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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The TropeNamer by way of a fictitious video made by Eddy to try and impress his brother with his staggering wealth in "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E23AnEdIsBorn An Ed Is Born]]". When Eddy claims that he might buy a couple more planets, already owning Saturn and Pluto, Double D is so unimpressed he inadvertently reveals Ed [[ItMakesSenseInContext slapping dollar signs on garbage bags]]:

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** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]", [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Kodos the Executioner]], while initially a legitimate governor, was temporarily dictator of the world Kirk grew up on after declaring Martial law due to a famine and executing a large chunk of its population to save the others.

** In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the rulers of Naboo are elected monarchy that change office every few years (though that only concerns the surface dwellers, the aquatic Gungans have a chief of their own, Boss Nass).

** Also in ''Film/ANewHope'', Tarkin explains to his generals and admirals that, in the absence of an Imperial Senate, regional governors have been given direct control over their systems. This is what led, in the aftermath of the death of the Emperor, to so many planets and planetary systems being controlled by one person in the expanded universe.

* In ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'', by Creator/RobertHeinlein, Valentine Michael Smith ends up owner of Mars thanks to his descent from the ''Envoy'' crew and by right of discovery, a contract enacting common property, and the fact he was the sole surviving descendent of the crew.

** In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the rulers of the planet of Naboo are elected monarchy that change office every few years.

** In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''; Lando Calrissian is the baron administrator of Cloud City on Bespin, and it is the only inhabited colony on the gas giant. He basically controls the tibanna gas extraction on it.

** The Hutt crime lords practically control entire star systems. Jabba Desilijic Tiure practically controls Tatooine, to the point his death in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' left a power vacuum not entirely resolved as of ''Series/TheMandalorian''.
** Also, Tarkin explains to his generals and admirals that, in the absence of an Imperial Senate, regional governors have been given direct control over their systems. This is what led, in the aftermath of the death of the Emperor, to so many planets and planetary systems being controlled by one person in the expanded universe.

** ''Film/ANewHope'' has the Organa family, the rulers of the planet Alderaan.

* The Vicountess Sallivera Darktail in ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'' becomes the planetary governor of her family's colony Greenholme after claiming it for her house at the end of the second book. Though the population is only the size of a small city at first.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has Unity, a hive mind that has taken over a planet. As all the people are controlled by her, she could be considered not only leader, but also acts as all the workers (as well as the homeless people) on the planet.

* The Vicountess Sallivera Darktail in ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'' become the planetary governor of her family's colony Greenholme. Though the population is only the size of a small city at first.

-->'''Mumm-Ra:''' ...supervised, of course.

* The title character of ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' is this, by virtue of the fact that the only inhabitants of the small planet which he calls home are himself and a rather demanding rose. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in that the Prince isn't a despot at all, and his planet is extremely tiny.
** Later in the book, the Prince travels to various other tiny planets, each with a single inhabitant. A few play this trope straight:
*** The King, who, lacking any subjects, does nothing but make up ridiculous orders about natural processes (such as commanding the sun to set) and then taking the credit when they inevitably happen..
*** The Narcissist, who boasts and brags about how he is, by default, the most amazing and perfect person to exist on his planet.
*** The Businessman, who isn't satisfied with having a planet to himself and so counts the stars to claim that they belong to him too.

* The title character of ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' is this, by virtue of the fact that the only inhabitants of the small planet which he calls home are himself and a rather demanding rose.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The planetary governor's job is holding authority over a planet or the entire star system in the name of the Emperor of Mankind. Since the Imperium rules over a million star systems, so long as the governor pay his taxes, keep the mutant and psyker population in check, paying the tithe in form of pskyers, and actually maintaining order, they can do whatever they want with the planet. It's notable that the role of planetary governor is an Administratum role and bureaucratic fiction that's applied to whomever the Administratum considers the party responsible for discharging those above mentioned responsibilities, and how exactly one comes to the job is largely irrelevant to them. A planetary governor may be a hereditary role like a monarchy, or it may be an appointed or elected one.

* Kier Grey of Literature/{{Slan}} fame is described as this, and proves it by [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority murdering his entire advisory council in the first thirty pages]].

* Gehn from the ''VideoGame/Myst'' series is this. By extension, his ancestral race, the D'ni, had the power to either write-into-existence, or just create links to already-existing, worlds through books. (Either one is not specified) Because they saw this power as infinite in possibilities, the D'ni often subjugated the inhabitants of these worlds. However, Gehn is even moreso this, because he doesn't just subjugate these populations, but forces them to worship him. (Extreme even by the already-twisted standards of the D'ni.) Even worse, his writing is extremely flawed, which produces links to worlds that fall apart and eventually collapse in on themselves. He tries to sweep the issue aside by claiming that these flaws are his doings, to keep the populace in-line, and quash any rebellion.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': The planet Kitson is ruled by the Kitson family. The first Mister Kitson discovered the planet and named it after himself, while his son and later his grandson succeeded him as the rulers of the planet.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The TropeNamer by way of a fictitious video made by Eddy to try and impress his brother with his staggering wealth in "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E23AnEdIsBorn An Ed Is Born]]". Double D is so unimpressed he inadvertently reveals Ed [[ItMakesSenseInContext slapping dollar signs on garbage bags]]:
-->'''Eddy:''' Don't film that!\\
'''Double D:''' I'm sorry, the "planet baron" story threw me off.

*** Also, Tarkin explains to his generals and admirals that, in the absence of an Imperial Senate, regional governors have been given direct control over their systems. This is what led, in the aftermath of the death of the Emperor, to so many planets and planetary systems being controlled by one person in the expanded universe.

** Most of the Emperor's known lost Primarchs, by the time he reunited with them, had risen to become the ruler of the planet on which he landed as a baby. (And as future history would bear out, impressing the old man never got any easier from that point forwards.)