History Main / PresidentEvil

* [[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 "emergency powers" ([[Film/RevengeOfTheSith sound familiar?]]) before trying to have the PlayerCharacter killed, resulting in her getting killed/arrested herself.

** The {{Big Bad}}s of ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' 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.

* The {{Big Bad}}s of ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' 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.

* ''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]].
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has Masayoshi Shido, a CorruptPolitician who is [[spoiler:the secret head of TheConspiracy to turn Tokyo into an authoritarian dictatorship.]] Thankfully for Japan, he's thwarted [[SpannerInTheWorks by several wrenches]], but it really goes to show that his populist appeal coinciding with the rise of nationalism in today's world makes his rise a very frightening--and very possible--reality.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': 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.

%%* Senor Steel, the president-dictator of Blanca Grande in the Franchise/DocSavage novel ''The Freckled Shark''.

* 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=], being the highest ranking member of the National Salvation Front left after the main policial leader, Nicholas Longworth, were 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 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.

** Subverted by the President of the United States, who's shown to be a WellIntentionedExtremist who genuinely wanted to do right by America. [[spoiler:To that end, he contracted with the Gun Devil to try to kill the first HorsemanOfTheApocalypse, the Conquest Devil, in exchange for one year off the lifespan [[GodzillaThreshold of every American alive at the time]].]]
** The Prime Minister of Japan [[spoiler:was manipulated by the Conquest Devil herself into becoming complicit in her WorldOfSilence plot, and granted her ResurrectiveImmortality in exchange for the life of one Japanese citizen to be consumed every time she dies]].

* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', the various world leaders are all varying degrees of corrupt as they make [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian bargians]] at their peoples' expense in order to win the {{Magitek}} LensmanArmsRace in their AlternateTimeline where the UsefulNotes/ColdWar is still ongoing and [[DirtyCommunists the Soviet Union continued to exist into the late '90s]].

* In ''Series/TheBoys'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Homelander]] arranges for MoleInCharge Congresswoman Victoria Neuman to be on track to become the next Vice President of the United States.]]

See also TheCaligula, which is this trope turned UpToEleven, ''sans'' the Democracy. [[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.

* In the ''Heroes Rise'' trilogy from Creator/ChoiceOfGames, the last two games feature President Victon (he is the mayor of [[CityOfAdventure Millennium City]] in the first game), who gets himself elected on the platform of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals 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 [[UpToEleven 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]].

* 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. [[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.

** ''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.

** President Leland [=McCauley=] in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' (postboot version) 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 Five Years Later 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.

*** 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.
*** It's actually more of a multi-arc crossover -- he remains president for several years and becomes more involved in the rest of the DC continuity (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 the first arc of ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'', 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.

If the President Evil has the same name as a RealLife president or is an {{Expy}} of a real president, then this is {{Demonization}}. For very obvious reasons, no matter how tempting it may seem, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''

** The Beast, his predecessor, isn't much better. He is, by all accounts, a venal, selfish bastard, and the main reason he's called "the Beast" is that Spider nicknamed him that and it stuck (to the point that even the guy's ''kids'' call him that). However, despite being a prime President Corrupt he's ultimately shown to be an aversion of this trope: the Beast never goes after Jerusalem personally (unlike the Smiler) and is shown to have political beliefs -- they're just horribly lazy and selfish ones that essentially boils down to "if more than half of the people in the U.S. have a roof over their head and a meal, I've done my job."

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has Masayoshi Shido, a CorruptPolitician who is [[spoiler:the secret head of TheConspiracy to turn Tokyo into an authoritarian dictatorship. Thankfully for Japan, he's thwarted [[SpannerInTheWorks by several wrenches]], but it really goes to show that his populist appeal coinciding with the rise of nationalism in today's world makes his rise a very frightening - and very possible - reality.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has Masayoshi Shido, a CorruptPolitician who is [[spoiler:the secret head of TheConspiracy to turn Tokyo into an authoritarian dictatorship. Thankfully for Japan, he's thwarted [[SpannerInTheWorks by several wrenches]], but it really goes to show that his populist appeal coinciding with the rise of nationalism in today's world makes his rise a [[AdultFear very frightening - and very possible - reality.]]]]

