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* ArchEnemy: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) He seemed to particularly dislike United States President RonaldReagan, who gave him the nickname \
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* ArchEnemy: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) He seemed to particularly dislike United States President RonaldReagan, who gave him the nickname \\\"the mad dog of the Middle East\\\". The rebels held this view of Gaddafi himself.
* AxCrazy: Many, \\\'\\\'many\\\'\\\' political figures, critics and commentators called him out on his rather psychotic mindset. To repeat, Reagan called him \\\"the mad dog of the Middle East\\\", and Nimeiry once said he had a split personality, \\\"both sides evil\\\".
* BaldOfEvil: His son [[http://images.alarabiya.net/said_al-islam_10119_1961.jpg Saif al-Islam]]. And possibly Gaddafi himself.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: While in power, Gaddafi put surveillance in government, in factories and in the education center to keep an eye on them, ordered assassinations and placed bounties on critics around the world, forbade anyone from forming political parties, made it illegal for Libyans to engage in political conversations with foreigners, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext removed foreign languages from school curricula]].
* TheCaligula: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Showed many signs of this, beginning with his extravagant clothing and speeches. On other hand, he somehow managed to stay in power for 42 years despite impoverishing his people, allowing in foreign workers while many of his own people were unemployed. He butchered the education system, removing history and going so far as to claim [[ScienceIsBad scientific subjects are]] \\\'\\\'[[ScienceIsBad useless]]\\\'\\\'.
** He organized executions \\\'\\\'just to make an example\\\'\\\', admitting that \\\"some innocent should be killed to scare the real criminals\\\", attended by college students, complete with live TV broadcasting. He kidnapped a Lebanese girl scout to make her one of his female bodyguards. Let\\\'s not get started with those guards... it seems virginity was one of his criteria.
* CallingYourAttacks / NiceJobFixingItVillain: (Only NiceJobFixingItVillain is indexed on NRLEP) What eventually got him overthrown, when he announced to Libya and the world that he would massacre any who stood against him in Benghazi and everywhere else. That had acted as the catalyst the UN needed to authorize a no fly zone and have NATO carry out an aerial intervention.
* EliteMooks: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Besides his female bodyguards, there\\\'s also the infamous \\\"Khamis Brigade\\\" named after one of his sons.
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: His famous \\\"Zenga Zenga\\\" speech.
* EpicFail: His attempts to destabilize neighboring Chad by supporting various rebel groups backfired so spectacularly, he actually \\\'\\\'reinforced\\\'\\\' Chadian unity by causing the [[EnemyMine rebels and the government to team up to fight him.]]
* EvilOverlord
* EvilIsHammy: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) Sort of his thing.
* FourStarBadass: {{Averted}}. For all the resistance his loyalists put up in the battle for Sirte, he himself went down rather quickly when the rebels captured him (in fact, his death process was probably extended by the rebels [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown deciding to beat the hell out of him]] rather than just straight-out killing him).
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He started off as a small-time junior officer, but then became the military dictator of Libya for 42 years.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) The rest of the world really got physically involved in the 2011 uprising after Gaddafi started threatening to blow passenger jets out of the sky if the UN didn\\\'t butt out, resulting other countries actively helping the rebels\\\' attempt to bring him down.
** Doubly so, since Libya has actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 done this before.]]
** He was reportedly fearful of military coups against him and deliberately kept his army weak to prevent this.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Apparently [[http://www.france24.com/en/20120920-muammar-gaddafi-rape-weapon-libya-annick-cojean-le-monde-sexual-slavery-harem-abuse-women several Libyan women were raped by him]]. [[BlatantLies Not surprising at all, since no Libyan woman would ever say no to the Brother Leader]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[SaddamHussein Just like another infamous Arab dictator]], he plastered the capital with enormous posters of himself (they were cheerfully torn down and burnt when the rebels captured the city). Reportedly he gave a gift to his underlings of watches with his face on the dial.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Relative to his later-in-life, melted-face look, the young Gaddafi looked [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqbJ7aNhlNI/TWKq5USrdiI/AAAAAAAARQo/1XPnSG9iI00/s1600/gaddafi_01.jpg pretty handsome]].
