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* A milder Caligula appears in v2 of ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'', Count Marcus Veneto, who even made his horse his war advisor, in a ShoutOut to the {{Trope Namer|s}}. The 'milder' comes from the fact that he's trying to get his act together. It's implied that this change of heart is the result of [[TheMenInBlack Men In Black]] being sent by ''two'' allied [[TheEmpire empires]] to intimidate him into doing so. Suffice to say, that hasn't stopped him from requesting an AmazonBrigade for his personal guard and naming them the [[KillerRabbit Killer Bunny Assassination Squad]].
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* A milder Caligula appears in v2 of ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'', Count Marcus Veneto, who even made his horse his war advisor, in a ShoutOut to the {{Trope Namer|s}}. The 'milder' comes from the fact that he's trying to get his act together. It's implied that this change of heart is the result of [[TheMenInBlack Men In Black]] being sent by ''two'' allied [[TheEmpire empires]] to intimidate him into doing so. Suffice to say, that hasn't stopped him from requesting an AmazonBrigade for his personal guard and naming them the [[KillerRabbit Killer Bunny Assassination Squad]].
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* King Harkinian in some of the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda CDI]]'' {{YouTube Poop}}s, arguably to the point of rivaling canon characters like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Zant]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora]] in terms of sheer insanity. This is a man who:
** Went on a drunken road trip in his new Toyota Hybrid and end up trashing it less than 24 hours after getting it.
** Got high off of Reese's Pieces.
** Tried to pay an expensive telephone bill by selling Link on eBay.
** Shares an incestuous relationship with his daughter Zelda.
** Makes traitors engage in various, degrading acts in order to receive a pardon, only to laugh at them at the end.
** Freaked out at the possibility of getting killed while aiding Duke Onkled, sending Link to do the job instead.
** Shot Link in the gut when asked if he (Link) could play his (King) Platform/NintendoWii.
** Responded to one of Link's practical jokes using bazookas (that shot out hamburgers), missiles, and a KillSat.
** Lost his shit when Gwonam said there was no dinner left, killing and maiming anyone within a 500-yard radius.
** [[WebAnimation/TheKingsEpicAdventure Went travelling the world in order to convince people to eat his feces.]]
** When he couldn't go to Gamelon 'for the hell of it', spent the rest of the day saying 'Mah boi' over and over again.
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* King Harkinian in some of the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda CDI]]'' {{YouTube Poop}}s, arguably to the point of rivaling canon characters like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Zant]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora]] in terms of sheer insanity. This is a man who:
** Went on a drunken road trip in his new Toyota Hybrid and end up trashing it less than 24 hours after getting it.
** Got high off of Reese's Pieces.
** Tried to pay an expensive telephone bill by selling Link on eBay.
** Shares an incestuous relationship with his daughter Zelda.
** Makes traitors engage in various, degrading acts in order to receive a pardon, only to laugh at them at the end.
** Freaked out at the possibility of getting killed while aiding Duke Onkled, sending Link to do the job instead.
** Shot Link in the gut when asked if he (Link) could play his (King) Platform/NintendoWii.
** Responded to one of Link's practical jokes using bazookas (that shot out hamburgers), missiles, and a KillSat.
** Lost his shit when Gwonam said there was no dinner left, killing and maiming anyone within a 500-yard radius.
** [[WebAnimation/TheKingsEpicAdventure Went travelling the world in order to convince people to eat his feces.]]
** When he couldn't go to Gamelon 'for the hell of it', spent the rest of the day saying 'Mah boi' over and over again.
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* The Website/SCPFoundation has [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1184 SCP-1184]], a gold ring that [[MindManipulation causes anyone to believe whatever the person wearing the ring says, no matter how outrageous it is]]. At one time, it was worn by a male patient of a psychiatric facility who used the ring to convince his fellow patients and the hospital's faculty that he was their "King" and that he should be waited on hand and foot. When the Foundation finally managed to take the ring, he'd been wearing it for so long that he could no longer remember his real name; all of the hospital's records and nametags had also been altered to refer to him as the "King".
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* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Lavidian Scarn, who believes he's inherently better than commoners and the rabble below him and has overseen massacres of innocent people and feels no remorse whatsoever; when Linkara calls him out on it, he thinks those people should have gladly bowed to him instead of resisting. These are just a few of the reasons why he's a ''deposed'' king.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' during ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''. Once he takes over and gets ahold of power, he uses it solely to entertain himself and threaten the lives of others if they do anything to endanger his hold on it.
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* When [[spoiler:Ping Yang Hou]] takes the throne in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' people have mixed feelings at first until he starts quickly shaping up to be an insane tyrant, including executing a minister on the spot for [[spoiler:refusing to given his dead wife the position of queen]].
* When [[spoiler:Ping Yang Hou]] takes the throne in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' people have mixed feelings at first until he starts quickly shaping up to be an insane tyrant, including executing a minister on the spot for [[spoiler:refusing to given his dead wife the position of queen]].
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* Roberto is depicted as one in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', having sent his entire army out to wage war on scallops, but sunk the ships wiping them out.
* Professor Ratigan in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' seems to be heading for this on purpose, as as soon as he has seemingly managed to stage a coup, he starts listing out absurd, harmful policies like taxes for children -- clearly ForTheEvulz, since he's such a huge example of a CardCarryingVillain.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': While he's not exactly the ruler of Paris per se, Frollo is the city's default authority while the King is off on campaign. As he becomes more and more obsessed with Esmeralda, he ramps up his persecution of the Roma and then starts torching the houses of random people for charges of treason that he essentially made up. Even the common citizens say that he's gone mad. It reaches its peak when he has his men attack Notre Dame in pursuit of Esmeralda and Quasimodo, an institution that everyone in Paris looks up to and which Frollo himself had previously respected. This act allows Phoebus to easily rouse the people of Paris to arms against him.
* Scar in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. He wasn't the one in line to inherit the throne but usurped it through intrigue, his ambition, megalomania, and ruthlessness. While he didn't become completely ridiculous, since he's less delusional or psychotic than many other examples, he did start acting like an overgrown brat who was only concerned about everyone remembering who's in
* Ruber from ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' is just a rogue knight, but he aims to claim Excalibur and overthrow Arthur so he can become king. His obvious mental instability and violent nature make it very clear that this is the kind of ruler he'd be.
* King Koo-Koo, the ruler of Loony Land in ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'', is a textbook example of this -- even by the standards of his realm. The only thing in existence he seems to care about is his frustration at being extremely short, which he is determined to fix by granting himself endless opportunities to laugh at other people
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'''s version of Bowser is an impulsive tyrant prone to mood swings and abusing his own minions, at one point burning one of his Koopas with his BreathWeapon and turning him into a Dry Bones simply because he questioned his plans. He also goes ravaging other kingdoms and looting their treasures in the hopes of impressing Princess Peach -- who has no interest in him and explicitly calls him a lunatic -- and getting her to marry him, and plans to [[spoiler:sacrifice a large number of prisoners as part of the wedding ceremony]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wish|2023}}'': King Magnifico is a jealous, petty, and paranoid tyrant who only cares about having power for the sake of it, that he'll keep his gullible subjects in the dark. When Asha learns the truth and points out he should be using his power to help his subjects, he tries to have her silenced so he could hold onto his power. His negligent rule of Rosas has brought about its slow decline that Asha must avert.
* King Candy from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', who rules the world of Sugar Rush. He can be seen as somewhat kooky, but a respected authority figure, as [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething he actually participates in (and always wins) the daily races]]. After an initial burst of temper, he [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasons with Ralph and explains his point of view]] in a way that makes sense. But his hideously single-minded campaign of vengeance against one homeless little kid signifies deeper issues. [[spoiler:In reality, King Candy is actually Turbo, an arrogant racer from the '80s arcade game ''Turbo Time''. As Turbo, he went into the game's mainframe, removed Vanellope's data and everyone's memories of her, and adopted the persona of King Candy.]]
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* In ''[[Film/ThirteenAssassins 13 Assassins]]'', Lord Naritsugu is the Shogun's little brother, and uses his position to commit all manner of horrific atrocities, such that his house's vassals start committing seppuku in protest. The main conflict of the movie is that the Shogun wants him killed without dishonouring their house.
* The Alternate Universe version of Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Using the [[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin Gray's Sports Almanac]] he obtained from his future self, he wins an insane amount of money from gambling, which he uses to become mayor and buy off the police, turning Hill Valley into a lawless ViceCity.
* In the Creator/WoodyAllen film ''Film/{{Bananas}}'', the rebel leader Esposito goes mad with power the second he gains control of San Marcos. For your consideration, his speech to the people of San Marcos:
--> "From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!"
* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': The Black Queen is confirmed to have more than a few screws loose before we even see her. When Barbarella is in the Labyrinth, Prof. Ping explains to her that the reason the Labyrinth's prisoners eat orchids for sustenance, when they are supposedly difficult to cultivate and expensive, is because the Black Queen is amused by resenting the expenses of feeding them. Go figure.
