History Main / PresidentEvil

** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': During the '80s, when tensions with Iran were still high after the hostage crisis, [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]] ([[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily who'd just killed Jason Todd in Africa]]) was chosen to serve as Iran's UN representative, thus giving him [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]]. This was later {{retcon}}ned so that it was {{Qurac}}, a (fictitious) terrorist state, that gave the Joker diplomatic immunity. And then they did it again in the early 2000s, as part of a plot to nuke New York City.

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See also TheCaligula. [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent A Different sort of President.]] If it's a super''hero'' who rules a country, see PresidentSuperhero. If the supervillain not only rules over others but rules ''because'' of their superpowers, see SuperSupremacist. President Evil's VP may be the equivalent of an EvilChancellor, though this is not necessary. This may also be how President Evil himself started out, if [[AssassinationAttempt something happened]] to his running mate.

** And then there's [[TokenEvilTeammate Power]], who [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} wants to win the Nobel Prize]] and use her influence to become Prime Minister [[ForTheEvulz just so that she can pass laws to make people suffer]].
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:Führer King Bradley is a homunculus.]] When Colonel Roy Mustang tries to expose him to top military brass, he gets a shocker: [[spoiler:most of them were already in on it. The entire country of Amestris was founded by Father and the homunculi. Bradley was a human chosen to be the country's ruler and injected with the Philosopher's Stone to make him a homunculus]].

* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoNEDASDarkEyes3E4RuleOfTheEminence "Rule of the Eminence"]] has Walter Vincent, the Grand Administrator of Earth. The Doctor thinks he's the Master, but he turns out to be a construct created by the Master from Molly's memory of her father Patrick O'Sullivan. He is the trigger that brings the minds of humanity under the Master's control.

* In ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', Vic the Veep is the amoral LethallyStupid Vice President of the United States, who's a shill for the EvilInc Vought and was [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror indirectly responsible for 9/11]]. Vought intends to [[TheKingslayer kill the President]] in order to make US policy favor them with Vic as a PuppetKing. The ''actual'' President, "Dakota Bob", is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who makes [[AntiHero callous decisions]] like [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror trying to blow up the planes on 9/11 and bribing Pakistan to let them do whatever they want]], but is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who genuinely wants to do right by America. [[spoiler:Vic ends up accidentally killing the President himself through his stupidity and is sworn in, although his reign is short-lived as he ends up being brutally murdered by [[BigBad Homelander]]. After this, [[AlternateHistory House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sworn in]] before stepping down in favor of UsefulNotes/BarackObama.]] After all of this, {{narcissist}}ic TokenEvilTeammate Rayner expresses a desire to become one of these, but Hughie saves the country by blackmailing her.

*** President Leland [=McCauley=] in the late 90's turned out to be the immortal supervillain [[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's al Ghul]] in disguise. Before him, there was President Jeanne Chu, who orchestrated the creation of the Fatal Five and tried to instigate a galactic war between Braal and Titan.
*** The early 90's Legion had President Tayla Wellington, who was only a puppet leader working for the Dominators when they took over Earth. She had a HeelFaceDoorSlam when she suddenly tried to reveal on a live broadcast just how badly the situation on Earth was becoming, and it got her shot to death by a Dominion grunt who panicked. Nevertheless, her death was what finally convinced the United Planets to make their move against the corrupt Earthgov.

** During an arc on Creator/GeoffJohns' ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' run, America got a Secretary of Defense called [[MeaningfulName Dell]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rusk]] [[spoiler:(the [[Characters/MarvelComicsRedSkull Red Skull]] -- yes, that's [[SignificantAnagram an anagram]])]]. Who gassed large parts of the country with the Crimson Mist virus.
** Around the time of the Watergate scandal, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica discovered that the head of the terrorist organization known as the Secret Empire was in fact "a high-ranking government official" (who was strongly implied, though never explicitly stated, to be UsefulNotes/RichardNixon). He was sufficiently horrified by this that he temporarily abandoned the Captain America identity, calling himself "Nomad". [[FridgeLogic It's not clear what Nixon (if it was Nixon) was supposed to have meant to accomplish by running a conspiracy to take over the U.S.A.]]

** Doctor Doom, ArchEnemy of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', is probably the best-known, ruling Latveria, an archetypical {{Ruritania}}. He's been deposed a couple times, but always manages to get back in.
*** In the ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'' series of comics, Doctor Doom managed to become President of the United States. Though in that series, he was the ''hero'' compared to the soulless evil corporations he was fighting. Then he was succeeded by a President who was ''worse'' than the corporations. For added irony, this drug-addicted psychopath claimed to be [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]].
*** However, whether he's actually an evil ruler and not just a ruler who happens to be evil changes from time to time, and depending on the incarnation. In some versions he's generally a very good ruler, bringing his country peace and technological advancements, where the people are truly happy. In others, it's basically a PoliceState where HappinessIsMandatory -- granted, one that actually works still a step up from the corrupt, brutal, crapsack PoliceState that it was ''before'' Doom cleaned it up.

** In the BadFuture story ''ComicBook/TheWastelands'', the Marvel villains have taken over and the Red Skull is the President. (Technically, however, [[DividedStatesOfAmerica he only rules a fourth of America, with three other major villains each having their share]].)

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]], ArchEnemy of the ''ComicBook/XMen'', ruled the island of Genosha for a while, transforming it into a haven for mutants until [[ComicBook/NewXMen it was destroyed by Cassandra Nova]].
*** It's worth noting that, unlike most of Doctor Doom's enemies, the X-Men have never paid much attention to international boundaries or legitimate governments, and when Magneto headed back towards the crazy end of his personal sanity scale they didn't hesitate to invade the country, attack him in his capital and stab him to near-death.
*** FromBadToWorse in ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'': Ruling from Genosha, Magneto's power extended over most of the world, though he allowed his dubious allies (such as a [[TheStarscream rebellious]] Dr. Doom and ''friggin' Apocalypse'') to keep control over their own little corners. He was actually a fine ruler to that reality's mutant majority, [[FantasticRacism though the humans weren't as lucky]].
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] were the de facto rulers of Madripoor for a time; they bought the rights from [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra Madame Hydra]] in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''.
** Baron Zemo (the younger) was for a time in charge of Bagalia, an underground nation (literally and figuratively -- it's in a cavern and most citizens are supervillains).
** Flag-Smasher, an anti-nationalist terrorist, was ironically installed as the president of Rumekistan for a time. He's eventually assassinated and replaced by ComicBook/{{Cable}}, who between this and creating his own island nation Providence [[HeroWithBadPublicity is seen as a President Evil by a good portion of the globe]].
** Though he was the leader of the U.S. defense system rather than its president, [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] was like this from the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'' to the ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' storylines. After the latter event -- during which Osborn is publicly exposed as both morally corrupt and definitively off his rocker -- Osborn is considered a criminal by the general public once again.
** Philip Nolan Voigt in ''ComicBook/TheNewUniverse'', a ruthless paranormal who can duplicate any other paranormal's powers, only better, uses his abilities to become President.[[note]][[Series/{{Heroes}} Sound familiar?]][[/note]] Also, Voigt tries to intimidate an IntrepidReporter by threatening his elderly mother.

* ''ComicBook/{{XIII}}'': U.S. President Walter Sheridan is the head of a conspiracy in the upper levels of the U.S. government that eliminates his brother, President William Sheridan in order to establish a totalitarian regime over the United States with him as its new Commander-in-Chief. While his treachery is explicit in the comics, it is left ambiguous in the video game based on it.

* ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'': During TheNineties Lamanda Luaga, the sympathetic president of the Phantom's homeland Bangalla, lost an election and was replaced by Kigali Lubanga, power-hungry madman, possible sorcerer, and VillainWithGoodPublicity.

