Absurdly Powerful Student Council/Playing With

Basic Trope: A high school's Student Council has significant authority over the management of the school that it would not have in Real Life
 * Straight: The Tropeville High Student Council has authority over such things as student discipline, extracurricular activities, what the cafeteria serves for lunch, etc.
 * Exaggerated:
 * The Tropeville High Student Council has absolute power over every school around the district/country/world/galaxy etc. The staff answers to them, and they have an S.S-like safety patrol
 * Tropeville High Student Council is an Ancient Conspiracy, manipulating events worldwide from the shadows.
 * The school is the only remaining structure in the world/region, for some reason. As such, the elected government of the students (the student council) not only is in control of the school, but also have a fully functioning military based around conscription of delinquents, taxes the classes that perform poorly, and arranges the classes to act as families.
 * Pfft! Amateurs! You want exaggeration? Try this: The Student Council is omnipotent.
 * Justified:
 * The teachers and staff are bumbling incompetents, so someone has to step in and take control of the situation.
 * It is a special or alternative institution and the greater power is actually a way of teaching responsibility.
 * It's a public college in Mexico or Sweden.
 * Inverted:
 * The Tropeville High School Student Council is run by pawns of the staff and governors in order to keep the students powerless. Not that that's ever happened.
 * The Tropeville High School Student Council has no real power of any kind in the first place, even less than a normal student council usually would have.
 * Subverted: When the Council confronts the principal on something unpopular he did, he firmly explains that they in fact have no actual authority.
 * Double Subverted: ...and after a receiving cold stare from the council, he backs down... and goes home to cry.
 * Parodied: The Troperville High School Student Council is regularly followed around by security guards and the press. The staff cower before them.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Absolute power corrupts all: the Student Council Members have a power struggle when a split occurs between moderate and extremist members.
 * The students claim too much power and realise they have no idea how to handle the logistics of a large school.
 * Troperille's La Résistance won. Workers control the factories, Students control the colleges.
 * Reconstructed: ...But the main characters back the one member that can be redeemed, who breaks their power forevermore to prevent a recurrence of the struggle.
 * Zig Zagged: The Tropeville High School Student Council's power varies greatly depending on the plot. It starts out a joke, ends up inexplicably becoming powerful enough to oust the principal, then drifting down to just influential before becoming a puppet of the administration again.
 * Averted: The Tropeville High School Student Council is just an ordinary student council - they present students' grievances to appropriate authorities but have no real power themselves.
 * Enforced: The authors are writing a primarily for a teenage audience and know that the idea of giving students authority would appeal to them
 * Lampshaded:
 * "Aren't you guys a little young to have this much power?" (Yes. Yes they are.)
 * Invoked:
 * Students' elected figureheads are heavily supported by their electors, to the point that ignoring them would fuel a big backdraft.
 * "I know how to get rid of that mean teacher! I'll run for student council and demand his resignation!"
 * Defied: The principal makes sure that the student council isn't a threat to his authority, and that he still has power over the school.
 * Discussed: "Unlike what you've seen on TV, we don't actually have the power to set the budget for student groups."
 * Conversed: "The Student Council is always the supreme authority in these high school movies."

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