* KillItWithFire: One of his many KickTheDog moments during the war was to round up several dozen of his opponents in a cell and execute them with grenades, strictly ForTheEvulz. [Though KillItWithFire isn\\\'t indexed, ForTheEvulz is under EvilTropes and KickTheDog is also indexed on NRLEP]
* LastVillainStand: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) After the brigade in charge of defending Tripoli surrendered without a fight, he was considered an AnticlimaxBoss for a time, until his [[TheRemnant remnant]] made their stand in his [[DoomedHometown hometown of Sirte]], where they resisted the rebels for nearly a month. He was killed as the city fell.
** The loyalists sure put up one helluva fight - according to ThatOtherWiki, the total number of rebel casualties is six times higher than that of the loyalists. And the loyalists were greatly outnumbered, too (1,000-5,000 vs. 16,000 rebels).
* {{Narcissist}}
* NearVillainVictory: His forces [[TheSiege were at the outskirts of Benghazi]] before [[BigDamnHeroes the NATO airforce showed up.]]
* NoHonorAmongThieves: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) He was betrayed by fellow dictator and President of UsefulNotes/{{Syria}}, Bashar al-Assad, in his final days if [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9577628/Bashar-al-Assad-betrayed-Col-Gaddafi-to-save-his-Syrian-regime.html this]] \\\'\\\'[[BritishNewspapers Telegraph]]\\\'\\\' article is anything to go by. [[note]] Synopsis: Gaddafi was contacting a Syrian TV station via satellite phone to broadcast his messages in Libya. Assad negotiated a deal with the French to hand over the number in exchange for a lifting of pressure on \\\'\\\'his\\\'\\\' regime.[[/note]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: If you look at some of his quotes such as that \\\"a woman has the right to vote whether she is male or female\\\" or \\\"without electricity we would all be watching television in the dark\\\" or proclaiming himself the king of kings in Africa, it seems like he was a complete moron, [[MagnificentBastard but he did manage to stay in power for 42 years in a highly tribal country and survived a superpower trying to kill him]] in TheEighties. Read more [[http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=209503 here]].
* PermanentElectedOfficial: Averted. Gaddafi served as Secretary-General of the General People\\\'s Congress (or Head of State) after the revolution in 1967 but resigned from the post in 1977. Part of his argument against standing down was that he didn\\\'t have an official office to \\\'\\\'resign\\\'\\\' from.
* RasputinianDeath: The precise details are uncertain, but apparently this is how things went: his convoy was strafed by French warplanes, he was hit in the legs, he fled and was captured, and was shot at least two more times in the torso and head. It\\\'s not known if he was hit by stray fire or just executed.
* {{Troll}}: In general with regards to other nations, but particularly the Arab League and once famously the UN General Assembly back in 2009.
** There\\\'s a famous picture (in the Arab world at least) of Gaddafi smoking a cigar at an Arab League meeting as he ignores the guard leaning over to tell him to put it out. The most hilarious thing is that he didn\\\'t even smoke at the time; he literally did it solely to thumb his nose at convention.
* TheUsurper: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) As mentioned above, he came to power through a coup against King Idris of Libya.
* VillainousCrush: On former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, no less. The rebels even found [[StalkerShrine a sizable photo album full of pictures of her]] in his compound.
** Secretary Rice actually visited him once. She was creeped out when he showed her a FanVid he\\\'d had made of her. It featured a song called \\\"Black Flower in the White House\\\", which he had had written for her. She discusses it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DslgLuDqs here]].
* VillainousBreakdown / SanitySlippage: Compare him as a small-time colonel to how he was as a dictator. Just when the world thought the guy couldn\\\'t get any crazier, he started ranting about the uprising against him by his own people being fueled by Zionist agents, imperialist foreign powers and LSD,[[note]]Well, \\\"hallucinogenic pills\\\", which became [[MemeticMutation a pan-Arab meme]] for a while[[/note]] while accusing the Western countries of orchestrating the whole thing in an insidious plot to destroy Libya\\\'s air conditioners.
** This was just the tip of the iceberg for this trope. The more his power slipped, the more his sanity devolved. Many dictators get hit by this pretty hard when their power is threatened, and Gaddafi just fell significantly faster than most.
** Of particular interest is the speech he gave while sitting in a broken car in a blown up building holding an umbrella, a large part of which was him commenting on the rain. No, we don\\\'t get it either.
** After being deposed, he issued an epic rant which just screams this trope. In it he made three very conflicting points at once, including basically saying \\\"fuck you\\\" to Libya \\\'\\\'while\\\'\\\' encouraging them to rise up and [[CompletelyMissingThePoint rebel against the, well, rebels]].
