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8	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial It's not the mayor's fault that the stadium collapsed!]]'']]
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10	->''"Oh, I'm quite tired of this lunatic\
11	Why must we suffer 'cuz the mayor's sick?"''
12	-->-- '''Music/{{Rasputina}}''', "The Mayor"
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14	Mayor Pain ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a trope about mayors who inflict grief upon the inhabitants of their cities]]) usually comes in two different flavors, depending on the question: [[HanlonsRazor Are they evil or simply inept?]]
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16	* '''The Evil Mayor Pain''' ([[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer The Wilkins]]): Wickedness over incompetence. The mayor does relatively good work with the town and can even be a [[AffablyEvil pleasant person]], yet they have a secret EvilPlan to carry out -- or else they're AWolfInSheepsClothing. This is the kind of mayor that [[GratuitousItalian puts the "sin" in "sindaco"]].
17	* '''The Incompetent Mayor Pain''' ([[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons The Quimby]]): Incompetence over wickedness. The mayor is openly incompetent and their actions are clearly due to a lack of judgment. Of course, this incompetence can have any level of disastrous consequences...
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19	This Trope usually overlaps with CorruptPolitician or SleazyPolitician. Related to PresidentEvil (which applies on a way larger scale). Expect some {{Permanent Elected Official}}s to fulfill this trope. Near obligatory in a TownWithADarkSecret, especially one infected with a WeirdnessCensor. If this is an UltimateAuthorityMayor, things ''won't'' be getting better for the town, and they may need to be voted out or worse. The incompetent version may be an AuthorityInNameOnly.
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21	Not to be confused with the movie ''Film/MajorPayne''.
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23	'''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''! We've got enough on our hands with every political ad painting the opponent as either flavor. Not to mention, it's also not nice to call RealLife mayors evil or incompetent either.
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32	* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': The mayor of Daten City is [[spoiler:Corset, a powerful demon with a [[BondageIsBad BDSM fetish]]. Definitely the Wilkins type.]]
33	* An Orange Islands ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' episode had [[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mayor_of_Trovitopolis one of these.]] When a mysterious creature is wandering the sewers on his island, he intends to kill it rather than capture it, as he's worried its existence will affect his status as mayor. [[spoiler:Turns out it was his Bulbasaur he abandoned as a child. Poor thing was still happy to see him]].
34	* Mr. Heartland from ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'' is an Evil Mayor Payne, a VillainWithGoodPublicity, ''and'' a DevilInPlainSight. While only TheDragon during the time he's mayor (the first season), he proves worse than the apparent BigBad of that season.
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38	* Hamilton Hill from the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics was an Evil Mayor Pain; a competent politician, but completely in the pocket of crime boss Rupert Thorne. He was succeeded in office by Armand Krol, who was an Incompetent Mayor Pain (enough of one that [[ComicBook/BatmanContagion one of his stunts impedes emergency efforts during a virus breakout and leads the person he lost reelection to getting sworn in ahead of schedule]]).
39	* In ''ComicBook/BatmanEarthOne'', Mayor Oswald Cobblepot (The Penguin in the regular timeline) is Mayor of Gotham. He's also a crime boss who uses a SerialKiller named The Birthday Boy as his own personal hitman, supplying him with teenage girls as payment.
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43	* ''Fanfic/MiraculousThePhoenixRises'' has Mayor Joe Biden, a ScatterbrainedSenior who is completely out of touch from managing the town.
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47	* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'': Mayor Shelbourne starts off as just a jerk, but once the food starts falling, he will do anything to keep it coming, since his town is now getting notoriety and he is quite a glutton. He ends up pushing Flint to keep making the food, even when he's told it's not safe. And when the inevitable happens, [[NeverMyFault he quickly shifts the blame to Flint]].
48	* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademiaTheEnchantedParade'': The Mayor is mainly the Quimby type. He is more concerned about [[TheNapoleon puffing up his own ego]] and earning tourist dollars than he is with things like good sense and reason. With incontrovertible proof that both magic and witches are real, he decides to remove a rock that is specifically labeled as a [[SealedEvilInACan seal to a great evil]] to place a statue of himself. When the inevitable happens and a giant attacks his city, he blames the Witches and only backs down when he starts thinking of the tourist revenue. Even a Witch [[TooDumbToLive supporting him from a great height on her broom]] is not enough to dissuade him even when she gently tries to remind him exactly whose fault this whole fiasco is.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'': [[spoiler:Tortoise John]] is an Evil Mayor Pain.
