and ordered the test of a new naquadah-enhanced nuclear bomb completely destroyed without adequate safety precautions, resulting in the destruction of a (potentially uninhabited) planet (albeit a potentially uninhabited one) and nearly endangered Earth because of his refusal to listen to his staff’s warnings, which contributed almost being exposed to the decision to put Hammond back in charge of resulting radiation fallout, he was swiftly replaced by the Stargate Program.restored General Hammond.
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** The Changeline impersonating General Martok was this, pushing the Klingon Empire towards unwinnable or costly wars to weaken it. The actual General Martok is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, but it's unclear if that's how he always was or if his time in a Dominion prison camp mellowed him out.
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** The Changeline Changeling impersonating General Martok was this, pushing the Klingon Empire towards unwinnable or costly wars to weaken it. The actual General Martok is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, but it's unclear if that's how he always was or if his time in a Dominion prison camp mellowed him out.
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* Jim Phelps in the first ''Film/MissionImpossible'' movie shows a fair number of the symptoms of this character type.
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* Jim Phelps in the first ''Film/MissionImpossible'' movie (Creator/JonVoight) in ''[[Film/MissionImpossible1996 Mission: Impossible]]'' shows a fair number of the symptoms of this character type.type, [[BigBad for a good reason]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'', Lute was TheDragon to OriginalMan Adam with the two leading the DemonSlaying Exorcist angels. While Adam was a [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] BloodKnight just in it for the violence, Lute was a fanatic with a deep hatred for each and every resident of {{Hell}} [[spoiler:to the point that she mutilated [[FallenAngel Vaggie]] for [[WouldHurtAChild sparing a child]]]].
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*''Anime/{{Albegas}}'': General Duston doesn't get along well with the other Generals because of his perfectionist attitude. He is willing to ally with them, but holds them to rigid standards, wanting to see his ArchEnemy Albegas defeated at any cost.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': General Bell wants to invade Alderode and slaughter the Aldish and is furious Queen Sonorie is trying to politically cripple them instead. He also despises the Inak as little more than animals and uses bigotry against them to gain political favor and start slaughtering them in the streets, even though their labor is part of what allows Cresce to have an essentially PostScarcityEconomy.
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* ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': Haruki Kusakabe, the leader of the Jovian Federation, is of a KnightTemplar variety, since he's convinced that the Jovians are righteous heroes who deserve "justice" against the "villainous" Earthlings. When there's finally a chance for peace talks, he makes a series of ridiculous demands to Earth's United Forces that amount to absolute surrender and submission, and [[spoiler:orders his subordinate Tsukumo Shiratori killed and blames the Earthlings to make him a martyr]] in order to rally his forces against them and continue the conflict. That said, by the time of TheMovie, when he's finally arrested [[AFatherToHisMen he requests that his men's lives are spared]], showing that he's not completely heartless.
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* Admiral Greyfield from ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (Dark Conflict)]]''. Originally a high-ranking Rubinelle leader, he became obsessed with destroying the Lazurians, believing them to be mostly responsible for the world's current state. Since he feels that the Rubinellians aren't doing enough to wipe out Lazuria, he heads the New Rubinelle Army and decides to finish the job himself... except now he has the old Rubinellians gunning for him as well, after he shoots and kills both [[spoiler:Forsythe]] and [[spoiler:Brenner]] in cold blood. To be more accurate, he shoots [[spoiler:Forsythe]] after he surrenders and takes on all responsibility for the actions of his soldiers. [[spoiler:Then he imprisons the surviving Lazurians, planning to execute them later, but Brenner won't have any of that and helps them escape. Greyfield's response? He nukes Brenner, as well as ALL the New Rubinelle forces that had his position surrounded.]] General Ripper indeed.
* In ''VideoGame/BladeAndSoul'', there is General Yonkai, a sociopathic Stratus empire Colonel who is searching for Mushin's Legacy, something that could turn him into a God. He has a habit of overreacting to slights in [[DisproportionateRetribution disgustingly overkill]] ways and pulling rank to justify his crimes. The worst part is, your character is stuck more or less subservient because he threatens to wipe out a village you swore to protect from him, and that still doesn't stop him from working villagers to death in his mine ''while you're doing what he asks''. [[spoiler:It's telling that not even his own men shed a tear when karma catches up to him and he meets a satisfyingly cruel death at Jinsoyun's hands.]]
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'': Your first clue that General Shepherd is a bit off the hook is when you see, and -- an ally says -- Shepherd doesn't care much about the concept of "danger close". Your second is when he inserts an undercover man in villain Makarov's organization, allowing him to mow down innocent Russians at an airport in hopes of destroying the organization from within. But he goes from WellIntentionedExtremist to MagnificentBastard when you discover that [[spoiler:he was behind everything, including framing the US for the airport attack and allowing Russia to invade UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. After losing 30,000 of his men in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'''s nuclear explosion, Shepherd needed an excuse to exercise the might of the US military and essentially started World War III to do it. Protagonists "Soap" [=MacTavish=] and Captain Price take Shepherd down at the end of the game, but by then Shepherd's plot has essentially succeeded, just without him at the helm, while Price and Soap even before his death are international fugitives wanted for "treason, global terror, violent acts against the government."]]
* Commander Dominic Lockhart from ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' is utterly obsessed with destroying the Nanosuit and "Prophet". A brief line of EnemyChatter early on mentions that [[ItsPersonal he lost a nephew who was prototyping the Nanosuit.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{DEFCON}}'' [[VillainProtagonist has you playing as one of these]]. The objective of the game is to make sure the capitalist/communist/fascist/human dogs die in nuclear fire.
* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans:'' General Armquist in the first game believes the only solution to the Furons is to kill them. Scanning his thoughts even gets a ShoutOut to the trope namer's MadnessMantra.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
*** Loghain Mac Tir is a wonderful example of this trope. Having fought against the Orlesian Empire his entire life and only recently seeing his country freed from them, he is paranoid that they are using the Blight as an excuse to take over again. In fact, thinking the Grey Wardens (the only people who can stop the Blight) are under Orlesian influence, he [[spoiler:frames them for the death of King Cailan (which he himself caused when he ordered his men to retreat, leaving everyone to die at the hands of the Darkspawn), then seizes the reins of power from his daughter (who was married to King Cailan) and refuses to let Orlesian reinforcements inside the nation despite the fact that they are desperately needed against the Darkspawn.]]
*** It is, in fact, an opening statement [[spoiler:you can make in the Landsmeet]], reminding everyone that the threat is the Blight, not Orlais. Loghain [[spoiler:allowed an accomplice to murder one of his peers (another Teyrn), attempted to poison Arl Eamon to death by means of an apostate mage he spirited out of the Templars' custody, allowed Tevinter slavers to operate in the city and sell the nation's elven citizens into slavery, and plunged the nation into civil war by ham-handedly consolidating power through bullying]] while the Blight is on their doorstep... All so he can keep the Orlesians from helping with the problem.
*** The ''Return to Ostagar'' DLC and ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' expansion hint that Loghain may not have been as crazy as everyone thought; the player can discover secret letters to King Cailan implying he may have been planning to divorce his current wife (Loghain's daughter) and marry the Empress of Orlais. A few Orlesian Nobles are also "interested" in Ferelden after the Blight and civil war left it greatly weakened. While this would make Loghain ProperlyParanoid, it does not excuse his actions.
*** Of course, the reason that some Orlesians are "interested" in the weakened Ferelden was ''entirely'' his fault. If he hadn't allowed (almost) all the Wardens to die at Ostagar, the treaties would have been completed faster, as well as civil war not nearly breaking out and Ferelden would be in a far better state than it would have been when he interfered.
