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* Zoro from ''Manga/OnePiece'' is this occasionally, despite the Straw Hats not being a mafia gang. Though he respects Luffy's decisions most of the time, he has an innate sense of the burdens of captainship and he will step in and give some harsh, albeit necessary wisdom whenever he feels Luffy is making a mistake.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': The Consigliere archetype (in Ultimate Intrigue) allows rogues to be this, and allows the consigliere to take teamwork feats in the place of rogue talents.

* One of the Mafia roles in ''VideoGame/TownOfSalem'' is the Consigliere, whose main role in the mafia is to spy on the other townspeople and find out their roles. Functionally, it acts as the EvilCounterpart to the Investigator role, but while an Investigator can only narrow down a target's role to a small handful of possibilities, a Consigliere will determine their exact role with 100% certainty. It's thus also possible for the Consigliere to bluff and claim to be a benevolent Investigator if under suspicion.

* Charles Garry, the chief counsel for UsefulNotes/JimJones and his People's Temple, was a completely unwitting example. Garry was a WideEyedIdealist who fully believed in Jones' utopian rhetoric and believed that he was being unfairly harassed by the US Government due to RedScare hysteria. By the time he was starting to realize that Jones was out of his gourd, [[DrinkingTheKoolAid it was already far too late.]] He was also the one who convinced Jones to allow Congressman Leo Ryan to visit the complex, which directly led both to the death of Ryan and provoking Jones into the mass suicide. Needless to say, Garry, who had spent his career as a highly scrupulous CrusadingLawyer, was absolutely horrified when he learned of this.

* Vinegar Doppio from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' officially carries this title in the Passione family, second only to the enigmatic Boss himself. He is an extremely unusual example of this trope as he appears to be a rather naive and somewhat clueless teenager as opposed to the lower ranked members, who are all hardened criminals, but he is the only one trusted enough with direct access to the Boss. Later, it is revealed that Doppio is in fact a split personality of the Boss, meaning that Diavolo ''effectively served as his own consigliere''.

* One of the Mafia roles in ''VideoGame/TownOfSalem'' is the consigliere, whose main role in the mafia is to spy on the other townspeople and find out their roles. It's possible for the consigliere to bluff and claim to be a benevolent investigator if under suspicion.

** The McMahon family has Wrestling/PaulHeyman.

* ''Franchise/{{Tsukiuta}}'' is remarkably similar to K in the way it shows its unit leaders as kings, despite the fact that it's an idol series. Haru and Kai fit this to a T. Hajime's season 4 audio drama has him and Haru discussing this exact quality of their relationship, how he needs Haru around because Haru is the only one that he can trust to be honest with him, instead of just seeing him as the king. Kai is often more of a caretaker (or butler) to Shun, but their relationship does mirror Hajime and Haru's. The [[Franchise/{{Tsukipro}} other units]], and stage play original characters, also [[GeodesicCast reflect this]] off of the original two units.

* The sixth ''Franchise/{{Tsukiuta}}'' stage play has Taroubou and Jiroubou, the leaders of the black and white {{Tengu}} villages, and their companions, Kansuke and Sessai, who perform this role for them. This reflects the relationships between Gravi and Procella's leaders and their partners (example under "anime").

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** Crime boss Wrestling/CharlotteFlair doesn't have an official consigliere, but she does maintain frequent contact with her father, boss emeritus Wrestling/RicFlair and his top men, the rest of the original Wrestling/FourHorsemen.

** The Sammartino family has Joy Giovanni in that role. Her backstory is she was a Harvard-educated former model who began dating a member of the crime family, then married him and eventually outlived him, all the while learning the ins and outs of the business.

* {{Deconstructed}} in ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'': UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette has ''two'', the Count de Mercy, who UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa, Marie Antoinette's mother, sent from Austria specifically for this job because she knew her daughter needed one, and Oscar, who unofficially took the role by herself, but Marie Antoinette doesn't listen, the end result being UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution-and Oscar dying during the Storming of the Bastille, as Marie Antoinette's continued listening to less honest advisors gradually led her to come closer to the more extremist positions and [[DefectorFromDecadence deserting with her troops when ordered to suppress the riots in Paris]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'': Darth Wyyrlok III was this to BigBad, EvilOverlord and [[TheEmperor Galactic Emperor]] Darth Krayt, until he pulled a TheStarscream.
** Wyyrlok is a particularly interesting case as [[spoiler:he had no interest in power. He realized that his master's degenerative condition was driving him insane, and killed him so that he could become an immutable symbol rather then a flawed man.]]

* In ''FanFic/TheFledglingYear'', Aravis functions in this role for Cor, especially when he needs advice on how to handle [[UnwantedHarem the various women their entourage is accumulating]], or how to behave around nobility since she was raised as a ProperLady and he has only been a BlueBlood for a few years.
* ''FanFic/QueenOfAllOni'': When [[FallenHero Jade]] resurrects the [[TheSyndicate Dark Hand]] as the Shadow Hand, she recruits Valmont to serve this role, advising her on how to run a criminal empire. However, his indignity at being forced to work for a child (especially one who's too lazy for the detail work) leads to him planning to [[TheStarscream steal all her money and/or take control from her]]. When this fails, she tosses him aside to be arrested and replaces him with [[EnigmaticMinion Blankman]], who serves the role more faithfully.

* Series/{{Merlin}} and Gwen tend to act as this for Arthur, especially [[spoiler: after he finally becomes King of Camelot.]] Arthur's acceptance of this tends to {{Zig Zag|ging Trope}}.

* In ''Series/StargateSG1'', Bra'tac explains his reasons for teaching Teal'c to mistrust the Goa'uld this way. Teal'c becomes First Prime, essentially Apophis' Second-In-Command and, as such, can temper Apophis' hand at times and prevent some of the worst atrocities. Bra'tac reveals that this is what he did during his time as First Prime, as well. One such time nearly gets Teal'c killed years later, when Apophis orders him to shoot a villager to teach the others a lesson about resisting their god. Teal'c knows there's nothing he can do to change Apophis's mind, so he picks a one-legged man, knowing that, without him, the rest will be able to run away faster next time. The man's son isn't that understanding, of course.

* Li H'sen Chang in Series/DoctorWho [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng Chiang]] is this to Magnus Greel, reminding him some things are not workable.

* Ugo Bencini plays this role to ''two'' generations of the ''Series/{{Medici}}'', though the role is understated compared to many on this list.

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* Zarbon's role in Freeza's criminal-empire of ''Anime/DragonballZ'' is virtualy identical to that of Tom Hagen's in The Godfather; the effective second-in-command who is not only answerable to the Don himself, but whose advices and voice of dissent are taken seriously without him being executed (vaporized) on the spot for daring to contradict the boss. In fact, in the pre-Super continuity, it was Zarbon's advice to be cautious of a potential Saiyan Rebellion that galvanized Freeza's paranoia towards them and condemned them to extinction.

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* Vinegar Doppio from''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' officially carries this title in the Passione family, second only to the enigmatic Boss himself. He is an extremely unusual example of this trope as he appears to be a rather naive and somewhat clueless teenager as opposed to the lower ranked members, who are all hardened criminals, but he is the only one trusted enough with direct access to the Boss. Later, it is revealed that Doppio is in fact a split personality of the Boss, meaning that Diavolo''effectively served as his own consigliere''.