History Main / PresidentEvil

* In ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsElektra Elektra]]: Assassin'', the Beast manages to get Ken Wind elected president, but Elektra thwarts the plan with her psychic powers and ninja skills.

* Also from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, [[Characters/MarvelComicsBaronZemo Baron Zemo]] (the younger), who for a time was in charge of Bagalia, an underground nation (literally and figuratively -- it's in a cavern and most citizens are super villains).

* ROBOTUS in ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'' 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]].

** The first presidential election of the Citadel of Ricks sees the election of [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGunman Evil]] [[EvilDoppelganger Morty]]]]. Time will tell exactly how his presidency goes, but it's telling that the final scene of the episode in question ends on [[spoiler: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]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The first presidential election of the Citadel of Ricks sees the election of [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGunman Evil]] [[EvilDoppelganger Morty]]]]. Time will tell exactly how his presidency goes, but it's telling that the final scene of the episode in question ends on [[spoiler: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]].]]

* 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 President of Earth [[KarmaHoudini while still maintaining his illegal businesses]].

** And more "currently" on the show, there's Earth President Richard M. Nixon's Head, who needs no explanation to people familiar with [[TruthIntelevision actual American history]].

* ROBOTUS in ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'' 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 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]].

*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Francis Parker Yockey]] is an openly pro-Nazi Germany politician with allies in TheKlan when running for office. If wins the 1972 election, the country is turned into a fascist regime where he introduces [[CulturePolice intrusive censorship laws]] against the media via the SAFE act, subtly encourages hate crimes against ethnic minorities [[AnarchoTyranny while refusing to prosecute said criminals]], allies the United States with Nazi Germany while giving supplies to them, and [[EvenEvilHasStandards causes even hardcore segregationists to hate him]].

*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Francis Parker Yockey]] is an openly pro-Nazi Germany politician with allies in TheKlan when running for office. If wins the 1972 election, the country is turned into a fascist regime where he introduces [[CulturePolice intrusive censorship laws]] against the media via the SAFE act, subtly encourages hate crimes against ethnic minorities [[AnarchoTyranny while refusing to prosecute said criminals]], allies the United States with Nazi Germany, prepares for war with Japan, and [[EvenEvilHasStandards causes even hardcore segregationists to hate him]].

*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Francis Parker Yockey]] is an openly pro-Nazi Germany politician with allies in TheKlan when running for office. If wins the 1972 election, the country is turned into a fascist regime where he introduces [[CulturePolice intrusive censorship laws]], encourages hate crimes against ethnic minorities [[AnarchoTyranny while refusing to prosecute said criminals]], allies the United States with Nazi Germany, and [[EvenEvilHasStandards causes even hardcore segregationists to hate him]].
*** On the opposite end of the political spectrum would by [[DirtyCommunists Gus Hall]], a PrinciplesZealot who is willing to enforce progressive policies (racial and sexual equality, worker's rights, etc.) through some fairly regressive means (purging suspected opponents, encouraging political violence, expanding state power, etc.). He purges supposed "reactionary" members of the CIA and FBI ''while in a cold war with the NAZIS''. He also encourages homophobia nationwide for no other reason than shutting up ''one'' gay political critic.

*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Francis Parker Yockey]] is an openly pro-Nazi Germany politician with allies in TheKlan when running for office. If wins the 1972 election, the country is turned into a fascist regime where he introduces [[CulturePolice intrusive censorship laws]], encourages hate crimes against ethnic minorities [[AnarchoTyranny while refusing to prosecute said criminals]], allies the United States with Nazi Germany, and causes [[EvenEvilHasStandards causes even hardcore segregationists to hate him]].

