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* Even [[ThisVeryWiki This Very Wiki]] has fallen victim to this. [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] had examples blocked simply because one moderator found it "creepy". This is despite the fact that there are NUMEROUS tropes out there that could be considered much more "creepy" and "disturbing" and those ones get a pass. So apparently while [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] is blocked, [[HenTai anime porn]] isnt? For a reason that is highly subjective?

* The Troper known as Best Of. He specifically stated continued insults from Rorschachwasright would get him banned, and then decided to ban him because he was sarcastic about the rules being a bit extreme.

* Even [[ThisVeryWiki]] has fallen victim to this. [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] had examples blocked simply because one moderator found it "creepy". This is despite the fact that there are NUMEROUS tropes out there that could be considered much more "creepy" and "disturbing" and those ones get a pass. So apparently while [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] is blocked, [[HenTai anime porn]] isnt? For a reason that is highly subjective?

* Even [[TVTropes]] itself has fallen victim to this. [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] had examples blocked simply because one moderator found it "creepy". This is despite the fact that there are NUMEROUS tropes out there that could be considered much more "creepy" and "disturbing" and those ones get a pass. So apparently while [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] is blocked, [[HenTai anime porn]] isnt? For a reason that is highly subjective?

* Even Tvtropes itself has fallen victim to this. [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] had examples blocked simply because one moderator found it "creepy". This is despite the fact that there are NUMEROUS tropes out there that could be considered much more "creepy" and "disturbing" and those ones get a pass. So apparently while [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] is blocked, [[HenTai anime porn]] isnt? For a reason that is highly subjective?

* Even TVtropes itself has fallen victim to this. [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] had examples blocked simply because one moderator found it "creepy". This is despite the fact that there are NUMEROUS tropes out there that could be considered much more "creepy" and "disturbing" and those ones get a pass. So apparently while [[PantyShot Panty Shot]] is blocked, [[HenTai anime porn]] isnt? For a reason that is highly subjective?

* In a direct parody of the Louis XIV example, Gene Hackman's villain in ''{{Antz}}'' shouts "I ''am'' the Colony!"

-->Ramses: I ''am'' Egypt. The evening and the morning star. If I say day is night, it will be so.

* ''Santa's Slay'':
--> '''[[BadSanta Santa]]''': "Christmas ends when I say so!"

--->Sam: I should do you in for speeding! You're not above the law, you know!
--->Gene: What are you talking about, Tyler? I am the law!
* Mycroft Holmes in ''{{Sherlock}}'' is the British Government.
** There's a similar line in the books, but it doesn't seem to indicate anything sinister, unlike the TV version.
--->"You are right in thinking that he is under the British government. You would also be right in a sense if you said that occasionally he ''is'' the British government." '''Holmes to Watson, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.'''
* Averted in BabylonFive ''Atonement'', when Delenn goes to her clan council to hear the verdict on her marriage even though she is the most powerful woman in Minbar.
** On the other hand she seemed to be willing to make Minbari policy practically by herself earlier. [[YourMileageMayVary Perhaps]] the discrepancy can be [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by saying the one was an unusual security crisis and the other was just a personal matter. Also these were her [[ThickerThanWater kin]] after all.
*** Also it can be blamed on [[ValuesDissonance value dissonance]]. The previous decisions were political while about marriage might be based on religion (given Minbari soul etc.).

* {{Airwolf}} has this with Archangel giving a subordinate a lesson in Firm rules.

--> '''Archangel:''' Don't you '''DARE''' quote the rules to me! I WROTE THEM! You can bet there's going to be an amendment that clearly states that that rule DOES NOT APPLY TO ME!!!

*** Even face [=GMs=] get in on this from time to time.

*** A running theme in pro wrestling is the claim that no one, not even the owner, can override a referee's decision. This is countered by the fact that the owner or [=GM=] ''can'' change the rules of the match, even retroactively. So the referee's ruling of a disqualification, for example, isn't overridden, it's just that it no longer matters because it just retroactively became a no disqualification match.

* In [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlenvoh2w2y Assassins Creed II]], there is a scene with a merchant complaining to some guards, the guards arrest him and this exchange occurs:
-->Guard: You're under arrest for disrupting commerce.
-->Merchant: But you just invented that, there is no such law.
-->Guard: There is now!
* MetalGearSolid3 has Colonel Volgin. His response to Ocelot after he killed Granin in a torture session speaks for itself.
* As Aria, the crime boss of [[WreatchedHive Omega]] says in ''MassEffect 2'', there is only one rule on Omega:
--> '''Aria:''' ''"Don't [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with Aria!"''

* In ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', Buzz wrote half the rules in the book, including the ones about [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies backup]]. Whoops. He does learn his [[AnAesop lesson]], though. All credit to him.
* Chris MacLean from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''.

** Not only Jackson, but subsequently every Southern segregationist used the same rhetoric of nullification during integration.

* In ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Steve Rogers before parachuting near the HYDRA base in Italy, tells Peggy Carter to leave as soon as he's out to get away from the anti-aircraft fire. She tells him that he's in no position to order her. His response?
--> '''Steve Rogers/Captain America:''' "Like hell I can't! I'm a Captain!"

--> '''''[[BadSanta Santa]]''''': "Christmas ends when I say so!"

* In ''BraveNewWorld'' World Controller Mustopha Mond, responding to Bernard's shock that he owns banned books, explains that "As I make the rules, I can also break them. With impunity, Mr. Marx, which I'm afraid you cannot do."

* As Denzel Washington's character in ''Training Day'' put it, "I am the police! KingKong ain't got shit on me!"
* Bruce Willis' general character in ''TheSiege'' plays it straight, bellowing "I ''AM'' the law! Right here, right now, I am the law!" at Denzel Washington when he tries to arrest him for murder, which was not covered under the martial law he had been tasked with.

* ''TalesFromThePit'' deals with the daily exploits of the creators of ''MagicTheGathering'', so it's not surprising that we'd see them [[http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/5808236243 abusing their power a little]].

* In [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlenvoh2w2y Assassins Creed II]], there is a scene with a merchant complaining to some guards, the guards arrest him and this exchange occurs

-->Guard: there is now!

* Referred to as Rule 0 in most P&P [=RPGs=]: The DM makes the rules.

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* The Graeco-Roman Pantheon is rather [[JerkAssGods infamous]] for often flaunting this trope, both to Mortals and even to other gods as well. Let's just leave it at that.
* Most miracles in {{The Bible}} would be this concerning the laws of physics
** Or, indeed, the moral laws of God himself.
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** FillerVillain [[EntanteTerrible Noah]] [[SmugSnake Kaiba]] does the same thing. As the ruler of the Virtual World, Noah is able to enforce all of his Deck Master rules, frequently calling out his henchmen, The Big 5, when they either a) cheat in duels or b) attempt to leave the Virtual World without having first won a duel. Yet during his matches against Kaiba and Yugi/Yami, Noah cheats repeatedly, using Kaiba's brother as a shield against his attacks, and making up new rules for his Deck Master every ten seconds. When he's actually beaten by Yami, he steals Mokuba's body despite not having won a duel, and tries to escape into the real world, something he himself forbid The Big 5 from doing.

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