* There is UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} himself, who appears in the guise of Jay Robinson in ''Film/TheRobe'' (1953) and ''Film/DemetriusAndTheGladiators'' (1954) and of Creator/MalcolmMcDowell in (what else?) ''{{Film/Caligula}}'' (1979).
* Admiral General Aladeen from ''Film/TheDictator''. Among other things, the guy has his own men executed for the most trivial reasons such as his nuclear missile program head not having made the missile pointy or one of his men accidentally blocking him on a staircase ([[spoiler:though it turns out his executioners are rebels and everyone he has ordered killed is alive and living in New York]]), he hosted his own "Aladeen Games" where he won every single event (one event showed being a race where he shoots the other athletes in the leg and has the finishing line carried forward to break it) and changed a large percentage of the words in the language in his country to "Aladeen"...including ''contradictory'' words like "positive/negative" and "open/closed", causing immense confusion. All PlayedForLaughs, naturally.
* Rufus T. Firefly of ''Film/DuckSoup'' not only treats everything and everybody with the bizarre DeadpanSnarker behavior typical of Creator/GrouchoMarx, but begins a war [[SillyReasonForWar because his rival president called him an "upstart"]], continues said war when the president reminds him of the "upstart" insult in a moment he calls for a truce and can't remember why the heck he started the war, and reignites the war (after winning) when he gets upset about the possibility the ambassador sent to negotiate the surrender won't shake his hand.
* [[spoiler:Kruger]] would have become this if he actually succeeded in taking over ''Film/{{Elysium}}''.
* The Roman Emperor Commodus as depicted in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' and ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire''. Commodus wasn't as bad in real life as he was in either film, but he still wasn't the sort of monarch you'd take home to mother -- he was known to believe that he was the reincarnation of Hercules, and as a result, he cared very little for his administrative duties. He once walked into the Senate with a severed ostrich head, fought as a gladiator in the arena, and is best known for ending the "Five Good Emperors". Dissatisfied members of the Senate had him eventually assassinated by paying his wrestling buddy to strangle him in the bath.
* Aedenoid Hynkel from ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', a parody of Hitler who even dances with a globe of the world as he thinks of becoming 'Emperor of the World'.
* The King of ''Film/TheKingAndTheClown'' is based on the Korean ruler UsefulNotes/YeonsangunOfJoseon. In the film, he is ruthless and erratic in his behavior, but also very cultured and rather sympathetic at times, with loads of FreudianExcuse.
* The portrayal of UsefulNotes/IdiAmin in ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' exemplifies this trope almost perfectly. He begins as an AntiHero and descends into complete madness and insanity.
* Harold Shand, the anti-hero of the classic 1980 British gangster movie ''Film/TheLongGoodFriday''. He begins as a competent mob boss with grand ambitions, who nonetheless seems sane and grounded. After a series of mysterious and violent incidents chip away at his criminal empire, he gradually falls apart; by the end of the film, he has slit the throat of his most trusted lieutenant, alienated his most valuable business partners, and had his fellow gang bosses strung up on meat hooks. It all ends badly.
* In ''Film/LordOfWar'' Andre Baptiste Sr. has elements of the character type, but it's an arguable case as he doesn't have clear control over his country, fighting a civil war.
* Emperor Tod Spengo of ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld''. As an example, in one scene he orders two of his advisors to shoot themselves in the head (one after the other, in rapid succession) when they tell him to wear muttonchops and he detests the idea. In a planet where everybody literally is TooDumbToLive, he thrives by being just a little bit smarter than them all (and only just).
* King Brian the Wild, in a section of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' which was cut from the final script -- but incorporated into the computer game.
* Swan, the villainous record producer of ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise.'' Though he styles himself as an AffablyEvil [[TheChessmaster manipulator]], almost every single decision he makes in the film is made on a whim: his employees are hired, fired, or reassigned on the flimsiest of reasons, he imprisons his stars in [[MagicallyBindingContract torturously ironclad contracts]], rewrites the Phantom's music to cater to his own eccentric tastes, and orders his fiancée assassinated at his wedding for the sake of publicity. Worse still, not only is he in complete control of the music industry, [[spoiler: he's also immortal.]]
* Long Dinh, king of Vietnam in ''Film/ThePrinceAndThePagodaBoy''. In a slight variation, his father tried to avert it by naming one of his more level-headed brothers the next king, but Long kills his brother and takes the throne anyway. He then proceeds to be exceedingly decadent, a warmonger, ordering people killed over nothing, and even forces himself on his General's {{Love Interest|s}}.
* ''Film/QuoVadis'' gave us a ''delightfully mad'' Nero played by Creator/PeterUstinov. Arguably one of the best things in the whole movie.
* ''Film/TheScarletEmpress'': Tsar Peter III is given to playing with toy soldiers, and marching his Prussian guards around indoors when it rains. His brief time as tsar seems to be a carnival of misrule, with endless proclamations, and Cossack stormtroopers going around raping and stealing. Peter is also shown taking a potshot out of his window with a rifle and killing a guard, ForTheEvulz.
* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' has two separate examples (ironically, not including former candidate Loki, who turns out to be a peaceful, Renaissance sort of ruler while posing as Odin, albeit neglectful of maintaining Asgard's police presence in other realms):
** [[NotSoHarmlessVillain The Grandmaster]] is a LaughablyEvil example, as he is presented as a hilarious CloudCuckoolander that rules over a planet with an iron fist, forcing people to fight in the arena and executing those who displease him with a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath melting stick]]. Needless to say, Loki considers him a "lunatic" though to be fair, the Grandmaster has been ruling Sakaar for ages which implies that he is at least competent enough to stay in power. [[spoiler:The post-credit scene shows he was deposed by revolutionaries.]]
** ComicBook/{{Hela}}, on the other hand, plays this trope [[KnightOfCerebus completely serious]]. As soon as she takes control of Asgard (by slaughtering their entire army [[OneManArmy by herself]] no less), she begins a {{reign of terror}} upon her kingdom to recover the Bifrost sword so she can re-start her campaign of conquest of all realms in existence. She is so bad that [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating nobody really likes her]], outside of her undead minions (who are beholden to her will), the only one who willingly follows her is Skurge, who is scared witless of her.
%%* Komodo in ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' certainly qualifies.
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* When [[spoiler:Ping Yang Hou]] takes the throne in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' people have mixed feelings at first until he starts quickly shaping up to be an insane tyrant, including executing a minister on the spot for [[spoiler:refusing to given his dead wife the position of queen]].
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* In ''[[Film/ThirteenAssassins 13 Assassins]]'', Lord Naritsugu is the Shogun's little brother, and uses his position to commit all manner of horrific atrocities, such that his house's vassals start committing seppuku in protest. The main conflict of the movie is that the Shogun wants him killed without dishonouring their house.
* The Alternate Universe version of Biff Tannen in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. Using the [[TimelineAlteringMacGuffin Gray's Sports Almanac]] he obtained from his future self, he wins an insane amount of money from gambling, which he uses to become mayor and buy off the police, turning Hill Valley into a lawless ViceCity.
* In the Creator/WoodyAllen film ''Film/{{Bananas}}'', the rebel leader Esposito goes mad with power the second he gains control of San Marcos. For your consideration, his speech to the people of San Marcos:
--> "From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!"
* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': The Black Queen is confirmed to have more than a few screws loose before we even see her. When Barbarella is in the Labyrinth, Prof. Ping explains to her that the reason the Labyrinth's prisoners eat orchids for sustenance, when they are supposedly difficult to cultivate and expensive, is because the Black Queen is amused by resenting the expenses of feeding them. Go figure.
* There is UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} himself, who appears in the guise of Jay Robinson in ''Film/TheRobe'' (1953) and ''Film/DemetriusAndTheGladiators'' (1954) and of Creator/MalcolmMcDowell in (what else?) ''{{Film/Caligula}}'' (1979).
* Admiral General Aladeen from ''Film/TheDictator''. Among other things, the guy has his own men executed for the most trivial reasons such as his nuclear missile program head not having made the missile pointy or one of his men accidentally blocking him on a staircase ([[spoiler:though it turns out his executioners are rebels and everyone he has ordered killed is alive and living in New York]]), he hosted his own "Aladeen Games" where he won every single event (one event showed being a race where he shoots the other athletes in the leg and has the finishing line carried forward to break it) and changed a large percentage of the words in the language in his country to "Aladeen"...including ''contradictory'' words like "positive/negative" and "open/closed", causing immense confusion. All PlayedForLaughs, naturally.
* Rufus T. Firefly of ''Film/DuckSoup'' not only treats everything and everybody with the bizarre DeadpanSnarker behavior typical of Creator/GrouchoMarx, but begins a war [[SillyReasonForWar because his rival president called him an "upstart"]], continues said war when the president reminds him of the "upstart" insult in a moment he calls for a truce and can't remember why the heck he started the war, and reignites the war (after winning) when he gets upset about the possibility the ambassador sent to negotiate the surrender won't shake his hand.