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53	* ''Film/AnimalHouse'': The Mayor of Faber, Carmine De Pasto, is a perfect example of the "evil" version. Although [[DeanBitterman Dean Wormer]] was already looking for a reason to kick the Deltas out, it's De Pasto who exacerbates the film's events by explicitly telling Wormer that if he doesn't find a way to expel them pronto and the Deltas cause any trouble at the parade as a result, ''he will have the Dean's legs broken''. He also strong-arms the Dean to give money to fund the parade, which explicitly will strain the college's budget.
54	* In ''Film/LaFamilleBelier'', Lapidus despises deaf people and promotes industrial development, which harms the farmers.
55	* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 2016}}'' directly references the below movie, as Erin calls out the New York mayor feeling the city hall obstructing their job makes him like the mayor from ''Jaws''. [[BerserkButton He gets mad at the comparison]]. (specially as he's an aversion of the trope: the mayor is just hiding his support from the populace because PlausibleDeniability [[TheWorldIsNotReady will help avoid panic, while secretly funding the Ghostbusters as he sees them as the only legitimate means of fighting ghosts.]])
56	* In ''Film/Godzilla1998'', Mayor Ebert of New York City is a definitive "incompetent" type, obsessed with how a rampaging Kaiju and the United States military [[DestructiveSavior accidentally blowing up Manhattan in its attempt to save it]] will reflect on his chances to be re-elected.
57	* Mayor Larry Vaughn in ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. He may have a point that the tourist trade from the beaches is the lifeblood of the town's economy, but ordering them to be opened after being warned of the danger of attacks from a man-eating shark is inexcusable. The novel provides additional reason for him in the fact that it's the local Mafia strong-arming him to do it -- but on the other hand, he got in bed with them, meaning he's even more malicious.
58	* ''Film/TheLastShark'', a 1981 Italian movie "inspired" by ''Jaws'', includes a mayor similarly "inspired" by Larry Vaughn in mayor William Wells of Port Harbor. That being said, [[VirtuousCharacterCopy Wells]] is a {{downplayed\|Trope}} example compared to his inspiration; he refuses to close the beaches due to fears that cancelling the windsurfing regatta might derail his political career, but still authorizes heavy defenses to keep the shark away (unfortunately, the shark [[{{Determinator}} is not one to let this get in the way of its feeding]]). He later personally attempts a plan to capture the shark that, while [[TooDumbToLive utterly idiotic]], is still more of a personal effort than anything Vaughn did. The worst aspects of Vaughn's character [[DecompositeCharacter are instead given]] to Wells' aide Matt.
59	* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': Mayor Phlegmming is as incompetent as they come. It's his idiotic decisions that are the reason why Frank is such a slob; he cares more about his re-election than the lethal threat that could [[spoiler:and almost did]] kill Frank. Unsurprisingly, he is booted out of office after the incident and later accidentally ejects himself from Frank's body.
60	* The Mayor in ''Film/PoliceAcademy6CityUnderSiege'' is a bumbling Evil Mayor Payne, and is [[spoiler:secretly the BigBad]].
61	* ''Film/TheSalvation'': The dying town's mayor is also its {{undertaker}}, so he's the only one making money. It also turns out that [[spoiler:he's in league with the villain, helping him kill the town so that it can be bought up by oil tycoons]].
62	* ''Film/SomeGuyWhoKillsPeople'': The mayor shows up at a crime scene to yell at the small sheriff's department for not solving the murder spree, even though it's his decision not to call in out-of-state cops.
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66	* In ''Literature/AfterTheGoldenAge'', the protagonist discovers evidence linking the mayor to the perpetrators of a crime wave in Commerce City. [[spoiler:He turns out to be a supervillain.]]
67	* Governor Grice from the Literature/CiaphasCain novel ''For The Emperor'' is incompetent, [[spoiler:except that he's really an evil [[EldritchAbomination genestealer]] [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrid]] (the Evil Mayor Pain) who is [[HanlonsRazor disguising his treason as mere incompetence]].]]
68	** As there's no evidence he has any personal planning or administrative skills, and Grice's personal and family histories must be consistent, he probably really ''is'' an incompetent governor. They show up a lot in the setting and tend to stay in place until they impede somebody important who can have them killed.
69	* ''Literature/TheNightMayor'' is set in a virtual reality world based on FilmNoir, so naturally the mayor is corrupt and incompetent. When one of the protagonists visits his office, she notes that his official portrait shows a bulge under his jacket that's either a concealed firearm or a large wad of bribe money. He also makes decisions by turning the memos into paper airplanes and seeing where they land, with consequences including a children's hospital being torn down to make room for a miniature golf course.
