History Main / MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest

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* GenderInvertedTrope in ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubHappyKiss'' - Princes Karls and Furaunui travelled to Earth to discover what it means to be a king, and are using their chosen knights in order to prove themselves worthy of the throne.* Played with rather interestingly in ''Anime/HanaNoKoLunLun''. The title CuteWitch had to find the MacGuffin (a magical flower known as "the Seven Colors Flower") in her travels -- but it was not for ''herself'' but to enable someone else (the Prince of the Flower Star) to legitimately ascend to the throne. On the other hand, the BigBad Togenishia was a VainSorceress from the Flower Star who wanted Lunlun to find the PlotCoupon and then ''steal'' it from her so she could be crowned as Queen instead. [[spoiler: Lunlun succeeds, Togenishia is defeated... and it turns out that the Prince was Lunlun's MysteriousProtector, whom she's in love with. He steps out of the succession line, gives the Flower to his younger brother who's crowned in his place, and marries Lunlun to live on Earth with her.]]

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* ''Anime/MagicalWitchPuniechan'' has a princess sent to Earth for a year from a realm called Magical Land, due to it being tradition for Magical Land's Queens. But this magical princess is ''evil'' (but still cute!) and causes a lot of destruction, including killing everyone who threatens her even slightly, the opening sequence has her dancing over burning cities and her magical phrase is "Lyrical Tokarev, Kill Them All!".
* Discussed in ''Anime/MajokkoTsukuneChan'' - the Mayor is shocked to discover that this trope (as well as WizardingSchool and MagicLand) is TruthInTelevision.
* Referenced in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. When Asakura first witnesses Negi's magic, she briefly wonders if he might be doing a (genderflipped) version of this. She also considers the possibilities of him being a superhero or an alien.
** Surprisingly, she was partially right; Negi came to Japan to teach as part of a test to become a full mage. [[spoiler: And it turns out that his mother is a princess, meaning that he actually fits both the "[[WarriorPrince royalty]]" and "test" criteria for this trope, even if the two things are unrelated.]]
** "Superhero" does a decent job of describing Negi's role. ''And'' [[spoiler: his mother and father live (lived?) on Mars, so he's ''technically'' an alien.]]
* Parodied in the final episode of ''Manga/NinjaNonsense'' - in the parody, Shinobu possesses the ability to transform into a MagicalGirlWarrior, and is a candidate to become the next Queen of the Magical Land - upon passing, she marries the magical prince Onsokumaru.
* ''Anime/PrettySammy'' has a variation, like ''[=LunLun=]'' before her Pretty Sammy isn't competing to become Queen herself. Instead she is the champion of Tsunami, one of the candidates for Queen. Her rival, Pixy Misa is the champion of a different candidate called Ramia. Pixy Misa sends monsters for Pretty Sammy to fight, thus making this more of a MagicalGirlWarrior series.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Star Butterfly is a princess of a magical kingdom in another dimension who's sent to live on Earth...not to pass any kind of test, but because she clearly can't handle the powers of the MagicWand she inherited from her parents, having almost destroyed the kingdom with it. The thinly-veiled implication is that sending her to Earth is so that any collateral damage she causes while learning to use magic without destroying things will be on a different planet from her kingdom, so that her parents won't have to care about it.
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* Played with rather interestingly in ''Anime/HanaNoKoLunLun''. The title CuteWitch had to find the MacGuffin (a magical flower known as "the Seven Colors Flower") in her travels -- but it was not for ''herself'' but to enable someone else (the Prince of the Flower Star) to legitimately ascend to the throne. On the other hand, the BigBad Togenishia was a VainSorceress from the Flower Star who wanted Lunlun to find the PlotCoupon and then ''steal'' it from her so she could be crowned as Queen instead. [[spoiler: Lunlun succeeds, Togenishia is defeated... and it turns out that the Prince was Lunlun's MysteriousProtector, whom she's in love with. He steps out of the succession line, gives the Flower to his younger brother who's crowned in his place, and marries Lunlun to live on Earth with her.]]
* ''Manga/UltraManiac'' has this in the anime but not in the manga, where Nina Sakura merely came to Earth from the Magic Kingdom as a [[IneptMage hopeless]] [[NewTransferStudent transfer student]]. In the anime she is searching for five "[[PlotCoupon Holy Stones]]" so she can marry the Prince of the Magic Kingdom. She is competing with her childhood friend Maaya, an AscendedExtra character. [[spoiler: In the end, Nina wins, but learns that Maaya loves the prince, and gives her the stones so that SHE can become the princess.]]
* ''Manga/SugarSugarRune'' - Chocolat and Vanilla are competing in order to become Queen of the Magical World by seeing who can steal the most "[[PlotCoupon hearts]]" from humans. [[spoiler: The winner changes depending on the media - in the manga, Vanilla becomes queen instead of Chocola, but in the anime, Chocolat does even if Vanilla won]].