*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Francis Parker Yockey]] is an openly pro-Nazi Germany politician with allies in TheKlan when running for office. If wins the 1972 election, the country is turned into a fascist regime where he introduces [[CulturePolice intrusive censorship laws]], encourages hate crimes against ethnic minorities [[AnarchoTyrrany while refusing to prosecute said criminals]], allies the United States with Nazi Germany, and causes [[EvenEvilHasStandards causes even hardcore segregationists to hate him]].
*** On the opposite end of the political spectrum would by [[DirtyCommunists Gus Hall]], a PrincipalsZealot who is willing to enforce progressive policies (racial and sexual equality, worker's rights, etc.) through some fairly regressive means (purging suspected opponents, encouraging political violence, expanding state power, etc.). He purges supposed "reactionary" members of the CIA and FBI ''while in a cold war with the NAZIS''. He also encourages homophobia nationwide for no other reason than shutting up ''one'' gay political critic.
*** On the opposite end of the globe, there resides the small Russian DisasterDemocracy of Komi, home to Igor Shafarevich. Shafarevich, upon election, acts as a crypto-fascist PresidentForLife who discriminates against minorities and purges political opponents under the guise of fighting "Russophobia". If this wasn't enough, his regime can open the gate to more openly fascist politicians to take power - like [[EqualOppertunityEvil Gumilyov]], [[CommieNazis Serov]], and [[EvilReactionary Tabor]][[TheCaligula itsky]].

*** Another mod, ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'' is less explicit then ''The New Order'', but it's still present.

* President Leland [=McCauley=] in ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'' (postboot version) turned out to be immortal supervillain Ra's Al Ghul in disguise.

* General [=MacArthur=] becomes a downplayed version of this in the ''Literature/{{Reds}}'' AlternateHistory, with a healthy side of GeneralRipper. After evacuating the American upper-class to Cuba following the Communist revolution, [=MacArthur=] claims that he is the 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 ironfist 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 carhoots with the Communists (often for little to no reason) and cruel oppression of the native Cuban population.

* John Tomarchio in ''Series/{{Jericho}}'', who establishes the dissident Allied States of America west of the Mississippi River after the United States is split in two in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks that annihilated America's major cities. Under a benevolent guise, he serves as part of a highly corrupt corporate conspiracy to seize control of the nation by means of the nuclear strikes, which would serve to fuel the outbreak of a second American civil war against the legitimate U.S. government.

* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "The Washingtonians":
** [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade George Washington]] 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:George W. Bush]] is a member of the Washingtonians as well.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'', "Decompression", a time traveler approaches a presidential candidate 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 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]].

** In the same show it turns out Grover Cleveland was a member of The Guild of Calamitous intent.

** 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, and claiming to not leave the city during an epidemic in a video message while actually already being on vacation in the Bahamas.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': [[BigBad Palpatine]] was one of these as [[TheFederation Chancellor]]. 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 ''de facto'' 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 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.

* 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 an anagram)]]. Who gassed large parts of the country with the Crimson Mist virus.

** Played with in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'', after Luthor had succeeded in killing Superman (not really), he becomes the new US President, and succeeds in creating a golden age for the world. He's still a ruthless egotistical sociopath though- he comes to power after promising (correctly) that he could fix the devastated economy of the United States...which had been following an economic formula ''he'' devised. Near the end, he implies that a great deal of the story was part of a master plan to TakeOverTheWorld and get rid of Superman all along. Still, Lex's [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld Global United States]] is depicted as an unambiguous utopia. So much so that [[spoiler:it produced a human being as great as Kal-L in the far future.]]
* ComicBook/DoctorDoom, 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.

* ComicBook/{{Magneto}}, archenemy of the Comicbook/XMen, ruled the island of Genosha for a while, transforming it into a haven for mutants until it was destroyed by Cassandra Nova.

* Also from the Marvel universe, Baron Zemo (the younger), who for a time was in charge of Bagalia, an underground nation (literally and figuratively- it's in a cavern and most citizens are super villains).
* Mystique and Sabertooth from ComicBook/XMen were the de facto rulers of Madripoor for a time; they bought the rights from Madame Hydra in ''All-New X-Men''.
* 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/CableAndDeadpool Cable]], who between this and creating his own island nation Providence is seen as a President Evil by a good portion of the globe.

* During the '80s, when tensions with Iran were still high after the hostage crisis, the Joker from Franchise/{{Batman}}, who'd just killed Jason Todd in Africa, was chosen to serve as Iran's UN representative, thus giving him diplomatic immunity. This was later {{retcon}}ned so that it was {{Qurac}}, a (fictitious) terrorist state, that gave The Joker diplomatic immunity.

* During an arc on Creator/GeoffJohns' ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' run, America got a Secretary of Defense called [[MeaningfulName Dell]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Rusk]] [[spoiler: (The ComicBook/RedSkull, yes that's an anagram)]]. Who gassed large parts of the country with the Crimson Mist virus.