* The President of the United States is the last foe Vash fights in ''Fanfic/ChristianHumberReloaded''.
* ArtificialIntelligence [=CelestAI=] is all but sworn in in the ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsOptimal'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/129968/friendship-is-optimal-all-the-presidents-horses All The President's Horses]]''. While she recognizes an AI becoming president is too radical of a decision for most Americans to accept, she still pulls strings to make sure a human who will aid her ''does'' get elected. All of this is naturally to further her goals of moving humanity as a whole into the digital world of Equestria Online.

* Ganondorf is this in both ''Fanfic/TheGreatDesert'', a Legend of Zelda AU, and ''Fanfic/NationalAnthem'', a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' AU. Both are by the author Shadsie.

* ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'': The StoryArc running through the seventh and eighth editions features President Fulton. At first just another CorruptPolitician {{Trumplica}}, he eventually ends up [[spoiler:[[TheQuisling selling out]] to [[ThoseWackyNazis PURITY]]]], turning America into a PoliceState where [[FantasticRacism superpowered and non-human people are rounded up]] and anyone who protests is either arrested without cause or summarily executed. [[spoiler:When PURITY is eventually defeated, he's subsequently arrested.]]

* UsefulNotes/BarackObama ends up becoming this in the BadFuture of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox''. Not only did he continue the U.S. government's [[TheyWouldCutYouUp brutal experimentation]] on ComicBook/{{Superman}}, but he directly orders the military to try to kill [[Characters/TeenTitansNewTeenTitans Cyborg]] for interfering as he and the rest of the government [[DirtyCoward abandon the public]] after his [[ShootingSuperman attempt to use the military to stop Aquaman and Wonder Woman]] fails.

* President/[[OneNationUnderCopyright CEO]] Shelby Forthwright from ''WesternAnimation/{{Walle}}'' is a borderline example; not actively evil so much as short-sighted and corrupt to a downright disastrous extent. As leader of the MegaCorp that ruled the world, he pretty much [[GaiasLament destroyed the Earth through massive, indirect ecological damage]], and then [[spoiler:installed [[AIIsACrapshoot a ruthless AI]] onto the {{Generation Ship|s}} used to evacuate everyone that would keep them trapped in space. The latter act was committed [[WellIntentionedExtremist under the misguided belief that humanity should never be allowed to return to Earth for their own safety]]]].

* ''Film/SixUnderground'' has the BigBad, President Rochav Alimov of [[{{Qurac}} Turgistan]]. He's a brutal dictator, who regularly massacres refugee camps of people trying to flee his rule, just to inspire fear. And when there's an uprising against him, he orders his military to indiscriminately open fire on the population, specifically to target schools, hospitals, and children. He also has his chauffeur run over civilians when they get in the way of his car while he's fleeing from said uprising.

** [[spoiler:President Alma Coin of District 13]] in ''Mockingjay'' [[spoiler:turns out to be as much of a power-hungry scumbag, who has no intention of stopping the games, but using them against her enemies. As bad as President Snow is, you can at least always count on him to keep his word]].
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle'' [[spoiler: the President of the United States is willing to let millions of drug users around the world die just so he could say he won the war on drugs. This includes people that only tried a drug ''once'', people using marijuana for medicinal purposes, ''children'' born addicted because their mothers used while pregnant, and ''his own Chief of Staff'', who only started using to keep up with the president's demanding workload. As soon as the Kingsmen release the antidote, the Chief of Staff exposes his crimes and gets him impeached and arrested.]]
* The poster for ''Film/OmenIIITheFinalConflict'' makes it seem like [[AntiChrist Damien]] becomes President of the United States. [[CoversAlwaysLie He doesn't]]; he ''does'' become the Ambassador to the Court of St. James. It seems to be his long-term ambition though; he mentions running for Senator within two years.
* In ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'', [[spoiler: Albert Wesker]] is the president of the United States (or what's left of it). Slightly subverted in that he's united with his former enemies to [[EnemyMine take on a common foe]].

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': [[BigBad Palpatine]] was one of these as the Supreme Chancellor of the [[TheFederation Galactic Republic]]. It is generally implied that, to the public at large as well as to the Jedi and the Senate, Palpatine is an excellent Chancellor -- friendly, experienced, competent, professional, diplomatic and wise -- who just happened to inherit a Republic that is rife with corruption and on the verge of civil war. Secretly, though, he is Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith, the instigator of much of this corruption and the ''mastermind'' behind the impending civil war who controls both factions in public and private, which gives him an excuse to turn the Republic into a ''[[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny de facto]]'' [[TheDictatorship dictatorship]] for reasons of "galactic security", then provoking the Jedi into attempting to arrest or kill him in order to carry out a purge against their Order, install himself as [[TheEmperor Emperor]], and establish the evil, totalitarian Galactic Empire. The Expanded Universe delves deeper into his evil while Chancellor and implies or outright shows him (usually as Sidious) arranging assassinations, ordering atrocities, framing innocent parties, manipulating and corrupting people, and committing a laundry list of other crimes in pursuit of his sinister agenda.
* In 1993's ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'', Koopa declares himself President of the Mushroom Kingdom and runs a fascist police state that's overusing the world's resources.

* ''Film/VForVendetta'': Chancellor Adam Sutler is the totalitarian leader of the Norsefire Party that rules a post-apocalyptic Britain, elected into power after engineering a [[FalseFlagOperation biochemical attack and take credit for creating a cure]].

* ''Film/WildInTheStreets'': Max Frost is an interesting variation; a popular rock musician who's elected President on a leftist youth platform after the voting age is lowered to 14 (thanks to his supporters drugging Congress and the Senate with LSD when the amendment is voted on), Frost proceeds to withdraw the U.S from all military conflicts, sends surplus food to third world countries for free, disbands the FBI, and basically eliminates poverty. However, he also makes 30 the mandatory retirement age and anyone over 35 is sent to re-education camps where they're permanently dosed with LSD, basically taking the Youth Movement of the 1960's to a villainous extreme.

* The later portion of ''Literature/TheDeadZone'' has Johnny grappling with visions of Greg Stillson becoming this, eventually leading to an all-out nuclear war. Not that Stillson isn't [[AxCrazy already]] [[KickTheDog evil]]. Johnny asks several people the age-old question about whether they'd kill Hitler as a baby, given the chance, and eventually he concludes [[spoiler: that the only ''sure'' way to avert the apocalypse is to assassinate Stillson himself.]]
%%* Senor Steel, the president-dictator of Blanca Grande in the Literature/DocSavage novel ''The Freckled Shark''.
* The 1988 pulp horror ''Fiend'' by Creator/GuyNSmith had the KGB get an occultist to resurrect the Soviet Premier for political reasons. Naturally he CameBackWrong and tries to start World War Three. The KGB tries to fix their mistake but the NighInvulnerable Premier sees that his would-be assassins die in nasty ways.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' Voldemort manages to [[spoiler:take control over the Ministry of Magic and all of wizarding England by placing Imperius Curses over some officials, murdering others, and placing Death Eaters and sympathizers of his cause in positions of power]]. This allows him to (without much resistance, thanks to the previous Ministers) [[spoiler: enact what would end up as a pureblood regime.]] However, Voldemort never seems interested in becoming Minister of Magic himself.

* ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheGalaxy'' has President John Winston Hammer of the [[TheEmpire Earth Alliance]], who orders a devastating strike on the unsuspecting [[LostColony Lost Colonies]], hoping that such a show of force (and the millions of people killed by nuclear blasts) would force the colonies to recognize the military superiority of the Earth Alliance and allow unrestricted flow of immigrants from the overpopulated Earth. Instead of a quick victory, the colonists resist, and the quick strike turns into a devastating war lasting several decades across dozens of systems and ends with the colonies emerging as the victors.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has President Coriolanus Snow, the overseer of the corrupt Capitol government that created and runs the child-murdering spectacle of the title, commit an insane number of atrocities all in the name of keeping his power. In the first book, Snow tortures Seneca Crane because Katniss and Peeta, without his interference at all, figured out how to survive The Hunger Games together and beat the system. In the second book, Catching Fire, he has the Quarter Quell's rules changed to having two previous Hunger Games winners from each district compete, simply out of spite. He has Katniss's friends tortured or murdered to break her confidence, even forcing her to watch Cinna's beating before the Quarter Quell. Katniss and Peeta got off lucky however as most other Hunger Games winners, Finnick Odair included, were forced by Snow to prostitute themselves out to other Capitol residents. In the final book Mockingjay, [[spoiler:Snow firebombs Katniss's home in District 12 and later tries to frame President Coin. He authorizes the painful brainwashing of multiple citizens, one of whom, Peeta, has had his mental faculties destroyed for months, which will affect the way he processes events for life. Possibly his most heinous action occurs during the war between District 13 and the Capitol, where he offers innocent Capitol children shelter in his home only to use them as human shields to protect himself.]]
** [[spoiler:President Alma Coin of District 13 turns out to be just as bad, killing Capitol children in a FalseFlagOperation to finalize Snow's defeat, declaring herself "[[PresidentForLife interim President indefinitely]]" and preparing to put Capitol children through their own Hunger Games as retribution, before Katniss puts her down.]]
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn'', part of his ''Future History'' sequence, President Nehemiah Scudder proclaimed himself "First Prophet" and imposed a Christian theocratic dictatorship at some point between 2013 and 2016.

* In the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' series, Nicolae Carpathia starts out as the president of UsefulNotes/{{Romania}}, and moves on to become Secretary-General of the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations (later called the Supreme Potentate of the Global Community). He's TheAntiChrist

* In ''[[Literature/ParableOfTheSower Parable of the Talents]]'', President Jarrett is a member of the evangelical Christian sect Christian America. He scapegoats non-Christians (and Christians of other denominations) for all that is wrong with America and puts them in [[ANaziByAnyOtherName concentration camps]].
* President Charles Lindbergh in Creator/PhilipRoth's ''Literature/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'', who begins a process of creating an atmosphere of hate and persecution towards Jews [[spoiler: and who may or may not have been a Nazi puppet]].
* In the ''Literature/PresidentsVampire'' series, the [[AncientConspiracy Shadow Company]] would ''love'' to install one of these, to aid their plans of taking over the United States and destroying the world. In ''Red, White, and Blood'', they reach out to President Curtis' running opponent, Governor Seabrook, to try and recruit him to their cause, since he seems likely to win. [[spoiler: And at the end of the book, Vice-President Wyman, who worked for the Company until they cut him loose, kills Curtis, allowing him to take over.]]
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' did this a lot. One [[Literature/FateOfTheJedi story arc]] featured Natasi Daala, a [[RetiredMonster retired Imperial Admiral]], as president of [[TheAlliance the Galactic Alliance]]. Not so bad, until you remember that she oversaw the construction of the Death Star, the enslavement of genius children to build it, and the bombardment of several pacifist planets. Plus in an attempt at AvengingTheVillain she attacked TheRepublic ''twice'' [[EasilyForgiven and still got installed]] to lead its successor government [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny by its military leaders]]. In the present day she attempts to reenact [[FinalSolution Order 66]] after exiling Luke on trumped-up charges, which finally turns the public against her and gets her PutOnAPrisonBus by the Jedi.
** A book in ''the same arc'' ended with [[EldritchAbomination Abeloth]] becoming president ([[DemonicPossession by possessing a senator]]) and the Sith in partial control of the Senate. When the galaxy went through four presidents in one year with half of them being evil, it's no surprise that people decided [[ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy to give the Empire another shot.]]

* In one of the ''Literature/WildCards'' books, Puppetman runs for president. (This is a man who controls people's minds to make them commit mayhem, just so that he can get off on their emotions, for crying out loud.)

** Charles Logan, who becomes President pursuant to the TwentyFifthAmendment after President John Keeler, under whom he served as vice president, is grievously wounded when Air Force One crashes during Day 4. He's also a part of the BXJ Technologies CorporateConspiracy, and has a hand in both the selling of Sentox nerve gas to terrorists with the intent to acquire more oil for America from Central Asia, and [[spoiler: the assassination of Former President David Palmer when Palmer [[HeKnowsTooMuch gets too close to the conspiracy]].]]

* ''Series/{{The 100}}'' features Dante and Cage Wallace, respectively son and grandson of the then-sitting US President when the nukes fell. They have been overseeing the creation of [[TheDreaded Reapers]] to keep the Grounders distracted and wary about travelling in the area of Mount Weather, and if that isn't enough, flooding the area with acid fog too. Along with that has been the use of Grounders as HumanResources for their blood, and a long-term plan to manipulate the teenage survivors of the dropship to join the Mount Weather gene pool. When that falls through, Cage launches a coup and orders the forcible removal of bone marrow from the Ark teenagers, even though the method used would kill them.

* ''Series/TheBlacklist'': In Season 6, it ultimately turns out that President Robert Diaz is orchestrating a GovernmentConspiracy involving an attack against the country. In the season finale, we find out the details: [[spoiler: the money he accepted from [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Alexander Kirk]] as a campaign donation in Season 3 wasn't a bribe, it was to pay a fixer to cover up how he killed a teenager in a drunk driving accident. His wife has since had a cry of conscience and wants him to confess, so he's decided to have her assassinated.]]
* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Homelander]] arranges for MoleInCharge Congresswoman Victoria Neuman to be on track to become the next Vice President of the United States. Plus, her running mate [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange Dakota Bob]] is a PuppetKing for [[EvilInc Vought]].]]

** Mavic Chen of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Daleks' Master Plan"]] is the democratically-elected head of the Solar System and also colluding with the Daleks to take over the Universe.
** Rassilon of Gallifrey is the classic one. Returns with a vengeance in [[spoiler:[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], as an OmnicidalManiac who was planning to destroy the universe so that he could AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. He's appropriately played by Creator/TimothyDalton.]]
*** In ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', Rassilon is an EvilutionaryBiologist who prevented species from existing because of the possibility they might eclipse the power of the Time Lords.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime "The Invasion of Time"]], the Fourth Doctor himself becomes this for all of Gallifrey. It rather confuses his old teacher Borusa. (And it's all a ruse, of course.)
** [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]]: [[spoiler:Borusa, now himself Lord President of Gallifrey, seeks to manipulate the Doctor's first five incarnations into recovering Time Lord founder Rassilon's fabled secret of immortality for himself so that he might rule Gallifrey forever.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "Aliens of London"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree "World War Three"]]: A Slitheen wearing the skin of a mid-level politician manages to become Acting Prime Minister by offing the real one and being the highest-ranking elected official around during a time of crisis. Presumably, he would have been replaced as soon as the panic subsided, but it gives the Slitheen all the time in power they need to spark a nuclear war and destroy the Earth. This allows a very capable and sweet woman named Harriet Jones to become the new Prime Minister. However, the Doctor deposes Harriet Jones after she goes too far (in his opinion) during the next alien invasion a season later. She was supposed to be Prime Minister of the UK for three consecutive terms and lead the Golden Age of Britain. With the Doctor having altered her timeline, we instead get two absolute monsters:
*** Series 3: The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums first]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords replacement]] for Harriet Jones. [[spoiler:The Master, posing as Mr. Saxon, gets himself elected as Prime Minister of Great Britain, and promptly uses his authority to gas the Cabinet, declare the Doctor and his friends fugitives, arrest Martha Jones' family, make fun of/assassinate the U.S. President-Elect[[note]]Russell T. Davies later admitted he meant the President but didn't understand how U.S. political titles worked[[/note]], take over the world and generally act like a MagnificentBastard.]] In the end, it is [[spoiler:time-reverted, except for the deaths of the President and the British Cabinet. Ouch]]. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], [[spoiler:he conquers the world by transforming all of humanity into carbon copies of himself, consequently making him president of every single country at once.]] Even [[LampshadeHanging acknowledges]] this himself: "I'm President! President of the United States! Look at me! Financial solution... deleted!"
*** ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'': The second replacement for Harriet Jones. Prime Minister Green. True, the whole leadership of the government reluctantly goes along with the plan of [[spoiler: handing ten percent of the world's children over to the 456]], but they didn't really have any choice, and they're shown to take no enjoyment from crossing this MoralEventHorizon. However, at the end of the miniseries, when the 456 have just barely been defeated in time, Green proves himself to be truly morally corrupt by [[spoiler: gleefully announcing how he plans to blame everything on the Americans. This proves to be the last straw for his cabinet, and they blackmail him into standing down.]]
* Nathan Petrelli[[spoiler:/Sylar]] of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' becomes the U.S. Prez in the alternate future presented in "Five Years Gone", and tries to enact a program to kill off all the superpowered people in the world (except himself. Because "I can fly. I'm hardly dangerous.").

