History Main / AwesomeMomentofCrowning

* "Fanfic/Izuku,ThePrincessofMewni" [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia]] Has Izuku be crowned the princess of Mewni.

* ''Fanfic/KingOfKingsRulingOverRulers'': [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry's]] coronation. The ceremonial procession involved having several cavalry squadrons following him as he ascended the Imperial District before entering the Palace of Ceremonies to be crowned as the Emperor of the Romans and also as the Russian Emperor.

* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Urania the First One was acclaimed the first Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom for her role in leading the Mewnians to victory against the monsters and for her wielding the wand that gave the Butterfly dynasty its powers.

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* ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' has ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} (with help from Franchise/TheFlash) save the day. Because of that, Hawkeye gets inducted as a member of the Justice League. Yes, Hawkeye is the only Marvel character to be made a member of DC's premier superhero team.

* ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': The new Supreme Witch is crowned by their predecessor after becoming the SoleSurvivor in a DeadlyGame against all of their fellow competitors.

* ''WebOriginal/LifeInAGame'' has one, [[http://www.lifeinagame.com/pages/episode72.html when Subplott finally regains his throne.]]

* In ''CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'', Giovanni de'Medici becomes a cardinal -- a prince of the church -- and gets a version of this when his teacher gives him his red hat after he passes questioning.

* The ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' AlternateUniverse fic ''Perfect Mind'' ends with Chrono and Rosette becoming the new rulers of the demons.
* There is a {{wuxia}} version in ''Fanfic/MemoirsOfAMaster'' when Shifu and his companions, after an adventure that they had to sneak away from Master Oogway for, accept that they could live without becoming masters. At that very moment, Oogway shows and says that because of their self-sacrificing heroism, it's time that they receive their Master titles and dubs them right there and then.
* There's one of the mid-story variety in ''Fanfic/FistOfTheMoon'', where [[Manga/SailorMoon Usagi]] ascends from Moon Princess to full Moon Queen in a pillar of light and power. The ''accidental collateral'' effects include purifying an enemy that would usually have required use of the crystal, and imbuing another character with powers of their own.
* [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry's]] coronation in ''Fanfic/KingOfKingsRulingOverRulers''. The ceremonial procession involved having several cavalry squadrons following him as he ascended the Imperial District before entering the Palace of Ceremonies to be crowned as the Emperor of the Romans and also as the Russian Emperor.

-->-- '''[[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]]'''

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In film this dates back to 1900 and ''Film/JoanOfArc'', which includes the coronation of Charles VII at Reims. It's pretty awesome, with trumpeters, bishops, and anointing with oil.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', for the King of the Brethren Court, ''Captain'' Elizabeth Swan.
* At the end of ''Film/TheCourtJester'', the rightful king is finally revealed by his distinctive birthmark.
* [[TheParody Spoofed]] at the climax of ''Film/JohnnyEnglish''. The moment is a [[{{Pun}} Funny Moment of Crowning]], where Rowan Atkinson becomes the King of England.
* At the end of ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', Riddick becomes the Lord Marshal of the Necromongers when he [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt kills the old one]]. At the start of the third ''Film/{{Riddick}}'', Riddick is crowned as the new Lord Marshal by the Necromongers after he killed Zhylaw. The Necromonger host bows down in the throne room after Riddick is fitted with his new suit of armor.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'', James T. Kirk is demoted from Admiral down to Captain; but then he is assigned his old and rightful job as TheCaptain of the Enterprise.
** At the end of ''Film/StarTrek2009'', grounded cadet Kirk's reward for saving the world is to be promoted all the way to Captain and given command of the Enterprise. Definitely RuleOfCool.
** In a weird mishmash of tropes, this makes Kirk's fate at the end of ''Star Trek IV'' a Dethroning Moment Of Awesome and an Awesome Moment of Dethroning.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Stardust}}'', Tristan is the last surviving male heir, as the princes -- his uncles -- have all killed each other.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has a great one during ''Epitaph''. Rotti Largo publicly renounces all three of his children and offers [=GeneCo=] to Shilo. She turns it down. Rotti dies just minutes later. In the ensuing chaos, Rotti's daughter Amber has her brothers--both as embittered as she is by their father's rejection of them--back her as she takes control of [=GeneCo=] and becomes at a stroke the most powerful person in the country.
-->"[=GeneCo=] will live on, under new management... ''me.''"
* Hilariously subverted in ''Film/EllaEnchanted''. Char's coronation was a setup by the EvilChancellor, who then, once exposed, crowned ''himself'', [[TooDumbToLive forgetting that he had poisoned the crown with intent to kill Char at the moment of crowning]].
* Subverted in ''Film/TheSwordAndTheSorcerer''. Talon, having returned to his kingdom and slain the evil Titus Cromwell for usurping his rightful crown and killing his parents, gives the crown to the rebel leader, because it's way, way, way more fun to go riding around fighting bad guys and bedding beautiful wenches than it is ruling a kingdom.
* ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'', the last movie in the ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' trilogy, was pretty much all about getting to this moment, since Aragorn was the rightful ruler all along. And in the end of the movie, the coronation gets a good five minutes and a reunion for Aragorn and Arwen, which makes it an almost perfect Awesome Moment of Crowning.
* Mia is crowned as Queen of Genovia in the end of ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries2RoyalEngagement'', surrounded by her subjects and loved ones in a ceremony filled with fanfare.
* At the end of ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', Ash, a traveler from the future with pretty much no known noble blood is offered the crown of the Cliched Medieval Kingdom (did it even have a name?). Though he refuses, remember: "Hail to the King, Baby."
* Before the climax of ''Film/AKnightsTale'', William is {{Knighted}} by Prince Edward, saving him from the stocks and allowing him to continue competing as a Knight.
* Inverted in Sergei Eisenstein's ''Film/IvanTheTerrible'' (1944). The movie ''begins'' with a lavish, 10-minute coronation scene, complete with a NewEraSpeech.
* The first ''Franchise/StarWars'' movie ends with Luke and Han being awarded medals from Leia for saving the rebellion.
** Fans have of course complained that Chewbacca was left out; in 1997, {{Creator/{{MTV}} corrected this oversight by awarding Chewie their Lifetime Achievement Award, with full fanfare and esented by Carrie Fisher.
*** It was later addressed with the line "Chewbacca would receive a medal also, but later, as few star princesses are that tall."
*** In the Marvel comic, they had to adjourn to the cafeteria, where Leia could stand on a table.
* The ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' movie was supposed to end with a solemn knighting scene, but apparently they decided it wasn't terrible enough yet.
** The same movie averts this in the finished film, as well; when Ridley gets into the treasure-filled room with the Dragon-controlling rod of something-or-other, there's a particularly awesome-looking crown in the background, which our square-jawed protagonist (as well as the movie itself) ignores completely.
* Jehnna is crowned in ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'' after the Queen is killed. She offers Conan the chance to "rule with [her]". He declines.
* ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}''. Ironically, she is crowned by the man who is about to commit treason against her.
* Happens in both ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' films: at the end of the first the four Pevensie children are crowned Kings and Queens of Narnia, while in ''Prince Caspian'' Miraz is officially made King about two-thirds of the way through (Caspian's crowning occurs offscreen). The former is also a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming purely for Lucy's expression when Aslan refers to her as "Queen Lucy the Valiant."
* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''. We find out at the end of the movie that the medallion that Lone Starr has been wearing all this time and couldn't decipher that it says he's of royal blood. Hurry! We gotta crash Princess Vespa's wedding, to announce my love and that I can marry her instead!
* Done comically in ''Film/TheGreatRace'' as Professor Fate, impersonating the prince, is at the coronation. His lackey (who's snuck in under the long cape Fate wears) whispers that the jig is up, so Fate stands up into the crown held over him, and abruptly departs. After a massive pie fight, the real prince finds the crown in a trash can and puts it on, chirping "Ah, there it is!"
* {{Subverted}} in ''Film/ChimesAtMidnight'', Creator/OrsonWelles's adaptation of ''Theatre/HenryIV''. Henry IV dies and Prince Hal picks the crown up, delivering a monologue as he begins to put it on his head -- cue SmashCut to Falstaff engaged in revelling, about to hear the news that the king is dead and that his beloved Prince Hal is now King.
* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'': Stefan in the beginning, Aurora in the end. Maleficent as well. The creatures of the Moors were ''terrified'' when she sits on the throne.
* In ''Film/Godzilla2014'', after Franchise/{{Godzilla}}’s triumph against the Mutos, the American media bestows the well-earned title of "King Of The Monsters" upon him.
** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Ghidorah defeats Godzilla and becomes the new King of the Monsters, with the Titans obeying him. After Godzilla finally defeats Ghidorah in a rematch, all the Titans, Rodan included, bow to him as Godzilla roars in triumph.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': Kong enters the Hollow Earth and finds a massive throne-like structure used by his ancestors. He sits on it while raising his axe like a royal scepter, as he earns the right to be called King Kong.
* ''Film/TheKnowledge'': When Chris passes the legendarily difficult exam faced by London taxi drivers, he muses that there was no fanfare of trumpets, no choir of angels, nothing: just a brusque demand for 15p for his much-coveted Green Badge.
* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' opens with him winning the Tour De France. At a ceremony he giddily anticipates being crowned, then finds it's AllJustADream.
* ''[[Film/TheMerryWidow1925 The Merry Widow]]'' ends with the lavish coronation ceremony of Danilo and Sally as king and queen of Monteblanco. Originally, the sequence was [[SplashOfColor shot in Technicolor]], but that version has unfortunately been lost.
* The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise notably does this for the ''[[KingOfTheDinosaurs Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' of Isla Nublar:
** In one of the most iconic scenes of the [[Film/JurassicPark original film]], Rexy — after throwing the last Velociraptor into the T. rex skeleton — turns around and roars in triumph while the "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth'' banner falls down as if it's a crown bestowed upon her.
** A variant occurs at the end of ''Film/JurassicWorld''. After [[spoiler:the BigBad of the film is defeated and the park is once again abandoned]], Rexy stands atop the highest heliport and gives a MightyRoar. This has been unanimously interpreted as the old queen reclaiming her kingdom. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U_oUvwmqX4 accompanying music]] helps.
* In ''Film/Aquaman2018'', Arthur gets the traditional scenario after besting Orm in combat for all of the kingdoms to see, but his true moment of crowning occurred earlier when he first grasped the Trident of Atlan, as being able to wield the weapon makes Arthur King of the Sea by providence.
* Inverted with Thorin in ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'' as dressing the part of a king only serves how his gold sickness is growing. As Dwalin points out, this "kingly" Thorin is far lower than the common man he once was before he started this quest. It's only when Thorin takes off his crown and returns as the great leader and warrior they knew him as and highly respected as that he is truly a king worth following.

