Every team needs a leader. Be it the Five-Man Band, the Caper Crew, the Badass Crew, the Badass Army, to the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, they all have one.

The standardized leader is trapped in time. Happens quite a bit in High Fantasy and Science Fantasy series in general.

Everyone loves them. They aren't just loyal. They aren't just grateful to have these rulers in charge. They actually care about their rulers on a personal level ...

This trope often manifests as the character declaring himself the leader of whatever group he wants to lead, but no one acknowledges him, often because he is ...

The leader is forced to adopt a "tougher" (ie harsh, cold, and unfeeling) façade to better fit the image of an ideal authority figure.

Swinging into action (sometimes literally) with their band of loyal followers, they lead the charge against evil and fight to free the people!

The Take Me to Your Leader trope as used in popular culture. An alien spaceship lands on Earth. The extra-terrestrial walks out and finds a human.

The Follow the Leader trope as used in popular culture. Whenever a work achieves enough success, there will be imitators. It doesn't matter if it's a cheap ...

The Glorious Leader is a political outsider who uses romantic and idealist rhetoric to hide some malevolent agenda. He talks lovingly about the Good Old Ways ...

There are many kinds of leaders. Some are elected, some are selected, some are imposed, but in the end there is only one true leader.