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* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'': Caster of Red eventually summons his own Servant.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''s BigBad, Demise has a sword so deadly, that it can summon its own swords to fight you with. [[spoiler: He accomplished this by enchanting it to take a mortal form as Ghirahim, a recurring boss.]]
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''s ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'''s BigBad, Demise has a sword so deadly, that it can summon its own swords to fight you with. [[spoiler: He accomplished this by enchanting it to take a mortal form as Ghirahim, a recurring boss.]]
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "War is the H-Word" part of the cast goes to war. Zapp Brannigan is in command and has to punish Fry for his cowardice . He wants to give him a humiliating task, so he turns to his BeleagueredAssistant Kif and asks him what's the most humiliating thing he can think of. When Kif replies that it's being Zapp's assistant, Zapp makes Fry ''Kif's'' assistant.
** Judge Ron Whitey is a wealthy arbiter of "justice". How rich is he? Note the following quote. "The charge is bank robbery. Now, my caddie's chauffeur informs me that a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested. Therefore, robbing a bank is tantamount to that most heinous of crimes, theft of money."
** Judge Ron Whitey is a wealthy arbiter of "justice". How rich is he? Note the following quote. "The charge is bank robbery. Now, my caddie's chauffeur informs me that a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested. Therefore, robbing a bank is tantamount to that most heinous of crimes, theft of money."
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** In the''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "War is the H-Word" H-Word", part of the cast goes to war. Zapp Brannigan is in command and has to punish Fry for his cowardice .cowardice. He wants to give him a humiliating task, so he turns to his BeleagueredAssistant Kif and asks him what's the most humiliating thing he can think of. When Kif replies that it's being Zapp's assistant, Zapp makes Fry ''Kif's'' assistant.
** Judge Ron Whitey is a wealthy arbiter of"justice". How "justice" so rich is he? Note the following quote. "The charge is bank robbery. Now, my that he needed "[his] caddie's chauffeur informs me that chauffeur" to tell him what a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested. Therefore, robbing a bank is tantamount to that most heinous of crimes, theft of money."was.
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* Near ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': During the end of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', its revealed that final arc, Yachiru is forced to draw her sword. Isane is baffled by the weapon as it doesn't behave like any Zanpakutou she's ever heard of. [[spoiler:Yachiru is actually Kenpachi's zanpakutou spirit, and she has eventually revealed to be the manifestation of Zaraki's own Zanpakutou; while most sword spirits will manifest copies of their master's sword (i.e., themselves in sword-form), Yachiru uses a unique sword of her own zanpakutou.that bears no resemblance to the weapon Zaraki himself wields.]]
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* ''Film/TheGodfather'': The Corleone family have several hierarchical layers that work as functional safeguards. The orders of the Don pass from the Consigliere to the Capos and finally to button men; a plot point in ''Part II'' when the Senate committee is able to produce a witness who doesn't have a buffer between him and Michael.
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* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Zip, a middleman in Cottonmouth's organization, is the one giving orders to many of Cottonmouth's other henchmen.
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* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Gyp Rosetti is the main antagonist of season 3, who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal. Rosetti, however, is merely a ''capo'' within the Morello Crime Family, considering that despite wielding complete authority over a sizable group of henchmen and territory, he still has to answer to Joe Masseria.
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* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Gyp Rosetti is the main antagonist of season 3, who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal. Rosetti, however, is merely a ''capo'' within the Morello Crime Family, considering that However, despite wielding the fact that Rosetti has complete authority over a sizable group of henchmen and territory, he still has to answer to Joe Masseria.Masseria, which makes him simply a capo within the Morello Crime Family.
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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Confederated Global Investments, a firm that is used by Wilson Fisk as a front for his criminal dealings. Karen is only able to determine from business records that it's "a subsidiary of a holding company of a loanout to a holding subsidiary and on and on and on."
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* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Confederated ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
**Confederated Global Investments, a firm that is used by Wilson Fisk as a front for his criminal dealings. When trying to trace a check from James Wesley, Karen is only able to determine from business records that it's "a subsidiary of a holding company of a loanout to a holding subsidiary and on and on and on.""
**Wilson Fisk runs the rest of his empire this way, at least until he becomes a public figure. For the most part, he uses James Wesley as a buffer between himself and his underlings.
