History Main / SheIstheKing

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the ruler of Kamigawa holds the title Emperor, regardless of gender (and is only ever called The Emperor, being otherwise NoNameGiven). The current Emperor of Kamigawa is a young woman.

* ''Series/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'': It's been suggested that if the Eternal Empress who rules the Lotus Empire has been more than one person over history (it's ambiguous whether she's a LegacyCharacter or immortal), not all of them have been female, but the title remains the same.

* ''Series/DoomPatrol'': The Sisterhood of Dada consists of five men and two men. The name is still appropriate since the group is non-comformist and anti-patriarchal.

* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', the Midwife of Gods is a man. The amount of people who react to this with confusion almost makes it a RunningGag. Although "midwife", contrary to how it sounds, is actually a gender-netural title; the "wife" in the word refers to the woman they're ministering to, not the person doing it. A male midwife is not a midhusband.

* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': Margo is elected as the new High King since apparently there AintNoRule saying a woman can't hold the title. Also, she runs into a female Pirate King.

* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', the Midwife of Gods is a man. The amount of people who react to this with confusion almost makes it a RunningGag.

* The Grandmaster, leader of Ouroboros from the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' is first heard as a woman in [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky The Third]] and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel IV'' fully reveals her except her eyes (though an observant player can see that the eyes are red in color).

* Captain Gates, the replacement of Captain Montgomery, on ''Series/{{Castle}}'' is a woman who insists on being called "sir".

* The HorsemenOfTheApocalypse in ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' [[HistoricalGenderFlip are all female]]. It's an odd case where namesake mythological figures are male, the Japanese term is the gender neutral "Yonin no Kishi/Four Knights", and the English version keeps the usual masculine "Four Horsemen".

* In ''VideoGame/SaGaFrontier'', the human girl Asellus is made the "Prince" of Facinaturu, the Land of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Mystics]]. This is probably because a) there, "princess" is a term for Lord Orlouge's mistresses; and b) because the Mystics don't seem to care much about gender (this part of the game contains a lot of gay subtext.)

* The title of "Keyblade Master" in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'''', as demonstrated by [[ActionGirl Master Aqua]].

* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', card-carrying members of the Sith Order, regardless of gender, are referred to as "Lord" (or "Dark Lord" for senior members, equivalent to the better known "Darth"). Likewise, in both the Republic and Imperial military, the form of address for any superior is "sir". (In the latter case, this was explained as a headache-saving measure aimed at avoiding any trouble with species with more than two sexes, or which are less sexually dymorphic.) From a Doylist perspective, this is more to avoid having to double up on a truly ''staggering'' number of voice-over lines.

** In feudal Korea prior to the Empire of Korea, UsefulNotes/{{Seondeok}}, Jindeok, and Jinseong of Silla were the only female "kings" (''wang'', also from Chinese). Their title of "queen" was actually ''yeowang'', literally "female king". This was a different title from the other word for "queen" in Korean, which was ''wangbi'' ("king's wife").

** In feudal Korea prior to the Empire of Korea, UsefulNotes/{{Seondeok}}, Jindeok, and Jinseong of Silla were the only female "kings" (''wang'', also from Chinese). In modern contexts, they are also dubbed the titles "queen" (''yeowang'', literally "female ''wang''") which is likely a translation of European words for "queen". This was a different title from the other word for "queen" in Korean, which was ''wangbi'' ("king's wife").

* In late 2018, Wrestling/BeckyLynch began referring to herself as "The man". This was originally a taunt to Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, in reference to [[Wrestling/RicFlair her famous father's]] CatchPhrase "To be the man, you've got to beat the man!", then it snowballed and she ran with it.

** UsefulNotes/Hatshepsut crowned herself king and maintained an elaborate legal fiction of maleness. Because the king was, mythologically speaking, Horus,[[note]]No, literally, not one but two parts of the monarch's five-part royal titulary called him a "Horus"[[/note]] the son of Ra--[[ContinuitySnarl or was it Osiris? Or Amun?]]--anyway he was both Horus and the ''son'' of a god and so had to be a man, even if he was a woman. She even insisted on being called "''His'' Majesty". Statues of her go so far as to depict her with a male body, but an obviously female face.

** Hatshepsut crowned herself king and maintained an elaborate legal fiction of maleness. Because the king was, mythologically speaking, Horus,[[note]]No, literally, not one but two parts of the monarch's five-part royal titulary called him a "Horus"[[/note]] the son of Ra--[[ContinuitySnarl or was it Osiris? Or Amun?]]--anyway he was both Horus and the ''son'' of a god and so had to be a man, even if he was a woman. She even insisted on being called "''His'' Majesty". Statues of her go so far as to depict her with a male body, but an obviously female face.

