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* Deconstructed in ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', with the Princess. Shortly before the start of the story she [[RPGMechanicsVerse quite literally]] TookALevelInBadass, going from a DamselInDistress to one of the most personally powerful characters in the story. However, being raised as a "political placeholder" meant that she was never taught how to actually ''run'' a country, and gaining the power to beat up anyone who got in her way did nothing to change that.
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' ends with this; [[spoiler:Bran is possessed by a god, has clairvoyance on future timelines, and doesn't really care about the world around him. The other nobles are inspired to make him [[ElectiveMonarchy the first elected king of Westeros]], believing that his ability to see the future will lead the nobles to the future they want, while his impotence and mental issues mean he will never ''rule'' over them. Except this was his plan all along; while Bran doesn't take much interest in politics, he does ''grant most of the political power to his small council'', equivalent to making Congress the main authority.]] Now the ''real'' representatives can do all the ruling for everyone.
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* ''Fanfic/SaviorOrSlayer'': When The Narrator attempts to hijack Izuku's body in order to force the story to play out the way he desires, this takes the form of golden puppet strings attaching themselves to his arms. Izuku resists long enough to free one of his arms.
* ''Fanfic/StateOfTheUnion'': Thomas Marik used Thomas Halas as a proxy for himself. When Halak revealed the ruse, it triggered a SuccessionCrisis, which resulted in the Word of Blake Toyama switching to a ''new'' puppet in Corinne. However, Halas still has considerable support from other factions, and aims to rule in his own name.
* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'':
** After Magnus marries [[spoiler:Ruffnut]], Einar learns the hard way that her stubborn personality makes it harder for him to manipulate her husband. Einar loses even more control once Magnus [[spoiler:is crowned the king of England and Denmark]], providing him with a significant power base independent of Einar.
** The most Michael V becomes the Emperor of the Roman Empire, he promptly banishes his would-be puppetmaster from the realm. Unfortunately, Michael turns out to be TheCaligula.
* ''Fanfic/StateOfTheUnion'': Thomas Marik used Thomas Halas as a proxy for himself. When Halak revealed the ruse, it triggered a SuccessionCrisis, which resulted in the Word of Blake Toyama switching to a ''new'' puppet in Corinne. However, Halas still has considerable support from other factions, and aims to rule in his own name.
* ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'':
** After Magnus marries [[spoiler:Ruffnut]], Einar learns the hard way that her stubborn personality makes it harder for him to manipulate her husband. Einar loses even more control once Magnus [[spoiler:is crowned the king of England and Denmark]], providing him with a significant power base independent of Einar.
** The most Michael V becomes the Emperor of the Roman Empire, he promptly banishes his would-be puppetmaster from the realm. Unfortunately, Michael turns out to be TheCaligula.
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* ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'': The [[TheKingmaker Earl of Warwic]]k fully expects the young, immature hedonist UsefulNotes/EdwardIV to be guided by him. Edward shows him otherwise, fostering a historic and dangerous amount of resentment.
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* ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'': The [[TheKingmaker Earl of Warwic]]k Warwick]] fully expects the young, immature hedonist UsefulNotes/EdwardIV to be guided by him. Edward shows him otherwise, fostering a historic and dangerous amount of resentment.
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** In the Possession scheme, the Counts of the East aim to summon one of two demons to possess the King and make them do the East's bidding until they go insane and die (if they don't become a BalefulPolymorph first). However, the epilogue notes that the Counts found it more difficult to control a ruler who ''doesn't'' have a demon living inside their head.
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...except that, to the conspirators' surprise, the man turns out not to play his role nicely. He starts acting on his own, making his own decisions, disobeying the conspiracy, and sometimes outright opposing those who put him into power. It is frequent that he eventually acquires some form of control over them, the puppeteer and puppet ironically switching roles.