*** The sequel, ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', introduces Knight Commander Meredith. Her Enemy X is blood mages. [[spoiler:Her red lyrium broadsword certainly does no favors to what's left of her sanity either.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', [[MagicalSociety Mages Guild]] [[TheArchmage Archmage]] Trebonius Artorius is one. He ''is'' an extremely talented [[MagicKnight Battlemage]], but was so incompetent at running Guild affairs that his superiors [[KickedUpstairs put him in charge]] of [[ReassignedToAntarctica the Guild Branch in the most backwater district in the Empire]] to minimize the damage he could do. In dealing with Great House Telvanni, a native Dunmer {{Magocracy}} made up of [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld extremely old]] and [[EvilSorcerer somewhat amoral]] wizards which rival the Mages Guild in Vvardenfell, Trebonius decides that the best way to deal with them is to simply ''kill all of their councilors''.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** [[TheDragon Legate Lanius]] of Caesar's Legion. The rank of Legate is equivocal to General, and Lanius literally means [[TheButcher butcher]]... so his translated name is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin General Butcher]]. An interesting example, as he was elevated to his rank ''[[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership because]]'' of his BloodKnight tendencies, not ''despite'' them.
** The NCR are not exempt from this. Most notable are Colonel Cassandra Moore, whose answer to the various tribes of Vegas seem to just be to try and wipe them out (especially the Brotherhood of Steel, to the point that she'll be pissed at you for managing to come to a diplomatic solution between the two) and General Oliver, a GloryHound GeneralFailure whose main strategy is just to bide his time until he can ZergRush the Legion.
** Lanius's predecessor, Joshua Graham was renowned for his cruelty to the point that he was considered to make Lanius look tame in comparison. Even after becoming TheAtoner after his failed execution, Graham instead shifted gears to a KnightTemplar.
** The ''Lonesome Road'' DLC features the e-mails and writings of a General Devlin, who is clearly inspired by the Trope Namer. He had war protestors rounded up to serve as human test subjects, and called the manager of a wastewater treatment plant a "pinko Commie-eyed puke" simply for requesting more funding that he thinks should go to the war effort against China.
* General Bayel in ''VideoGame/GuildWars Nightfall''. Is quite happy to destroy as many villages as needed, and work with demons, to get rid of the sunspears.
* Tasen Elite Krotera from ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}''. His response to Iji's plea to get the Tasen to leave Earth is to refuse and then attempt to kill her, even if she hasn't killed a single Tasen up to this. If you're playing on the [[PacifistRun Pacifist route]], this attitude causes him to get killed [[spoiler:[[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork by one of his own troops]]]]. However, he ''does'' have a very good reason to refuse Iji: [[spoiler:Enemy X is actually here, and the Komato are quite capable of exterminating every last Tasen if they find out where they are.]] No one ever thought of both species peacefully staying on Earth.
** Though it seems he is a classic case at first, [[spoiler:General Tor of the Komato Empire turns out to be a major subversion. He's actually a SlaveToPR, and arguably a shadow counterpoint to Pacifist Iji.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the quarian admiral, Han'Gerrel, showed shades of this with his desire to go to war with the geth, quarian-creations that drove them from their homeworld and wipe them out. By ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', he has fully gone into General Ripper territory now that his species is at war with the geth. He is even perfectly willing to fire on and destroy a geth dreadnought when another quarian admiral and Shepard are on said dreadnought, with said admiral potentially being the daughter of his sadly deceased oldest friend. He also forces the other admirals to support him in this attack by making sure it's ''so reckless'' that if they don't back him up, the entire Heavy Fleet will be blown to scrap metal by the other geth forces, at which point the geth will take the Patrol and Civilian fleets apart. It's a rare ''Mass Effect'' player who is able to resist the Renegade interrupt to punch him in the stomach after he pulls that one.
-->'''Shepard:''' Admiral, you jeopardized the mission and your people. ''Get the hell off my ship.''
** For added meta points, not only is Han'Gerrel voiced by Simon Templeman, but he uses ''the exact same voice'' as for Loghain Mac Tir. He doesn't stop there either, his dedication to destroying the geth [[spoiler:is the biggest obstacle to avoiding the GenocideDilemma, and may ultimately doom his species]].
** A krogan military leader is pretty much this by default. Wrex averts it due to knowing how important it is for the krogan to stop fighting until they can cure the genophage, while Grunt averts it due to having spent time around [[MessianicArchetype Commander Shepard]].
** The [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 first game's]] prequel novel ''Literature/MassEffectRevelation'' gives shades of this to the game's BigBad, Saren Arterius. His FreudianExcuse for [[FantasticRacism hating humans]] is that his brother was killed in the [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill First Contact War]]. Early in the book he brutally slaughters a group of turian smugglers for selling to humans; upon telling this reasoning to a wounded smuggler, said smuggler replies that the war is over. Saren bitches him out, then shoots him.
*** The prequel comic ''Evolution'' revealed that this Freudian excuse is, in fact, a lie. Saren's big brother Desolus was a full-on General Ripper who was screwing around with Reaper technology and tried to turn the entire Turian Hierarchy into fanatical zombies, just so that he could wage a new war against humans. [[spoiler:Saren killed his own brother in order to stop this insane plan.]]
* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy'' Star Captain Bekker, your commander for a good chunk of the game turns out to be this when you're sent to identify the mech of a General of the Draconis Combine in order to gather information in your hunt for the Clan's stolen genetic material and capture the General for questioning. When it turns out that the General is already inside his mech, he offers to give you the information you seek, but only if you turn around and leave. Bekker, however, demands that you kill him despite him being the only lead in your search, and if the player refuses, he's so offended by your completely necessary act of insubordination that he ignores ''his'' own superiors and challenges you to a DuelToTheDeath.
* ''VideoGame/{{METAGAL}}'' has General Creeper, the BigBad who kidnapped Meta's creator, Dr. Ray, and had her eight sisters reprogrammed into combat robots to help him TakeOverTheWorld.
* General Morden of the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' games. Then again, [[CynicismCatalyst losing your family]] and [[EyeScream eye]] to a terrorist attack that could have been prevented were it not for corruption within the system can have that effect on you...
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat''
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' has Sonya Blade. She's the General of the Special Forces and is not on pleasant terms with her ex-husband (Johnny Cage) or their daughter (Cassie Cage). She does get better at the end.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' has General Shao, a ruthless [[TheWarlord warlord]] who believes Earthrealm to be the true enemy of Outworld despite the former only showing good intent.
* In ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2'', American General Hawkins favors attacking the Russians first using trained sharks with nukes attached to them that would swim up the Volga to Moscow. When he gets to push the red button at the end of the game, he comments with glee, "I wish I had some popcorn!"
* Soviet army general Alexei Guba from the ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' series.
* General Randall from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has been fighting the infection for forty years and is willing to burn Manhattan to the ground to win. In the Wildstorm comic, we see that he was "poached" from 'Nam by a General Stilwell, who was nutty and obsessed enough with the cause that he [[spoiler:coldly executes members of Randall's then-squad]] in order to recruit him.
* ''VideoGame/PunkySkunk'': Commander Chew, leader of the chew forces, and TheDragon to [[BigBad Badler]].
* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'': General Scales is riding right in the middle between this and ColonelKilgore, being a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName quasi-nazi]] dinosaur trying to TakeOverTheWorld with an M.O. of RapePillageAndBurn (and occasional enslavement via YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo.)
* The unnamed General in ''VideoGame/VivisectorBeastWithin'' is obsessed with the {{Half Human Hybrid}}s that are the enemies in the game, first as a source of disposable {{Super Soldier}}s, then as a force to control and exterminate after they rebel against his cruel treatment. He goes as far as to nuke the rebelling hybrids' village and allow a train-full of them to be destroyed to keep them in line, and even ''kills the protagonist's friend'' to ensure he helps him corral the beasts.
* Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn from the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series became this by the time of the fourth installment of the games. The Kilrathi war was over, peace had been re-established, and Tolwyn was already hard at work committing treason by staging fake terrorist attacks and breeding a new army of unstoppable killers and biological weapons to combat the next big threat. The irony of the next big threat arriving after his death was not lost.
* Shades of this appeared in Garrosh Hellscream's character in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Wrath of the Lich King''. [[MemeticBadass High Overlord Saurfang]], remembering the multiple KickTheDog acts the demon-controlled Horde committed in the past, tried to get him to tone this down. In ''Cataclysm'' he ran the Horde like this, including a side story where it is implied he would have gladly sacrificed the entire Forsaken military for a single victory.
** ''Mists of Pandaria'' sees Garrosh completely reach this level, most notably when he levels Theramore with an experimental weapon and manages to unite and convince all of the Alliance leaders against him. Even the Horde began to openly rebel against his heavy-handed tactics, culminating in the Horde and Alliance joining forces to dethrone Garrosh.
*** Many of Garrosh's favored subordinates also fall under this. They show a callous disregard for their troops, but their hatred for [[FantasticRacism non-orcs]] makes their treatment of their allies even worse.
** While Garithos in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'' appears to be one, he's really a [[FantasticRacism racist]] JerkAss who hates all non-humans. In Garithos' mind, the usefulness of the Blood Elves was simply outweighed by his burning hatred of them.
** Jaina's father, Daelin Proudmoore, came to believe that the Orcs needed to be wiped out and was willing to start an impossible war to do so.
** Varian Wrynn, the "leader" of the Alliance, hates the Horde so much he would rather let an EldritchAbomination of Lovecraftian proportion destroy the planet than help the neutral faction battling it because they also asked the Horde to help too. (Of course, the fact that Garrosh Hellscream had picked a fight with him moments earlier probably didn't help.)
*** Over time, he becomes more reasonable, at least in comparison to Garrosh, and Jaina while she gets close to JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope in the aftermath of Theramore's destruction. Sky Admiral Rogers takes up the mantle, as she [[ItsPersonal harbors a grudge against orcs]] for destroying Southshore (never mind that it was actually the Forsaken) and that Southshore was a military target. This leads to her [[MoralEventHorizon machine-gunning Horde troops trying to surrender while barely staying afloat after the destruction of their ship]].
** Arthas himself becomes something like this during his campaign against the undead. There's Stratholme to consider. The only reason he doesn't command every last soldier to this undertaking is that Uther is very much opposed to the notion. Medivh points out to him that his course of aggression against the undead only makes life easier for the Scourge. Even Muradin, Arthas' lifelong friend and teacher, calls out the prince's new qualities after he [[spoiler:burns his own ships]] to force his army forwards.
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* Admiral Greyfield from ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (Dark Conflict)]]''. Originally a high-ranking Rubinelle leader, he became obsessed with destroying the Lazurians, believing them to be mostly responsible for the world's current state. Since he feels that the Rubinellians aren't doing enough to wipe out Lazuria, he heads the New Rubinelle Army and decides to finish the job himself... except now he has the old Rubinellians gunning for him as well, after he shoots and kills both [[spoiler:Forsythe]] and [[spoiler:Brenner]] in cold blood. To be more accurate, he shoots [[spoiler:Forsythe]] after he surrenders and takes on all responsibility for the actions of his soldiers. [[spoiler:Then he imprisons the surviving Lazurians, planning to execute them later, but Brenner won't have any of that and helps them escape. Greyfield's response? He nukes Brenner, as well as ALL the New Rubinelle forces that had his position surrounded.]] General Ripper indeed.
* In ''VideoGame/BladeAndSoul'', there is General Yonkai, a sociopathic Stratus empire Colonel who is searching for Mushin's Legacy, something that could turn him into a God. He has a habit of overreacting to slights in [[DisproportionateRetribution disgustingly overkill]] ways and pulling rank to justify his crimes. The worst part is, your character is stuck more or less subservient because he threatens to wipe out a village you swore to protect from him, and that still doesn't stop him from working villagers to death in his mine ''while you're doing what he asks''. [[spoiler:It's telling that not even his own men shed a tear when karma catches up to him and he meets a satisfyingly cruel death at Jinsoyun's hands.]]
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'': Your first clue that General Shepherd is a bit off the hook is when you see, and -- an ally says -- Shepherd doesn't care much about the concept of "danger close". Your second is when he inserts an undercover man in villain Makarov's organization, allowing him to mow down innocent Russians at an airport in hopes of destroying the organization from within. But he goes from WellIntentionedExtremist to MagnificentBastard when you discover that [[spoiler:he was behind everything, including framing the US for the airport attack and allowing Russia to invade UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. After losing 30,000 of his men in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'''s nuclear explosion, Shepherd needed an excuse to exercise the might of the US military and essentially started World War III to do it. Protagonists "Soap" [=MacTavish=] and Captain Price take Shepherd down at the end of the game, but by then Shepherd's plot has essentially succeeded, just without him at the helm, while Price and Soap even before his death are international fugitives wanted for "treason, global terror, violent acts against the government."]]
* Commander Dominic Lockhart from ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'' is utterly obsessed with destroying the Nanosuit and "Prophet". A brief line of EnemyChatter early on mentions that [[ItsPersonal he lost a nephew who was prototyping the Nanosuit.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{DEFCON}}'' [[VillainProtagonist has you playing as one of these]]. The objective of the game is to make sure the capitalist/communist/fascist/human dogs die in nuclear fire.
* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans:'' General Armquist in the first game believes the only solution to the Furons is to kill them. Scanning his thoughts even gets a ShoutOut to the trope namer's MadnessMantra.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
*** Loghain Mac Tir is a wonderful example of this trope. Having fought against the Orlesian Empire his entire life and only recently seeing his country freed from them, he is paranoid that they are using the Blight as an excuse to take over again. In fact, thinking the Grey Wardens (the only people who can stop the Blight) are under Orlesian influence, he [[spoiler:frames them for the death of King Cailan (which he himself caused when he ordered his men to retreat, leaving everyone to die at the hands of the Darkspawn), then seizes the reins of power from his daughter (who was married to King Cailan) and refuses to let Orlesian reinforcements inside the nation despite the fact that they are desperately needed against the Darkspawn.]]
*** It is, in fact, an opening statement [[spoiler:you can make in the Landsmeet]], reminding everyone that the threat is the Blight, not Orlais. Loghain [[spoiler:allowed an accomplice to murder one of his peers (another Teyrn), attempted to poison Arl Eamon to death by means of an apostate mage he spirited out of the Templars' custody, allowed Tevinter slavers to operate in the city and sell the nation's elven citizens into slavery, and plunged the nation into civil war by ham-handedly consolidating power through bullying]] while the Blight is on their doorstep... All so he can keep the Orlesians from helping with the problem.
*** The ''Return to Ostagar'' DLC and ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'' expansion hint that Loghain may not have been as crazy as everyone thought; the player can discover secret letters to King Cailan implying he may have been planning to divorce his current wife (Loghain's daughter) and marry the Empress of Orlais. A few Orlesian Nobles are also "interested" in Ferelden after the Blight and civil war left it greatly weakened. While this would make Loghain ProperlyParanoid, it does not excuse his actions.
*** Of course, the reason that some Orlesians are "interested" in the weakened Ferelden was ''entirely'' his fault. If he hadn't allowed (almost) all the Wardens to die at Ostagar, the treaties would have been completed faster, as well as civil war not nearly breaking out and Ferelden would be in a far better state than it would have been when he interfered.