[[folder:Literature]]
* In the grand finale of the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series, Aximili, the alien stranded on earth and seemingly forever doomed to live in the shadow of his late brother, Prince Elfangor, finally, FINALLY gets his awesome moment of crowning and is named a Prince himself and becomes a hero of his people. For the Andalites, "Prince" is a military title but the trope still counts. Particularly notable in that he went from ''cadet'' to Prince, bypassing the rank of warrior. Even Elfangor didn't achieve that.
* In the ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' trilogy by Creator/PiersAnthony, Stile ascends from the status of a serf to being a fabulously wealthy aristocrat. This happens just into the third novel rather than at the end, but it still fits the trope.
* ''Literature/TheApprenticeRogue'': To an onlooker, Artamos' formal induction to the Black Knight Order is a big to-do. [[spoiler: All he himself can think about is how he has betrayed his king by having sex with his bride-to-be.]]
%%* Ops in Creator/LloydAlexander's ''The Arkadians''.
* At the end of Barry Hughart's ''Literature/BridgeOfBirds'', the Princess of Birds is restored to her rightful place when her crown -- with the feathers of the Kings of Birds back in place -- is placed on her head, thus allowing her to summon the birds to create the titular bridge that will return her to Heaven.
* It doesn't happen on page, but it's stated at the end of ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' that the Queens are largely retired by now, leaving running the country to the older Princesses. Once the older Princesses have had their first daughter they will outright retire and pass the titles on to their daughters -- and said daughters have just married, and one of them is [[BabiesEverAfter already pregnant]].
* Valraven and Varencienne's crowning at the end of ''Literature/ChroniclesOfMagravandias'' combines almost all of the above instances of crowning but StandardHeroReward. Incidentally Valraven is married to the old emperor's daughter, but that was arranged and happened seven years beforehand.
* Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'':
** At the end of ''The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'', ''all four'' Pevensies are crowned Kings and Queens of Narnia. This is a central plot point, as there is a prophecy saying that once the two sons of Adam (two human males) and two daughters of Eve (two human females) sit on the throne at Cair Paravel, the White Witch's endless winter will end.
** We also get a good one in ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' wherein Frank and Helen are crowned as the first humans in Narnia, with the first of the talking animals, Diggory, Polly and Strawberry the cab horse cheering them on.
** Caspian is given his rightful place in ''Literature/PrinceCaspian.'' Aslan crowns him king before the Pevensies, Telmarines, and inhabitants of Narnia, before sending the children home and helping whichever Telmarines want to leave, leave.
* Creator/LloydAlexander's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain''. Taran ''still'' hasn't found out who his parents were (and probably never will), but the High King and all his kin are leaving, and Taran fits a prophecy, so he's the new king. Aesop: Kings are made, not born (Taran probably has no royal ancestry, but has extensive experience learning how to do a good job in the role). The trope is slightly subverted by the fact that despite being "crowned", Taran has no actual crown; Gwydion very pointedly tells him that "a true king wears his crown in his heart."
* Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian:
** In a bit of {{backstory}} that's never directly portrayed in any of Robert E. Howard's stories, Conan became a rebel leader against the tyrannical King of Aquilonia, and eventually strangles the king on the steps of his throne. Conan then became King of Aquilonia himself.
** In ''Literature/TheHourOfTheDragon'', after his brother and nephews are killed in ThePlague, Tarascus gets one. He was expecting it, even though he'd been his brother's SpareToTheThrone; Tarascus helped induce the plague magically, and ThePlague ended with the king and prince's deaths,
--->''Men said the gods were satisfied because the evil king and his spawn were slain, and when his young brother Tarascus was crowned in the great coronation hall, the populace cheered until the towers rocked, acclaiming the monarch on whom the gods smiled.''
* [[spoiler:Lief]] in ''Literature/DeltoraQuest''. The Belt of Deltora is a macguffin that not only appoints the next ruler, but also keeps the BigBad at bay. It's broken 16 years before the start of the story, and the royal family is driven into hiding. The first seven books are spent rebuilding the Belt, and the eighth tracking down the heir. Ultimately, the heir crowns himself by accident in the middle of the final battle (he didn't know he was the heir), simultaneously defeating the BigBad.
* A couple of these in the ''Literature/{{Deryni}}'' novels. In ''Deryni Rising'' Kelson's coronation is interrupted by the sorceress Charissa, who challenges Kelson's right to the crown. After much to-do, [[spoiler:including a dramatic maternal revelation and '''two''' duels]], the coronation ceremony is completed and Kelson [[spoiler: steps into the sunlight wherein his magic destroyed Charissa's summoned monster, then has Morgan and Duncan join him there]]. In ''King Kelson's Bride'' Liam-Lajos Phorstanos assumes the arcane power from his ancestor's tomb. Some the ritual's participants [[spoiler: try to seize the power from Liam and are defeated by him with help from Kelson Haldane and his uncle Matayas]]. Liam [[spoiler: Mind Rips his uncle Mahael for leading the conspiracy and orders him to be impaled for his treason]] before ordering the ceremony to resume.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', the crown prince doesn't want the throne at all. The court jester becomes King when he's finally revealed to be the prince's illegitimate half-brother. The twist is, the crown prince isn't the King's son at all, but the result of the Queen's affair with the jester's father. So they ''are'' half-brothers, but the new King isn't royal at all.
** Later played closer to straight in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'', which ends with Magrat marrying the king as planned, after almost running out and then saving everyone from TheFairFolk. Made especially awesome by the ceremony; after the elf invasion, the only suit left for the king was his old jester's outfit, while the bride wore the tattered remains of her wedding dress over the fearsome spiked plate armour she wore during her [[BigDamnHeroes rescue of the kingdom]], and the king waited to get Granny Weatherwax's approval before physically crowning Magrat.
** In another part of the Disc entirely, averted thus far, where even though ''everyone'', even people who haven't been to the city since before Carrot arrived, knows he's the rightful heir to the throne, he hasn't been made king yet. Even better, both Vetinari and Carrot know that Carrot is the rightful heir to the throne and could actually take over in a heartbeat, '''if''' he wanted to. The main issue seems to be that he has an objection to people following him simply because of that reason (in later books, he asserts bits and pieces of authority, but only as absolutely needed), and Vimes made the valid point that there are numerous problems with the term 'rightful'. After all, they (led by Vimes' ancestor) got rid of the kings and never invited them back, so presumably all of Carrot's antecedents for the last 300 years were the rightful rulers of Ankh-Morpork in their time, but it just wasn't narratively appropriate.
** Vetinari practically demonstrates to Carrot that the physical throne of Ankh-Morpork, (preserved as a symbol that the Patricians are only ruling until a King returns, in which case they would be ''pleased'' to hand the job over) is so rotten with woodworm and decay that it would collapse under the weight of anyone actually trying to sit in the thing. Carrot gets the point, and remarks to Vetinari that it might be best if nobody ever got to see that.
** To go along with the previous example, this trope has been perhaps been [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] the best in ''Literature/GuardsGuards''. The FakeUltimateHero that the wannabe ManBehindTheMan wanted crowned for 'defeating' of the dragon was eaten by said dragon during the coronation, and the citizens decide to crown the ''dragon'' as king since, well -- they still had the crown, and 'still needed a king'. When the dragon was made to leave later in the book, they went back to the Patrician, mainly because the real heir refuses to acknowledge the fact that he is the heir. Not that it didn't stop further attempts at crowning in future books.
** For that matter, even in the backstory of Ankh-Morpork, it's noted that the traditional crowning process involved the King making a speech to the effect of "We hath got the crown, i'faith, and we shall kill any whoreson that tries to take it, by the Lord Harry."
** Although it's rather clear that Creator/TerryPratchett LOVES to make fun of this trope, he plays it relatively straight in ''Literature/{{Mort}}'', where the NotQuiteDead Princess Keli bullies her faithful wizard into organising a coronation for her, which (due to unfortunate circumstances involving an elderly priest, a warp in the space-time continuum and an elephant) he ends up having to conduct himself, placing the crown on her head and ceremoniously chanting ''Iplaybetterdominoesthanyoudo' -- which seems to have the desired effect!
** Done completely straight in ''Small Gods'', where the first thing the Great God Om does [[spoiler: upon his revival is publicly declare the protagonist high priest and give him blanket permission to erase previous prophets' decrees and 'revelations.']]
* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Ward finally gets his title (he's not king, but his father considered the family's title ''better'' than that of king) back after lots of adventures. Played with in that, nominally, his uncle is ruling until he's of age, but people always ask ''him'' for advice, nevertheless.
* In the ''Literature/EaCycle'' Atara (who became a Chiefess earlier in the last book) is crowned the Queen of Alonia and Valashu (who became a "plain" King earlier in the last book) the High King of the whole world.
* This occurs slightly differently in ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' and ''Literature/TheElenium'' by Creator/DavidEddings--in each, the main character becomes royal (Garion of ''The Belgariad'' becomes King, Sparhawk in ''The Elenium'' is Prince-Consort) at the end of the penultimate book in the series (or possibly the beginning of the last one), before going off to kill an evil god using their magic rock.
** Also, Garion's crowning causes a BigNo on the part of his queen-to-be. See, tradition held that she (a Tolnedran princess) was to present herself in the throne room and wait for the Rivan King. If he didn't turn up in three days, she was cleared of contractual obligations and was free to return home (which was what she originally wanted). Garion's revelation as the Rivan King stunned her into a Big "OH NO!". [[spoiler:Thankfully, she warms up to the idea, especially after Garion promises her co-ruling authority. It all works out.]]
** One rather savvy one occurs in ''Guardians of the West'', first book of ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Malloreon]]''. Savvy moment number one occurs when the dying Ran Borune, Emperor of Tolnedra and father of the aforementioned (by now) wife of Garion, adopts an heir: the loyal and highly-capable commander of the Imperial Legions, which means practically all the bickering and backstabbing that occurs with an heirless emperor's death is brought doubly to a halt, not only because of the named heir but also because the legions were ordered to crack down on the practices.
** Savvy moment number two occurs after the emperor's death. Said general appears in the Temple of Nedra dressed not in robes but in his military armor (he later reveals this was both for image and for protection: some of the prospectives had legion training and could throw daggers)...then has himself crowned the next Ran Borune: declaring he fully intended to ''keep'' the crown. With a squad of legionnaires saluting their new emperor, any form of protest ceased forthwith.
* ''Literature/AnElegyForTheStillLiving'' After Francis wears the fisher king's crown, the world around him begins to transform, and pulse with vibrant life.
* Subverted in ''[[Literature/TheElminsterSeries Elminster: Making of a Mage]]''. Elminster Aumar is the last rightful prince of the Stag Throne. After wresting it from his uncle, the Magelords standing behind the throne and apparently an undercover [[HalfHumanHybrid malaugrim]] riding evil [[DragonRider dragon]] playing puppetmaster, Elminster gives the crown away to the last faithful knight of his father's throne before riding off into the sunset.
* Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'' series has two. The first comes in the first book when Dahak (also known as ''the Moon'') promotes Colin [=MacIntyre=] to be his new captain. Talk about CoolStarship. He later promotes himself to Governor of Earth in order to exploit a clause of Imperium law. The second comes in the next book when Colin unintentionally crowns himself ''Emperor'' when he orders Battle Fleet's central computer to implement "Plan Omega" so he can get the information he needs without allowing Dahak to read him the fine print.
* In Lois Lowry's ''Messenger'', the 'sequel' to ''Literature/TheGiver'', it is indicated that Jonas, the hero of ''The Giver'', is somehow made Leader of the new Community, despite having just been a thirteen year old kid on a sled when he arrived.
