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* ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'': During an emergency meeting of the [[FictionalUnitedNations Galactic Senate]], Queen Amidala of Naboo informs the presiding senators that her world is under military invasion/occupation by the Trade Federation and asks the Senate to provide aid to her suffering people, yet most of them don't believe her. Instead, a group of corrupt politicians, spearheaded by the representative of the very same Trade Federation currently attacking her world, push for a commission to be created to verify whether her claim of military invasion is true or not. When Supreme Chancellor Valorum proves unable to oppose the corrupt politicians, Queen Amidala calls for a vote of no confidence in his leadership. This results in Valorum being removed from office and Senator Palpatine replacing him as Supreme Chancellor... [[AllAccordingToPlan which is exactly what Palpatine wanted]], as he was the one who orchestrated this incident and manipulated the Queen into calling for a vote of no confidence as the first step of his greater plan to destroy the Republic and bring about the Empire.

* The premise of ''Fanfic/SupremeChancellorObiWanKenobi'' is that Palpatine ironically and completely unexpectedly falls victim to the Vote of No Confidence, with the senator who put the motion up for debate being disillusioned with his handling of the Clone War and wanting the conflict to be resolved as soon as possible.

-->'''Norman Osborn:''' Oh, you can't do this to me... I-I started this company! ''[furious] YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?'' ''[turns to one of the directors]'' Oh, Max, please!\\

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': {{Parodied}} when Calvin, ever the BrattyHalfPint, gives his dad a negative rating and says he's in danger of being removed from office. Dad plays along and informs him that he was appointed "Dad" for life: there are no provisions for impeachment or recall.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13875446/1/Last-Hope Last Hope]]'': Thanks to [[PeggySue Luke's]] machinations, the senators who are opposed to Palpatine's growing authoritarianism not only have the courage to formally attempt to oust him, [[spoiler:but also have solid evidence that he is Darth Sidious and that the Sith have been trying to subvert the Republic and trying to destroy it, which includes Dooku being willing to turn himself in and confess to everything the duo have done. The end result is the vast majority of senators approving for Order 65 to be invoked, ending Palpatine's reign and preventing the rise of the Empire]].
* In ''Fanfic/SupremeChancellorObiWanKenobi'', the premise of the story has Palpatine ironically and completely unexpectedly falling victim to the Vote Of No Confidence, with the senator who put the motion up for debate being disillusioned with his handling of the Clone War and wants the conflict to be resolved as soon as possible.

* ''Film/SpiderMan1'': The board of directors at Oscorp vote to remove Norman Osborn, the CEO and founder, to take over his firm and merge with a larger company. It provokes Norman's StartOfDarkness and [[AssholeVictim comes back to bite the board in the ass.]]
-->'''Norman Osborn:''' Oh, you can't do this to me... I-I started this company!\\
'''Norman Osborn:''' ''[furious] YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?''\\
'''Norman Osborn:''' ''[turns to one of the directors]'' Oh, Max, please!\\

* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ThePhantomMenace'': During an emergency meeting of the [[FictionalUnitedNations Galactic Senate]], Queen Amidala of Naboo informs the presiding senators that her world is under military invasion/occupation by the Trade Federation and asks the Senate to provide aid to her suffering people, yet most of them don't believe her. Instead, a group of corrupt politicians, spearheaded by the representative of the very same Trade Federation currently attacking her world, push for a commission to be created to verify whether her claim of military invasion is true or not. When Supreme Chancellor Valorum proves unable to oppose the corrupt politicians, Queen Amidala calls for a vote of no confidence in his leadership. This results in Valorum being removed from office and Senator Palpatine replacing him as Supreme Chancellor. [[AllAccordingToPlan Which is exactly what Palpatine wanted, as he was the one who orchestrated this incident and manipulated the Queen into calling for a vote of no confidence as the first step of his greater plan to destroy the Republic and bring about the Empire.]]

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': After several novels in which conspiracies plot to kill or incapacitate Lord Vetinari, the one in ''Literature/TheTruth'' instead engineers a situation where the council of Guild leaders votes him out. Notably, this is the first indication that this is even an option, previous novels having given the impression that assassination is the ''only'' way of removing a Patrician from office.
* ''Literature/FoundationSeries'': In ''Literature/TheMayors'', Sermak calls for a City Council vote to impeach Hardin due to external policies he considers suicidally stupid at best and treasonous at worst. It fails, [[DecidedByOneVote narrowly]].

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': At the start of the eighth arc, the Clans added a much-needed rule to the warrior code that would allow a leader to be demoted if three-quarters of the Clan agreed. (Previously they would serve until they'd lost all their [[CatsHaveNineLives nine lives]], and the code declared that the leader's word was law, which led to several long-term weak or tyrannical leaders).

