History Main / AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil

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* Since ''Fanfic/{{Outcast}}'' is a Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia HighschoolAU based partially on the [[https://hetalia.fandom.com/wiki/Gakuen_Hetalia Gakuen Hetalia]] designs by creator Creator/HidekazHimaruya, it stands to reason that there would be a student council. In a traditional sense, the seven members of the St. Hetalia Academy for Boys Student Council are the only students who interact with the school's administrators; thus all official pronouncements and policy enforcement must go through them. In a more literal sense, membership in the student council (and consequent possession of a Golden Arrow pin) grants a council member [[spoiler: [[AmplifierArtifact an extraordinary, nigh-supernatural boost to their natural abilities and aptitudes]]. Russia's strength is increased to the point where he can fold the head of an axe like an origami napkin, America's courage and charisma are boosted to make him the sort of leader people consciously ''want'' to follow, and England's familiarity with dark magic gets amped up to the point that he can talk to the dead and monitor the whereabouts of students on school grounds]].

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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' has a student council president capable of covering up crimes, creating fake student profiles, and bossing teachers around. She also "executes" the male members of your party after an unfortunate incident involving a mix up of the times each gender was supposed to be allowed to use some hot springs. Said student council president's absurd power stems less from being StudentCouncilPresident and more being the heiress of a MegaCorp that funds the school.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' averts this as a way to show a DeconstructedCharacterArchetype with Makoto Niijima being the StudentCouncilPresident. Instead of being beloved by all, impossibly perfect, and more powerful than even the teachers, Makoto is a completely powerless glorified gopher for the principal, all the students hate her because they assume she's [[spoiler:in on the abuse coverup and sides with Kamoshida]], and all the responsibility is a massive struggle for her. Also, the rest of the student council basically doesn't exist, as nothing they do ultimately has much impact on Shujin Academy.

* Parodied in the GirlsLove one-shot ''You're Lovelier Than A Rose''. It has a few subtle {{Shout Out}}s and kicks to other series, such as ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru''.

* In Victorian Era boarding schools, the "fagging" system gave the senior students almost complete power over their juniors. Under the system, a junior student (the fag) was assigned to act as a servant to an upper-year student (the fagmaster); in return, the upper-year student was held responsible for his charge's welfare and behaviour; furthermore, he was asked mentor and protect him. The entire system, in turn, was overseen by a group of prefects lead by the Head Boy/Girl, all students. Because adult teachers generally did not concern themselves with the students outside of class except in the most extreme of circumstances, these elder students had almost complete authority over the people under them in terms of settling disputes and administering punishments. Many of these people abused their authority and basically treated their charges as slaves and playthings. The entire system was intentionally created to prepare their students for the harsh and regimented life in the army and colonial service.

* The Swedish movie {{Evil}} ''(Ondskan)'' combines this with BoardingSchoolOfHorrors. And the scariest part is, it's based on real life.

* ''Anime/NerawaretaGakuen'': The student council seems to have more power than the teachers. They are able to make a rule that allows them to suspend students from bringing phones to school and it's suggested that they can use this against teachers as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'': The show takes place in a mall instead of a school, but otherwise Tricia fills the role perfectly in "Unhappy Anniversary" where she manages to get Caitlin banned from every store in the mall.

* ''Manga/OniisamaE'' has the Sorority, a group of girls from rich and powerful families who are seen as the best of the best and have lots of privileges, alongside being adored by the students. The main conflict begins when a girl from a middle-class background, the protagonist Nanako Misonoo, is ''somehow'' chosen to be a member of it, eliciting the anger and envy of ''many'' others.

* {{Justified}} in ''Manga/ArmedGirlsMachiavellism'': the Supreme Five Swords (how the students' council is called at the Private Aiichi Symbiosis Academy) and the Six King Swords (the student council at Aiichi's twin school Hokka) have a lot of power, including the right to carry ''swords'' on campus... Because the ''headteachers'' are crazy enough to allow it, as the owner of both schools apparently finds it convenient.

