Mook Lieutenant

"If my trusted lieutenant tells me my Legion of Terror is losing a battle, I will believe him. After all, he's my trusted lieutenant."

— Evil Overlord List, Rule #37

It's not very leader-like to give mundane, routine orders to minions when you're trying to rule the world. Whilst you leave the hunting of the MacGuffin to your champion and the creation of the world-ending device to your Mad Scientist, who's leading your legions of terror in day-to-day State Sec purging? That's where the Mook Lieutenant comes in.

The Mook Lieutenant is the commanding officer of the evil army. He will be seen in the background to give orders, ask boneheaded questions about the weather-controlling device and give the Big Bad someone to talk to when The Dragon is a person of few words. Very rarely in For the Evulz, he's normally a career military man who views the heroes as rabble and does not question orders. Has a high mortality rate where failure is concerned. More often than not he will look exactly like any other Mook, except that whilst all the other Mooks are wearing masks, the Mook lieutenant will usually opt not to wear one, or he will wear an Ace Custom version just to let everyone know of his importance.

"Lieutenant" here refers to the position of right hand man in general, rather than a specific rank. That said, on the Sliding Scale of Villain Threat he'll tend to be above the rank and file, but can be anywhere from weaker than, on par with, or even stronger than the Elite Mooks.

Compare Mook Commander for the gameplay equivalent of this: Someone who gives benefits for the mooks in the battlefield while also participating on the field himself, and The Brute, who's typically relegated to this role. A recurring Mook Lieutenant who survives in the role may find their role expanding as they become a Mauve Shirt. See also Middle-Management Mook.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Digimon Adventure: When Myotismon's enters the physical world and invades Tokyo, his forces include a large horde of Bakemon — Bedsheet Ghost Digimon — led by a single stronger Phantomon, a more visually complex specter and Bakemon's default evolution in the games.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist General Clemin is the one organizing the central troop's defense against the East and North armies in the Final Battle.
• Goblin Slayer: Goblin Shamans often serve as this in Goblin nests, as they're usually the ones in charge. In larger Goblin hordes, Goblin Champions usually fill this role as the ones who lead the Goblins into battle.
• Mobile Suit Gundam has the named Zeon officers, like Denim and Darota, who command Zeon troops on the field and give the higher-ranked and more prominent Zeon characters, like Char Aznable, someone to talk with and convey orders through.
• Pokémon the Series: Black & White: Team Plasma has Aldith, who all of the Plasma grunts defer to and who is the apparent second-in-command to Colress. Her uniform is identical to that of a regular grunt, however she's different in that she's the only female grunt and it's clear that the others are taking orders from her.
• Wolf's Rain has the nameless Commander of Lord Orkham's troops that pursued the wolves for a while. He was easy to identify because he had a radically different ensemble.