* ''Literature/{{Gormenghast}}'': In ''Titus Groan'', one-year-old Titus subverts this trope when he drops all three ceremonial objects that tradition obligated him to carry at his Earling into the lake.
* What happens when you win the game in ''Literature/HeirApparent''. Then the world dissolves in a shower of glitter.
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'', ''Literature/MageStorms'': As related in a flashback during ''Storm Warning'', the beginning of Solaris' episcopate can best be described as memorable. During a mid-winter solstice high holy day ritual at the main temple of Karse, the prior Son of the Sun made a ritual invocation in the name of Vkandis Sunlord... and was answered. Among a number of other Signs and Portents (the [[BoltOfDivineRetribution summary incineration]] of the [[CorruptChurch incumbent]] being among the less unsubtle) a seated monumental statue of Vkandis[[note]](carved from a solid block of stone)[[/note]] got up, removed its crown[[note]](part of the statue)[[/note]] shrunk it down, and set it on the head of the priestess[=/=]mage Vkandis wanted for the job. Most of Karse and the bulk of the Sunlord's priesthood took the hint.
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', the Victor of each Hunger Games is ceremonially crowned by the President of Panem in a public ceremony. InUniverse, it's a moment of celebration and joy, but bitter-sweet for the tribute, as it [[spoiler: usually]] means that their District partners, allies, and friends in the arena perished.
* In Garth Nix's ''Literature/KeysToTheKingdom'' series, Arthur becomes the New Architect the moment he finally brings the Will together, and gets to remake the entire Universe from scratch. He even gets his own 'Let there be light' moment.
* ''Literature/LandOfOz'':
** In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' the Scarecrow takes the Wizard's place ruling over the Emerald city because the Wizard said so, the Tin Woodman gets asked by the Winkies to lead them and eventually accepts; and finally, the Lion becomes King of a forest full of animals when he defeats a GiantSpider.
** In ''Literature/TheMarvelousLandOfOz'' the protagonist, a boy called Tip, is crowned ruler of Oz. This is because he is revealed to be the rightful ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma, [[GenderBender transformed into a boy when a baby]], and Glinda forces the witch Mombi -- who transformed him to begin with -- to turn him back into a girl.
** And then in ''Literature/OzmaOfOz'', the third book, Ozma meets Dorothy Gale, who is making the first of many return visits to Oz (before finally moving there outright). They become instant best friends and Ozma declares Dorothy to be a Princess of Oz.
* The Tribulation saint martyrs are given one by Jesus Christ prior to the start of the Millennium in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book ''Glorious Appearing''.
* In Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Aragorn is crowned King of Gondor after the defeat of Sauron, in a wonderfully awesome ceremony, lightened by gossiping asides by bystander Ioreth in the watching crowd.
** Eomer becomes the king of Rohan "offscreen". While less significant to the overall story, it's no less awesome.
* At the end of Creator/TadWilliams' ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'' {{doorstopper}} trilogy, Simon Snowlock is crowned King. Although the moment is not particularly awesome, per se, as the land he's make King of has been fairly well wrecked.
* Deconstructed in ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'', Bastian has gone insane with arrogance and decides to take Fantasia for himself, so he decides to be crowned as new Childlike Emperor. The book depicts the scene with strong music, but monotone. People were forced to dance and jump to it. Buildings were decorated with flags and banners with bright colors, but there was no wind to move them. And everywhere they could see portraits of Bastian's face. The depiction of the whole scene makes it sound pretty awkward.
* In Creator/GarthNix's ''Literature/OldKingdom'' trilogy, the long-lost prince is first discovered as a HumanPopsicle, and reluctantly reveals his heritage (he was the bastard son of the ruling Queen and the only survivor of the royal family). When we revisit the Kingdom fourteen years later, he is definitely King and married to the heroine from Book One.
* The last chapter of the fourth book of the ''Empire of Man'' (or ''Literature/PrinceRoger'', after the main character) series, co-written by Creator/DavidWeber and Creator/JohnRingo. It's also a good example of a ChekhovsGun, since Prince Roger starts out in the first book as a RoyalBrat. The scene in question can also can serve as a TearJerker, in regards to [[spoiler: the fate of Empress [=MacClintock=].]]
* ''Literature/TheQuestOfTheUnaligned'': Crown Prince Alaric of Caederan kills the BigBad after said BigBad burst in in the middle of Alaric's coronation as Crown Prince.
* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': At the end of ''High Rhulain'', Tiria is crowned High Rhulain, Queen of the Otters. Though this has been seen as Narm by many fans.
%%* Creator/KeithLaumer's ''Literature/{{Retief}}'' in "Diplomat-At-Arms".
* At the midway point of the ''Literature/RevancheCycle'', Livia is crowned the first female pope in history -- a triumph made possible by extensive social engineering, skilled propaganda, a murder or two, and a pledge to [[spoiler:instigate a bogus inquisition to further King Jernigan's own ambitions]]. Bonus: [[spoiler:she then immediately dispatches her fanatic bodyguards to screw with Jernigan's plans, taking back her own authority]].
* ''Magician'', the first book of Raymond E. Feist's ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'', ends with an unusually tense one. Lyam and Arutha, both noble sons, find themselves with a FieldPromotion after the King, their own father and every other noble standing between them and the crown die in battle (actually that was it -- the only other person between them was their uncle who died of a prolonged sickness before then). The complication comes when it is revealed that their father's chief ranger, Martin Longbow, is their father's bastard son and, by virtue of his age and their father's deathbed acknowledgment, the rightful heir to the throne. This at a time when the country is already on the brink of civil war and half the nobles are looking for any excuse not to acknowledge the named heir (Lyam) for political reasons.
* At the end of Creator/PatriciaCWrede's ''Literature/ShadowMagic'', Alethia is crowned queen of Alkyra largely because she had managed to survive wearing the crown (a long-lost magical artifact), and was acknowledged as the rightful heir when she had done so. Afterward, she defied her advisors by insisting on marrying the man she wanted, and on being crowned in the middle of Starmorning Field where everyone could see her rather than making enemies by picking and choosing attendees for a smaller site.
* In George R.R. Martin's ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', the first volume of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Viserys finally gets the crown he's been badgering Khal Drogo for. Unfortunately for him, it's made of molten gold, is the size of a barrel, and is poured down his throat and all over his face.
** Played straight at the end of the same book when Robb Stark reclaims the ancient title of his House and is proclaimed the King in the North (aka The King Of Winter).
* Gerald Morris' ''Literature/TheSquiresTales'': Lampshaded in ''Parsifal's Page''; the titular Parsifal gets crowned mid-beginning of the story, which leads to the main character, Piers, commenting on how that sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen until AFTER the story ends.
* At the end of Howard Weinstein's ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''The Covenant of the Crown'', the rightful heir proves her identity to the crown's guardians by putting on the crown and successfully controlling the crystals set within it. (This was in effect a SecretTestOfCharacter arranged by her father.) The [[RightfulKingReturns actual coronation]] on her home planet is also shown later in the epilogue.
* ''Literature/SwordAtSunset'': [[Myth/KingArthur Artos]], HeroicBastard commander of the allied British, is acclaimed Caesar by his victorious, drunk troops in an inebriated mashup of Roman and Celtic, Christian and pagan rites on the eye of the White Horse of Uffington after the Battle of Badon Hill.
* Averted in Terry Goodkind's ''Wizard's First Rule'', the first book of ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth''. Richard kills his father, Darken Rahl, but doesn't know about the family connection. Everyone bows down before him and salutes him as Lord Rahl, and he just kinda figures that it's a thing of respect or something and takes his leave, muttering "I'm just a woods guide."
* In Louisa May Alcott's tale ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32357/32357-h/32357-h.htm#Page_25 Thistledown and Lilybell alias the Fairy Sleeping Beauty]]'', [[spoiler: once Thistledown completes his {{Fetch Quest}}s and [[CharacterDevelopment becomes a much humbler elf]], he releases his girlfriend Lilybell from the enchanted sleep she has been put in by [[TheFairFolk the Brownies]]. This trope follows immediately afterwards, with the Brownies crowning the two as the King and Queen of the local fairies.]]
* In Ann Maxwell's ''Literature/TimeshadowRider'', the Kiriy of Za'ahrain -- the ruler of the planet -- is the first person who, upon the death of the previous Kiriy, can survive wearing the Eyes of Za'ahrain, which are effectively a crown that is also a magical artifact used to keep the inherent violence of the people from surfacing in the present time. The Eyes are stolen upon the death of the Kiriy at the beginning of the book, and are pursued by the protagonists (who are the two most likely to survive attempting to wear them) throughout the book, although neither wants the job. Subverted in that when the Eyes are finally retrieved and the protagonists are facing up to seeing who will be the next Kiriy, their {{Mons}}, sensing that their human partners don't want the Eyes, promptly make the Eyes permanently disappear.
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'':
** Prince Jonathan is crowned near the end of ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness''. It's pretty spiffy — placing the crown on his head magically binds him to the kingdom. (Something like that.) Unfortunately, it's also the moment the FinalBattle begins, thanks to Duke Roger and his rebels.
** Dovasary Balitang is crowned after the raka revolution succeeds in ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Queen]]''. After centuries of oppression, a thoroughly capable raka/luarin queen takes the throne at ''thirteen'', putting the crown on her own head as is traditional in Kyprish coronations (since no one wants to offend their [[TricksterGod patron god]] by claiming his priesthood).
* In ''Literature/TheVoyagesOfDoctorDolittle'', this happens when he is crowned King of Spider-Monkey Island, despite not wanting to be a King. The shouts from the people are so loud they topple a stone which causes the moving Island they are on to stop moving.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': No actual crown involved, but Firestar's leadership ceremony would probably count.
** So does Bluestar's, especially after reading an entire book about all the crap she had to get through to become leader in the first place. Leafstar's might count as well.
** And every single leader who came before and after them. Ditto for the warrior ceremonies.
* The climax of the ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' novel ''The Silver Crown'', in which the crown is a legendary artifact that fries the heads of the unworthy and becomes Albrecht's last hope for mounting a credible challenge to Arkady, who'll become king otherwise (and who set up the death of Albrecht's grandfather, the last one). It finds Albrecht worthy, whereupon he's healed from recent injuries -- including being ''skinned alive'' (thankfully, Samuel Haight was not involved) -- and uses its powers of ordering-people-around to get rid of all the remaining enemies in the room -- including Arkady, who he exiles. His formal coronation comes afterward.
* No crown involved, but in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Egwene gets a good one after she reunites the tower, and becomes Amyrlin for the whole Aes Sedai. Immediately after, she makes a speech telling the sitters that they're a disgrace for allowing Elaida to nearly destroy them all.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] several times with Rand (sometimes he isn't even literally crowned), Perrin (sort of, at the end of "The Shadow Rising" when he is acclaimed as Lord Perrin the Golden-Eyed), Egwene (when she is raised as Amyrlin at Salidar) and now Tuon too, as the event comes together with new duties and troubles.
** Rand does get at least one crown, but his coronation (if he had a proper one) is not shown.
* In Creator/OscarWilde's short story ''Literature/TheYoungKing'', the title character refuses his regalia on his coronation day after a series of dreams shows him the suffering of those who produced it. Instead, he dons his old shepherd's garb and a crown of thorny branches he weaves himself, then takes up his old wooden staff and goes to the ceremony. Furious nobles threaten to kill him in the cathedral for bringing shame on the kingdom, but sunlight causes the staff and the crown's branches to come to life and flower while the garb glows as if golden. The would-be assailants are humbled and the bishop cries out, "A greater than I hath crowned thee!"