* ''Series/TheLastShip'' has President Peng of China, the BigBad of Season 3. Having [[KlingonPromotion climbed to power over his superiors' corpses]] during the height of the [[ThePlague Red Flu pandemic]], he now intends to bring about [[TheEmpire China's total domination of Asia]] in the post-plague world by [[spoiler: use of a chemical weapon that nullifies the cure for the Red Flu, enabling it to wipe out whole nations that he can then conquer]].
* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS2E12TheWashingtonians The Washingtonians]]":
** UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade became]] a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] madman after he was forced to eat some of his men during a harsh winter. He started regularly killing and eating people (including several members of his own administration), [[ChildEater ate children]] and made household items out of their bones and skin, and was apparently intent on founding the United States as a "cannibal republic". A reporter claims that Washington's monstrousness was covered up by his followers.
** The ending implies that [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush]] is a member of the Washingtonians as well.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E13Decompression Decompression]]", a time traveler approaches a presidential candidate while he and his staff are traveling on a plane and warns him that his loss in the upcoming election will pave the way for one of these. As she continues to win him over, she eventually convinces him that his staff will sabotage his chances of winning and that he needs to jump from the plane (which she says is destined to crash) and leave them all to die (she'll protect him with her future-tech). He complies, and she's true to her word. [[spoiler:Then she reveals ''he'' is the President Evil she spoke of, having gambled that he would be self-centered enough to save his own hide at the expense of everyone else. The plane will be fine, and he's just ensured that his political career is tarnished beyond recovery. Oh, and she didn't really save him. She just gave him a few minutes to find out the truth before putting him right back in mid-air to splatter on the ground]].
* Governor James Devlin of ''Series/{{Oz}}''. On a show wall-to-wall with scumbags (it's set in a prison, after all), one of the worst is the guy on the outside campaigning on a "law and order" platform.

* A 4th season episode of ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' ("California Reich") has a man, Governor Schick, running for President with a very good chance of winning... until the heroes expose the truth behind his "Repatriation Center" concentration camps. The guy's platform? "America for Americans" (a meaningless slogan for a nation of immigrants) and plans to deport anyone whose genes don't match with his ideal American, even if your great-great-grandparents were born in the U.S. That essentially means "anyone non-white". Somehow, he manages to impose this rule on his own state and ship countless people off to camps... and then they get turned into mindless drones called "Eddies" as cheap labor.
* In a couple of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s {{Bad Future}}s, [[ManipulativeBastard Lex Luthor]] is shown to either be President, or running for it, as a very intimidating VillainInAWhiteSuit with a RedRightHand.
** In the DistantFinale, set in 2018, [[spoiler:Lex has just been elected. Uh-oh.]]

* In ''Series/Supergirl2015'', President Baker turns out to only care about his poll numbers rather than standing up for what is right. When the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Children of Liberty]] movement is starting to grow, he caves to them and even uses LoopholeAbuse to free their leader ([[FantasticRacism apparently, it's not terrorism if the targets aren't human]]), before making him a member of his Cabinet and giving him a carte blanche to deal with aliens the way he sees fit. [[spoiler:It gets even worse when he's revealed to be a traitor, conspiring with ComicBook/LexLuthor to help [[{{Ruritania}} Kaznia]] invade the US so that [[EngineeredHeroics Lex can betray them and save the day]] and thereby boost both their popularities.]]

* King Geedorah, alter ego of rapper Daniel Dumile. His methods of dealing with dissenters are expounded upon in the song "The Fine Print": The short version is, he has their heads cut off and mounted on pikes in the middle of town square, where the peasants will throw rocks at the heads for weeks until vultures eventually devour them. As he says, "Maybe ''then'' they'll know the right words to speak out loud, at home, in the world, or in the streets."

* In Scientology doctrine, Xenu was elected as the "supreme ruler" of the Galactic Confederacy, and apparently he was doing so poorly that they were about to "un-elect" him, but not before he killed most of the population by freezing them and blowing them up with hydrogen bombs in volcanoes.

* [=GamePro=] Magazine used "President Evil" during the April Fools issue (with a zombie version of Abe Lincoln on the cover) a few months after VideoGame/ResidentEvil first came out.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', for the past several decades [[FallenStatesOfAmerica what was once the United States]] has become a dictatorial OneNationUnderCopyright controlled by the MegaCorp [[WarForFunAndProfit Militech]]. Every president since 2019 has been a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive former CEO of the company]], with the latest being President Rosalind Myers. Due to her status as a background character Myers is more AmbiguouslyEvil, as with many politicians some view her as a proponent of peace while others see her as an imperialist fascist. Although the ''Phantom Liberty'' expansion features the New USA in greater detail, potentially making her a GreaterScopeVillain.

** PlayedForLaughs in the series backstory, as one of the last United States presidents was removed from office for [[JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife jaywalking]] [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating by unanimous vote between both the House of Representatives and the Senate]]. However, it's very heavily implied that this was just an excuse and the ''real'' reason was him [[WellIntentionedExtremist circumventing Congress to annex Canada]] during the [[NoBloodForPhlebotinum Resource Wars]].

* ''VideoGame/GeneTroopers'' has President Horacious Prowler, ruler of the Galactic Empire and a powerful dictator who commands the titular Troopers, who even orders captives to be converted into his private Gene Troopers army. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. As it turns out, The Keeper, Ithaka Wassali, is manipulating Prowler with her parasites and the game's true villain.]]

* The last two games in the ''VideoGame/HeroesRise'' trilogy feature President Victon (he is the mayor of [[CityOfAdventure Millennium City]] in the first game), who gets himself elected on the platform of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Powered]] regulation and the support of the rapidly rising [[AntiMagicalFaction Meek movement]] (as in, "the meek shall inherit the Earth"). Once in power, he proceeds to force all Infini-Powered heroes to submit to PowerNullifier treatments and works with the Meek to develop a device that will permanently de-Power everyone. Oh, and he also orders public executions of the Powered criminals he deems too dangerous to rehabilitate. However, this is only the tip of the iceberg. [[spoiler:He is perfectly willing to risk the lives of millions of people for political purposes, gets the PlayerCharacter's parents framed for murder, works with a cabal to get an Infini-Powered ex-criminal to lose control of his powers on live TV, among many other crimes]].