Fan Works

• Bad Future Crusaders has Captain Crimson Sky and Lieutenant Twitch, who serve as Lightning Dust's wingponies. The batshit insane Merrilay is soon promoted to this position after Twitch is killed.
• The Equestrian Wind Mage: When Ganon enters the Battle of the Crystal Empire personally, he leaves command of his forces to a Moblin chieftain named Karuna.
• Friendship Is Aura has The Captain, leader of Chrysalis' Mooks. He should be The Dragon, but he's beaten so quickly he's more along the lines of this trope.
• Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters:
  • After Raythor is sent into the Abyss of Shadows and Lothar is promoted to take his place, he promotes Tynar to his old post as Lieutenant.
  • Once Wong creates a squadron of new Shapeshifters, Miranda takes on leadership of it. But as he starts plotting against Phobos, he phases her out in favor of Roberta, whom he believes is more personally loyal to him.
• The Immortal Game: The Cadet is General Esteem's second in command and personal protege.
• Jewel of Darkness: After evolving sentience, Ai ends up somewhere between this and The Dragon for Midnight.
• J-WITCH Series: Drago may lead the Knights of Vengeance on Nerissa's behalf in Season 2, but he appoints Raythor as his right hand in order to help run things.
• Limitless Potential: The story has a few examples of generic enemies being given names and acting essentially as mini-bosses that weren't present in the original Mega Man X and its remake. An Armor Soldier named Boxer leads the troops under Chill Penguin in the Polar Region base, while a Dig Labour named Goldminer does the same under Armored Armadillo in the Energen Mines.
• The Mountain and the Wolf: Akkarulf serves this purpose after his recruitment by the Wolf, being left in charge of the Ironborn or difficult missions, as do the captains of the Iron Fleet once the Wolf kills Euron. Like any proper servants of Chaos, they rival with each other for position and rank. Unlike good servants of Chaos, they actually back down if they deem the other is better-suited or too strong to beat. The Wolf is not happy about this.
• The New Adventures of Invader Zim:
  • There's a meta tongue-in-cheek example with Lieutenant Mook, who serves as aide to Commander Wiyn, the chief of security on the Massive and the Tallest's de facto enforcer onboard the ship.
  • Similarly, Feyr acts as second-in-command to Darth, who as head of the Consulars is effectively The Dragon to the Control Brains.
• The Powers of Harmony: Behemoth-type Changelings appear to be this, due to them being larger and stronger than other variants and the fact that the one named Veraxi was apparently in charge of the attack on Gallopfrey.
• The Rise of Darth Vulcan:
  • Runt, Mange, and Skank become leaders among Vulcan's Diamond Dog army.
  • Black Fang is the commander of the Changelings who switch loyalties to Vulcan.
  • Vulcan gets a couple more lieutenants later — Ironhide, for the minotaur mercenaries Vulcan hires, and Pumpkin Patch for the thestrals who flock to his service.
• Shadows over Meridian:
  • The Mogriffs loyal to Phobos are led by Metalbeak and his mate Windblade.
  • The Phobos loyalist soldiers that Jade leads in attacking Snowpoint are headed by a captain named Ymir.
  • In Frost's army's assault on Cavigor, a rhino-rider named Curbag leads the reserve force that breaks into Cavigor through a secret underground tunnel, while Bulcro, the head of the Sand Dweller settlement named Shallowsands, is in charge of breaking down the tunnel's sealed entrance.

Films — Animation

• Shrek: The Captain of the Guards serves Lord Farquaad by leading his guards into doing his work. Near the beginning of the movie, he is shown chasing Donkey with the guards as they are rounding up fairytale creatures to transport them to Shrek's swamp.
• Starchaser: The Legend of Orin: Zygon has one who runs his control room. When the Robot War begins going against them, he attempts to advise his leader that they should leave. Zygon responds by angrily ordering him to return to his post, whereupon he promptly runs out when Zygon isn't looking.
• The Koopa General in The Super Mario Bros. Movie serves as a secondary leader for Bowser's Koopas, leading them in the hectic drive through Rainbow Road and turning into a Spiny Shell and knocking Mario and Donkey Kong off the road.