** In the ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' storyline "ComicBook/ACrookedWorld", Mad Jim Jaspers is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... and also a RealityWarper whose powers drive him completely insane. He becomes a supervillain in two different {{Alternate Universe}}s and leads campaigns to wipe out the world's metahuman population so he can play with the world undisturbed.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''President Luthor'' story arc has ComicBook/LexLuthor 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 favour 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.
** It's actually more of a multi-arc crossover -- he remains president for several years and becomes more involved in the rest of the DC continuity (for example, framing [[Franchise/{{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 the first arc of ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'', 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.
** 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.]]
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom 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 2099 series of comics, Doctor Doom became President Evil when he 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.
** And 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]].
** Though 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 it was ''before'' Doom cleaned it up.
** Technically he's the King of Latveria, not the President. He still becomes President of the United States though.
* In the Wolverine BadFuture story ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'', the Marvel villains have taken over and Red Skull is the President. (Though technically 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 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 ''House of M'': Ruling from Genosha, Magneto's power extended over most of the world, though he allowed his dubious allies (such as a [[TheStarscream Starscream wannabe]] 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]].
* Also from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, ComicBook/BaronZemo (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).
* ComicBook/{{Mystique}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] were the de facto rulers of Madripoor for a time; they bought the rights from Madame Hydra in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''.
* 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 is seen as a President Evil by a good portion of the globe.

** "'All shall kiss my smouldering hoof', said the Mayor in a statement yesterday."
** "Minority groups cheered the Mayor's statement that he would bring 'A new era of blackness' to the city..."
* Philip Nolan Voigt in Marvel's 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/BlackAdam as the leader of Khandaq, though that all came crashing down in ''52''.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': During the '80s, when tensions with Iran were still high after the hostage crisis, the Joker, 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.
** And then they did it again in the early 2000s, as part of a plot to nuke New York City.

** Spider's problems get a whole lot worse once The Smiler becomes president. The Secret Service stalks his filthy assistants, assassins start crawling up his butt, and his stories get killed for reasons of "national security." He's able to give as good as he gets...
** The Beast, his predecessor, isn't much better. He is, by all accounts, a venal, selfish bastard, and the main reason he's called "the Beast" is that Spider nicknamed him that and it stuck (to the point that even the guy's ''kids'' call him that). However, despite being a prime President Corrupt he's ultimately shown to be an aversion of this trope: The Beast never goes after Jerusalem personally (unlike The Smiler) and is shown to have political beliefs -- they're just horribly lazy and selfish ones that essentially boils down to "if more than half of the people in the U.S. have a roof over their head and a meal, I've done my job."
* 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 President Nixon). 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.]]
* 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.
* President Leland [=McCauley=] in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' (postboot version) turned out to be immortal supervillain 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 Five Years Later 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.

** 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 turns out to be a stooge for that reality's [[GloriousMotherRussia East Meg One]], and is [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness disposed of as soon as he loses his usefulness to them]].
* The leader(s) of Bialya, a fictional country in the DC Universe. Always some kind of homicidal whackjob who got the position by offing the previous leader. Oddly, this doesn't seem to have stopped even after Black Adam kills most Bialyans.
** The ArchEnemy of the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} Europe, and really of the whole ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational, the Queen Bee, was the ruler of Bialya.
* ''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. Boom.]]
* Creator/MarkWaid's ''ComicBook/{{Empire}}'' details what happens when a Doctor Doom-esque villain actually succeeds in taking over the planet.
* 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/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.
** Now Osborn is considered a criminal by the general public once again following the Siege.
* In the ''ComicBook/Marvel1602'' 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.

** Creator/DonaldTrump is president of Earth, and when he isn't an unholy spawn of George Bush and Ronald Reagan, he runs the planet like ''Series/TheApprentice''. Also, he [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals shredded a puppy]].

* In ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'', Mad Jim Jaspers is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... and also a RealityWarper whose powers drive him completely insane. He becomes a supervillain in two different {{Alternate Universe}}s and leads campaigns to wipe out the world's metahuman population so he can play with the world undisturbed.

* In the two-issue miniseries ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'', the President of the United States is Charles Francis Xavier, who is [[AdaptationalVillainy a far cry from the benevolent leader of the X-Men he was in standard continuity]]. He wages war on Genosha and has also imprisoned and mutilated many mutants.

* The limited series ''Comicbook/TheMask: I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask'' has a politician discovering the EvilMask, and Big Head goes on to use his uninhibited, wacky and sociopathic tirades to propel himself onto the White House. He gets within inches of a nuclear strike that could wipe out mankind before former users of the mask manage to blackmail him into removing the piece.

* President Leland [=McCauley=] in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' (postboot version) turned out to be immortal supervillain Ra's Al Ghul in disguise.

* In ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'', Mad Jim Jaspers is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... and also a RealityWarper whose powers drive him completely insane. He becomes a supervillain in two different {{Alternate Universe}}s and leads campaigns to wipe out the world's metahuman population so he can play with the world undisturbed

*** 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 regressive means (purging suspected opponents, encouraging political violence, expanding state power, etc.). He purges supposed "reactionary" CIA members ''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]] 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 money and intel to them, and [[EvenEvilHasStandards causes even hardcore segregationists to hate him]].

** [[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 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.

* [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] and [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]] were the de facto rulers of Madripoor for a time; they bought the rights from Madame Hydra in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''.