Char Aznable has declared Master Manipulator is to be renamed to Category:Master Manipulators for the following reason(s): plural Please discuss it on the talk page for this article. "I told you I am not Casval, I am Char Aznable." |
“ | Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design. Your friends, up there on the sanctuary moon, are walking into a trap, as is your Rebel fleet. It was I who allowed the Alliance to know the location of the shield generator. It is quite safe from your pitiful little band. An entire legion of my best troops awaits them. Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive. | „ |
~ Emperor Palpatine. |
“ | Azula: I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing, so you've had to struggle, and connive, and claw your way to power. But true power, the divine right to rule, is something you're born with. The fact is, they don't know which one of us is going to be sitting on that throne, and which one is going to be bowing down. But I know, and you know. Well? Long Feng: You've beaten me at my own game. Azula: Don't flatter yourself! You were never even a player. |
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~ Azula revealing to Long Feng that she was using him all along. |
Master Manipulators are a specific type of Mastermind, a highly intelligent adversary who often does not engage in direct conflict with a hero or rival villain unless they feel they have no choice or have already supposedly "won". They excel at driving wedges between former allies, breaking friendships, controlling/corrupting others, or even just causing unrest via manipulating the nature of society, individuals, or the system. Many of them are capable of causing mass disruption and toppling entire civilizations before they are even seen as suspects and are often seen as heroes or "harmless" individuals. Thus, they are among the most dangerous of villains, especially when combined with psychopathic tendencies.
Good examples include false heroes who convince others to fight for them, only to reveal in time that these fights were just for their own benefits, or rulers to usurp vast power and resources via having rival factions war with one another rather than against them. Palpatine, David Xanatos and some versions of Lex Luthor are examples of this, as are some versions of the Joker and the Riddler. However, do not add this to con-artists or simply "traitorous" individuals. This is for characters who excel at tricking others in-universe to either serve their cause or ignore their true threat until it is too late.
A Master Manipulator is often so good at having others fight and bicker or lacing their setting with discord that even when exposed, they can still amass a following of supporters or fall back on alternative plans, like any good mastermind.
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