*** The sequel, ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', introduces Knight Commander Meredith. Her Enemy X is blood mages. [[spoiler:Her red lyrium broadsword certainly does no favors to what's left of her sanity either.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'', [[MagicalSociety Mages Guild]] [[TheArchmage Archmage]] Trebonius Artorius is one. He ''is'' an extremely talented [[MagicKnight Battlemage]], but was so incompetent at running Guild affairs that his superiors [[KickedUpstairs put him in charge]] of [[ReassignedToAntarctica the Guild Branch in the most backwater district in the Empire]] to minimize the damage he could do. In dealing with Great House Telvanni, a native Dunmer {{Magocracy}} made up of [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld extremely old]] and [[EvilSorcerer somewhat amoral]] wizards which rival the Mages Guild in Vvardenfell, Trebonius decides that the best way to deal with them is to simply ''kill all of their councilors''.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'':
** [[TheDragon Legate Lanius]] of Caesar's Legion. The rank of Legate is equivocal to General, and Lanius literally means [[TheButcher butcher]]... so his translated name is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin General Butcher]]. An interesting example, as he was elevated to his rank ''[[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership because]]'' of his BloodKnight tendencies, not ''despite'' them.
** The NCR are not exempt from this. Most notable are Colonel Cassandra Moore, whose answer to the various tribes of Vegas seem to just be to try and wipe them out (especially the Brotherhood of Steel, to the point that she'll be pissed at you for managing to come to a diplomatic solution between the two) and General Oliver, a GloryHound GeneralFailure whose main strategy is just to bide his time until he can ZergRush the Legion.
** Lanius's predecessor, Joshua Graham was renowned for his cruelty to the point that he was considered to make Lanius look tame in comparison. Even after becoming TheAtoner after his failed execution, Graham instead shifted gears to a KnightTemplar.
** The ''Lonesome Road'' DLC features the e-mails and writings of a General Devlin, who is clearly inspired by the Trope Namer. He had war protestors rounded up to serve as human test subjects, and called the manager of a wastewater treatment plant a "pinko Commie-eyed puke" simply for requesting more funding that he thinks should go to the war effort against China.
* General Bayel in ''VideoGame/GuildWars Nightfall''. Is quite happy to destroy as many villages as needed, and work with demons, to get rid of the sunspears.
* Tasen Elite Krotera from ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}''. His response to Iji's plea to get the Tasen to leave Earth is to refuse and then attempt to kill her, even if she hasn't killed a single Tasen up to this. If you're playing on the [[PacifistRun Pacifist route]], this attitude causes him to get killed [[spoiler:[[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork by one of his own troops]]]]. However, he ''does'' have a very good reason to refuse Iji: [[spoiler:Enemy X is actually here, and the Komato are quite capable of exterminating every last Tasen if they find out where they are.]] No one ever thought of both species peacefully staying on Earth.
** Though it seems he is a classic case at first, [[spoiler:General Tor of the Komato Empire turns out to be a major subversion. He's actually a SlaveToPR, and arguably a shadow counterpoint to Pacifist Iji.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the quarian admiral, Han'Gerrel, showed shades of this with his desire to go to war with the geth, quarian-creations that drove them from their homeworld and wipe them out. By ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', he has fully gone into General Ripper territory now that his species is at war with the geth. He is even perfectly willing to fire on and destroy a geth dreadnought when another quarian admiral and Shepard are on said dreadnought, with said admiral potentially being the daughter of his sadly deceased oldest friend. He also forces the other admirals to support him in this attack by making sure it's ''so reckless'' that if they don't back him up, the entire Heavy Fleet will be blown to scrap metal by the other geth forces, at which point the geth will take the Patrol and Civilian fleets apart. It's a rare ''Mass Effect'' player who is able to resist the Renegade interrupt to punch him in the stomach after he pulls that one.
-->'''Shepard:''' Admiral, you jeopardized the mission and your people. ''Get the hell off my ship.''
** For added meta points, not only is Han'Gerrel voiced by Simon Templeman, but he uses ''the exact same voice'' as for Loghain Mac Tir. He doesn't stop there either, his dedication to destroying the geth [[spoiler:is the biggest obstacle to avoiding the GenocideDilemma, and may ultimately doom his species]].
** A krogan military leader is pretty much this by default. Wrex averts it due to knowing how important it is for the krogan to stop fighting until they can cure the genophage, while Grunt averts it due to having spent time around [[MessianicArchetype Commander Shepard]].
** The [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 first game's]] prequel novel ''Literature/MassEffectRevelation'' gives shades of this to the game's BigBad, Saren Arterius. His FreudianExcuse for [[FantasticRacism hating humans]] is that his brother was killed in the [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill First Contact War]]. Early in the book he brutally slaughters a group of turian smugglers for selling to humans; upon telling this reasoning to a wounded smuggler, said smuggler replies that the war is over. Saren bitches him out, then shoots him.
*** The prequel comic ''Evolution'' revealed that this Freudian excuse is, in fact, a lie. Saren's big brother Desolus was a full-on General Ripper who was screwing around with Reaper technology and tried to turn the entire Turian Hierarchy into fanatical zombies, just so that he could wage a new war against humans. [[spoiler:Saren killed his own brother in order to stop this insane plan.]]
* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bear's Legacy'' Star Captain Bekker, your commander for a good chunk of the game turns out to be this when you're sent to identify the mech of a General of the Draconis Combine in order to gather information in your hunt for the Clan's stolen genetic material and capture the General for questioning. When it turns out that the General is already inside his mech, he offers to give you the information you seek, but only if you turn around and leave. Bekker, however, demands that you kill him despite him being the only lead in your search, and if the player refuses, he's so offended by your completely necessary act of insubordination that he ignores ''his'' own superiors and challenges you to a DuelToTheDeath.
* ''VideoGame/{{METAGAL}}'' has General Creeper, the BigBad who kidnapped Meta's creator, Dr. Ray, and had her eight sisters reprogrammed into combat robots to help him TakeOverTheWorld.
* General Morden of the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' games. Then again, [[CynicismCatalyst losing your family]] and [[EyeScream eye]] to a terrorist attack that could have been prevented were it not for corruption within the system can have that effect on you...
* ''Franchise/MortalKombat''
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' has Sonya Blade. She's the General of the Special Forces and is not on pleasant terms with her ex-husband (Johnny Cage) or their daughter (Cassie Cage). She does get better at the end.
** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' has General Shao, a ruthless [[TheWarlord warlord]] who believes Earthrealm to be the true enemy of Outworld despite the former only showing good intent.
* In ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever 2'', American General Hawkins favors attacking the Russians first using trained sharks with nukes attached to them that would swim up the Volga to Moscow. When he gets to push the red button at the end of the game, he comments with glee, "I wish I had some popcorn!"
* Soviet army general Alexei Guba from the ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' series.
* General Randall from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has been fighting the infection for forty years and is willing to burn Manhattan to the ground to win. In the Wildstorm comic, we see that he was "poached" from 'Nam by a General Stilwell, who was nutty and obsessed enough with the cause that he [[spoiler:coldly executes members of Randall's then-squad]] in order to recruit him.
* ''VideoGame/PunkySkunk'': Commander Chew, leader of the chew forces, and TheDragon to [[BigBad Badler]].
* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'': General Scales is riding right in the middle between this and ColonelKilgore, being a [[ANaziByAnyOtherName quasi-nazi]] dinosaur trying to TakeOverTheWorld with an M.O. of RapePillageAndBurn (and occasional enslavement via YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo.)
