History Main / CoolCrown

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1: The Emperor's Crown--a golden coronet with multicoloured inlaid jewels--is the crown-est of crowns, marking the player who has the authority to make a rule that every other player must follow. There's even a prophecy ''about'' this Crown in particular in ''[[TomesOfProphecyAndFate The Book Of Prophecies, Past & Future]]''. [[spoiler:It was ultimately destroyed in [[ApocalypseHow the Rapture]] during the explosion of the Grimlands.]]

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1: The Emperor's Crown--a golden coronet with multicoloured inlaid jewels--is the crown-est of crowns, marking the player who has the authority to make a rule that every other player must follow. [[spoiler:It was destroyed in [[ApocalypseHow the Rapture]] during the explosion of the Grimlands.]]

* ''FanFic/ThePalaververse'': The Capricious Crown of Capra, an ornate, enchanted crown that just so happens to also be alive and the supreme ruler of the nation of Capra. It speaks in a metallic voice and shows emotion by flashing its gems in different colors.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'': While the main lords (and royal units in general) series tend to not wear crowns, probably because it makes little sense to wear one in war, there are some exceptions. [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Eliwood]] wears a very basic thin circlet around his forehead, [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Lucina]] wears a relatively modest-looking tiara, and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Marth]] wears a circlet, often with simple decoration, above his forehead. The rare non-combatant royalty often sport more elaborate hoop crowns or circlets.

* ''WebComic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': Wonderella, Wonderita, and Wonderella's mother all wear cool tiaras. Oddly, despite it being part of their superhero outfits, they also wear those tiaras in their civilian clothes.

* '''Hoop Crowns''', with [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny gold arches]], {{jewelry}} (often GemEncrusted), velvety-cloth caps, and/or [[PrettyInMink ermine-edging]] are the coolest crowns of them all. Usually seen on Kings, although the occasional Queen, Emperor, and Empress, get to wear them. They are big and in your face and anyone wearing one is really important, or seems to want you to think he is. Even most Royalty don't like to wear them ''[[ErmineCapeEffect all the time]]'', though. During everyday royal activities, a circlet -- or just an ordinary NiceHat -- will do.

SubTrope of NiceHat and a key piece of RequisiteRoyalRegalia. See also, SignatureHeadgear and CrownShapedHead.

** The second episode has an exchange during then-Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh's review of local dignitaries in Nairobi, in which Philip flippantly tells one older gentleman wearing a rather distinctive headdress "NiceHat". His wife reproaches him:

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** In ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'', the crown of Gondor looks like a circlet, though a fairly large one. This is contrary to the book, where it looks like a helm (not exactly hoop crown but close).
** The elven lord Elrond sports a circlet of the "stock thin elven" type. The elven High King of old, Gil-Galad, did too.

* ''Creator/{{Disney}}'':

* The Red Crown of Omadon, seen in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'', a very large hoop crown with several pointed spikes rising from its edges and a giant red jewel in its front. It is the source of Omadon's powers and crucial for the other good wizards to create The Last Realm of Magic.

* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': The Queen and King of Hearts wear tiny hoop crowns.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Esmeralda wears a small gold tiara with emeralds on it (referencing both her name and her eye color) during her pole dance in the song "Topsy Turvy".

* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''.: The Pevensie siblings each get a crown The boys get traditional-looking crowns, whilst the girls get coronets that look like flower wreaths. The two elder siblings, Peter and Susan, have their crowns wrought out of gold, whilst the younger two, Edmund and Lucy, have silver ones.

** ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'': Prince John wears an oversized hoop crown.

---> '''The Princess Elizabeth''': That’s not a hat. It’s a crown.

** If the king wanted a less formal look, he went with the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khepresh Khepresh]]'' or Blue War Crown, which was a [[BlingOfWar Pimped Out Helmet]]: a tall rounded hat sometimes covered with gold sequins and frequently decorated with a golden cobra. The Blue Crown particular favorite of UsefulNotes/RamsesII, to emphasize his YoungConqueror image.

* ''Series/TheCrown'', as you might expect, has a lot of these:
** There is of course ''the'' Crown, i.e. St Edward's Crown, with which Elizabeth is [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning crowned]] halfway through Season 1. Its weight, both symbolic and literal, is a major theme.

--> '''The Princess Elizabeth''': That’s not a hat. It’s a crown.
-->''*Cut to opening credits*''

* ''Franchise/ShiningSeries''

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Baraggan Louisenbairn has a bone-like protrusion poking out of his head that resembles a crown. Fitting, as prior to encountering Aizen, he was the king of Hueco Mundo. His Resurreccion form has a more normal crown on his head, made of gold and encrusted with all sorts of jewels.

* in''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** The Fire Lord and his family all wear flame-shaped hair ornaments instead of crowns.
** The Phoenix King wars a large, helmet-like crown.

** What these crowns were made of and how they were kept on is mostly unknown to science; it's likely that they were at least sometimes made at least partly of cloth or dyed leather. It is possible that some of the more elaborate structures were mere artistic convention never worn in Real Life.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'', when Grimlock took over as leader of the Autobots on Earth, he got himself a nice crown.

* ''Literature/TheEnchantedForestChronicles'': The crown of the dragons is a heavy circlet made of iron. When, after her first day as King, Kazul exhaustedly hurls it against the wall, Cimorene chides that she shouldn't treat the crown that way. Kazul responds, "Of course I should. It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron and not something soft and pliable like gold."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Esmeralda wears a small gold tiara with emeralds on it (referencing both her name and her eye color) during her pole dance in the song "Topsy Turvy".

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': The series averts the association of Princesses with tiaras by giving Princess Peach a heavy gold circlet decked out in sparkly jewels. (Heavy enough to [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros be a powerful melee weapon]], even.) Her crown is also a treasure in ''[[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Pikmin 2]]'' (the first region, as far away as you can get from the landing site). Daisy and Rosalina also wear similar crowns as well.

** Best of all was the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atef Atef]]'' crown. In it's simplest incarnation this consisted of a pair of rams' horns surmounted by a shape like the white crown but in reeds flanked by ostrich plumps and topped off by a sun disk. Fancier versions multiplied the reed thingies and sun disks and hung cobras all over it.

* ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Quest]]'' holds a Popularity Contest ballot for players to vote on their favorite character in the game, and the winner of the vote gains a special form with a crown, which is then later distributed as a gift or as part of an event. So far, Sig, Witch, Arle, and Schezo have gained the honor.

* Several characters in ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' sport this, assuming their design in the fanfic is the same as Kuroinu canon.