History Main / GodSaveUsFromTheQueen

* The Queen in ''Manga/MiyukiChanInWonderland''. She is a [[{{Yandere}} crazy]] {{Dominatrix}} with an [[WhipItGood iron whip]] and a fearsome reputation. The Card Girls and Rose Girls all wish for her to "punish" them. She tries to make NaiveEverygirl Miyuki "submit".

* In ''VideoGame/BugFables,'' Queen Elizant II is clearly plotting something right from the get-go. She's known to be a harsh, unforgiving, and unpopular queen who's banned [[FantasticRacism entire species of bugs]] from the Ant Kingdom for minor offenses, she's desperately seeking the [[ImmortalityInducer immortality-inducing Everlasting Sapling]] strongly enough that she's sent multiple explorers on what are more or less suicide missions to find it, and party member Leif, who remembers her saintly mother, dislikes her immediately. And what is she up to, exactly? [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope She wants to Everlasting Sapling so she can make her beloved mother immortal and step down as queen.]] She's actually painfully aware of her failings as a leader, knows she's screwed up but doesn't know how to atone for it, and is generally just a stressed-out woman. However, with the party's help, she owns up to her mistakes and becomes a much better ruler. When Leif begins to trust her, it's a sign that she's truly come into her own.]]

* In ''VideoGame/BugFables,'' Queen Elizant II is clearly plotting something right from the get-go. She's known to be a harsh, unforgiving, and unpopular queen who's banned [[FantasticRacism entire species of bugs]] from the Ant Kingdom for minor offenses, she's desperately seeking the [[ImmortalityInducer immortality-inducing Everlasting Sapling]] strongly enough that she's sent multiple explorers on what are more or less suicide missions to find it, and party member Leif, who remembers her saintly mother, dislikes her immediately. And what is she up to, exactly? [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope She wants to Everlasting Sapling so she can make her beloved mother immortal and step down as queen.]] She's actually painfully aware of her failings as a leader, knows she's screwed up but doesn't know how to atone for it, and is generally just a stressed-out WomanWearingTheQueenlyMask. However, with the party's help, she owns up to her mistakes and becomes a much better ruler. When Leif begins to trust her, it's a sign that she's truly come into her own.]]

* "The Queen And The Soldier" by Music/SuzanneVega, overlapping to some extent with TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask.

If the evil queen is in charge of a HiveMind, she is by definition a HiveQueen. Also overlaps with {{Matriarchy}} (particularly the Straw Matriarchy) and sometimes EvilMatriarch. In terms of the ranks of AuthorityTropes, the tropes that are equal are TheHighQueen (her SisterTrope and GoodCounterpart), TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask, SheIsTheKing, TheGoodKing, and PresidentEvil. The next step up is TheEmperor. Also compare TheCaligula, UnstablePoweredWoman.

** As of ''Legion'', with the death of Vol'jin, she is now the Warchief. Only time will tell if she becomes another Garrosh and the horde must be saved again.

* '''Franchise/MortalKombat'':
** 'VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' gave us Edenia's Queen Sindel, who was resurrected by BigBad Shao Khan into doing evil things. She changed sides afterwards and is now on the [[TheHighQueen side of good along with her daughter Kitana]], making this something of a subversion. [[spoiler:Not so much in the reboot when Shao Kahn purposely gave most of Shang Tsung's strength to her, making her brutally kill the majority of the Forces of Good and was only stopped by Nightwolf's HeroicSacrifice.]] And the MKX comics revealed that [[spoiler: Mileena took over Outworld's throne after Shao Kahn's death, but she proved to be incompetent in ruling it, partly because of her AxCrazy [[PsychopathicWomanChild sociopathic]] nature and caused a lot of devastation in Outworld. Well, according to Kotal Kahn, who dethroned her.]]

** The outpost city of Venturia essentially fell apart during Queen Clea's reign, prompting her attack on nearby Aurania. Later exiled from Venturia, she tried to become Queen of [[ComicBook/TheWarlord Skartaris]], nearly destroying that country in the process.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' gave us Edenia's Queen Sindel, who was resurrected by BigBad Shao Khan into doing evil things. She changed sides afterwards and is now on the [[TheHighQueen side of good along with her daughter Kitana]], making this something of a subversion. [[spoiler:Not so much in the reboot when Shao Kahn purposely gave most of Shang Tsung's strength to her, making her brutally kill the majority of the Forces of Good and was only stopped by Nightwolf's HeroicSacrifice.]]
** And the MKX comics revealed that [[spoiler: Mileena took over Outworld's throne after Shao Kahn's death, but she proved to be incompetent in ruling it, partly because of her AxCrazy [[PsychopathicWomanChild sociopathic]] nature and caused a lot of devastation in Outworld. Well, according to Kotal Kahn, who dethroned her.]]
** [[spoiler:In TheStinger for ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', it's revealed that [[DarkActionGirl Kitana]] has chosen to become the revenant empress of the Netherrealm, co-ruling it alongside [[FallenHero Liu Kang]] after Shinnok's downfall.]]