* [[spoiler:Kruger]] would have become this if he actually succeeded in taking over ''Film/{{Elysium}}''.
* The Roman Emperor Commodus as depicted in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' and ''Film/TheFallOfTheRomanEmpire''. Commodus wasn't as bad in real life as he was in either film, but he still wasn't the sort of monarch you'd take home to mother -- he was known to believe that he was the reincarnation of Hercules, and as a result, he cared very little for his administrative duties. He once walked into the Senate with a severed ostrich head, fought as a gladiator in the arena, and is best known for ending the "Five Good Emperors". Dissatisfied members of the Senate had him eventually assassinated by paying his wrestling buddy to strangle him in the bath.
* Aedenoid Hynkel from ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', a parody of Hitler who even dances with a globe of the world as he thinks of becoming 'Emperor of the World'.
* The King of ''Film/TheKingAndTheClown'' is based on the Korean ruler UsefulNotes/YeonsangunOfJoseon. In the film, he is ruthless and erratic in his behavior, but also very cultured and rather sympathetic at times, with loads of FreudianExcuse.
* The portrayal of UsefulNotes/IdiAmin in ''Film/TheLastKingOfScotland'' exemplifies this trope almost perfectly. He begins as an AntiHero and descends into complete madness and insanity.
* Harold Shand, the anti-hero of the classic 1980 British gangster movie ''Film/TheLongGoodFriday''. He begins as a competent mob boss with grand ambitions, who nonetheless seems sane and grounded. After a series of mysterious and violent incidents chip away at his criminal empire, he gradually falls apart; by the end of the film, he has slit the throat of his most trusted lieutenant, alienated his most valuable business partners, and had his fellow gang bosses strung up on meat hooks. It all ends badly.
* In ''Film/LordOfWar'' Andre Baptiste Sr. has elements of the character type, but it's an arguable case as he doesn't have clear control over his country, fighting a civil war.
* Emperor Tod Spengo of ''Film/MomAndDadSaveTheWorld''. As an example, in one scene he orders two of his advisors to shoot themselves in the head (one after the other, in rapid succession) when they tell him to wear muttonchops and he detests the idea. In a planet where everybody literally is TooDumbToLive, he thrives by being just a little bit smarter than them all (and only just).
* King Brian the Wild, in a section of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' which was cut from the final script -- but incorporated into the computer game.
* Swan, the villainous record producer of ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise.'' Though he styles himself as an AffablyEvil [[TheChessmaster manipulator]], almost every single decision he makes in the film is made on a whim: his employees are hired, fired, or reassigned on the flimsiest of reasons, he imprisons his stars in [[MagicallyBindingContract torturously ironclad contracts]], rewrites the Phantom's music to cater to his own eccentric tastes, and orders his fiancée assassinated at his wedding for the sake of publicity. Worse still, not only is he in complete control of the music industry, [[spoiler: he's also immortal.]]
* Long Dinh, king of Vietnam in ''Film/ThePrinceAndThePagodaBoy''. In a slight variation, his father tried to avert it by naming one of his more level-headed brothers the next king, but Long kills his brother and takes the throne anyway. He then proceeds to be exceedingly decadent, a warmonger, ordering people killed over nothing, and even forces himself on his General's {{Love Interest|s}}.
* ''Film/QuoVadis'' gave us a ''delightfully mad'' Nero played by Creator/PeterUstinov. Arguably one of the best things in the whole movie.
* ''Film/TheScarletEmpress'': Tsar Peter III is given to playing with toy soldiers, and marching his Prussian guards around indoors when it rains. His brief time as tsar seems to be a carnival of misrule, with endless proclamations, and Cossack stormtroopers going around raping and stealing. Peter is also shown taking a potshot out of his window with a rifle and killing a guard, ForTheEvulz.
* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' has two separate examples (ironically, not including former candidate Loki, who turns out to be a peaceful, Renaissance sort of ruler while posing as Odin, albeit neglectful of maintaining Asgard's police presence in other realms):
** [[NotSoHarmlessVillain The Grandmaster]] is a LaughablyEvil example, as he is presented as a hilarious CloudCuckoolander that rules over a planet with an iron fist, forcing people to fight in the arena and executing those who displease him with a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath melting stick]]. Needless to say, Loki considers him a "lunatic" though to be fair, the Grandmaster has been ruling Sakaar for ages which implies that he is at least competent enough to stay in power. [[spoiler:The post-credit scene shows he was deposed by revolutionaries.]]
** ComicBook/{{Hela}}, on the other hand, plays this trope [[KnightOfCerebus completely serious]]. As soon as she takes control of Asgard (by slaughtering their entire army [[OneManArmy by herself]] no less), she begins a {{reign of terror}} upon her kingdom to recover the Bifrost sword so she can re-start her campaign of conquest of all realms in existence. She is so bad that [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating nobody really likes her]], outside of her undead minions (who are beholden to her will), the only one who willingly follows her is Skurge, who is scared witless of her.
%%* Komodo in ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' certainly qualifies.
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* When [[spoiler:Ping Yang Hou]] takes the throne in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' people have mixed feelings at first until he starts quickly shaping up to be an insane tyrant, including executing a minister on the spot for [[spoiler:refusing to given his dead wife the position of queen]].
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* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': At least one member of each of the Great Houses has played this role.
** The most infamous of them all is Stefan Amaris of House Amaris, who instigated the Amaris Coup and brought an end to the Star League. Most members of the Houses are known for being paranoid, sadistic, and power-hungry, and Stefan is the universe's equivalent of Hitler. His entire House was executed for his treason.
** Romano Liao was known for her bloody purges and assassinations out of spite. Which caused much resentment and plots to kill her from within the House, even her son Sun-Tzu had a plan in progress when she was killed by her sister Candace Allard-Liao in reprisal for the assassination of her husband. Ironically, Romano was actually a semi-''competent'' Caligula. On her watch, the Capellan Confederation successfully fought off an invasion by the Magistracy of Canopus and the Duchy of Andurien and regained its military pride. Romano also ended the territorial losses the Confederation suffered, giving Sun-Tzu a base to work with when he took the throne.
** Katherine Steiner-Davion more or less single-handedly caused the fall of the Federated Commonwealth a single generation after her parents' AltarDiplomacy had caused the Commonwealth to arise in the first place. She killed her mother to accomplish this, later had a princess of another neighbouring nation killed for the crime of falling in love with her brother, and would have killed all her siblings if she'd been able. A MoodSwinger who could not stand not having everyone around her be {{Yes M|an}}en, she proved equal amounts vicious and insane. She eventually defected to the Clans, only to be assassinated by ''her own son'' when he realized how dangerous she was.
** Brett Andrews of the Steel Vipers is an elected example. He was a good -- if extremely brash and aggressive -- ''[[NumberTwo saKhan]]'' to the Steel Vipers, but once elected ''[=ilKhan=]'' he revealed an agenda to institute a [[ThePurge society-wide purge of 'taint']] from Clan society [[TheSocialDarwinist so as to make them strong enough to face the Inner Sphere again]]. Long story short, by the time Brett Andrews was dead (beaten to death by one of his former allies [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor in a Grand Council]]) half of Clan society had been burned to the ground and the other half had been thoroughly shell-shocked, Clan Steel Viper was exterminated and [[SatanicArchetype Andrews' name became equivalent to 'Satan']] to the surviving clans.
* The Sorcerer King Abalach-Re in ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' is pretty obviously based on the actual Caligula.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Anyone who gets a Terrestrial or Celestial Exaltation will behave this way due to the death-curse from the creator-gods they murdered, but the Solar Exalted take the proverbial cake.
* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' has Hantei XVI. To give you some idea of how bad he was: in Rokugan, it is considered the worst of all sins to turn your blade on those you serve, a crime that can only be washed away by seppuku, a crime that will stain your family's honor for generations to come. ''His entire personal guard'' joined together to murder him.
* Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s ''Literature/OdysseyCycle''. Ruler of the ocean; paranoid lunatic.
** Lord Konda, emperor of the greatest nation of Literature/{{Kamigawa|Cycle}}. In his mad desire for immortality to rule his kingdom forever, he steals That Which Was Taken, which single-handedly begins the Kami War. The flavor texts of many cards paint a vivid picture of his descent into madness.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' is a TabletopGame based solely on being controlled by a Caligula named "[[TheComputerIsYourFriend Friend Computer]]."
* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' loves this trope. About half the domains are ruled by Caligulas (even if they're not the actual dark lord). Some examples include Othmar Bolshnik, who's on the brink of declaring himself king of a nation that withholds the title of "king" for their mythical religious ruler; Ivan Dilisnya, a paranoid opera fanatic who sends suspected enemies, actors who displease him, and anyone else he has a problem with to his Play Room; and Vlad Drakov, who seems to be the creators' attempt to put UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, Ivan the Terrible, and Hitler in a blender and see what comes out.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' has Grand Admiral of Jupiter Sebastian Alexander Leopold von Hapsburg I, the mouthpiece of the Europans. The Grand Admiral keeps a harem of kidnapped women of all races and species, indulges his every whim and constantly threatens Earth from Demarcation Point 1.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'': Emperor Cleon III, the last known descendant of the Third Imperium's founder, was known for resolving disagreements within his cabinet by shooting the most vocal ones. Within a year he was assassinated by the Imperial Moot, who then codified the "Right of Assassination" in law.
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': in first edition, the Ventrue clan. While it's ''possible'' for other clans to go Caligula, 9 times out of 10 it's a Ventrue. This is because they not only have lordly instincts, but their clan weakness is a tendency to easily pick up Derangements if they fall down the KarmaMeter. So if a Ventrue Prince has to make the hard choices, and is able to rationalize them away, the crazy's going to start to leak through sooner or later...
** The Ventrue have ''dozens'' of bloodlines, all based on this concept. Just want to be crazy? Try the Malkovians. Creepy obsessive shut-ins? Malocusians. Sadistic gluttons? Macellarius. Ventrue supremacists with overhanging racist/nativist tendencies? Deucalion. Crazed worshipers of divine architecture? The Architects of the Monolith. In fact, in a possible creation myth explained in ''Mythologies'', Caligula was, in fact, the first Gangrel. UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar was the first Ventrue. [[BlatantLies Bullshit, yes,]] [[spoiler:but a very clever LampshadeHanging about the Julii clan]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
** More than a few planetary lords probably fit into this category, but special mention must be made of High Lord Goge Vandire, who in the 36th millennium managed to take control of both the [[TheEmpire Imperium's]] [[TheGovernment Administratum]] and [[ChurchMilitant Ecclesiarchy]][[note]]by means of first installing an incompetent and weak-minded Ecclesiarch and then having him executed for being incompetent and weak-willed before declaring himself [[HighPriest Ecclesiarch]][[/note]], beginning the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Reign of Blood]]. Vandire was notoriously paranoid and ordered the deaths of millions and the destruction of entire worlds due to real or imagined plots against him. He eventually developed a phobia of light and took to wandering the darkened corridors of the Imperial Palace while muttering to himself, and was ultimately killed by his [[AmazonBrigade all-female cadre of bodyguards]] to end the devastating civil war. In the four thousand years since then, the Imperium has all but destroyed itself waging penitent crusades to atone.
** The Daemon Prince Fulgrim went from being the most cultured Primarch to an unspeakably cruel and selfish tyrant. His excesses triggered a war with other Chaos Marines which shattered his legion into a few warbands.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has the Silver Fangs, the "ruling tribe" of werewolves. Their tribal weakness is a tendency towards mental illness, a trait that has been ascribed to everything from a punishment laid down by Luna to inbreeding with the royal houses of Europe.
** Black Tooth, a Simba (werelion) king among the Bastet, was a brutal ruler who waged a genocidal campaign against the Ajaba (werehyenas).
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* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': At least one member of each of the Great Houses has played this role.
** The most infamous of them all is Stefan Amaris of House Amaris, who instigated the Amaris Coup and brought an end to the Star League. Most members of the Houses are known for being paranoid, sadistic, and power-hungry, and Stefan is the universe's equivalent of Hitler. His entire House was executed for his treason.
** Romano Liao was known for her bloody purges and assassinations out of spite. Which caused much resentment and plots to kill her from within the House, even her son Sun-Tzu had a plan in progress when she was killed by her sister Candace Allard-Liao in reprisal for the assassination of her husband. Ironically, Romano was actually a semi-''competent'' Caligula. On her watch, the Capellan Confederation successfully fought off an invasion by the Magistracy of Canopus and the Duchy of Andurien and regained its military pride. Romano also ended the territorial losses the Confederation suffered, giving Sun-Tzu a base to work with when he took the throne.
** Katherine Steiner-Davion more or less single-handedly caused the fall of the Federated Commonwealth a single generation after her parents' AltarDiplomacy had caused the Commonwealth to arise in the first place. She killed her mother to accomplish this, later had a princess of another neighbouring nation killed for the crime of falling in love with her brother, and would have killed all her siblings if she'd been able. A MoodSwinger who could not stand not having everyone around her be {{Yes M|an}}en, she proved equal amounts vicious and insane. She eventually defected to the Clans, only to be assassinated by ''her own son'' when he realized how dangerous she was.
** Brett Andrews of the Steel Vipers is an elected example. He was a good -- if extremely brash and aggressive -- ''[[NumberTwo saKhan]]'' to the Steel Vipers, but once elected ''[=ilKhan=]'' he revealed an agenda to institute a [[ThePurge society-wide purge of 'taint']] from Clan society [[TheSocialDarwinist so as to make them strong enough to face the Inner Sphere again]]. Long story short, by the time Brett Andrews was dead (beaten to death by one of his former allies [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor in a Grand Council]]) half of Clan society had been burned to the ground and the other half had been thoroughly shell-shocked, Clan Steel Viper was exterminated and [[SatanicArchetype Andrews' name became equivalent to 'Satan']] to the surviving clans.
* The Sorcerer King Abalach-Re in ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' is pretty obviously based on the actual Caligula.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Anyone who gets a Terrestrial or Celestial Exaltation will behave this way due to the death-curse from the creator-gods they murdered, but the Solar Exalted take the proverbial cake.
* ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'' has Hantei XVI. To give you some idea of how bad he was: in Rokugan, it is considered the worst of all sins to turn your blade on those you serve, a crime that can only be washed away by seppuku, a crime that will stain your family's honor for generations to come. ''His entire personal guard'' joined together to murder him.
* Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s ''Literature/OdysseyCycle''. Ruler of the ocean; paranoid lunatic.
** Lord Konda, emperor of the greatest nation of Literature/{{Kamigawa|Cycle}}. In his mad desire for immortality to rule his kingdom forever, he steals That Which Was Taken, which single-handedly begins the Kami War. The flavor texts of many cards paint a vivid picture of his descent into madness.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' is a TabletopGame based solely on being controlled by a Caligula named "[[TheComputerIsYourFriend Friend Computer]]."
* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' loves this trope. About half the domains are ruled by Caligulas (even if they're not the actual dark lord). Some examples include Othmar Bolshnik, who's on the brink of declaring himself king of a nation that withholds the title of "king" for their mythical religious ruler; Ivan Dilisnya, a paranoid opera fanatic who sends suspected enemies, actors who displease him, and anyone else he has a problem with to his Play Room; and Vlad Drakov, who seems to be the creators' attempt to put UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, Ivan the Terrible, and Hitler in a blender and see what comes out.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' has Grand Admiral of Jupiter Sebastian Alexander Leopold von Hapsburg I, the mouthpiece of the Europans. The Grand Admiral keeps a harem of kidnapped women of all races and species, indulges his every whim and constantly threatens Earth from Demarcation Point 1.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'': Emperor Cleon III, the last known descendant of the Third Imperium's founder, was known for resolving disagreements within his cabinet by shooting the most vocal ones. Within a year he was assassinated by the Imperial Moot, who then codified the "Right of Assassination" in law.
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': in first edition, the Ventrue clan. While it's ''possible'' for other clans to go Caligula, 9 times out of 10 it's a Ventrue. This is because they not only have lordly instincts, but their clan weakness is a tendency to easily pick up Derangements if they fall down the KarmaMeter. So if a Ventrue Prince has to make the hard choices, and is able to rationalize them away, the crazy's going to start to leak through sooner or later...
** The Ventrue have ''dozens'' of bloodlines, all based on this concept. Just want to be crazy? Try the Malkovians. Creepy obsessive shut-ins? Malocusians. Sadistic gluttons? Macellarius. Ventrue supremacists with overhanging racist/nativist tendencies? Deucalion. Crazed worshipers of divine architecture? The Architects of the Monolith. In fact, in a possible creation myth explained in ''Mythologies'', Caligula was, in fact, the first Gangrel. UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar was the first Ventrue. [[BlatantLies Bullshit, yes,]] [[spoiler:but a very clever LampshadeHanging about the Julii clan]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
** More than a few planetary lords probably fit into this category, but special mention must be made of High Lord Goge Vandire, who in the 36th millennium managed to take control of both the [[TheEmpire Imperium's]] [[TheGovernment Administratum]] and [[ChurchMilitant Ecclesiarchy]][[note]]by means of first installing an incompetent and weak-minded Ecclesiarch and then having him executed for being incompetent and weak-willed before declaring himself [[HighPriest Ecclesiarch]][[/note]], beginning the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Reign of Blood]]. Vandire was notoriously paranoid and ordered the deaths of millions and the destruction of entire worlds due to real or imagined plots against him. He eventually developed a phobia of light and took to wandering the darkened corridors of the Imperial Palace while muttering to himself, and was ultimately killed by his [[AmazonBrigade all-female cadre of bodyguards]] to end the devastating civil war. In the four thousand years since then, the Imperium has all but destroyed itself waging penitent crusades to atone.
