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- I'm not sure where "unlike other Robins" in the Tim Drake entry comes from. Battle For The Cowl is clear that Dick also sees replacing Bruce as a horrible necessity that he doesn't want to do, and Jason is a weird example because while he did enthusiastically take up the mantle in that story, he was also in his villain period and was deliberately subverting the legacy. The only Robin who is unambigiously convinced that his succession as the new Batman is both inevitable and right is Damien.
Does the character of Wild Dog from The Time Crisis video game series count as a Creon?
Although he is the arch-nemesis of the game's heroes, he is almost never the main antagonist in the games. Instead, he appears to be a hired gun offering his services to the respective main villains of each and every game simply to get a shot at revenge against the heroes.
He never tries to usurp power from any of his employers and would rather switch bosses when his previous one is defeated.
I'm not sure if this really matters, but I'm not sure this trope is well named. Creon as a character in Oedipus Rex certainly TALKS about not wanting power, but he doesn't actually turn down opportunities to rule. It's unclear whether Creon is actually sincere, or only representing himself as unambitious. In fact, once Oedipus is discredited as king, Creon seizes the crown for himself immediately and banishes the ex-king forever. Creon, in other words, was ultimately perhaps more of a Starscream in disguise.
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IIRC, the conversation in which he states that occurs when Oedipus offers to give him power. At the end of the play he has no other choice but to take control, since the royal family has proved to be the cause of the disasters in Thebes... I may be wrong, of course, I should read it again sometime.
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