* ''Manga/HimechanNoRibon'' has a variation on this. The titular MagicalGirl isn't the princess, but it's her job to test out the magic ribbon Erika, her magic world counterpart, created to prove that Erika is worthy as a princess.
* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'': The third season, ''Sukkiri'', is about My Melody and Kuromi's race to become the new Princess of Mari Land. Each has to collect the scattered Black Notes and turn them into gems for their crown.
* This drives the plot of ''Anime/MagicalAngelSweetMint'' - Mint is sent to the world of humans to try to preserve people's hopes and dreams, and to prove that she has the qualities necessary to be a wise ruler.

* Hana undergoes this in the last season of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' to earn her right to be heir to the Witch World's throne again. Though it should be noted that every witch in training has to go through the exams she did.
* Played with in ''Anime/{{Yadamon}}'' - Yadamon is banished to Earth by her mother the Queen in the hopes that it will help her mature more, and thereby, become a better princess and future queen.
%%%%* This trope is the reason Kikko of ''Anime/ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou'' was sent to Earth from the Devil Realm.
* ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'' implies that this is how the managers are chosen.
%%%* In the manga ''Carat'' (not to be confused with ''Manga/GorgeousCarat''), the heroines Yuni and Melissa are candidates for the throne and the hand of the sleeping prince.
* ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'' plays with the trope - while Momona and the other Petit Ladies are all competing for the title of Lady Jewel, only their Mentors are capable of using magic.
* In ''Anime/PrincessComet'', Comet is sent to Earth to find the runaway prince of Tambourine Star so that she can marry him. [[TheRival Meteor]] tags along so that she can find and marry him first.
* The heroes of ''Mahou X Shounen X Days!!!!!'' are magical boys who have to perform good deeds in order to become the next King of the Land of Magic.
* GenderInvertedTrope in ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubHappyKiss'' - Princes Karls and Furaunui travelled to Earth to discover what it means to be a king, and are using their chosen knights in order to prove themselves worthy of the throne.
* Gender flipped in ''Manga/ReturnToLabyrinth'' where Toby has to face an ordeal of locating the Labyrinth's consciousness in order to gain control of it. The Labyrinth would have been destroyed if he'd failed.

* All the Solar ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' go through this at the moment they take the Second Breath: they must accomplish some incredible feat of inhuman prowess which proves their superiority and worthiness to a Solar Exaltation which grants supernatural perfection in whatever they do. Those who die in the attempt often become Abyssal Exalted, while those who fail or chicken out become Infernal Exalted.

* ''Anime/PrettySammy'' has a variation, like ''[=LunLun=]'' before her Pretty Sammy isn't competing to become Queen herself. Instead she is the champion of Tsunami, one of the candidates for Queen. Her rival, Pixy Misa is the champion of a different candidate called Ramia. Pixy Misa sends monsters for Pretty Sammy to fight, thus making this more of a MagicalGirlWarrior series.

* Discussed in ''Anime/MajokkoTsukuneChan'' - the Mayor is shocked to discover that this trope (as well as WizardingSchool and MagicLand) is TruthInTelevision.

* ''Manga/SugarSugarRune'' - Chocolat and Vanilla are competing in order to become Queen of the Magical World by seeing who can steal the most "[[PlotCoupon hearts]]" from humans. [[spoiler: The winner changes depending on the media - in the manga, Vanilla becomes queen, but in the anime, Chocolat does]].