Films — Live-Action

• In The Adventures of Robin Hood, the leader of Prince John's guards is a disgraced former knight named Dickon Malbete. While Sir Guy and the Sheriff are essentially Co-Dragons, Dickon performs typical Mook Lieutenant duties such as commanding legions of Mooks and getting killed by the Plucky Comic Relief.
• Battal Gazi: The second film's Big Bad, Lord Igor Yanos, had his own cadre of lieutenants, eight of his best officers whom are frequently seen leading his lesser mooks. They have names and slight characterizations, and actually puts up quite a fight against Battal Gazi before getting defeated.
• Cutthroat Island: The British forces in Jamaica are led by Lieutenant Trotter throughout the film.
• The Dark Knight Rises: Bane has a lieutenant named Barsad.
• Hornets' Nest: The otherwise totally anonymous soldier Schwalberg. Often seen at his superior Captain von Hecht's side or leading squads of Nazi Mooks, he's one of the more effective examples of this trope.
• The Indiana Jones films have a couple of examples:
  • Major Gobler in Raiders of the Lost Ark, to Colonel Dietrich. He carries out a variety of menial duties and later shows some hands-on initiative by driving the escort car during the truck chase himself, rather than being chauffeured like Dietrich and Belloq. There's also a German soldier credited as "Tough Sergeant" who commands the soldiers onboard the truck transporting the Ark; he gets closest to killing Indy out of all the bad guys.
  • The chief Thuggee guard in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He's seen ordering all of the other guards around and personally whipping slave children, and personally fistfights Indy.
• James Bond:
  • Morzeny in From Russia with Love is in charge of training the SPECTRE mooks. Later in the film, he commands a squadron of boats sent after Bond.
  • Goldfinger. Kisch, who commands the army of mooks during the invasion of Fort Knox and performs minor minion roles before that alongside gassing the mob bosses who assisted Goldfinger.
  • Tomorrow Never Dies has Captain Scott. Big Bad Elliot Carver spends the film around the world, but has as his base of operations a Stealth Boat in the South China Sea. Scott runs the boat on Carver's behalf, and is responsible for delegating orders when missions are run directly from the boat. He's casually gunned down with the rest of the control room during Bond's attack on the boat, however.
• John Wick
  • The first film has Kirill, who leads Viggo's goons and is the toughest of the bunch.
  • John Wick: Chapter 4 has Chidi, who commands the Marquis' Elite Mooks.
• Harry Potter: Some Death Eaters are shown giving orders to others in the films, usually with cooperation.
• In Jurassic World, the InGen mercenaries summoned by Vic Hoskins are led by an unnamed fellow the credits simply call "InGen Contractor".
• The Lord of the Rings:
  • With Sauron in offscreensville for most of the trilogy, the Witch-King of Angmar relies on Gothmog, Lieutenant of Minas Morgul, to lead his army at the battle of Pelennor Fields.
  • Earlier, Saruman uses Lurtz and Uglúk to lead his army of Uruk Hai.
• Master of the World: In the film version, Vincent Price's Robur has Turner. He's distinguishable from the rest of the Albatross' crew by his jacket (the other crewmen only wear shirts) and the fact he carries a futuristic flintlock pistol.
• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Lieutenant Gillette is Norrington's second-in-command in the first film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Later, he appears alongside Groves in the fourth one, On Stranger Tides.
  • In the third film, At World's End, Lord Beckett promotes Norrington to Admiral to lead the forces of the East India Company; after his Heel–Face Turn, however, he gives orders to Lieutenant Groves.
• Marco Polo: The movie lacks a villain, but the Mongol army does have three elite officers named Abulahua, Caldalu and Dulidan, who leads the Mongol soldiers in the final battle.
• The Return of Swamp Thing: Gunn fills this role, doing double time as The Brute for Dr. Arcane. His assistant Ms. Poinsettia in turn leads the female mooks.
• Sin City gives us a nameless leader in charge of the squad of cops who try to kill Marv and his parole officer. He is the only one with lines and is identified by the large eagle tattoo over his face.
• Spaceballs has Colonel Sandurz.
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Joachim is this for Khan, and Khan, in true villain fashion, continually ignores his pleas to just leave Kirk alone and head off with the ship they stole.
• Star Wars:
  • The original trilogy has many lieutenants for Darth Vader, from Captain Needa and General Veers to Admiral Piett and Admiral Ozzel. Most are killed by Vader himself. Piett is the one guy that remains throughout, even into Return of the Jedi, so he qualifies the most as Vader's lieutenant.
  • Grand Moff Tarkin in A New Hope has his bickering officers Motti and Tagge, along with his personal Adjutant, Chief Bast.
  • OOM-9 served as commander of the Droid Army in The Phantom Menace, receiving orders directly from Viceroy Gunray and personally leading the battle against the Gungans.
  • All Clone (and later, Stormtrooper) Commanders serve Palpatine after Order 66 is executed in Revenge of the Sith.
    • Commander Cody leads the 212th and immediately turns on Obi-Wan when Order 66 is given.
    • Commander Appo leads the 501st Legion, following Anakin Skywalker directly, and it is he who prevents Bail Organa from entering the Jedi Temple during the sacking.
  • In The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, there's Captain Phasma, notable for being six foot three and clad in chrome Stormtrooper armor. She's also the commander of the First Order Stormtrooper Corps.
• Super Mario Bros.: Sergeant Simon in The Movie. First appears as just a booking officer at the police station, but later serves more proper Mook Lieutenant functions like being Koopa's flamethrower-toting bodyguard and reminding him that humans evolved from apes, not mice.
• The Three Musketeers: Jussac is an officer in the Cardinal's guard and attempts to arrest the musketeers at the convent.
• In X2: X-Men United, Staff Sergeant Lyman leads the special forces detachment on behalf of Colonel William Stryker who is clearly more focused on the capture and experimenting on mutants.