**One case of this is made by ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Nobu Yoshioka is seen as the main leader of the Hand that Matt is taking on during ''Daredevil'' season 2, and leads a considerable number of men. However, ''The Defenders'' establishes that Nobu is just a subordinate to Murakami, one of the Fingers, and runs Murakami's New York operations in his steed.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': PlayedForLaughs when Jessica Jones, trying to search the public archives for a business named on some shipping records she got at a crime scene, finds that this business is just a shell company that is nested within another shell company, and this list of shell companies dates all the way back to 1820, with her unable to find out what this company is or what they do. It's all one giant front for the Hand.
**The Hand as a whole work this way. There are five Fingers who are the heads of the organization, and each of them has their own crew of lieutenants who give orders to underlings.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Zip, a middleman in Cottonmouth's organization, is the one giving orders to many of Cottonmouth's other henchmen.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Vampire progenies, while still bound to their maker, are allowed to become makers themselves to new progenies, although the new progeny is not bound to their maker's maker. As is the case when Pam, while still bound to Eric, ends up turning Sookie's friend Tara.
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Gyp Rosetti is the main antagonist of season 3, who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal. Rosetti, however, is merely a ''capo'' within the Morello Crime Family, considering that despite wielding complete authority over a sizable group of henchmen and territory, he still has to answer to Joe Masseria.
**Confederated Global Investments, a firm that is used by Wilson Fisk as a front for his criminal dealings. When trying to trace a check from James Wesley, Karen is only able to determine from business records that it's "a subsidiary of a holding company of a loanout to a holding subsidiary and on and on and on.
**Wilson Fisk runs the rest of his empire this way, at least until he becomes a public figure. For the most part, he uses James Wesley as a buffer between himself and his underlings.
**One case of this is made by ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': Nobu Yoshioka is seen as the main leader of the Hand that Matt is taking on during ''Daredevil'' season 2, and leads a considerable number of men. However, ''The Defenders'' establishes that Nobu is just a subordinate to Murakami, one of the Fingers, and runs Murakami's New York operations in his steed.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': PlayedForLaughs when Jessica Jones, trying to search the public archives for a business named on some shipping records she got at a crime scene, finds that this business is just a shell company that is nested within another shell company, and this list of shell companies dates all the way back to 1820, with her unable to find out what this company is or what they do. It's all one giant front for the Hand.
**The Hand as a whole work this way. There are five Fingers who are the heads of the organization, and each of them has their own crew of lieutenants who give orders to underlings.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Zip, a middleman in Cottonmouth's organization, is the one giving orders to many of Cottonmouth's other henchmen.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Vampire progenies, while still bound to their maker, are allowed to become makers themselves to new progenies, although the new progeny is not bound to their maker's maker. As is the case when Pam, while still bound to Eric, ends up turning Sookie's friend Tara.
* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': Gyp Rosetti is the main antagonist of season 3, who goes to war with Nucky after being snubbed on a large deal. Rosetti, however, is merely a ''capo'' within the Morello Crime Family, considering that despite wielding complete authority over a sizable group of henchmen and territory, he still has to answer to Joe Masseria.
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* ''Literature/AbleTeam''. In ''Justice By Fire'', the mooks on a surveillance detail are wearing $500 suits, and it's pointed out that even if you could afford such a suit, you wouldn't wear it in a car all night unless you worked for a billionaire, like a certain CorruptCorporateExecutive called Unomondo that Able Team have [[BigBad come up against before]].
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The best way to make someone or something seem extremely wealthy or powerful or what have you : state that they own ''underlings'' are still orders of magnitude richer/more powerful/what-have-you than the laymen can ever hope to me. Count Plutocrat's servants have servants, [[EvilOverlord Emperor Evulz]]'s top henchmen have {{Mordor}}s and {{Mook}}s of their own, the list goes on.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''. Yukari Yakumo is so powerful that her [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} shikigami]] has her own shikigami.
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* Downplayed in ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''. Seraphim offered to be Eucliwood's servant [[spoiler: so she could kill her]], but Eucliwood already had [[VoodooZombie Ayumu]] and wasn't interested in having two servants. So she became Ayumu's servant. In reality, this is just an excuse to stay around and complete her mission and she treats Ayumu like a servant rather than the other way around.