* The Elite Ten of ''Manga/FoodWars'', who make all the important decisions of Totsuki Culinary Academy and hold higher authority than the teachers. The Elite Ten are approached for consultations and advice by much of the culinary world and have access to recipe collections, ingredients and cooking equipment of near-immeasurable value. A seat on the Elite Ten is considered to be more valuable than a place at the school, meaning that those who wish to challenge the Elite Ten to a [[CookingDuel Shokugeki]] have to bet ''more'' than just expulsion.

* The Elite Ten of ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'', who make all the important decisions of Tootsuki Culinary Academy and hold higher authority than the teachers. The Elite Ten are approached for consultations and advice by much of the culinary world and have access to recipe collections, ingredients and cooking equipment of near-immeasurable value. A seat on the Elite Ten is considered to be more valuable than a place at the school, meaning that those who wish to challenge the Elite Ten to a [[CookingDuel Shokugeki]] have to bet ''more'' than just expulsion.

* The teachers in the 1992 BoardingSchool movie ''Film/SchoolTies,'' a crib sheet is found on the floor during an exam and the teachers ''tell the students'' to form their own [[KangarooCourt impromptu hearing]] to decide which one of them was cheating. The [[InformedJudaism token Jewish]] protagonist [[TheScapegoat is seized]] upon by a JokerJury of [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Anti-Semitic]] schoolboys. The {{Anvilicious}} tone of the scene is HilariousInHindsight once you consider [[Creator/DickWolf who wrote the movie.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' in its [[HighSchoolAU High School AU]] translation of ''[[Series/KamenRider555 Faiz]]'', has the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Lucky Clover]] as this. The ''Absurdly Powerful'' part gets literal as the Lucky Clover is a group of powerful [[MonsterOfTheDay Orphenoch]].

* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'': {{Handwave}}d when a teacher goes to the principal because he thinks the student council is getting too much authority, and she decides not to interfere--not because she's afraid of them (as would be typical of this trope) but simply because she doesn't want the students to feel inadequate and, well, like a ''real'' student council.

* The TruthInTelevision version of this -- the [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors British-public-school]] student hierarchy -- is parodied in the ''Series/RippingYarns'' episode "Tomkinson's Schooldays" with the school bully, Grayson. "School Bully" is his official title; he's won a Bullying Cup and a "kick-in of fags," and parents send their sons to the school partly to be bullied by him. "Absurdly powerful" could not be a more apt description.
-->"In return for not hitting any of the masters, the Head had allowed Grayson certain privileges, such as having unmarried Filipino women in his room, smoking opium, and having a sauna instead of prayers."

In terms of rank, about the only {{authority trope|s}} arguably as low as this is the {{Landlord}}. For the other lower steps, see ClubPresident and ClassRepresentative. For the enforcers, see YellowSashOfPower. For the next step up, see StudentCouncilPresident.

* ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' in its [[HighSchoolAU High School AU]] translation of ''[[Series/KamenRiderFaiz Faiz]]'', has the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Lucky Clover]] as this. The ''Absurdly Powerful'' part gets literal as the Lucky Clover is a group of powerful [[MonsterOfTheDay Orphenoch]].

* {{Justified}} in ''Manga/ArmedGirlsMachiavellism'': the Supreme Five Swords (how the students' council is called at the Private Aiichi Symbiosis Academy) has a lot of power, including the right to carry ''swords'' on campus... Because the ''headmistress'' is crazy enough to allow it, as she apparently finds it convenient.

Naturally, led by the StudentCouncilPresident. If the student council is not only powerful, but more powerful than the adults, then they have a TeenageWasteland.

It also isn’t exclusive to councils. For example since a lot of works use a TwoTeacherSchool, cheerleading is usually run by the head cheerleader, when in real life, there would be a coach that comes up with the routines and decides who is on the squad.

* Turned on its head with ''Anime/AngelBeats''. Since the show is set to an equivalent of Purgatory, the Student Council represents subordinates of the Creator of said world. One of the female lead actually forms a rival organization to battle said student council. The catch? Besides the StudentCouncilPresident, most of the members of the Student Council are non-humans (referred to as [=NPCs=], placeholders of human beings who are mostly completely apathetic and oblivious to whatever zaniness occurs near them). Also, since they are simply dedicated to preserve order (which the rival organization always try to subvert), they don't do much around the school.
* In ''LightNovel/AsuraCryin'', the student council can give an authorization to kill. Can't get much more powerful than that.