Gamebooks

• Lone Wolf: Vordaks are red-robed undead that serve as commanding officers for the Darklord armies. They also can communicate telepathically with each others and use ravens as scouts.

Literature

• Animorphs: Principal Chapman is a Starter Villain and the first named Human Controller encountered. Despite an ostensibly inglorious assignment as the assistant principal of a middle school, Chapman becomes a fairly recurring number two. This threatens the suspension of disbelief in The Deception, when Chapman is being passed off as a Navy admiral.
• Cray from The Hunger Games.
• The Power of Five: Commander Strake and Field Marshall Akkad in Oblivion.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: Although he's the Big Bad, Count Olaf is implied to hold this role for the bad side of VFD.
• The Three Musketeers: Jussac is an officer in the Cardinal's guard and attempts to arrest the musketeers at the convent.
• In The Wheel of Time, the Myrddraal are part Mook Lieutenant, part Elite Mooks. Though much more physically powerful and intelligent than their Trolloc cousins, you'll generally find them commanding Trollocs (in general, you get one Myrddraal and a hundred Trollocs, a grouping which is called a "Fist") rather than fighting by themselves. Myrddraal in turn take their orders from the Forsaken, who work directly for the Dark One. Somewhat unusually for this trope, the two look nothing alike- Trollocs are hulking beast men, while Myrddraal look like palllid humans with smooth skin where eyes should be who generally wear Black Cloaks