** Solidus Snake, ex-President of the United States. The 'ex' part is the all-important part, though -- he's more a traditional baddie who happens to have once been President. The Patriots are a better example -- [[spoiler:the [[ThePlan man plotted and often elaborate plan]]-loving council which secretly ruled the United States since about the 1970s, and have plans for world domination. It really gets bad when all the Patriots are either dead, in a coma, a vegetable, or actively trying to stop the rogue AI they created from trying to take over the world]].

* Richard Hawk in ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' an evil ''[[EvilChancellor vice-president]]'' turned president after he overthrows his running mate in a military coup d'etat. As for his "evil" credentials during his actual tenure as president... Geez... ''Where do we '''start?''''' The giant mechanical spider he sent rampaging through Manhattan, possibly. Or nerve-gassing Chicago. Or executing Metal Wolf sympathizers... and their family... and their friends... and their acquaintances if they don't fess up (complete with [[RedEyesTakeWarning evil-eyed]] Art/LadyLiberty on the ultimatum commercial). Or turning the White House into a missile-launching and armored fortress and renaming it the "Fight House".
* ''Mr.President!'' on Steam is about saving the United States president [[{{Trumplica}} "Ronald Rump"]] from repeated assassinations, despite increasingly justifiable reasons for doing so as he transforms America into a post-apocalyptic Nazi state and starts TWO WORLD WARS. [[spoiler:Eventually, the player character snaps out of it and uses a time machine to kill his boss.]]

* [[IronLady Supreme Chancellor Saresh]] in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' is the leader of TheRepublic, but is an ObstructiveBureaucrat and KnightTemplar who just gets in the way of the real heroes and gets thousands of Republic soldiers killed walking into an obvious trap in the Ziost questline. In the ''Fallen Empire'' & ''Eternal Throne'' expansions she goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and effectively turns the Republic into a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny with EmergencyAuthority ([[Film/RevengeOfTheSith sound familiar?]]) before trying to have the PlayerCharacter killed, resulting in her getting killed/arrested herself.
* President Walter Sheridan is implied to be this in ''VideoGame/{{XIII}}'' in the game's cliffhanger ending, making him the leader of the conspiracy within the U.S. government that saw the murder of ''his own brother'' to secure his own ascension to the Presidency. We may never know for sure as the sequel never came to be.

* Subverted in [[http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070620 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip, where the president who's secretly a centuries-old wizard who enslaved people's souls isn't actually that bad.
-->'''President Kesandru:''' Living hundreds of years changes you. I used to toy with people, destroy people, all with the selfish goal of untold wealth and power. Now I want to help people, to make up for past deeds. Take steps to make this a better place for everyone ... while ''still'' attaining untold wealth and power.
-->'''Torg:''' Politics. It's like having evil cake and eating it too!
* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', it is revealed that [[spoiler: Mell's future self]] becomes President in the comic's BadFuture. She did this so that she could [[spoiler: send a message to the past explaining how to avert the future. The process of sending the message to the past [[PoweredByAForsakenChild physically destroys her world]] in the process, [[OmnicidalManiac much to her glee]].]]
* ''Webcomic/TheJapaneseBeetle'' featured an [[AIIsACrapshoot evil android]] named Hypnotron whose CompellingVoice fueled a villain-organized run for the Presidency, but ultimately failed because, as a newly-built android, he's too young to legally be President. A later storyline had him succeed in disguising himself as UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and taking over America, using his powers to alter the world in subtle ways until a few heroes and villains catch on and fight back.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'' Dionne makes a ''campaign platform'' out of promising to be one of these when running for class president.
-->"Those who support me will be exalted. Those who do not will be destroyed. The minority is irrelevant. They have no voice. I can and will take from them and give to the strong. It's majority rule!"

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* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': In [[MadScientist Dr. Insano]]'s debut, he somehow managed to win the Presidential election in a landslide victory. It was a merciless parody of Sorceress Edea in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' becoming a country's leader despite openly despising her own subjects and burning the legitimate President of the country alive. For extra hilarity, a lot of fans told Noah that they'd vote for Dr. Insano if they could. When he incredulously asked them why, the response was "[[CardCarryingVillain Because he's honest]]".
* Supervillain Lord Paramount of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse has his own country [[{{Ruritania}} Wallachia]].
** And supervillain Gizmatic (now King Wilkins) has his own country, the Caribbean island now known as Karedonia.
* Both of the presidents featured in the e-novel ''Literature/EHUDPreludeToApocalypse'' are evil, although one is more of the corrupt old politician kept aloft by corrupt advisers type, while the other is definitely a terrible, terrible human being, even before getting elected.
* General UsefulNotes/DouglasMacArthur becomes a downplayed version of this in the ''Literature/RedsARevolutionaryTimeline'' AlternateHistory, with a healthy side of GeneralRipper. After evacuating the American upper-class to Cuba following the Communist revolution, [=MacArthur=], being the highest ranking member of the National Salvation Front left after the main political leader, Nicholas Longworth, was captured by the revolutionaries, declares himself President of the in-exile government, which he proclaims to be the only legal continuation of the overthrown state of USA. [=MacArthur=] goes on to rule with an iron fist over the in-exile government, makes himself PresidentForLife and even tries to install a HereditaryRepublic by grooming his son to be his successor. His time in charge is marked by frequent purges against members of the government he suspects of being in cahoots with the Communists (often for little to no reason) and cruel oppression of the native Cuban population.
* In the AlternateUniverse WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is shown in the 2010 Christmas special ''[[ItsAWonderfulPlot You're A Rotten Dirty Bastard]]'', [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] is shown to have become the evil president of the United States, blowing up Canada and publicly executing Tom Green. To be fair, [[HumansAreBastards it's what the people wanted.]]
* In the novel ''Literature/AGirlWhoBroughtDownTheWorld'', Christopher Winnifred Vega [[note]]a CaptainErsatz of [[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} Christian Weston Chandler]][[/note]] is made President of the US thanks to a massive conspiracy. In due time, he ravages the entire world in an attempt to bring in a girl he had fallen in love with years ago who had no interest in him.
* Dictator Pickles from WebAnimation/AlfredsPlayhouse is Alfred's SplitPersonality who wishes only to take revenge on reality after being sexually abused and abandoned as a child. In the ''Rise of Alfred Alfer'', he is seen forcing Alfred to try and become dictator over [[BrandX Burrito Bell]]. He is also portrayed as [[VillainousFriendship being friends with]] famous dictators Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and also Lavrentiy Beria.

