Their helmets make me think of the power armor helmets from Fallout (specifically the T-40 series or whatever it was called), never looked into the lore regarding the power armor but I wonder if inspiration for the design might have been drawn from these
Lots of discussion here but I'm surprised that I haven't seen mention of Andrew Ryan from Bioshock! I think that experience fits the meme here pretty well. Maybe I was just younger and more naive but I remember being pretty stunned that I missed all of the "would you kindly"'s peppered throughout the entire first playthrough π
You take that back