** The Daemon Prince Fulgrim went from being the most cultured Primarch to an unspeakably cruel and selfish tyrant. His excesses triggered a war with other Chaos Marines which shattered his legion into a few warbands.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' has the Silver Fangs, the "ruling tribe" of werewolves. Their tribal weakness is a tendency towards mental illness, a trait that has been ascribed to everything from a punishment laid down by Luna to inbreeding with the royal houses of Europe.
** Black Tooth, a Simba (werelion) king among the Bastet, was a brutal ruler who waged a genocidal campaign against the Ajaba (werehyenas).
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* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
%%** King Kel in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog''
** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
*** Chief Judge [[MeaningfulName Cal]] in the story "The Day The Law Died" (collected as ''Judge Caligula'') is, as the name suggests, closely based on the Emperor (even being drawn to resemble Creator/JohnHurt in ''Series/IClaudius''). [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} Caligula]] (allegedly) made his horse a senator; Cal made his goldfish Deputy Chief Judge. Caligula demanded grandiose building projects; Cal expected the citizens to build a mile-high wall around Mega-City One in a week. He also argued with deceased former Chief Judges, preserved his execution victims in vinegar, and sentenced the ''[[OmnicidalManiac entire city]]'' to death ''twice''. At least the mile-high wall actually helped protect the city later on.
*** Subverted however with the version of Judge Cal who shows up in "Helter Skelter". He's from an AlternateUniverse where he actually killed Judge Dredd and has been the tyrannical ruler of Mega-City One for over 20 years, precisely because unlike his mainstream counterpart he wasn't insane (just evil), allowing him to make more rational choices. He's still indicated to be a BadBoss though.
** ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Emperor Nero (who is incidentally the {{Trope Namer|s}}'s nephew) is a total lunatic who spends most of his time having people tortured and crucified by the thousands to end his boredom.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': ComicBook/TheJoker is often presented this way.
** The 1994 story "The Great Pretender" (the first in a miniseries of ''Showcase'' issues each featuring a different ''Batman'' villain) shows us an alternate Gotham City in which the Joker has apparently taken over everything and crowned himself "King." In addition to his usual cold-blooded murders, King Joker makes his subjects take baths in custard, has all government employees dress in [[OutdatedOutfit Elizabethan-era costumes]], and [[BigBrotherIsWatching broadcasts his decrees via giant video screens towering over the streets of Gotham]]. And as if all that wasn't wild enough, there are numerous crazed men running around in white makeup and green hair dye who seek to overthrow King Joker, including an amnesiac who believes he ''is'' the Joker. Plus, various Batman impostors are also roaming the streets to do battle with all these faux Jokers. Yeah, it gets pretty crazy.
** He also exhibits some of these characteristics in the [[Film/Batman1989 1989 movie]], such as when he appears at the Gotham City 200th Anniversary Parade seated on a throne (in RealLife an actual throne, donated by the King of Sweden). He also, like Nero (see below), fancies himself a MadArtist, although his "masterpieces" are mostly just vandalized or outright destroyed works by other artists or human victims [[FacialHorror whose faces he has perversely scarred]]. He even has one of his {{Mooks}} carry around a boombox playing a song whose first verse announces: "All hail the new king in town!"
** ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' shows that rule under a GodEmperor Joker would lead to a WorldGoneMad.
* ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'':
** Conan came up against mad and corrupt kings with some regularity, but the most notable of these was King Numedides, who Conan [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt overthrew to become king of Aquilonia]]. Numedides regularly had men and women [[FlayingAlive flayed alive]] for minor transgressions; indeed, when Conan was imprisoned in his tower, Numedides executed a dancer who Conan liked and ordered a scrap of her flesh tossed in Conan's cell. Conan immediately recognized who it belonged to because of the dancer's many tattoos. As well, in order to become immortal, Numedides enlisted the services of the EvilSorcerer Thulandra Thuu; together, they sacrificed young women in order for Numedides to [[BloodBath bathe in their blood]].
** Like Conan, ComicBook/RedSonja has come up against her fair share of mad kings. Unlike Conan, most of them attempted to imprison her in their harems. [[ActionGirl Bad move]].
%%* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Two-Spear. Winnowill, too.
* ''Literature/TheHourOfTheDragon'': Valerius fits this trope perfectly: his drunken revelry, sexual violence, and senseless slaughter were so extensive that his co-conspirators had to step in, to stop him from running the kingdom into the ground.
** In Creator/RobertEHoward's original story, Valerius does this deliberately, in order to ruin the realm, because he knows YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is coming and wants TakingYouWithMe so his co-conspirators won't profit.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'':
** In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulkFutureImperfect'', the ComicBook/{{Maestro}} is an [[FutureMeScaresMe alternate future version]] of the Hulk who turned into the despotic and demented ruler of a post-apocalyptic society who is completely debauched. His EstablishingCharacterMoment shows him having an orgy with his harem of concubines before being interrupted by his minions showing what kind of depraved deviant he is.
** The Red King, main villain of the ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' storyline, fits this trope to a T.
* ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Death Queen]] lives up to her name very well. After dethroning Lady Death and taking control of her dark domain, her unstable and unpredictable rule forces ''demons'' to form LaResistance. She turned into an OmnicidalManiac as the story progressed; at first, wanted to resort to a DoomsdayDevice to kill any "miscreants" but leave her followers alive using protective marks. After the machine is destroyed by the heroes, she combines enough arcane power that she effectively [[PhysicalGod becomes a goddess]], organizing an all-out invasion of every corner of the domain, even destroying friendly settlements that provided resources to her armies!
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': ComicBook/{{Loki}} spends about five days as this trope in ''Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers'', before swiftly being brought down by {{The Chains of Command|ing}} and realizing that he and Thor were cosmically manipulated into their CainAndAbel roles and deciding to abandon his throne if it means they can be friends again. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's too late for that.]]
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'': One character defeated by the villainous Queen Chrysalis in the spinoff series is named [[MeaningfulName Emperor Incitatus]], the ruler of Trot (Troy), and shown as self-obsessive and narcissistic as [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} Caligula]] was said to be. These traits were used to assure his downfall.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Roark Junior, a.k.a. ''That Yellow Bastard'', would have been this if he was able to inherit his family's political power. He was an insane and violent sexual deviant who preyed on kids... and was being groomed as a future US president before he met his end.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' arc of the comic lines, Palpatine became this after his first resurrection. Although he was definitely not a good person prior to his first death in Return of the Jedi, he at least was sane enough to actually succeed in his plans and manipulate factors in his favor. Afterwards, he's become just yet another insane, megalomaniacal tyrant. (His increased insanity was heavily implied to be the direct result of transferring his spirit into clones.) It also probably didn't help that [[spoiler: said clones were being sabotaged by one of his guards to genetically break down]].
** In ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'', as the story progresses and his VillainousBreakdown worsens, [[BigBad Darth Krayt]] slips further and further into this trope. At the start, he's a pretty restrained, if ruthless, leader. By issue 20, [[SanitySlippage he's going so crazy]] that he starts doing stuff like [[DisproportionateRetribution ordering genocides against entire species because some of them sided with the Alliance and Fel Empire instead of him]]. His descent into madness is mostly caused by the [[SecretlyDying the terminal illness he secretly has]], and is exacerbated by him repeatedly [[TalkingToTheDead contacting the spirits of dead Sith Lords]] in desperate, futile attempts to find a cure. [[spoiler:It eventually gets so bad that his [[TheDragon apprentice]] Darth Wyyrlok betrays and murders him, not for the sake of power, but because [[MercyKill he can't bear to watch his beloved leader self-destruct any longer]].]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Former Shi'ar king D'Ken, who is at least partially responsible for Vulcan being as screwed up as he is, was another fine example... until he was killed by, you guessed it, Vulcan. Afterwards, Vulcan becomes king of the Shi'ar empire and essentially drives the people to hell, dividing them and thus starting the ''ComicBook/WarOfKings''.
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* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
%%** King Kel in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog''
** ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
*** Chief Judge [[MeaningfulName Cal]] in the story "The Day The Law Died" (collected as ''Judge Caligula'') is, as the name suggests, closely based on the Emperor (even being drawn to resemble Creator/JohnHurt in ''Series/IClaudius''). [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} Caligula]] (allegedly) made his horse a senator; Cal made his goldfish Deputy Chief Judge. Caligula demanded grandiose building projects; Cal expected the citizens to build a mile-high wall around Mega-City One in a week. He also argued with deceased former Chief Judges, preserved his execution victims in vinegar, and sentenced the ''[[OmnicidalManiac entire city]]'' to death ''twice''. At least the mile-high wall actually helped protect the city later on.