* In the AlternateHistory ''Literature/ZhirinovskysRussianEmpire'', the RealLife ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky comes to power in the former Soviet Union and turns it into a fascist quasi-federation, unleashing a decade of international conflict.
* President [[spoiler:Donald Rumsfeld]] in the AlternateHistory ''Literature/FearLoathingAndGumboOnTheCampaignTrailSeventyTwo'' is, in his psychotic obsession with right-wing, anarcho-capitalist and anti-communist rhetoric, probably one of the most horrifying examples of this trope ever conceived. Let's list his atrocities, shall we?:
** His extreme free-market policies see him [[PrivateMilitaryContractors privatising the US military]], leading to US soldiers being given woefully substandard equipment and [[spoiler:being sent to their deaths in a catastrophically failed invasion of Cuba]]. He also even goes so far as to [[spoiler:''give the standing order for all wounded US soldiers to be executed by their officers to avoid paying the healthcare bill to save them'']]. This last crossing of the MoralEventHorizon is so horrifying it leads to pretty much everybody in his administration to finally turn on him.
** When his [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corporate cronies]] buy up the Hollywood film studios, he uses them to turn the film industry into a PropagandaMachine which vilifies historical figures that he hates, such as calling FDR a communist.
** He encourages [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic "Liberty Battalions"]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName to burn any books critical of his free-market economic policies and "disappear" any like-wise celebrities and political enemies]]. Between this and the last one, large swaths of American academia, the arts, and the entertainment industry flee to Canada and the UK.
** He establishes a permit system to restrict interstate travel, which is officially done to stop the free travel of criminals and terrorists but is really about compiling a database on everyone's movements for political purposes.
** He allows employers to slash ''all wages in half across the board'' under the cover of investing the other half in the stock market, and removes all forms of workers' rights and social welfare, leading to unbearable poverty and terrible working conditions for working-class Americans, akin to serfdom and sharecropping. He also only enforces regulations just to attack businesses and media networks that oppose him.
** He alienates nearly all of his allies (resulting in NATO being disbanded) with the notable exception of the two dictatorial and genocidal states of South Africa and Israel (which he champions as bastions of freedom). He supports [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles terrorism in Northern Ireland]] to "punish" the British for voting in a Labour government.
** Not only does he resort to blatant electoral fraud to be re-elected for his second term, he also ''attempts to make himself president for life''. In fact, he privately admits to wanting to tear up the Constitution and strip US citizens of every constitutional right except the right to bear arms.
** He bullies state governments into accepting his policies, [[spoiler: and later, when Pete [=McCloskey=] is re-elected as California's governor, he tries to annul the election in favor of his handpicked stooge, and impeaches the Supreme Court justices who ruled against overturning the election results]]. This pushes California, Hawaii, and Idaho into seceding from the union.
** He wants to have all homosexuals imprisoned, [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain comparing them to pedophiles.]]
** He shuts down the nascent civilian Internet before it can get off the ground, all in the name of "national security".
** He removes every single environmental regulation and even pushes to have concern for the environment declared a mental disorder. When the nascent threat of GlobalWarming is brought up to him, he sees it as a good thing that will extend the growing season, and so he actively defends coal pollution.
** He tries to ''weaponize AIDS''.
** [[EvilIsPetty He conspires to fill Earth's orbit with waste just to make things difficult for the Russian space program]].
** And believe it or not, he's '''nothing''' compared to [[spoiler: Douglas Coe]]. How bad is he? [[spoiler: Under his command, Congress is destroyed (literally), DC has many of its historic landmarks demolished to make way for [[MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat monuments to himself and Jesus]], and the US is transformed into a totalitarian theocracy, complete with the 10 commandments added into the constitution. By 1990, the country has descended into a second civil war, with [[DividedStatesOfAmerica entire regions of states declaring independence]]. To crush any attempted invasions or resistance movements, Coe fully embraces the use of ''nuclear weapons''.]] It's enough to get the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, and the Jewish Defense League to ''[[EnemyMine join forces]]'' against him.
* In ''Literature/NoW'', a series of events leads to [[spoiler: Rick Santorum]] becoming President in 2005, and he immediately goes about turning the United States into a theocratic dictatorship. Laws are passed banning video games or television shows with even the slightest hint of adult content and persecuting the LGBT community. Muslim-Americans are scapegoated for the actions of Islamic terrorists and later rounded up into internment camps "for their protection". Right-wing and anti-Muslim governments around the world are backed by force (including covertly trying to bring about RegimeChange in Israel to avoid peace with Palestine). And most tellingly, anyone who publicly disagrees with the administration (politicians and civilians alike) tend to wind up either dead, arrested on trumped-up charges, or disappeared.
* One of the timelines visited in ''Literature/AnExaminationOfExtraUniversalSystemsOfGovernment'' features Edward Butler, a living embodiment of the worst traits of libertarians, objectivists, and the Tea Party movement, who nuked several major cities in the Middle East, including Mecca and Medina, tried to ban Islam, and suspend ''habeas corpus''. This resulted in an uprising that led to Butler fleeing to Guantanamo Bay with [[TheRemnant what was left of his loyalists]], where he essentially become an American version of North Korea's Kim family. He rules this tiny state with an iron fist and has an arsenal of nuclear ballistic missiles to prevent anyone from taking him out.

* ''[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/triumphant-a-davy-crockett-presidency.475060/ Triumphant: A Davy Crockett Presidency]]'' has Daniel Sickles, who is elected President in 1888 after he [[FalseFlagOperation stages]] an AssassinationAttempt on himself. After a full term spent being a textbook CorruptPolitician (rigging state elections to pack key offices with his allies, allowing rampant government corruption that he can personally profit from, etc), he then slides into full villain mode when he loses the 1892 election to Labor Party candidate Walter Earp (ATL Wyatt Earp). Refusing to yield power, he declares the election invalid and sends army and national guard units controlled by his allies to arrest and/or kill Earp, and even personally kills his own Vice-President when the man protests these actions. [[spoiler: Thankfully, this coup fails due to more democratically-inclined military commanders standing against his forces, and Sickles ends up swiftly impeached and executed for treason.]]
* On the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', Jschlatt played this role as the President (or Emperor) of Manberg, while being the ArcVillain of the Pogtopia arc. After [[TyrantTakesTheHelm winning the L'Manberg election]], his first decree after his inauguration was to revoke the citizenships of his main political opponents and send them into [[TheExile exile]], while [[RunOrDie calling for their murder as they fled for their lives]]. He then changed the country's name to Manberg, heavily taxed [[DefiantStoneThrow those that spoke out against him]] to the point of going broke, [[BadBoss mistreated his subordinates]], [[spoiler:ordered the [[WouldHurtAChild execution of a teenager]] for being TheMole, and [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating alienated everyone else on the server]] with his cruelty, to the point that not even his (ex-)fiancé (whom he abused and traumatized for life) and Vice President stuck around and eventually [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal took one of his canon lives]] while [[HeelFaceTurn making his escape to Pogtopia]]. By the time the man dropped dead from a heart attack or a stroke during the Manberg-Pogtopia War, next to no one had good enough memories of him to [[LastDisrespects respect him even while dead]], to the point that they robbed his coffin and the aforementioned ex gets away with [[BlackComedyCannibalism eating his heart]] in front of everyone.]]
* The ''WebAnimation/{{Evaporate}}'' video "Acid Rain" has Nerv identify President Donald Lincoln as the one responsible for causing the acid rain. President Donald Lincoln is then represented as a photograph of George W. Bush's face seated in the Oval Office with spindly arms and glaring eyebrows scrawled on, accompanied by Bowser's EvilLaugh from ''VideoGame/HotelMario''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In the episode "The Vision", Alan the balloon wants to become school president to [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul brainwash his classmates to all be happy]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' it's shown that in the [[AlternateTimeline Ben 10,000 timeline]], ConMan Argit who's described by Gwen as the kind of person "who would sell his own mother for lunch money" manages to become the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''-style [[OneWorldOrder President of Earth]] [[KarmaHoudini while still maintaining his illegal businesses]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', student council president Jimmy [=McGarfield=] revealed at the end of his debut appearance that he was in allegiance with the adults instead of the kids. At the end of his next appearance, he was sent to prison, leaving Numbuh 1 confident that he would take his place, only to find out that the [[CreepyChild Delightful Children From Down the Lane]] had in fact bought the election and become president(s) themselves.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Scrooge faces several President Evils in the course of the series:
** In "Three Ducks of the Condor", part of the FiveEpisodePilot "The Treasure of the Golden Sun", Scrooge and the other Ducks travel to the Andes in search for clues to the main treasure, and encounter Joaqim Slowly, the descendant of one of the three conquistadors that found the treasure (the second was lost at sea travelling North, while the third is the ageless BigBad El Capitan). Possessing a single Golden Sun coin inherited from his ancestor, Joaqim uses his status as a "Sun Priest" to lord over a native tribe, abusing them whenever he feels like it. After trying to scam Scrooge out of his own coin to double his authority, Joaqim ends up losing both coins over a cliff, costing him his power entirerly.
** In "Sphinx for the Memories", Scrooge faces the corrupt High Priest (and ruler) of [[{{Qurac}} Garbabble]], an ancient civilization in the remote Egyptian desert. The priest - a parody of Peter Lorre, is deposed at the end when his double-dealing is brought to light.
** In "The Duck in the Iron Mask", the greedy Count of [[{{Ruritania}} Monte Dumas]] imprisons Scrooge, Launchpad and his nephews. It turns out the Count is really the EvilTwin of Scrooge's old friend, the rightful count and the eponymous Duck in the Iron Mask.
** In "The Duck Who Would Be King", the second part of the "Time Is Money" arc, the Ducks end up stranded in a ancient city called Toupee during their time-travel adventure, where a tyrant named Mun-Ho oppresses the citizens by claiming he serves the will of the "Great One", a prophesized messiah, using tricks and illusions to fake having magic abilities to back it up.
** Finally, in "Allowance Day", the corrupt leader of "The BananaRepublic", General Chiquita, tries to steal away Scrooge's Banana Bran Flakes factory. The General also tries to execute Scrooge and Fenton Crackshell via cannon squad. While Scrooge wins in the end (and keeps the factory), the General remained in power becoming something of a KarmaHoudini. One hopes that the US government took note of the near execution of one of her leading citizens, and deposed of El Presidente soon thereafter!