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* Franchise/{{Neopets}} are capable of having petpets, [[UpToEleven who in turn are capable of having petpetpets]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', the [[FantasticCasteSystem Homeworld system]] has all Gems being subservient to the Diamonds, but higher-ranked Gems are allowed servants of their own from the [[ServantRace Pearl]] caste.
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* Skelter Helter in NoMoreHeroes2 has a katana made of 3 katanas, and a revolver with a lot of bullet cylinders that themselves revolve into the revolver's body.
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** Reinforce Zwei is a [[FusionDance Unison Device]] who has her own Storage Device, The Book of the Azure Sky.
** At the end of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Agito joins the Yagami "family", although unlike all other members, she pledges loyalty not to Hayate, but to Signum (who, in turn, has pledged her life to Hayate).
** At the end of the same season, four Numbers choose to be imprisoned rather than renounce their creator Jail Scaglietti, although only three of them do so out of loyalty to him. The last one, Sette, rejects Scaglietti but chooses to remain with Tre, one of the three loyal sisters.
* Downplayed in ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''. Seraphim offered to be Eucliwood's servant [[spoiler: so she could kill her]], but Eucliwood already had [[VoodooZombie Ayumu]] and wasn't interested in having two servants. So she became Ayumu's servant. In reality, this is just an excuse to stay around and complete her mission and she treats Ayumu like a servant rather than the other way around.
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* Invoked by Manny on ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown''.
-->'''Manny:''' (about Sid) He's not my kid. He's not even my dog. If I had a dog, and that dog had a kid, and the dog's kid had a pet, ''that'' would be Sid.
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': When Jasmine recognizes "Prince Ali" as the boy she met at the marketplace, Aladdin claims that it couldn't have been him because he has servants to do his shopping for him, and that those servants have servants of their own to shop for them as well.
[[AC: Film - Live Action]]
* In ''Film/TheAvengers'', Tony Stark says of Nick Fury that "His secrets have secrets."
* In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace,'' the young slave Anakin Skywalker builds a servant robot ([=C3PO=]) to help his mother.
* In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Jane's wise-cracking intern, Darcy, from the previous movie now has her own intern, Ian,...and she's still an intern.
[[AC: {{Literature}}]]
* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', the eponymous character mentions this trope while explaining to Baptistin why he won't allow Baptistin's embezzlement to continue.
-->''Though a servant, you yourself have servants who take care of your laundry and your belongings. [...]Nowhere will you find a position comparable to the one that good fortune has gotten you here.''
* In ''Literature/MidnightTides'', Tehol Beddict's true and far reaching financial influence is shown when the dredging rights to the city's canals are discussed. Tehol tries to divert attention away from himself by saying the dredging rights are already owned by a merchant named Biri, but Shand points out that Tehol in turn owns Biri, so would he kindly stop playing a beggar, please?
* In ''Literature/PrinceRoger'', D'nal Cord [[IOweYouMyLife owes Roger his life]], and later acquires a life-debt of his own when he saves Pedi Caruse from pirates. Prince Roger has a good laugh at the latter, noting that D'nal's OhCrap reaction when he realizes Pedi's culture has life-debts exactly mirrored his own after he saved D'nal.
[[AC: LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' had a skit about the rich complaining about the economy, one saying that his butler's butler had to fire his butler's butler to save money.
[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' an in-universe conspiracy theory claims that [=MarsCo=] secretly owns the other six {{Mega Corp}}s. It is publicly known that ASR, Pulse, and TTI were originally [=MarsCo=] branches, but IRPF and Spyglass may have arose independently and Progenitus was a Spyglass division.
** In the novel ''Fate's Fangs'' the [[CompanyTown corptown]] of Sacroden is owned by the Reveidolon corporation, which is said to be a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Progenitus.
[[AC: {{Theatre}}]]
* Benny from ''Theatre/InTheHeights'' boasts that if he wins 96k from the lottery, he'll invest it so well that his money'll be making money.
[[AC: VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''. Yukari Yakumo is so powerful that her [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} shikigami]] has her own shikigami.
* In ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'', Etna is Laharl's vassal (although she never actually listens to him) while also having the Prinny Squad under her command.
-->'''Laharl:''' Etna's vassals are my vassals.
*In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', Handsome Jack once offers to pay you "enough money to build a mansion, made of other, smaller mansions."