* AxCrazy: Many, \\\'\\\'many\\\'\\\' political figures, critics and commentators called him out on his rather psychotic mindset. To repeat, Reagan called him \\\"the mad dog of the Middle East\\\", and Nimeiry once said he had a split personality, \\\"both sides evil\\\".
* BaldOfEvil: His son [[http://images.alarabiya.net/said_al-islam_10119_1961.jpg Saif al-Islam]]. And possibly Gaddafi himself.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: While in power, Gaddafi put surveillance in government, in factories and in the education center to keep an eye on them, ordered assassinations and placed bounties on critics around the world, forbade anyone from forming political parties, made it illegal for Libyans to engage in political conversations with foreigners, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext removed foreign languages from school curricula]].
* TheCaligula: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Showed many signs of this, beginning with his extravagant clothing and speeches. On other hand, he somehow managed to stay in power for 42 years despite impoverishing his people, allowing in foreign workers while many of his own people were unemployed. He butchered the education system, removing history and going so far as to claim [[ScienceIsBad scientific subjects are]] \\\'\\\'[[ScienceIsBad useless]]\\\'\\\'.
** He organized executions \\\'\\\'just to make an example\\\'\\\', admitting that \\\"some innocent should be killed to scare the real criminals\\\", attended by college students, complete with live TV broadcasting. He kidnapped a Lebanese girl scout to make her one of his female bodyguards. Let\\\'s not get started with those guards... it seems virginity was one of his criteria.
* CallingYourAttacks / NiceJobFixingItVillain: (Only NiceJobFixingItVillain is indexed on NRLEP) What eventually got him overthrown, when he announced to Libya and the world that he would massacre any who stood against him in Benghazi and everywhere else. That had acted as the catalyst the UN needed to authorize a no fly zone and have NATO carry out an aerial intervention.
* EliteMooks: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Besides his female bodyguards, there\\\'s also the infamous \\\"Khamis Brigade\\\" named after one of his sons.
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: His famous \\\"Zenga Zenga\\\" speech.
* EpicFail: His attempts to destabilize neighboring Chad by supporting various rebel groups backfired so spectacularly, he actually \\\'\\\'reinforced\\\'\\\' Chadian unity by causing the [[EnemyMine rebels and the government to team up to fight him.]]
* EvilOverlord
* EvilIsHammy: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) Sort of his thing.
* FourStarBadass: {{Averted}}. For all the resistance his loyalists put up in the battle for Sirte, he himself went down rather quickly when the rebels captured him (in fact, his death process was probably extended by the rebels [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown deciding to beat the hell out of him]] rather than just straight-out killing him).
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He started off as a small-time junior officer, but then became the military dictator of Libya for 42 years.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) The rest of the world really got physically involved in the 2011 uprising after Gaddafi started threatening to blow passenger jets out of the sky if the UN didn\\\'t butt out, resulting other countries actively helping the rebels\\\' attempt to bring him down.
** Doubly so, since Libya has actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 done this before.]]
** He was reportedly fearful of military coups against him and deliberately kept his army weak to prevent this.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Apparently [[http://www.france24.com/en/20120920-muammar-gaddafi-rape-weapon-libya-annick-cojean-le-monde-sexual-slavery-harem-abuse-women several Libyan women were raped by him]]. [[BlatantLies Not surprising at all, since no Libyan woman would ever say no to the Brother Leader]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[SaddamHussein Just like another infamous Arab dictator]], he plastered the capital with enormous posters of himself (they were cheerfully torn down and burnt when the rebels captured the city). Reportedly he gave a gift to his underlings of watches with his face on the dial.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Relative to his later-in-life, melted-face look, the young Gaddafi looked [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqbJ7aNhlNI/TWKq5USrdiI/AAAAAAAARQo/1XPnSG9iI00/s1600/gaddafi_01.jpg pretty handsome]].
* KillItWithFire: One of his many KickTheDog moments during the war was to round up several dozen of his opponents in a cell and execute them with grenades, strictly ForTheEvulz. [Though KillItWithFire isn\\\'t indexed, ForTheEvulz is under EvilTropes and KickTheDog is also indexed on NRLEP]
* LastVillainStand: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) After the brigade in charge of defending Tripoli surrendered without a fight, he was considered an AnticlimaxBoss for a time, until his [[TheRemnant remnant]] made their stand in his [[DoomedHometown hometown of Sirte]], where they resisted the rebels for nearly a month. He was killed as the city fell.
