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* As mentioned in the second quote, ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. The races in question are the Goa'uld and the Ori, respectively.

* Deliberately invoked by Lelouch in {{CodeGeass}} as part of a martyrdom ThanatosGambit.

* The ''DragonballZ'' universe: King Piccolo, Piccolo Junior, Vegeta and Freeza. It all went like this: BigBad wants Dragon Balls, Goku and company fight a series of mooks and various [[TheDragon lieutenants]] until the Dragon Balls are no longer an issue and then they fight the BigBad himself. Later in the series it became went; BigBad with HealingFactor appears -> train until new EleventhHourSuperPower or transformation is acquired -> long battle -> SpiritBomb.

* Younger Toguro and Sensui from ''YuYuHakusho''. Both DeathSeekers who wanted Yusuke to defeat them. Both have existential crises based around WhatMeasureIsANonHuman. The only difference is that Toguro was looking for power, and Sensui had already found it, but had pretty much [[ComesGreatInsanity gone nuts]] doing so. Oh, yeah, and Sensui has a better grasp of XanatosGambit than Toguro ever did.

** It can be simplied further. Every arc is a rerun of the last piccolo season of dragonball. The BigBad is a threat -> Train a lot -> Fight Big Bad > Big Bad [[TurnsRed transforms]] -> Spirit Bomb. Works for Piccolo, Vegeta, Freeza, Cell, Buu...

*** Incorrect. The Spirit Bomb only ever worked [[TheWorfBarrage ONCE]], against Buu.

** It wasn't Divatox that was the bigger threat than the machine empire it was what she wanted to do (release Maligore) who was the bigger threat that required upgrading. And there was no point in going back to inferior powers.
** How exactly are the Turbo Powers superior? The Zeo powers had infinite potential and would continue to get stronger Foreeeeeever. They never adequately explained the change over.
** Supposedly, Divatox and Dark Spector found a way to reverse the Zeo Crystal so that it would stop getting stronger. Then, when the Rangers were no longer getting stronger, a full-out assault led to the Super Zeo Zords being destroyed, and the Zeo powers themselves endangered, requiring the upgrade. But all this was cut for time from the Turbo movie, and the script pages for it (presumably) shredded. So we'll never know exactly how it was all supposed to work. May partially explain why the Gold Ranger is getting whooped so easily in "Countdown to Destruction."

** Justified in this case as they really are [[spoiler: the same guy (or [[StarfishCharacter used to be]])]].
*** Also note that while the head villain is sort of [[spoiler: the same person,]] the subordinates are vastly different. The Heartless in game 1 are basically just [[HordeOfAlienLocusts mindless parasites]], with the main intellectual threat being the [[CardCarryingVillain Disney villains]] trying to control them. In KHII, the main villains, [[spoiler: the Nobodies, are [[TragicVillain basically compelled to their actions]] in order to regain their stolen hearts.]]

The TropeNamer is TheWho song "[[TheThermidor Won't Get Fooled Again]]" which uses this exact trope, though with [[ProtestSong political and revolution overtones]].

Compare TheThermidor, when this happens to LaResistance after a successful coup.

* Subverted in ''{{Death Note}}'' where the lines and appearances between good and evil are repeatedly blurred and questioned. Misa sort of fits [[MeetTheNewBoss this trope]] from L's perspective when she becomes the second Kira but operates less methodically and for different reasons so that L has to shift his focus in the investigation. From Light's perspective, [[spoiler:pending L's death]], Near and Mello.

** All three groups are stand-ins for the 1st game's Team Rocket, which wanted to capture any and all rare and/or powerful Pokemon, and ''created'' their own Legendary, Mewtwo, in order to rule the world.

** Hell, from this troper's experience (I'm chinese), any Communist takeover is bound to be like this. Castro is basically Batista part 2, Mao is basically Chiang part 2, Lenin is basically the Tsar part 2. And in most of these examples, the replacement is worse.

* At the end of the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'', Homicidal Lord Winder is replaced by the (soon to be known as) Mad Lord Snapcase, who immediately goes on to prove himself just as bad as his predecessor when he orders the main character's death. Mister Slant, the leader of the Guild of Lawyers, even lampshades this when he says the trope name in Canis Latinicus.

* At the end of the {{Discworld}} novel ''{{Discworld}}/NightWatch'', Homicidal Lord Winder is replaced by the (soon to be known as) Mad Lord Snapcase, who immediately goes on to prove himself just as bad as his predecessor when he orders the main character's death. Mister Slant, the leader of the Guild of Lawyers, even lampshades this when he says the trope name in Canis Latinicus.

* At the end of the Discworld novel Night Watch, Homicidal Lord Winder is replaced by the (soon to be known as) Mad Lord Snapcase, who immediately goes on to prove himself just as bad as his predecessor when he orders the main character's death. Mister Slant, the leader of the Guild of Lawyers, even lampshades this when he says the trope name in Canis Latinicus.

* Said in the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'' about the new patrician.

* At the end of the Discworld novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'', [[TheCaligula Homicidal Lord Winder]] is replaced by the (soon to be known as) Mad Lord Snapcase, who immediately goes on to prove himself just as bad as his predecessor when he orders the main character's death. Mister Slant, the leader of the Guild of Lawyers, even lampshades this when he says the trope name in CanisLatinicus.

* At the end of the Discworld novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'', [[TheCaligula Homicidal Lord Winder]] is replaced by the (soon to be known as) Mad Lord Snapcase, who immediately goes on to prove himself just as bad as his predecessor when he orders the main character's death despite having technically having done him a large favour. Mister Slant, the leader of the Guild of Lawyers, even lampshades this when he says the trope name in CanisLatinicus.

* At the end of the Discworld novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'', [[TheCaligula Homicidal Lord Winder]] is replaced by the (soon to be known as) Mad Lord Snapcase, who immediately goes on to prove himself just as bad as his predecessor when he orders the main character's death despite having technically having done him a large favour. Mister Slant, the leader of the Guild of Lawyers, even lampshades this when he says the trope name in CanisLatinus.

* Many Eastern Europeans found Soviet rule to be little different from Nazi occupation.
** Surely it was markedly different in that during the Cold War the Soviets weren't rounding up and butchering entire populations...
*** Your right they didn't usually round people up, they staved them to death first when they took the grain that the farmers grew and sold to other countries. Sometimes they didn't wait for them to completely die, just to weak to resist, before throwing them in mass graves, or sometimes called by the locales "moving mounds". Stalin is suspected of causing the death of even more people than [[AdolfHitler you know...]]
**** Actually, both the Nazis and the Soviets did both of those things. See the Katyn Massacre, for instance.
** He said "during the Cold War". After Stalin died, the mass killings stopped.

* The ''DragonballZ'' universe: King Piccolo, Piccolo Junior, Vegeta and Freeza. It all went like this: BigBad wants Dragon Balls, Goku and company fight a series of mooks and various [[TheDragon lieutenants]] until the Dragon Balls are no longer an issue and then they fight the BigBad himself. Later in the series it became went; BigBad with HealingFactor appears -> train until new EleventhHourSuperPower or transformation is acquired -> long battle -> SpiritBomb.

* It wasn't Divatox that was the bigger threat than the machine empire it was what she wanted to do (release Maligore) who was the bigger threat that required upgrading. And there was no point in going back to inferior powers.

Can be a result of a PostScriptSeason, a {{Retool}}, or {{Sequelitis}}. Compare TheThermidor, where the "new boss" starts with an honest desire or intention to be different.