*** Subverted however with the version of Judge Cal who shows up in "Helter Skelter". He's from an AlternateUniverse where he actually killed Judge Dredd and has been the tyrannical ruler of Mega-City One for over 20 years, precisely because unlike his mainstream counterpart he wasn't insane (just evil), allowing him to make more rational choices. He's still indicated to be a BadBoss though.
** ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Emperor Nero (who is incidentally the {{Trope Namer|s}}'s nephew) is a total lunatic who spends most of his time having people tortured and crucified by the thousands to end his boredom.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': ComicBook/TheJoker is often presented this way.
** The 1994 story "The Great Pretender" (the first in a miniseries of ''Showcase'' issues each featuring a different ''Batman'' villain) shows us an alternate Gotham City in which the Joker has apparently taken over everything and crowned himself "King." In addition to his usual cold-blooded murders, King Joker makes his subjects take baths in custard, has all government employees dress in [[OutdatedOutfit Elizabethan-era costumes]], and [[BigBrotherIsWatching broadcasts his decrees via giant video screens towering over the streets of Gotham]]. And as if all that wasn't wild enough, there are numerous crazed men running around in white makeup and green hair dye who seek to overthrow King Joker, including an amnesiac who believes he ''is'' the Joker. Plus, various Batman impostors are also roaming the streets to do battle with all these faux Jokers. Yeah, it gets pretty crazy.
** He also exhibits some of these characteristics in the [[Film/Batman1989 1989 movie]], such as when he appears at the Gotham City 200th Anniversary Parade seated on a throne (in RealLife an actual throne, donated by the King of Sweden). He also, like Nero (see below), fancies himself a MadArtist, although his "masterpieces" are mostly just vandalized or outright destroyed works by other artists or human victims [[FacialHorror whose faces he has perversely scarred]]. He even has one of his {{Mooks}} carry around a boombox playing a song whose first verse announces: "All hail the new king in town!"
** ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' shows that rule under a GodEmperor Joker would lead to a WorldGoneMad.
* ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'':
** Conan came up against mad and corrupt kings with some regularity, but the most notable of these was King Numedides, who Conan [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt overthrew to become king of Aquilonia]]. Numedides regularly had men and women [[FlayingAlive flayed alive]] for minor transgressions; indeed, when Conan was imprisoned in his tower, Numedides executed a dancer who Conan liked and ordered a scrap of her flesh tossed in Conan's cell. Conan immediately recognized who it belonged to because of the dancer's many tattoos. As well, in order to become immortal, Numedides enlisted the services of the EvilSorcerer Thulandra Thuu; together, they sacrificed young women in order for Numedides to [[BloodBath bathe in their blood]].
** Like Conan, ComicBook/RedSonja has come up against her fair share of mad kings. Unlike Conan, most of them attempted to imprison her in their harems. [[ActionGirl Bad move]].
%%* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Two-Spear. Winnowill, too.
* ''Literature/TheHourOfTheDragon'': Valerius fits this trope perfectly: his drunken revelry, sexual violence, and senseless slaughter were so extensive that his co-conspirators had to step in, to stop him from running the kingdom into the ground.
** In Creator/RobertEHoward's original story, Valerius does this deliberately, in order to ruin the realm, because he knows YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness is coming and wants TakingYouWithMe so his co-conspirators won't profit.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'':
** In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulkFutureImperfect'', the ComicBook/{{Maestro}} is an [[FutureMeScaresMe alternate future version]] of the Hulk who turned into the despotic and demented ruler of a post-apocalyptic society who is completely debauched. His EstablishingCharacterMoment shows him having an orgy with his harem of concubines before being interrupted by his minions showing what kind of depraved deviant he is.
** The Red King, main villain of the ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' storyline, fits this trope to a T.
* ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Death Queen]] lives up to her name very well. After dethroning Lady Death and taking control of her dark domain, her unstable and unpredictable rule forces ''demons'' to form LaResistance. She turned into an OmnicidalManiac as the story progressed; at first, wanted to resort to a DoomsdayDevice to kill any "miscreants" but leave her followers alive using protective marks. After the machine is destroyed by the heroes, she combines enough arcane power that she effectively [[PhysicalGod becomes a goddess]], organizing an all-out invasion of every corner of the domain, even destroying friendly settlements that provided resources to her armies!
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': ComicBook/{{Loki}} spends about five days as this trope in ''Thor and Loki: Blood Brothers'', before swiftly being brought down by {{The Chains of Command|ing}} and realizing that he and Thor were cosmically manipulated into their CainAndAbel roles and deciding to abandon his throne if it means they can be friends again. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it's too late for that.]]
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'': One character defeated by the villainous Queen Chrysalis in the spinoff series is named [[MeaningfulName Emperor Incitatus]], the ruler of Trot (Troy), and shown as self-obsessive and narcissistic as [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} Caligula]] was said to be. These traits were used to assure his downfall.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Roark Junior, a.k.a. ''That Yellow Bastard'', would have been this if he was able to inherit his family's political power. He was an insane and violent sexual deviant who preyed on kids... and was being groomed as a future US president before he met his end.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In the ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'' arc of the comic lines, Palpatine became this after his first resurrection. Although he was definitely not a good person prior to his first death in Return of the Jedi, he at least was sane enough to actually succeed in his plans and manipulate factors in his favor. Afterwards, he's become just yet another insane, megalomaniacal tyrant. (His increased insanity was heavily implied to be the direct result of transferring his spirit into clones.) It also probably didn't help that [[spoiler: said clones were being sabotaged by one of his guards to genetically break down]].
** In ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'', as the story progresses and his VillainousBreakdown worsens, [[BigBad Darth Krayt]] slips further and further into this trope. At the start, he's a pretty restrained, if ruthless, leader. By issue 20, [[SanitySlippage he's going so crazy]] that he starts doing stuff like [[DisproportionateRetribution ordering genocides against entire species because some of them sided with the Alliance and Fel Empire instead of him]]. His descent into madness is mostly caused by the [[SecretlyDying the terminal illness he secretly has]], and is exacerbated by him repeatedly [[TalkingToTheDead contacting the spirits of dead Sith Lords]] in desperate, futile attempts to find a cure. [[spoiler:It eventually gets so bad that his [[TheDragon apprentice]] Darth Wyyrlok betrays and murders him, not for the sake of power, but because [[MercyKill he can't bear to watch his beloved leader self-destruct any longer]].]]
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Former Shi'ar king D'Ken, who is at least partially responsible for Vulcan being as screwed up as he is, was another fine example... until he was killed by, you guessed it, Vulcan. Afterwards, Vulcan becomes king of the Shi'ar empire and essentially drives the people to hell, dividing them and thus starting the ''ComicBook/WarOfKings''.
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* Gilgamesh in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. [[ItsAllAboutMe So]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction freaking]] [[AGodAmI bad]]. The [[Literature/FateZero prequel]] reveals that he's so batshit crazy irresponsible that he might as well be a StarfishAlien as far as Saber is concerned. And as in [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh the original epic]] also royally pissed off his own people when he invoked DroitDuSeigneur on the women of his kingdom, to the point that the Gods answered their prayers in the form of Enkidu, who beat the snot out of him before they eventually became friends. Subverted with the Caster variant in ''Fate/Grand Order'', which is an OlderAndWiser (though no less arrogant) version of him that is a very capable king to his people.
** Saber's kingdom collapsed because of this popular perception of her. Saber tried to become the perfect king, ruling fairly and without hesitation while mercilessly crushing any enemy, even if it required the sacrifice of some villages. While her most trusted knights believed she was a good king, her apparent [[TheStoic lack of emotion]] and [[NoSympathy compassion]] alienated most of her subjects and resulted in multiple civil wars.
** The spinoff games, ''VideoGame/FateExtra'' and ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' feature two others from history, {{UsefulNotes/Nero}} in the former and {{UsefulNotes/Caligula}} himself in the latter. The former is obsessed with being loved by her ([[HistoricalGenderFlip yes, her]]) subjects, and while an AttentionWhore and very arrogant, she apparently intended well and was very popular with the common people but not the nobles. Her uncle Caligula, on the other hand, is stated to have been driven mad by the affections of the Moon in this universe and is implied to be a ReluctantMonster who wants the Grail to cure his insanity.
** LightNovel spinoff ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'' adds Richard the Lionheart to the list. Far more interested in playing the hero of a ChivalricRomance than actually being a good king, Richard wound up dragging his kingdom into expensive, bloody, and ultimately pointless wars as a misguided attempt to chase the legend of his idol, King Arthur. Richard himself seems quite aware of this, even admitting that Prince John was entirely justified in his attempted coup against him.
* Makihisa Tohno of ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' was the head of a major business but also deeply troubled due to his demonic blood causing bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Every girl in his manor has deep psychological scars from differing forms of abuse while Shiki [[spoiler:is the last survivor of the Nanaya clan, kidnapped and mind-wiped into being a member of the Tohno after Makihisa killed the rest of them and only spared the boy out on a whim because of amusement that he shared a name with his son]].
* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Ga'ran]] turned the Kingdom of Khura'in into what in essence is a PoliceState, where {{Kangaroo Court}}s are used to imprison and execute defendants and ''their attorneys'', thanks to the Defense Culpability Act. Even Phoenix and Apollo are appalled at the [[MiscarriageOfJustice kingdom's downright corrupt and toxic legal system]], as there were countless false convictions in Khura'in due to the genocide of defense attorneys. In short, many of the attorneys who previously practiced in Khura'in were arrested and executed for aiding their clients, with those still remaining forming an organized rebellion against her. [[spoiler:Ga'ran even ''[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem rewrites Khura'inese law a few times at]]'' her whim during the final trial to put the defense at a disadvantage, all so that they'll be executed on the spot for defying her authority.]] Of course, the Defense Culpability Act is what's keeping Ga'ran in power, and she's the reason why defense attorneys are seen as trash in that country; the law basically gave her a blank check to pervert the legal system at her whims, including but not limited to silencing any potential dissenters or political enemies. [[spoiler: All because she staged an assassination attempt on the previous queen Amara to frame Dhruke and [[TheUsurper elevate herself]] [[TyrantTakesTheHelm as the new queen]], later trying to assassinate her for real for trying to spill the beans.]] Because she was the ''de facto'' queen of Khura'in, she was also the ''de facto'' head of the religion of Khura'inism and perverted it into a CorruptChurch. [[spoiler: She actually isn't fit to rule the kingdom, as she can't channel spirits, unlike her sister, causing [[BodyguardBetrayal her guards to turn on her]] once she's revealed to be a PhonyPsychic. In a nutshell, Ga'ran is nothing but a completely insane and paranoid loon who [[BelievingTheirOwnLies slowly deluded herself]] that she was the Holy Mother whom she tried to channel.]]
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* King Steve from ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' is a BlackComedy CloudCuckooLander. One of the least dangerous things he has done was betting the office of King in a poker game. He lost the game to a piece of string..."whom" he then assassinated by cutting it in two with scissors when no one else was near.
** [[BlackComedy Babies are what his shoes are made of.]] They tend to rot, however, so he has to get new ones "Fresh daily."
** One of his frequent "elections" simply gave the population the choice of either King Steve as supreme ruler, or to get a sword in the head. 52% of the survey population died.
** Another time, he set up a snow cone stand. This might sound mundane at first, but the Light Warriors noticed something strange about the aforementioned snow-cones, leading to this exchange:
-->'''Black Mage''': What is this?
-->'''King Steve''': It's no cone!
-->'''Thief''': It's a cube.
-->'''King Steve''': Oh, no. That's a common misconception. It's a stube.
-->'''Thief''': A what?
-->'''King Steve''': The seven-sided cube. I invented it.
-->'''Black Mage''': There are only six sides.
-->'''King Steve''': [[InsaneTrollLogic The seventh side is the inside.]]
** He also thinks that he invented inventing, started a war to force pacifism on the elves, and was once told he had news and enthusiastically asked "does it involve '''cupcakes'''?" and decided he didn't care when the answer was no, thinks he designed his castle to be four hundred years old, and apparently knew what a robot version of himself was saying even after the robot exploded. If he isn't a [[TheDitz ditz]] then nobody is. Did we mention that he is unable to tell the difference between his daughter and his BeleagueredAssistant Left-Hand-Man Gary? (In case you were wondering, his right-hand man is a coffee stain called Rodney.)
* [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Chancellor Valorum]] in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids''. The annotation explains that they wanted to make him more interesting than in the movie version, who was bland and boring. Consequently, he becomes a maniac who praises the droid army for overthrowing their human oppressors, urges people to replace their bodies with cyborgs, and demands that all shall [[Film/SupermanII "Kneel Before]] [[ActorAllusion Valorum!"]] His getting voted out of office makes a lot more sense now.
** [[spoiler:And he turned out to be '''''General Grievous'''''. It makes so much sense.]]
* Common among the clan leaders in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', doubling as RoyallyScrewedUp in a lot of cases.
** Kharla'ggen Vel'Vlozress is monstrously powerful and extremely insane, and has a hobby of [[AndIMustScream turning living people]] [[LivingDollCollector into living dolls]] and altogether has the mental capacity of a young child and no real sense of morality. Despite this, she does get a few PetTheDog moments with her adopted sister, Kiel'ndia (who, despite Kharla being the one who turned her mother into a puppet, seems to get that Kharla doesn't really understand and thus doesn't blame her) and it's suggested that if left alone she wouldn't be so bad. It also says something that Kiel flat out ''panics'' when she realizes that Kharla has been introduced to sex via [[TheCorrupter Khaless]], meaning that dolls and toys likely won't be able to satisfy her any longer and so to quote Kiel "We're all fucked. [[NotHyperbole Literally]]."
** Among the Sharen clan, all of whom could qualify at some level, Sarv'swati Vel'Sharen develops into this over the course of the story. It's not so much that she's crazy like Kharla so much as ''extremely'' brutal, exerting what her own sisters call "maniacal" control over her family to the point that after her sister Sil'lice was exiled she executed members of her own family for sympathizing with her, and [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9437 brutally executes one of her own relatives]] after [[YouHaveFailedMe fails her]] for the last time, and he [[ThisIsGonnaSuck knew what was going to happen]]. She also [[spoiler:was part of a plot to kill her own mother, and was the one who sealed the deal by sealing her in her throne room to die, and covered it up by using a BodyDouble for public function]] and masterminds the idea of Dari'yako, a PenalColony where commoners are sent, and her use of a [[SlaveMooks slave army]] made of conscripted commoners that turn most of the population against her.
** To quote from [[spoiler:Zhor]], Snadhya'rune is the legitimate heir to the empire of the entire Drow race and would be the undisputed ruler if she was not completely insane. Her first plan to consolidate power was to [[spoiler:found an entire rebel group of demon summoners to assault her capital so she and her sisters could inherit the throne from their less-than-supportive mother]]. She allowed the Saghress to steamroll over her armies and conquer Chel, knowing that they would mismanage their supply routes and starve Chel to near-death so that she could 'save' them with table scraps from her small farming colonies. At her Felde party celebrating the loss of Chel, she publicly announced her plot to use biological warfare to force Chel to [[DemonicPossession TAINT]] [[ZombieApocalypse EVERYONE ALIVE]]. And she used speech craft and her own insanity to pose this as a good thing, right in front of her entire collection of potential allies, all while using one of her minion's CompellingVoice powers to make everyone KneelBeforeZod [[{{Narcissist}} just for the ego trip]]. Most of the fandom agrees that she's an actual [[TheSociopath sociopath]].
*** And becomes official in the ''clusterfuck'' that is Chapter 46: [[spoiler:At first, she presents herself as peaceful tyrant... but then she gets one order disobeyed and gets stabbed. She proceeds to go apeshit over being wounded in combat, so her first response is to ''[[VillainousBreakdown scream in complete fury]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing racially denounce the lower class]], and [[BerserkerRage murder all the assassins and allies]]'' within a ten-yard radius, and might well have leveled her own palace if she hadn't been stopped by Mel. Later, she declares Kalki, ''[[OffingTheOffspring her firstborn daughter]]'', to be a faulty tool and used a magic grenade in her crown to slowly rip her to shreds without batting an eye]]. Yikes.
*** In the finale, Snadhya'rune undergoes a HumiliationConga and snaps completely. [[spoiler:She unleashes a nether gate half the area of Chel itself, threatening to drown Chel in nether essence and demons. Then she conjures a giant stone dragon and mindlessly rampages all across the city. Then, she kills off all her Immortals and absorbs their souls to form a gigantic blob demon. By the end, her personality is erased and is left a semi-conscious blob demon made of hatred and regret, which is promptly eaten alive by Laele]].
* Apparently, the Heterodyne family of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' tends this way, judging by the utter relief expressed by citizens of Mechanicsburg when [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111130 Agatha shows concern for their safety.]]
-->'''Councillor 1:''' Two minutes, and she hasn't killed ''anyone!''\\
'''Councillor 2:''' A new record!
* Eridan Ampora (aka "[[MeaningfulName caligulasAquarium]]") from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is a member of the royal sea-dwelling troll caste. His primary interests revolve around genocide of the land-dwellers and his many failed efforts at romance. He mostly embodies this trope in his blind self-absorption and poor decision-making [[spoiler:until his FaceHeelTurn]].
** A better example of this trope, oddly enough, is the Grand Highblood, Gamzee's Ancestor, who brutally terrorizes the other, lower land-dwelling castes through capricious homicide and psychic nightmares in the name of his MonsterClown religion. However, this is characteristic of the Subjugglator caste as a whole and not a one-off thing.
