History Main / UltimateAuthorityMayor

* VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} has Lucas Simms, the CowboyCop who is both mayor and sheriff of the town of Megaton. The "ultimate authority" part is pretty much {{justified}} by the game's AfterTheEnd setting. Mayor [=MacCready=] tries to be this, but he's really just a bully in what he admits is general anarchy.

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* The Mayor of New York in ''{{Ghostbusters}}''.

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* Sinclair, Sheridan, and Lochley in ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]''. In this case, because they are the commanding officers of the space station, which is an Earth military base despite also functioning as a commerce hub and meeting place for the various major powers.

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** Given a nod in ''TheSims 2''. The most powerful political career position isn't president, but Mayor. He even outranks senator!

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* Mayor AdamWest in ''FamilyGuy''. Being ''Family Guy'' (and Adam West), he's ''insane'', but no one seems to care, except Brian Griffin, and even then, not all the time. His power as mayor is also rather extreme in that he even has the power to rewrite laws, such as banning and/or legalizing gay marriage and marijuana.

* The Mayor in ''{{WordGirl}}'' appears to be one of these. In one episode, the villain "Mr. Big" ''does'' manage to get him out of office using less-than-legal-means, but the original Mayor [[StatusQuoIsGod was restored by the end of the episode]].

* {{Fallout 3}} has Lucas Simms, the CowboyCop who is both mayor and sheriff of the town of Megaton. The "ultimate authority" part is pretty much {{justified}} by the game's AfterTheEnd setting. Mayor [=MacCready=] tries to be this, but he's really just a bully in what he admits is general anarchy.

** ''FalloutNewVegas'' has Mister House, who keeps an iron grip on his control of New Vegas. He tends to be pretty laid back about things as long as his authority isn't directly challenged, though.

* The Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper from ''AnyoneCanWhistle'' appears to be this, until she gets a telegram from the governor.

Fiction often focuses on a local setting; the action may rarely, if ever, move beyond the borders of the town where the main characters live. In these cases, the highest authority appearing in the work -- often the local mayor -- is treated as if they have absolute authority over their domain. They never have to worry overstepping their authority, or having their decisions overruled by the county, state, or -- God forbid -- federal government. If such lofty figures show up at all, it will probably be in the form of an ObstructiveBureaucrat who buzzes around for a while before being dealt with, allowing things to [[StatusQuoIsGod return to normal]].

This allows the characters to interact directly with the person in charge, without having to deal with annoyances like referrendums or town councils. Whether they have a brilliant scheme that needs a powerful backer or they're trying to deal with the mayor's latest crackpot scheme to revitalize the town, they'll be able to (and, in fact, be ''forced'' to) go straight to the mayor himself instead of dealing with bureaucracy or procedure. Expect such a mayor to be around forever, heedless of minor details like elections or competence.

Other settings may use other authority figures; the principal in a school setting, or the base commander in a military setting, for example. Often overlaps with PermanentElectedOfficial.

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* The mayor in ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' even lampshades this. At one point he mentions spending the entire town budget on a project "without consulting anyone", and later funds ''another'' project by taking out a "very high interest loan".

* The mayor in the various ''HarvestMoon'' games is always this, generally of the more benevolent type.

* The player is one in the ''SimCity'' series.

* The Mayor in ''PowerpuffGirls'', who only manages to keep things running thanks to the Powerpuff Girls and his hypercompetent assistant.
* Mayor Quimby of ''TheSimpsons'' is a classic sleazeball politican type.

* Mayor White from ''{{Doug}}''. Unusually for this trope, he's eventually voted out and replaced by Doug's neighbor, Mrs. Dink.

* Mayor Corset of ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is the BigBad of the series, an S&M-obsessed demon whose plans involve [[spoiler:using Brief's penis to unlock the gates of hell and unleash an EldritchAbomination.]]

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* Mayor AdamWest in ''FamilyGuy''. Being ''Family Guy'' (and Adam West), he's ''insane'', but no one seems to care.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', the (so far [[TheNameless nameless]]) mayor is the only government authority figure and hasn't been shown to have to answer to a city council or higher authority for her actions, although there was once mention of a governor of the planet Jean on which the comic is set.

* ''BossNigger'': Boss makes it illegal for any "whitey" to use the "N-word".

* Mayor Quimbey of ''TheSimpsons'' is a classic sleazeball politican type.

* Sinclair and Sheridan in ''BabylonFive''.

* {{Fallout 3}} has Lucas Simms, the CowboyCop who is both mayor and sheriff of the town of Megaton. The "ultimate authority" part is pretty much {{justified}} by the game's AfterTheEnd setting.

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* The mayor in the various ''HarvestMoon'' games is always this, generally of the more benevolent type.
** To the extreme in Harvestmoon DS. He is the mayor of Mineral Town but visits Forget-Me-Not Valley regularly to act as mayor there too at the same time.
* The Mayor in ''PowerpuffGirls'', who only manages to keep things running thanks to the Powerpuff Girls and his hypercompetent assistant.
* Mayor Quimbey of ''TheSimpsons'' is a classic sleazeball politican type.
* Mayor AdamWest in ''FamilyGuy''. Being ''Family Guy'' (and Adam West), he's ''insane'', but no one seems to care.

* The mayor of Halloweentown in ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is of this type, though there ''aren't'' actually any higher authorities to overrule him (and Jack basically does everything that needs to be done anyway).
* Mayor White from ''{{Doug}}''. Unusually for this trope, he's eventually voted out and replaced by Doug's neighbor, Mrs. Dink.
* The Mayor in ''{{WordGirl}}'' appears to be one of these. In one episode, the villain "Mr. Big" ''does'' manage to get him out of office using less-than-legal-means, but the original Mayor [[StatusQuoIsGod was restored by the end of the episode]].
* Two Legs Joe from {{Spliced}}.
* Sherrif Lucas Buck from AmericanGothic? Pretty much the raison d'etre of the show.
* The Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper from ''AnyoneCanWhistle'' appears to be this, until she gets a telegram from the governor.
* The player is one in the ''SimCity'' series.
** Given a nod in ''TheSims 2''. The most powerful political career position isn't president, but Mayor. He even outranks senator!

* Sinclair and Sheridan in BabylonFive.

* Mayor Corset of ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is the BigBad of the series, an S&M-obsessed demon whose plans involve [[spoiler:using Brief's penis to unlock the gates of hell and unleash an EldritchAbomination.]]
* The Mayor of New York in ''Ghostbusters''.
* Lucas Simms, the CowboyCop who is both mayor and sheriff of the town of Megaton in {{Fallout3}}. Because it is set AfterTheEnd, being self appointed mayor and sheriff essentially means he has complete power over the town. Luckily he's a nice guy.