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14[[caption-width-right:350:[[ToServeMan They would love to have you for the feast]].]]
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16->''"Don't you see? The greedy will devour the charitable, the merciless will ravage the peaceful, and the fornicators will rape the chaste. We will make the world as perfect as us."''
17-->-- '''SCP-3288-6971''', ''Website/SCPFoundation''
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19A lot of tropes have origins way back when media was still forming; this is one of them.
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21It might have been an early way to appeal to the masses, or just due to the way [[BlueBlood aristocrats]] tended to look down on the general public. But it was then and is now ''really'' popular to cast [[BlueBlood aristocrats]] as villainous, malevolent, or evil.[[note]]Ironically, the word "villain" comes from the Medieval Latin word for villager or peasant, and was used derisively by the aristocrats of feudal Europe.[[/note]]
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23A variety of MeaningfulTitles exist -- people with feudal titles are very commonly evil. Popular titles are '''Count''' and '''Baron''' -- two titles which are rarely seen on a good guy. (Oddly enough, a '''Countess''' has a better-than-even chance of being a decent woman.) And though it doesn't show up a great deal, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast you should break out in a cold sweat]] when you meet a '''Viscount'''. Interestingly, both counts and barons are fairly common titles among Continental Europeans, but rare among the English (where the rough equivalent of a count would be the earl who is usually depicted as a stodgy but typically benevolent patriarch), which may suggest a regional bias in which aristocrats are cast as villains.
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25'''Barons''' fare the worst in popular fiction. Maybe it's something to do with the old nickname "Sugar Baron", who makes his wealth off the labour of the poorest of the poor, and from slaves. (In the U.S. this became the "Robber Baron", the derogatory term for wealthy industrialists that made their money off the backs of immigrant labor.)
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27One major exception: '''Dukes''' ''are usually relatively nice.'' This may be because the title was awarded to those who rose to aristocracy as war leaders. Thus, the Duke has a "grass roots" feel to it, and a badass quality; as well, much like TheGoodCaptain, military titles are generally for good guys, with the possible exceptions of '''[[InsaneAdmiral Admiral]]''' and '''Major'''. Also, before the 18th and 19th centuries, Dukes were generally too high up the ladder of aristocracy to really have much contact with common people at all. Because of this, Dukes were not the nobles that were directly oppressing the common people, and so didn't receive quite the same stigma, especially since in some local cases, a Duke actually ran interference against a lower-ranking nobleman on behalf of the masses. '''Grand Dukes''', however, have a 50/50 chance of being either good or evil, especially if the Hero of a story is a Royal.
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29For more discussion on how characters of different titles are often portrayed in media, see the [[Analysis/AristocratsAreEvil Analysis page]].
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31Aristocrats are often willing to be polite and even with people of their own rank. MoralMyopia, however, often limits it to fellow aristocrats. Commoners are just out of luck -- [[NiceToTheWaiter especially servants]]. If they're not actively in charge, expect them to be part of the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness.
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33Very prone to ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney, ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem, and ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections. Sometimes even prone to ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules. Related tropes include TheBaroness, TheCaligula, DecadentCourt, EatTheRich, KillThePoor, HatesRichPeople, SlobsVersusSnobs, and TheVonTropeFamily. For the modern version of this trope, see CorruptCorporateExecutive, and to a lesser extent, NouveauRiche.
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35Not to be confused with TheAristocrats, a "stock joke" based on this premise.
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38!!Example Subpages
39[[index]]
40* AristocratsAreEvil/{{Literature}}
41* AristocratsAreEvil/VideoGames
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44!!Other Examples
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47[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
48* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': Counts, barons, queens, kings, lords, emperors, what have you. No matter the title, they all tend to have ill-intent for their fellow man (or are at least big {{jerk|Ass}}s). If that's not enough, just wait until they turn into [[EldritchAbomination Apostles]]... there are a couple exceptions in the manga: not counting Serpico (who was not really born a noble) or Farnese (whose HeelFaceTurn coincided with her abandoning her status), Roderick is pretty nice, Princess Charlotte is a PrincessClassic, while Laban and Owen actually give a crap about protecting commoners.
49* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
50** Baron Kelvin, a madman who forced those he adopted off the streets (and thus were indebted to him) into kidnapping children. Kelvin then proceeded to torture said kidnapped children and [[spoiler:have their bones made into prosthetics]] once they inevitably died in the dangerous stunts he forced them to perform. He's obsessed with beauty to the point of perversity and has an extremely disturbing fixation on 13-year-old Ciel Phantomhive, a fixation that began when Ciel was ''eight''.
51** There's also Baroness [[spoiler:Angelina Burnett, née Dalles, AKA Madam Red, Ciel's maternal aunt. She and another woman, grim reaper Grell Sutcliff (who was posing as her servant at the time), were their universe's version of Jack the Ripper, and together they killed at least five people]].
52** More recently in the manga is Baron Chris Heathfield. He regularly sleeps with his maids, which is inherently wrong given his position of authority over them, and they consistently disappear afterwards. [[spoiler:Turns out, they're all drugged and thrown into the basement of his mansion to have their blood collected indefinitely without their consent.]]
53** The entire Earldom of Phantomhive seems to be evil, including protagonist Ciel Phantomhive and his late father Vincent, although Vincent is definitely the worse of the two. The family head is tasked with maintaining the division between polite society and the criminal underground by any means necessary. They must also cover up any crime committed by the royal family (which includes annihilating anything and anyone that could link the royals to said crimes) and do pretty much anything else asked of them by the monarch and it's ''always'' something shady. Ciel for one has [[spoiler:committed mass murder by proxy]] at least twice and someone dies either to him or directly because of him every other week.
54** The second season of the non-canon anime introduces house Trancy. The current earl, Alois Trancy, isn't the most morally upstanding character (the time he gouged his maid Hannah's eye out for no reason at all comes to mind) but he's not the worst in the series on that front. His predecessor, however, sexually abused an untold number of young boys, Alois included.
55* In ''Manga/BlackClover'', there is a 95% chance all nobles -- including the slob of a king -- are massive douchebags who absolutely abhor citizens of lower ranks and treat them like dirt. If a child happened to be conceived through a mistress not part of nobility, chances are even the half-noble child will be ostracized by the nobles and lead a pathetic life of abuse and mistreatment. God help them if the blue-blooded child happens to be inept at magic, which is another ticket to be looked down upon by the rest of the family. And no matter how many heroic deeds a peasant Magic Knight (like Asta or Yuno) has done, [[DudeWhereIsMyRespect the nobles will STILL treat such people like dirt.]]
56* ''Manga/CandyCandy'': Twins Eliza and Neal Leagan play it straight, being [[SpoiledBrat spoiled brats]] who constantly try to ruin Candy's life ForTheEvulz and Eliza in particular is a textbook example of RichBitch. Their mother and Madame Elroy are downplayed examples, both being stuck-up and a bit elitist and the latter having spoiled her children excessively.
57%%* ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'': The dirty Count Cagliostro.
58* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' provides two examples:
59** The Britannian Empire is ruled and managed by the corrupt royalty and aristocracy. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName They are convinced of their own superiority]] [[TheSocialDarwinist and use it as an excuse to institutionalize genocide]]. At higher levels, aristocrats will gleefully slaughter non-Britannians and earn a medal from the ultra-racist regime, and will even slaughter their own low-class citizens for private interests. Any countries they conquer [[YouAreNumberSix are stripped of their culture]], and native residents are forced to live in ghettos.
60** The High Eunuchs of the Chinese Federation are corrupt aristocrats who maintain a [[PuppetKing divine figurehead empress so they can rule in her name]]. They have no empathy for their people, seeing them as ants and toilet paper, and are willing to sacrifice all of China and its territories just for their personal gain.
61%% * ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Millennium Earl. %% Zero Context
62* ''Anime/DragonballZ'' has Lord Frieza, an evil space tyrant/monopolist who becomes Son Goku's first real arch-enemy in the series. ''Anime/DragonballSuper'' brings us the God of Destruction, Lord Beerus.
63* ''Anime/{{Endride}}'': There are a lot of evil aristocrats of different flavours. It's generally agreed that Delzaine was a fairly bad king (and an [[TheUsurper usurper]] to boot) as far as the common folk were impacted, but he held the kingdom together, and so the [[LaResistance Ignauts]] wanted to reason with him first rather than violently depose him. When he dies suddenly, society begins to collapse and the wicked petty lords start raiding villages and hoarding wealth and resources. The trope is averted, however, with Demetrio, the idealistic RebelLeader who is noble-born, and some of the lords that the Ignauts reportedly managed to recruit to their cause.
64* ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'': Count Garmont. He is a wealthy, influential aristocrat who abuses his authority to deem Jeudi a criminal for refusing to be with him, and is also a NaziNobleman.
65* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', the Emperor of Kutou is a bloodthirsty glory hound, rules with an iron fist, does nothing to help the poorer citizens of Kutou, and repeatedly rapes [[PaedoHunt an 11-year-old boy]] [[spoiler: who grows up to be the BigBad Nakago]].
66%%* ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'': The Count of Monte Cristo.
67* ''Manga/{{Gilgamesh}}'': Countess Kageyama Hiroko of Werdenberg is supposed to be a good guy, but comes off as an EvilMatriarch.
68* ''Anime/GreatMazinger'':
69** The Emperor of Darkness of and Great King Vega from ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer''. The latter conquered several planets after exterminating their whole native population.
70** Marquis Janus. A TwoFaced witch, conniving, manipulative, and treacherous. In one of the manga versions, she tore a girl in half to get back at TheHero Tetsuya for an earlier humiliation.
71* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
72** Most of the second Universal Century is spent with Evil Aristocrats as the enemy. ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'' reveals that the Ronah family was sponsored heavily by the Jupiter Empire, who had similar ideals and wanted to soften up the Federation in preparation for their own attack on the Earth Sphere. Even after they are defeated, some members of the Jovian aristocracy head to Earth and start up the Zanscare Empire in ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'' as yet another attempt to establish aristocratic rule (this time blended with Newtype supremacy).
73** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91'' features an uprising by the aristocratic Ronah family, who attempt to establish an empire in space called "Cosmo Babylonia" because they believe firmly that humanity should be ruled by the upper class. The family actually both plays the trope straight and averts it: "Iron Mask" Carozzo believes that humanity needs to be purged from Earth altogether. His father-in-law Meitzer Ronah is the one ordering the invasion but is unaware of this plan, and at the very least seems to be a good family man who [[WellIntentionedExtremist genuinely has the best intentions]]. Also, Carozzo's wife and daughter both believe in equality among human beings and are major factors in the eventual downfall of Cosmo Babylonia.
74** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Zabi family]], a group of upper class Spacenoids who were able to maneuver their way into power in Side 3 and transform it into a militaristic, monarchist dictatorship bent on invading and committing genocide on Earth. The worst among them are [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Gihren]] and [[TheBaroness Kycilia]], both of whom are responsible for Zeon's worst war crimes.
75** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'' gives us Glemy Toto, son of the aristocratic Toto Family. Originally a subordinate to [[IronLady Haman Karn]], he eventually betrays her and begins secretly amassing his army to take over AXIS-Zeon. In addition, his goals and ideals are very similar to Gihren Zabi, who may or may not be his father.
76** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': [[ArmiesAreEvil Gjallarhorn]] is ruled by the Seven Stars, a council comprised of the descendants of seven of the founders of the organization, who regularly meddle in the politics of the Earth Sphere ([[NeutralInNameOnly despite Gjallarhorn supposedly being neutral]]), promote elitism towards Martian citizens and those born in the colonies, and engage in power plays that often come at the expense of ordinary civilians.
77* ''Literature/TheHiddenDungeonOnlyICanEnter'': With the exception of the main characters and their immediate families, the aristocrats in this series (ranked from Dukes at the top, with Barons at the bottom) are all entitled twits who preen around based entirely on the merits of previous members of their bloodlines, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney or use money to skate past any test they can]]. Noir even lost his job as a librarian at the beginning to some unnamed higher-tier noble, who bribed the interviewer just to deny him the position. Later, though, this starts to fade as Noir racks up heroic accomplishments, and the nobles realize it's a good idea to be on good terms with a powerful and promising adventurer, regardless of social status.
78* ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Madeleine Waverly is an aristocrat and an unlikable bitch, as her two children. She frequently abuses Lynn, wanting her out of the picture when she marries her father George, and does nothing when Thomas and Mary regularly harm small children and animals. [[spoiler: In the second season, Mary repeatedly abuses her power as Victor Reynold's granddaughter to bar the Russell family from gaining funds and money they rightfully have a claim to, and when she's found out, Victor is so enraged he scolds her publicly.]]
79* ''Anime/MazingerZ'':
80%% ** Baron Ashura -- half man, half woman, all evil.%%And all ZCE
81** Archduke Gorgon is an evil half-man, half-tiger HumanoidAbomination and vanguard for a race of gigantic [[TheLegionsOfHell demonic invaders]].
82** Count Brocken is an evil, undead, headless, Nazi {{Cyborg}}. There's also Viscount Pygman, an evil, treacherous {{Cyborg}} shaman from DarkestAfrica.
83* ''Anime/MyOtome'': Grand Duke Nagi Dai Artài is the BigBad who, like many evil Dukes, [[TheUsurper seeks to take the throne of Windbloom for himself]] and uses the terrorist group Schwarz to help him do so. He is also [[EnfanteTerrible a little boy]] with [[WhiteHairBlackHeart white/cyan hair]]. In the [[Manga/MyOtome manga]], he plays the same role but, unlike his FauxAffablyEvil anime version, is more openly a {{Jerkass}} about it, [[spoiler:and [[AdaptationalHeroism this one]] is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who sacrifices himself to save the heroes]].
84* ''Manga/MiyukiChanInWonderland'': The Queen, a {{Yandere}} {{Dominatrix}} with a fearsome reputation, who chases [[PinballProtagonist Miyuki]] with a whip trying to get her to "submit."
85* In ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'', pretty much every member of the nobility except for Albert is an evil dick who sees the lower-class citizens as subhuman trash whom they can mistreat and even ''murder'' at whim. In fact, the presence of this trope serves the primary motivation of the {{Villain Protagonist}}s, who becomes a SerialKiller to get rid of the evil nobles and abolish the class system.
86* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Aristocrats are mostly villains:
87** The World Nobles, also known as the Celestial Dragons (''Tenryuubito'' in Japanese), are the descendants of the Kings and Queens of twenty [[spoiler:(actually nineteen)]] different kingdoms who later founded the [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower World Government]]. To try and give you an idea of how messed up they are... imagine what the typical aristocrat would be like after hailing from 800 years of being revered as a living deity and explicitly told that no rules apply to them -- their in-universe title is '''Saint''', which, in RealLife, is considered higher than any normal noble title. To say they are corrupt to the core is, frankly, an {{understatement}}: the World Nobles are allowed to kill and maim people on a whim, live in obscene luxury supported by taxes extorted from the nations allied to the World Government, and [[AGodAmI totally believe their own hype of being living gods]]. Despite the fact that slavery is illegal everywhere else in the One Piece world, they openly keep slaves, thinking nothing of abusing them to death for convenience or even amusement, and can abduct people off of the street on a whim to a life of slavery. And nobody ''dares'' lift a finger in retaliation because [[DisproportionateRetribution not only can they kill on a whim]], but anyone who strikes a World Noble is immediately the target of a [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership Navy Admiral]], one of the most powerful fighters in the World Government's pocket, who is duty-bound to eliminate the assailant with extreme prejudice. [[spoiler:Unless the assailant is another World Noble, as Saint Charlos learned the hard way.]]
88** The leaders of the World Government are the Five Elders, the highest-ranking Celestial Dragons, who are willing to go full-on [[FinalSolution scorched earth on entire islands]], and put a massive bounty on an 8-year-old child's head for the mere "crime" of being able to read a certain language, solely to protect some AncientConspiracy concerning the World Government's founding during the [[SuppressedHistory Void Century]].
89** The nobility of Goa Kingdom routinely sent out all their trash out of the city and let it pile up to the point that it became a small town unto itself, the Grey Terminal, a zone where even the ''people who lived there'' were seen as trash. When an inspection team with Celestial Dragons was scheduled to arrive, the nobles arranged to have the trash heap [[MoralEventHorizon burned to the ground]], people and all, in order to appeal to the Dragons. On top of this, they seemed incapable of understanding why a protagonist, who was a WhiteSheep among the nobles, who discovered this was [[EveryoneHasStandards horrified]].
90** [[AdiposeRex Wapol]] had all doctors who did not work for him murdered so he could charge ridiculous sums of money for medical treatment, and beat up small children (which would have possibly sparked an international incident) simply because they were in his way.
91** Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, used to be a World Noble because his father gave up the title to live as a commoner. But due to the atrocious acts of the World Nobles, many of the lower class, most of whom were previous victims, wasted no time in tracking them down to dole out retribution to them even though the Donquixote family was one of the more ''benevolent'' nobles, save for Doflamingo himself who was always a bad seed due to the toxic environment he was influenced by. Doflamingo tried to get his title back after killing his father but the other nobles considered his family traitors and refused him. He had to make due as a pirate, practically bribe his way into becoming a Warlord and taking over Dressrosa which his family originally ruled before moving to the "holy land" of Mariejois with the other World Nobles. While he puts on an act of being a benevolent king to the public (which started with him framing the former king to make him look like a bad guy), behind the scenes, Doflamingo uses his kingdom as a front for faux Devil Fruit operation for one of the Four Emperors.