** While not explicitly evil, the White Queen is implied to not be very sane either; [[spoiler:[[CruelMercy the punishment she gave to the Red Queen]]]] shows the extremes she can get into.

TheGoodKingdom: A lovely, wealthy country ruled by [[TheGoodKing a benevolent king]], [[TheWisePrince a wise prince]], and [[PrincessClassic a fair princess]], all [[HundredPercentAdorationRating loved by the populace]]. But what's that? There's a ''queen''? Oh, brother, we're in trouble.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'', Rowena briefly is this when [[spoiler: she becomes queen after poisoning her cousin King Randolph and influencing him to turn the crown over to her when it looks like she might die]]. She desires to throw Randolph's daughters in prison ([[WouldHurtAChild some who are as young as five]]) for the crimes of... sneaking out at night to dance and not being able to follow her every rule to the letter. However, [[spoiler: once her schemes are found out, she is fairly quickly deposed and banished from the kingdom]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'', Rowena briefly becomes this when [[spoiler: she becomes queen after poisoning her cousin King Randolph and influencing him to turn the crown over to her when it looks like she might die]]. She desires to throw Randolph's daughters in prison ([[WouldHurtAChild some who are as young as five]]) for the crimes of... sneaking out at night to dance and not being able to follow her every rule to the letter.

** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Queen Alicent, after the timeskip, has become bitter, cynical, and suspicious due to [[OldManMarryingAChild marriying the much older King Viserys]] and her father Otto installing a fear of Rhaenyra which gets justified in her mind once she discovers Rhaenyra did slept with a Kingsguard knight, Ser Criston, despite her initial question being if Rhaenyra slept with Daemon. She plots to pass over Rhaenyra in the succession, grooming her rapist son Aegon to prepare for a [[TheCoup coup]] (tough she didn't make sure he would be a good fit for a king).

** SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has the [[AntagonisticOffspring current Earth Queen]] who rules over Ba Sing Se. She basically undoes all the good things her father King Kuei has done due to viewing him as a weakling. Her atrocities include mistreating and overtaking her people so she could live a comfortable lifestyle, hating animals (to the point that she's rumoured to have killed and eaten her father's beloved pet bear), and [[spoiler: trying to build an [[BlowYouAway airbending army]] (possibly to take back Earth Kingdom territory that was turned into the United Republic of Nations almost 70 years ago) by forcibly conscripting everyone in the Kingdom who developed airbending. She was murdered by Zaheer. AndThereWasMuchRejoicing...and looting]].

->'''Dwarfs:''' The Queen!\\

* The Black Queen from the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is not an actual queen, neither is she directly evil, but she's actively working against the "protagonists" of the Foundation.

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has the playable Junker Queen, who is made to invoke this trope, though she's [[DownplayedTrope a lesser example of one]]. Her polity is Junkertown, a ''Film/MadMax''-style city of hardened scavengers and thugs in the post-wasteland Australian outback, and like all the "monarchs" before her, [[KlingonPromotion she gained her title by besting her predecessor in heavily-armed combat]]. While she isn't especially incompetent or villainous (at worst, she -- like many Junkers -- [[FantasticRacism holds heavy animosity towards omnics]] for the war that ruined the country), she's a vicious hothead who [[AnAxeToGrind shreds apart her enemies with an axe]], and [[TheDreaded is feared by the Junkers that get on her bad side]].

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel fears she will become this if she accepts Sauron’s offer to rule by his side, telling him that he will make her a tyrant, no doubt recognising [[SheWhoFightMonster the darkness within herself]] created by her extremely bitter, centuries long quest for vengeance against Sauron. This also foreshadows her temptation speech in The Lord of the Rings where she echoes Sauron’s own words to her about being fair as the sea and the sun and stronger than the foundations of the earth and envisions herself becoming a great and terrible queen if she takes the One Ring for herself.

** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Queen Alicent, after the timeskip, has become bitter, cynical, and suspicious due to [[OldManMarryingAChild marriying the much older King Viserys]] and Rhaenyra lying to her about sleeping with a Kingsguard knight, Ser Criston. She plots to pass over Rhaenyra in the succession, grooming her son Aegon to prepare for a [[TheCoup coup]] (tough she sadly didnt' make sure he would be a good fit for a king).

