History Main / GodSaveUsfromTheQueen

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

** 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/TheWarlordDC Skartaris]], nearly destroying that country in the process.
* From the ''ComicBook/XMen'' the Brood, aliens much like xenomorphs who breed and destroy everything in their path, usually have a Queen leading them.

* In Creator/ZilphaKeatleySnyder's ''Literature/TheChangeling'' (1970), this would be Queen Oleander of the Lower Lands in the little girls' "[[Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy Tree People]]" sustained fantasy game. Shy Martha does most of the character development for her, reflecting that it gives her a chance to do a lot of shrieking and ordering people around.

** Titania, TheMcCoy and Queen of Summer, can be pretty damn vicious when she wants to be much like a summer day beating down with heat. When Harry [[spoiler:killed her child, the Lady Aurora,]] to save the world, she acknowledged it as the right and logical choice. That said, she still wanted to kill Harry, to ground him up into dust and use him to fertilize her garden, and all while he is still alive. She could do a whole slew of things which made what Mab did to her traitor look ''tame''.

** While the rank is more Princess-like, the idea is invoked with Maeve, daughter of Mab. She is considered a psychotic bitch whose immaturity leads her to shirk her duties for some fun screwing with mortals. Note she is several hundred years old too and reached adulthood back in her 20s or so. When Mab's life was in legitimate danger, Harry feared what could happen should Maeve ascend to being Queen as it would be several hundred years of her abusing Mab's power for her own kicks ad shirking other duties. Considering [[spoiler:Mab is one of the defenders ''of reality'' from the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that reside there, this would be very bad indeed]].

* In Zilpha Keatley Snyder's ''Literature/TheChangeling'', this would be Queen Oleander of the Lower Lands in the little girls' "Tree People" sustained fantasy game. Shy Martha does most of the character development for her, reflecting that it gives her a chance to do a lot of shrieking and ordering people around.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''. Elsa, the elder sister, has [[AnIcePerson dangerous ice powers]] and she is the one who is made queen. When these powers are discovered, she has to flee which brings an [[EndlessWinter endless winter]]. However, this is [[PowerIncontinence unintentional]] on her part; she is not even aware she is causing it. [[spoiler: Ultimately averted, as she [[TheHighQueen remains queen and is much beloved]] after she learns to control her powers.]]
** Played very much straight in early drafts, where she is a ruthless (literal) IceQueen who freezes her own subjects.

* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': The Black Queen of Sogo is quite mad and quite evil, to the point that dissidents have taken to calling her Great Tyrant, which she doesn't mind at all.

** The Evil Queen/[[PunnyName Regina]]. She's trapped every known fairy tale character in a dead-end town in Maine and made herself mayor so she can control their lives. Anyone who stands up to her ends up miserable or dead.

** And then there's Ingrid the Snow Queen, who, in addition to her plan to force [[WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}} Elsa]] and Emma to be her [[ReplacementGoldfish new sisters]], is perfectly willing to kill ''everyone'' who stands in her way.

* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': The "old fashioned bad" variety of bad queen. She's an absolute tyrant who has kept complete control over her realm, with everyone terrified of her. Very cruel, her land is the worst on the Tour, and rapes then murders peasant youths [[{{Sadist}} for fun]]. Invariably she'll demand sex from the Tourists and have them tortured when refused. Their only solution [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption will be to kill her]], but with reluctance [[WouldntHitAGirl as a result of her gender]].

* The general response to the Empress in ''Film/LegendOfTheBlackScorpion''. There were those who had misgivings about her at the beginning, but by the end virtually everyone hates her.
* Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in ''Film/TheLionInWinter'' from the point of view of her husband Henry II and at least some of their sons.
* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' Galadriel is most definitely TheHighQueen and a good gal -- but she refuses to go by that title, or even be acknowledged as the ruler of Lórien. The reason she refuses royal titles is that she and her husband feel that Lórien is merely a place they are guarding, not ruling. The only moment when she does call herself a Queen is the moment of her temptation by the Ring. She resists it when she realizes she'll become one of these.

* ''Film/MirrorMirror'': People are literally begging for food on the streets, because what little money they have is taken to pay the Queen's taxes. She also banished all "uglies" (e.g. the dwarfs and other "undesirables") from the realm.
* In ''Film/TheNorthman'', [[spoiler:TheReveal is that Prince Amleth's [[EvilMatriarch own mother]] Queen Gudrun was [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the one who arranged for his]] EvilUncle to kill his father [[OffingTheOffspring and attempt to do the same to him]], as well as RapePillageAndBurn his DoomedHometown]].
* In ''Film/{{Ophelia}}'', Queen Gertrude is a heavily {{downplayed|trope}} example. While she's not evil and is portrayed rather sympathetically at times, she is a rather oblivious and self-absorbed woman who tends to put her own wants and desires before everything and everyone else, resulting in Claudius –- who is ''definitely'' evil -– gaining power and causing a lot of the drama in the story; she marries him around two months after her first husband died, not realizing Claudius poisoned him. In comparison, some adaptations of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' portray her as being much worse, such as being complicit in the murder of her first husband and in some versions even [[LadyMacbeth persuading Claudius to go through with it]].
* In ''Film/{{Ran}}'', King Hidetora thought it was a good idea to kill the father of his son's wife Kaede and make his new home in the newly conquered castle. Years later the King is thrown out of his home and his throne taken over by his son, making his wife the new Lady of her family's old castle. [[CuteAndPsycho May the Gods have mercy on the kingdom]].

* Queen Ravenna in ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'', a thoroughly psychotic SmugSnake who murdered her way to the throne and steals the youth and beauty from younger women so that she might stay young and pretty forever.