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* In ''Film/TheCrow'', the head of the mob, Top Dollar, has a [[BrotherSisterIncest sister/lover]] who is a mystic and who realizes how to weaken Eric by attacking the Crow that brought him back to the mortal world, then schemes to steal the Crow's power for herself.

* TheDon of [[TheMafia Passione]] is this in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', being the BigBad on top of that. Like many post-''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' antagonists, he has a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] [[spoiler:that lets him delete a section of time while allowing him to move through the erased segment]] giving him an advantage that he used [[spoiler:to kill Bucciarati]]. The protagonists Giorno Giovanna and his teammates were originally planning to work up the ranks and take him down so they can end Passione's drug trade. However, they went into direct opposition after [[spoiler:finding out the Boss is willing to kill his own daughter to maintain his anonymity, who had never even met him anyway]]. By the end, [[spoiler:the Boss, Diavolo, has been trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath, while Giorno is now the head of Passione with his Stand Gold Experience Requiem]].

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': While Kingpin and Hammerhead resemble their comics self, Tombstone is reimagined as a streetwise drug lord who runs his own [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels gang of crooked bikers]], but remains as dangerous as ever.

** Sir Crocodile. Posing as a casino owner and the hero of a desert kingdom, he ran a criminal syndicate of bounty hunters and spies that span multiple islands. His Devil Fruit, the Sand-Sand Fruit, lets him control and transform into the element, tightening his iron grip over the country he set up shop at. Later on,[[spoiler: he formed the Cross Guild alongside Mihawk, gaining enough influence in the criminal underworld to put bounties on Marine officers and take the fight to them.]] His style of dress is even meant to imitate the attire of a classic Mafia boss.

* ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'': Kaoru Hanayama is an incredibly strong and resilient yakuza leader known for being one of the toughest men in Japan despite being [[YoungerThanTheyLook fifteen years old]]. He's a bit of a subversion as he [[DefeatMeansFriendship befriends Baki after his loss]], but otherwise remains as lethal as ever.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Roman Torchwick is a crime lord who serves as TheHeavy for the first two volumes. Despite living in a world filled with AnimalisticAbomination Grimm and superhuman Hunters and Huntresses (while [[BadassNormal lacking the powers Hunters and Huntress possess]]), he is still able to fight on par with the heroes and pose a major threat during the time he was active.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Former Sith Lord [[Characters/StarWarsDarthMaul Darth Maul]] combined a number of factions in the criminal underworld to form the Shadow Collective, which took over Mandalore and served as the secondary antagonist of the series. When the Shadow Collective collapsed he went on to found the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate that lasted well into the days of the Galactic Empire.

* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with [[{{Yakuza}} the yakuza]] in ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', as every time they try to take advantage of the power of Devils it ends up being [[EvilIsNotAToy more than they can handle]]. First, they try to kill [[TheProtagonist Denji]] in favor of a contract with the [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombie Devil]], who in turn transforms them into zombies before a newly-empowered Denji wipes out the lot of them. They come back when some of their own (led by [[KatanasAreJustBetter Katana Man]]), go after Denji for revenge, but it’s clear that they’re merely being used by [[TheDreaded the Gun Devil]] for its own interests.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Former Sith Lord [[Characters/StarWarsDarthMaul Darth Maul]] combined a number of factions in the criminal underworld to form the Shadow Collective, which took over Mandalore and served as the major threat in the Clone Wars. When the Shadow Collective collapsed he went on to found the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate that lasted well into the days of the Galactic Empire.

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In the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil, crime leaders and mob bosses are usually the domain of cop shows, and for super heroes a StarterVillain before true Super Villains start showing up.

Maybe they have super powers themselves, maybe they have SuperpoweredMooks under their command, maybe they employ super technology, maybe they are {{Badass Normal}}s that can stand up to the heroes, or maybe they're such a MagnificentBastard that the heroes can do nothing to stop or even touch them. For whatever reason they are a major threat.

* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has Overhaul, the boss of the Shie Hassaikai Yakuza clan, whose ultimate goal is to revitalize organized crime after it's power was crushed due to the rise of superheroes. Overhaul himself is a powerful [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual quirk-user]] with the power to deconstruct and reconstruct matter solely by touch and has a personal retinue of fanatically loyal henchmen with deadly quirks of their own.
* TheDon of [[TheMafia Passione]] is this in ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', being the BigBad on top of that. Like many Post-Part 3 antagonists, he has a [[FightingSpirit Stand]] [[spoiler:that lets him delete a section of time while allowing him to move through the erased segment]] giving him an advantage that he used [[spoiler:to kill Bucciarati]]. The protagonists Giorno Giovanna and his teammates were originally planning to work up the ranks and take him down so they can end Passione's drug trade. However, they went into direct opposition after [[spoiler:finding out the Boss is willing to kill his own daughter to maintain his anonymity, who had never even met him anyway.]].
** By the end of Part 5, [[spoiler:the Boss, Diavolo, has been trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath, while Giorno is now the head of Passione with his Stand Gold Experience Requiem]].

* Creator/DCComics:

** In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', Intergang is a mafia-like element in Metropolis which is a constant thorn in Superman's side. In the comics and the animated series it turns out they're supplied by [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]], but in ''Series/LoisAndClark'' (where there is no Darkseid), it's played more straightly.
* In ''Kick-Ass'' the BigBad is the head of the local mob: John Genovese in [[Comicbook/KickAss the comic]], Frank D'Amico in [[Film/KickAss the film]]. [[spoiler:His son, Red Mist, goes on to be the world's first supervillain, though in practice he's really just some rich asshole with lots of money [[JustYouMeAndMyGuards to hire goons]] rather than being legitimately dangerous himself.]]
* Creator/MarvelComics:
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]] is the most well known example of this trope. Nemesis to both ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, Kingpin is the king of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse's criminal underworld and has given grief to beings several times more powerful than himself. Officially he is just a normal human, but [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower he is inhumanly strong thanks to training]], and while stories show him using super-technology like his cane with a deadly disintegrator beam, he relied less on them over the years... and then he became one of the leaders of [[{{Ninja}} the Hand]], which means that he has an army of literal zombie ninjas at his beck and call that he occasionally uses for such things as racketeering. Though as was shown in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'', when Spider-Man decides [[TheGlovesComeOff to stop playing around]], Kingpin is [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown no where close to actually being in his league when it comes to combat]].

** ComicBook/TheHood was an UnluckyEverydude who got magical cape and shoes from certain demon that granted supernatural powers, and with that in hand he fights to became a mob boss, becoming a real menace for groups as the ComicBook/NewAvengers. But even without his magical clothes, he's also a BadassNormal who can fight with his guns and fists.

* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': Machine Head was one of the most powerful crime lords in the world, and has lots of superpowered goons, one of his former goons, Titan would betray him and take over Machine Head's criminal organization.

** Johnny Royale leads a gang with various super powered members. Johnny himself also has powers, specifically that he can teleport. This might not seem very impressive for the leader of a superpowered gang, but comes in handy when it comes to pulling heists or establishing an alibi.
** Another case explored and deconstructed what happens when a non-powered mob boss has an underling with super powers; said underling soon becomes the DragonInChief and leaves the "boss" a hopelessly emasculated AuthorityInNameOnly.
* ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'': Overlord (real name Antonio Seghetti) is the leader of Chicago's Mafia and not only hires superpowers muscle for his rackets but he runs around in a very [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties]]-styled Characters/DoctorDoom rip-off PoweredArmor, capable of taking on (and taking ''[[CurbStompBattle out]]'') the Dragon in a one-on-one fight. [[LegacyCharacter The men who took his mantle after he was killed]] were no different.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'': ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s EvilDoppelganger, Ultraman, who is from an alternate universe and is the head of the Crime Syndicate, the EvilCounterpart of the Justice League, which in this film is modeled after TheMafia. He is even referred to as to as "The Boss of Bosses" because he is by far the most powerful member of the Syndicate and earned his title as TheDon by being extremely ruthless to both his enemies and his allies.

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* In ''Film/TheCrow'', the head of the mob, Top Dollar, has a [[BrotherSisterIncest sister/lover]] who is a mystic and who realizes how to weaken Eric by attacking the Crow that brought him back to the mortal world, then schemes to steal the Crow's power for herself.[[/folder]]

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', Chicago mob boss Gentleman Johnny Marcone is actually badass enough to gain standing as a freeholding lord recognized by the Unseelie Accords. While a [[BadassNormal completely ordinary human]] himself, he is fully aware of the supernatural community and regularly deals with major players like [[TheFairFolk Queen Mab]] and [[Myth/NorseMythology Donnar Vadderung]]. [[spoiler:Even when he becomes the wielder of one of the denarii he remains a mob boss first and foremost.]]

* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Bushmaster in season 2. The head of the Brooklyn-based Stylers, he gains super-strength from HollywoodVoodoo and is a whole other ballgame from terrorizing normal human street gangs and local crime syndicates.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': The Hand are depicted as a syndicate of three men (Bakuto, Murakami and Sowande) and two women (Alexandra and Madame Gao) who have stayed alive for centuries thanks to a resurrection substance.
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** Even though he's of more normal proportions than he is in the comics, Wilson Fisk still fits this trope. He's even able to break Dex's back while Dex is in the very Daredevil costume Fisk procured for him.
** Nobu in seasons 1 and 2 is introduced as an associate partner of Wilson Fisk's, but turns out to be part of the Hand and has been using the same resurrection substance as the leaders, allowing him to survive Matt setting him on fire.

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* The Chairman from ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' is this, being an expy of the likes of Kingpin and Ras. His villain deck is actually one of the harder ones to beat, even with a full hero team. The fluff even points out he has access to a Lazarus pool that keeps him in his physical prime despite being well over 100 years old.
* The Xanathar of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' is a [[{{Oculothorax}} Beholder]] mob boss, with all the powers that entails. "Xanathar" is actually a LegacyCharacter, as whatever beholder kills the previous leader of the Xanathar guild or shows up after they're dead tends to take over the guild and the name.
* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'': Has several examples of mob bosses that can pose a serious threat to superheroes.
** Two of Emerald City's major villains are leaders of major criminal syndicates that also have superpowers: Takazumi Kaneda is the leader of the local Yakuza branch in his public identity, but with his ability to change his skin into liquid steel, he can face superheroes head-on as the Steel Shogun. Koschei the Deathless is a russian mobster with powerful psychic abilities that allow him to manipulate events from the shadows.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': In ''{{VideoGame/Skyrim}}'', the main villain of the Thieves' Guild questline is the medieval fantasy version of this. The PlayerCharacter is, for all intents and purposes, a PhysicalGod who, when properly leveled, takes down armies, dragons, and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daedra]] with terrifying ease. [[spoiler:Mercer Frey is the leader of the Thieves' Guild and at first seems to be just an unusually skilled locksmith and fighter. But it turns out he's got powers granted by the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Daedric Prince]] Nocturnal, as well as her artifact, a magical key that can [[SemanticSuperpower unlock anything (including human potential)]]. Later, the Dragonborn can also be similarly blessed by Noctunal (though they can't use the Skeleton Key in the same way)]].
* Geese Howard from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' series is a crime boss who has the control of the city of Southtown since TheSeventies during the events of ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''. But also, he was trained in the martial art of UsefulNotes/{{Aikido}} so he can beat up enemies who challenge him without help.

* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime''

* Junya Kaneshiro from ''VideoGame/Persona5'' counts in a unique way. Despite being the third major boss fight and the whole reason Makoto joins the team, as well as having multiple other students under his wraps, he would certainly qualify... except you don't fight him but his SuperPoweredEvilSide in the cognitive world.
* In an example more obvious in retrospect, Giovanni and Team Rocket from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', especially in the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime]] where they're still active. ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', and their remakes have them operate a lot like a {{Yakuza}}, among other things using the Viridian City Pokemon Gym as a front. Later foes included [[EcoTerrorist Eco Terrorists]], a madman bent on destroying and rebuilding the universe, Team Plasma who planned to use the legendary dragon to make people give up their Pokemon (then later try to freeze the world to death), [[ANaziByAnyOtherName a cult bent on a holocaust]], and an [[spoiler:[[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] who wants to open dimensional rifts despite the dangers]]. Notably Team Rocket never summoned a legendary Pokemon to do their bidding. By the time of ''Videogame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'' he's somehow gained the ability to travel across dimensions and uses this to form a LegionOfDoom consisting of alternate versions of previous series villains with plans of being a MultiversalConqueror.
* The Boss in ''Videogame/SaintsRow'' started as a OneManArmy to galactic emperor with PowerArmor. The series also has mystically or inexplicably empowered mob bosses or enforcers like [[HollywoodVoodoo Sunshine]] or [[ImplacableMan Hector]] for the antagonistic roles.