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/MoonLovers'': Wang So gets one in episode seventeen.
* ''Series/TheRiseOfPhoenixes'': Ning Yi gets one in episode sixty-eight when he becomes Emperor of Tiansheng.
* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'': Ying Zheng is already king, but his coming of age ceremony in the first episode and arrival to hold court in the second are dramatic enough to count.
* ''Series/GeneralAndI'': Chu Bei Jie and Bai Ping Ting get one in the final episode when they're crowned Emperor and Empress of Jin.
* ''Series/IceFantasy'': Ying Kong Shi gets one when he becomes King of Ice Tribe. When Ka Suo becomes the next king he also gets one.
* Buffy Summers gets one in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]". Being given the Class Protector Award qualifies as a crowning.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** After two seasons as a Commander, Benjamin Sisko is promoted to [[TheCaptain Captain]] and in an added touch of heartwarming/awesome, his own son pins on his fourth pip on his uniform and is the first to address him as "Captain Sisko."
** After killing Gowron for being a screw-up, Worf makes [[FourStarBadass General]] [[ReluctantRuler Martok]] the new Chancellor of the Klingon Empire.
* In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', Laura Roslin forces herself to be just about the only calm person in the room when she takes the oath to be President of the Twelve Colonies aboard a spaceliner -- all ''while'' said colonies are being nuked into oblivion. Roslin's oath was purposefully modeled after another real-life "end of a reign"--that of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, specifically, the photo of the swearing-in ceremony of Lyndon Johnson, surrounded by reporters, aboard Air Force One.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Doctor gets elected as President of the High Council of the Time Lords (for the second time, having no memory of the first case in ''The Invasion of Time'') at the end of ''The Five Doctors''. He accepts, gives temporary authority to Chancellor Flavia and leaves in the TARDIS. He gets said position taken from him at some point between that and ''The Trial of a Time Lord''.
** Romana also ends up as President of the High Council, according to ExpandedUniverse continuity.
** Harriet Jones ends up Prime Minister after "World War Three".
*** [[RunningGag Yes, we know who she is.]]
* Colonel Jack O'Neill gets promoted to Brigadier General and is put in charge of the whole Stargate Program in ''Series/StargateSG1''.
** Immediately after his address to the SGC staff as their new leader, he turns around and announces the promotion of Major Samantha Carter to Lieutenant Colonel, because as the boss, he's allowed to do "cool stuff like [that]".
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** Delenn of the Grey Council gets this quite a few times. First, being elected to the Grey Council when she used to be in Lennier's position. Second, she pointed out that Minbari rules on Civil Wars meant that to prove you had the MORAL high ground, you had to SET YOURSELF ON FIRE! And die. Her opponent wasn't willing to do so. She was. She lived anyway thanks to a Heroic Sacrifice, and became unquestioned Queen of the Minbari. (Abdicated) Later, she became President of the Interstellar Alliance. In between, she was offered leadership of the Grey Council, which she refused. G'Kar also refused a similar posting after the Narn rebellion.
** Londo Mollari's coronation as Emperor had almost an entire extremely depressing episode devoted to it.
** Also subverted with Sheridan becoming President of the Interstellar Alliance. After having the oath of office interrupted by ''two'' assassination attempts, we end up with
--->'''G'Kar:''' Do you want to be President?\\
'''Sheridan''' (Not entirely sure but-)''':''' Yes.\\
'''G'Kar:''' Put your hand on the book and say "I do".\\
'''Sheridan:''' I do.\\
'''G'Kar:''' Fine. Done. Let's eat.
** Subverted (though it takes some time to realize it) with president Clark's swearing in as the President of the Earth Alliance. Like the Battlestar Galactica example above, based on the photograph of Lyndon Johnson, complete with Santiago's wife in the background in the same spot as Jackie Kennedy.
* In a very literal example, the first episode of ''Series/{{Kings}}'' ends with David being appointed as God's new chosen one by a flock of butterflies that settle on his head in a crown. Really.
* In ''Series/TheUnit'' series finale, Colonel Tom Ryan becomes a [[FourStarBadass Brigadier General]]. But it is obvious that he was somewhat forced into accepting the promotion.
* Octavian/Augustus gets a terrifying one at the end of the series ''Series/{{Rome}}'', even though most of the characters don't realise what it really is.
* A humorous and somewhat pathetic version of this happens in the live action adaptation of ''Series/IClaudius'': in the chaos after Caligula's assassination, a few members of the Praetorian Guard finds Claudius hiding behind a curtain, and immediately proclaim him Emperor. This is not out of any particular loyalty to Claudius, but because they want to keep their jobs, which they tell Claudius to his face. They put a crown on his head and start celebrating over Claudius' stammering protests.
-->'''Claudius''': I don't w-want to be an eh-heh-hemperor! I w-w-want a ''re-puh-puh-public!''
* Claudius' coronation as Emperor was given a similar treatment in the last episode of ''Series/TheCaesars''; following Caligula's assassination, Claudius hears the Praetorian Guard approaching and ducks behind a curtain. He is quickly found and pulled to the centre of the room, where he prostrates himself in terror... only for the guards to shout, "Hail Caesar!" The final scene shows the still bewildered Claudius wearing a laurel wreath and receiving his first audience as Emperor.
* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' also has an interesting subversion: the crowning of King Wendell goes off with all the pomp and circumstance you could hope for, with tons of rich courtiers and royals in attendance, a panoply of gorgeous decorations and architecture, and a final speech just prior. But not only does the royal toast which follows this end up seemingly killing all the guests, but it isn't even really Wendell being tested or crowned, [[FreakyFriday it's the Evil Queen's dog under a spell]]. There is, however, a genuine version of the trope later when, after the heroes have saved the day, they're all given medals and other rewards.
* Uther in the 1998 mini-series ''Series/{{Merlin|1998}}'' after Vortigern is defeated.
* The 2008 television series ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'':
** There is a FlashForward to Guinevere's crowning.
** Three episodes into the fourth season, [[spoiler:Arthur has just been crowned King]]. For real.
** At the end of the fourth season, [[spoiler:Guinevere is crowned Queen]]. Also for real.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'', of all things, has this in it's prom episode. [[ItMakesSenseInContext No, really]]. Six words: [[spoiler:"Eat your heart out, Kate Middleton"]]
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** At the end of the first season, [[spoiler:Robb Stark's is made all the more badass by not involving a crown at all. Instead, his bannermen and certain Riverlords at Oldstones proclaim him ''THE KING IN THE NORTH!'']] In the same episode, Daenerys proclaims herself the new leader of the ''khalasar'' after Drogo's death, which most of her Khas and the majority of the Lhazareen she'd rescued go along with the next morning with near-mythical reverence when she (the last Targaryen) rises completely unscathed from the ashes of Drogo's blazing funeral pyre after an all-night incubation period with three newborn dragons.
** Five seasons later, [[spoiler:after retaking Winterfell from [[TheStarscream House Bolton]]]], in spite of his [[spoiler:[[HeroicBastard bastard]] status]], the Northern lords, the Wildlings and the Knights of the Vale all proclaim [[spoiler:Jon Snow]] as the new King in the North, the White Wolf.
** Earlier, "The House of Black and White" has another one when Jon literally becomes "Lord Snow" upon being elected Lord Commander.
** Cersei Lannister also gets a somewhat troubling one of these when she is crowned queen and sits upon the Iron Throne. Particularly dark because [[spoiler:she takes the crown upon the death of her last child Tommen, who commits suicide after he witnesses the Great Sept of Baelor exploding with his wife inside -- and it's his own mother ''Cersei'' who blew up the sept and inadvertently prompts Tommen's suicide with this action.]]
** Daenerys has another one at the end of Season 3 outside Yunkai, where legions of freed slaves exult Daenerys as a nearly god-like figure reminiscent of the Holy Mother and affectionately dub her 'Mhysa' on top of being their liberator.
** She eventually claims command of all the Dothraki khalasars in Season 6 through religious awe and the small matter of decapitating the leadership of every gathered horde; reuniting them as her husband did and proving herself the strongest there.
** Euron Greyjoy is elected as the newest King in the Iron Islands following the Kingsmoot. His crowning ceremony involves being ''literally'' drowned and later crowned as king after surviving.
** The series finale gives us two: [[spoiler: the High Lords of Westeros, by acclimation vote, declare Bran Stark the new King of the Seven Kingdoms... or rather, the ''Six'' Kingdoms, as the North is finally given its independence, with Sansa being crowned Queen in the North by her bannermen. It is also implied that Jon just walks away from the now-nonexistent Night's Watch to reunite with the Free Folk he grew to love and become the next King Beyond the Wall]]
* Richard IV's coronation in the last episode of ''Series/ThePalace''.
* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In the PilotMovie, [[spoiler: when Harm regains his wings, pinned on his chest by the brother of the RIO who died in the accident which had him grounded before he joined Series/{{JAG}}.]] While not a crowning per se, it plays out much the same way.
* Anne Boleyn's coronation was treated this way by King Henry, her family, and a select few members of the court on ''Series/TheTudors'' . The rest of England is less than thrilled.
* During the Season Three finale of ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', [[spoiler:Malcolm Merlyn ascends to the role of ComicBook/RasAlGhul in the League of Assassins after Oliver gives him the previous leader's ring.]] Only time will tell if this ascension is going to greatly hurt Oliver.
** In Season 4, Oliver corrects his mistake by [[spoiler:removing Malcolm as the head of the League, and makes Nyssa Ra's instead. And then inverted, her awesome moment comes when she burns the ring and disbands the League.]]
* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': {{Invoked}}. In season 2, when everyone (except Penny) become the kings and queens of Fillory, Quentin insists on doing a simple ceremony, since it's ''kinda'' important. Eliot was planning to just plop the crowns on their heads without fanfare.
* ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'':
** In season 1, after it is revealed that [[spoiler:King Eventide died several episodes earlier and has been replaced with a changeling]], the spy is dealt with and [[spoiler:Ander, Eventide's surviving son, is crowned. Ander does need some encouragement from Allanon to actually go through with it, though]].
** In season 2, [[spoiler:Lyria is crowned in the last episode after the Warlock Lord is defeated. Her mother had died several episodes prior and everyone had already been calling her the queen, but this made it official]].
* In ''Series/TheCrown2016'', these and the people so honoured tend to be portrayed WartsAndAll:
** Elizabeth's coronation takes place after the abdication of her uncle and the premature death of her father, when she personally would have [[IJustWantToBeNormal avoided the whole thing]], and shows her own carefully controlled trepidation at becoming Queen.
** Philip's coronation as Prince is arranged at his insistence, solely to give him a prestigious enough title to force British nobility to take him seriously, and is marked by his smug DeathGlare at the assembled peers whom he's being elevated above.[[note]]There's a bit of license taken here; it's true that there was a question of whether Philip was properly a "Prince" during the early years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and if so what he was a prince of ([[UsefulNotes/CanadianPrimeMinisters John Diefenbaker]] in particular wanted him to be titled a "Prince of the Commonwealth"). It also seems to be true that Philip had a bit of a bee in his bonnet about this issue, and that some British snobs held it against him. However, the vindictiveness of the portrayal in the show seems to be an exaggeration of what actually happened.[[/note]]
** In Season 3, Prince Charles is formally invested as Prince of Wales. He takes the fact that he’s delivering part of his investiture speech in Welsh (which nobody in the Palace speaks) as an opportunity to say some things about the Welsh desire for national expression (in itself just barely avoiding taking a potentially explosive political stance) in a way that also serves as a jab at the ways he feels ill-treated by his family.
* ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'':
** In Episode 2, Elizabeth Woodville is given a lavish coronation as queen consort.
** Episode 8 closes with a joint coronation for Richard III and Anne Neville.
* The series finale of ''Series/TheOutpost'' ends with Talon being proclaimed Queen at the outpost right after her and Garret's wedding.