Live-Action TV

• Chousei Kantai Sazer X: The uniformed Neo Descal officers that appear as Monsters of the Week in the second arc, who have some unique abilities but mostly just command squads of Deathmeid soldiers.
• Daredevil: James Wesley is the right-hand of Wilson Fisk and also is the one who gives orders to Fisk's underlings. He's always careful to remind them that he's not the one actually in charge of his organization.
• Doctor Who:
  • At several points the show has featured mid-level Dalek commanders like the Dalek Saucer Commander in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" or the Gold Dalek seen throughout the Third Doctor's tenure, who ranked above regular Daleks but below the Supreme Dalek. There also minor Dalek officers such as section leaders who are higher ranked than Dalek grunts but don't usually have unique casings.
  • Cyber-Leaders seem to occupy this position within the overall Cybermen hierarchy, commanding groups of Cybermen but still being ranked below the Cyber-Controller. Episodes which feature Cyber-Leaders also tend to have a Cyber-Lieutenant, although there don't appear to be any visual differences between them and regular Cybermen.
  • In "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky", General Staal has his army on the ground led by Commander Skorr. Who promptly removes his helmet when he arrives.
• Farscape: Scorpius, when on his peacekeeping command vessel, discusses and gives orders to Captain Miklo Braca to give to the rest of his armada.
• Game of Thrones:
  • The Master Torturer is seemingly in charge of the Dreadfort, or at least holding a position of authority there.
  • Lorch certainly has authority over the other Lannister men, as he leads the group of Lannister soldiers that attack the party of Night's Watch recruits headed by Yoren.
  • Reinforced with Gregor Clegane in Season 2, where he drops his trademark black armor and black & yellow colors for the usual red Lannister soldier garb.
  • Qhono effectively becomes a heroic version of the trope, being the apparent leader of the Dothraki sworn to Daenerys.
  • Despite named a General, the Baratheon General during the last stages of the march to Winterfell serves as this to Stannis in Davos's absence.
• Kamen Rider:
  • Several episodes of the original series feature Shocker officers clad in Wehrmacht-style uniforms who gave orders to both the combatmen and kaijin, but report to the high-ranking executives like Colonel Zol.
  • Kamen Rider Super-1: Commander Blue Oni in episode 3, the Dogma Kingdom uniformed officer who gave orders to the Monster of the Week and commanded the Mooks at Dogma's mining operation.
• Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion: Mad Gallant, The Dragon and Overlord Jr. of Satan Gorth, leads an assortment of alien mercenaries dubbed the "Mad Gallant Army" who serve as Mooks for his father's empire.
• Luke Cage (2016): In season 2, Shades insists that Mariah view him as an equal business partner, yet a lot of the time she seems to think he's one of these.
• Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation: The Rank Lieutenant.
• Power Rangers S.P.D.: There are special blue Mecha-Mooks who are capable of speaking and command the standard silver ones.
• In Power Rangers Mystic Force, there are a few isolated incidences of lone Styxoids (talking, staff-wielding Zombie Mooks) leading Hidiacs (babbling, hatchet-wielding standard Zombie Mooks, though their acid-spitting power was a force to be reckoned with for about one episode.) but mostly those were a separate squad of Elite Mooks.
• Revolution: Any named militia officer other than Monroe or Neville (i.e. Captain Jeremy Baker, appearing in the episodes "No Quarter", "Nobody's Fault But Mine", "Home", "The Longest Day"). Sergeant Will Strausser is more of an Elite Mook in that he's the lowest-ranking member of the Monroe Militia to merit a name so far, yet has highly-specialized skills that Bass relies upon to get certain dirty jobs done.
• Supernatural:
  • Castiel seems to have this role among the angels in seasons 4 and 5.
  • Likewise Meg seemed to be this to the demons. Oftentimes if there is a group of low level demons, there will be one who acts as their leader and speaks to the Winchesters.

Tabletop Games

• Dungeons & Dragons: Duodrones are assigned with supervising and directing groups of monodrones, the simplest modron type. In war, duodrones typically act as sergeants or corporals and lead squads of precisely twelve monodrones into battle. Duodrones further answer to tridrones, who oversee the efforts of multiple squads at once.
• Warhammer 40,000: The Brute squads from the 4th Edition version of the Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team rules are led by a Boss, a sergeant-level character who replaces one of the rank-and-file Brutes. Bosses were intended to add to the narrative elements of a Kill-team game, becoming the target of assassination missions for instance, as well as adding to the difficulty of the game for the Kill-team player.