* ''Manga/UltraManiac'' has this in the anime but not in the manga, where Nina Sakura merely came to Earth from the Magic Kingdom as a [[IneptMage hopeless]] [[NewTransferStudent transfer student]]. In the anime she is searching for five "[[PlotCoupon Holy Stones]]" so she can marry the Prince of the Magic Kingdom. She is competing with her childhood friend Maaya, an anime only character. [[spoiler: In the end, Nina wins, but learns that Maaya loves the prince, and gives her the stones so that SHE can become the princess.]]

* While it is never actually the case in canon, Queen Hippolyta has been accused at times of sending her daughter Princess Diana out into the world as ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' due to favoritism or as a test of her morals and abilities outside of Themyscira. These accusations generally come from more antagonistic of the Amazons who participated in the contest to see which Amazon would be the one to leave as champion.

* While it is never actually the case Queen Hippolyta has been accused of sending her daughter Princess Diana out into the world as Franchise/WonderWoman due to favoritism and as a test of her morals and abilities outside of Themyscira on a handful of occasions by the more antagonistic of the Amazons who participated in the contest to see which Amazon would be the one to leave as champion.

* ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'': The PlayerCharacter is a princess who needs to learn the skills required to become queen (due to her mother having died), and possesses capacity for becoming a Lumen (the setting's equivalent of a magical girl). However, the skills required tend to be [[BoringButPractical finance, foreign affairs, and the like]], learning magical skills is optional (though useful), and the main test is [[NintendoHard surviving to coronation]] in the DeadlyDecadentCourt.

* ''Anime/DaiMahouTouge'' has a princess sent to Earth for a year from a realm called Magical Land, due to it being tradition for Magical Land's Queens. But this magical princess is ''evil'' (but still cute!) and causes a lot of destruction, including killing everyone who threatens her even slightly, the opening sequence has her dancing over burning cities and her magical phrase is "Lyrical Tokarev, Kill Them All!".

* Referenced in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''. When Asakura first witnesses Negi's magic, she briefly wonders if he might be doing a (genderflipped) version of this. She also considers the possibilities of him being a superhero or an alien.

* Parodied in the final episode of ''Manga/NininGaShinobuden'' - in the parody, Shinobu possesses the ability to transform into a MagicalGirlWarrior, and is a candidate to become the next Queen of the Magical Land - upon passing, she marries the magical prince Onsokumaru.

* ''Anime/PetitePrincessYucie'' never visits Earth but she is a MagicalGirl (albeit in a seinen series) competing with other mages for the title of Queen. [[spoiler: In a dark twist on the trope, any candidate NOT chosen by the Eternal Tiara will be erased from existence...but if it ISN'T accepted, then the world will be destroyed]].

* The ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' TCG references this trope with the card "Trials of the Princess" which is used to turn either [[WhiteMage White Magician]] [[MagicalGirl Pikeru]] or [[BlackMage Ebon Magician]] [[DarkMagicalGirl Curran]] into Princess Pikeru or Princess Curran.

* If you complete the Hard Mode in ''VideoGame/PanelDePon'', it's revealed by the goddess Cordelia (Lip's mother) that the events of the entire game were a test to see if Lip had the strength to become the new Queen of the fairies.

Basically the protagonist is a magic user who [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses is a candidate to become Queen back in her home realm/planet/whatever]]. She has come to Earth as part of a test of character to prove she is queen material, either by making the world a better place with her magic, or by directly competing with a (usually friendly) rival (who often is at least somewhat of a DarkMagicalGirl) to accrue some sort of PlotCoupon to prove her worthiness. That or it is just tradition for magical princesses to spend some time on Earth before they can become queen. While doing so she usually lives with some MuggleFosterParents who may or may not know she is magical.

%%%* This drives the plot of ''Anime/MagicalAngelSweetMint''.

%%%* This is the premise of the third season of ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'', where My Melody and Kuromi are being considered as the new Princess of Mary Land.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Star Butterfly is a princess of a magical kingdom in another dimension who's sent to live on Earth...not to pass any kind of test, but because she clearly can't handle the powers of the MagicWand she inherited from her parents, having almost destroyed the kingdom with it.

