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* Ax Hand Morgan from ''Manga/OnePiece'' gives Luffy an extra reason to kick some ass. You even find out later the only reason he was promoted to a position of authority was because of Kuro's BatmanGambit which involved ''hypnotizing Morgan and everyone else into thinking he captured the notorious Captain Kuro''. Also, Spandam can be considered one.
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** Ax-Hand Morganfrom ''Manga/OnePiece'' gives Luffy an extra reason to kick some ass.ass by executing dissenters and making everything about himself while abusing his authority. You even find out later the only reason he was promoted to a position of authority was because of Kuro's BatmanGambit which involved ''hypnotizing Morgan and everyone else into thinking he captured the notorious Captain Kuro''. Also,
** Spandam can be consideredone.one. He is too inept for his position, only cares about his own career, and not about whom he will sacrifice to be seen as a hero. That extends to his own subordinates.
** Ax-Hand Morgan
** Spandam can be considered
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has General Armitage Hux. A sneaky man who is not loyal to anyone but himself, he doesn't care about the lives of his subordinates and is barely more competent than his rival, [[PsychopathicManchild Kylo Ren]].
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* Deconstructed in ''Film/TheBounty'' by Lt. William Bligh. He's an unpleasant, surly man whose crew regards him with contempt, and he makes a few questionable decisions. He's mostly concerned with accomplishing ''The Bounty'''s mission with maximum efficiency, and alienates [[AFatherToHisMen Fletcher Christian]] with his seeming disregard for them. However, he's actually quite lenient to his crew [[DeliberateValuesDissonance by the standards of his time]] and only starts becoming truly nasty when they become actively insubordinate after circumstances force them to take extended shore leave in Tahiti. He's ultimately mutinied against not because of anything he did personally, but because his crew simply don't want to be sailors any more.
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* General Colbert from ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' is also a real piece of work. Much like Miwa, he too is a racist (so much so he works with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Murata Azrael]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment''), treats TheHero like a traitorous piece of filth even though he's the most effective means of defeating the [[BugWar Radam]]. Add in the fact he's also a pretty shameless GeneralRipper as well, and you've got a total asshole of a Neidermeyer as a result.
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* General Colbert from ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'' is also a real piece of work. Much like Miwa, he too is a racist (so much so he works with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Murata Azrael]] in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment''), both ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment'' AND ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW W]]''), treats TheHero like a traitorous piece of filth even though he's the most effective means of defeating the [[BugWar Radam]]. Add in the fact he's also a pretty shameless GeneralRipper as well, and you've got a total asshole of a Neidermeyer as a result.
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** Captain Herbert M. Sobel is portrayed as a petty tyrant whose harsh training earns him resentment from the men under his command. His tactics did make his soldiers tougher and Sobel was there every step of the way during that training, his total incompetence in field exercises causes a number of his [=NCOs=] to flat-out refuse to serve under his command. It causes a big incident within the command structure that has Sobel reassigned and several of the [=NCOs=] punished & replaced.
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** Captain Herbert M. Sobel is portrayed as a petty tyrant whose harsh training earns him resentment from the men under his command. His While his tactics did make his soldiers tougher and Sobel was there every step of the way during that training, his total incompetence in field exercises causes a number of his [=NCOs=] to flat-out refuse to serve under his command. It causes a big incident within the command structure that has Sobel reassigned and several of the [=NCOs=] punished & replaced.
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** Same goes for [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt]].
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** Same goes for [[Literature/GauntsGhosts Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt]].Gaunt]], who deals with soany straight examples in his career that when he comes under the command of the competent, friendly and reasonably General Van Voytz, he responds like an animal confused why a predator ''isn't'' eating him!
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* Capt Marcus of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' is the worst example. He's both a GeneralRipper and GeneralFailure all rolled into one. His battle plans usually end up getting ambushed and outgunned by the enemy.
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* Capt Marcus of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' is the worst example. He's both a GeneralRipper and GeneralFailure all rolled into one. His battle plans usually end involve rushing to fight a foe without proper planning or preperation, then being overwhelmed by that foe while he either freezes up getting ambushed and outgunned by the enemy.or panics.
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* "Fanfic/TarkinsFist": The Imperial High Command is riddled with these. Convinced by their experiences in the Clone Wars that conquering a technologically inferior faction like the Earth will be an easy affair, the Imperial High Command finds itself totally unprepared for the protracted meat grinder the planet turns out to be. They largely prove unable to adapt, pushing the Imperial Army on Earth to the brink of mutiny. Imperial Commissars appointed by Theater Commander Vulnert Seco prove so incompetent and wasteful [[spoiler:that they manage to drive the clones under their command into open desertion during the invasion of New Zealand]].