Video Games

• Back Stab have the sergeants in Edmund Kane's army, who can be differentiated from the usual redcoats or light blue-clad riflemen from their navy trenchcoats. These sergeants are often seen shouting orders to lesser enemies.
• In Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars Nod Militas have an upgrade which adds a Confessor in their unit which increases their combat abilities. The Black Hand sub-faction has Confessor squads in place of Militias.
• Danger Girl have the platoon commanders of the Hammer Army, who wears caps and overcoats, and have their faces exposed compared to other enemies which are mostly Gas Mask Mooks. Besides being armed with Desert Eagles, their stats aren't any different from regular enemies.
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Narhari Kahn, a recurring ^note provided you choose to spare him, of course field commander for the Belltower PMC in Hengsha. He personally executes Malik if you can't save her from the ambush.
• Fallout
  • The first game has Harry, the Lieutenant's bumbling field officer and the leader of the Unity Super Mutant squad at Necropolis. For bonus points, he's one of the few characters in the game with full voice acting despite being so minor.
  • Sergeant Dornan in the second game is a similar story for the Enclave, except he replaces the stupidity with screaming.
  • There are generic officer NPCs among the Enclave soldiers in Fallout 3, as well as commanders dubbed "Masters" among the Vault 87 Super Mutants, though no interaction is possible with them other than combat. Ditto Legion Centurions in Fallout: New Vegas.
  • In Fallout: New Vegas, several Legion characters of various ranks are named and can be talked to, often acting as quest givers for Villain Protagonist players.
• Fire Emblem: A common occurrence; bosses are named even for smaller skirmishes and thus present plenty of lieutenants for the Big Bad or The Dragon to explain his plan to, as well as for them to stand in as a minor component of that plan that the team of heroes can foil to turn the momentum around.
• Halo:
  • Unnamed but high-level Covenant commanders such as Elite Generals and Brute Chieftains can occasionally be encountered (and killed) directing their forces, distinguished by their ornate armor.Regular Elites generally lead squads of Grunts and Jackals.
  • Halo 4 has Parg Vol, one of Jul 'Mdama's commanders in Spartan Ops.
  • In Halo Wars 2, the Banished leader Atriox has quite a few of these:
    • Let 'Volir commands the Sangheili forces aboard the Enduring Conviction, though he quickly gets a Mook Promotion to second-in-command after Decimus gets himself killed.
    • Colony oversees the Lekgolo units.
    • Voridus and Pavium lead their own packs of specialized Brutes.
    • Yapyap used to oversee the Unggoy forces, before he decided to strike out on his own.
• Mass Effect:
  • In Mass Effect, you encountered the unnamed NPC "Krogan Commander" on Feros who is the the leader of Saren's krogan and geth forces there. He can certainly be a Boss in Mook's Clothing, too, especially on higher difficulties.
  • Mass Effect 2:
    • The game has a rather odd version of this in the form of The Collector General, who was at first thought to be the Big Bad. Like Saren before him, it was shown that the General was actually being controlled by the Reaper Harbinger the whole time. However, the General didn't command the mooks personally; rather, he acted as a conduit and mouthpiece for Harbinger to do the commanding, including possessing Collector infantry and turning them into People Puppets. True to the spirit of this trope, Harbinger ends up leaving the General to die in the exploding Collector Base after the General failed him.
    • It also had a more traditional use of this trope; most of the Blue Suns and Eclipse mercenary groups you encounter fight you in waves, and large waves will usually contain an officer (a Legionnaire or Centurion for Blue Suns, usually an Engineer or Vanguard for Eclipse) who directs the other troopers and affects their tactics. Also used by the Blood Pack, in the form of krogan leading teams of vorcha.
• Skies of Arcadia: Used comically with Admiral Alfonso's second in command always being blamed for his failure (yet never actually getting blamed by the Big Bad) and Admiral De Loco's constantly being the Only Sane Man and withdrawing after you defeat them in battle.
• Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge: Gambit's first boss is a giant playing card that spawns little chess pawn enemies to harass him.
• Splinter Cell: President Kombayn Nikoladze never sends a single tactical order to his mooks. The entire military branch of his operation is commanded by the mercenary Grinko.
• Warcraft:
  • Morbent Fell and Rass for Balnazzar, being two powerful liches who are in charge of leading the secondary bases.
  • The Blademasters for Magtheridon, Despite being heroes, they don't have much importance beyond being Magtheridon's lieutenants.
  • Captain Thornby for Admiral Proudmoore, being a non-hero unit leading a small advance team.
  • The Naga sea witches and royal guards for Illidan, the latter often act as bodyguards for naga heroines..
  • The Captain for Arthas, and later necromancers when he becomes a death knight.

Web Animation

• RWBY has the Lieutenant of White Fang, who can often be seen near their high ranking members and is once seen helping host a rally for the organization, despite being dressed in the standard White Fang uniform. He also doubles as a Giant Mook and is one of the few members that can handle a named character on his own.

