Yet another version was introduced during the " Emperor Joker " storyline in Action Comics # 769 – 770 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), Adventures of Superman # 582 – 583 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), Superman # 160 – 161 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), Superman: The Man of Steel # 104 – 105 ( Sep .-Oct. 2000 ), and Superman: Emperor Joker # 1 ( Oct. 2000 ).

In Emperor Joker, a multipart story throughout the Superman titles, Mxyzptlk has his powers temporarily stolen by the Joker ; interested in seeing how somebody else would do at his job, Mxyzptlk intends to give the Joker only 1 % of his power.

However, Mxyzptlk saves some of the Joker's creations and transfers them into the ' real ' world, including Scorch, Gorgeous Gilly, the new Bizarro and " Ignition ", a black-armored villain who first appeared in the Emperor Joker story but was created by someone else ( exactly who has never been revealed ).

Later, during the Emperor Joker storyline, this is expanded upon: the Joker, possessing the same powers, is able to unweave the very fabric and laws of the cosmos, and render the less powerful than normal Hal Jordan Spectre into a deranged puppet, Mxyzptlk explaining that he has the power to do what the Joker is doing to the world but never uses it because he would run the risk of destroying reality from the strain he would be subjecting it to and thus leave himself with nothing to do the next day.

The storyline is referenced by Bat-Mite in the episode " Emperor Joker!

Lord Satanus later appears in the Reign of Emperor Joker arc of the Superman titles.

Batman: the Brave and the Bold TV series parodied this as well in the Season 2 episode " Emperor Joker!

In the post-Crisis issue Superman / Batman # 25, it was revealed that the Joker had gained Fifth Dimensional powers by maintaining the essence of Mr. Mxyzptlk from the earlier " Emperor Joker " storyline ; at the end, Bizarro was able to extract this latent magical essence from the Joker, which manifested in a form recognizable as Bat-Mite.

Bat-Mite also appeared in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episodes " Legends of the Dark Mite ", " Emperor Joker ", " Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!

In " Emperor Joker!

*** Emperor Joker ( tpb, 256 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1193-3 ) includes:

**** " It's a Joker World, Baby, We Just Live in It " ( with Jeph Loeb and various artists, in Superman: Emperor Joker one-shot, 2000 )

He later appears at the beginning of " Emperor Joker " where he tries to rob a jewelry store only to fight Batman.

In the storyline, the Emperor puts the three Great Houses of the Landsraad — the Atreides, the Harkonnens and the Ordos — in a war for the supremacy of Arrakis.

The 26-episode anime storyline somehow follows the main plot of the manga, with the young ( 72-year-old ) " doushi " ( Apprentice to a Sennin ) Taikoubou told to go from the Sennin ( Immortal ) world to Earth ( and specifically Yin China ) to hunt down 365 renegade evil spirits in order to bring down the fall of Queen Dakki, a Fox spirit who has enslaved the Emperor.

In addition to the playable factions, several Minor Clans exist in Rokugan, each with a purpose and task given to them by the Emperor and some card and storyline support.

* Mihael Barclay is the Imperial Prince of Jirat, son to Emperor Phillip and Empress Jeanne ( Also son to Emperor Felippe, in the other storyline ).

* Anna Barclay is the Imperial Princess of Jirat, daughter to Emperor Phillip and Empress Jeanne ( Also daughter to Emperor Felippe, in the other storyline ).

While he supported the idea of government by an all-powerful sage, ruling as an Emperor, his ideas contained a number of elements to limit the power of rulers.

Julian's ascetic lifestyle was not popular either, since his subjects were accustomed to the idea of an all-powerful Emperor who placed himself well above them.

Lord Zedd was the self-proclaimed, all-powerful " Emperor of Evil " and " sworn enemy of all that is good and decent ".

The leader of the all-powerful aristocratic class was John Kantakouzenos, who after the death of Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos was the effective regent for the latter's infant son, John V. A faction in Constantinople, formed around the powerful megas doux Alexios Apokaukos, plotted against him, and managed to enlist the support of dowager empress Anna of Savoy and the Patriarch John Kalekas.

* 66 – Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.

* Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty deposes his wife, Guo Shentong, as empress, and creates his consort Yin Lihua empress in her place.

* September 22 – Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.

In the distant future, the Emperor of Mankind creates twenty Primarchs, genetically engineered superhumans possessing immense physical and psychic power.

Once Palpatine creates the Galactic Empire with himself as Emperor, the Royal Guards accompany him at all times.

* 27 BC E, Octavian becomes Emperor under the name of Caesar Augustus, Begin of Julio-Claudian dynasty, Begin of the Principate, End of the Roman Republic, Octavian creates the Praetorian Guard, Construction of the Pantheon begins.