70	* Mayor Petty is this in ''Literature/{{Sunrise}}'', though there are hints of this in the previous book Ashen Winter. He first calls an attack on a neighboring city called Stockton, despite warnings from an autistic teenager named Ben that the attack was too predictable, and therefore would fail. Just as he had predicted, the attack fails, leading to many casualties, and he's only able to get Warren back because of a carefully planned mission by Alex and Ben. Despite this, he continually refuses to accept advice from Alex despite the fact that he was the only reason the citizens of Warren were able to obtain it again. He effectively takes credit for Alex's military successes and evades responsibility for his own failures. It's not until Warren is completely destroyed when he is forced to move to Alex's new town named Speranta and become subservient to him, which he is quite unhappy about because he clearly hates the idea of being talked down to by a mere teenager. However, despite his blatant incompetence in dealing with the realities of a post-apocalyptic world, he is still well-beloved by the former residents of Warren, which goes to show that they love him because of familiarity and his supposed "experience" than they do about any actual merit.
71	* Mayor Clancy in ''Literature/Scorpions2016''. He's demonstrably crooked and supposedly has ties to TheMafia and keeps a staff of hired {{Mooks}} on retainer. In addition, there are rumors that he has had people killed when they wouldn't sell him their land for development purposes.
72	* Big Jim Rennie from ''Literature/UnderTheDome'' definitely qualifies as the evil variant, though his title is "councilman" rather than "mayor". He's still essentially the acting mayor as he's the senior member of the town council, mayor included, who was in Chesters' Mill when the Dome came down.
73	* In ''Literature/YouAreDeadSignHerePlease'' the mayor of Dead Donkey is resoundingly unpopular and is also (separately) a drunken incoherent bum.
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77	* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'': Mok Shaiz, the Mayor of Mos Espa, is Fett's first antagonist and challenger to his newfound leadership of Jabba's former territories. Having profited from the EvilPowerVacuum following the Hutt's death, the Mayor tries to intimidate Fett into working for him, and later makes a deal with the Pyke Syndicate to force Fett out when he refuses. The Pykes proceed to present a much greater threat for Fett in the back half of the season.
78	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has Mayor Richard Wilkins III, who provides the name for the Evil Mayor Pain. On the outside, he's a [[AffablyEvil polite]], organized and rather efficient politician. The truth, however, is that he plans to undergo the Ascension to become [[ScaledUp a demonic snake]]. He also planned to use this new condition [[WellIntentionedExtremist to bring order to the town.]]
79	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': Clark Preston from "A Thin Line" was going to become one, [[spoiler: had the BAU not found out about the murders he had planned.]]
80	* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Victor Lang, Gabrielle's husband for the first half of season 4.
81	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown "Boom Town"]] has Margaret Blaine, Lord Mayor of Cardiff... or should we say, [[spoiler:Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, last surviving member of the Slitheen who came to Earth, who plots to use a nuclear power plant project to rip open the NegativeSpaceWedgie in the centre of Cardiff to power her escape vehicle so she can go home, destroying the Earth in the process.]] And she seems so nice!
82	* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' has Mayor Roland Schitt who is mostly a type 2 and means well but when it comes to the Roses, especially in the first season, he morphs into a type one.
83	* ''Series/NoAppointmentNecessary1977'': In "Like Father, Like Son", Alf is forced by Reg Hodgekiss, the Mayor, to employ his son, Nicholas. Alf is the only one who enjoys this, seeing Nicholas as "an investment" due to his powerful father.
84	* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Regina Mills, aka [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]], is definitely the evil version. In the beginning, at least; post-HeelFaceTurn she remains mayor largely because she is competent at the job.
85	* ''Script/{{Powerpuff}}'': As the new mayor, Jojo is counting on using an attack to take revenge on the Utoniums and boost his chances of getting re-elected.
86	* ''Series/ReadAllAboutIt'': Duneedon, the evil tyrant of the galaxy Trialvaron, has a [[HumanDisguise human identity]]-Don Eden, the mayor of Herbertsville, Canada.
87	* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' has CloudCuckoolander mayor of Melonville, Tommy Shanks. He is actually institutionalized at one point, and his reelection slogan is, "Vote for Me and Get Me Out of Here".
88	* ''Series/UnderTheDome'': Big Jim Rennie is still evil in the TV adaptation.
89	* ''Series/TheWire'': Mayor Clarence Royce fits squarely in the Quimby camp, taking a purely superficial approach to the city's crime problem by pressuring the Baltimore Police to produce data that suggests the murder rate is falling, which in turn forces the department to "juke the stats". Tommy Carcetti starts off better when he replaces Royce, but he gradually puts the needs of the city on the back burner as he eyes a run for governor. However, Carcetti's arc reveals that [[InherentInTheSystem it's the system rather than whoever is at the top which is responsible for the city's plight]].