** Part of the island split to reveal a ''missle silo'' aimed at a ''nuclear aircraft carrier'' in '''episode two''' just because a guy on the carrier annoyed the president.
* The one-shot {{yaoi|Genre}} manga ''Bondage'' is about this. A male student constantly breaks the school rules about smoking and fighting, and is... punished for it every time by the two (male) student council members.
* From ''Anime/{{Charlotte}}'': [[StudentCouncilPresident Nao]] mentions that the Hoshinoumi Academy student council has special privileges which allows them to skip classes and not get penalized for it, due to the fact that they often have to go off-campus to find people with special powers.

** Also fairly well justified, as Mina founded the school with very controversial plans for it. This way, instead of having to deal with continual resistance from the student body, clubs and student council, parents, teachers, the school board, news services and the general public, she only has to deal with a student council used to suppressing all the other groups and which already consists of the strongest-minded and most politically active students. They'd have been manageable even without the way things turned out.

* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': The student council not only control the schools' funding, but negotiate on an equal level with the national education authorities and can threaten to expel our heroine, Miho, for not taking up tankery as her elective [[spoiler: It's actually revealed that they weren't threatening to expel Miho, they were using ExactWords to make it sound like they were because if they didn't win the tankery championship the school would be shut down]]. In the spin-off manga ''Motto Love Love Sakusen Desu'', it is even revealed they [[spoiler:get to decide where the massive school-ship Ooarai Girls' Academy floats on gets to go. They sail southwards for Christmas.]]

* ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'': The student council consists of 4 self-proclaimed gods of the school: Tsukasa, Rui, Akira and Soujirou. They pay off the school to allow them to get away with ANYTHING, including publicly humiliating students they don't like. In fact, the whole plot was kicked off when the NaiveNewcomer Tsukushi ''refused'' to take their crap, kicked the fuck outta Tsukasa, [[LoveAtFirstPunch and got him to be attracted to her for that.]]

* ''Manga/{{Hyakko}}'': The student council take care of a lot of policies as the administration takes more of a "hands-off" approach.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'': The Disciplinary Committee president, Kyoya Hibari, has everyone in the school afraid of him; no one does anything even when he harms the other students. He has the director of the local hospital under his fingers and is the most feared deliquent group in their town AND can get rid of dead bodies, no questions asked.

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' {{exaggerate|dTrope}}s this [[UpToEleven to hell and back]]; Honnouji's student council has created a straight up fascist state and has the power to annex other schools and execute students. As crazy as this sounds, this is actually more plausible than it seems considering the school is owned by the incredibly wealthy and powerful Kiryuin family, with daughter Satsuki at the head of the student council and her mother Ragyo willing to enable her daughter's project. The school is also a Life Fibers research and development facility that cranks out [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman superpowered uniforms]], which they use to control the student body and the faculty. Satsuki herself is pretty open with how the school is run by MightMakesRight and is emulating a military.

** The series takes the absurdity to new levels; the student council is not only more powerful than the faculty, it's more powerful than the '''government'''.

* The Morals Commitee in ''Manga/NejimakiKagyu'' a KnightTemplar group who not only police the school but have the power to get ''teachers'' fired.

*** The Utena UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn game pumps up the absurdity, by revealing that the only reason the council members have their places at all are because they're the most popular and "prince-like" students in the school. Their jobs on the council are arbitrarily assigned based on their age. Mikki is genuinely shocked at the revelation; Juri just gets pissed.

* The Elite Ten of ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'', who make all the important decisions of Tootsuki Culinary Academy and hold higher authority than the teachers. The Elite Ten are approached for consultations and advice by much of the culinary world, and have access to recipe collections, ingredients and cooking equipment of near-immeasurable value. A seat on the Elite Ten is considered to be more valuable than a place at the school, meaning that those who wish to challenge the Elite Ten to a [[CookingDuel Shokugeki]] have to bet ''more'' than just expulsion.
* ''Manga/ShugoChara'': The student council have their own private garden and tearoom which other students need an invitation to get into, and are apparently exempt from the dress code.