Webcomics

• Homestuck: Crowbar serves as this for the Felt; even though its actual leader is Lord English and his second-in-command is Doc Scratch, the first barely ever interacts with them and Scratch only does so on occasion, leaving Crowbar to handle most of the day-to-day organization, planning and leading of the Felt's goons and assets. He takes a similar role when Jack takes over, serving him as a direct second-in-command.
• In The Order of the Stick, Jirix is the hobgoblin that Redcloak trusts as his lieutenant, and he becomes Prime Minister of their new country when Redcloak departs with Xykon.
• Our Little Adventure: Bruce Moriatos.

Western Animation

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • There is Lieutenant Jee, the captain of Zuko's ship who is the only named officer, and is loyal to Iroh while disliking Zuko up until "The Storm".
  • Seasons 2 and 3 have an unnamed leader of the Dai Li, who acts as the lieutenant to Long Feng and later Azula, fighting the Gaang when the eclipse occurs.
  • The Legend of Korra: Amon has the Lieutenant, who doubles as The Dragon, wearing similar armor to the mooks and leading them into battle.
• In BIONICLE : Roodaka convinces king Sidorak to make Vakama lieutenant of his horde of Visorak. He has doubts, but when she tells him to regard Vakama as her engagement gift to him, he instantly agrees to her idea. Of course, Roodaka just wanted to put her own minion into a leadership role, so when Sidorak's out of the picture, the horde would be hers. Prior to that, a Visorak named Kollorak served as the lieutenant.
• The Dreamstone: Sergeant Blob is the commanding officer of the Urpneys. Promoted in the very first episode after the previous one, Captain Crigg, failed Zordrak.
• Hargon from Korgoth of Barbaria.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Among the Changeling army, look closely enough and you'll see one or two wearing helmets among the army during their initial invasion of Canterlot. In "To Where and Back Again", the changeling drone who takes over Princess Twilight's position is seen ordering the others around, reporting their progress directly to Chrysalis, and acts generally smarter and more competent than the others.
• ReBoot: Megabyte uses Hack and Slash to chase down Bob most of the time, and Herr Dockter for his evil creations. Lieutenant Chauncy is in command of his Army of infected Bionomes. He differs in looks from the other infected Biomes by the wearing of an Officer's cap.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Grizzlor for the Evil Horde.
• Star Wars:
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars: For some good guy examples, Anakin has Captain Rex and Obi-Wan has Commander Cody. There are also other, less frequently seen clone officers assigned to other Jedi, such as Commander Wolffe for Plo Koon. The Battle Droid Commanders and T-series tactical droids serve this purpose for the Separatists.
  • Star Wars Rebels:
    • ISB Agent Kallus was explicitly described by the showrunners as representing the mid-level Imperial officers who run the Empire on a day-to-day basis.
    • There's also Lieutenant Lyste, who's in charge of a lot of the normal activities of the Imperial military on the planet Lothal.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: General Traag, commander of Krang's Rock Soldiers.
• Transformers:
  • Transformers: Generation 1: The Unicron-created Decepticon Scourge commands the Sweeps, Mooks who look identical or near-identical to him.
  • In Beast Machines, the Vehicon Generals each lead different sets of drones.
  • Transformers: Prime has the main Decepticons serving as commanders of the generic Vehicon troopers.
• The Venture Bros.: Between Seasons 3 and 4, Henchman 21 becomes this for The Monarch's army of minions, inspired by his grief after 24's senseless death. He buys top-of-the-line equipment for himself, undergoes a grueling training regimen, and injects much-needed discipline into the henchmen's ranks. It would have worked out great for The Monarch, had he been a bit less incompetent.
• Commander Peepers from Wander over Yonder is The Dragon to Lord Hater and belongs to the same alien species as the rest of Hater's Adorable Evil Minions. Peepers distinguishes himself by wearing a unique helmet and being more clever and competent than all of them and Hater put together.

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