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93	* "The Mayor" by Music/{{Rasputina}} revolves around a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mayor]] described as a lunatic paranoid.
94	* In the final verse of "The Shadow Government" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, the narrator finds the mayor "stealing his junk", and ends up [[PunkInTheTrunk stuffed into the trunk of the mayor's car]] when he tries to stop him.
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98	* Mayor Pamela Winchell from ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale''. She's a strange mix of both the "evil" variant and "incompetent" variant, although she's not stupid and it's difficult to peg her as out and out evil. Given the way she's described, it seems more like she's just totally insane. She eventually falls more directly into the "incompetent" category after she becomes obsessed with "emergency press conferences," and later steps down as Mayor; her successor is [[spoiler: Dana Cardinal, that being former Night Vale Community Radio intern Dana]], who is ''much'' more level headed, but allows Winchell to stay in "government" (and indulge her obsession) as Director of Emergency Press Conferences. Of course, the Mayor of Night Vale's powers are actually pretty limited, with affairs seemingly being mostly in the hands of the City Council (which has had the same composition since the city was founded over a century ago), the vague-but-menacing government agency, and the Sheriff's Secret Police. Oh, and the [[HypnoticCreature Glow Cloud]] ([[PhraseCatcher all hail]]), if the issue involves the Night Vale School District in any way.
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102	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Mayor Rimson in "Student Government Day" is a mix of the evil and incompetent. Rimson is corrupt, he's even getting a kickback from the gangster running the "Jackpot Amusement Company". The company puts rigged slot machines in candy stores, getting children and teens to gamble away their money on machines that don't pay out. Rimson is reluctantly forced to turn on the crooks; he only does so because his campaign advisor "Honest John" tells him the situation is too hot. In a glaring example of incompetence, Rimson's police force had arrested the Mayor-for-a-day Harriet Conklin, the Police-Chief-for-a-day Walter Denton, and Miss Brooks for good measure.
103	* Averted in "Faculty Band" and "Public Property on Parade". Mayor Rimsom had been replaced by an honest, and, based on his appearance in "Public Property on Parade", a competent mayor.
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107	* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'': Mayor Moore, of the supplement "Iron Age", is a perfect example of the criminal type. Ruling over Freedom City during TheEighties and the early part of TheNineties with an iron fist, Moore signed an act that outlawed superheroes in the city limits[[note]]a {{homage}} to the Keene Act of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', and yes, the mayor's name is a ShoutOut to Creator/AlanMoore[[/note]] and it probably would be easier to count the criminal enterprises that Moore was ''not'' in bed with.
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111	* ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]'''s Mayor of Freehaven is pretty much constantly skirting Evil and Incompetent. He's a transparently self-centered, hideously smug guy who insists on abusing any authority given to him. The guy is mostly defined by him a) [[EntitledBastard constantly ordering around the main characters and demanding they cater to his every whim,]] and b) [[UngratefulBastard constantly disrespecting the main characters and attempting to kick them and any civilians traveling with them out at any opportunity.]] However, he doesn't dip into outright evil until he becomes TheQuisling -- which [[AssholeVictim doesn't end well for him.]]
112	* In ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'', Mayor Hamilton Hill is still an Evil Mayor Pain and in the pocket of a crime boss, but here, [[spoiler:he's part of a triumvirate with both Carmine Falcone and [[AdaptationalVillainy Thomas Wayne]] and all three essentially ran Gotham. He also put the hit on the Wayne family.]] Harvey Dent spends the first two episodes running against him for mayor but, the whole thing goes moot when [[spoiler:the Penguin fatally shoots Hill.]]
113	* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'''s signature MadScientist, Dr. Aeon pulls double duty as both the Wilkins and the Quimby at the same time. Since he works as a governor of a City of Villains, naturally he is evil. He takes public office as little more than an excuse to get funding for his mad experiments. So he is unapologetically evil, but while he is a decent mad scientist, he is utterly inept as a politician and his attendants/babysitters need to do the actual policy enforcement.
114	* ''VideoGame/ClamMan'': Mayor King initially seems like a typical politician (although Clam Man seems to be one of the few people who isn't fond of him), but [[spoiler:eventually [[EvilAllAlong turns out to be the Evil type]]. He's the real BigBad of the game, leading a conspiracy to demolish the part of the city where Clam Man lives since many people have complained about [[WrongSideOfTheTracks how trashy that area is]], and King wants to secure his re-election.]]