[[folder:Music]]
* "Crowning of the King" by Blackmore's Night is all about this.
* Music/{{iamamiwhoami}}'s video "t" features the Mandragora receiving a crown and scepter made of aluminum foil.
* Music/GeorgeFredericHandel was commissioned to write a set of choral anthems for the coronation of George II in 1727, at least one of which, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcgIgLXfGcA Zadok the Priest]]", was considered so awesome that it has been used at the coronation of every British monarch since.

[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* There's an allusion to one in the ''Literature/SongOfSongs'', from Song 3:11.
-->''Go forth, O daughters of Zion,\\
and see King Solomon with the crown\\
with which his mother crowned him\\
on the day of his wedding,\\
on the day of the gladness of his heart.''
* In Literature/TheBible, Joseph's ascension from a slave, to a prisoner, to Pharaoh's NumberTwo. The Pharaoh who put him in charge makes it clear that the ''only'' thing that differs between them is that Pharaoh is sitting on the throne; otherwise, Joseph has supreme authority over Egypt to do as he sees fit.
-->"You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you." So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt." Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. He had him ride in a chariot as his second-in-command, and people shouted before him, "Make way!" Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your word no-one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt."

[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* In the territorial era wrestlers would compete for the crown of South Texas. In 1971 Sylvester Stallone himself crowned of Sue Green after she defeated Joyce Grable, though this was well before any of the ''Rocky'' movies so his celebrity wasn't significant part of the draw.
* This is the traditional ending to Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s "annual" ''Wrestling/KingOfTheRing'' tournament. Of course, this being wrestling and all, they're not really being crowned king of anything, but simply being honored in a faux-coronation ceremony for winning the tourney. This doesn't stop most of the {{Heel}} winners from snapping and starting to behave as if they actually ''were'' the king of something.
** Notable "Kings of the Ring" who ''really'' ran with it include Wrestling/HarleyRace, Wrestling/RandySavage, Wrestling/OwenHart and Wrestling/BookerT.
** This generally involves feuding with Jerry "The King" Lawler, who had used the gimmick in Memphis for decades previous to his entrance in WWE/F.