** Aagata Soujiro, the President, would often be seen slacking off in the student council room, and is viewed as a complete slacker by outsiders. He's also quite notorious for missing his meetings and for letting his right-hand man, Tsubaki Sasuke, take charge of running the whole student council, just because he thinks it's too much trouble doing it himself... However, [[ObfuscatingStupidity looks can be deceiving]]: underneath the friendly face is a ManipulativeBastard and beats out Bossun as a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]].

* In ''VisualNovel/WalkureRomanze'', after Mio is issued a duel challenge by Bertille, she tries to protest that she isn't even training to be a knight. However, the student council says that a knight's honor is on the line anytime they do something like this, and allows this duel on the grounds of it being a training session. The only alternative is to quit the school, but Mio refuses that option, since it wouldn't allow her to be close to Takahiro, a guy she likes, so she reluctantly agrees to the duel...

* {{Justified}} in ''Manga/ArmedGirlsMachiavellism'': the Supreme Five Swords (how the students council is called at the Private Aiichi Symbiosis Academy) has a lot of power, including the right to carry ''swords'' on campus... Because the ''headmistress'' is crazy enough to allow it, as she apparently finds it conventient.

* ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'', where the Greek Council has more power than city authority, and the police have no jurisdiction against "college pranks," even if they involve crimes of assault, vandalism and rape; the only way for the nerds to get justice is to win the Greek Homecoming Festival.

** Actually, this was subversion. The Council President was clearly acting under [[DeanBitterman Dean Wormer's]] orders and Wormer clearly stated that HE was planning to call the Delta national office and get their charter revoked.

** The school Quidditch teams' lineup, practice schedules, and training regimens all seem to be the sole responsibility of the team Captain. Madame Hooch, whom you'd ''think'' would be the logical sports coach, doesn't seem to have any duties beyond refereeing and teaching First Years how to not fall off a broomstick.

* In ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', during the shooting episode, Jay says "When your girlfriend's student council vice president, nobody asks questions." Otherwise they limit the student council to what a student council would be involved in, raffle tickets and dances.

* ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' in its [[HighSchoolAU High School AU]] translation of ''[[Series/KamenRiderFaiz Faiz]]'', has the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Lucky Clover]] as this. The ''Absurdly Powerful'' part gets literal as the Lucky Clover are a group of powerful [[MonsterOfTheDay Orphenoch]].

* Subverted in ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', when Jenny runs and wins (with Sabrina's help) for class president on a platform of real change, only to find out she could not she had no authority to fufill any of her campaign promises, only had authority over things she didn't care about like lunch menus, and that high school elections are little more than a popularity contest. She gives the position to Libby, who believes the premise.

* The Yearbook Committee variation is subverted in ''Series/TheWonderYears'', in which Kevin, giving into peer pressure, puts a disparaging quote by the picture of a likeable but overweight friend. He agonizes over the effect this will have on his friend, only to find that RealityEnsues when the school administration, learning of the quote, has it removed and tells off Kevin.

* ''VideoGame/BlackCloset'' is entirely this trope. You run the student council and investigate crimes and misdemeanors in your exclusive private school as if you were the SecretPolice. Ransack students' rooms to search for contraband (or plant it), torture them in detention to break their spirits, and if all else fails, "execute" them by having them expelled. And then run a lemonade stand to boost your aproval ratings.

* Subverted in ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', in which [[StudentCouncilPresident Shizune]] and Misha are two members of the Student Council. [[ClubStub The only members]], unless Hisao joins them. As an example of their lack of power, while much work is pushed on to them for the SchoolFestival, including management of budgets and the creation of most of the stalls, they lack the authoritative power to recruit help, or even make sure that everybody gets paperwork in. (Oh, and the president is deaf and mute. Makes it so easy talking with others.)
** It's implied that in the past, the student council was even less effective, and Shizune was responsible for pushing for a more active student council. Shizune seems to attribute the problem to the student body, and expresses some concern over how effective her successors will be. Unfortunately, this ended up driving most of the other members off.