* Though not exactly a President, ComicBook/NormanOsborn was like this from the ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' to the ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' storylines.
** Norman Osborn managed to become (de facto) President of the U.S. in the ''ComicBook/EarthX'' series, after the Absorbing Man destroyed Washington, D.C. Although strictly speaking, his title was illegal--he simply assumed power without an election--most people were willing to go along with it rather than starve. Curiously, he does relatively little harm before the mind-controlling Skull usurps power and kills him.

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}'' series, we see a brief shot of the modern world, where second-string supervillain the Purple Man has been elected President of the United States of America (presumably using his mind control powers).

* In ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}: Assassin'', the Beast manages to get Ken Wind elected president, but Elektra thwarts the plan with her psychic powers and ninja skills.

* ''ComicBook/WeirdScience'' had a story where "Allie the Alligator," a puppet on a kids' show called "Kookie, Fan and Allie," encourages parents to elect him president by writing his name in on their ballots. The two mainstream candidates are so unelectable that the majority of voters rebel against them, write in Allie's name, and elect him. Discombobulated beyond measure, Congress holds hearings on what to do. They summon the man who puppeteers Allie to appear, intending to make him president. Then comes the kicker: [[spoiler:"Allie" is no puppet. He's a puppet-sized alien who's grafted himself onto the puppeteer's arm. And now that he's been elected president, his compatriots slither out of lakes and rivers and graft themselves onto Congress's collective arms to put down a measure to "unelect" Allie.]]

* In the world of ''Literature/{{MARZENA}}'', in the year 2033, the world will have to endure Russian President Victor Zolnerovich, one of the founders of [[EvilInc Tresisda]] and a heavy supporter of Neo-Nazism, not to forget that he's really a [[spoiler: [[RoboticReveal a clone robot AI]]]]. There's also possibly German Chancellor Norvak, or at least this is what Marian thinks.
* In ''Literature/ParableOfTheTalents'' by Creator/OctaviaButler, 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.]]

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' did this a lot. One story arc featured a retired Imperial Admiral as president. [[PunchClockVillain Not so bad]], until you remember that she oversaw the construction of the Death Star, the enslavement of genius children to build it, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the bombardment of several pacifist planets]].

* ''Literature/{{Timeline 191}}'' has Jake Featherston, President of the Confederate States of America, and thinly veiled UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler analogue, who attempts a genocide of the CSA's black population.

'''Max:''' Dispatch equal numbers of [[KillerRobot giant battle robots]] to all sides. Whoever wins, claim we backed them all along.

'''Max:''' [[IResembleThatRemark They can take it up with my new press secretary, the Maimtron 9000. ''(The phone rings)'' If that's the guys from Air Force One, tell them they get the keys back after they say the magic word.
* The [[BigBad Big Bads]] of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' are President Evils, focused on cleansing the post-apocalyptic world of any dangerous mutants. Given that, under their standards, the vast majority of the irradiated planet's surface-dwelling population would qualify as a dangerous mutant, including most of the good guys, this is obviously not a fun plan. Subverted by President Tandi and [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Kimball]] of the NCR, though Kimball is a jingoistic imperialist.
* Andrew Ryan of ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' is the president/founder/king of Rapture.

** He removes every single environmental regulation and even pushes to have concern for the environment declared a mental disorder. When the nascent threat of ClimateChange 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.

** 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 to close to the conspiracy]].]]

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', Jschlatt played this role as the President (or Emperor) of Manburg, while being the ArcVillain of the Pogtopia arc. After [[TyrantTakesTheHelm winning the 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 flee for their lives]]. He then changed the country's name from L'Manburg to Manburg, 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 Manburg-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.]]

* Not technically president, but "his dishonor" the Mayor from ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' does everything from kidnapping children, stealing priceless artwork, melting his chief nuclear safety adviser, causing massive train wrecks (he wanted the insurance money), unleashing ancient mummy curses, taking out NFL quarterbacks, and trying to blow up Washington D.C., all complete with a huge grin on his face, and evil pointed eyebrows. But despite all his acts of villainy, he's never removed from office.

** Zigzagged in ''Fall of Deadworld''. There's a U.S. President leading LaResistance against the new Chief Judge, who is an OmnicidalManiac. However, the President himself is just a stooge for that reality's [[GloriousMotherRussia East Meg One]], and is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness disposed of as soon as he loses his usefulness to them]].

* ''Mr.President!'' on Steam is about saving the United States president [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed "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]].