The house eventually creates a ghola of the deceased Emperor Shaddam Corrino, who will serve as a puppet emperor subservient to House Ordos.

Emperor Go-Daigo appears in the alternate history novel Romanitas by Sophia McDougall.

Ray Huang argues that in reality, eunuchs represented the personal will of the Emperor, while the officials represented the alternate political will of the bureaucracy.

Nicephorus III is also a fictional Byzantine Emperor ruling in the beginning of the 14th century in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel Agent of Byzantium.

He was named after Emperor Kōkō, who had the alternate name Komatsu, because they both returned the throne to their families, in the case of Emperor Go-Komatsu, by defeating his Southern Court rivals, and in the case of Emperor Kōkō, by succeeding his elder brother's grandson, Emperor Yōzei.

The story of Emperor Antoku and his mother's family became the subject of the Kamakura period epic poem The Tale of the Heike ( Heike is an alternate reading of the Japanese characters for " House of the Taira ").

For this reason, he was known as the Go-Saiin emperor, after an alternate name of Emperor Junna, who had confronted and reached an accommodation with similar issues.

The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks ( DWM # 197 -# 202 ) also attempts to fill in this gap, with Davros conquering Skaro and also explaining how his remains came to be housed in the Emperor Dalek shell while the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Juggernauts presents an alternate version of Davros's activities in the period between Revelation and Remembrance.

An alternate, much less widely accepted theory, suggests that the surname Yuan is derived from Xuanyuan ( 軒轅 or 玄袁 ), the clan name of the Yellow Emperor.

There was also a Chinese expedition to Bactria by Chang-k ' ien under the Emperor Wu of Han, recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian and Book of the Former Han, with additional evidence in the Book of the Later Han ; the identification of places and peoples behind transcriptions into Chinese is difficult, and several alternate interpretations have been proposed.

The Germanicus trilogy is a collection of books following the adventures of Roman Emperor Germanicus Julius Agricola Aztecus Caesar in an alternate universe where Rome never fell.

An alternate account says that in the year 363, Emperor Julian made Apronianus Governor of Rome.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

Antoninus Pius (; born 19 September 86AD – died 7 March 161AD ), also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138AD to 161AD.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.

In 1553, the state was captured by the Hindu Emperor Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, popularly known as Hemu, who was killed in 1556 in the Second Battle of Panipat.

Emperor Shāh Jahān later added five pavilions, known as the Baradari, between the garden and the lake.

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

In 1019 the construction of the cathedral of Basel ( known locally as the Münster ) began under German Emperor Heinrich II.

On the south side of the great square was erected the Great Palace of the Emperor with its imposing entrance, the Chalke, and its ceremonial suite known as the Palace of Daphne.

However, following the death of an Emperor, they became known also for plunder in the Imperial palaces.

The Qin Emperor presided over the brutal silencing of political opposition, including the event known as the burning of books and burying of scholars.

The best known fictional representation of the Emperor Claudius were the books I, Claudius and Claudius the God ( published in 1934 and 1935 ) by Robert Graves, both written in the first-person to give the reader the impression that they are Claudius ' autobiography.

In the early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in " Ecumenical " councils ( the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome ) or " local " councils ( bishops of a region or territory ).

* Constantine I, Roman Emperor from 306 to 337, commonly known as Constantine the Great

* Eskender ( 1471 – 1494 ), Emperor of Ethiopia sometimes known as Constantine II

Caligula (; 31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41 ), also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD.

In 1122, Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor entered into an agreement with Pope Calistus II known as the Concordat of Worms.

The Council of Chalcedon was convened by Emperor Marcian, with the reluctant approval of Pope Leo the Great, to set aside the 449 Second Council of Ephesus, better known as the " Robber Council ".

Although little is known about the life and career of Nerva before his accession as Emperor in 96, he appears to have been a highly adaptable diplomat, surviving multiple regime changes and emerging as one of the Flavians ' most trusted advisors.

The Italians took advantage of disorder in northern Ethiopia following the death of Emperor Yohannes IV in 1889 to occupy the highlands and established their new colony, henceforth known as Eritrea, and received recognition from Menelik II, Ethiopia's new Emperor.

Nothing is known of her until in order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony ( later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ) to choose whichever one pleased him best.

Emperors have been known to come into conflict with the reigning shogun from time to time ; a notable example is the Hōgen Rebellion of 1156, in which former Emperor Sutoku attempted to seize power from the then current Emperor Go-Shirakawa, both of whom were supported by different clans of samurai.

The Principate ( 27 BC-284 AD ) period was succeeded by what is known as the Dominate ( 284 AD-527 AD ), during which Emperor Diocletian tried to put the Empire on a more formal footing.