Category:Dictators

The most general term is despotism, a form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power. That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy. Despotism can mean tyranny (dominance through threat of punishment and violence), or absolutism; or dictatorship (a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator, not restricted by a constitution, laws or opposition, etc.). Dictatorship may take the form of authoritarianism or totalitarianism. Dictators in nature traditionally are mostly villains, because it's an exsample of a form of power that is easily corruptable. When you look at the now reformed Lord Shen, he was once a dictator himself during his reign of Gongmen City, and clear intention to congure Dreamworks China at the time.