** The loyalists sure put up one helluva fight - according to ThatOtherWiki, the total number of rebel casualties is six times higher than that of the loyalists. And the loyalists were greatly outnumbered, too (1,000-5,000 vs. 16,000 rebels).
* {{Narcissist}}
* NearVillainVictory: His forces [[TheSiege were at the outskirts of Benghazi]] before [[BigDamnHeroes the NATO airforce showed up.]]
* NoHonorAmongThieves: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) He was betrayed by fellow dictator and President of UsefulNotes/{{Syria}}, Bashar al-Assad, in his final days if [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9577628/Bashar-al-Assad-betrayed-Col-Gaddafi-to-save-his-Syrian-regime.html this]] \\\'\\\'[[BritishNewspapers Telegraph]]\\\'\\\' article is anything to go by. [[note]] Synopsis: Gaddafi was contacting a Syrian TV station via satellite phone to broadcast his messages in Libya. Assad negotiated a deal with the French to hand over the number in exchange for a lifting of pressure on \\\'\\\'his\\\'\\\' regime.[[/note]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: If you look at some of his quotes such as that \\\"a woman has the right to vote whether she is male or female\\\" or \\\"without electricity we would all be watching television in the dark\\\" or proclaiming himself the king of kings in Africa, it seems like he was a complete moron, [[MagnificentBastard but he did manage to stay in power for 42 years in a highly tribal country and survived a superpower trying to kill him]] in TheEighties. Read more [[http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=209503 here]].
* PermanentElectedOfficial: Averted. Gaddafi served as Secretary-General of the General People\\\'s Congress (or Head of State) after the revolution in 1967 but resigned from the post in 1977. Part of his argument against standing down was that he didn\\\'t have an official office to \\\'\\\'resign\\\'\\\' from.
* RasputinianDeath: The precise details are uncertain, but apparently this is how things went: his convoy was strafed by French warplanes, he was hit in the legs, he fled and was captured, and was shot at least two more times in the torso and head. It\\\'s not known if he was hit by stray fire or just executed.
* {{Troll}}: In general with regards to other nations, but particularly the Arab League and once famously the UN General Assembly back in 2009.
** There\\\'s a famous picture (in the Arab world at least) of Gaddafi smoking a cigar at an Arab League meeting as he ignores the guard leaning over to tell him to put it out. The most hilarious thing is that he didn\\\'t even smoke at the time; he literally did it solely to thumb his nose at convention.
* TheUsurper: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) As mentioned above, he came to power through a coup against King Idris of Libya.
* VillainousCrush: On former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, no less. The rebels even found [[StalkerShrine a sizable photo album full of pictures of her]] in his compound.
** Secretary Rice actually visited him once. She was creeped out when he showed her a FanVid he\\\'d had made of her. It featured a song called \\\"Black Flower in the White House\\\", which he had had written for her. She discusses it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DslgLuDqs here]].
* VillainousBreakdown / SanitySlippage: Compare him as a small-time colonel to how he was as a dictator. Just when the world thought the guy couldn\\\'t get any crazier, he started ranting about the uprising against him by his own people being fueled by Zionist agents, imperialist foreign powers and LSD,[[note]]Well, \\\"hallucinogenic pills\\\", which became [[MemeticMutation a pan-Arab meme]] for a while[[/note]] while accusing the Western countries of orchestrating the whole thing in an insidious plot to destroy Libya\\\'s air conditioners.
** This was just the tip of the iceberg for this trope. The more his power slipped, the more his sanity devolved. Many dictators get hit by this pretty hard when their power is threatened, and Gaddafi just fell significantly faster than most.
** Of particular interest is the speech he gave while sitting in a broken car in a blown up building holding an umbrella, a large part of which was him commenting on the rain. No, we don\\\'t get it either.
** After being deposed, he issued an epic rant which just screams this trope. In it he made three very conflicting points at once, including basically saying \\\"fuck you\\\" to Libya \\\'\\\'while\\\'\\\' encouraging them to rise up and [[CompletelyMissingThePoint rebel against the, well, rebels]].