* The unnamed General in ''VideoGame/VivisectorBeastWithin'' is obsessed with the {{Half Human Hybrid}}s that are the enemies in the game, first as a source of disposable {{Super Soldier}}s, then as a force to control and exterminate after they rebel against his cruel treatment. He goes as far as to nuke the rebelling hybrids' village and allow a train-full of them to be destroyed to keep them in line, and even ''kills the protagonist's friend'' to ensure he helps him corral the beasts.
* Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn from the ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series became this by the time of the fourth installment of the games. The Kilrathi war was over, peace had been re-established, and Tolwyn was already hard at work committing treason by staging fake terrorist attacks and breeding a new army of unstoppable killers and biological weapons to combat the next big threat. The irony of the next big threat arriving after his death was not lost.
* Shades of this appeared in Garrosh Hellscream's character in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Wrath of the Lich King''. [[MemeticBadass High Overlord Saurfang]], remembering the multiple KickTheDog acts the demon-controlled Horde committed in the past, tried to get him to tone this down. In ''Cataclysm'' he ran the Horde like this, including a side story where it is implied he would have gladly sacrificed the entire Forsaken military for a single victory.
** ''Mists of Pandaria'' sees Garrosh completely reach this level, most notably when he levels Theramore with an experimental weapon and manages to unite and convince all of the Alliance leaders against him. Even the Horde began to openly rebel against his heavy-handed tactics, culminating in the Horde and Alliance joining forces to dethrone Garrosh.
*** Many of Garrosh's favored subordinates also fall under this. They show a callous disregard for their troops, but their hatred for [[FantasticRacism non-orcs]] makes their treatment of their allies even worse.
** While Garithos in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'' appears to be one, he's really a [[FantasticRacism racist]] JerkAss who hates all non-humans. In Garithos' mind, the usefulness of the Blood Elves was simply outweighed by his burning hatred of them.
** Jaina's father, Daelin Proudmoore, came to believe that the Orcs needed to be wiped out and was willing to start an impossible war to do so.
** Varian Wrynn, the "leader" of the Alliance, hates the Horde so much he would rather let an EldritchAbomination of Lovecraftian proportion destroy the planet than help the neutral faction battling it because they also asked the Horde to help too. (Of course, the fact that Garrosh Hellscream had picked a fight with him moments earlier probably didn't help.)
*** Over time, he becomes more reasonable, at least in comparison to Garrosh, and Jaina while she gets close to JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope in the aftermath of Theramore's destruction. Sky Admiral Rogers takes up the mantle, as she [[ItsPersonal harbors a grudge against orcs]] for destroying Southshore (never mind that it was actually the Forsaken) and that Southshore was a military target. This leads to her [[MoralEventHorizon machine-gunning Horde troops trying to surrender while barely staying afloat after the destruction of their ship]].
** Arthas himself becomes something like this during his campaign against the undead. There's Stratholme to consider. The only reason he doesn't command every last soldier to this undertaking is that Uther is very much opposed to the notion. Medivh points out to him that his course of aggression against the undead only makes life easier for the Scourge. Even Muradin, Arthas' lifelong friend and teacher, calls out the prince's new qualities after he [[spoiler:burns his own ships]] to force his army forwards.
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* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'':
** General Matthew Shrieve in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Besides being an actual general, he seems like a ReasonableAuthorityFigure at first but is revealed to be an over-zealous, militant bastard in "Broken Arrow" when he enacts a hostile takeover of A.R.G.U.S. and plans to kill thousands of Hong Kong citizens with the Omega.
** In the same universe, General Wade Eiling in ''Series/TheFlash2014'', who's willing to resort to torture, murder, or anything else to create super-soldiers and gain any potential weapon to strengthen the U.S. Military.
** Subverted in ''Series/SupermanAndLois''. Although General Sam Lane is usually portrayed as this, the series version trusts and regularly cooperates with Superman and even has a signalling device to summon him for help in a crisis. It probably helps that he knows Superman is really his son-in-law and the father of his grandkids. They even go on fishing trips together.
*** Deconstructed by General Mitch Anderson. He gradually becomes convinced of a conspiracy against America with Superman at the centre, and eventually goes rogue and tries to kill him with stolen SuperSerum and Kryptonite weapons. He gets declared [=AWOL=] and a traitor.
* General "Bull" Fulbright from Season 4 of ''Series/TheATeam''. If you replace "Enemy X" in the example above with "The A-Team", you get his general approach to catching the A-Team.
* During the events of ''Series/BabylonFive'', the entire leadership of the Minbari Warrior Caste seems to be made up of General Rippers. For a race that prides itself on being culturally and spiritually superior, they are incredibly brutal and merciless. However, it is likely that both Neroon and Shakiri were bad even for their kind, as they started the first civil war among Minbari in over a thousand years. [[spoiler:Neroon, at least, overcame this mentality, but by that point, the civil war was in full force, and he was forced to negotiate a secret agreement with Delenn behind Shakiri's back.]]
* ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'':
** Admiral Helena Cain, commanding officer of the battlestar Pegasus in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', may be a rare female example -- a hotshot young (at least compared to Adama) military commander who cracked under pressure after the Cylon attack, leading her to abandon civilians to die after "requisitioning" all their supplies and fuel, use torture, allow her troops to keep their morale up by raping female Cylons, and punish any disobedience with ''[[ThrownOutTheAirlock summary execution]]'', all in the name of her suicidal quest to obliterate the Cylon fleet.
** Helena Cain is the new series's take on Cain (played by Lloyd Bridges) from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978''. The original Admiral Cain was apparently based in turn on George S. Patton. Ron Moore notes this in the Razor DVD commentary. The original Cain, much like the character he was based upon, was more of a MagnificentBastard than a General Ripper.
* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'':
** The Duke of Wellington (as played by Creator/StephenFry) in "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E6DuelAndDuality Duel and Duality]]". He declares that the only way to win a campaign is to "shout, shout, and shout again". When it's suggested that conditions in his army are appalling, he misunderstands the comment and says that those ''are'' his conditions and you'll just have to accept them. His regimental crest is two crossed dead Frenchmen emblazoned on a mound of dead Frenchmen and duels with ''cannon'' because "only girls fight with swords these days."
** Field Marshal Haig is portrayed as one in "[[Recap/BlackadderS4E6Goodbyeee Goodbyeee]]" in a much darker manner. He's played by Geoffery Palmer with no bombast, nor even Melchett's enthusiastic delusion. Instead, he quite calmly sweeps up rows and rows of toy soldiers with a dustpan and chucks them over his shoulder as he plans out the battle in which the show's protagonists are about to take part.
* On ''Series/BlackSails'', Captain Flint is portrayed as being single-mindedly obsessed with his goals and willing to sacrifice his crew to achieve them. Some of his crew members are already suspicious of him due to an earlier incident where he convinced them to pursue a certain ship that was supposedly carrying valuable cargo. Capturing the ship cost six pirates their lives and the loot was far less than they could have gotten going after an easier target. Flint's real target were two noble passengers who he wanted to kill for revenge. In the present, his pursuit of the Urca and its treasure has caused him to deceive his crew and put the ship at risk multiple times. The only reason the crew has not risen against him is that they are desperate men and figure that they need Flint to get to the treasure. Afterwards, all bets are off.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/hirx74/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-aliens-vs--senator satirized John [=McCain=] blaming wildfires in Arizona on being started by illegal immigrants]] by bringing in a puppet version of him for an interview. Puppet Senator [=McCain=] started blaming illegal immigrants for everything from starting fires to [[PokeThePoodle hiding his remote in his freezer and knocking over his trash bins]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Doctor has become this towards the Daleks after fighting them for centuries, eventually even counting their narrow escape as complete and utter failure and defeat on his part. In fact, his entire race became this to the point where they were preparing to destroy reality to stop the Daleks for good, instigating a time war that destroyed entire civilizations and led the Doctor to disown one of his own incarnations. This tendency was later turned against the Doctor by Missy when she briefly traps his companion Clara inside a Dalek and tries to goad the Doctor into destroying it in his hatred.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]], (which introduces the Cybermen), the main villain is an American general who is a perfect Ripper type. He wants to destroy the Cybermen's planet with a planet-busting "Z-Bomb" to avenge his own son and is ready to disobey orders to do it (the Doctor realizes that doing nothing is the better course of action; and most of the story is his companions trying to stop the out-of-control general).