115	* ''VideoGame/CriminalCase'':
116	** ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'' has Mayor Howard Johnson. Initially introduced as a CoolOldGuy showing up at the end of every district to promote you to the next one, the Maple Heights arc (where he becomes a recurring character) reveals him to be an whinny, cowardly, and incompetent MommasBoy in constant need of help from the police department. [[spoiler:And then he's revealed to be part of [[AncientConspiracy the Crimson Order]]]].
117	** Mayor Désiré Bower ''VideoGame/CriminalCasePacificBay'' is a lesser example, as he only shows up during a couple of cases during the White Peaks arc, but proves to be a minor nuisance during the hunt for [[ArcVillain the Night Walker]] by claiming the titular monster isn't real despite the overwhelming evidence of the contrary.
118	** ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseMysteriesOfThePast'' has two examples, one for each category. First there's the incompetent Mayor Cornelius Castletown, whose only preoccupation seems to be maintaining a good public image and bringing revenue to the city while doing nothing to take care of the [[DirtyCop police corruption]], [[GangBangers gangs controlling entire districts]], and [[BigScrewedUpFamily the Rochester family]] trying to TakeOverTheCity right in front of him, instead ''berating'' the player and their squad for constantly nagging him when asking for help for said problems. Then after [[spoiler:his assassination]], Mayor [[spoiler:Justin Lawson]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery rope]] and decides to go to extreme lengths to exterminate crime altogether in Concordia, creating a StateSec answerable only to him, abolishing freedom of press to make path for his own PropagandaMachine, limiting civil liberties, and reestablishing the death sentence for all lawbreakers [[AllCrimesAreEqual regardless of their offense]].
119	** ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseTheConspiracy'' has Mayor [[spoiler:Joe Warren]], who steps in as the city mayor after [[spoiler:Mayor Martha Price's assassination]] and, [[BitchInSheepsClothing while amicable at first]], soon proves to be anything but benignant when he's revealed to be part of [[spoiler:[[TheConspiracy Ad Astra]]]].
120	* Mayor [=McDonough=] of Diamond City from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' qualifies as an Evil Mayor Pain. He threw out all the city's ghouls upon first coming to power, turns a blind eye to the kidnappings and synth infiltrations that have been going on in town, and Piper Wright, the IntrepidReporter in charge of the city's only paper, even suspects him of being a synth himself. [[spoiler:She turns out to be right]].
121	* Mayor [[PunnyName Roger C. Hole]] from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'' is hopelessly corrupt, and winds up getting killed by a member of a gang he was being paid to harass. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Donald Love]] later tries to be this, but loses in the election to [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII Miles O'Donovan]].
122	* ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'' has Evelyn Fischer, Morgan's mother and the mayor of the small town of Eysenfeld, who's the Evil type. [[spoiler:Evelyn is actually a rogue fairy known as "The Moonsick One," who has been stealing people's bodies for centuries to prolong her life, resulting in the village sacrificing people every generation. She uses a {{Glamour}} to win the loyalty of the town's citizens, and is apparently responsible for cursing people who get close to her daughter Morgan. She even doesn't care for her town, since by the end of the game, she's decided to possess Tara and leave Eysenfeld in the body of a minor internet celebrity.]]
123	* An evil example from ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries The Henry Stickmin Collection]]'': While Mayor Greg Frederickson appears to be a kindly public figure in the beginning cutscene of ''Stealing the Diamond'', [[spoiler:he is in truth a member of an infamous crime syndicate called the Toppat Clan. As revealed in his bio for ''Completing the Mission'', he and his fellow criminals were planning to steal the same Tunisian Diamond he presented to the public that day.]]
124	* The Mayor of ''VideoGame/HiddenCity'' is actually pretty decent, but he's extremely misguided and has done plenty of questionable things while under the influence of external forces. In one side quest, he tries to sacrifice souls to the Shadow Cult in exchange for a corporeal body (although he gets a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment after the Detective confronts him and releases his victims). In another, he gets possessed by a malicious demon who made him act like a tyrant until the Huntress exorcised the demon.
125	* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': In the Rival Season Pass, it's revealed that Sebastian Corps, the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt CEO of Global Megacorp]], was the former mayor of Appleton before Mei. He approved of the construction of his company's warehouse, not caring if it means [[CommunityThreateningConstruction destroying the town's historic gatehouse]] first.
126	* In ''VideoGame/MegamanBattleNetwork6CybeastGregarAndCybeastFalzar'', [[spoiler:Mayor Cain, [[EvilTeacher who's also the principal of Cyber Academy]]]], is this, planning to use the titular Cybeasts to [[spoiler:take revenge on society for ostracizing his grandfather, who was the creator of Falzar]]. [[spoiler:However, Wily and Chaud prove to be a few steps ahead of him, making him little more than a BigBadWannabe]].