* Skelter Helter in NoMoreHeroes2 has a katana made of 3 katanas, and a revolver with a lot of bullet cylinders that themselves revolve into the revolver's body.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''s BigBad, Demise has a sword so deadly, that it can summon its own swords to fight you with. [[spoiler: He accomplished this by enchanting it to take a mortal form as Ghirahim, a recurring boss.]]
[[AC: VisualNovels]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Caster is a servant who has a servant of her own.
[[AC: {{Webcomics}}]]
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Petey needs teams of accountants to keep track of the teams of accountants needed to keep track of all his money.
* ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Dirk Strider GadgeteerGenius qualities are emphasized by his creation of an artifial intelligent Auto-Responder, who's self-aware enough to create the Auto-Responder-Responder.
[[AC: WebSites]]
* Franchise/{{Neopets}} are capable of having petpets, [[UpToEleven who in turn are capable of having petpetpets]].
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* Principal Larry from ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'' is so rich his butler has a butler.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "War is the H-Word" part of the cast goes to war. Zapp Brannigan is in command and has to punish Fry for his cowardice . He wants to give him a humiliating task, so he turns to his BeleagueredAssistant Kif and asks him what's the most humiliating thing he can think of. When Kif replies that it's being Zapp's assistant, Zapp makes Fry ''Kif's'' assistant.
* In the episode "Chocolate With Nuts" from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Spongebob points out in awe that the guy on a magazine is so rich that he has a swimming pool in his swimming pool.
[[AC: RealLife]]
* This is how the feudal system worked. An overlord had "his men", or vassals, ruling pieces of his land in his stead. They had their own men, and subdivided their tracts of land between them. The lesser vassals had their own vassals, until the land plots became too small to be further divided.
* The whole idea of organization hierarchy is one: in an army, a major sergeant's subordinate would in turn have subordinates, who in turn have their own subordinates, etc.
* Some very rich Romans owned trusted slaves who were, in effect, paid employees with a great deal of responsibility. Such slaves frequently owned slaves of their own to do the routine work... in theory, slaves owned by a slave were also the property of the dominant slave's owner. Many masters paid only lip service to this, and if the dominant slave was freed, any slaves he owned would then legally become his property.
* In Brazil, some slaves owned themselves ''other slaves''
* Some companies have subsidiaries, and some of these subsidiaries have themselves subsidiaries.
Compare RecursiveAmmo and BifurcatedWeapon.
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!! Examples
[[AC: {{Anime}} & {{Manga}}]]
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Reinforce Zwei is a [[FusionDance Unison Device]] who has her own Storage Device, The Book of the Azure Sky.
** At the end of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Agito joins the Yagami "family", although unlike all other members, she pledges loyalty not to Hayate, but to Signum (who, in turn, has pledged her life to Hayate).
** At the end of the same season, four Numbers choose to be imprisoned rather than renounce their creator Jail Scaglietti, although only three of them do so out of loyalty to him. The last one, Sette, rejects Scaglietti but chooses to remain with Tre, one of the three loyal sisters.
* Downplayed in ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie''. Seraphim offered to be Eucliwood's servant [[spoiler: so she could kill her]], but Eucliwood already had [[VoodooZombie Ayumu]] and wasn't interested in having two servants. So she became Ayumu's servant. In reality, this is just an excuse to stay around and complete her mission and she treats Ayumu like a servant rather than the other way around.
[[AC: Film - Animated]]
* Invoked by Manny on ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown''.
-->'''Manny:''' (about Sid) He's not my kid. He's not even my dog. If I had a dog, and that dog had a kid, and the dog's kid had a pet, ''that'' would be Sid.
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': When Jasmine recognizes "Prince Ali" as the boy she met at the marketplace, Aladdin claims that it couldn't have been him because he has servants to do his shopping for him, and that those servants have servants of their own to shop for them as well.
[[AC: Film - Live Action]]
* In ''Film/TheAvengers'', Tony Stark says of Nick Fury that "His secrets have secrets."
* In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace,'' the young slave Anakin Skywalker builds a servant robot ([=C3PO=]) to help his mother.
* In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Jane's wise-cracking intern, Darcy, from the previous movie now has her own intern, Ian,...and she's still an intern.
[[AC: {{Literature}}]]
* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', the eponymous character mentions this trope while explaining to Baptistin why he won't allow Baptistin's embezzlement to continue.
-->''Though a servant, you yourself have servants who take care of your laundry and your belongings. [...]Nowhere will you find a position comparable to the one that good fortune has gotten you here.''
