puppet master
Noun
Meaning
A person who entertains with, or operates puppets; a puppeteer.
Synonym: puppeteer
(figuratively, by extension) A person who controls other people and/or events.
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Examples
After remembering a moment when Bem seemed to lose control over himself, Ben's girlfriend Alicia Masters fears her step-father Philip Masters, the villainous Puppet Master, is up to his old tricks.
At the end of the issue, Thing won so dramatically that he basically destroyed Puppet Master's ability to even keep himself into a coherent body and Puppet Master collapses back into clay.