127	* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'', city alderman Richard Hughes plans to become this by [[spoiler: tricking the PlayerCharacter into killing the previous mayor and others, but is KilledOffForReal himself]]. In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' his wife actually becomes this, even going so far as to hire the leader of a powerful criminal organization to [[EvilIsPetty spray fecal matter at]] [[MegaCorp Ultor]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext properties around town]].
128	-->'''[[AllCheeringAllTheTime Cheerleaders]]:''' [[RhymesOnADime It's okay, we won't lose,]] [[SleazyPolitician we'll just cheat like Mayor Hughes!]]
129	** Averted in [[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird the third game in the series]]. Monica Hughes is no longer mayor of [[ViceCity Stilwater]], and the mayor of [[WretchedHive Steelport]], [[spoiler: [[AsHimself Burt Reynolds]]]], is a pretty nice guy.
130	* ''VideoGame/ScarletHollow'': Mayor Jimmy doesn't have any real authority on account of being [[AuthorityInNameOnly a dog with an honorary title]], but a player who SpeaksFluentAnimal can learn that he knows that pets around town have been disappearing and seems to believe that he would be able to do something about it if he chose, but doesn't want to because publicly acknowledging it might scare away tourists. This is despite Scarlet Hollow being a run-down old mining town that barely gets any tourism at all.
131	* Mayor Scuttlebutt from the ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series is an Incompetent Mayor Pain on the verge of being a RunningGag. While a reasonable enough official in the first game, his incompetency begins to show in ''Risky's Revenge'' when he fires Shantae from her job and later sells the town to the Ammo Baron rather than try and deal with his forces and Risky at the same time. In ''Pirate's Curse'', he would have been able to buy Scuttle Town back from the Ammo Baron...IF he hadn't spent the between-game interim eating the cheap waxy chocolates bought with the money he got for the deed. And then in ''Half-Genie Hero'', he fires Shantae ''again'' after Risky's attack leaves Main Street in flames and gives her post to Holly.
132	* In the ''VideoGame/SimCity'' series of games, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential the players themselves]] can easily invoke this, due to the whole UltimateAuthorityMayor aspect giving you control of natural disasters and {{Alien Invasion}}s.
133	* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': The Death Knight's starting campaign has the player, still in service to the Lich King, conquer and destroy a nearby human settlement. As you approach the town hall, you can hear the villagers berating their mayor (named [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Quimby]]) for getting them to settle so near the Scourge, basically leading them to their doom.
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137	* ''WebAnimation/{{Bugbo}}'': Mayor Quentin is the evil variety. He's a haughty and rude individual in every way. When he tripped on a circus ball one day, he was so furious that he [[DisproportionateRetribution declared ALL circuses illegal]], ruining the Hollow Clown's life.
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141	* Albus Ivory of ''Webcomic/ColourWheel'' is an interesting mix of the Evil and Incompetent variants. He enacts crazy plans to take over the city, even though he's already the mayor; these plans are ridiculous, ineffectual, overly complex, easily thwarted, and cause massive damage to the city. And in one case, [[http://colourwheelcomic.com/comic/page-42/ possibly every city on the coastline.]]
142	* In ''Webcomic/DarylAndSusie'', Daryl the dragon has a town in his head, run by an Evil Mayor Pain (based loosely on the Mayor from ''Buffy''). This Mayor incessantly tries to get Daryl upset, for doing so makes monsters appear from Daryl's head, and collaborates with Daryl's arch-nemesis Aosoth [[spoiler: before becoming TheStarscream]].
143	* Played with in ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes''. Kurgh the Conqueror — warlord and scourge of the galaxy — conquers Shitropolis in his first appearance, however based on his later appearances he is a competent and dedicated mayor, doing his best to run the city efficiently. The previous mayor was likely a straight example, given that he gleefully quits when Kurgh demands leadership of the city and runs away laughing, clutching a BriefcaseFullOfMoney.
144	* Mayor Sidewinder of ''Webcomic/PoisonIvyGulch'' is the incompetent type and he comes off as a SleazyPolitician too. Examples of his incompetence are [[http://www.poisonivygulch.com/comic/poison-ivy-gulch-12-2-2020/ renaming a street rather than clean its stench]] and [[http://www.poisonivygulch.com/comic/poison-ivy-gulch-10-11-2020/ giving a non-answer]] to a citizen's question.