* This is the premise of the third season of ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'', where My Melody and Kuromi are being considered as the new Princess of Mary Land.
* This drives the plot of ''Anime/MagicalAngelSweetMint''.

* Played with in ''Anime/{{Yadamon}}'' - Yadamon is banished to Earth by her mother the Queen in the hopes that it will help her mature more.
* This trope is the reason Kikko of ''Anime/ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou'' was sent to Earth from the Devil Realm.

* In the manga ''Carat'' (not to be confused with ''Manga/GorgeousCarat''), the heroines Yuni and Melissa are candidates for the throne and the hand of the sleeping prince.

* The third season finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' reveals that the '''''entire series up to that point''''' has been a MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest for Twilight Sparkle, without her knowledge. Her immediate visit to the HighSchoolAU of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' includes her defending the locals from a rival claimant to her position and power.

* The ''Franchise/{{Angelique}}'' series centers around an inverse version of this: the protagonist is competing against a rival to see who will become Queen, but the girl is taken out of her normal life on Earth to become a Queen Candidate.

Not all magical travelers have this plot element, some of them just visit earth out of curiosity (e.g. ''Anime/MahouTsukaiChappy''), some arrive by accident (e.g. ''Anime/MahouShojoLalabel'') and others are sent there to make it a better place or reconnect it with their home realm which may be in jeopardy but don't have the Queen competition element (so this trope doesn't include Princesses who would become queen anyway regardless of if they ever visited the planet e.g. ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'', ''Anime/SallyTheWitch'' and ''Anime/MahouNoMakoChan'' who are magical princesses and Earth visitors, but aren't being specifically tested, don't count -- Sally ''does'' have magical tests, but these are in regards to her magical skills rather than her queenly aptitude). Note if the MagicalGirl in question never leaves her realm but is still competing for Queendom then she probably does count, but visiting Earth is fairly common to this trope.

Not all magical travelers have this plot element, some of them just visit earth out of curiosity (e.g. ''Anime/MahouTsukaiChappy'') and others are sent there to make it a better place or reconnect it with their home realm which may be in jeopardy but don't have the Queen competition element (so this trope doesn't include Princesses who would become queen anyway regardless of if they ever visited the planet e.g. ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'', ''Anime/SallyTheWitch'' and ''Anime/MahouNoMakoChan'' who are magical princesses and Earth visitors, but aren't being specifically tested, don't count -- Sally ''does'' have magical tests, but these are in regards to her magical skills rather than her queenly aptitude). Note if the MagicalGirl in question never leaves her realm but is still competing for Queendom then she probably does count, but visiting Earth is fairly common to this trope.

* The third season finale of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' reveals that the '''''entire series to that point''''' has been a MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest for Twilight Sparkle, without her knowledge. Her immediate visit to the HighSchoolAU of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' includes her defending the locals from a rival claimant to her position and power.

* ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan'' was both the first magical girl show to introduce a rival, and it was pretty much the TropeMaker for this trope too. Meg-chan is competing with another extra dimensional traveler called Non for the throne. She has a [[MuggleFosterParents Muggle Foster Family]] (other than the mother, who is also a witch) and she herself has no concept of family coming from a realm where families don't exist. In the end, [[spoiler: they BOTH fail the test and pretty much end up right back where they started.]]

* All the Solar ''Tabletop/{{Exalted}}'' go through this at the moment they take the Second Breath: they must accomplish some incredible feat of inhuman prowess which proves their superiority and worthiness to a Solar Exaltation which grants supernatural perfection in whatever they do. Those who die in the attempt often become Abyssal Exalted, while those who fail or chicken out become Infernal Exalted.

* All the Solar ''Tabletop/Exalted'' go through this at the moment they take the Second Breath: they must accomplish some incredible feat of inhuman prowess which proves their superiority and worthiness to a Solar Exaltation which grants supernatural perfection in whatever they do. Those who die in the attempt often become Abyssal Exalted, while those who fail or chicken out become Infernal Exalted.