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* ArchEnemy: [[note]]Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes[[/note]] He seemed to particularly dislike United States President RonaldReagan, who gave him the nickname \
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* ArchEnemy: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) He seemed to particularly dislike United States President RonaldReagan, who gave him the nickname \\\"the mad dog of the Middle East\\\". The rebels held this view of Gaddafi himself.
* AxCrazy: Many, \\\'\\\'many\\\'\\\' political figures, critics and commentators called him out on his rather psychotic mindset. To repeat, Reagan called him \\\"the mad dog of the Middle East\\\", and Nimeiry once said he had a split personality, \\\"both sides evil\\\".
* BaldOfEvil: His son [[http://images.alarabiya.net/said_al-islam_10119_1961.jpg Saif al-Islam]]. And possibly Gaddafi himself.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: While in power, Gaddafi put surveillance in government, in factories and in the education center to keep an eye on them, ordered assassinations and placed bounties on critics around the world, forbade anyone from forming political parties, made it illegal for Libyans to engage in political conversations with foreigners, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext removed foreign languages from school curricula]].
* TheCaligula: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Showed many signs of this, beginning with his extravagant clothing and speeches. On other hand, he somehow managed to stay in power for 42 years despite impoverishing his people, allowing in foreign workers while many of his own people were unemployed. He butchered the education system, removing history and going so far as to claim [[ScienceIsBad scientific subjects are]] \\\'\\\'[[ScienceIsBad useless]]\\\'\\\'.
** He organized executions \\\'\\\'just to make an example\\\'\\\', admitting that \\\"some innocent should be killed to scare the real criminals\\\", attended by college students, complete with live TV broadcasting. He kidnapped a Lebanese girl scout to make her one of his female bodyguards. Let\\\'s not get started with those guards... it seems virginity was one of his criteria.
* CallingYourAttacks / NiceJobFixingItVillain: (
Only NiceJobFixingItVillain is indexed on NRLEP) What eventually got him overthrown, when he announced to Libya and the world that he would massacre any who stood against him in Benghazi and everywhere else. That had acted as the catalyst the UN needed to authorize a no fly zone and have NATO carry out an aerial intervention.
* EliteMooks: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Besides his female bodyguards, there\\\'s also the infamous \\\"Khamis Brigade\\\" named after one of his sons.
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: His famous \\\"Zenga Zenga\\\" speech.
* EpicFail: His attempts to destabilize neighboring Chad by supporting various rebel groups backfired so spectacularly, he actually \\\'\\\'reinforced\\\'\\\' Chadian unity by causing the [[EnemyMine rebels and the government to team up to fight him.]]
* EvilOverlord
* EvilIsHammy: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) Sort of his thing.
* FourStarBadass: {{Averted}}. For all the resistance his loyalists put up in the battle for Sirte, he himself went down rather quickly when the rebels captured him (in fact, his death process was probably extended by the rebels [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown deciding to beat the hell out of him]] rather than just straight-out killing him).
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He started off as a small-time junior officer, but then became the military dictator of Libya for 42 years.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) The rest of the world really got physically involved in the 2011 uprising after Gaddafi started threatening to blow passenger jets out of the sky if the UN didn\\\'t butt out, resulting other countries actively helping the rebels\\\' attempt to bring him down.
** Doubly so, since Libya has actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 done this before.]]
** He was reportedly fearful of military coups against him and deliberately kept his army weak to prevent this.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Apparently [[http://www.france24.com/en/20120920-muammar-gaddafi-rape-weapon-libya-annick-cojean-le-monde-sexual-slavery-harem-abuse-women several Libyan women were raped by him]]. [[BlatantLies Not surprising at all, since no Libyan woman would ever say no to the Brother Leader]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[SaddamHussein Just like another infamous Arab dictator]], he plastered the capital with enormous posters of himself (they were cheerfully torn down and burnt when the rebels captured the city). Reportedly he gave a gift to his underlings of watches with his face on the dial.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Relative to his later-in-life, melted-face look, the young Gaddafi looked [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqbJ7aNhlNI/TWKq5USrdiI/AAAAAAAARQo/1XPnSG9iI00/s1600/gaddafi_01.jpg pretty handsome]].