** The HighschoolAU DatingSim spinoff ''Sunrider Academy'' takes this UpToEleven in Ava’s route, where it’s revealed that no student council in the past ''thirty years'' has managed to do so much as get a single club budget passed. Previous student council presidents just used the position as a way to get dates.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' the student council, along with the vice-principal, makes and [[SecretPolice enforces]] the school rules, while manipulating the timid [[PuppetKing principal]]. Nobody knows who the student council president is because it was a secret ballot ("I'm pretty sure that's not what that means"), and his [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Twelve Black Saint Councilor-Generals]] are too powerful for anyone to challenge. The only one with any ability to fight this oppressive regime is Lisa, who runs the student store, [[OnlyInItForTheMoney but she only cares about profit]]. Note that [[HeroOfAnotherStory none of this has anything to do with the main plot]].

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. After Steve is elected StudentCouncilPresident, the first thing he does is to kick the principal out of his office by way of a school statute. The principal concedes that he's powerless to do anything; in fact, he's more happy that Steve's able to read.

* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'': the most important decisions that the Student President made were the placement of rugs in the library.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' subverted this by rendering Lawndale's student council invisible save for its President, EnsembleDarkhorse Jodie Landon, who kept mentioning being in the student council whenever she appeared on screen.

* X Middle School in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' has a variation; in this school it's an Absurdly Powerful Safety Patrol, which is basically a student-run police force that enforces all of the school rules and runs like a real world police force. They take it upon themselves to make sure their fellow classmates play nice. Though it's made clear on multiple occasions that they answer to the teachers, or at least the principal.

* The trope is subverted in the obscure ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' television special, ''You're (Not) Elected, Charlie Brown'', when Linus runs for class president (he's assumed to be in 2nd grade or so). He makes all sorts of outrageous promises and manages to win, but then meets with the principal and discovers he has no actual power whatsoever.
* Zigzagged in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The President Wore Pearls". Upon being elected StudentCouncilPresident, Lisa expects to have a say in the school's affairs. However, Chalmers and Skinner sidetrack her by turning her into a glamorous Eva Peron lookalike and tricking her into authorizing the elimination of music, art and gym -- although the fact that they apparently ''need'' her approval to do this plays this trope pretty straight. Doubly subverted when Lisa uses her moral authority to call a student strike, ultimately reversing the cuts. Chalmers ultimately explains to her that student government is meaningless, and their constitution is just written on the back of a placemat from [[BurgerFool some place called "Doodle's"]].

* While student positions in High School or below are generally powerless, student positions at Colleges are often far more influential. For example, the student trustee of many institutions will often have a full vote that is fully equal to those of the other school trustees. Also, many schools have student run boards set up to manage the portion of student fees used for student organizations. In large schools, this can easily lead to control of many thousands of dollars.
** Most of the funds are either used for things like bringing in comedians, musicians, and films (to be enjoyed by students free of charge, since after all they've already ''paid'' for them), or are given away to campus clubs. Frequently, if a club bothers to ask and the amount isn't ludicrous, it's essentially a rubber-stamp decision (all officially recognized clubs generally have representation on the council, and if your club's representative gets a reputation for turning down requests, guess what will happen to his own club's requests).

* In the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US Air Force]], all airmen who graduate Basic Training have to go through Tech School, vocational training to learn the jobs they will be performing in the Air Force. Airmen in training and living in the dorms can volunteer (or be "volun-told") to become a "Rope" [[note]]So called because of the color-coded aiguillettes they wear on their uniforms - [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Green, Yellow, and Red, in order of seniority. They all answer to the sergeants who are responsible for maintaining discipline in the squadron, who wear Blue ropes.]][[/note]], airmen who have been trained and given the power to enforce the rules over the other airmen. These guys are emulating the authority hierarchy that exists in the real military, and helping the sergeants manage the sometimes upwards of ''thousands'' of airmen in any given training squadron. They are able to report airmen to the sergeants for violating rules, and are often expected to take attendance and make sure everybody gets to where they are supposed to be. Some Ropes are apathetic as long as the airmen under them don't actively get them in trouble, others are regular [[TheNeidermeyer Neidermeyers]], quite a few actually are competent leaders if given a chance.