[[folder:Sports]]
* Many sporting events have something similar to this for its winner. The event would be styled as 'King of the X' or something with 'Royal' in it. Often the winner ends up with a cape, crown, and throne for promotional photos.
* The [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Olympic]] medal ceremony. All of them. Ever. Unless you're Michael Phelps. Phelps got a lot of flack in the international press for being disrespectful during some of his medal ceremonies. The footage of him ''stretching his legs on the gold medal podium'' ticked off a lot of people.
** Well, if you were wearing all eight gold medals while waiting for the National Anthem to be finished, you'd be stretching your legs too.
*** Also, he had another swim coming up in a half hour or so and so he needed to loosen his muscles so he wouldn't risk cramping up.
** There was also the famous event of the gold and bronze winners (Tommie Smith & John Carlos) of the 1968 200 m relay doing the Black Power salute at the medal ceremony. That was considered far more shocking than Phelps' leg stretch.
** And then there was Shaun White, who played air guitar during the medal ceremony at the 2010 Olympics.
* Averted at the 1995 [=EuroBasket=] tournament, when Croatia (who won bronze) abandoned the medal stage and walked out when Yugoslavia stepped up for their gold medals. Croatia was still bitter over the Croatian War of Independence and an incident in 1990 by Serbian player Vlade Divac.
* The winner of golf's Masters Tournament getting the famous green jacket put on them by the previous year's winner.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* The climax of the prologue of Modest Mussorgsky's opera ''Theatre/BorisGodunov'' is the coronation of Tsar Boris Feodorovich, with tolling bells building up to an awesome triumphal chorus.
* Set up and then subverted drastically in ''Theatre/KingCharlesIII''. After months of being badgered to AbdicateTheThrone for various reasons and by various parties, [[RealPersonFic Prince Charles]] [[spoiler: finally agrees to step aside and allow William & Kate to take up the mantle of King and Queen. But Charles]] hijacks the coronation by snatching the crown from the Bishop's hands and delivering some scathing commentary. [[spoiler: He ultimately places it on Prince William's head,]] but it's clear that no-one is happy about how the coronation is turning out.
* In ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'', Pippin gets crowned king after killing his father, but the crown turns out to be one size bigger than his head.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* At the end of the first two ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' games, the hero is offered the leadership of the country they've just liberated/formed. They don't usually accept. (Riou can become the leader in II, but the 'true' ending has him leave.)
** ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'' also has a subversion with Lymsleia's crowning ceremony. It SHOULD be an awesome moment for little Lym, but seeing as the BigBad is effectively using her as a puppet and plans to use her new status as Queen to screw over the good guys even more, it's far from awesome.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'':
** Happens in the AdventureGame ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIQuestForTheCrown''.
** And in again in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' when Prince Alexander becomes King of the Land of the Green Isles at the end of the game (in both endings, even).
*** Technically Alexander gets this twice. Seeing as his entire life he was a kidnapped slave. Suddenly finding out, out of the blue that he was a Prince all along could count.
*** As well in the Fanmade VGA remake of ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'' by Creator/AGDInteractive, where it features a flash forward with Connor from ''VideoGame/KingsQuestMaskOfEternity'', where Graham, heirless (due to the events of the sixth game and the {{Fanon}} assumption Rosella marries Edgar), bequeaths his throne on him. Or not. It's playable. An aversion also happens where Valanice asks to postpone her coronation until she can get a grand tour of Daventry. It's also played completely straight with Caldaur asking the people of Kolyma if they will accept him before starting the wedding ceremony.
* ''Five'' of the playable characters end up as kings/queens at the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV''.
** Four of them make perfect sense (two were already princes and the sole survivors of their families, one was the highest-ranking survivor of a kingdom whose king died with no heirs, and one married one of the new kings), but the fifth was rather strange. He is the highest ranking soldier in his kingdom, and is well respected. He would be a shoo in for the kingship if there were an empty throne and no heir. The only problem: the king ''isn't dead.'' In fact, he is clearly visible during the ending, apparently having abdicated the throne for no explained reason.
** According to [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Cecil_Harvey this page]], Cecil was the adopted son of the deceased King of Baron, which is why he became King of Baron at the end. The King of Fabul stated in the SNES version of the game that he was too injured during Baron's attack on Fabul to continue being the king, and that is why he abdicated and named Yang as his successor.
** Also, the King of Baron is actually Odin (an [[RetCon Eidolon]], and his speech at the end of his optional battle implies that he entrusts the kingdom to Cecil. ''The After Years'' supports this, in which Odin refers to them as Children of Baron, and given that kings would often call themselves by the name of their country, it makes sense.
* Henry "Yugi" Tudor gets one in ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses'', set to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVrHgczXz8 one of the best pieces of music]] in the game.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'', where you have to allow some pretty bad things to happen during the course of the game in order to get crowned king at the end -- and then you get a bad ending!
* The original ''Ogre Battle'' game, ''VideoGame/OgreBattleTheMarchOfTheBlackQueen'', plays this trope straight in some of its MultipleEndings. Depending on the conditions you meet, the Opinion Leader may end up becoming King/Queen of Zenobia. The best ending has him/her giving the throne to its rightful heirs, however.
* Sonic the Hedgehog gets proclaimed as King Arthur in the ending sequence of ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'', much to his incredulity. He proceeds to run off back to his own dimension before anyone has the chance to get him to do anything bureaucratic.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: Frozen Throne'', where Arthas crowns himself as the Lich King. Then in the scene after his transformation to a Deathknight, where he simply stabs his father to take over the throne. Not that he has much interest in breathing servants.
* No literal crowning, but by the end of ''VideoGame/StarCraft Brood War'' Kerrigan has established herself as undisputed overmind of the Zerg.
-->'''Kerrigan''': [[Awesome/VideoGames You see, at this point... I'm pretty much the Queen Bitch of the Universe.]]
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
** The darkside ending has the main character being hailed as the ''true'' Dark Lord of the Sith to the cheers of Bastila and the Sith army.
** The Light Side ending isn't too bad, either, as you're hailed as a champion to forever be known as The Prodigal Knight. Which is kinda hilarious, if you know what prodigal actually means.
* This happens plenty of times in the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series, usually toward the end of the game:
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', the ending involves the crowning of either Eliwood as Marquess Pherae (in Eli's route) or Hector as Marquess Ostia (in Hector's). Also used in the previous game ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', which includes in the epilogue mentions of Roy's friend and protegee Princess Guinivere becoming Queen of Bern after her older brother Zephiel's death.
** [[http://www.serenesforest.net/fe6/script_C2.html Zealot's longer ending]] mentions that after the war, he manages to rebuild and unite the Knights' Union of Ilia and becomes the ''first'' King of his land.
** And ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones The Sacred Stones]],'' (for Ephraim, off-screen for Innes and L'arachel, and likely [[spoiler: Joshua]] too) and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]],'' (for Elincia), and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]'' (for [[spoiler: ''Micaiah'']])... and... you know what? Let's just assume that ''Fire Emblem'' games end with an AwesomeMomentOfCrowning by default. [[spoiler: Except for ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', since Chrom ''is'' already the Exalt of Ylisse by the time the game ends. The closest to a coronation would be his marriage, featured before the TimeSkip.]]
** There's always one seen at the end of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', though which one you see depends on the path you chose. If you pick ''Birthright'' it's Ryoma of Hoshido's, if ''Conquest'' it's Xander of Nohr's, and if ''Revelation'' [[spoiler:it's your Avatar being crowned king or queen of Valla.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'' and its remake, ''Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia'', [[spoiler:Celica receives her mother's royal circlet and assumes her true identity as Princess Anthiese of Zofia midway through the game.]]
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', you are given the option to witness one character's coronation if your support level is high enough with them. Viewing this scene is a requirement for you to [[spoiler:side with Edelgard and play through her story route]]. If you don't, the crowning happens offscreen, and [[spoiler:Edelgard]] becomes a major antagonist for the second half of the game.
* Parodied and lampshaded in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2''. Sickened by Arius' delusions of grandeur, Dante "crowns" him [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Y8WhHG6O0 by riddling his body with bullets.]]
-->'''Arius:''' Oohh... No...! My dream... my life...! I was going to be the king of this world!\\
'''Dante:''' King? Yeah, here's your crown!
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** Subverted in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'': after defeating the ''very first boss'', you are presented with the option of becoming king. Once you are king, however, you can only walk around the castle: no weapons, no armor, no magic, no leaving... making this also a modified NonstandardGameOver (though it can be reversed by talking the old king back into his job.)
** Subverted in the original ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'', wherein the BigBad offers the protagonist the chance to rule half the world. However, if the player takes this path, the would-be Awesome Moment of (Evil) Crowning becomes an irreversible NonstandardGameOver, in which not only is the protagonist killed, but some have said that the entire save file is deleted.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': After Hargon and Malroth have been destroyed, the King of Midenhall retires, and his son the Hero becomes king.
** Played straight in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' when you are crowned into a king of Gotha... then it's subverted right away when you get drunk and drugged with a sleeping pill that night, and your wife is snatched away by monsters. [[WhamEpisode Ouch.]]
* The canon ending that the player can choose in ''VideoGame/{{Aveyond}} 1''. What happens is that Rhen is actually the long lost princess of Thais and chooses to go take responsibility and do her duty as queen.
* Subverted in ''Aveyond: The Lost Orb''. Edward is the Crown Prince of Thais and [[IJustWantToBeNormal not happy about it]], but his parents are retiring and he's forced to become king. His former party member and new wife Lydia would be an example, except she [[BrideAndSwitch tricked Edward into marrying her]] and manipulates the circumstances so that she gets crowned queen while he's distracted by the BigBad escaping during the ceremony and doesn't become king. The whole scene screams GodSaveUsFromTheQueen.
