History Main / DressedToOppress

* ''Creator/MarvelComics'': During the ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' crossover event, Captain America, of all people, is revealed to be an agent of HYDRA, an organization with ties to Nazi villains of World War II, like Baron von Strucker. [=HydraCap=] takes over America and installs a more oppresive regime, with him as its leader. In his "civilian" garb, he wears a militaristic green outfit and a yellow cape (HYDRA's colours).

* ''Creator/MarvelComics'': During the ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' crossover event, Captain America, of all people, is revealed to be an agent of HYDRA, an organization with ties to Nazi villains of World War II, like Baron von Strucker. HydraCap takes over America and installs a more oppresive regime, with him as its leader. In his "civilian" garb, he wears a militaristic green outfit and a yellow cape (HYDRA's colours).

* In the "In the Flesh" sequence near the end of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', as Pink goes further and further into [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation-induced madness]] and gets drugged up by his managers, he imagines himself as a fascist dictator leading an army of black-uniformed Neo-Nazi-style minions. [[PuttingOnTheReich His own outfit]] in the movie is a black Nazi-style uniform with a black and red "hammer" armband, a black leather baldric across his chest, and a black leather greatcoat that he wears like a cape.

* In the "In the Flesh" sequence near the end of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', as Pink goes further and further into [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation-induced madness]] and gets drugged up by his managers, he imagines himself as a fascist dictator leading an army of black-uniformed Neo-Nazi-style minions. [[PuttingOnTheReich His own outfit]] in the movie is a black Nazi-style uniform with a black and red "hammer" armband, a black leather strap across his chest, and a black leather greatcoat that he wears like a cape.

* In the "In the Flesh" sequence near the end of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', as Pink goes further and further into [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation-induced madness]] and gets drugged up by his managers, he imagines himself as a fascist dictator leading an army of black-uniformed Neo-Nazi-style minions. [[PuttingOnTheReich His own outfit]] is a black Nazi-style uniform with a black and red "hammer" armband, a black leather strap across his chest, and a black leather greatcoat that he wears like a cape.

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* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'': Führer King Bradley prefers to don dark military greatcoats and has a very prominent moustache.
* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[TheDreaded Duke]] [[{{Sadist}} Zaki]], [[PlanetBaron the Emperor]]'s [[AssInAmbassador Asshole Ambassador]], dresses in an exquisite red suit with golden frills and has long hair. He's also a monster who's responsible for the deaths of many [[SpaceElves Boazanians]] because he enjoys telling the Emperor bad news, and abuses [[AlienPrince Prince]] [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Heinel]] [[SinsOfOurFathers based on his heritage]].

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* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'':
** In ''[[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar The Broken Ear]]'', General Alcazar, the military dictator of San Theodoros, is shown wearing a ChestOfMedals, and gold epaulettes.
** In ''[[Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair The Calculus Affair]]'', statues and images of Borduria's Marshall Kürvi-Tash show him with a military greatcoat, and in particular, showing off his [[PunnyName curvy 'stache]]. Senior figures like the secret police and its leader, Colonel Sponsz, wear very high-peaked {{Commissar Cap}}s.
** When Tintin returns to San Theodoros in ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros Tintin and the Picaros]]'', Alcazar's rival, General Tapioca, and his inner circle wear green military uniforms (with figures like Colonel Alvarez wearing high-crowned CommissarCap), with Tapioca wearing ample medals and a short moustache.

[[AC:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'': After Sprout becomes DrunkWithPower, he declares himself the ruler of Maretime Bay, and starts wearing a military cape and a high-collared cape.

[[AC:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Film/Red2010'': Joe successfully exploits this trope to get inside Dunning's house by posing as "General Baptiste," an African warlord looking to make an arms deal. His disguise includes enormous epaulettes, medals, a large green sash, and aviators.

[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syJHxlJWGrk The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen]]'', Jeff Ross dressed as a stereotypical dictator.