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': {{Discussed|Trope}}. At the [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E21RisingStar end of season 4]] when [[PresidentEvil President Clark]] is overthrown, his interim replacement, President Susanna Luchenko, speaks with Sheridan about his actions. She says that there were ways of dealing with Clark from within the system and that members of the government were taking steps to do just that. Sheridan counters that that was taking too long and civilians were dying in the meantime, one of the major reasons he started moving against [=EarthGov=] militarily.
* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS4E1NotAGoodDay "Not a Good Day..."]] makes a brief TakeThat towards the current British government at the time via [[PoliticianGuestStar Sebastian Coe]] wanting to return from the leisure centre to participate in a vote of no confidence in it, although Brittas' words on the matter leave it ambiguous as to whether Coe is supporting or opposing the government.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor is furious with Harriet Jones, then Prime Minister of England, for obliterating a fleeing Sycorax ship. He tells her he can bring down her government with six words, which he then does by whispering to her aide, "Don't you think she looks tired?" Shortly after, she is forced to resign among accusations of poor health, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which comes back to bite The Doctor later]], as it allows Harold Saxon, [[spoiler:aka The Master]], to take the reins of the British government.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The Electors are a small council of high nobility[[note]](Plus four priests and a halfling)[[/note]] who stand one step below TheEmperor, elect the emperor to office, and serve as the primary check on imperial power. Emperors almost always serve for life, but Dieter IV was voted out for his unprecedented incompetence in letting the City-State of Marienburg bribe its way into independence.

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': The web series version {{parodie|dTrope}}s the original show's example, by having the surprise 2% come from Gozaburo's butler ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome "Mokuba, you don't have any shares. You're, like, 5!"]]). Funnily enough, Mokuba can still be ''indirectly'' credited for this, since [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe he's the only one on Gozaburo's estate to treat the butler kindly]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': {{Subverted|Trope}}. In "Hercules and the Apollo Mission", Zeus decides to let Hercules pilot the Sun for one day. After Herc botches it and loses the Sun, Hades (who secretly had the Sun stolen and hidden in the Underworld) calls for a no-confidence vote against Zeus as part of his latest plan to take over Olympus. Just as the deciding vote is about to be cast (by Apollo the Sun God), Hercules manages to return the Sun, and the vote is called off.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. The episode "Meat is Murder" features one near the episode's end. Augustus Redfield, a former business partner of Grampa Simpson's and CEO of an incredibly powerful company, has appointed Grampa to his board of directors. Augustus' children introduce a motion of no confidence against him. The vote is tied and Grampa's [[DecidedByOneVote vote would break the tie]], and he votes "no" out of loyalty. But Augustus saw this coming, and with his suspicions confirmed that his children would betray him, he fires them all, and reveals he only reconnected with Grampa to get this easy vote. Seeing his old friend's true nature, Grampa goes into a particularly bizarre one of [[RamblingOldManMonologue his signature rambles]], leading everyone to [[ObfuscatingStupidity believe he's too mentally incompetent to vote]], nullifying his "no" vote and putting the vote of no confidence against Augustus back in deadlock.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Baron [[GratuitousGerman Ünderbheit]] is the despotic leader of [[{{Uberwald}} Ünderland]] and an enemy of Dr. Venture since [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether their college days]]. In [[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E7LoveBheits "Love Bheits"]], he captures the Venture family on their way back from a Halloween party and, with Dean dressed in a "[[Franchise/StarWars Slave Leia]]" costume, mistakes him for Venture's daughter. Before killing the rest of the family, he [[ShotgunWedding intends to marry Dean]] as a final insult to Venture. After the ceremony is carried out, the [[LaResistance "Ünderground"]] show up and order that Ünderbheit be arrested, as gay marriage is illegal in Ünderland, then exiling him and quickly electing a new leader.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': At the end of Season 3, the heroes are able to oust [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] from his position as [[PresidentEvil Secretary-General]] of the United Nations by presenting evidence of Luthor's multiple criminal activities conducted both before and during his time in office.

* UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}}: President Sukarno was impeached in 1967 after a set of allegations arose that accused him of [[FalseFlagOperation masterminding the 30 September Movement coup against himself]].

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The Council of Electors are a small circle of high nobility[[note]](Plus four priests and a halfling)[[/note]] who stand one step below TheEmperor, elect the emperor to office, and serve as the primary check on imperial power. Emperors almost always serve for life, but Dieter IV was voted out for his unprecedented incompetence in letting the City-State of Marienburg bribe its way into independence.

* ''Film/SpiderMan1'': What the board of directors at Oscorp do to Norman to take over his firm and merge with a larger company. [[AssholeVictim It later comes back to bite them in the ass.]]

'''Norman Osborn:''' ''[furious]'' '''''YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?''''''\\

* UsefulNotes/UnitedStates: In October 2023, Kevin [=McCarthy=] was voted out of his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives after a motion to vacate was put forward by far-right Republicans angry at him over compromises he made with the Democrats during negotiations to avoid a government shutdown. This marks the first time a Speaker has ever been removed in this manner, which has been invoked several times before but has never seen the vote fully go through.

* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ThePhantomMenace'': During a meeting of the [[FictionalUnitedNations Galactic Senate]], Queen Amidala of Naboo informs them of the fact that her world was under military invasion/occupation by the Trade Federation, yet none of the senators believe her. Instead of providing aid as she had hoped, a group of corrupt politicians, spearheaded by the representative of the very same Trade Federation attacking her world, push for a commission to be created to verify whether her claim of military invasion is true or not. When Supreme Chancellor Valorum proves unable to oppose the corrupt politicians. Queen Amidala calls for a vote of no confidence in his leadership. This results in Valorum being removed from office and Senator Palpatine becoming Supreme Chancellor thereafter, [[AllAccordingToPlan which Palpatine had orchestrated]] as the first step of his greater plan to destroy the Republic and bring about the Empire.