* KillItWithFire: One of his many KickTheDog moments during the war was to round up several dozen of his opponents in a cell and execute them with grenades, strictly ForTheEvulz. [Though KillItWithFire isn\\\'t indexed, ForTheEvulz is under EvilTropes and KickTheDog is also indexed on NRLEP]
* LastVillainStand: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) After the brigade in charge of defending Tripoli surrendered without a fight, he was considered an AnticlimaxBoss for a time, until his [[TheRemnant remnant]] made their stand in his [[DoomedHometown hometown of Sirte]], where they resisted the rebels for nearly a month. He was killed as the city fell.
** The loyalists sure put up one helluva fight - according to ThatOtherWiki, the total number of rebel casualties is six times higher than that of the loyalists. And the loyalists were greatly outnumbered, too (1,000-5,000 vs. 16,000 rebels).
* {{Narcissist}}
* NearVillainVictory: His forces [[TheSiege were at the outskirts of Benghazi]] before [[BigDamnHeroes the NATO airforce showed up.]]
* NoHonorAmongThieves: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) He was betrayed by fellow dictator and President of UsefulNotes/{{Syria}}, Bashar al-Assad, in his final days if [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9577628/Bashar-al-Assad-betrayed-Col-Gaddafi-to-save-his-Syrian-regime.html this]] \\\'\\\'[[BritishNewspapers Telegraph]]\\\'\\\' article is anything to go by. [[note]] Synopsis: Gaddafi was contacting a Syrian TV station via satellite phone to broadcast his messages in Libya. Assad negotiated a deal with the French to hand over the number in exchange for a lifting of pressure on \\\'\\\'his\\\'\\\' regime.[[/note]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: If you look at some of his quotes such as that \\\"a woman has the right to vote whether she is male or female\\\" or \\\"without electricity we would all be watching television in the dark\\\" or proclaiming himself the king of kings in Africa, it seems like he was a complete moron, [[MagnificentBastard but he did manage to stay in power for 42 years in a highly tribal country and survived a superpower trying to kill him]] in TheEighties. Read more [[http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=209503 here]].
* PermanentElectedOfficial: Averted. Gaddafi served as Secretary-General of the General People\\\'s Congress (or Head of State) after the revolution in 1967 but resigned from the post in 1977. Part of his argument against standing down was that he didn\\\'t have an official office to \\\'\\\'resign\\\'\\\' from.
* RasputinianDeath: The precise details are uncertain, but apparently this is how things went: his convoy was strafed by French warplanes, he was hit in the legs, he fled and was captured, and was shot at least two more times in the torso and head. It\\\'s not known if he was hit by stray fire or just executed.
* {{Troll}}: In general with regards to other nations, but particularly the Arab League and once famously the UN General Assembly back in 2009.
** There\\\'s a famous picture (in the Arab world at least) of Gaddafi smoking a cigar at an Arab League meeting as he ignores the guard leaning over to tell him to put it out. The most hilarious thing is that he didn\\\'t even smoke at the time; he literally did it solely to thumb his nose at convention.
* TheUsurper: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) As mentioned above, he came to power through a coup against King Idris of Libya.
* VillainousCrush: On former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, no less. The rebels even found [[StalkerShrine a sizable photo album full of pictures of her]] in his compound.
** Secretary Rice actually visited him once. She was creeped out when he showed her a FanVid he\\\'d had made of her. It featured a song called \\\"Black Flower in the White House\\\", which he had had written for her. She discusses it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DslgLuDqs here]].
* VillainousBreakdown / SanitySlippage: Compare him as a small-time colonel to how he was as a dictator. Just when the world thought the guy couldn\\\'t get any crazier, he started ranting about the uprising against him by his own people being fueled by Zionist agents, imperialist foreign powers and LSD,[[note]]Well, \\\"hallucinogenic pills\\\", which became [[MemeticMutation a pan-Arab meme]] for a while[[/note]] while accusing the Western countries of orchestrating the whole thing in an insidious plot to destroy Libya\\\'s air conditioners.
** This was just the tip of the iceberg for this trope. The more his power slipped, the more his sanity devolved. Many dictators get hit by this pretty hard when their power is threatened, and Gaddafi just fell significantly faster than most.
** Of particular interest is the speech he gave while sitting in a broken car in a blown up building holding an umbrella, a large part of which was him commenting on the rain. No, we don\\\'t get it either.
** After being deposed, he issued an epic rant which just screams this trope. In it he made three very conflicting points at once, including basically saying \\\"fuck you\\\" to Libya \\\'\\\'while\\\'\\\' encouraging them to rise up and [[CompletelyMissingThePoint rebel against the, well, rebels]].