* ''Bubble Symphony'' aka ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble II'': After beating the TrueFinalBoss, which you need [[PlotCoupon Plot Coupons]] to reach, the four children are seen to have been crowned in a similar way to four other children in ''The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe''.
* In the end of the first ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' Crypto becomes the President of the United States for a decade or so. And in the third game Orthopox, now with a monkey body has ascended to the Furon Throne, becoming Emperor Orthopox after Crypto kills Meningitis and The Master, who was planning to ascend the throne himself.
* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' has Max becoming the [[PresidentEvil President of the United States]], beating a giant statue of Abe Lincoln. He hasn't lost this job... Yet.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'', the childless Sultan adopts you as his son, making you his heir.
** The ''entire'' [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryV fifth game]] revolves around a competition for which the prize is an Awesome Moment of Crowning. At the end, you can become king, give up the throne to the next in line, and have Elsa be queen, [[MultipleEndings be king and marry her and have her as a queen, or give up the throne to her and marry her, becoming her king consort]]. One way or another, someone gets crowned ruler of Silmaria at the end of the game.
* The "bad" ending of ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain'' had the titular character become Nosgoth's new Vampire ruler, at least till the sequel/spinoff.
* In ''VideoGame/LordsOfTheRealm'', when you defeat all the other Lords, you're greeted with a sequence where the Archbishop formally presents you with the Crown of England. He's supposed to be walking up the aisle of a church (or a court?), but the sequence is animated so fast and there's only one frame of animation, so it looks like he's rolling up to you on a skateboard.
* A common (and effective) strategy in ''Rome: VideoGame/TotalWar'', where you can go into the "family tree" and name your greatest general as faction heir. Considering the faction leaders get all kinds of bonuses, the AwesomeMomentOfCrowning inevitably leads to a few in-game chances at moments of awesome for the character, as seen in many an AfterActionReport.
* In ''VideoGame/AidynChronicles'': The First Mage, this is shown to occur after the end of the game. Likely subverted since Alaron is the illegitimate son of the King.
* ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} 2'' on MSX: The ending states that for his brave efforts, your pilot is promised the throne to planet Gradius in the future.
* Laguna in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' becomes the President of Esthar because of his [[strike:insane]] brilliant plan to depose Sorceress Adel. Subverted in the sense that a) we don't actually get to see it happen, and b) it happens somewhere in the middle of the game rather than at the end. Though it could be considered the end of Laguna's story, since he doesn't get any more playable parts and he's more or less relegated to background character status after that.
* Eva-Beatrice's crowning as the new Endless Witch in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' episode 3. However, this is a subversion, as more deaths promptly follow, this time with Eva-Bea as the cause. Or so [[UnreliableNarrator we're supposed to believe]].
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'', Richard gets crowned soon after violently killing his uncle. Even with a special anime cutscene!
* You can influence two of these in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', in Orzammar and Denerim, as part of the main quest line.
--> '''Crowning Orzammar's King''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVmoHUG7aCI Let the Memories find you worthy, first amidst the lords of the houses, the King of Orzammar.]]
* If Hawke sides with the Templars at the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', they throw their support behind him/her and crown Hawke Viscount. Varric says that "the city practically got down on its knees and begged the Champion to rule."
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', after his/her heroic actions [[spoiler:during Corypheus' attack on Haven]], the Inquisitor is looked upon by the people of Thedas with practically religious reverence. The rest of the Inquisition, also having realized that s/he is willing to make the hard choices when they matter, decide to make him/her the leader of the Inquisition, with all of the leaders, soldiers, and civilians pledging themselves to him/her.
* [[VideoGame/YggdraUnion Yggdra]] gets [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyg58xKAvk&feature=related one of these]], but stuff actually happens after it.
** ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion'' also has a couple of these done in traditional epilogue fashion--Gulcasa in the canon route (which, despite being bittersweet, still manages to be ''extremely'' badass) and Velleman in route C.
* Subverted when the Lich King dies in ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Wrath of the Lich King]]''. There is an Awesome Moment Of Crowning, but it's for a new Lich King.
** Also in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' following the defeat of Garrosh Hellscream in the Siege of Orgrimmar, the Horde needs a new Warchief. Troll leader Vol'jin tries to get Thrall to resume the mantle, but Thrall nominates Vol'jin instead, to the approval of other Horde leaders. In the Alliance version of the Siege's ending, this all happens offscreen until Varian Wrynn demands to speak to the Warchief. The crowd parts to reveal Vol'jin.
--->'''Vol'jin:''' ''I'' speak for the Horde.
** Players can be crowned in ''Warlords of Draenor''. After finishing the Spires of Arak questline and becoming exalted with the Arakkoa Outcasts, players are greeted by the spirit of Terokk who gives a speech thanking you for all you've done for his people before naming you their Talon King/Queen.
** In the Dragonwrath questline and in ''Literature/ThrallTwilightOfTheAspects'', Kalecgos becomes the new Aspect of Magic.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' has an awesome moment of crowning for N in the opening cinematic.
* ''VideoGame/FableIII'' has one when The Hero of Brightwall overthrows King Logan, he/she is crowned King/Queen of all Albion before an enormous ovation from the citizens of Albion.
* At the end of the central questline in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', if [[spoiler: you abstained from killing Paarthunax]], then you are treated to a scene where [[spoiler: dozens of dragons gather around the Throat of the World and starts howling and shouting in their language, effectively crowning Paarthunax as their new leader after you destroyed Alduin.]] The Player Character gets one of a sort in the course of the main quest: being formally anointed Dragonborn by the Greybeards. [[IHaveManyNames One of the two new titles bestowed]] by the Greybeards is "Strundu'ul", or translated from Draconic, "Storm crown"
* In the "Dark Lord" ending of ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', the Primordial Serpents bow down to [[spoiler:you, the lord of the Age of Darkness]].
* In the "Usurp the Flame" ending of ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', Pilgrims of Londor [[spoiler:(successors to the Darkwraiths who served Kaathe)]] and the remaining Hollows left in the world all bow down to [[spoiler:you, their gracious Lord, as you set out to make Londor whole.]]
* In the ending for [[spoiler:Rubinas/Nanashi]] in ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' it is implied that she and Taiga will soon settle down and become the new king and queen of Avatar [[spoiler:though considering that both are homunculi, making a successor might be kinda tricky. On the bright side, they're almost immortal.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact3'', Folka Albark is named the new Shura King after he defeated Alkaid.
* In the Space Marine (and apparently canonical) ending of ''[[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Dawn Of War: Retribution]]'', [[spoiler: Gabriel Angelos]] becomes Chapter Master of the Blood Ravens in front of a crowd of his men.
* Naturally, the main objective in ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'' is to keep Elodie alive long enough to be crowned the new Queen. Along the way, [[spoiler:you had to have repelled an invading army in some form]], so the crowning ends up being well-deserved.
* In ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'', [[OurGodsAreDifferent Ashtarte]] crowns [[TheHero Hamil]] as Hero-King of Hispania at the conclusion of Chapter 6. With a Tiara of Wheat for Hamil and a Tiara of Flower for herself. At the end of the story, though not a traditional crowning, [[spoiler: the signal flares from the remaining legions of TheEmpire shows they acknowledge Hamil's ''Imperium'' as the new ruler of the HegemonicEmpire.]]
* In the ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker'' franchise one can get the Daughter crowned as the Ruling Queen of the place she lives in.
** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker1'': The King can AbdicateTheThrone and transfer power by giving her his crown:
---> '''King:''' You have delivered salvation to our nation.\\
I do not have the ability to be the guardian of this nation,\\
or even to give you a sufficient reward.\\
In light of this, I wish to give my throne to you.\\
The king took off his crown and offered it to [Daughter].\\
The people cheered as they watched from afar.
** ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker3'': The Daughter can also be crowned as the Queen of the Fairies.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' seems to set Melia up for the mid-plot version, but she uses her new authority to postpone her crowning for a year so she can see to other matters, appointing her brother to her duties in the interregnum. Since said brother had an equal claim until their father chose Melia, this goes uncontested. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted. By the end of the game, there's not much of an empire left for her to inherit.]]
* ''VideoGame/LoveOfMagic'': When Emily, now Queen of Camelot, [[spoiler:marries the dying MC, the Mantle of the Once and Future King fills him with glowing power and heals him]].
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* The ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' crew aren't very good at participating in these.
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0170.html this strip]], Durkon rightly becomes King of the Bandits, but gives it up after briefly exploiting their riches.
** Also as the characters chit-chat during [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0412.html Hinjo's crowning]], causing them to pause the ceremony to get them to shut up.
* [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0010.htm This early]] ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' strip, and [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0949.htm this somewhat later]] one.
* A rare villain example: at the end of the ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' story arc "That Which Redeems," Lord Horribus's [[TheWoobie much abused]] [[EvilGenius sidekick]] Psyk is crowned the new Demon Lord after Horribus is cast out.
-->'''Psyk''' ''(now Lord Psykosis)''''':''' "Fellow demons and demonesses ... ''I ROCK!''"
* ''Webcomic/SamAndFuzzy'':
** The "Ninja Emperor" arc has been screwing around with this A LOT. First Sam doesn't want to be crowned but he's being dragged into it by Blank and opposed by Black, then we meet Gertrude who really ought to be getting crowned and resents the crap out of Sam because he has a semi-legitimate claim and she doesn't, then we find out that Blank doesn't want Sam, he just wants ''somebody'' to validate the command structure while Black wants to tear it down, then oh just read it. I swear. Crazy.
** Although Sam's actual crowning as the new Ninja Emperor isn't particularly awesome, his [[http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?comicID=919 first decree]] is definitely an awesome moment for him.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003568 This]] update, where Jack steals his Queen's ring and gains a huge boost in power, taking on a monstrous form as he does so.
** Also earlier, the Wayward Vagabond and the Aimless Renegade make a crown for the Windswept Questant (former White Queen). She promptly turns it down, giving it to Peregrine Mendicant instead, in gratitude towards PM for completing her duty.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has Agatha's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111102#.Vw_nSvkrLIU official recognition and announcement as the new Lady Heterodyne,]] after eighteen years of there being no [[BigScrewedUpFamily Heterodyne]] in Mechanicsburg. It's in the middle of a pitched battle, it's followed by [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111104#.Vw_nJPkrLIU the ringing]] of the [[ForDoomTheBellTolls Doom Bell]] which inflicts existential despair on anyone that hears it, and she's announced by her [[MalevolentArchitecture sentient castle]]. It's just as awesome as it sounds.
--> '''Agatha:''' People of Mechanicsburg, the Castle is ''mine!'' '''''I am the Heterodyne!'''''\\
