Usurper

From his iconic and sinister design to his evil machinations, Scar is peak villainy through and through – but as revealed in an issue of Disney Villains: Scar, Pride Rock’s usurper had yet another skill that nobody knew about – magic.

Sharif said although IRGC members are currently in mourning, “their determination to take revenge on the usurper Zionist and criminal America will be greater”.

The perimeter guard had become so porous that the grounds of the White House were flooded with women demanding the capitulation of the usurper.

But for most partisan Democrats, he remains a horrible, unimaginable usurper.

He is precisely why they included impeachment and removal from office in the Constitution as a remedy for a tyrant or other usurper of democracy and the rule of law.

Writing in the Washington Post this week, Guaidó denounced Maduro as a “usurper” and “de facto ruler” whose re-election last May was a “farce”.

As the new usurper, he has to act stern in the middle of all this family chaos, but he’s appropriately worried that his crazy nephew Hamlet is capable of anything.

He is a usurper who wants power by all means.

According to the Augustan History (Aurel. 31.2), Zenobia's father's name was Achilleus and his usurper was named Antiochus (Zos. 1.60.2).

Atahualpa may actually be considered a usurper as he had achieved power by killing his half-brother and he did not perform the required coronation with the imperial crown mascaipacha by the Huillaq Uma (high priest).

By 361, Constantius saw no alternative but to face the usurper with force; and yet the threat of the Sassanids remained.

Canduci, pg. 172 Zeno continued the official position of Constantinople to deny any recognition of Glycerius, whom the court continued to view as a usurper.

Constantine then successfully used Britain as the starting point of his march to the imperial throne, unlike the earlier usurper, Albinus.

Contrary to the modern notion of a dictator as a usurper, Roman Dictators were freely chosen, usually from the ranks of consuls, during turbulent periods when one-man rule proved more efficient.

Decline Sadayavarman Sundara Pandyan I invaded Sri Lanka in the 13th century and defeated Chandrabanu the usurper of the Jaffna Kingdom in northern Sri Lanka.

Departing, Stephen declares that he will not return to the tower tonight, as Mulligan, the "usurper", has taken it over.

Deprived of all clerical rank and considered a usurper from the beginning, Sylvester III was condemned to be confined in a monastery for the rest of his life.

During the disorders of 411–13 AD, the Roman usurper Jovinus established himself in Borbetomagus as a puppet-emperor with the help of King Gunther of the Burgundians, who had settled in the area between the Rhine and Moselle Rivers some years before.

For instance, Romulus Augustulus was technically a usurper who ruled only the Italian peninsula and was never legally recognized.

He is dethroned by the spectre of an actor, and we shall never be able to keep the usurper out of our dreams.