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Cersei is much like her book version in that she is ''not'' a pleasant person and shows a snobbish disdain and a lack of consideration for the common people and has groomed Joffrey to follow in her footsteps. In "You Win or You Die", she orchestrates a HuntingAccident for Robert. Tyrion initially assumes it was her who gave the order for the purge of Robert's bastard children, and she doesn't admit that it was something Joffrey ''really'' shouldn't have done. This only got worse when the [[OvertookTheManga series overtook the books]]: [[spoiler:she used wildfire to blow up the Sept of Baelor while the High Sparrow, her uncle, her cousin, and her in-laws were inside to avoid being held accountable for her previous crimes. This caused massive amounts of damage to King's Landing. She's then rather callous when her last remaining child kills himself because of this. The season ends with her claiming her son's throne for herself and crowning herself as the ruling queen of the Seven Kingdoms. Keep in mind her brother killed a previous king because he merely ''threatened'' to blow things up, and he's most certainly ''not'' happy that his sister has done this. Later when the Army of the Dead start marching south, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen ask her to [[EnemyMine fight with them]] and she decides that she would rather lie to their faces and wait for them all to kill each other than [[WeAreStrugglingTogether help prevent]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. She even goes so far as to say that she doesn't care about bettering her country or the world and entertains the idea of getting on a boat and leaving everyone else to die. Real nice attitude for a monarch to have.]]

** Lysa Arryn is the paranoid and neurotic Lady of the Vale.

* In ''LightNovel/RakuinNoMonshou'', Marilène married the King of Helio but never bore him an heir. When the king died and his throne was stolen, Marilène became the consort of the usurper. The populace reviled the queen as a heartless wretch who never loved her husband, only the power of being queen. [[spoiler:In truth, Marilène loved both her husband and Helio with all her heart. She chose to bed the usurper so she could protect the people by tempering his more violent tendencies until the true heir could claim the throne. The hatred of the people and her eventual execution were prices she was willing to pay for Helio]].

* ''Literature/{{Everland}}'': Queen Katherina, aka the Bloodred Queen, is an {{expy}} of the above-mentioned [[Literature.AliceInWonderland Queen of Hearts]], only ''far'' more vile. She poisons her husband, King Oswald, to usurp the throne, and ends up instigating a bloody war and unleashing a SyntheticPlague that leaves millions dead in its wake.

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], sort of, in Creator/RobinHobb's ''Literature/{{Farseer}}'' and ''Tawny Man'' trilogies, where during the time between them, Kettricken has been a fair, just, and intelligent queen overseeing a time of much-needed peace for the Six Duchies... But because she's a foreigner who was married for political reasons and her husband is dead, her political enemies ''love'' to spread these kinds of rumors about her. Queen Desire, on the other hand, who was queen at the beginning of the first book, is a decidedly unpleasant if minor character. Kettricken escapes being evil through the "princess first" clause, as she doesn't marry a king till the very end of ''Assassin's Apprentice''.

* [[spoiler: [[GodIsEvil The White Queen]]]] in ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign''. [[spoiler: [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Most see her as a benevolent existence,]] [[LightIsNotGood but this couldn't be further from the truth.]] She doesn't care about anyone in the entire universe except for the main character Kyousuke... and doesn't make things easy for him, either. She expresses her "[[{{Yandere}} love]]" for him by deliberately dragging him into dangerous situations, often attacking him herself.]]

* Queen Nia of the Ice Nation from ''Series/{{The 100}}'' is the only known queen of the setting (in fact, the only known monarch) and is by far the most ruthless faction leader shown. When she was at war against the other Grounder clans, she had Lexa's lover tortured for information before and killing and beheading her. She begrudgingly accepted to join Lexa's coalition after defeat, and only pays lip service to her commandments. In the present time, she still plots to grab as much power as possible by plotting against Lexa, openly questioning her integrity and authority, putting a bounty on one of Lexa's closest allies (and LoveInterest), and slaughtering innocent Sky People just to force her to react.

** Empresses Messalina and Agrippinilla both count as well, with the former being an out of control hedonist who manipulates her husband into having people she dislikes executed, while the latter falls much more in line with Livia, doing everything in her power to get her son on the throne even though he's not fit for it at all. An interesting subversion, however, is Caesonia, [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} Caligula's]] last wife. In the writings of Suetonius, which ''I, Claudius'' is heavily based on, she's not described in a flattering light, but here, she's quite down to earth and obviously just trying to do her best to cope with Caligula's instability.

* In [[TabletopGame/{{Chess}} chess]], the queen is the most powerful piece. Each side starts with one, and she effectively serves as the DragonInChief for the king, being able to move as many spaces as she wants in whatever direction she wants. Only the knight can attack the queen without being counterattacked. Even worse, any pawn that reaches the other side of the board can become [[TookALevelInBadass another queen]].

** The {{Big Bad}} of the ''Reign of Winter'' adventure path is Queen Elvanna of Irrisien, who is attempting to spread that land's eternal winter across the entirety of the world.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' has several queens [[spoiler:who are fragments of Manus, Father of the Abyss. Each of these Children of the Dark embodies a facet of Manus.]]:

* Played straight and averted in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Blackfire takes over her home planet [[ForTheEvulz "for kicks"]], then fakes an enemy invasion -- of her own planet. Starfire wins the crown but quickly gives it to her mentor and surrogate father, as she already has a job on Earth.