History Main / PresidentEvil

* [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment President Dr. Insano]]
** This was Dr. Insano's ''debut'' on the Spoony Experiment; he was a merciless parody of Sorceress Edea in Final Fantasy VIII becoming a country's leader despite openly despising her own subjects and burning the legitimate President of the country alive.

* 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.

* Subverted in [[http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070620 this]] ''SluggyFreelance'' strip, where the president who's secretly a centuries old wizard who enslaved people's souls isn't actually that bad.

* In ''{{Narbonic}}'', it is revealed that [[spoiler: Mell's future self]] becomes President in the comic's BadFuture. She did this so that she could [[spoiler: send a message to the past explaining how to avert the future. The process of sending the message to the past [[PoweredByAForsakenChild physically destroys her world]] in the process, [[OmnicidalManiac much to her glee]].]]

* Zexion was elected governor of Pennsylvania in ''AnsemRetort''. So far, he's stolen tax dollars to finance his best friend's wedding (just to prove he can) and invaded New Jersey. (Granted, he's only a lesser office, not President. ''Yet.'')

** For a while, there was a promotional website called [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080429054910/www.maxforpresident.org/ maxforpresident.org]], which contained a Donate button (not working on the Wayback Machine) which claimed to syphon dollars donated to organisations like [[{{Myst}} the D'ni Restoration Council]], [[VideoGame/GrimFandango The Communist Party of Rubacava]], [=eBay=], [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland The Melee Island Bureau of Tourism]] and Sam's Wallet into Max's funds. His fundrasing goals were things like jaunty hats for his Secretary of State, spinning rims for the [=DeSoto=], a girlfriend for his pet goldfish Mr. Spatula, an $254 Executive Box of tissues and 'recovery of Presidential email password'.

* In ''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.
** Another episode had Sideshow Bob running for mayor of Springfield. His campaign discredits Quimby by saying that Quimby released the three-times attempted murderer Sideshow Bob.

->''"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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wreck up the place!]] [[EvilLaugh Woahahahahaha!!]]"''

* In ''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 ''TheSimpsons'', the aliens Kang and Kodos impersonate 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.

* In the ''ComicBooks/{{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 the ''{{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).

* The atomic war that originated the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' 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), one who gained dementia and began some horrific policies ([=McGruder=]), and currently 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).

*** Dell Rusk led to quite a bit of FanDumb and/or UnfortunateImplications because the story ran around 2003 or 2004 and he shared the same initials as the ''actual'' Secretary of Defense at the time, Donald Rumsfeld, but come on, it really is [[spoiler: an anagram for "red skull"]], so there's not much else they could have used. "Led Lurks", perhaps.

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

* In the ''LeftBehind'' series, Nicolae Carpathia starts out as the president of Romania, and moves on to become Secretary-General of the UN (later called the Supreme Potentate of the Global Community). He's TheAntiChrist.
* President Lindbergh in Philip Roth's ''ThePlotAgainstAmerica''.

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

* U.S. President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov from ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]''.
* In ''ReadAllAboutIt'', Dunedon, the evil ruler of Trialveron, is also secretly Don Eden, mayor of our heroes' home town on Earth.

* In a couple of ''{{Smallville}}'''s {{Bad Future}}s, [[ManipulativeBastard Lex Luthor]] is shown to either be President, or running for it, as a very intimidating ManInWhite with a RedRightHand.

* A 4th season episode of ''{{Sliders}}'' ("California Reich") has a man, Governor Schick, running for President with a very good chance of winning... until the heroes expose the truth behind his "Repatriation Center" concentration camps. The guy's platform? "America for Americans" (a meaningless slogan for a nation of immigrants) and plans to deport anyone whose genes don't match with his ideal American, even if your great-great-grandparents were born in the U.S. That essentially means "anyone non-white". Somehow, he manages to impose this rule on his own state and ship countless people off to camps... and then they get turned into mindless drones called "Eddies" as cheap labor.
* Governor James Devlin of ''{{Oz}}''. On a show wall-to-wall with scumbags (it's set in a prison, after all), one of the worst is the guy on the outside campaigning on a "law and order" platform.
* In an episode of ''TheOuterLimits'', 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]].

* Karasov in ''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]].]]

** Vice President Carl 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.

** 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 a lengthy arc in ''that'' comic). Surprisingly, though, he's not any more evil than usual; he's no more corrupt or power mad than when he was a regular CorruptCorporateExecutive. The only time he really snaps is a relatively short arc in ''[[ComicBook/SupermanBatman Superman/Batman]]'' where 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.

** Subverted in ''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.

->''"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 [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking wreck up the place!]] [[EvilLaugh Woahahahahaha!!]]"''

* In the Song of Fire and Ice novels, King Joffrey Baratheon is nothing short (get it?) of a jerk to his populace and is only concerned with grabbing power.

* [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] actually names himself president after decimating Washington DC in ''FreddyVsJasonVsAsh: The Nightmare Warriors''.

[[caption-width-right:358:[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos But he seemed like such a nice guy]] [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment during the election!]]]]