* AxCrazy: Many, \\\'\\\'many\\\'\\\' political figures, critics and commentators called him out on his rather psychotic mindset. To repeat, Reagan called him \\\"the mad dog of the Middle East\\\", and Nimeiry once said he had a split personality, \\\"both sides evil\\\".
* BaldOfEvil: His son [[http://images.alarabiya.net/said_al-islam_10119_1961.jpg Saif al-Islam]]. And possibly Gaddafi himself.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: While in power, Gaddafi put surveillance in government, in factories and in the education center to keep an eye on them, ordered assassinations and placed bounties on critics around the world, forbade anyone from forming political parties, made it illegal for Libyans to engage in political conversations with foreigners, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext removed foreign languages from school curricula]].
* TheCaligula: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Showed many signs of this, beginning with his extravagant clothing and speeches. On other hand, he somehow managed to stay in power for 42 years despite impoverishing his people, allowing in foreign workers while many of his own people were unemployed. He butchered the education system, removing history and going so far as to claim [[ScienceIsBad scientific subjects are]] \\\'\\\'[[ScienceIsBad useless]]\\\'\\\'.
** He organized executions \\\'\\\'just to make an example\\\'\\\', admitting that \\\"some innocent should be killed to scare the real criminals\\\", attended by college students, complete with live TV broadcasting. He kidnapped a Lebanese girl scout to make her one of his female bodyguards. Let\\\'s not get started with those guards... it seems virginity was one of his criteria.
* CallingYourAttacks / NiceJobFixingItVillain: (
Only NiceJobFixingItVillain is indexed on NRLEP) What eventually got him overthrown, when he announced to Libya and the world that he would massacre any who stood against him in Benghazi and everywhere else. That had acted as the catalyst the UN needed to authorize a no fly zone and have NATO carry out an aerial intervention.
* EliteMooks: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) Besides his female bodyguards, there\\\'s also the infamous \\\"Khamis Brigade\\\" named after one of his sons.
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress: His famous \\\"Zenga Zenga\\\" speech.
* EpicFail: His attempts to destabilize neighboring Chad by supporting various rebel groups backfired so spectacularly, he actually \\\'\\\'reinforced\\\'\\\' Chadian unity by causing the [[EnemyMine rebels and the government to team up to fight him.]]
* EvilOverlord
* EvilIsHammy: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) Sort of his thing.
* FourStarBadass: {{Averted}}. For all the resistance his loyalists put up in the battle for Sirte, he himself went down rather quickly when the rebels captured him (in fact, his death process was probably extended by the rebels [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown deciding to beat the hell out of him]] rather than just straight-out killing him).
* FromNobodyToNightmare: He started off as a small-time junior officer, but then became the military dictator of Libya for 42 years.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) The rest of the world really got physically involved in the 2011 uprising after Gaddafi started threatening to blow passenger jets out of the sky if the UN didn\\\'t butt out, resulting other countries actively helping the rebels\\\' attempt to bring him down.
** Doubly so, since Libya has actually [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 done this before.]]
** He was reportedly fearful of military coups against him and deliberately kept his army weak to prevent this.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Apparently [[http://www.france24.com/en/20120920-muammar-gaddafi-rape-weapon-libya-annick-cojean-le-monde-sexual-slavery-harem-abuse-women several Libyan women were raped by him]]. [[BlatantLies Not surprising at all, since no Libyan woman would ever say no to the Brother Leader]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[SaddamHussein Just like another infamous Arab dictator]], he plastered the capital with enormous posters of himself (they were cheerfully torn down and burnt when the rebels captured the city). Reportedly he gave a gift to his underlings of watches with his face on the dial.
* IWasQuiteALooker: Relative to his later-in-life, melted-face look, the young Gaddafi looked [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HqbJ7aNhlNI/TWKq5USrdiI/AAAAAAAARQo/1XPnSG9iI00/s1600/gaddafi_01.jpg pretty handsome]].
* KillItWithFire: One of his many KickTheDog moments during the war was to round up several dozen of his opponents in a cell and execute them with grenades, strictly ForTheEvulz. [Though KillItWithFire isn\\\'t indexed, ForTheEvulz is under EvilTropes and KickTheDog is also indexed on NRLEP]
* LastVillainStand: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) After the brigade in charge of defending Tripoli surrendered without a fight, he was considered an AnticlimaxBoss for a time, until his [[TheRemnant remnant]] made their stand in his [[DoomedHometown hometown of Sirte]], where they resisted the rebels for nearly a month. He was killed as the city fell.
