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* Cindy from Season 19 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' admitted to being one of these, and pretty much confirmed it by controlling her fiance throughout the season. Before the race she made him prepare with her for any possible situation, including studying geography, intensive language courses, and rock climbing
* Casey McDonald of ''[[Life with Derek]]'' has these tendencies, exemplified when she was making a documentary about her family for a school project. She actually fired family members from the cast when they wouldn't behave the way she wanted to portray them.
* Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of the American rock band [[Styx]]. He's the reason, ultimately, that the band originally broke up in the early 1980s. When they reunited in the 1990s he started trying to take things over again, resulting in him getting kicked out. These days he tours under his own name, and the rest of the band remains Styx.▼
* [[Guns N' Roses|Axl Rose]]. Offend him in the slightest and you'll end up without a job.▼
* [[Pink Floyd|Roger Waters]]. If David Gilmour is to be believed, his control-freak mode kicked in around 1977's ''Animals''. [[It Got Worse]] with ''[[The Wall]]'', which was almost entirely his writing, and culminated in ''The Final Cut'', which infamously had the words [[I Am the Band|"Written by Roger Waters; performed by Pink Floyd"]] printed on the back cover. Then he left the band and a series of lawsuits ensued involving who had the right to use the ''Animals'' pig and whether the rest of the band had the right to use the name "Pink Floyd."▼
* [[Paul McCartney]], during the final years of [[The Beatles]]. Semi-justified though, in that Lennon was preoccupied with his side projects/relationship with Yoko Ono and generally pissing off George Harrison and Ringo Starr off, to such a degree, that McCartney had to literally take over the recording sessions with an iron hand just to keep things going.▼
** Even after the Beatles broke up. When [[The Beatles]] version of ''Twist and Shout" became a hit again after being in the movie ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris Buellers Day Off]]'' McCartney was upset because a marching band in the movie was playing horns on it. Never mind the original Isley Brothers version actually did have horns on it!▼
*** Exhibit A: "Let It Be, '''Naked'''"▼
* Noel Gallagher joined [[Oasis]] on the condition of taking creative control of the group and becoming its sole songwriter.▼
* [[Creedence Clearwater Revival|John Fogerty]]▼
* [[Eagles|Don Henley]] was one; this was a major force in the Eagles' 1980 breakup.▼
* So was [[Talking Heads (band)|David Byrne]]. The [[Talking Heads (band)|Talking Heads]] finally broke up when the other members had had enough.▼
* Lawrence Hayward of Felt. (Actually, [[I Am the Band|he was Felt]].) Among other things, he once fired a drummer for having curly hair.▼
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* Lucy from ''[[Thirteen]]'' is [[Clingy Jealous Girl|going to get her way]]. '''[[The Chessmaster|Or else]]'''.
* ''[[Starlight Express
** [[Brick Joke|Subverted]] once everyone shouts: "Shut it, control!!"
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* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] can also be this, insisting on playing the game a certain way and criticizing you if you "do it wrong".
** A [[Scrub]] can also do the same thing, telling people that you should play their way because it's more fair.
=== Musicians ===
▲* Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of the American rock band [[Styx]]. He's the reason, ultimately, that the band originally broke up in the early 1980s. When they reunited in the 1990s he started trying to take things over again, resulting in him getting kicked out. These days he tours under his own name, and the rest of the band remains Styx.
▲* [[Guns N' Roses|Axl Rose]]. Offend him in the slightest and you'll end up without a job.
▲* [[Pink Floyd|Roger Waters]]. If David Gilmour is to be believed, his control-freak mode kicked in around 1977's ''Animals''. [[It Got Worse]] with ''[[The Wall]]'', which was almost entirely his writing, and culminated in ''The Final Cut'', which infamously had the words [[I Am the Band|"Written by Roger Waters; performed by Pink Floyd"]] printed on the back cover. Then he left the band and a series of lawsuits ensued involving who had the right to use the ''Animals'' pig and whether the rest of the band had the right to use the name "Pink Floyd."
▲* [[Paul McCartney]], during the final years of [[The Beatles]]. Semi-justified though, in that Lennon was preoccupied with his side projects/relationship with Yoko Ono and generally pissing off George Harrison and Ringo Starr off, to such a degree, that McCartney had to literally take over the recording sessions with an iron hand just to keep things going.
▲** Even after the Beatles broke up. When [[The Beatles]] version of
▲* Noel Gallagher joined [[Oasis]] on the condition of taking creative control of the group and becoming its sole songwriter.
▲* [[Creedence Clearwater Revival|John Fogerty]]
▲* [[Eagles|Don Henley]] was one; this was a major force in the Eagles' 1980 breakup.
▲* So was [[Talking Heads (band)|David Byrne]]. The [[Talking Heads (band)|Talking Heads]] finally broke up when the other members had had enough.
▲* Lawrence Hayward of Felt. (Actually, [[I Am the Band|he was Felt]].) Among other things, he once fired a drummer for having curly hair.
=== Sports ===
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