92** The Vinsmoke family of Germa Kingdom, headed by [[EmperorScientist Vinsmoke Judge]]. Apart from doing some decidedly unethical genetic experiments, Judge firmly believes his family's status makes them superior to other people (and makes sure his children share this belief), being horrified when he learns one of his sons [[spoiler:(Sanji)]] stooped so low as to ''cook for other people''.
93* ''Anime/TheSecretGarden'': Archibald Craven was a BadBoss to his employees and after the death of Lilias, took his anger out on Camila, her lady-in-waiting, by kicking her out. His abuse traumatized Max Hawkins and for years, he has been planning his {{Revenge}}. He's also neglectful to his son Colin.
94* ''Literature/TrashSkillGacha'' has several key examples:
95** The entire Bahurst family, save protagonist Crest Bahurst, are all cartoonishly evil, who view themselves as better than the protagonist because they tell themselves he's a "devil's child" who murdered his mother by daring to be born when she died in childbirth, and not only loved to torment him growing up, but in the present Crest's four older brothers only see each other as political rivals to eliminate, and Crest's first and third oldest brothers are shameless skirt chasers, one of whom pursues Crest's own fiancé, from another duke house, the other pursues the daughter of the third duke house, and both of them have absolutely ''zero'' respect for the king, asking the girls to ditch an official summons so they can all play around.
96** The fiancé in question, Ellis Rifeld, is an ObliviouslyEvil {{Yandere}} {{Sadist}} who made Crest's academic life hell through slander, social isolation, and domestic abuse, obsessed with having him all to herself by any means possible, and is also quite vain, almost to the point of narcissism, seeing herself as "perfect" and can't understand why he'd turn her away when she demands he allow himself to be treated ''as her slave'' to escape being banished to near certain death for a crime he didn't commit, just because his father's an asshole, and is totally flummoxed when he slaps away the foot she was shoving in his face to lick and told her to go screw herself in a rage.
97** The patriarchs of both the Rifeld house and the Mycelian house, the two other dukes, respond like sharks that smell blood in the water when the prophecy is read and Duke Bahurst has to explain his screw-up and demand that Crest be given the duke title for the Bahurst house and offer to sell their respective daughters, knowing that the power of two duchies together is strong enough to usurp the crown, if need be.
98* ''Manga/VampireKnight'': Played straight with Ichijou's grandfather, averted with the rest of the main aristocrats cast (Aidou, Ichijou, Kain, etc).
99* ''Anime/VoltesV'':
100** The Horned Boazanians form a nobility, while the Hornless live as slaves.
101** Emperor Zambojil is a maniacal PlanetBaron who spearheads [[AlienInvasion Alien Invasions]] left and right for [[TheEmpire Boazania]]'s sake. Zambojil also supports Boazania's FantasticCasteSystem, that decrees those with them to live as nobles and those without them to live as slaves (it helps that this very caste system helped him usurp the throne from the true heir). As a noble, he looks down on slaves and wants to invade planets so that the number of Boazan slaves can increase tenfold.
102** Heinel, Zuhl, Katherine and Jangal are Horned Boazanians that look down on their Hornless counterparts and view humans as no different than flies. In their mission to colonize Earth, they kill [[spoiler: a good chunk of the Earthern population, as well as key mentor figures to the Voltes team]].
103** Belgan, Zaki and Gurul share this sentiment but also [[spoiler: want to kill off Heinel because he committed the crime of...being born the legitimate heir of the throne]].
104* In ''Anime/WolfsRain'', Lord Darcia has some sympathetic traits to begin with, but after [[spoiler:his comatose lover Hamona is killed]] he turns increasingly evil. His adversary Lady Jagara is pretty evil to begin with, though.
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109%%* [[http://www.angelfire.com/ar/hellUSA/Baronvonevilstein.html Baron Von Evilstein]] isn't such a nice guy.
110* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Lord Greldinard, the Baron of Moork, serves as TheDragon for [[BigBad Haazheel Thorn]] and initially leads the armies of the [[ReligionOfEvil Black Moon]].
111* In ''ComicBook/{{Chlorophylle}}'', Duke Bihoreau de Bellerente wants to kill his king to take his place.
112* Franchise/TheDCU:
113** Count Vertigo, a supervillain.
114** There are several supervillains who style themselves as barons, including Baron Bedlam, Baron Blitzkrieg, Baron Tyrano (an EvilCripple who wishes [[BrainTransplant transplant his brain]] into the body of ComicBook/GreenLantern).
115** [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] originally wore suits meant to evoke this, wearing stylish outfits. However, while he'd occasionally return to this type of outfit, ComicBook/PostCrisis would see him switch to a BadassInANiceSuit-type of outfits.
116%%** ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Count Drako, a villain
117* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': The BigBad in the "Trail of the Golden Guns" is Count Alexander Salkovich who, despite being a nobleman is now partnered with the [[DirtyCommies Bolshevik government]] who provide him with troops in exchange for his keeping the Ukrainian Cossacks suppressed. His theft of the eponymous golden guns from an American museum brings Indiana Jones into his orbit.
118* ''ComicBook/LadyMechanika'': Lord Blackpool. Given that he's a CorruptCorporateExecutive, it seems likely his title is a life peerage awarded for services to industry.
119* ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires': Count Kasino. [[SmugSnake Arrogant]], said to rule his own territory as a ruthless dictator, and evil enough to [[AmbitionIsEvil attempt murder on his cousins in order to become]] [[TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone king]].
120* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
121** Count Nefaria is a supervillain and crime lord.
122** Baron Blood is a vampire Nazi supervillain.
123** Baron Karza, nemesis of the ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}} (and [[ComicBook/MicronautsIDW their IDW incarnation]] as well as being from the [[Toys/{{Micronauts}} toyline of the same name]]. Given that the title baron is at the low end of the hierarchy, one has to wonder why Karza didn't promote himself when he gained control of the Microverse. It should be noted that in the toyline, Karza was but one of several characters (along with Force Commander) below an underboss called Red Falcon and an Emperor called Magus.\
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125His IDW counterpart, however, originally started out as a mercenary for hire, and got hired by the Emperor of Microspace (the equivalent to the aforementioned Magus) to defend him from a revolt; this put him on the path to becoming Minister of Defense. Eventually, after he killed Red Falcon (the Emperor's son) and put the Emperor himself into cryostasis, at which point, the mysterious Entropy Storm was beginning to destroy Microspace; he, at this point a WellIntentionedExtremist, disagreed with his Ministry of Science counterpart Baron Daegon (equivalent to Force Commander) on how to deal with the Entropy Storm, and both then started leading factions in a civil war; when he ventured into the Entropy Storm himself, he [[SanitySlippage lost his mind]] and [[YearInsideHourOutside spent years within the storm]], realizing that Microspace was in fact inside the body of [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Micronus Prime]], and began getting in contact with villains outside Microspace, specifically [[ComicBook/{{MASK}} Miles Mayhem]] and [[ComicBook/RomIDW the Dire Wraiths]] to utilize [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Ore-13]], which he thought could help stop the Entropy Storm. Ultimately, things came to a head during the events of ''[[ComicBook/Revolution2016 Revolution]]'', where he absorbed the power of Ore-13 enhanced Wraiths via his "Enerchange" ability, [[OneWingedAngel turning himself into a giant fusion monster]], and it took the efforts of multiple characters to bring him down; ejected back into Microspace, he began plotting to conquer Earth and save Microspace again, leading into the ''Wrath of Karza'' miniseries, where his efforts again failed and saw him stranded in Illinois.
126** Baron von Strucker, a Nazi supervillain and the leader of the global terrorist group ComicBook/{{Hydra}}.
127** Baron Zemo, a LegacyCharacter supervillain.
128** ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': Baron Mordo, an occasional supervillain and full-time EvilSorcerer.
129%% ** Doctor Doom, as the ruler of Latveria, is technically a count.
130%% ** Lord Parnival Plunder, aka the Plunderer. However, his brother Kevin is also a Lord and he's a good guy, specifically the NatureHero Ka-Zar.
131%% * ''ComicBook/{{Megalex}}'': The noble class and the royal family.
132%% * Mark Millar's the Marquis of Death was most definitely a bad guy, though he seemed to have given the title to himself and wasn't a proper aristocrat.
133* ''ComicBook/{{Raptors}}'': The vampires hail from Spanish nobility and all of them, both the [[EvilVersusEvil Molinas and Y Cera's minions]], are depraved monsters.
134* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Sir Edmund Dorrance, ComicBook/{{Bane}}'s father and the first contender for BigBad of the series, is a disenfranchised British noble whose criminal actions have lost him any favor he once had due to his status.
135* ''ComicStrip/SlylockFox'': Count Weirdly is some kind of DastardlyWhiplash MadScientist. However, in [[http://reynardnoir.wordpress.com/ Reynard Noir]] he's presented as a complete loony.
136* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Satal and Alema Keto in ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'' are two bored nobles from the Empress Teta system that decide to dabble in Dark Side sorcery and end up forming the [[BigBadDuumvirate Krath]], terrorizing their homeworld and even throwing their lot with [[EvilOverlord Exar Kun]] to ignite a war with the Jedi Order. Among their most horrific crimes was freezing people in carbonite for their sick pleasure, including their own family.
137* ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'': Baron Orman Tagge, who's a CorruptCorporateExecutive to boot. Granted, he isn't ''that'' evil, but he is scheming, haughty, and Empire-aligned. Compare and contrast his brothers, the twisted Doctor Silas Tagge and the conflicted but honorable General Ulric Tagge. The latter inherits the baronship after Orman's presumed death.
138* ''ComicBook/{{Swordquest}}'': King Tyrannus. One of his first acts as king was to order the deaths of two newborn infants simply because his EvilSorcerer told him of a prophecy that they would eventually lead to his death.
139* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': The Marquis di Gorgonzola (aka Rastapopoulos) is arguably the series' BigBad. Whether or not he is a real Marquis is less clear.
140* ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'': The British spy Lord Shilling is the arch-enemy of the titular Revolutionary War hero.
141* ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'': Victor Van Damme. He acts like an aristocrat, certainly, and has ancestry going back to Vlad the Impaler, which he can recite from memory, which makes him technically one by breeding. He's also an incredibly self-centered bastard who is determined to conquer the world out of his own egotism.
142* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': The Duke of Deception is a cruel Martian nobleman who traditionally acted as Ares' {{Starscream}}.
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146%%* ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': Count Orlando Smythe from the Balloonatic arc.
147%%* ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates'': Baron de Plexus.
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151* In ''Fanfic/TheAssassinationOfTwilightSparkle'', Prince Blueblood arranges for the titular event, believing that he's more deserving of becoming an alicorn since he has [[DivineParentage Celestia's blood]]. Other nobles join in because Twilight's vision of Equestria included things like [[FantasticRacism no xenophobia]].
152* In ''Fanfic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria'', up until the post-Warming generation, the unicorn nobility are all so petty and corrupt that all they care about is their own power, at the expense of their commoners and the [[FantasticRacism other tribes]]. Is it any wonder that [[MagnificentBastard Princess Platinum]] dedicated her life [[spoiler: ([[ThanatosGambit and death]])]] to systematically removing their power?
153* ''Fanfic/{{Deadshots}}''
154** Mai's parents and ([[TheSociopath especially]]) Ozai are power-hungry to the point of seeing their children as either tools or obstacles to gaining power.
155** This is downplayed by other political factions of the Fire Nation, [[EveryoneHasStandards who find Ozai's tactics and disregard for his own family repulsive]]. These factions become even more opposed to Ozai [[EntertaininglyWrong when they suspect he had Zuko assassinated]].
156* ''Fanfic/JerichoMLP'': Jericho discusses this trope on his way to meet the Baron of Sleepy Oaks: "So, a baron, eh? Ten Equestrian Bits says that he's evil -- all barons are. It’s the rule." This is then oddly subverted by the Baron of Sleepy Oaks himself, who appears to just be another victim of the GovernmentConspiracy. Make no mistake, he's a cowardly, elitist jerk, but he is at least ''trying'' to do the best for his "peasants".
157* ''Fanfic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower'': Maria is a reincarnate from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', and therefore pretty much lives her life under the assumption that every noble she meets is a rapist, a murderer, and an idiot. While going to a school almost entirely populated by nobles, mind. Luckily for her, she's in the ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' world, and while she does meet a handful of terrible nobles, they are by no means the majority. In fact, she gets ''knighted'' for bringing down a noble who was performing HumanSacrifice using captured peasants. In Maria's original world, killing peasants for any reason would have been considered perfectly ordinary, and Maria remains confused as to why she was knighted over it.
158* ''Fanfic/MyMirrorSwordAndShield'': With the exceptions of Euphemia, Nunnally, Gino, and Anya, there's nothing nice to say about the Britannian aristocracy. In the case of Lelouch's first Royal Guard, made of aristocratic second sons, they are actively incompetent. In the case of the Knights of Round and the conspirators who had Marianne assassinated, are actively malicious. Despite [[ManipulativeBastard Emperor Lelouch's selfish reasons]] for it, everyone agrees that dissolving the aristocracy helped in the long run.
159* ''Fanfic/PointsOfFamiliarity'': [[Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero Count Mott]]. This also carries over to his appearances in ''Fanfic/SurrogateOfZero'', and ''Fanfic/{{Unfamiliar}}''. In the former two, he manipulates Siesta into becoming one of his mistresses, and forces himself on her in ''Points''. In ''Surrogate'', Guiche all but says outright that Mott has a taste for rape, and throws orgies for other nobles as a way of securing influence.
160* ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': Luna's refusal to be a fully assertive ruler (for fear of becoming a tyrant) has allowed the Night Court to become [[DecadentCourt hopelessly corrupt]]. Even the nicest members scheme for position and power, and can be petty and cruel when crossed -- Night Light actually delays relief funds to Ponyville and tries to block Trixie's ascension through the Court's ranks in order to punish her for his daughter becoming a fugitive (which really was more Twilight's own fault than Trixie's).
161* ''Fanfic/RitesOfAscension'' shows several nobles contributing to the breakdown of Equestria by both overtaxing their own citizens and taking more power from Celestia, who in turn has been trying a long game to work against this, as part of being TheChessmaster.
162* ''Fanfic/SilverBlood'' has the Baron Zolton, who is actually [[spoiler: Giovanni.]] His mother, who earned the title in the first place, has been implied to have been ''even worse.''
163* ''Fanfic/TheTaintedGrimoire'': Duke Reighlard is described as merciless and he is trying to gain control of St. Galleria and the vast natural resources at their disposal so he can achieve dominance.
164* ''Fanfic/WarOfRemnantARWBYAnthology'': Carter Pillar is described as an aristocrat, as he is very wealthy and owns multiple properties around Patch. This is because his family founded Patch. He's also a vicious racist and Faunus trafficker who has Faunus butchered out of petty hatred.
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168%%* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'': Lord Maze.
169* ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'': Duchess Rowena is a master manipulator bent on seizing the throne from her cousin, the good king Randolph, by poisoning him and psychologically breaking his twelve spirited daughters.
170%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': Lady Tremaine.
171%%* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCatTheMovie'': The Duke of Zill.
172* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'':
173** The BigBad, [[spoiler:[[TheEvilPrince Prince Hans of the Southern Isles]]]], turns out to be a [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] and [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] JerkAss who was planning to seize control of Arendelle by [[FalseSoulmate faking his romance with Anna]] so she could unwittingly hand over the kingdom to him on a silver platter after "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident staging a little accident]]" for Elsa. Knowing what an idiotic fool Anna is, he chooses to use her as an UnwittingPawn to his scheme, seeing that Elsa was a bit too reclusive to approach.]]
174** Downplayed; the Duke of Weasel Town ('''[[RunningGag WESELTON!]]''') is very greedy, planning to exploit the riches of Arendelle, and willing to use assassination as a means to an end. However, his concerns are genuine (after all, he is trapped by an endless winter and they are at risk of freezing to death), and when he sees Prince Hans despairing [[spoiler:over the "loss of Anna" (though he's really faking it)]], he shows genuine sympathy.
175%%* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': Lord Shen.
176* In ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'', there is the Grand Duke of Owls, who wants to stop Chanticleer the rooster from crowing to create TheNightThatNeverEnds.
177* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': Lord Farquaad is as bad as any Baron and led by his obsession for order and perfection which leads him into persecuting fairy-tale creatures to the point of ethnic-cleansing whom he sees as a stain in his ideal, little world.
178* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'': King Magnifico is the King of Rosas who manipulates his subjects to depend on him for wishes. This also means that they never get granted, or never get returned to them, because he decides what to do with them as the one who controls those wishes. Unfortunately, he decides to keep them all to himself instead, much to Asha's concern when she discovers this.
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182* ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'': The clueless duo winds up in medieval times, and tries to save two [[GratuitousPrincess Royal English Babes]] from their tyrannical father, who wants them to marry "Royal Ugly Dudes". Unfortunately, they barely make it out alive after meeting him, but [[TheMentor Rufus]] manages to get the princesses out later.
183* The BigBad of ''Film/TheBlackRoom'' is Gregor de Berghman, a psychopathic Baron who treats everybody with extreme cruelty, and is a SerialKiller who has been murdering the young women of his barony.
184%%* ''Film/BlackSunday'': Princess Asa.
185* ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'': In a subversion, the Marquis is just about the only aristocrat who isn't evil, and in fact borders on the heroic. [[spoiler: It doesn't save him from the guillotine, though.]]