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath "The Ambassadors of Death"]]: General Carrington. His actions are prompted by xenophobia driven by his own encounter with the alien beings when he piloted Mars Probe Six some years earlier. His co-pilot, Jim Daniels, was killed on contact with the aliens and Carrington signed the treaty with the aliens to lure three of their number to Earth, where he hoped he could unveil their real agenda of alien invasion.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace "Frontier in Space"]]: The crazy and paranoid General Williams, who wants immediate and destructive war against the Draconians at every slight and advocates for extreme measures at every counsel with the President of Earth.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter "The Doctor's Daughter"]]: General Cobb is positively bloodthirsty about wiping out the Hath, and when it looks like the mythical Source has been located, wants to use it as a weapon against them.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]]: Silurian military commander Restac's mind is overrun with thoughts of violence, as she is obsessed with "protecting" her people from humans to the point of nearly staging a coup against her government and ''murders'' one of her people as part of this supposed protection.
* Oddly subverted in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Bushwhacked" when an Alliance cruiser captain thinks Mal is one of these.
-->'''Alliance captain:''' You're still fighting the same war, only those weren't soldiers you murdered.
** But as Mal puts it to a store manager he's robbing in [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]]:
--->'''Mal:''' War's long done. We're all just folk now.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': [[Characters/GameOfThronesNightsWatch Ser Alliser Thorne]] of the Night's Watch simply cannot take the long view on the wildlings, viewing them as barely if at all even human (not that some wildlings such as the cannibalistic Thenn haven't given the Night's Watch good reason to regard them in such a way), and Thorne refuses all the way to the end of [[spoiler:his brief mutiny]] to acknowledge that 100,000 wildlings behind the Wall, however bad, is better than 100,000 wights assaulting it.
* ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'' episode "Operation: Spoilsport" had one of these plotting to start WorldWarIII.
* ''Series/InspectorGeorgeGently'': Colonel Darwin in "Gently with Honour". He is so obsessed with defeating the communists that he subjects his men to unauthorised drug experiments, tortures and murders them, and then commits further murders to cover up his crimes.
* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'':
** In the season two premier, General Waverly is the highest ranking Valhalla Sector military officer and is the most passionate advocate behind recreating [[TheVirus the Big Death]] to kill the grown-up children who survived the first pandemic and are challenging the Sector's power monopoly. He also tortures Jeremiah with electric shocks and [[spoiler:spends his last moments before dying unrepentantly ranting about how America could have conquered the whole world if not for the intervention of Jeremiah and the others]].
** Sims is the FrontlineGeneral of the Army of Daniel, casually burns towns that are in negotiations with his enemies, and admits that he enjoys killing. While he does have an extremely DarkAndTroubledPast and is DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife, when he learns that all of his atrocities are based on a lie, he shows no guilt or introspection and [[spoiler:is even excited at the idea that he can use this knowledge to overthrow his superiors]].
* A DrivingQuestion in ''Series/LastResort'' is about whether submarine Captain Marcus Chaplin has become one of these or is a DefectorFromDecadence.
* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel became a military commandant of her own small company just to hunt down Sauron. After centuries of getting consumed by pure hatred, she became a KnightTemplar with little regard for other people's lives, to the point that she cannot conceive having a life outside of obsessing over Sauron.
* Colonel Flagg in ''Series/{{MASH}}'' is this, as a member of the CIA and Army Intelligence. Normally when he shows up it's to sniff out potential disloyalty, cowardice, or Communist sympathy. However, despite his Ripper tendencies (he claims that BJ and Hawkeye are both on a list for never taking him seriously, often threatens people to get compliance, and is fully willing to torture), he's always played as an idiotic nutcase that no one takes seriously. In his final episode, "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys", it's revealed that he's raised so many false alarms that ''no one'' takes him seriously anymore. The [=MPs=] even chide themselves for believing his hype.
* General Slade Wilson on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' is firmly convinced all heroes need to be under government control, else they threaten the stability of the government. And if he has to use ColdBloodedTorture, murder, and corruption by [[UnseenEvil Darkseid]] to get his way, so be it.
* Every captain in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise have each [[HeWhoFightsMonsters come to the brink]] of becoming General Rippers, before pulling back: Captain Kirk in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' (Klingons); Captain Picard in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' (the Borg); Captain Sisko in the latter seasons of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' (the Maquis and later the Dominion); Captain Janeway in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E25S6E1Equinox Equinox]]" (Captain Ransom, he himself a bona fide General Ripper ironically enough, and his crew of the titular ship), and Captain Archer in the latter half of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' (the Xindi). [[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Captain Lorca]] ''started'' as a borderline General Ripper, having been brutally traumatized during an early action in the war, but has flashes of a more human past, [[spoiler:at least until it turns out that he's EvilAllAlong -- and ''[[MirrorUniverse not quite]]'' the "real" Lorca, either]].
** Sisko borders on becoming a full-blown General Ripper at times, though he does realize it and, under the circumstances, decides [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality it's necessary]] to get his hands bloody in exchange for saving billions. "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight In the Pale Moonlight]]" when he [[spoiler: authorizes the creation of a fake Dominion plot to attack Romulus in order to get the Romulans to come into the war and then covers up the murder of the Romulan Senator who discovers the hoax and threatens to expose it]].
--->''"So: I lied... I cheated... I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all: I think I can live with it. [[IgnoredEpiphany And if I had to do it all over again, I would]]."''
** Sisko held many personal vendettas over the course of his tenure. These ranged from a bitter enmity, such as toward traitorous Security Chief Michael Eddington (whom Sisko hunted across the universe), to a Vulcan bully from his academy days who challenged him to a baseball game. (Sisko [[SeriousBusiness ruthlessly drills his entire staff]] to defeat the Vulcan team.)
** Major Kira Nerys starts as a lower-ranking version of this (with the Cardassians). She gets better via CharacterDevelopment ("[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]" being a major turning point).
** The Changeline impersonating General Martok was this, pushing the Klingon Empire towards unwinnable or costly wars to weaken it. The actual General Martok is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, but it's unclear if that's how he always was or if his time in a Dominion prison camp mellowed him out.
** There was also Admiral Satie, renowned for her zeal in [[HangingJudge sniffing out conspiracies]], going loco in the ''Next Generation'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]" looking for Romulan collaborators. Apparently, being famous as a conspiracy-uncoverer makes one pretty paranoid in one's old age...
** And Admiral Leyton, who tried to overthrow the Federation government and install a Starfleet-run military regime because he believed it was necessary to combat the Dominion.
** And Admiral Pressman, who as a captain violated an interstellar treaty and started developing a Federation cloaking device, and only got more fanatical about Starfleet being "held back" by the treaty with age and promotions...
*** It's a running joke among ''Trek'' fans that any Starfleet Admiral with a speaking role will almost certainly be evil and/or crazy. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Ronald D. Moore after creating Admiral Pressman: "I am proud to say that I've written another insane Admiral. They must put something in the water at Federation Headquarters."