'''Castle Heterodyne:''' Go on, the ''whole thing!''\\
'''Agatha:''' ''[sighs]'' Okay, okay! '''''Tremble before me!'''''
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* ''WebOriginal/LifeInAGame'' has one, [[http://www.lifeinagame.com/pages/episode72.html when Subplott finally regains his throne.]]
* In ''WebVideo/TenLittleRoosters'', [[spoiler:Ryan Haywood dons a crown as he becomes the SoleSurvivor of the MurderPlot of the series. Doubles as his "Mad King" persona from ''[[LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries Let's Play Minecraft]]''.]]
** He does it again, at least in InkSuitActor style, in WebAnimation/XRayAndVav when his character escapes from the asylum.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** The GrandFinale has Azula's coronation as the new Fire Lord interrupted by Zuko and Katara's arrival. Later, Zuko gets one, where he assures the world that the war is finally over and that he will help the four nations recover. Aang gives him [[ThePowerOfFriendship a hug]] first.
** Ozai had his own, way back when. It was much more full of pomp than Zuko's, the crowd was very, very big and very red, the royals attending wore ''white'' (the traditional color of mourning in China, as Azulon had just died), and because we see it through Zuko's flashback and he was kinda freaked out at the time, it looks pretty scary.
*** Ozai [[spoiler: even manages to top ''himself'' when he crowns himself as the "Phoenix King" and declares that he will burn down and rebuild the world in his image. Wearing highly ornate armour and with his own personal banner, everyone (except Azula) bows to their leader as triumphant music plays in the background.]]
* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' has Elena crowned the queen of Avalor after three whole seasons of training as crown princess.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'': In the SeriesFinale, a machine is lowering the crown on [[TheUsurper Yzma's]] head when Kuzco shows up, pushes Yzma out of the way and finally reclaims his rightful position as emperor.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "That's Lobstertainment!" contains a movie-within-a-show. The film, The Magnificent Three, is a story about a son (the Vice-President of Earth) not wanting to follow in his father's (the President of Earth) footsteps. At the end, the president dies.
--> '''Aide'''(played by Zoidberg): Congratulations, Mr. President!\\
'''VP'''(played by Calculon): [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....]]
** Also used in "My Three Suns", when Fry gets crowned emperor of the Trisolians because he drank their previous ruler, and has to recite his new lineage or DIE. He makes it, and then gets embroiled in a battle to rescue the old emperor.
* At the end of season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsBattleForce5'', Vert gets crowned the leader of the Blue Sentient's Council Of Five as reward for leading the Battle Force 5 to victory over Krytus, allowing for the peace between the two Sentient races.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' with Prince Wu's coronation. At the beginning of the episode, he lays out a 'dynamite' six hour show involving rolling boulders filled with female earthbenders, who would sing the song of his royal lineage while banging the boulders like drums, followed by dancing badgermoles. Turns out that all the regalia was stolen, and the actual coronation lasts about eight seconds.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': Two Awesome Moments Of Crowning happen in the third and final season. The first is with the Asiatic lioness Rani, who becomes queen after her grandmother Queen Janna dies. On the day she becomes queen, the animals of the Tree of Life sing "Long Live The Queen" in her honor. The seconds is for Kion, who ends up marrying Rani and essentially becomes king of the Tree of Life. Like with Rani, the Tree of Life's animals sing to him "Long Live The King". Both times involve Makini anointing them with blue paint.
* The third season finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Magical Mystery Cure]]''. [[spoiler:Twilight becomes an alicorn and is crowned a Princess.]]
** In a flashback of the show's GrandFinale episode, ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E26TheLastProblem The Last Problem]]'', [[spoiler: Twilight Sparkle is crowned by Princesses Celestia and Luna as the new ruler of Equestria.]]
* In the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'', Sofia is crowned a princess after her mother marries the king of Enchancia.
* King Gerard in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "The Clockwork Smurf" gets one after he returns to the kingdom in his princely outfit to expose his aunt Imperia's plan of taking over his kingdom.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', [[TheStarscream Starscream]] tries to get himself crowned leader of the Decepticons and [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption finally succeeds]], only to have the reborn Galvatron fly in and shoot him.
--> '''Galvatron:''' "Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', it's revealed that the true heir to the title of Sovereign of the [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Guild of Calamitous Intent]] is Dean Venture, as he is the great-grandson of Lloyd Venture and Literature/{{Fantomas}} (and by extension his grandson Phantom Limb) is simply a usurper. Music/DavidBowie dubs Dean the Sovereign, and then he gives his title right back to Bowie to ruin Limb's chances of becoming the heir.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', when Elyon's AwesomeMomentOfCrowning is actually a trap to allow Phobos to steal her power. After Phobos is defeated, however, Elyon gets a real moment later. While it isn't an actualy ceremony, it's pretty damn awesome.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[UsefulNotes/{{Charlemagne}} Charlemagne]]'s crowning as ''Imperator Romanorum'' in 800 was seen as a symbolic rebirth of the Western Roman Empire and the ushering in of a new age of enlightenment for Western Europe, and a moment that fired the imaginations of writers and artists for centuries afterward. In reality the whole affair was a study in {{Realpolitik}}. The title of "Roman Emperor" was largely an honorific one at that point in history, with very little actual authority attached to it. But by declaring a local warlord as the custodian and guardian of Rome's legacy, the Papacy was able to shut the UsefulNotes/TheByzantineEmpire out of Western Europe's affairs and reassert its authority in the region. That being said, Charlemagne took his role as Emperor quite seriously, and made full use of his symbolic authority to try and restore civilization and improve the quality of life in the regions he controlled.
* [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoleon]]'s coronation culminated in his taking the crown from [[UsefulNotes/ThePope Pope Pius VII]] and crowning himself. The gesture had actually been arranged beforehand, as a way of stating his right to rule derived from his merits and the will of the people rather than the DivineRightOfKings.
* Weddings in Ukrainian culture involve the bride and groom wearing and swapping symbolic crowns for portions of the ceremony, sharing the custom with Orthodox Christian weddings. It's really cool to watch.
* The coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the psychotic dictator of the UsefulNotes/CentralAfricanRepublic from 1966-1979. In 1977, he declared himself Emperor of his country and replicated the coronation of Napoleon as best he could. It instead nearly bankrupted the country, everyone thought he was nuts, and several foreign leaders even snubbed his invitations. Like Bonaparte, he also tried to get the Pope to crown him, but this was also unsuccessful. Bokassa replicated everything from the robes he wore to the ceremonial carriage, and like Napoleon, seized the crown and placed it on his own head. The excesses of Bokassa's coronation, combined with growing dissent against his rule and an incident where 100 children were killed by his goons for refusing to wear government-required school uniforms with his image on them, eventually led to his overthrow in 1979.
* The British coronation ceremony is pretty boss. Especially Elizabeth II's, which was commemorated by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reaching the summit of Mt Everest. The whole thing gets even more epic when one realizes that the fundamentals of the ceremony literally go back 1,000 years, to the coronation of [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWessex Edgar]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_the_Peaceful the Peaceful]] by Saint Dunstan in 973 during the Anglo-Saxon Golden Age.
** Bonus points for the Coronation Anthems, one of which, Music/GeorgeFredericHandel's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG2UMO6rZd4 Zadok the Priest]]", is one of the most epic pieces of music ever written, hands down.
** Legend has it that when [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfNormandy King William I of England]] was crowned, the roaring cheers of the Normans there were so deafening that the guards outside, fearing that there had been an uprising, burned the wooden Westminster Abbey to the ground. William had to continue the coronation in front of a collapsing, blazing cathedral.
** Averted after the queens and kings of the United Kingdom became Empresses and Emperors of India starting with Queen Victoria (i. e. from 1876 to 1948). George V eventually had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Crown_of_India an Imperial Crown]] made to wear at the Delhi Durbar in 1911 when he was proclaimed emperor, but there was no coronation (to hold such a ceremony was considered too problematic given that the British king was an Anglican Christian but the population of his Indian Empire overwhelmingly consisted of adherents of non-Christian religions, and even the Christians mostly weren't Anglican[[note]]To wit: A plurality if not a majority of His Majesty's Indian subjects were Hindu, closely followed by Muslims, then the Sikhs. After the Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs came a panoply of smaller religious communities, of which the Christians were probably the largest. However, the great bulk of Indian Christians had nothing to do with the Brits and their Anglicanism, try as they might. The biggest sects in India were the [[UsefulNotes/OrthodoxChristianity Eastern Catholic and Oriental Orthodox]] churches of the St Thomas Christians of South India, whose community stretches back to the earliest days of Christianity. A not insignificant number of Indians had also been brought into the Latin-Rite Roman Catholic Church through various missions, most especially around Goa (with its heavily Portuguese-influenced culture). (Indeed, today, the Latin Rite Catholics are the largest single sect of Indian Christians.) Protestantism was strong in the northeast of India, but these were generally old Dissenting sects like the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists that had made a point of ''not'' being Church of England. Anglicanism was at best an also-ran.[[/note]]) and after George V complained about the crown being too heavy and uncomfortable to wear, neither of his two successors as king-emperor ever put it on.
* Subverted by the Netherlands: They have a monarch, and a crown, and a throne. When it’s time for a new monarch, they get to ''look'' at the crown, and then have to swear to uphold the constitution, as if they were a president. Also subverted by Denmark: there is no formal enthronement service; instead the Prime Minister and the new monarch appear on the balcony of Christansborg Palace and the Prime Minister announces "The King is dead/Long live the King."
** Indeed, the only time the Danish monarch ever comes into (relatively) close proximity with the crown, is when it is placed on the deceased monarch's coffin during the castrum doloris.
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