186* In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'', the working-class Scottish villagers get pitted against the snobbish, aristocratic English nobles led by King Edward.
187%%* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'': Baron and Baroness Bomburst
188%%* ''Film/CrimsonPeak'': The Sharpes are baronets, but they have [[ImpoverishedPatrician fallen on hard times]].%%And?
189* ''Film/CruzDiablo'': Diego de la Barrera [[spoiler:and the Marquess of Florida]] murdered the Count of Luna to take his land and wealth. {{Subverted|Trope}} by the actual Count of Luna [[spoiler:as his alterego, Cruz Diablo, is TheHero]].
190* In ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'': The AlwaysChaoticEvil Skeksis are the self-proclaimed royalty of the planet Thra, and really like [[TheHedonist luxury,]] and [[ManOfWealthAndTaste fancy clothes.]]
191%% * ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'': The self-proclaimed Duke of New York. He isn't a real aristocrat but behaves as if he is.
192* ''Film/EverAfter'': Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent, a WickedStepmother
193* in ''Film/FlaviaTheHeretic'', the first act of the new duke when he arrives from France is to rape one of the farm girls in the pigsty.
194* In ''Film/GentlemenExplorers'', the wicked Prussian agent in charge of the mission to secure the Infinity Pistol is known only as the Count.
195* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'': Count De Monet quite literally walks all over poor people and slaps servants around if they address him as the Count De Money. More small-minded and petty than outright evil, but also a typical aristocrat in pre-Revolutionary France, so probably more in the bad column.
196* The BigBad of ''Film/InventionForDestruction'' is Count Artigas; a megalomaniac who plans to use Prof. Roch's super-explosive to [[TheConqueror conquer the world]].
197* ''Film/TheInvitation2022'': Walter Deville is a very wealthy aristocrat who's revealed along with the aristrocrats serving him as a vampire who regularly eats the help.
198* ''Franchise/JamesBond'':
199** The BigBad of ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', [[TheEvilPrince Kamal Khan]] is an exiled Afghan prince living in India but is in cahoots with [[RenegadeRussian General Orlov]], who wants to [[OmnicidalManiac trigger a nuclear war]] in Western Europe. To finance their EvilPlan, the duo hatch a scheme to generate funds by stealing jewelry from the Kremlin's state armoury and selling them on the black market, while replacing them with fakes. Using Octopussy's circus troupe as a cover, they then plan to smuggle a bomb into a US military base in West Germany and detonate it, hoping that NATO would be disbanded and that this would enable the Warsaw Pact to invade and conquer Western Europe without fear of retaliation. In turn, Kamal Khan, who is getting paid from the sale of the jewelry, hopes to kill Octopussy in the process and take over her organization afterwards.
200** In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', Ernst Stavro Blofeld poses as a FakeAristocrat and renames himself "Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp" by having his earlobes surgically removed to back up his phony claim to the title. Once 007 is in Piz Gloria, he learns that Blofeld secretly plans to contaminate and ultimately sterilize the world's food supply using biological warfare, carried by his [[ReforgedIntoAMinion brainwashed Angels of Death]]. Blofeld claimed he would not carry out his plan if all his past crimes were pardoned and he is recognized as the current Count de Bleauchamp.
201** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'': Baron Samedi, who is ''clearly'' evil in this version, although whether he is truly an incarnation of the real Baron Samedi or simply just another henchman of Mr. Big who knows a lot of convincing parlor tricks is uncertain.
202* The BigBad of ''Film/JungleCruise'' is Prince Joachim. The movie is set in 1916 during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and Joachim's main motivation in the movie is to use the powers of the Tree of Life to help the Imperial Germany to win the war.
203* In ''Film/JupiterAscending'', galactic society operates on so vast a scale that the lives of entire planets are nothing but trade goods to the "Entitled", who themselves are {{Time Abyss}}es thanks to a LongevityTreatment produced by harvesting billions upon billions of people for HumanResources in a regime of IndustrializedEvil.
204-->'''Kalique:''' You cannot know right now what it will be like when you're offered [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney wealth beyond your imagining]]; when you can [[ImmortalityImmorality choose to remain young]], beautiful; or when you can have the power to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes change the lives of your family for the better]]... and all you have to do is close your eyes.
205* ''Film/KillBabyKill'': The BigBad is [[spoiler: the elderly Baroness, who summoned her dead daughter's spirit to torment the nearby village of Karmingam.]]
206* ''Film/AKnightsTale'': Count Adhemar (played to vile perfection by Rufus Sewell) oozes smarmy malevolence. The movie does subvert this trope with Prince Edward though -- he's a good guy through and through.
207* ''Film/LayerCake'' has another self-proclaimed Duke, who is a [[StupidCrooks downright moron with delusions of being a criminal mastermind]] out to make a name for himself and does so by [[TooDumbToLive stealing from scary Serbian mobsters]]. [[spoiler:He doesn't even die at the Serbs' hands, but at those of another gang he inadvertently manages to piss off.]]
208%% * ''Film/MoulinRouge'': The Duke is the main antagonist.
209* ''Film/OnceBitten'': The Countess. Actually, if you ignore the fact that she was a vampire temptress willing to convert a young teenager against his will, she and her coven are actually pretty nice as far as vampires go.
210* ''Film/OrphansOfTheStorm'' is a fictional story set during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution that features the French aristocracy running over peasant children with their carriages, kidnapping women off the streets for raping, and literally bathing in wine while the masses go hungry.
211* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1962'': Lord Ambrose D'Arcy, who stole credit for the music of poor composer Professor Petrie. This set in motion a series of events that led to the latter being disfigured by acid and becoming the titular Phantom.
212* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Lord Cutler Beckett led the East India Trading Company and sought the complete eradication of piracy. His plan however failed, when the powers he cleverly manipulated were turned against him.
213%%* ''Film/ThePrestige'': Lord Cordlow [[spoiler: aka Robert Angier]].
214%%* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': Count Tyrone Rugen, evil and creepy. What's especially hilarious is that Christopher Guest, who played Rugen, has been a real-life baron since 1996.%%Evil how? Creepy how?
215* ''Film/RobRoy'': The Marquess of Montrose is the film's main antagonist, but the Duke of Argyll is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, who goes out of his way to help Rob.
216* ''Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom'': The Duc de Blangis and his companions are guilty of almost anything you can think of, and some things you probably can't.
217* ''Film/TheSevenSamurai'': The writer said he was motivated in part by a desire to [[TheAtoner atone]] for what his {{Samurai}} ancestors had done to the people of Japan. That of course means that he was an aristocrat who was not personally evil. Lampshaded in the same movie when one of the seven of humble birth gives an angry speech about the behavior of Samurai.
218%%* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'': The Earl of Wessex is clearly a villain.%%How?
219* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'': Lord Henry Blackwood, who attempts to seize control of the British Empire.
220* ''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight'': Count Malcolm is a thoroughly unsympathetic character.
221* ''Franchise/StarWars'': [[TheDragon Count Dooku]] from the prequel trilogy. Oh so very evil. And oh so very Creator/ChristopherLee to boot.
222* In ''Film/{{Swashbuckler}}'', acting governor Lord Durant is a despot who strips the colony for his own gain; jailing his political opponents without trial; removes the Lord High Justice from office, jails him, and evicts his wife and daughter; and attempts to flee when the going gets tough. He is also probably a pederast.
223* ''Film/{{Taken}}'' features a lecherous and corrupt sheikh.
224* In ''Film/ThirtyOne'', the owners of Murder-World are depicted as looking like French aristocrats.
225* In ''Film/{{Utu}}'', the British {{Colonel Kilgore}} who massacred the Maori protagonist's tribe is a Lord.
226* ''Film/WatchOnTheRhine'': Count Teck is an utter weasel who's willing to betray a LaResistance leader to the Germans.
227* ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'': Don Diego de la Vega, a.k.a Zorro is the one good nobleman who stands up for the common people against the greedy, oppressive aristocrats in colonial California.
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231* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'': One episode involves the somewhat backwards planet called Ne'Holland. When the ''Andromeda'' gets to the system, they find the royal ship full of dead bodies, including the dying King Florin, who has been the target of a coup by the Ne'Holland aristocracy, spearheaded by Archduke Constantine. Florin's son Erik survives, being an UnexpectedSuccessor since one of his two older brothers was supposed to inherit the throne. Dylan quickly finds out that Florin was cut from the same cloth as Constantine. Constantine plans to have Erik assassinated and rule in his stead and is not above using human shields to get his way. The other nobles are behind Constantine. In the end, Tyr, who pretended to ally with Constantine, kills all the nobles, and Dylan's influence convinces Erik to turn Ne'Holland into a democracy (by promising any soldier who lays down his arms a piece of the land formerly owned by the nobles).
