History Main / PresidentEvil

** The leader(s) of [[{{Qurac}} Bialya]] is 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 most prominent is the Queen Bee, who has gone up against ComicBook/{{Justice League|of America}} Europe and ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational.

** Characters/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.

** 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. 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/JudgeDredd'':
** The atomic war that originated the mythos came around because President "Bad" Bob Booth stole an election, went around seizing the resources of foreign countries, and then ''openly'' announced he was going to start nuclear war with ''everyone'' if they didn't shut up. And then started it. (In "fairness", he thought America's nuclear screens would keep it safe from retaliation. ''They didn't.'')
** The Judges took over America and have since had one active supervillain for a Chief Judge (Cal), another who gained dementia and began some horrific policies ([=McGruder=]), and one who is a puppet for Shady Interests (Francisco); every other Chief Judge has carried out some morally questionable acts in the name of protecting Mega-City One, from foreign regime changes (Hershey) to ''deliberately starting a riot'' so they could have an excuse to beat up on a pro-democracy march (Silver).
** The office of Mayor of Mega-City One isn't exempt from evil either, with examples including a {{greed}}y, [[VillainousGlutton gluttonous]] wannabe-king (Amalfi), and an unrepentant serial killer (PJ Maybe).
** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] in ''ComicBook/TheFallOfDeadworld''. 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]].
* ''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]].
* 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.
* ''ComicBook/{{Empire}}'' details what happens when a Doctor Doom-esque villain actually succeeds in taking over the planet.
* [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] actually names himself president after decimating Washington DC in ''ComicBook/FreddyVsJasonVsAsh: The Nightmare Warriors''. One of his stated 'policies' was an ambitious program of "No Child Left Alive".
* ''ComicBook/MonsterPlus'' has World President Mark Darke, who, if the name isn't helping you get it, authorized the creation of EVLI Eye squadrons to handle dissidents.

* ''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.
* The Creator/ECComics publication ''Weird Science'' 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 block any efforts to get Allie impeached.]]
* ''ComicBook/DastardlyAndMuttley'': After exposure to [[GreenRocks Unstabilium]], the President whacks Senator Braynard with a mallet.
* ''ComicBook/SamuraiJackQuantumJack'', a five-issue miniseries consisting of an AlternateContinuity to ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', at one point has Jack trapped in the life of an office worker. Upon returning to his house and watching television, he witnesses his [[ArchEnemy nemesis]], the dark personification of evil known as Aku, running against himself for President.
* 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.

* ''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.]]

[[folder:Films — Animation]]

* 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 GenerationShip 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]].]]

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]

* In ''Film/TheDeadZone'', Johnny Smith (played by Creator/ChristopherWalken) shakes the hand of politician Greg Stillson (Creator/MartinSheen) and foresees that he will become president who, in a moment of megalomania ("YOU are not the voice of the people! I AM THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE!"), orders a nuclear strike, thus destroying the world. [[HilariousInHindsight This scene is pretty funny to those who mainly know]] [[Series/TheWestWing Sheen as the wise, principled President Jed Bartlet]]
* Apparently, the people in Creator/JohnCarpenter's CrapsackWorld future in the ''Escape From...'' film series can'''not''' get a good president. In ''[[Film/EscapeFromNewYork ...New York]]'', he was a scheming little crook, and ''[[Film/EscapeFromLA ...LA]]'' had an outright religious psychotic. The second guy (who went unnamed, but was based heavily on [[MoralGuardians Jerry Falwell]]) got elected by saying that the earthquake that destroyed Los Angeles was [[TheScourgeOfGod God's punishment for that city's sin and decadence]], and actually managed to get the Constitution amended to stay PresidentForLife. His first act after that? Move the capital to his hometown (Lynchburg, VA).
* 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.

* ''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.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': President Clark assassinates the previous president, under whom he served as vice president, and from there initiates an Iron-fisted regime that brooks no disagreement with him, particularly the crew of the main series setting who were actively working to expose his crimes and bring him down. His final act as president before offing himself is to set all {{Kill Sat}}s in Earth's orbit to fire at the planet. Luckily, the good guys manage to stop them in time.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* Andrew Ryan of ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' is the president/founder/king of Rapture.

** 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. To make matters worse, their faction the Enclave is a GovernmentConspiracy that's secretly ruled the United States since before WorldWarIII, with several U.S. Presidents having been members and helping turn pre-War America into a PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny.

** 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.

** The first presidential election of the Citadel of Ricks sees the election of [[ChekhovsGunman Evil]] [[EvilDoppelganger 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.]]

** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] 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]].

** In "The Duck Who Would Be King", the corrupt leader of Toupee (yet another high priest!) is deposed by Scrooge and company. The priest throws his lot in with bandits to retake power but is foiled.

** In "Three Ducks of the Condor", Scrooge argues with and fights the descendant of a conquistador, Walking Slowly. Using a coin from the Treasure of the Golden Suns, he masquerades as a high priest and rules the superstitious peasants in and around an isolated plateau high in the Andes. Walking Slowly loses his power over the natives when he loses his coin.

* 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/The Great Desert}} a Legend of Zelda AU, and {{Fanfic/National Anthem}} a ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' AU. Both are by the author Shadsie.

* In the AlternateHistory ''WebOriginal/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.

* 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]].

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

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'', the president, Funny Valentine ([[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep yes, that is his name]]), is a corrupt, morally devoid lunatic who somehow still manages to be a VillainWithGoodPublicity (probably the American flag scar). Among other things, he uses government funds to secretly hire criminals and lackeys for his dirty work and he obviously has some sort of plan for ultimate power that involves using said lackeys to get the [[UpgradeArtifact "Corpse Parts"]] for him. Oh, and he tried to rape a 14-year-old girl in one scene. He wasn't sure she was 14 years old, but attempted none the less. His skills as a politician and a speaker can't be denied, though. He even managed to momentarily convince the main character of the justness of his cause.

If the President Evil has the same name as a RealLife president or is an {{Expy}} of a real president, then this is {{Demonization}}. [[FlameBait For very obvious reasons, no matter how tempting it may seem,]] Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease Some examples post-2016 may overlap with {{Trumplica}}.

** In the BadFuture story ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'', 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]].)

* ''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 already killed him]]. [[AssholeVictim He will not be missed]]]].

* 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 [[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 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]].

->''"Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become more bitter and, let's face it, '''crazy''' over the years. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! Woahahahahaha!!"''

* In the second season of ''Manga/BloodyMonday'', President Adams seems to be this, only he's just more of a {{Jerkass}} than someone that's genuinely evil.

-->-- '''President UsefulNotes/{{Richard Nixon}}'s Head''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', the various world leaders are all varying degrees of corrupt as they make [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian bargians]] [[HumanSacrifice 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]].

** 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 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.]]
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'' the president, Funny Valentine ([[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep yes, that is his name]]), is a corrupt, morally devoid lunatic who somehow still manages to be a VillainWithGoodPublicity (probably the American flag scar). Among other things, he uses government funds to secretly hire criminals and lackeys for his dirty work and he obviously has some sort of plan for ultimate power that involves using said lackeys to get the [[UpgradeArtifact "Corpse Parts"]] for him. Oh, and he tried to rape a 14-year-old girl in one scene. He wasn't sure she was 14 years old, but attempted none the less.
** His skills as a politician and a speaker can't be denied though. He even managed to momentarily convince the main character of the justness of his cause.
* In Manga/BloodyMonday (Season Two) President Adams seems to do this, only he's just more of a {{Jerkass}} than someone that's genuinely evil.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' has Patrick Zala, a GeneralRipper who is elected chairman of ZAFT and proceeds to lead his nation into a genocidal war. Chairman Gillbert Durandal, ZAFT's leader in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' is a different flavour of this, being a WellIntentionedExtremist, AntiVillain, and DarkMessiah.
* ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' has Reiji Takatori, whose first act on being voted in as Prime Minister is to institute civilian curfews and martial law.