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...except that, to the conspirators' surprise, the man turns out not to play his role nicely. He starts acting on his own, making his own decisions, disobeying the conspiracy, and sometimes outright opposing those who put him into power. It is frequent that he eventually acquires some form of control over them, [[HourglassPlot the puppeteer and puppet ironically switching roles.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[spoiler:[[FakeUltimateHero Buggy the Clown]]]] accidentally became one of the Four Emperors due to people attributing the creation of the Cross Guild (an organization dedicated to hunting down the Marines) with the real creators [[spoiler:Sir Crocodile and Mihawk]] deciding to keep him as a figurehead to keep heat off of them while ostensibly serving as his lieutenants (which further adds to [[spoiler:Buggy's]] VillainCred) and also making a point of regularly taking their anger out on him. Eventually however, upon learning that his old friend [[spoiler:Shanks]] is pursuing the One Piece and sick of being constantly under bootheels, [[spoiler:Buggy]] decides to publicly declare that the organization will also be joining the hunt for the One Piece, with the puppetmasters being forced to go along with it lest they face a mass mutiny from the now eager crew.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[spoiler:[[FakeUltimateHero Buggy the Clown]]]] accidentally became one of the Four Emperors due to people attributing the creation of the Cross Guild (an organization dedicated to hunting down the Marines) with the real creators [[spoiler:Sir Crocodile and Mihawk]] deciding to [[PromotedToScapegoat keep him as a figurehead to keep heat off of them them]] while ostensibly serving as his lieutenants (which further adds to [[spoiler:Buggy's]] VillainCred) and also making as well as using him as as a point of regularly taking their anger out on him.habitual punching bag. Eventually however, upon learning that his old friend [[spoiler:Shanks]] is pursuing the One Piece and sick of being constantly under bootheels, [[spoiler:Buggy]] decides to publicly declare that the organization will also be joining the hunt for the One Piece, with the puppetmasters being forced to go along with it lest they face a mass mutiny from the now eager crew.
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* ''VideoGame/SniperGhostWarriorContracts:'' Villainous and negative example. Kurchatov used to be a willing tool of your Employers, who essentially guided him and his assorted goons to create an independent Siberia under their control, shattering Russia in the process. Then he started getting ideas and figured he did not need to listen to their instructions any more. The problem is that while off his leash, many of the plans by Kurchatov and his minions are not merely evil or depraved, but outright risk plunging the world into a world war. Seeker and Handler have to clean up the regime as much to reassert their employers' control over the region as to stop the Kurchatov regime from bungling their way into the apocalypse.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[spoiler:[[FakeUltimateHero Buggy the Clown]]]] accidentally became one of the Four Emperors due to people attributing the creation of the Cross Guild (an organization dedicated to hunting down the Marines) with the real creators [[spoiler:Sir Crocodile and Mihawk]] deciding to keep him as a figurehead to keep heat off of them while ostensibly serving as his lieutenants (which further adds to [[spoiler:Buggy's]] VillainCred) and also making a point of regularly taking their anger out on him. Eventually however, upon learning that his old friend [[spoiler:Shanks]] is pursuing the One Piece and sick of being constantly under bootheels, [[spoiler:Buggy]] decides to publicly declare that the organization will also be joining the hunt for the One Piece, with the puppetmasters being forced to go along with it lest they face a mass mutiny from the now eager crew.
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* ''Literature/LeftBehind'': The rise (and even the ''conception'') of TheAntichrist Nicolae Carpathia is engineered by a [[TheIlluminati secret society of Satanists]] and funded by the richest man in history. When Carpathia achieves his goal of becoming Secretary General of the UN, he murders his benefactors in cold blood, revealing that he'd never intended to be their puppets.
* Played straight in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', with old king Théoden of Rohan. He is made a puppet by his advisor Gríma (who answers to Saruman, who is himself in league with Sauron), through a mix of sorcery and applied psychology. Then Gandalf arrives and shows him the evil of Gríma and how to be once again a great, proud, and noble king.