232* ''Series/BassieEnAdriaan'': "The Baron" (no real name given) is a recurring enemy, although it's unknown if he actually is a baron or simply gave himself this title because he considers himself to be a criminal mastermind.
233* ''Series/Batman1966'': Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and his sister, Lady Penelope Peasoup, SpecialGuest villains in a three-parter.
234* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'':
235** Anyone with the title Sire is a lesser evil: Sire Uri (ambitious and officious), Siress Bellaby (greedy and lustful, Sire Bogan (manipulative).
236%%** Count Baltar betrayed the entire human race.%%How?
237%%** Count Iblis. "Iblis" is actually the Arabic name for the devil.%%... and?
238* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland, or at least her AlternateHistory persona in the second series, is also very fond of ordering people's execution at the slightest whim. A RoyalBrat taken to a sadistic extreme.
239* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': Subverted in an episode where a maid is found dead in the hotel room of a Saudi prince who's on a gambling trip in Las Vegas. CSI Riley Adams suspects that the prince killed the maid for refusing his advances, and thought that [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney he'd be able to buy his way out of any trouble he got into]]. It turns out that the maid was killed [[spoiler:by another maid who she caught trying to steal the jewelry the prince was keeping in his hotel room's safe. When he finds out that the maid was murdered for trying to protect his property, the prince donates an amount of money to the maid's family equal to what the jewelry was worth, as a way of expressing his condolences and gratitude.]]
240* ''Series/DeusSalveORei'': Duke Constantino of Vicenza serves as TheDragon and [[UnholyMatrimony lover]] to [[BigBad Princess Catarina]].
241* ''Series/TheDevilsWhore'': Most of the Cavaliers are portrayed as this, especially Prince Rupert. An exception is Angelica's husband, a clearly good-hearted Royalist who [[spoiler: is executed by Charles I at the end of the first episode for surrendering his manor to Parliamentary forces]].
242* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
243** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], the House of Calvierri, led by Signora Rosanna, are secretly aliens who are forcibly converting young women into more of their kind and plot to sink Venice so they can live there.
244** ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker "The Caretaker"]]: Soldier-turned-math teacher Danny Pink jumps to this conclusion after learning the Doctor is a "Time ''Lord''" and an officer after constant belittling due to [[ArmiesAreEvil the Doctor's own prejudices against wars and those who participate in them]]. Of course the Doctor doesn't see lower-class people as cannon fodder and Danny isn't a blood-thirsty thug but their [[LoveTriangle rivalry for Clara's attention]] plus the stress of an invading alien robot prevents them from talking like adults [[spoiler: and as far as is shown they never do, and then Danny is killed]].
245* In ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' episode "The Frogs and the Lobsters / The Wrong War", the Marquis de Montcoutant is a one-man justification for the entire French Revolution. He shoots the new mayor of his former village (and would have shot a kid if Hornblower hadn't talked him down), compares the villagers to livestock, and ignores the military objectives of General Charette to set up shop with a guillotine in the town square. The best that can be said about him is that he was DefiantToTheEnd when the expedition went south and the villagers gleefully dragged him off to his own scaffold.
246* ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'':
247** The initial antagonists are a dance team known as Team Baron, with their leader Kaito being able to transform into Kamen Rider Baron. This is a subversion though, as they are not truly evil, nor true nobility. Kaito just chose the name in reflection of his desire to live like a noble, but, with baron being the lowest in terms of titles, still give him the motivation to climb further.
248** Ryoma Sengoku. His Rider suit bears the name of Kamen Rider Duke, but he is not of noble descent and, in contrast to most bearers of the title Duke, he's not a good guy in the slightest.
249* ''Series/LoisAndClark'': Unlike General Zod, who tried to rule Krypton by force, Lord Nor is a depraved nobleman angling to inherit control of his people through marriage and other underhanded means. He's the Sheriff of Nottingham, if he were Kryptonian.
250* ''Series/Merlin2008'':
251** King Uther, who concerns himself mostly with the nobility and royalty and looks down on peasants and servants as expendable.
252** There have also been a number of guest stars that {{invoked|Trope}} and {{subvert|edTrope}} this trope. King Odin, King Caerleon, and King Alined have been antagonistic, whilst King Godwyn, King Olaf, and King Bayard have been anything from benevolent to neutral. As of the end of Series 4, Myth/KingArthur and Queen Guinevere are subversions. Queen Annis proves herself an ally to Camelot, whilst Queen Morgana (whenever she manages to seize the crown) is a definite case of GodSaveUsFromTheQueen.
253* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Sir Michael in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E5 Master Class]]" is a peer but he's also a eugenicist who thinks it's okay to seduce his daughter and granddaughter and murder people who get in his way.
254* ''Series/MissionImpossible'': In "The Devils", the IMF stop a British baronet who involves foreign and domestic officials in Satanic rituals and human sacrifice for blackmail purposes.
255* ''Series/{{Norsemen}}'': Jarl[[note]]the Norse root word of Earl[[/note]] Varg, a [[BaldOfEvil hairless]] sadist with a habit of brutally murdering people who [[YouHaveFailedMe disappoint him]], ordered his Vikings to RapePillageAndBurn another Norse village, and practices dentistry as a hobby. Notably the leader of Norheim is called simply a "chieftain", which was roughly synonymous with "jarl" in 8th century Norway, but two of Norheim's three chieftains in the series are pretty good ([[DeliberateValuesDissonance for Vikings]]) and the third is an incompetent tyrant.
256* ''Series/OliversTravels'': Baron Kite, the CorruptCorporateExecutive behind the conspiracy.
257* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Most of King George's villainy is based on politics.
258* ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'': Almost all of the leaders of the Evil Army Shadow Line are modeled and named after European aristocracy. Their names are Emperor of Darkness Z, Baron Nero, Madame Noir, Count Nair, and Marchioness Mork.
259* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Countess Marguerite Isobel Theroux is an evil witch.
260* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E07OnceMoreUntoTheBreach Once More Unto the Breach]]", which mentions that Kor, a Klingon nobleman related to the Klingon royal family, was known to blacklist commoners who tried to become officers in the Klingon Defense Force. General Martok made it UpThroughTheRanks despite this and hates Kor because of it.
261* ''Series/TippingTheVelvet2002'': Diana Lethaby and her decadent friends. They cruelly exploit lesbians younger than themselves in their parties and for sex overall.
262* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': The Duchess from the radio play ''Golden Age''. Whimsical and old-fashioned, [[spoiler: so much so that she was ready to kill thousands to keep things the way they were in 1924, having taken the end of the British Empire and India's independence very, very badly.]]
263%% * ''Series/WhereInTimeIsCarmenSandiego'': Baron Wasteland, a V.I.L.E. villain.
264* ''Series/You2018'': Multiple members of season 4's cast are the children of English peers or their societal equals, and (with the exception of [[TokenGoodTeammate Lady Phoebe]]) invariably turn out to be vile, classist bigots.
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268* In ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'' the first household Xiaxi enters is that of the Wang Pu family, generals who serve under the king. The first thing we see them do is have the frivolous brother simply take the protagonist away from where she was working, give her to his brother as a practical joke, and then that brother ''has her executed and used as fertilizer'' because the joke offended him. She then restarts the mission keenly aware of how horrible these people are, though their better sides tend to get more emphasis later. Surprisingly, after she finishes up here and tricks her way into the imperial household she finds them to be actually rather nice people, if perhaps arrogant and not nearly as simple as they appear. [[spoiler:Though the seemingly nice uncle turns out to be TheCaligula after assassinating the king and usurping the throne.]]
269* In ''Manhua/InfiniteApostlesAndTwelveWarGirls'', the three major families (rank unstated) of the Felm empire and crown prince Razzel of the Kenz kingdom are all horribly corrupt and will do anything to advance their ambitions, no matter how vile. Not only are they on-screen shown attempting to murder the protagonist and his love interests on several occasions, but their children are all arrogant asshats that ''automatically'' look at commoners as total weaklings that they have the ''duty'' to kick around, even as they're getting their asses kicked, and won't hesitate to unleash lethal force in public for any slight, real or imagined.
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273* Music/DavidBowie: The Thin White Duke, a cold-hearted cocaine addict with a taste for fascism, spends time "throwing darts in lovers' eyes" according to the title track of ''Music/StationToStation''.
274* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'': There are numerous examples, among them Banica Conchita, a cannibalistic [[SheIsTheKing duke]]; Sateriasis Venomania, a lecherous SmugSnake duke; Prim Marlon, an EvilMatriarch queen who uses her children as pawns in her schemes and basically caused the entire Story of Evil to happen in her pursuit of vengeance; and Margarita Blankenheim, a marchioness who murders her entire town after her marriage begins to fail. Princess Riliane Lucifen D'Autriche ''was'' an example but was later deposed, which ironically coincided with her reforming herself.