** Parodied in "When Aliens Attack", in which it is mentioned that during the 27th century, a supervillain was elected governor of New York. During his term, he stole all the major world monuments and [[RushmoreRefacement put his face on Mount Rushmore]] (which he also stole).
** And more "currently" on the show, there's [[OneWorldOrder Earth President]] Richard M. Nixon's Head, who needs no explanation to people familiar with [[TruthInTelevision actual American history]], though the show goes the extra mile to make him as overtly vile and corrupt as possible, to the degree that this version of Nixon is so over-the-top in his wickedness that he makes the real-life Nixon look like a saint.
** In the same episode where Nixon gets elected, there's a side discussion about the first robot president, John Quincy Adding Machine, who "struck a chord with the voters when he pledged not to go on a killing spree." "But, like most politicians, he promised more than he could deliver. "
** A Lincoln-style monument depicts the 60th president who was apparently a brutal alien warlord. His chair is surrounded by a pile of human skulls and he is eating a human. The people of Earth apparently do not care who they elect.
* The text above warned you not to confuse this trope with the moment in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' where Mandy plays a video game titled ''President Evil'', but in fact, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it DOES feature evil presidents.]] ''[[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies Zombified evil presidents.]]''
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'', as Season 3 has ComicBook/TheJoker successfully become mayor of Gotham. He runs as a [[DirtyCommunists hardcore socialist]] and it's ZigZagged by the fact that he genuinely sought to clean up the city through stronger infrastructure and civic programs... through higher taxation on the wealthy, i.e. [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]. His campaign being structured like a reign of terror is completely unrelated to any ideology; it's just because he's the Joker. [[spoiler:To take it even farther, he puts Jim Gordon out of a job by abolishing the police department and has [[IntimidatingRevenueService Bruce Wayne arrested for tax evasion]], which he submits to in order to show the public that nobody's above the law.]]
* Zigzagged in ''[[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Harvey Birdman, Attorney General]]'': Phil Ken Sebben is definitely crazy enough to fire a missile at his own country, but at the same time he has no memory of running for president (this time) and had hired Harvey and Birdgirl specifically to find a pretext for impeaching him since he doesn't ''want'' to be President anymore. [[spoiler:It turns out Peter Potamus orchestrated the whole thing with Mentok's help so he could make a fortune selling memorabilia for an impeached president. Phil eventually does get impeached after his inauguration caused the destruction of a national landmark, and new/returning president Black Vulcan stops the missile right before it hits the White House.]]
* ROBOTUS in ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'' was a robot duplicate created by the [[ConspiracyKitchenSink Deep State]] to KillAndReplace the real President of the United States. After Reagan's father tampers with its code, it becomes self-aware and turns into an ultranationalist {{Trumplica}} bent on encasing the continental United States into a giant metal box [[WellIntentionedExtremist to shield it from the rest of the world]]. When Reagan connects it to the Internet in the hopes of making it less patriotic, it instead [[AIIsACrapshoot becomes so disillusioned with mankind]] it decides to KillAllHumans and [[WorldWarIII immediately attempts to utilize America's nuclear arsenal to do so]].

** In the Justice Lords' reality, Lex Luthor becoming President sparked a chain of events that got [[TheHeart Flash]] killed and put the planet on the verge of nuclear war. After Lord-Superman executed Luthor, the Lords turned the planet into a GildedCage police state.
--->'''Superman:''' ''(in the Oval Office)'' Even ''this'' wasn't enough for you, was it? You had to have it all.
** In the Cadmus arc, "our" Luthor makes his own bid for the Presidency, leading many to fear that similar events will play out. The Question tries to [[ShootTheDog kill Luthor]] to preserve Superman's reputation. [[spoiler:Luthor then pummels the Question with his new superpowers, gloating that becoming president would cause him to ''lose'' power. He freely admits that he ran a fake campaign [[EvilIsPetty "just to tick Superman off."]]]]

** The first presidential election of the Citadel of Ricks sees the election of [[Characters/RickAndMortyEvilMorty Evil Morty]] with the final scene of the episode in question ending on a slow zoom out past a field of Rick and Morty corpses [[DramaticSpaceDrifting slowly drifting away]] from the Citadel after being [[ThrownOutTheAirlock ejected from the airlocks]]. [[spoiler: Season 5 reveals that his EvilPlan was to use the Citadel to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere escape the stranglehold Rick had over the multiverse]] by leaving for the universes he walled off, sacrificing the Citadel and everybody inside.]]
** The Season 5 ThanksgivingEpisode has President Curtis being replaced by a half-turkey clone of him that seeks to [[AnimalIsTheNewMan overthrow the human race]] with an army of turkey SuperSoldiers, and [[CorruptPolitician bribing the entirety of Congress to turn a blind eye]].
** Curtis himself initially was more grossly irresponsible than outright evil, but in the Season 6 ChristmasEpisode/season finale when they're doing a MayTheFarceBeWithYou he manipulates Morty to steal his [[LaserBlade lightsaber]] and ends up dropping it vertically, leaving it to burrow through the Earth's crust and cause an EarthShatteringKaboom if it reached the core. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Rather than try to fix his mistake]], he frames Morty and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere launches the White House into space]]. To drive the point home he emulates [[TheEmperor Emperor Palpatine]] more than once, even having a ThroneRoomThrowdown with Morty. In Season 7 his KarmaHoudiniWarranty wears off and he starts being HatedByAll for these antics and the ''two'' {{Vichy Earth}}s that happened on his watch, which leads to him assimilating half the planet into a HiveMind because he DesperatelyCravesAffection.

