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Does the page quote seem a bit vague to anyone else? Especially since there are many better ones to choose from on the quotes page, IMHO. Personally I'd go with Joffrey's "Everyone is mine to torment!", it's short and demonstrates the trope perfectly.
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Feel free to take your suggestion there.
Why does this come below the prince-level tropes in the authority hierarchy? At face value it's a king-level trope, but the description says that it can apply to anyone in a position of authority, so maybe it shouldn't be a part of the hierarchy at all.
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The Wrestling examples show this is being defined to loosely, Mc Mahan and Bisoff are Tyrants but not Insane.
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Shouldn't this article have a picture of Caligula at the top? The article is named after him, after all
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Probably, although not necesarily. It just seems a bit like Did Not Do The Research when the picture's obviously of Nero. There should be some appropriate pics somewhere - from the film, or I, Claudius, for example.
I always figured that anyone left in a position of unquestioned leadership for too long would go this way. For example, if Tony Blair had been in government as long as Mugabe, he'd be trying every trick in the book to hang on to power of a by now crapsack country...
Is the Caligula necessarily incompetent? They could be totally batshit insane and STILL be an effective leader. Or maybe they're a Chaotic Evil overlord who enjoys causing mass destruction and genocide For the Evulz.