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* "Fanfic/TarkinsFist": ''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'': The Imperial High Command is riddled with these. Convinced by their experiences in the Clone Wars that conquering a technologically inferior faction like the Earth will be an easy affair, the Imperial High Command finds itself totally unprepared for the protracted meat grinder the planet turns out to be. They largely prove unable to adapt, pushing the Imperial Army on Earth to the brink of mutiny. Imperial Commissars appointed by Theater Commander Vulnert Seco prove so incompetent and wasteful [[spoiler:that they manage to drive the clones under their command into open desertion during the invasion of New Zealand]].
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* Fanfic/TarkinsFist: The Imperial High Command is riddled with these. Convinced by their experiences in the Clone Wars that conquering a technologically inferior faction like the Earth will be an easy affair, the Imperial High Command finds itself totally unprepared for the protracted meat grinder the planet turns out to be. They largely prove unable to adapt, pushing the Imperial Army on Earth to the brink of mutiny. Imperial Commissars appointed by Theater Commander Vulnert Seco prove so incompetent and wasteful [[spoiler:that they manage to drive the clones under their command into open desertion during the invasion of New Zealand]].
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* Fanfic/TarkinsFist: "Fanfic/TarkinsFist": The Imperial High Command is riddled with these. Convinced by their experiences in the Clone Wars that conquering a technologically inferior faction like the Earth will be an easy affair, the Imperial High Command finds itself totally unprepared for the protracted meat grinder the planet turns out to be. They largely prove unable to adapt, pushing the Imperial Army on Earth to the brink of mutiny. Imperial Commissars appointed by Theater Commander Vulnert Seco prove so incompetent and wasteful [[spoiler:that they manage to drive the clones under their command into open desertion during the invasion of New Zealand]].
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* Fanfic/TarkinsFist: The Imperial High Command is riddled with these. Convinced by their experiences in the Clone Wars that conquering a technologically inferior faction like the Earth will be an easy affair, the Imperial High Command finds itself totally unprepared for the protracted meat grinder the planet turns out to be. They largely prove unable to adapt, pushing the Imperial Army on Earth to the brink of mutiny. Imperial Commissars appointed by Theater Commander Vulnert Seco prove so incompetent and wasteful [[spoiler:that they manage to drive the clones under their command into open desertion during the invasion of New Zealand]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Battle}}'''s classic World War I story ''Charley's War'' has several examples:
** Most officers tend to fall under this category, but the worst of all the Lieutenant Snell. He actually makes Charley wait until he's had his tea before reading the message Charley had risked his life to bring him, asking for support for his overwhelmed comrades. This is just after knocking Charley out and using him as a human shield. [[WeHaveReserves To him, soldiers are simply expendable]] and the war is [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame just a sport]] with him holding a BodycountCompetition with other officers while they shoot wounded Germans during ceasefires. He even gets Charley's unit wiped out on the final day of the war in one last, pointless push [[spoiler: that finally resulted in his death after being corroded by an acid sprayer]]. Mills considers him the BigBad of the strip.
** Lieutenant "Monkey Face" Volmar is Blue's hated commanding officer in the Legion, who--according to Blue--tend to punish his soldiers for disobeying his orders even if they are often inflexible and futile to achieve. He develops a deep personal hatred towards Blue and their coming to blows is what leads Blue to desert. Not that the French officer corp was better since they sent in a group of untrained Sengelese soldiers to the front as part of the "test" to see their performance in trench warfare, which their lack of knowledge in dealing with machine guns nearly got them annihilated.
** Sergeant Bacon is an NCO example. As a military police NCO, he makes the lives of Charley, Ginger and Weeper hell when they get temporary respite from the trenches back at the camp. He is in charge of administering "Field Punishment No.1", which involves drilling soldiers at high speed in full kit, lugging rocks over and back and lashing them to the wheels of artillery pieces for up to two hours a day. He also arranges "parties", which is basically tying the offending soldier to a tent pole and administering a beating. He's also a coward, with the implication that he joined the Military Police to avoid being sent to the front.
** The Scholar is a milder example in that he [[UpThroughTheRanks started out as a regular Tommy]] and got recommended to go on an officers' training course. When he returns, he [[EnsignNewbie shows his inexperience]] and is pompous around Charley.
** Most of the training staff at Etaples are horrible individuals, who take sadistic pleasure in putting experienced soldiers through TrainingFromHell to the point where the entire camp mutinies.