145	* Mayor Mike of [[QuirkyTown Teufort]] in ''Webcomic/TeamFortress2'' is definitely a Mayor Evil, [[FauxAffablyEvil acting completely friendly]] while he charges [[PunchClockVillain the Spy and the Scout]] not for the crimes they've actually committed, [[TheChessmaster but as scapegoats for the awful things he's done as mayor]]. [[spoiler:He's actually a Mayor Incompetent, as he did all those things because [[ObliviouslyEvil he's too brain-damaged to know they were wrong]] (and his constituents are no better).]]
146	* Leonard Zachary of the Shanafelt City Council from ''Webcomic/TruLifeAdventures'' is this in all but title. Getting the city to restore the position of mayor is high on his list of priorities.
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150	%%* ''Literature/{{Decembersville}}'' has Chimabell, who is most definitely the evil variant.
151	* In the Roleplay/{{Crinoverse}} [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist King Bradley]] is the mayor of Emerald City, and corrupt and evil as all get-out.
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155	* "His Dishonor, [[EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep The Mayor]]" from ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' is basically the closest thing the titular Action League has to an arch-nemesis, and plain [[CardCarryingVillain card-carrying evil]] to boot, frequently plotting to harm or kill the League, or harm other people. ([[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed His voice is a parody of then-Pittsburgh mayor Tom Murphy]], as the voice cast of the show worked on a morning radio show there.) We only ever see him doing evil things, rather than actually, you know, [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything mayoring]], which leads to the question... What ''is'' he the mayor of?
156	-->'''Stinky Diver:''' Don't look at me. I didn't vote for him.
157	* The mayor of Elmore in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Nuisance" tries to force the Watterson family out of town for being a public nuisance. While this is morally questionable, his actual reasons turn out to be far worse: Them holding down property values is all that prevents a plan to gentrify the town into a gated community, [[VillainousGentrification displacing most of its current residents]].
158	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Mayor Toadstool is basically Joe Quimby as a toad. He's a corrupt, sleazy, and amoral official who regularly embezzles the town's money, frequently tries to bribe his way to victory, and is clearly in the position for himself. He begins a HeelFaceTurn towards the end of Season 1 when he helps Anne save the town twice; by mid-season 2, he realizes he actually cares for the town and its people, turning down a major promotion to stay in Wartwood.
159	* Hamilton Hill as portrayed in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' was a mild example of the incompetent type, mostly as focused on Batman specifically; he's antagonistic towards Batman despite his merits (going so far as to authorise an armed task force, albeit when it does appear that Batman has started murdering people), and could be a bit critical of Gordon's decisions. In terms of actually running the city, he's fairly decent, and often depicted presiding over improvements of the city's infrastructure. Though, compared to his comic and Telltale incarnations, [[AdaptationalHeroism he's not the Mayor Evil type]].
160	* Mayor Pelican from ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' certainly counts, as his incompetence and [[ItsAllAboutMe narcissism]] cause plenty of annoyance for the people of Greenpatch.
161	* Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius eventually becomes this in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', abusing his authority to antagonize Danny.
162	* Mayor Robert "Bob" White on ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', whose entire platform seems to be "Vote for me!" He never seems to do anything but campaign for re-election, which is probably why he ends up being replaced by Doug's neighbor [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Mrs. Dink]].
163	%%* Creator/AdamWest would be the Incompetent Mayor Pain in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
164	%%** One episode had Lois manage to replace him as Mayor, only to become an evil variant. At the end of the episode, she pulls a WhatHaveIDone moment and promptly [[StatusQuoIsGod hands the office back over to West]].
165	* Mayor Mellow from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' is a bumbling idiot who takes advice from a picture of his late mother and often dishes out {{Disproportionate Retribution}}s in response to anything disrupting Peaceville's, erm, peace.
166	* Mayor Peeve from ''WesternAnimation/MiddlemostPost'', while not particularly evil in general, will often let his grudge against Angus and the Middlemost Post (held because Angus’s ship, parked atop Mount Middlemost, leaves City Hall in its perpetual shadow) get in the way of his mayor duties to the detriment of his citizens; for example, purchasing a robot to drive the post out of business while not accounting for the damage it causes.
167	* Mayor André Bourgeois from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' is a heavily implied SleazyPolitician who frequently abuses his power to spoil his daughter [[AlphaBitch Chloé]].
168	* [[spoiler:Clay Puppington]] from ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', who hates his job, lets himself be influenced by EvilMatriarch wannabe Miss Censordoll, and banned ''eggs'' from Moralton, on the surface because eggs are laid from sinful places [[spoiler:but really because it factored into his [[ChildSupplantsParent oedipus complex]]]].
169	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}:'' Season 15 has Mayor [[MeaningfulName N. Trustable]], who is rude to the ninja right from the off (despite the whole "saved the world from destruction ''repeatedly''" thing) and cares more about fussing over his cat and playing office golf than anything else. When the inevitable villain attack occurs, he runs away and isn't seen again.