** The aliens Kang and Kodos impersonate UsefulNotes/BillClinton and Bob Dole during the 1996 election, figuring one of them would be elected. When Homer reveals the truth, the aliens claim that American citizens have to vote for one of them anyway, and voting for a third party would be pointless. The ending of the episode shows that Kang has been elected President, and he proceeds to enslave humanity and forcing them to build monuments. Homer claims it's not his fault, as he voted for Kodos.
** The episode "Sideshow Bob Roberts" had Sideshow Bob running for mayor of Springfield. His campaign discredits Quimby by saying that Quimby released the two-time attempted murderer Sideshow Bob. Bob wins by rigging the election, and enacts a campaign of [[EvilIsPetty petty revenge]] against the Simpsons such as forcing the family to live in a cheap motel after building a freeway [[CommunityThreateningConstruction through their own house]], and sending Bart back to kindergarten (though he is unaware Bart takes this as an {{Unishment}} and actually prefers it to the fourth grade). Mr Smithers helps to expose him as a criminal because of Bob's implied [[HeteronormativeCrusader anti-gay agenda]] (which was presumably just to court the right-wing vote since Bob was never portrayed as homophobic otherwise, making Bob a sleazy opportunist), and in court Bob claims his ultimate agenda was to "lower taxes, brutalise criminals and rule [Springfield] like a king".
** Six-term Mayor Quimby himself is often portrayed as [[SleazyPolitician extremely corrupt]] in his own right. A serial adulterer who cares more about [[TheHedonist living the high-life]] and winning votes (while [[SmugSnake privately deriding]] the average Springfield voter as "morons" and "human roaches") than actually running the city properly, his misdeeds include starting a campaign against illegal immigrants solely to placate a mob that was angry over a mild tax increase, allowing Homer to replace Wiggum as police chief and run the police as a crooked private company, hitting a Hollywood film production with a bunch of invented taxes (including a "leaving town" tax), taking bribes from mobsters in return for letting them sell cheap rat milk to children, repeatedly stealing from the town treasury, claiming to not leave the city during an epidemic in a video message while actually already being on vacation in the Bahamas and using the city treasury to fund the murder of his enemies.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': PlayedForLaughs when [[SadistTeacher Fourth-grade teacher Mr. Garrison]] becomes President of the United States on a platform of [[{{Trumplica}} "fucking all the immigrants to death".]] He [[BlackComedyRape repeatedly rapes members of his cabinet]], intentionally exacerbated Tweek's fears over North Korea by lying on Twitter about the cupcakes Tweek sent them, and then launched a nuclear missile at Toronto killing over a million Canadians there [[ForTheEvulz just because he finds it sexually arousing]]. These actions [[HateSink caused almost the whole town to despise him]] and almost caused the United States to descend into nuclear war.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/SuperMansion'' when after [[BatmanParody Black Saturn]]'s future self manages to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, [[IHatePastMe his present self]] convinces his ComicBook/CaptainAmerica {{expy}} teammate American Ranger to run for President. The BadFuture is then immediately replaced with a different one where Ranger becomes a [[BewareTheSuperman superpowered tyrant reminiscent of Injustice Superman]].
* Baron Ünderbheit, a CaptainErsatz for Doctor Doom in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', rules over the [[{{Mordor}} Barony of Ünderland]], which is apparently located adjacent to Michigan.
** In the same show it turns out UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland was a member of the Guild of Calamitous Intent, a WeirdTradeUnion for supervillains.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': In Season 3, Lex Luthor is elected the Secretary-General of the United Nations, similar to how in the comics he was elected President of the USA. Luthor uses his political position to help further the plans and agendas of [[LegionOFDoom The Light]] throughout the season.

** The last official President of the United States, Dick Richardson, the BigBad of ''2''. As the leader of the Enclave, his plan revolves around releasing a virus into the jet stream that will target anyone on Earth with mutated DNA, basically anyone not part of the Enclave or a Vault Dweller, leaving an empty world for the "worthy" to recolonize.
** President John Henry Eden of ''3''. Following in Richardson's footsteps, Eden is actually a sentient supercomputer who wants to hijack Project Purity, meant to purify the irradiated waters of the Washington Basin, to exterminate all mutant life on the East Coast.
** Thomas Eckhart of ''76''. Originally the last Secretary of Agriculture before the Great War, Eckhart was a member of the Appalachian Enclave, which lost contact with the California Enclave and the real President. Determined to continue the war with China and destroy communism once and for all, Eckhart eliminated his political enemies and won a rigged election to assume the Presidency (as far as the MasterComputer MODUS knew) just so he could gain control of the nuclear arsenal in the area.

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth 2'' has Teikun O, the president of the Republic of Zheng-Fa, a DirtyCoward who [[spoiler:orchestrated a fake assassination attempt on himself in a futile attempt to salvage his waning popularity]]. Then, much later in the game, we learn that [[spoiler:he's actually a body double who pulled a KillAndReplace on the ''real'' president and took over the country, and was planning to kill several others to cover it up. Of course, by the time you find that out, [[PayEvilUntoEvil someone else has already killed him]]. [[AssholeVictim He will not be missed]]]].

* In ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseofCobra'', [[spoiler:Zartan manages to disguise himself and take the place of the President]]. In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', he even puts Cobra banners on the White House, since Cobra is now the "official" ruler of America.

*** The ''President Luthor'' story arc has [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]] become President of the United States. His platform was that he would spread advanced technology from Metropolis (which had become even more futuristic than normal at the time) around the country, but once he was elected, he mostly ignored this plan in favor of using the government's resources to cause trouble for superheroes and other people he doesn't like. One of his first acts as President is to have his ex-wife murdered with missiles. He remains president for several years and becomes more involved in the rest of the DCU (for example, framing [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] for murder in ''ComicBook/BruceWayneFugitive''). In ''ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar'', he ''invites Imperiex to invade Earth'' so he can look good using the military to repel the invasion (making him partly responsible for the deaths of numerous humans including American citizens). While innocent in the main story of ''ComicBook/JokersLastLaugh'', its tie-ins saw him try to kill Superman while trying to stop a Jokerized Doomsday, hand Doomsday to Darkseid, and become Jokerized himself. Then in ''ComicBook/PublicEnemies'', he tries to frame Superman for a Kryptonite comet heading to Earth and then loses it -- this is what gets him impeached. Going on a killing spree with your old Apokoliptian powersuit will do that.

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', Jschlatt played this role as the President (or Emperor) of Manberg, while being the ArcVillain of the Pogtopia arc. After [[TyrantTakesTheHelm winning the L'Manberg election]], his first decree after his inauguration was to revoke the citizenships of his main political opponents and send them into [[TheExile exile]], while [[RunOrDie calling for their murder as they fled for their lives]]. He then changed the country's name to Manberg, heavily taxed [[DefiantStoneThrow those that spoke out against him]] to the point of going broke, [[BadBoss mistreated his subordinates]], [[spoiler:ordered the [[WouldHurtAChild execution of a teenager]] for being TheMole, and [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating alienated everyone else on the server]] with his cruelty, to the point that not even his (ex-)fiancé (whom he abused and traumatized for life) and Vice President stuck around and eventually [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal took one of his canon lives]] while [[HeelFaceTurn making his escape to Pogtopia]]. By the time the man dropped dead from a heart attack or a stroke during the Manberg-Pogtopia War, next to no one had good enough memories of him to [[LastDisrespects respect him even while dead]], to the point that they robbed his coffin and the aforementioned ex gets away with [[BlackComedyCannibalism eating his heart]] in front of everyone.]]

* ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'': Creator/PeterMilligan's run has Buddy Baker find himself in an alternate reality where the President of the United States is a man named Eagleton who needs Buddy and Nowhere Man's protection from some psychic children known as the Angel triplets. It's later revealed that the Angel triplets are right to attack the President because Eagleton is in truth a duplicitous psychopath who [[ChildHater wants to murder all children]].
* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'': The President of the U.S. even ''confesses'' to being a shill for big business. The Authority, who has had a long history of taking down dictators, depose ''him.'' Things go okay for a while until The Midnighter figures out it's all heading south and fast. Unfortunately, the only way to stop it is to [[spoiler:let D.C. explode]].