** Commodore Decker in the ''TOS'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]". His goal was fine, but his methods were suicidal... literally, as it turned out.
** In the ''TNG'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded The Wounded]]", the Enterprise is sent to intercept a rogue starship whose captain is about to start a war with Cardassia because he believed the Cardassians was preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Federation. The trope is played with since while the rogue captain is shown as being a paranoid wreck who never recovered from the murder of his family by the Cardassians, as it turns out, his suspicions were ''right'' even though his methods were wrong. Also, unlike most Rippers, he [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knows when to fold them]], at least after a trusted former crewmember confirms that his situation is unwinnable.
** Season 2 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' introduces an AlternateUniverse that's not too dissimilar from the MirrorUniverse. In it, humanity is xenophobic and militaristic to the extreme, with the Confederation of Earth leading a crusade to subjugate the galaxy under the motto "A safe galaxy is a human galaxy." They are significantly more successful than the Terrans and have even managed to wipe out the Borg. And the man leading the charge? General Jean-Luc Picard of the CSS ''[[TheDreadedDreadnought World Razer]]''. When Q transports Prime!Picard to this alternate reality, he shows him the skulls of the enemies General Picard has personally slain, including Grand Nagus Zek, Gul Dukat, General Martok, and Director Sarek.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Season 4 introduces Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan, a U.S. Army officer who seeks to bring Eleven back into government control without any thought for consequences. He uses torture at the drop of the hat and openly deploys uniformed soldiers who cause extensive damage and casualties in civilian-heavy environments.
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* ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'':
** General Matthew Shrieve in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Besides being an actual general, he seems like a ReasonableAuthorityFigure at first but is revealed to be an over-zealous, militant bastard in "Broken Arrow" when he enacts a hostile takeover of A.R.G.U.S. and plans to kill thousands of Hong Kong citizens with the Omega.
** In the same universe, General Wade Eiling in ''Series/TheFlash2014'', who's willing to resort to torture, murder, or anything else to create super-soldiers and gain any potential weapon to strengthen the U.S. Military.
** Subverted in ''Series/SupermanAndLois''. Although General Sam Lane is usually portrayed as this, the series version trusts and regularly cooperates with Superman and even has a signalling device to summon him for help in a crisis. It probably helps that he knows Superman is really his son-in-law and the father of his grandkids. They even go on fishing trips together.
*** Deconstructed by General Mitch Anderson. He gradually becomes convinced of a conspiracy against America with Superman at the centre, and eventually goes rogue and tries to kill him with stolen SuperSerum and Kryptonite weapons. He gets declared [=AWOL=] and a traitor.
* General "Bull" Fulbright from Season 4 of ''Series/TheATeam''. If you replace "Enemy X" in the example above with "The A-Team", you get his general approach to catching the A-Team.
* During the events of ''Series/BabylonFive'', the entire leadership of the Minbari Warrior Caste seems to be made up of General Rippers. For a race that prides itself on being culturally and spiritually superior, they are incredibly brutal and merciless. However, it is likely that both Neroon and Shakiri were bad even for their kind, as they started the first civil war among Minbari in over a thousand years. [[spoiler:Neroon, at least, overcame this mentality, but by that point, the civil war was in full force, and he was forced to negotiate a secret agreement with Delenn behind Shakiri's back.]]
* ''Franchise/BattlestarGalactica'':
** Admiral Helena Cain, commanding officer of the battlestar Pegasus in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', may be a rare female example -- a hotshot young (at least compared to Adama) military commander who cracked under pressure after the Cylon attack, leading her to abandon civilians to die after "requisitioning" all their supplies and fuel, use torture, allow her troops to keep their morale up by raping female Cylons, and punish any disobedience with ''[[ThrownOutTheAirlock summary execution]]'', all in the name of her suicidal quest to obliterate the Cylon fleet.
** Helena Cain is the new series's take on Cain (played by Lloyd Bridges) from ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978''. The original Admiral Cain was apparently based in turn on George S. Patton. Ron Moore notes this in the Razor DVD commentary. The original Cain, much like the character he was based upon, was more of a MagnificentBastard than a General Ripper.
* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'':
** The Duke of Wellington (as played by Creator/StephenFry) in "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E6DuelAndDuality Duel and Duality]]". He declares that the only way to win a campaign is to "shout, shout, and shout again". When it's suggested that conditions in his army are appalling, he misunderstands the comment and says that those ''are'' his conditions and you'll just have to accept them. His regimental crest is two crossed dead Frenchmen emblazoned on a mound of dead Frenchmen and duels with ''cannon'' because "only girls fight with swords these days."
** Field Marshal Haig is portrayed as one in "[[Recap/BlackadderS4E6Goodbyeee Goodbyeee]]" in a much darker manner. He's played by Geoffery Palmer with no bombast, nor even Melchett's enthusiastic delusion. Instead, he quite calmly sweeps up rows and rows of toy soldiers with a dustpan and chucks them over his shoulder as he plans out the battle in which the show's protagonists are about to take part.
* On ''Series/BlackSails'', Captain Flint is portrayed as being single-mindedly obsessed with his goals and willing to sacrifice his crew to achieve them. Some of his crew members are already suspicious of him due to an earlier incident where he convinced them to pursue a certain ship that was supposedly carrying valuable cargo. Capturing the ship cost six pirates their lives and the loot was far less than they could have gotten going after an easier target. Flint's real target were two noble passengers who he wanted to kill for revenge. In the present, his pursuit of the Urca and its treasure has caused him to deceive his crew and put the ship at risk multiple times. The only reason the crew has not risen against him is that they are desperate men and figure that they need Flint to get to the treasure. Afterwards, all bets are off.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/hirx74/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-aliens-vs--senator satirized John [=McCain=] blaming wildfires in Arizona on being started by illegal immigrants]] by bringing in a puppet version of him for an interview. Puppet Senator [=McCain=] started blaming illegal immigrants for everything from starting fires to [[PokeThePoodle hiding his remote in his freezer and knocking over his trash bins]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Doctor has become this towards the Daleks after fighting them for centuries, eventually even counting their narrow escape as complete and utter failure and defeat on his part. In fact, his entire race became this to the point where they were preparing to destroy reality to stop the Daleks for good, instigating a time war that destroyed entire civilizations and led the Doctor to disown one of his own incarnations. This tendency was later turned against the Doctor by Missy when she briefly traps his companion Clara inside a Dalek and tries to goad the Doctor into destroying it in his hatred.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]], (which introduces the Cybermen), the main villain is an American general who is a perfect Ripper type. He wants to destroy the Cybermen's planet with a planet-busting "Z-Bomb" to avenge his own son and is ready to disobey orders to do it (the Doctor realizes that doing nothing is the better course of action; and most of the story is his companions trying to stop the out-of-control general).
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath "The Ambassadors of Death"]]: General Carrington. His actions are prompted by xenophobia driven by his own encounter with the alien beings when he piloted Mars Probe Six some years earlier. His co-pilot, Jim Daniels, was killed on contact with the aliens and Carrington signed the treaty with the aliens to lure three of their number to Earth, where he hoped he could unveil their real agenda of alien invasion.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace "Frontier in Space"]]: The crazy and paranoid General Williams, who wants immediate and destructive war against the Draconians at every slight and advocates for extreme measures at every counsel with the President of Earth.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter "The Doctor's Daughter"]]: General Cobb is positively bloodthirsty about wiping out the Hath, and when it looks like the mythical Source has been located, wants to use it as a weapon against them.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood "Cold Blood"]]: Silurian military commander Restac's mind is overrun with thoughts of violence, as she is obsessed with "protecting" her people from humans to the point of nearly staging a coup against her government and ''murders'' one of her people as part of this supposed protection.
