History Main / GodSaveUsfromTheQueen

* In ''[[TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Magician's Nephew]]'', Jadis (who later becomes the White Witch) is the Queen of the most powerful nation in her world, so what does she do when her sister attempts to overthrow her? She uses her magic to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill kill every other living being on the planet]], then sits around waiting for someone to take her to another world so she can presumably do it all over again. Harsh.

* Pharaoh(-ess?) '''"Queen"''' Hatshepsut was given a HistoricalVillainUpgrade after her death, with her successors going on a mass campaign to deface all her busts and monuments, an indignity rivaled only by the "heretical" Pharaoh Akhenaton who tried to convert the Egyptians to monotheism.

* The MassEffect Universe allows a player to set up a possible [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of this trope [[spoiler: if he/she frees the Rachni Queen on [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Novaria]] as opposed to [[GenocideDilemma ending the Rachni once and for all]]. The EvenBetterSequel [[ChekhovsGun seems to set up a possible alliance with the apparently peaceful and cultured new Rachni in the third installment]].]]

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* [[PuttingOnTheReich Führer]] Katrina Seran from the [[PlayByPostGames Role-playing forum]] ''OpenBlue'' is a {{chessmaster}} who is rumored to have [[EvilPrince killed her own father]] to become ruler of the [[TheEmpire Reich of Seran]].
* [[GeniusDitz Jim]] as [[StarWars Padme Admidala]] in DarthsAndDroids, although Padme is no longer Queen of Naboo when he takes over, turning this into [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen God Save Us From The Senator]]. Immediately after taking the role of the character, Jim interrogates Padme's body double after an assassination attempt ''while she is lying on the ground dying'', threatens to eradicate [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Bail Organna]]'s entire planet if he does not vote in favour of creating a Grand Army for the Republic, and constantly tries to have her [[EvilChancellor Not So Evil Chancellor]], [[strike: Bibble]] Bubbles, executed just for having a goatee.

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* '''Bal-Sagoth''' worked this into musical form in their song ''To Dethrone the Witch-Queen of Mytos K'unn (The Legend of the Battle of Blackhelm Vale)'' on their album ''Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule''. In brief, a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin witch queen]] of a powerful empire sends her army of questionable humanity to invade her neighbors, until said army is met in battle by heroic barbarians in the titular battle. Yes, this is all described in lyrical detail - and [[AllThereInTheManual further elaborated on in the lyric book itself]].
* The Queen of the Forest in TheDecemberists' RockOpera "The Hazards of Love".
** To be expected, really, as said Queen is a faerie queen not unlike Mab and Titania.
* The 14-year-old queen in the Vocaloid song "Daughter of Evil" killed an entire kingdom of people because her crush loved one of its citizens and not her. Played with in that you actually feel sorry for the Queen in the other songs in the series, and fans of the song would be reluctant to call her evil.
* "March of the Black Queen" by... Queen.

* {{Exalted}}'s Scarlet Empress. Ruthless, rules over TheEmpire, sends her minions on a seek-and-destroy mission to hunt down new PCs, keeps her subordinates backstabbing each other to maintain her own power...on the other hand, she ''did'' save the entire world from obliteration by TheFairFolk in the backstory, and is currently being held prisoner by TheLegionsOfHell.

* KingsQuest: Lolotte and Icebella play this straight. It's inverted by many other examples, such as [[TheHighQueen Valanice, Titania, Genesta, and Allaria]].

* ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'' has an aversion of this with Queen Elincia, who in her arc of the game must deal with a rebellious noble who wants to be Crimea's leader and obviously doesn't have Crimea's best interests in mind. She later joins the rest of the cast in helping save Tellius. Of course, she was a princess in the previous title ''Path of Radiance''. Also there is [[spoiler: Micaiah,]] who becomes Queen of Daein in the game's epilogue; and (blunt but good-hearted) Nailah, Wolf Queen of Hatari.

* The Virgin Mary is an aversion in the Catholic faith, and some other denominations. She is traditionally viewed as the Queen of Heaven (bodily taken there) and Earth, and is usually portrayed as [[TheMcCoy interceding for her son, who is bound to be merciless in certain cases.]] For starters, [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapular scapulars]] are attributed to her.

Often enough, this trope even extends to beings that aren't really queens, but are called that for some reason. Sometimes this can have roots in a writer's sexism. Sometimes it's just an evil person ruling. Sometimes it's played for laughs.

The idea that [[DoubleStandard "only a fool would want to be ruled by a woman"]] played heavily into the lives of real life queens in history -- even if their rule might have been decent or competent, many queens tended to be viewed with suspicion or contempt by their male underlings. This is particularly true if the queen's manners and sexual habits were similar to those of powerful ''men'' -- much as women politicians or executives nowadays are frequently tarred as shrill, bitchy, or castrating for displaying behaviour which would be characterized as leader-like, assertive, forceful, outspoken, or simply normal or appropriate in a man in the same position.

[[caption-width:350:Does she have to sit on her side like that? That can't be comfortable.]]

* DavidEdding's Belgariad/Mallorean, brings us Salmissira, the queen of the Nyssians, a culture of drug addicted snake worshippers. The queen is herself one of these. [[spoiler: At the end of her first appearance, she's turned into a Snake, and by her next appearence she's perfectly fine with it. So is the government, except for her unfortunate tendency to bite people. Indeed, not being a pleasure-obsessed junkie seems to have markedly improved her rule.]]

* KingsQuest: Lolotte and Icebella

*** As of ''Mission of Honor'', the eleventh book, both have been informed of said mutual enemy [[spoiler: and have formed a military ''alliance'']]. What's worse than facing one hardcore [[Determinator]] Queen with a [[Badass]] military that's been hardened and trained in the crucible of decades of war? Facing ''two''.

** Besides, her husband Bill is seen as power-hungry anyway. Still, YMMV.

** ...and then played straight in ''Awakening'' with TheBaroness of the Blackmarsh, [[spoiler: a witch who used the blood of innocent villagers to keep herself young, then trapped the whole town in a LotusEaterMachine]]. Depending on your decisions, the female player character can also exhibit elements of this trope as ruler of Amaranthine.

** From Cracked.com,
"While trying to subdue Ireland, Elizabeth ordered the English to use scorched-earth tactics, burning the land and slaughtering man, woman and child. This caused widespead famine and countless thousands died from starvation alone. She also set up plantations across Ireland populated with Protestant English settlers, the idea being that these would be the seeds from which English Protestantism would spring forth and overtake traditional Irish Catholic culture. What could go wrong with that?"
http://www.cracked.com/article_16017_6-reasons-irish-arent-so-lucky.html#ixzz0v0h94iBl

* In DragonAge, averted; while willing to do what she has to to become ruler, if the player gives her the throne Anora turns out to be a pretty good one.

*** And then she goes and marries him anyway. Go figure.

** Also from [=~Robin McKinley~=] is ''Fairest'''s Queen Ivi, a foreigner who disbands the country's parliament, imprisons people for minor slights, obsessively seeks approval, and would have probably started killing people if Aza hadn't saved the day.