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* In the "In the Flesh" sequence near the end of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Film/TheWall'', as Pink goes further and further into [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation-induced madness]] and gets drugged up by his managers, he imagines himself as a fascist dictator leading an army of black-uniformed Neo-Nazi-style minions. [[PuttingOnTheReich His own outfit]] is a black Nazi-style uniform with a black and red "hammer" armband, a black leather strap across his chest, and a black leather greatcoat that he wears like a cape.

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FarCry6'': Anton Castillo is the military president of [[BananaRepublic Yara]], and dresses in a white military uniform with a red shirt, numerous medals on his chest (one of which he [[AbusiveParents tortures his son Diego with]] by putting the medal in Diego's hand and making him squeeze it until the pin pierces his palm), and a nice case of PermaStubble instead of a full beard. Anton ''doesn't'' wear a Commissar cap, but two of his enforcers, [[InsaneAdmiral Admiral]] [[DarkActionGirl Ana Benitez]] and Anton's nephew [[GeneralFailure General]] [[{{Sadist}} Jose]] [[PsychopathicManchild Castillo]] ''do'': and in Jose's case, he's most impressive in that he manages to keep his cap on whatever bad things happen to him, like being shot InTheBack by his own cousin, [[spoiler:or having his personal attack helicopter blown out of the sky.]]
* The ''VideoGame/JustCause'' franchise tends to have it's villains dress like these.
** VideoGame/JustCause: President Salvador Mendoza wears a white military uniform with gold accents and leaf pattern, some medals, a sash, and topped off with sunglasses.
** VideoGame/JustCause3: General Sebastiano Di Ravello wears a [[CommissarCap Commissar Cap]], a [[ChestofMedals Chest Full of Medals]], a sash with even more medals on it, and has a well-trimmed mustache over his scarred face.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': [[DubNameChange M. Bison/Vega]] earns his disambiguating FanNickname of "Dictator" thanks to his red and black uniform with greatcoat and CommissarCap.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'': The standard template for a male Presidente (and the one that appears in all the series' marketing) has a CommissarCap, sunglasses, and military apparel, complete with medals and epaulettes. Then again, with the game being a parody of dictatorships and [[BananaRepublic Banana Republics]] in general, it makes sense.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball:'' In [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E32TheSafety "The Safety"]], Darwin turns Elmore into a PoliceState focused entirely on making sure that nobody is allowed to get hurt by even mundane possibilities. Inside his SupervillainLair, Darwin is dressed up in a dictator outfit, a CommissarCap with an exclamation mark inside a yellow triangle, large epaulettes, a BadassCape, and tall black boots, and a riding crop.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Duck Tales (1987)]]'': In "[[Recap/DuckTalesAllowanceDay Allowance Day]]", General Chiquita, the leader of a country ''literally'' named the BananaRepublic, is dressed like a stereotypical tyrant: green [[BadassLongcoat greatcoat]] with a ChestOfMedals, CommissarCap, large epaulettes and [[SinisterShades sunglasses]]. Fitting to the guy who wanted to exploit [[ItMakesSenseInContext the chaos about what day it is]] and leave Scrooge without a contact and even [[DisproportionateRetribution shoot Scrooge and Fenton when they tried to clear the situation]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyANewGeneration'': After Sprout becomes DrunkWithPower, he declares himself the ruler of Maretime Bay, and starts wearing a military cape and a high-collared cape.

* Nazi-style armbands -- often with a symbol of their regime on it.

** In ''[[Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair The Calculus Affair]]'', statues and images of Borduria's Marshall Kürvi-Tash show him with a military greatcoat, and in particular, showing off his [[PunnyName curvy 'stache]].
** When Tintin returns to San Theodoros in ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros Tintin and the Picaros]]'', Alcazar's rival, General Tapioca, and his inner circle wear green military uniforms, with Tapioca wearing ample medals and a short moustache.

** {{Commissar Cap}}s -- the more peaked, the better, likely to make them look taller or more grandiose.

* ''VideoGame/JustCause3'': Sebastiano Di Ravello is the Generalissimo and is shown to have a blinged-out white uniform with a CommissarCap.

