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*** 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.
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*** 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'', ''ComicBook/PublicEnemies2004'', 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.
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* 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.
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* 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.]]
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* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', ''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.]]
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Moving Animal Man and The Authority examples to the grouping of DCU examples, as Animal Man is a DC hero and The Authority is officially part of the DC Comics canon both due to the Wildstorm Universe being established as part of the DC Multiverse and because the Wildstorm-associated characters presently co-exist with the characters of the main DC Universe.
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* ''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]].
* ''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]].
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** ''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]].
** ''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]].