* Oddly subverted in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Bushwhacked" when an Alliance cruiser captain thinks Mal is one of these.
-->'''Alliance captain:''' You're still fighting the same war, only those weren't soldiers you murdered.
** But as Mal puts it to a store manager he's robbing in [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie]]:
--->'''Mal:''' War's long done. We're all just folk now.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': [[Characters/GameOfThronesNightsWatch Ser Alliser Thorne]] of the Night's Watch simply cannot take the long view on the wildlings, viewing them as barely if at all even human (not that some wildlings such as the cannibalistic Thenn haven't given the Night's Watch good reason to regard them in such a way), and Thorne refuses all the way to the end of [[spoiler:his brief mutiny]] to acknowledge that 100,000 wildlings behind the Wall, however bad, is better than 100,000 wights assaulting it.
* ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'' episode "Operation: Spoilsport" had one of these plotting to start WorldWarIII.
* ''Series/InspectorGeorgeGently'': Colonel Darwin in "Gently with Honour". He is so obsessed with defeating the communists that he subjects his men to unauthorised drug experiments, tortures and murders them, and then commits further murders to cover up his crimes.
* ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'':
** In the season two premier, General Waverly is the highest ranking Valhalla Sector military officer and is the most passionate advocate behind recreating [[TheVirus the Big Death]] to kill the grown-up children who survived the first pandemic and are challenging the Sector's power monopoly. He also tortures Jeremiah with electric shocks and [[spoiler:spends his last moments before dying unrepentantly ranting about how America could have conquered the whole world if not for the intervention of Jeremiah and the others]].
** Sims is the FrontlineGeneral of the Army of Daniel, casually burns towns that are in negotiations with his enemies, and admits that he enjoys killing. While he does have an extremely DarkAndTroubledPast and is DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife, when he learns that all of his atrocities are based on a lie, he shows no guilt or introspection and [[spoiler:is even excited at the idea that he can use this knowledge to overthrow his superiors]].
* A DrivingQuestion in ''Series/LastResort'' is about whether submarine Captain Marcus Chaplin has become one of these or is a DefectorFromDecadence.
* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel became a military commandant of her own small company just to hunt down Sauron. After centuries of getting consumed by pure hatred, she became a KnightTemplar with little regard for other people's lives, to the point that she cannot conceive having a life outside of obsessing over Sauron.
* Colonel Flagg in ''Series/{{MASH}}'' is this, as a member of the CIA and Army Intelligence. Normally when he shows up it's to sniff out potential disloyalty, cowardice, or Communist sympathy. However, despite his Ripper tendencies (he claims that BJ and Hawkeye are both on a list for never taking him seriously, often threatens people to get compliance, and is fully willing to torture), he's always played as an idiotic nutcase that no one takes seriously. In his final episode, "Rally 'Round the Flagg, Boys", it's revealed that he's raised so many false alarms that ''no one'' takes him seriously anymore. The [=MPs=] even chide themselves for believing his hype.
* General Slade Wilson on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' is firmly convinced all heroes need to be under government control, else they threaten the stability of the government. And if he has to use ColdBloodedTorture, murder, and corruption by [[UnseenEvil Darkseid]] to get his way, so be it.
* Every captain in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise have each [[HeWhoFightsMonsters come to the brink]] of becoming General Rippers, before pulling back: Captain Kirk in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' (Klingons); Captain Picard in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' (the Borg); Captain Sisko in the latter seasons of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' (the Maquis and later the Dominion); Captain Janeway in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E25S6E1Equinox Equinox]]" (Captain Ransom, he himself a bona fide General Ripper ironically enough, and his crew of the titular ship), and Captain Archer in the latter half of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' (the Xindi). [[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Captain Lorca]] ''started'' as a borderline General Ripper, having been brutally traumatized during an early action in the war, but has flashes of a more human past, [[spoiler:at least until it turns out that he's EvilAllAlong -- and ''[[MirrorUniverse not quite]]'' the "real" Lorca, either]].
** Sisko borders on becoming a full-blown General Ripper at times, though he does realize it and, under the circumstances, decides [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality it's necessary]] to get his hands bloody in exchange for saving billions. "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight In the Pale Moonlight]]" when he [[spoiler: authorizes the creation of a fake Dominion plot to attack Romulus in order to get the Romulans to come into the war and then covers up the murder of the Romulan Senator who discovers the hoax and threatens to expose it]].
--->''"So: I lied... I cheated... I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all: I think I can live with it. [[IgnoredEpiphany And if I had to do it all over again, I would]]."''
** Sisko held many personal vendettas over the course of his tenure. These ranged from a bitter enmity, such as toward traitorous Security Chief Michael Eddington (whom Sisko hunted across the universe), to a Vulcan bully from his academy days who challenged him to a baseball game. (Sisko [[SeriousBusiness ruthlessly drills his entire staff]] to defeat the Vulcan team.)
** Major Kira Nerys starts as a lower-ranking version of this (with the Cardassians). She gets better via CharacterDevelopment ("[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]" being a major turning point).
** The Changeline impersonating General Martok was this, pushing the Klingon Empire towards unwinnable or costly wars to weaken it. The actual General Martok is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, but it's unclear if that's how he always was or if his time in a Dominion prison camp mellowed him out.
** There was also Admiral Satie, renowned for her zeal in [[HangingJudge sniffing out conspiracies]], going loco in the ''Next Generation'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead The Drumhead]]" looking for Romulan collaborators. Apparently, being famous as a conspiracy-uncoverer makes one pretty paranoid in one's old age...
** And Admiral Leyton, who tried to overthrow the Federation government and install a Starfleet-run military regime because he believed it was necessary to combat the Dominion.
** And Admiral Pressman, who as a captain violated an interstellar treaty and started developing a Federation cloaking device, and only got more fanatical about Starfleet being "held back" by the treaty with age and promotions...
*** It's a running joke among ''Trek'' fans that any Starfleet Admiral with a speaking role will almost certainly be evil and/or crazy. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Ronald D. Moore after creating Admiral Pressman: "I am proud to say that I've written another insane Admiral. They must put something in the water at Federation Headquarters."
** Commodore Decker in the ''TOS'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]". His goal was fine, but his methods were suicidal... literally, as it turned out.
** In the ''TNG'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded The Wounded]]", the Enterprise is sent to intercept a rogue starship whose captain is about to start a war with Cardassia because he believed the Cardassians was preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Federation. The trope is played with since while the rogue captain is shown as being a paranoid wreck who never recovered from the murder of his family by the Cardassians, as it turns out, his suspicions were ''right'' even though his methods were wrong. Also, unlike most Rippers, he [[KnowWhenToFoldEm knows when to fold them]], at least after a trusted former crewmember confirms that his situation is unwinnable.
** Season 2 of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' introduces an AlternateUniverse that's not too dissimilar from the MirrorUniverse. In it, humanity is xenophobic and militaristic to the extreme, with the Confederation of Earth leading a crusade to subjugate the galaxy under the motto "A safe galaxy is a human galaxy." They are significantly more successful than the Terrans and have even managed to wipe out the Borg. And the man leading the charge? General Jean-Luc Picard of the CSS ''[[TheDreadedDreadnought World Razer]]''. When Q transports Prime!Picard to this alternate reality, he shows him the skulls of the enemies General Picard has personally slain, including Grand Nagus Zek, Gul Dukat, General Martok, and Director Sarek.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Season 4 introduces Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan, a U.S. Army officer who seeks to bring Eleven back into government control without any thought for consequences. He uses torture at the drop of the hat and openly deploys uniformed soldiers who cause extensive damage and casualties in civilian-heavy environments.
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