* Lord Recluse of ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains''. Indeed, most of ''[=CoV=]'' takes place in Recluse's country, the Rogue Isles.
* John Adams in ''VideoGame/{{Conduit 2}}''. [[http://kotaku.com/#!5769409/why-former-us-president-john-adams-is-a-major-video-game-villain Yes, as in the 2nd U.S. President.]] [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy He's an alien spy]], which is why he's still alive and scheming despite being set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
* ''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]].
* Kombayn Nikoladze from the first ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' game, president of Georgia, is using ethnic cleansing to seize neighboring Azerbaijan's oil, and later attacks the U.S. with information warfare when they try to stop him.
** His successor is only marginally better, quickly turning on his allies when it proves convenient.
** Vice President Calvin Samson in ''Conviction'', who serves a clandestine terrorist network named Megiddo and is complicit in the Third Echelon conspiracy to assassinate President Caldwell and supplant her with himself and effectively establish a terrorist-backed regime; he would've been this had the plot actually succeeded.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' did it, too, with Solidus Snake - ex-President of the United States. The 'ex' part was the all-important part, though. He was more a traditional baddie who happened to have once been President. The Patriots were 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]]
** From ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', we have [[spoiler: a President Evil-to-be: Senator Armstrong]].
* In the console version of ''VideoGame/RainbowSix 3'', the BigBad turns out to be the President of Venezuela, who is secretly the mastermind behind terrorist attacks on the U.S. by seemingly Middle Eastern groups.
* Richard Hawk in ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' an [[EvilChancellor evil]] ''[[EvilChancellor vice]]''[[EvilChancellor -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".
* Pandak "Baby" Panay in ''VideoGame/JustCause2'' game holds Panau in his grip with a massive military junta.
* The fourth ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max]]'' adventure game episode of the first season, aptly titled ''"Abe Lincoln Must Die"'', sees the titular freelance police up in arms against an evil Abraham Lincoln. Or, in this case, a massive statue of Abraham Lincoln brought to life, who then tries to run for president. The only way to defeat him is for Max to become a President Evil himself, a position he still keeps afterwards. In the third season, it is strongly implied that Max has used dirty means to ensure that he keeps his office.
--> '''Sam:''' Unrest in the Dakotas.\\
'''Max:''' Dispatch equal numbers of [[KillerRobot giant battle robots]] to all sides. Whoever wins, claim we backed them all along.\\
'''Sam:''' Illegal immigration.\\
'''Max:''' Let the new guys pilot the giant battle robots.\\
'''Sam:''' Criticism that your domestic policy is too giant battle robot-based.\\
'''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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''

* Andrew Ryan of ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' is the president/founder/king of Rapture.
* Subverted with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Vinzer Deling, president of the (mostly portrayed as) antagonistic Galbadian nation is made out to be the BigBad when the plot kicks off, only to be killed very early on by his ostensible [[TheDragon Dragon]], Edea.
* While having overt [[SinisterMinister religious overtones]], the Primarch, leader of the Sanctum that governs Cocoon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', is an elected position. The current Primarch, Galenth Dysley, ''is'' the BigBad [[spoiler:and a [[PhysicalGod fal'Cie]] in disguise]].
* Karasov in ''VideoGame/RepublicTheRevolution''. He rules [[{{Ruritania}} Novastrana]] with an iron fist, siphons money from the national stock exchange, uses his political and military power to imprison and/or murder his enemies, is above the law and he damn well knows it. [[spoiler:Until the [[RebelLeader man whose parents he arrested]] ten years ago comes back to [[LaResistance lead a revolt]].]]

* The Purple Tentacle from ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'' manages to become POTUS and then enslave all the humanity.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', The Boss has gone from criminal kingpin/mass murderer to the President of the United States. More impressive is the fact that The Boss might not even be American (either being British or French). It's implied that they're less sociopathic as a president than as a gang leader, though, at least if their only presidential initiative shown (either "Fuck Cancer" or solving world hunger depending on what the player chooses) is any indication.
* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations 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 already killed him.]] [[AssholeVictim He will not be missed.]] ]]
* 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 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]].
* ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIronIV'' allows the player to play as several countries, many of which are democratic, and many of which have the oppertunity to elect tyrants.
** In the GameMod ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' much more attention is given to the villainy of certain characters than in the base game. Many of these people can be elected.
*** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Francis Parker Yockey]] is an openly pro-Nazi Germany politician with allies in TheKlan when running for office. If he 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]].
*** 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.
*** 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 [[EqualOpportunityEvil Gumilyov]], [[CommieNazis Serov]], and [[EvilReactionary Tabor]][[TheCaligula itsky]].
*** On the opposite end of Komi's political spectrum is Andrei Zhdanov, who presents himself as a moderate reformist in his early years of his presidency, before [[spoiler:establishing a [[SovietSuperscience pseudo-technocratic Communist]] dictatorship that tries to bend the nation to fit with science experiments that don't even work]]. Like Shafarevich, he can open the door to more radical communist politicians.
** Another mod, ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg'' is less explicit then ''The New Order'', but it's still present.
*** Corneliu Codreanu, an antisemitic fascist in Romania who behaves like a less powerful Hitler, has the ability to run in elections if Romania decides to become a democracy.
* 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.

* ''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 [[DevilInPlainSight Masayoshi Shido]], a CorruptPolitician who is the secret head of TheConspiracy to turn Tokyo into an authoritarian dictatorship as a PuppetKing for the GreaterScopeVillain. Thankfully for Japan, he's thwarted [[SpannerInTheWorks by several wrenches]].

* 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. Plus her running mate [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange Dakota Bob]] is a PuppetKing for [[EvilInc Vought]].]]