Often, mediums use visual cues to denote what kind of political system someone is participating in. Since the rise and fall of fascism and the advent of UsefulNotes/TheColdWar, a kind of sartorial shorthand has developed in media to indicate that a given political leader is TheGeneralissimo, ANaziByAnyOtherName, or otherwise heading up TheDictatorship.

* In the "In the Flesh" sequence near the end of Music/PinkFloyd's ''Film/TheWall'', as Pink goes further and further into [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation-induced madness]] and gets drugged up by his managers, he imagines himself as a fascist dictator leading an army of black-uniformed Neo-Nazi-style minions. His own outfit is a black Nazi-style uniform with a black and red "hammer" armband, a black leather strap across his chest, and a black leather greatcoat that he wears like a cape.

Many of these are inspired by the grandiose fashion senses of actual dictators such as UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, UsefulNotes/IdiAmin, UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi, UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet, and many, many more.

In particular, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and ThoseWackyNazis have influenced enough of this trope that they have a SubTrope -- PuttingOnTheReich -- all to themselves.

Often, mediums use visual cues to denote what kind of political system someone is participating in. Since the rise and fall of fascism and communism, a kind of sartorial shorthand has developed in media to indicate that a given political leader is TheGeneralissimo, ANaziByAnyOtherName, or otherwise heading up TheDictatorship.

* In the "In the Flesh" sequence near the end of ''Film/TheWall'' as Pink goes further and further into [[GoMadFromTheIsolation isolation-induced madness]] and gets drugged up by his managers, he imagines himself as a fascist dictator leading an army of black-uniformed Neo-Nazi-style minions. His own outfit is a black Nazi-style uniform with a black and red "hammer" armband, a black leather strap across his chest, and a black leather greatcoat that he wears like a cape.

Often, mediums use visual cues to denote what kind of political system someone is participating in. Since the rise and fall of fascism, a kind of sartorial shorthand has developed in media to indicate that a given political leader is TheGeneralissimo, ANaziByAnyOtherName, or otherwise heading up TheDictatorship.

* ''VoltesV'': [[TheDreaded Duke]] [[{{Sadist}} Zaki]], [[PlanetBaron the Emperor]]'s [[AssInAmbassador Asshole AmAnime/bassador]], dresses in an exquisite red suit with golden frills and has long hair. He's also a monster who's responsible for the deaths of many because he enjoys telling the Emperor bad news, and abuses [[AlienPrince Prince]] [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Heinel]] [[SinsOfOurFathers based on his heritage]].

* Racules Husty from ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' wears a red and black version of an 18th century military uniform in order to emphasize his status as a tyrannical ruler.

* ''VideoGame/JustCause3'': Sebastiano Di Ravello is the Generalissimo, and is shown to have a blinged-out white uniform with a CommissarCap.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperAnimalRoyale Tonight'', [[RebelLeader the Finch]] is introduced wearing a red armband with the Rebellion's insignia on it, along with a bandolier. In later episodes, we seem him wearing a military uniform with a sash. His appearance is likely highlighted by the fact that his feathers are green.

* ''WesternAnimation/UrbanVermin'': [[BigBad Ken]] has a grey-white military uniform with a silver sash and a CommissarCap.

* ''Film/TheDictator'': Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen has many of the hallmarks -- green military uniform, sunglasses, CommissarCap, sash, ChestOfMedals...
* ''Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep'': Red Bamboo's leaders bear grey uniforms, white {{CommissarCap}}s, and in one case, a blinged-out EyepatchOfPower.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Duck Tales (1987)]]'': In "[[Recap/DuckTalesAllowanceDay Allowance Day]]", General Chiquita, the leader of a country ''literally'' named the BananaRepublic, is dressed like a stereotypical tyrant: green [[BadassLongcoat greatcoat]] with a ChestOfMedals, [[CommissarCaps comissar cap]], large epaulettes and [[SinisterShades sunglasses]]. Fitting to the guy who wanted to exploit [[ItMakesSenseInContext the chaos about what day it is]] and leave Scrooge without a contact and even [[DisproportionateRetribution shoot Scrooge and Fenton when they tried to clear the situation]].

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