** The biggest Caligula so far is Her Imperious Condescension, who in her home universe spent her time flying to new civilizations and meeting with them peacefully before blasting them to smithereens. And then after her empire is destroyed by The Vast Glub enters into the service of [[BigBad Lord English]] and goes to the B2 Earth, where she goes mad as the result of repeated botched attempts to recreate her old empire "in all its convoluted symbiotic glory." She ends up taking out her frustrations on humankind, by trying to bioengineer them to have troll blood colors and outlawing sex because she finds it {{squick}}y, so by the time Dirk and Roxy are alive 400 years later humanity is extinct.
* ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'':
** Jay Cirri, the GreaterScopeVillain, fits this trope to a T. Joe quotes people interviewed for the book ''Duck in a Raincoat'' that describe Cirri as a charismatic leader who was revered as a god at Elan School, who was also incredibly mercurial; if you ever slighted him, he would punish you ''severely''. Joe even explicitly likens him to "one of those ancient Roman emperors that become [[DrunkWithPower drunk off of power]] and go off the rails...but there was absolutely nobody around to stop him." By the time of the comic, he's pretty much left the school's management to his underlings, and passively rakes in millions of dollars in profit while the children in his charge are horribly abused.
** More directly, an Elan staffer named Christy rules over Elan 8 with abject sadism. She severely punishes any kind of perceived slight against her; at one point she screams to have Joe hogtied while he's ignoring her during a HeroicBSOD, and she later goes on a sexist diatribe and denies breakfast to Katie's group for not dusting the light covers well enough. She figures out that Joe has a close relationship with his sister, and orders the staff to read and [[CrushTheKeepsake destroy]] any letters from her in front of Joe. She also abuses her authority by constantly MovingTheGoalposts for Joe's graduation date in order to force Joe to stay at Elan as her lackey. However, Joe notes that she completely shuts down with a "dumb, helpless, confused look on her face" when two high-strength students take down John during a house riot.
* ''Webcomic/TheLawOfPurple'': Silver is the king of a planet called Caligula and yes, he's a very bad king.
* Richard from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' seems to be this with the town he is mayor of. However, his citizens don't mind it since [[spoiler:they are already dead]].
* Implied in an ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' strip where two princes have been forced into arranged marriages by their father... with a pig and a withered corpse. One prince comments that there should be a rule that you should be forced to abdicate the throne when you start doing things like that.
* Christian Weston Chandler plays this trope to the hilt as the Mayor of [=CWCville=] in ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''. He enacts all sorts of bizarre laws that treat smoking as being as heinous as rape and murder, he brutally slaughters anyone who tries to stop him from doing whatever he wants, and his will is enforced by what is essentially a multicolored hedgehog Gestapo who according to WordOfGod enjoy full immunity from the law. His civic policy decisions are equally as insane-in ''[[AnimatedAdaptation Sonichu: The Animated Series]]'', he ordered that the [=CWCville=] waterworks circulate orange soda pop instead of water, which leads to fires continually breaking out all over the city.
* The Baron in ''Webcomic/SpikyHairedDragonWorthlessKnight'' is as much of a Caligula as he can be without pissing off higher-level nobles and fellow barons, which is still a lot, especially to the title character (the knight, not the dragon).
* Stephen in ''Webcomic/TerrorIsland'', who somehow managed to be elected Czar of Geography City, largely wields his power to sentence innocent people to indentured labor at Jame's restaurant and to attempt to force Sid to buy groceries. His successor Blueteen isn't much better, sending people to prison (including ''himself'') for attending parades. Not only that, but the parade was actually only supposed to be for stuntmen. Why? Because he had just solved the problem of Jame's stuntman no longer being bound by law to him for jaywalking by telling Jame to just hire him.
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* When [[spoiler:Ping Yang Hou]] takes the throne in ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' people have mixed feelings at first until he starts quickly shaping up to be an insane tyrant, including executing a minister on the spot for [[spoiler:refusing to given his dead wife the position of queen]].
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[[TropeNamers Named]] for what is probably history's best-known whack-job, [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman]] [[TheEmperor emperor]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,]] better known as UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} (''Little Boots'', his childhood nickname, because he was the army's mascot and wore tiny version of a legionnaire's boots; it was probably adorable); remembered for talking to statues, locking granaries, [[RageAgainstTheHeavens declaring war on the god Neptune]] (and "winning", then commanding his soldiers to collect seashells as war-prizes), [[CaligulasHorse making his horse a consul]] (admittedly, this one may have simply been a gesture of spite towards the senate), and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick boning his sisters]]. (Though the veracity of some of these claims is in question, the reputation persists. [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} See here]] for all the details.)
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[[TropeNamers Named]] for what is probably history's best-known whack-job, [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman]] [[TheEmperor emperor]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,]] better known as UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} (''Little Boots'', his childhood nickname, because he was the army's mascot and wore tiny version of a legionnaire's boots; it was probably adorable); remembered for talking to statues, locking granaries, [[RageAgainstTheHeavens declaring war on the god Neptune]] (and "winning", then commanding his soldiers to collect seashells as war-prizes), [[CaligulasHorse making his horse a consul]] (admittedly, this one may have simply been a gesture of spite towards the senate), and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick [[RoyalInbreeding boning his sisters]]. (Though the veracity of some of these claims is in question, the reputation persists. [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} See here]] for all the details.)
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* In the "[[Music/EvilliousChronicles Story of Evil]]" by Music/{{mothy}}, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Rilianne]] is initially depicted as this: she revels in luxury while her subjects are starving, and when the man she loves falls for a green-haired girl, she [[MurderTheHypotenuse orders the death of all girls with green hair]]. Later songs and [[LightNovel/ClotureOfYellow the novel]] make her a bit more morally nuanced: her selfish behaviour is largely caused by her acceding to the throne as an immature teenager, her murder of the green-haired women was because she was insane with jealousy, and she sincerely loves her twin brother [[spoiler:who lets himself be executed in her place when she is deposed]].
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* In the "[[Music/EvilliousChronicles Story of Evil]]" by Music/{{mothy}}, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Rilianne]] is initially depicted as this: she revels in luxury while her subjects are starving, and when the man she loves falls for a green-haired girl, she [[MurderTheHypotenuse orders the death of all girls with green hair]]. Later songs and [[LightNovel/ClotureOfYellow [[Literature/ClotureOfYellow the novel]] make her a bit more morally nuanced: her selfish behaviour is largely caused by her acceding to the throne as an immature teenager, her murder of the green-haired women was because she was insane with jealousy, and she sincerely loves her twin brother [[spoiler:who lets himself be executed in her place when she is deposed]].
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* Cross Wrestling/VickieGuerrero and you can kiss both your dignity and your balls goodbye. -->'''''Excuse me!!!'''''
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[[TropeNamers Named]] for what is probably history's best-known whack-job, [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire Roman]] [[TheEmperor emperor]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus,]] better known as UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} (''Little Boots'', his childhood nickname); nickname, because he was the army's mascot and wore tiny version of a legionnaire's boots; it was probably adorable); remembered for talking to statues, locking granaries, [[RageAgainstTheHeavens declaring war on the god Neptune]] (and "winning", then commanding his soldiers to collect seashells as war-prizes), [[CaligulasHorse making his horse a consul]] (admittedly, this one may have simply been a gesture of spite towards the senate), and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick boning his sisters]]. (Though the veracity of some of these claims is in question, the reputation persists. [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} See here]] for all the details.)
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* "The Black Widow" by Music/AliceCooper describes a Caligula-esque figure, right down to having a cult of personality and implied sexual deviancy.
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** In ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', Malcolm describes himself as this to Macduff. Specifically, he claims that his appetites for wealth and women are insatiable, and he would dedicate all the blood and treasure of Scotland to satisfying his carnal, venal, and pointless urges. This is all a ruse; he is making these claims because he suspects Macduff is an agent of Macbeth, in which case Macduff would continue in his stated goal of bringing Malcolm back to Scotland to take the throne. As Macduff is a true loyal Scot, he is instead demoralized by Malcolm's revelations, at which point Malcolm reveals the truth and they form an alliance. Macbeth himself, on the other hand, plays this much more straight. Visions, paranoia, and murder are all par for the course for him.
** ''Theatre/RichardIII''. Starts out as a gleeful villain and ends completely insane.
** In ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', Malcolm describes himself as this to Macduff. Specifically, he claims that his appetites for wealth and women are insatiable, and he would dedicate all the blood and treasure of Scotland to satisfying his carnal, venal, and pointless urges. This is all a ruse; he is making these claims because he suspects Macduff is an agent of Macbeth, in which case Macduff would continue in his stated goal of bringing Malcolm back to Scotland to take the throne. As Macduff is a true loyal Scot, he is instead demoralized by Malcolm's revelations, at which point Malcolm reveals the truth and they form an alliance. Macbeth himself, on the other hand, plays this much more straight. Visions, paranoia, and murder are all par for the course for him.
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