* Goro Majima and Kazuma Kiryu from ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza}}'' count in ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' 2. Being high ranking Yakuza able to stand toe-to-toe with the likes of M Bison from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and Selvaria Bles from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' among others.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza}}'', the Yakuza works on the rules of RankScalesWithAsskicking, where anyone with a notable position of power can range from being simply tougher than the average goon to [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower being capable of insane physical feats]]. For example, Kiryu has won a fistfight against ''two fully grown tigers'', and Majima managed to dodge a bullet from a gun that was pressed to the back of his head and fired. Twice.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' has Crimson, an imp from Hell and Moxxie’s [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]], who heads a gang based off Italian mafias with himself as its don despite the series's demonic setting.

* Mobster Kingpin, the BigBad of ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''. He's a mob leader with access to powers and video game-like techniques just like the main three heroes. Exaggerated when his imaginary self descends in to demonhood and becomes Demonhead Mobster Kingpin, a being capable of ripping the universe in half.

[[folder:Web Original]]
* Marvin Glass, head of the eponymous Glass Crime Family in ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'', is a HumanoidAbomination with psionic powers, which he uses to set up blood sports and drug deals.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Rupert Thorne is a non-costumed, non-powered mob boss who, purely through his cunning and ruthlessness, manages to remain a major power in the Gotham underworld even among all the costumed villains. He has appeared in some other continuities, but is never as dominant as he is in the ''B:TAS'' one.
* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel''

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Republic City is filled with criminal gangs consisting of benders abusing their abilities to prey upon the weak. One of the most prominent example was Yakone, a crime lord during Aang's time who managed to master [[BloodMagic Bloodbending]] to the point that he's able to incapacitate an entire courtroom with his mind in broad daylight and proved to be enough of a threat that Aang was forced to DePower him. [[spoiler:Despite this, Yakone would later teach bloodbending to his sons Noatok and Tarrlok, who would go on to cause further trouble by the time of the show]].
* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' is Ebon, a former gang-member ([[MysteriousPast maybe]]) who was given [[CastingAShadow shadow-manipulation powers]] by [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent the Big Bang]] and takes advantage of the aftermath of the Bang to establish a criminal gang of his own — the Meta-Breed — with which he intends to take over the criminal underworld of Dakota City.

** Donquixote Doflamingo. While he remains a pirate through and through, he’s become a powerful criminal mastermind through expanding his crew into a vast organization that has its hands in everything from the slave trade to illicit Devil Fruit production. His own Devil Fruit, the String-String Fruit, lets him generate string for a variety of deadly purposes, from tearing people to shreds or manipulating their actions against their will. The fact that he maintains a respectable image as the King of Dressrosa and treats his closest subordinates like family further evokes the look of a charming but ruthless crime lord.

* Capone Bege from ''Manga/OnePiece''. He started as a mob leader, but when he dominated the whole crime underworld of the West Blue, he got bored and decided to leave and become a pirate, but kept his mannerisms and mafia attire, and kept the same methods of going after leaders and then watch their organizations crumble without them. He also has superpowers; he ate the Castle-Castle Fruit, which turns his body into a fortress, he can shrink his henchmen and store an army inside himself, and place weapons inside him like cannons, whose cannonballs will revert into normal size after being fired. As his superpowers primarily involve transporting his henchmen and resources around and he uses guns in a world where most people are badass enough to not need them, he still retains the muggle spirit of this trope.

* Muro from ''VideoGame/Oni'' is this to a T. He has a [[BadassTransplant Daodan Chrysalis]] just like Konoko, making him an EmpoweredBadassNormal. In one ending, he even takes on a OneWingedAngel form.

* Sir Pentious from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fits by technicality, he may be a snake demon MadScientist but the show takes place in hell so by local standards he's just a "Notable Criminal Kingpin" as [[KentBrockmanNews Tom Trench]] calls him.
** ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' has a straighter example in Crimson, Moxxie's [[AbusiveParents abusive dad]], who fits the image of a classic mafia boss (right down to an Italian accent and using CementShoes to murder people).