* In many {{Military Academ|y}}ies, in order to prepare cadets for their future careers, the students are given ranks parallel to their equivalents within the real military. First year students will often be cadet privates and fourth year students will be cadet officers. The cadets will be organized into battalions and companies under the command of upper class cadet officers. Many times these corps of cadets will be led by a "cadet colonel" or general. Actual commissioned officers have seniority over a cadet of any rank. Cadets ''do'' however outrank the enlisted personnel of the military in question.
** The Honor Board that such institutions in the United States have conducts investigations into allegations of honor code violations (could be anything from cheating on a test to faking illness in order to avoid guard duty to knowing about an honor code violation and not reporting it). Typically, the Honor Board functions in the same manner as a court martial, with one Honor Board member serving as defense. If the cadets who are on the Honor Board find a cadet guilty of a violation of the honor code (typically something along the lines of "A cadet will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do."), a punishment gets recommended to the commandant (at least for upperclassmen, it's usually dismissal), who has the final say over it but rarely reduces the punishment.

** A lot of public universities have versions of this. A portion of student fees go the student government, and are under student control. Also, typically the student center and school stores are owned by and managed by this (and as anyone who has ever bought a college textbook can tell you, this can be lucrative). Budgets in the tens of millions are quite common, as are trips to the state capitol and other places (as are the occasional reports of malfeasance) the amount the student body is aware and or cares of these activities varies.

-->''With elections approaching, student candidates in Lucknow, for example openly supported by national and regional political parties, extorted money and vehicles from businessmen, plastered the city with posters and subjected it to their violent and clamorous will. After elections, elected leaders extorted contracts from the university, particularly the works department, forced entry into all important university decisions and exacted protection money from government contractors. They also sported the latest cars, had their own gunmen and strode the university overawing and coercing college principals and university vice-chancellors to do their bidding. They did not stop at university authorities, but extorted money and goods from local merchants, ostensibly to “fund student activities”.''
->The report also wryly added student elections around India are violent, or banned because of violence.
* Some British secondary schools have adopted a system in which the student council comprises of specially-selected sixth form students who make decisions on behalf of the entire sixth form. The staff are consulted and the school governors have some say, but the power split is aimed to be roughly 70/30.
* Frosh Week at the University of Waterloo is run by the Education Committee, or EDCOM. They dress and act like [[DrillSergeantNasty military police]], but their authority only lasts for the duration of Frosh Week, and they are usually very friendly outside of uniform.

* The University of Bologna was originally ''run'' by the student council, who hired, fired, and set the wages of all the professors. A student committee was also charged with keeping tabs on the professors for any misbehavior. The professors could be fined if they failed to finish classes on time or complete their course material by the end of the semester (the professors weren't powerless, though, forming into a College of Teachers to win the rights to set exam fees and degree requirements). Even so, a reverse from the usual relationship (unsurprisingly, as the university was founded by the ''students'' c. 1088, making it the oldest known in the world). Eventually its rule was ended by the city authorities, who turned it into a regular public university.

* ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'': The student council consists of 4 self-proclaimed gods of the school: Tsukasa, Rui, akira and Soujirou. They pay off the school to allow them to get away with ANYTHING, including publicly humiliating students they don't like. In fact, the whole plot was kicked off when the NaiveNewcomer Tsukushi ''refused'' to take their crap, kicked the fuck outta Tsukasa, [[LoveAtFirstPunch and got him to be attracted to her for that.]]

* ''Manga/OniisamaE'' has the Sorority, a group of girls from rich and powerful families who are seen as the best of the best and have lots of privileges, alongside bieng adored by the students. The main conflict begins when a girl from a middle-class background, the protagonist Nanako Misonoo, is ''somehow'' chosen to be a member of it, eliciting the anger and envy of ''many'' others.