History Main / ExecutiveExcess

* ''Coroner'': Vic Stenton the VictimOfTheWeek of ''Bunny'' turns out to be one of these, a cannabis tycoon as well as indulging himself in his own product Vic had a taste for orgies, regularly holding them in his own luxurious apartment with the Toronto swinger community, prostitutes he hired and an employee [[BadBoss he pressured into joining solely to make himself look better]]. [[spoiler: Is ultimately the reason he died as his wife was outraged at him almost exposing his antics to their six-year-old daughter and stabbed him to death]].

* Typical portrayals of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' have Bruce projecting an image of wealth and debauchery to the public as his way of diverting attention from his activities as a crimefighter. He's usually not only a teetotaler but tends to have the girls he parties with quietly sent home after they're sufficiently intoxicated.

* ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'': Jordan Belfort, already the head of [[MorallyBankruptBanker a corrupt stock-brokerage firm]] operating a pump-and-dump scheme on hundreds of duped investors, is notoriously hedonistic: in his own words, he gambles like a degenerate, drinks like a fish, fucks hookers five or six times a week, and does so many drugs over the course of his day he practically timetables them. Plus, he hosts ludicrously decadent parties for his employees at the end of every month and took his fellow brokers on a stag night that wrecked the entire 28th floor of the Mirage hotel, which had to be refurbished out of Belfort's own pocket. A lot of the stuff we see in the movie actually happened, with a few exceptions (they never brought a chimpanzee into the office, for instance, nor did they ever do a dwarf-tossing contest).

* ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'': [[VillainProtagonist Patrick Bateman]] has a very high-paying job with his company (vice-president in the film adaptation) but he's never seen doing any real work. As such, most of his time is spent wasting time in his office, eating at ludicrously fashionable restaurants, dancing in clubs, hoovering up cocaine, and screwing prostitutes...[[SerialKiller then murdering them in cold blood]]. Then again, Patrick's father [[{{Nepotism}} owns the company]]...

* ''Series/{{Blackish}}'': Dre's boss [[PointyHairedBoss Leslie Stevens]], co-founder and CEO of Stevens & Lido, is regularly suggested to be one. Whilst at work he's most often portrayed as lazy and clueless, regularly slacking off to discuss Andre's issues, he also casually implies that amongst other things he repeatedly cheats on his wife, has got at least one of his maids pregnant, and gambles with company money. It's also a recurring joke for him to slip into casual conversation a vague offhand reference to some extreme escapade or other he's done, such as mentioning that he once crashed a boat full of cocaine and prostitutes into California. Along with the long list of more seriously [[AmbiguousCriminalHistory illegal acts]] he's potentially done (in particular the implication he regularly has to cover up for his son [[TheSociopath Connor]] actions), this is always PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Whilst his exact job is left unrevealed until late in the series, it's clear from the start that [[LoveableSexManiac Barney Stinson]] is a senior figure in [[EvilInc Goliath National Bank]]. Likewise, the man has pretty much dedicated his life to [[ThePornomancer seducing and sleeping with as many women as is humanly possible]], boasting to have slept with over two hundred at one point and regularly creating [[ComplexityAddiction massively complex]] [[ZanyScheme schemes]] to convince his latest target to sleep with him (afterwards he rarely sees them again). He's also revealed to be a compulsive (although highly skilled) gambler.

* A Wendy's televised ad invokes this by having the Chief of a burger chain aboard his yacht, martini in one hand, cigar in the other, flanked by bikini bunnies. Then he gets a phone call from Clara Peller: [[CatchPhrase "Where's the beef?"]] The cigar snaps, the martini spills, and the corpulent chief tips over in his chair. Not a good day.