* Played straight in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', with old king Théoden of Rohan. He is made a puppet by his advisor Gríma (who answers to Saruman, who is himself in league with Sauron), through a mix of sorcery and applied psychology. Then Gandalf arrives and shows him the evil of Gríma and how to be once again a great, proud, and noble king.
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* Played straight in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', with old king Théoden of Rohan. He is made a puppet by his advisor Gríma (who answers to Saruman, who is himself in league with Sauron), through a mix of sorcery and applied psychology. Then Gandalf arrives and shows him the evil of Gríma and how tobe once again be a great, proud, and noble king.
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', [[spoiler:[[FakeUltimateHero Buggy the Clown]]]] accidentally became one of the Four Emperors due to people attributing the creation of the Cross Guild (an organization dedicated to hunting down the Marines) Marines) with the real creators [[spoiler:Sir Crocodile and Mihawk]] deciding to keep him as a figurehead to keep heat off of them while ostensibly serving as his lieutenants (which further adds to [[spoiler:Buggy's]] VillainCred) and also making a point of regularly taking their anger out on him. Eventually however, upon learning that his old friend [[spoiler:Shanks]] is pursuing the One Piece and sick of being constantly under bootheels, [[spoiler:Buggy]] decides to publicly declare that the organization will also be joining the hunt for the One Piece, with the puppetmasters being forced to go along with it lest they face a mass mutiny from the now eager crew.
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* In ''VisualNovel/HatePlus'' we have Councilor Ryu. Everyone else in the Council sees him as a weak and unassuming man, if not as a complete idiot. Even his position as Councilor for Captaincy is ridiculed and seen as useless and mostly honorific. That's exactly why he is appointed as Chief Councilor by why what is essentially a conspiracy led by *Mute. Then, by very cleverly using other people's political agenda, he manages to have most of the other councilors replaced by his allies, to create an independent police force that answers to him and not to *Mute, to remove the laws preventing politicians from holding multiple positions concurrently, and finally to get elected as the Ship President in addition to Chief Councilor, effectively becoming a dictator [[spoiler:and killing poor old *Mute]]. In the greatest tradition of evil ass-kicking, he finally proclaims himself Emperor Ryu and founds a dynasty that will last for centuries of absolute power. In some of the final logs, Ryu proclaims that although he is not the spineless and stupid guy his fellow councilors saw in him, he is not a particularly ambitious man either and he just used the power the conspiracy gave him to begin with. It is also strongly hinted that most of his plotting and grab for power was actually encouraged and planned by his extremely intelligent and devious future wife.
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* In ''VisualNovel/HatePlus'' we have Councilor Ryu. Everyone else in the Council sees him as a weak and unassuming man, if not as a complete idiot. Even his position as Councilor for Captaincy is ridiculed and seen as useless and mostly honorific. That's exactly why he is appointed as Chief Councilor by why what is essentially a conspiracy led by *Mute. Then, by very cleverly using other people's political agenda, he manages to have most of the other councilors replaced by his allies, to create an independent police force that answers to him and not to *Mute, to remove the laws preventing politicians from holding multiple positions concurrently, and finally to get elected as the Ship President in addition to Chief Councilor, effectively becoming a dictator [[spoiler:and killing poor old *Mute]]. In the greatest tradition of evil ass-kicking, he finally proclaims himself Emperor Ryu and founds a dynasty that will last for centuries of absolute power. In some of the final logs, Ryu proclaims that although he is not the spineless and stupid guy his fellow councilors saw in him, he is not a particularly ambitious man either and he just used the power the conspiracy gave him to begin with. It is also strongly hinted that most of his plotting and grab for power was actually encouraged and planned by his extremely intelligent and devious future wife.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': Duke Phillips [[spoiler:incorrectly]] learns he is dying, and mentions how his BucketList included telling off his boss. But Jay points out that as the CEO, he doesn't have a boss. Jay is then press-ganged into a roleplaying scenario that involves Duke busting into "Jay"'s office and reading him the riot act, complete with pantomiming cutting the proverbial strings.
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