America the beautiful, where the citizens of the nation vote on who they want to be their all powerful leader. And, since we have an election cycle coming up, it's time to talk about the men and women who've run for President in the wide, wide world of comic books. Some of them won, some of them lost, but all of them wanted to rule the free world. There's no easier way to get aggressive angry hate on the Internet than talking politics or talking comics, but I don't learn lessons, so let's do it anyway.
It’ll be fun.
The Demon # 27 ( Source: Comicvine.com)
10. Etrigan The Demon
(The Demon, DC Comics)
Etrigan the Demon is one of my favorite underrated comics characters. He is a demon whose gimmick is speaking in rhyming verse. I don't care who you are, that's just fun. Etrigan tends to hop back and forth between hero, antihero, and legitimate villain, depending on the writer and story. But hey, being a flip-flopper doesn't exclude you from being President (even if bein' a demon probably means he isn't a United States citizen, but whatever).
When Etrigan is asked to run for President by the founder of the American Liberty Institute, all hell breaks loose (PUN!). Etrigan kicks his campaign into high gear, mastering spin and political maneuvering, and even surviving an assassination attempt. He eventually accepts a position as Vice President, intending to get rid of the President and take over as soon as possible, but his plans are discovered and shut down by his political assistant, defeating Etrigan, albeit temporarily.
The story, "Political Asylum", was written by the late, incredibly talented Dwayne McDuffie, and is fairly difficult to track down. But hey, who doesn't want to see a rhyming demon from hell take over the country?