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278* In Haitian Voodoo, Baron Samedi is the Loa (or god) of death. (He also has many other incarnations with that title, including Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix, and Baron Kriminel.) Seeing as he's supposedly one of the most powerful and wisest of the Loa, it's unclear why he's "only" a Baron or even why he needs a title at all. While most myths about him don't truly depict him as evil, they do tend to depict him as a trickster, who is noted for disruption, obscenity, and debauchery, often at the expense of mortals.
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282* ''TabletopGame/AnimaBeyondFantasy'' has a somewhat indirect version of this in Nobility magic. It's a minor path of magic, but it nonetheless features quite horrifying spells, if you think of the implications. This magic in general features spells that seem to define Nobility as a question of appearances. At no point is nobility of heart mentioned. Examples include:
283** Perfume, a spell which, when cast at a sufficiently high level, induces a state of fascination with the caster in people who can smell the perfume generated by the spell, making them more susceptible to their words.
284** Win Hearts, a spell that makes the target an image of "intoxicating sensuality" to anyone with a compatible sexuality who fails their save against it.
285** Finally, this magic's ultimate spell is King of The World. Anyone who happens to fail its save in the affected area will revere the caster as a perfect being, and try to satisfy them, as long as they stay within the area of effect of the spell. They do not get a saving throw again unless they leave. However, if someone succeeds at that saving throw, they will have to do it again if they leave and re-enter.
286* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': Being a neo-feudal setting, there are numerous characters who are this trope, avert it, subvert it or zigzag it. Two of the chatacters who play this straight are Grand Duke Michael Hasek-Davion and Duke Frederick Steiner who each schemed in the 3020s to take over their nation's thrones. On the other hand, Grand Duke Morgan Kell was one of the major BigGood characters of his time, and a leader of the ''loyal'' opposition to the tyrannical Katherine Steiner-Davion.
287* ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'': Almost all remaining scraps of civilization on Athas are ruled over by the diabolical [[EvilOverlord Sorcerer Kings]], who rule their people with a combination of brutal oppression, control of precious resources and their life-stealing Defiler magic.
288* ''TabletopGame/DishonoredRoleplayingGame'': The description of the Aristocrat NPC states that by and large, the Empire's aristocracy are a bunch of ruthless, decadent backstabbers who should not be trusted, and the two suggested story hooks for them include a nobleman trying to frame a rival for piracy and a noblewoman plotting to murder her own illegitimate son for being inconvenient to her if someone found out.
289* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The entire Scarlet Dynasty is profoundly corrupt, continually scheming and backstabbing one another for the sake of power, wealth, and prestige. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between. Furthermore, the Scarlet Empress set things up this way ''deliberately'', to ensure that her empire could never function without her.
290* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' is all over this trope.
291** Mishima is the worst offender, following a particularly harsh brand of Tokugawa-style ''bushido''. Intrigue, assassination, and constant competition are everyday occurrences, and commoner lives are cheap. Mishima is not particularly afflicted by TheCorruption, but the BigBad doesn't really need it to be, things being what they are.
292** Bauhaus nobility are better since they are raised with a strong sense of ''noblesse obligé'' and Bauhaus has some measure of social mobility. There are always exceptions, though. Erwin Stahler and Max Steiner's former commanding officer are prime examples.
293** Imperial nobility are better still, but much given to HonorBeforeReason, and will gladly kill each other and drive their clansmen into meat grinder battles over slights hundreds of years old. Again, there are exceptions, and some Imperial nobles sign on with the BigBad.
294* ''TabletopGame/GrimHollow'': The Ostoyan Empire is ruled by an aristocracy of ''vampires''. Not even secret ones, but openly undead monsters that magically keep the sky under a constant pall of darkness. This Crimson Court keeps the rest of the country trapped in grinding poverty while holding lavish parties. The kicker is that vampirism in this setting explicitly does ''not'' change one's morality (player characters are perfectly capable of being a FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire); they really are just ''that'' evil, vampirism or no. That said, while it's certainly a cruel system, it's also a stable and safe one, so long as you don't go out at night, and most citizens don't openly challenge it.
295* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Despite all about being a land of chivalry and honour, Bretonnia is a land where the nobility have effectively unlimited authority over their dominions and can treat peasants however they want -- usually awfully. Peasants are legally prohibited from owning wealth or leaving their lord's land, and are effectively their liege's property; lords routinely mass-conscript hordes of peasants to use as CannonFodder and to soak up arrows and enemy charges; in some dukedoms, peasants are subjected to a ''90%'' tax rate on all the crops they own, leading to mass starvation and poverty while nobles are ludicrously wealthy; in others, simply touching a knight's warhorse is punished with ''on-the-spot execution''; and one obscure kingly decree states that legally speaking, every male of a certain age must shout "Griffon fingers!" to the sky while saluting it on the evening of a full moon (though only one of the counties actually ''enforces'' this law, the rest of the nobility are sane enough to pretend that it doesn't exist). Bretonnia is a DeconstructiveParody of Arthurian England and the ChivalricRomance.
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299* In British {{Pantomime}}, a stock character is ''Baron'' Hardup. He'll be an impoverished noble of some sort, but whether he is good or evil or, more importantly for panto, competent or incompetent, will vary depending on the actor playing him and the jokes the cast want to perform that year. Sometimes he is a caricature of the friendly but broke gentry of recent years (usually if there is a female villainess to outmaneuver him) and sometimes he'll be the robber baron of medieval history (and he'll probably resemble a sitting politician of some sort if that is the case) out to bilk the hero and heroine out of their inheritance or steal their home. In ''Cinderella'' adaptations he is consistently a benign but ineffectual figure whenever he is present in that troupe's cast, but in ''Mother Goose'' or ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' he'll probably be the greedy grasper to whom Creator/AlanRickman's Sheriff of Nottingham from ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' is frequently compared.
300* ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': Violet Beauregarde isn't evil, but she is a HateSink: a SpoiledBrat ShamelessSelfPromoter who with her father's help has parlayed her non-talent of gum-chewing into a Hollywood career. In a BoastfulRap, she proclaims herself to be "The Double Bubble Duchess" and her father calls her "royalty of the highest order". Fittingly, when she meets her comeuppance -- a transformation into a giant blueberry -- in the Wonka Factory, the Oompa-Loompas' mocking CrowdSong gives her the EmbarrassingNickname "Juicy!"
301* Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac:
302** Count De Guicheis is a JerkAss who wants to bully Roxane into being TheMistress, prepares an UriahGambit for Roxane's husband and a LastStand for all the guys who had humiliated him, but he is not as villainous as he thinks, because he has a HeelFaceTurn.
303** In Act I Scene I, a marquis explains the reason why the band of young Marquises are always late to the theater:
304-->'''A Marquis (seeing that the hall is half empty):''': What now! So we make our entrance like a pack of woolen-drapers! \
305Peaceably, without disturbing the folk, or treading on their toes!—Oh, fie! \
306Fie!
307** Viscount De Valvert is a JerkAss willing to do the bidding of Count De Guiche.
308** All the Gascon Cadets are Barons that indulge in killing any Baron who is not OfThePeople trying to join them, and their ideal is to be a SociopathicHero.
309* ''Theatre/RichardIII'' was the Duke of Gloucester before becoming king. Whether his evilness was TruthInTelevision or a product of Shakespeare is left for the reader to decide.
310* ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}'': The incorrigibly lecherous Duke of Mantua also has the habit of executing people who complain too much about his seducing their wives/sisters/daughters. Being an Italian city-state, this particular Duke was probably a royal Duke and ruler of the state -- he certainly has the power of a monarch (in the original play, he was actually a king, but this was changed because Italy had recently attained a king of the whole nation, and an evil king was felt to be too politically sensitive).
311* In ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'', baronets of Ruddigore bear a hereditary curse to commit at least one evil action daily or die in agony and basically serve to parody the DastardlyWhiplash trope.
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315* Cecilia from ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'' wants to destroy the protagonist's life based on [[spoiler:something he’d done 20 years before - all the while, “forgetting” some of the key mitigating and exonerating details around this incident,]] and possibly crossing several legal lines as well.
316* This trope was the reason why [[spoiler:Klint van Zieks]] became the infamous mass murderer known as "The Professor" in the backstory of ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney''. The British Aristocracy was ''soaked'' with corruption, but their status meant that it was all but impossible to make them face consequences for their crimes, at least legally.
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320%%* ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'': Baron von Willendorfer III is the only aristocrat in the cast, and also the only real antagonist.
321* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
322** While most aristocrats are evil to some degree (also being {{Mad Scientist}}s and all), the Lords and Ladies of House Heterodyne took the cake for much of history. Almost every Heterodyne was a CardCarryingVillain EvilOverlord who made a hobby out of looting and pillaging the European continent. {{Inverted|Trope}} with the current Lady Heterodyne (our heroine Agatha) and the Heterodyne Boys (her father Bill and uncle Barry), the WhiteSheep of the family.