170	* From ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', the town of Hill Valley is governed by Mayor Johnny "The Mayor" Bledsoe, a masked wrestler (talks like an American pro wrestler, wears a luchador mask with a nice suit). He's a good balance of evil and incompetence, like all authority figures in the series.
171	* Mayor Spryman from ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'' is a Quimby, a stuck-up bratty punk of a teenager that has no business being in charge of a city, though considering that Hector is a teenager it's most likely a factor of his personality that Spryman is not only mayor but acts the way he is.
172	* The Mayor of Townsville from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' is so incompetent, he somehow managed to kill Navi when playing ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]''. It's safe to assume that the ''real'' mayor of Townsville is [[HypercompetentSidekick his much smarter assistant]], Sarah Bellum.
173	** The episode ''Impeach Fuzz'' sees him temporarily replaced by Fuzzy Lumpkins, [[RoguesGallery a recurring villain]].
174	** In "Bought and Scold", Princess, another one of the girls' recurring villains, becomes mayor after buying it out from Mayor. The first thing she does is make crime legal as a way to get back at the girls.
175	* After the events of the first season finale of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', Mayor Jones is a definite Evil Mayor Pain. In that one episode, we learn that [[spoiler:he moved to Crystal Cove only to look for treasure, blackmailed the original Mystery Inc. into leaving, double-crossed Professor Pericles, dressed up as the Freak of Crystal Cove, and to top it off, concealed the true identity of Fred's real parents while raising him as his own son]].
176	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
177	** Mayor Joe Quimby provides the name for the Incompetent Mayor Pain. An outright corrupt, opportunistic, embarrassing, sleazy politician who couldn't care less for Springfield.
178	** Sideshow Bob briefly became mayor in "Sideshow Bob Roberts". While his general administration isn't shown as especially terrible, he abuses his power to torment the Simpsons, having Bart [[HeldBackInSchool sent back to Kindergarten]] ([[{{Unishment}} not that he minds much]]) and [[CommunityThreateningConstruction redirecting a freeway bridge over their house]]. He also ([[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat needlessly]]) [[VoteEarlyVoteOften stuffed the ballot box]].
179	** When Springfield briefly split into two towns over area codes, Homer was elected mayor of New Springfield and ran it into the ground in a few days. [[MayorOfAGhostTown The entire population except the Simpson family abandoned his side of town]] when he built a wall surrounding it.
180	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Mayor Knuckles", Knuckles is asked to fill in for the mayor for an afternoon. He quickly turns into a Quimby, approving any proposal brought before him without reading it first and creating a lot of problems in the process. For example, he allows the town’s only garbageman to take an immediate six-month vacation without hiring a replacement, causing everyone’s trash to pile up uncollected.
181	* Mayor Bill Dewey from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' seems like an image-obsessed blowhard in his early appearances, but it ends up being subverted. It turns out he ''does'' actually care about the townsfolk; he views his job as putting their well-being first -- and he doesn't want a riot breaking out, especially considering what the [[DestructiveSavior Crystal Gems]] tend to do to the town. In "Dewey Wins", when he finally realizes he's in over his head with recent events, he abandons his re-election campaign and allows [[spoiler: Nanefua Pizza]] to become the new mayor of Beach City.
182	* Mayor Manx from ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' is the incompetent type- he pushes all his work on his Deputy Mayor, Callie Briggs, and is mainly concerned with getting reelected. This caused some issues in one episode when it transpires he's the descendant of a famous "[=MegaWar=] II" fighter pilot named the "Blue Manx", and the Blue Manx's old nemesis, the Red Lynx, comes back as a ghost pilot to wreak havoc and settle his old score.
183	* [[NoNameGiven The Mayor]] of ''WesternAnimation/TomGoesToTheMayor'', who is so impossibly incompetent that he crosses a line and borders on being the evil kind of this trope.
184	* A lot of the problems of Griffin Rock in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' can be lain at the feet of Mayor H.B. Luskey. A lot of problems in the town stem from his ego, blame-shifting, and total ineptitude at pretty much everything he does. He's at his worst in "The Vigilant Town", where he demands that an experimental computer meant to protect the town be turned on full power, even after it demonstrates that it's willing to violate civil liberties to perform its function. [[spoiler: In Season 4, after the Rescue Bots reveal themselves as aliens, Chase runs against Luskey and wins--but Chase being TheSpock, a RulesLawyer, and a strict ByTheBookCop didn't make him any better and he resigned, with Luskey resuming the post.]]
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