Talk:Volturi/@comment-72.228.155.211-20130402023351/@comment-156.110.24.142-20130531161120

Yes, but many times in the media (sticking with just fiction this time), the villainous leader(s) are often shown to allow their army to take a bullet first either because:

a) the leader is a coward,

b) the leader may have more important business than fighting/not the fighting type and so forth, relying on their army to do the fighting for them,

c) assuming that the leader(s) are villainous they care only for themselves not really their army,

d) the leader is saving himself for last or saving himself for an opponent he finds worthy,

or e)  all of the above.

Though not all villainous leader are portrayed this way, many are in many fictions.