* In ''Literature/MidnightTides'', Tehol Beddict's true and far reaching financial influence is shown when the dredging rights to the city's canals are discussed. Tehol tries to divert attention away from himself by saying the dredging rights are already owned by a merchant named Biri, but Shand points out that Tehol in turn owns Biri, so would he kindly stop playing a beggar, please?
* In ''Literature/PrinceRoger'', D'nal Cord [[IOweYouMyLife owes Roger his life]], and later acquires a life-debt of his own when he saves Pedi Caruse from pirates. Prince Roger has a good laugh at the latter, noting that D'nal's OhCrap reaction when he realizes Pedi's culture has life-debts exactly mirrored his own after he saved D'nal.
[[AC: LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' had a skit about the rich complaining about the economy, one saying that his butler's butler had to fire his butler's butler to save money.
[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' an in-universe conspiracy theory claims that [=MarsCo=] secretly owns the other six {{Mega Corp}}s. It is publicly known that ASR, Pulse, and TTI were originally [=MarsCo=] branches, but IRPF and Spyglass may have arose independently and Progenitus was a Spyglass division.
** In the novel ''Fate's Fangs'' the [[CompanyTown corptown]] of Sacroden is owned by the Reveidolon corporation, which is said to be a subsidiary of a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Progenitus.
[[AC: {{Theatre}}]]
* Benny from ''Theatre/InTheHeights'' boasts that if he wins 96k from the lottery, he'll invest it so well that his money'll be making money.
[[AC: VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''. Yukari Yakumo is so powerful that her [[UsefulNotes/{{Onmyodo}} shikigami]] has her own shikigami.
* In ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'', Etna is Laharl's vassal (although she never actually listens to him) while also having the Prinny Squad under her command.
-->'''Laharl:''' Etna's vassals are my vassals.
*In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', Handsome Jack once offers to pay you "enough money to build a mansion, made of other, smaller mansions."
* Skelter Helter in NoMoreHeroes2 has a katana made of 3 katanas, and a revolver with a lot of bullet cylinders that themselves revolve into the revolver's body.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''s BigBad, Demise has a sword so deadly, that it can summon its own swords to fight you with. [[spoiler: He accomplished this by enchanting it to take a mortal form as Ghirahim, a recurring boss.]]
[[AC: VisualNovels]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Caster is a servant who has a servant of her own.
[[AC: {{Webcomics}}]]
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Petey needs teams of accountants to keep track of the teams of accountants needed to keep track of all his money.
* ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Dirk Strider GadgeteerGenius qualities are emphasized by his creation of an artifial intelligent Auto-Responder, who's self-aware enough to create the Auto-Responder-Responder.
[[AC: WebSites]]
* Franchise/{{Neopets}} are capable of having petpets, [[UpToEleven who in turn are capable of having petpetpets]].
[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
* Principal Larry from ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'' is so rich his butler has a butler.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "War is the H-Word" part of the cast goes to war. Zapp Brannigan is in command and has to punish Fry for his cowardice . He wants to give him a humiliating task, so he turns to his BeleagueredAssistant Kif and asks him what's the most humiliating thing he can think of. When Kif replies that it's being Zapp's assistant, Zapp makes Fry ''Kif's'' assistant.
* In the episode "Chocolate With Nuts" from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Spongebob points out in awe that the guy on a magazine is so rich that he has a swimming pool in his swimming pool.
[[AC: RealLife]]
* This is how the feudal system worked. An overlord had "his men", or vassals, ruling pieces of his land in his stead. They had their own men, and subdivided their tracts of land between them. The lesser vassals had their own vassals, until the land plots became too small to be further divided.
* The whole idea of organization hierarchy is one: in an army, a major sergeant's subordinate would in turn have subordinates, who in turn have their own subordinates, etc.
* Some very rich Romans owned trusted slaves who were, in effect, paid employees with a great deal of responsibility. Such slaves frequently owned slaves of their own to do the routine work... in theory, slaves owned by a slave were also the property of the dominant slave's owner. Many masters paid only lip service to this, and if the dominant slave was freed, any slaves he owned would then legally become his property.
* In Brazil, some slaves owned themselves ''other slaves''
* Some companies have subsidiaries, and some of these subsidiaries have themselves subsidiaries.