323** {{ZigZagg|ingTrope}}ed in the person of Baron Klaus Wulfenbach. He is a brutal tyrant who obtained his empire on no other legal principle than having the biggest army and is apparently willing to kill his best friend's daughter for being a threat to his kingdom's stability, but in a textbook example of TheExtremistWasRight, he also managed to maintain the rule of law over most of Europe for almost two decades and keep the common folk of his lands largely protected. He also provided his lands with a wide variety of communication and public works services, and kept at bay the [[BigBad Other]]. Finally, he does genuinely appear to love his son and apparently greatly misses his wife. Two and a half years after the Baron is incapacitated, his reign is described as [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20131021 "seeming like some lost Golden Age"]].
324** Played completely straight with the Knights of Jove and the Fifty Families, who were the older noble and royal families that ruled before the Baron took charge. They're all stuck scheming to take power and backstabbing their allies in ther bids to crown themselves the lone Storm King of all Europa, and their main objection to the Baron's dictatorship is simply that he's not a royal. The BigScrewedUpFamily of Tarvek Sturmvoraus -- the lone WhiteSheep (albeit an AntiHero) of his house -- serves as a telling sample of the setting's royals: his father Aaronev Wilhelm kidnapped children to help [[BigBad the Other]] return, his sister Anevka was a homicidal maniac, and his older cousin Martellus tried killing him and [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe kidnapping Agatha to be his bride]].
325* ''Webcomic/{{Glorianna}}'':
326** Queen Idonta rose to the throne via murder and kidnaps women from other tribes for nefarious purposes.
327** Duke Ludwig is not only generally unpleasant, he's also [[spoiler:an alien in disguise]].
328%% ** The scheming Lord Vasgor and the decadent Lord Claughmoore both qualify.
329* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Dabbler mentions that in the past, on magical worlds those in power largely considered peasants a "harvestable resource." One mage casually tells his maid to refill his magical pillow fluffer with six peasant souls a season, as if he's telling her how he likes his tea.
330-->'''Maid:''' Couldn't I just fluff the pillows myself?\
331'''Mage:''' Then what would be the ''point'' of having a magical. Pillow. Fluffer?\
332'''Maid:''' Uh, touche?
333%% * ''[[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/littleworlds/ Little Worlds]]'': "The Duke" is neither noble nor kind.
334* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
335** The literally {{Blue Blood}}ed high-caste trolls are more violent than the lower classes, and most known historical aristocrats have been villainous, from the {{Pirate}} Marquise Spinneret Mindfang to [[TheAtoner E%patriate Darkleer]] to [[MonsterClown the Grand Highblood]] to [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Orphaner Dualscar]] and finally [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Her Imperious Condescension]], a space-traveling tyrant also known as the Baroness, aka Betty Crocker. Their descendants either play this straight or subvert it, though the Condesce's descendant, Feferi, totally inverts it by being one of the nicest members of the cast.
336** While the Marquise Spinneret Mindfang wasn't ''explicitly'' a villain, she [[ManipulativeBitch definitely wasn't]] [[DepravedBisexual a nice person]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath by any sense]] of the word.
337** In Terezi's courtroom drama games, nobles and politicians, such as Senator Lemonsout and Duke Pinesnort, play the role of murderous, thieving scumbags brought to face justice.
338* ''Webcomic/KaitenMutenmaru'': Although [[spoiler:Sick]] himself UsedToBeASweetKid, [[spoiler:the poverty-ridden rebels]] targeted him solely for being the son of [[spoiler:Pain and Yamai Solitude]], the aristocratic tyrants of [[spoiler:Throne]].
339* In ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'', Weselton of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' is made a baron instead of a duke due to this trope.
340* In ''Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan'', [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-14/ the Count]] is introduced hiring an assassin.
341* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
342** The throne of the Asian-themed Azure City is threatened by an evil scheming aristocrat with the title of Daimyo, named Kubota who makes a deal with a (minor) devil in exchange for aid in assassinating the rightful heir Hinjo after he's ascended to the throne just in time to have a war to defend the city fall into his lap and makes several attempts while the battered fleet that evacuated the city seeks to find a safe harbor.
343** The previous lord of the city kept all of the backstabbing, ninja-assassin-happy aristocracy from killing him by pretending to be senile so that they instead played an elaborate game to attempt to influence the old man into ruling in their favor.
344* ''Webcomic/WintersInLavelle'': The King and Blue Princes aren't well-liked. Ashton, unfortunately, happens to share the biggest identifying traits of Princes (almost inhumanly bright blue eyes). They've haunted the poor kid his whole life -- his mother was even shown calling him a monster in a flashback, back when he looked to be around ten years old. And of course, nowadays, if any of the Retainers of Wistar -- a group aiming to overthrow the king and assassinate the Princes along the way -- see him wandering around...
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348* ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'':
349** Queen Adevia is a war-mongering, ambitious monarch who stops at nothing to defeat her enemies and expand her kingdom.
350** Duke Koschei Dravaris is very much evil, constantly plotting behind the scenes to discredit the Grand Alliance and even leads his superior [[spoiler:Belial]] to an ambush. The four demonic dukes and duchesses are ambitious and ruthless each in their own way, willing to fight among themselves but also against the other races whom they see as lesser beings.
351** The four demonic Dreadlords/ladies of Yamato hold the rank of count/countess, and they are very cruel and ambitious while serving their masters' needs. Counts Belial and Antigonus of Maar Sul are a bit of a mixed bag, though: on the one hand they are very ruthless in politics and tend to use people for their own ends, but they also have a code of honour.
352* ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'': Lord Michael Byron Carruthers is evil, selfish, and creepy.
353* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'': While the denizens of the [[WretchedHive Den of Sin]] aren't explicitly stated to be aristocracy, they are extremely rich, quite powerful, and well-connected to at least one supernatural conspiracy. What portrayals we see of them are indicative of the British upper class. They also watch {{gorn}}-filled {{Blood Sport}}s and will gleefully lap up [[BloodLust any blood that is spilled in the arena. Including their brother's blood, or their own.]]
354* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': Hell's hierarchy included Barons, Counts, Dukes and Grand Dukes topped by His Infernal Majesty Satan. All of them evil, of course, although prone to a HeelFaceTurn if the circumstances press.
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358* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': Duke Igthorn is scheming to take over the kingdom.
359* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The Earl of Lemongrab, though it's hard to say how much of his villainy comes from genuine evil and how much comes from his complete insanity.
360* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': Norbert once had a supervillain persona as Baron Bad Beaver. In a later episode, the Baron has a HeelFaceTurn into Baron Once Bad Now Good Beaver, only to make a FaceHeelTurn into Baron Once Bad Then Good Then Bad Again Beaver.
361* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderFireLordOzai Fire Lord Ozai]] is the king of the Fire Nation. He and the last two generations of Fire Lords were all pretty evil, but the ''next'' Fire Lord is a nice guy. His daughter [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula Princess Azula]] is no less evil than him, and probably quite a bit more crazy.
362* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE31TheCapeAndCowlConspiracy The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy]]" features a would-be crime boss named Baron Wacklaw Jozek; he's really more selfish than evil, but he's an associate of Wormwood, a criminal whom Batman needs to catch, leading the hero to track Jozek down and question him (rather harshly), making Jozek pretty upset. Jozek later hires Wormwood to steal Batman's cape and cowl. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. Jozak actually left town to go to Europe after the confrontation with Batman, and Wormwood had been dealing with Batman himself, in disguise, using the [[BatmanGambit strategy named after him]].]]
363%%* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Duke Nukem. Although it's not an inherited title. And he's unrelated to the [[VideoGame/DukeNukem Video Game]] hero. %% Zero Context Example
364* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': Baron Greenback is the usual villain Danger Mouse faces off against.
365* ''Franchise/GIJoe'': TheBaroness, a Cobra operative. Her title is apparently genuine, not just a codename she picked out for herself.
366* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'': Count Marzo, an EvilSorcerer.
367%% * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Lord Monkey Fist is a recurring antagonist.
368%%* ''WesternAnimation/LadyLovelyLocks'': Duchness Ravenwaves is pure evil. %% Zero Context Example
369* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has the Earth Queen Hou-Ting. Compared to the Earth King in the last season, she is an uptight, demanding tyrant. She also uses the [[SecretPolice Dai Li]] to forcefully conscript air benders (i.e: kidnap) for her army.
370* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': Some of the viruses. Megabyte's title is the "King of Control", Hexadecimal's is the "Queen of Chaos" and Daemon's is the "Monarch of Order".
371* "WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel": The titular [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Pumpernickel]] does battle with a diabolical Duke played by none other than Sylvester the Cat who is not after finger-food for a change but the hand of Melissa Duck with his main ally being the equally villainous High Chamberlaine, pairing him once more with [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig PorkyPig]].
372%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Baron Werner Ünderbheit.
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