** The loyalists sure put up one helluva fight - according to ThatOtherWiki, the total number of rebel casualties is six times higher than that of the loyalists. And the loyalists were greatly outnumbered, too (1,000-5,000 vs. 16,000 rebels).
* {{Narcissist}}
* NearVillainVictory: His forces [[TheSiege were at the outskirts of Benghazi]] before [[BigDamnHeroes the NATO airforce showed up.]]
* NoHonorAmongThieves: (Not indexed on NRLEP itself, but EvilTropes is) He was betrayed by fellow dictator and President of UsefulNotes/{{Syria}}, Bashar al-Assad, in his final days if [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/9577628/Bashar-al-Assad-betrayed-Col-Gaddafi-to-save-his-Syrian-regime.html this]] \\\'\\\'[[BritishNewspapers Telegraph]]\\\'\\\' article is anything to go by. [[note]] Synopsis: Gaddafi was contacting a Syrian TV station via satellite phone to broadcast his messages in Libya. Assad negotiated a deal with the French to hand over the number in exchange for a lifting of pressure on \\\'\\\'his\\\'\\\' regime.[[/note]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: If you look at some of his quotes such as that \\\"a woman has the right to vote whether she is male or female\\\" or \\\"without electricity we would all be watching television in the dark\\\" or proclaiming himself the king of kings in Africa, it seems like he was a complete moron, [[MagnificentBastard but he did manage to stay in power for 42 years in a highly tribal country and survived a superpower trying to kill him]] in TheEighties. Read more [[http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=209503 here]].
* PermanentElectedOfficial: Averted. Gaddafi served as Secretary-General of the General People\\\'s Congress (or Head of State) after the revolution in 1967 but resigned from the post in 1977. Part of his argument against standing down was that he didn\\\'t have an official office to \\\'\\\'resign\\\'\\\' from.
* RasputinianDeath: The precise details are uncertain, but apparently this is how things went: his convoy was strafed by French warplanes, he was hit in the legs, he fled and was captured, and was shot at least two more times in the torso and head. It\\\'s not known if he was hit by stray fire or just executed.
* {{Troll}}: In general with regards to other nations, but particularly the Arab League and once famously the UN General Assembly back in 2009.
** There\\\'s a famous picture (in the Arab world at least) of Gaddafi smoking a cigar at an Arab League meeting as he ignores the guard leaning over to tell him to put it out. The most hilarious thing is that he didn\\\'t even smoke at the time; he literally did it solely to thumb his nose at convention.
* TheUsurper: (Indexed under {{Villains}}, which is a category within EvilTropes) As mentioned above, he came to power through a coup against King Idris of Libya.
* VillainousCrush: On former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, no less. The rebels even found [[StalkerShrine a sizable photo album full of pictures of her]] in his compound.
** Secretary Rice actually visited him once. She was creeped out when he showed her a FanVid he\\\'d had made of her. It featured a song called \\\"Black Flower in the White House\\\", which he had had written for her. She discusses it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DslgLuDqs here]].
* VillainousBreakdown / SanitySlippage: Compare him as a small-time colonel to how he was as a dictator. Just when the world thought the guy couldn\\\'t get any crazier, he started ranting about the uprising against him by his own people being fueled by Zionist agents, imperialist foreign powers and LSD,[[note]]Well, \\\"hallucinogenic pills\\\", which became [[MemeticMutation a pan-Arab meme]] for a while[[/note]] while accusing the Western countries of orchestrating the whole thing in an insidious plot to destroy Libya\\\'s air conditioners.
** This was just the tip of the iceberg for this trope. The more his power slipped, the more his sanity devolved. Many dictators get hit by this pretty hard when their power is threatened, and Gaddafi just fell significantly faster than most.
** Of particular interest is the speech he gave while sitting in a broken car in a blown up building holding an umbrella, a large part of which was him commenting on the rain. No, we don\\\'t get it either.
** After being deposed, he issued an epic rant which just screams this trope. In it he made three very conflicting points at once, including basically saying \\\"fuck you\\\" to Libya \\\'\\\'while\\\'\\\' encouraging them to rise up and [[CompletelyMissingThePoint rebel against the, well, rebels]].