** Most officers tend to fall under this category, but the worst of all the Lieutenant Snell. He actually makes Charley wait until he's had his tea before reading the message Charley had risked his life to bring him, asking for support for his overwhelmed comrades. This is just after knocking Charley out and using him as a human shield. [[WeHaveReserves To him, soldiers are simply expendable]] and the war is [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame just a sport]] with him holding a BodycountCompetition with other officers while they shoot wounded Germans during ceasefires. He even gets Charley's unit wiped out on the final day of the war in one last, pointless push [[spoiler: that finally resulted in his death after being corroded by an acid sprayer]]. Mills considers him the BigBad of the strip.
** Lieutenant "Monkey Face" Volmar is Blue's hated commanding officer in the Legion, who--according to Blue--tend to punish his soldiers for disobeying his orders even if they are often inflexible and futile to achieve. He develops a deep personal hatred towards Blue and their coming to blows is what leads Blue to desert. Not that the French officer corp was better since they sent in a group of untrained Sengelese soldiers to the front as part of the "test" to see their performance in trench warfare, which their lack of knowledge in dealing with machine guns nearly got them annihilated.
** Sergeant Bacon is an NCO example. As a military police NCO, he makes the lives of Charley, Ginger and Weeper hell when they get temporary respite from the trenches back at the camp. He is in charge of administering "Field Punishment No.1", which involves drilling soldiers at high speed in full kit, lugging rocks over and back and lashing them to the wheels of artillery pieces for up to two hours a day. He also arranges "parties", which is basically tying the offending soldier to a tent pole and administering a beating. He's also a coward, with the implication that he joined the Military Police to avoid being sent to the front.
** The Scholar is a milder example in that he [[UpThroughTheRanks started out as a regular Tommy]] and got recommended to go on an officers' training course. When he returns, he [[EnsignNewbie shows his inexperience]] and is pompous around Charley.
** Most of the training staff at Etaples are horrible individuals, who take sadistic pleasure in putting experienced soldiers through TrainingFromHell to the point where the entire camp mutinies.
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*[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg Braxton Bragg in both US and Confederate service]] had this sort of reputation, while how much was his fault versus his subordinates like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas_Polk Leonidas Polk]] is debated, the general image of him at the time was a man who was good at instilling discipline in his men and little else, and often taking that too far. At [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Missionary_Ridge The Battle of Missionary Ridge]] he is blamed for placing his cannon and fieldworks at the true crest of the ridge instead of the military crest just ahead, [[ArbitraryWeaponRange letting Union troops safely take cover within spitting distance of his positions]]. In his memoirs, UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant recounts an anecdote from before the Civil War where he was simultaneously commander of a unit at a remote frontier outpost and the posts' quartermaster. [[BotheringByTheBook He submitted a supply requisition to himself]], [[ObstructiveBureaucrat which he felt duty-bound to reject]]. [[Catch22Dilemma He then resubmitted the request, to himself, citing additional reasons as to why he needed the supplies, and rejected it again]]. Proceeding to realize he was at a personal impasse, he appealed to the post commandant who said of the issue [[CommanderContrarian "My God Mr. Bragg, you have quarreled with every officer in the army and now you are quarreling with yourself!"]]
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Also goes hand in hand with WeaknessIsJustAStateOfMind, where the leader thinks that someone's lack of drive is a deliberate decision, rather than a medical problem or depletion of strength.
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** This continued in his later stint as Governor of the New South Wales colony, where he was again overthrown by a mutiny, which went down in history as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_Rebellion Rum Rebellion]] - he was removed by the wealthy citizens of Sydney and their allies in the military because he had been cutting into their profit margins. Specifically, by trying to break the monopoly on rum sales that the New South Wales Corps held, removing corrupt and ineffective officers, generally trying to look after the poorer folk of Sydney. They also thought that Bligh was being too lenient (i.e. not colonialist enough) with the natives.
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* To US Airmen in Tech School (AF advanced training), "Ropes" often fall under this trope. Basically, they are to the USAF what prefects are to British schools - fellow students who come off as GungHolierThanThou {{Rules Lawyer}}s, ''and'' can get you in trouble for [[FelonyMisdemeanor even minor violations]] since becoming a "Rope" gives them a measure of authority to rat their fellow Airmen out to the sergeants.
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* To US Airmen in Tech School (AF advanced training), "Ropes" often fall under this trope. Basically, they are to the USAF what prefects [[ClassRepresentative prefects]] are to British schools - fellow students who come off as GungHolierThanThou {{Rules Lawyer}}s, ''and'' can get you in trouble for [[FelonyMisdemeanor even minor violations]] since becoming a "Rope" gives them a measure of authority to rat their fellow Airmen out to the sergeants.