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1: Any female ruler who possesses and wears the Emperor's Crown is this, of which there are three of them[[note]]Lizzie, Shrub, and Katherine[[/note]]. While they are sometimes called Empresses, mainly in informal contexts, fWhip's official rulebook on the Crown and the games in which it circulates refers to any ruler who possesses the Crown as an "Emperor" regardless of their gender.

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Scáthach-Skadi is referred to as Scandinavia's Lostbelt King despite being, by her own word, the Queen of Ice and Snow. But the term is gender-neutral in the original Japanese script as a literal translation of the title.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria'', various figures throughout the world's history, regardless of gender, have been identified as a "Lord of Calamity," someone who creates powerful malevolence by spreading negative emotion. The game's prequel, ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'', reveals that the first Lord of Calamity was a woman named Velvet Crowe.
** This also applies to the Lord of Calamity's opposite, the Shepherd. It's initially assumed that the Shepherd is always male, but ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'' heavily implies the first Shepherd to popularize the term (and the second Shepherd overall) was the female Eleanor Hume.

** You might notice that of these titles, it's Lord Chancellor that took the longest for this trend to hit. There is a reason for this. Lord Privy Seal and Lord President are emphatically political positions--they are generally given as a sinecure to bring someone with a more pragmatic but less prestigious title like Deputy Prime Minister[[note]]e.g. UsefulNotes/DavidCameron making UsefulNotes/NickClegg Lord President[[/note]] or Leader of the House of Commons[[note]]as usually happens with Privy Seal[[/note]] into Cabinet. However, the Lord Chancellor was, until 2005, the speaker of the House of Lords ''and'' a government minister responsible for the judiciary ''and'' sat on a number of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, as well. As such, the Lord Chancellor was always both a barrister (almost always a Queen's Counsel) and a Peer. Even today, these are very much male-dominated areas (to give an idea, of 443 applications for silk in 2005-06, only 68 were submitted by women; of the 175 actually appointed QC, only 33 were women--better than the average, but there was a conscious effort to create more women silks). To streamline the government, Labour decided to strip the post of Lord Chancellor of almost all its powers and create the positions of Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Speaker with most of the post's old executive and legislative duties, respectively. The title "Lord Chancellor" was thus left a more-or-less empty shell, much like Lord Privy Seal and Lord President, albeit one joined at the hip with the new Justice Secretary title rather than given to political grandees. Somewhat amusingly, ''both'' of the first two Lord Speakers after the establishment of the post were women, and both followed the same rule.

* The three levels of the ''Creature Court'' are the courtesi, the Lords and the Kings. Courtesi are either "courteso" (masculine) or "courtesa" (feminine), while "Lord" is used for both men and women. Female Kings are so rare as to be considered nonexistent, but when protagonist Velody is revealed to be one, no-one has a problem with referring to her as a King.

* The three levels of the ''Creature Court'' are the courtesi, the Lords and the Kings. Courtesi are either "courteso" (masculine) or "courtesa" (feminine), while "Lord" is used for both men and women. Female Kings are so rare as to be considered nonexistent, but when protagonist Velody is revealed to be one, no-one has a problem with referring to her as a King.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2: [[LongTitle The Grimoire of the Rift]]'' features the {{Optional Boss}}es, the Five Kings of [[GratuitousFrench Cinquleur]], the Red, the Blue, the Green, the Black, and the White, each focusing on that type of ColorCodedWizardry. They are all called "kings", even though the Red and the Green are part of the female OneGenderRace of Viera.

--> '''[[spoiler:Aethyta]]''': I didn't pop her out; I'm her father.
--> '''Shepard''': It's just that if you were human, you would be called her mother, regardless of which one of you gave birth to her.

** Because the records from the end of the 18th Dynasty are so fragmented due to attempts to obliterate Akhenaten and his family, there was serious speculation for a time that the pharaoh Smenkhkare was Akhenaten's widow Nefertiti ruling as a male. Today, they are pretty sure that Nefertiti ruled as a woman under the personal name Neferneferuaten (a name Akhenaten is known to have given her shortly after he declared his devotion to the cult of Aten).[[note]]It literally translates to either "Beautiful is the beauty of Aten" or "Most beautiful one of Aten". If it sounds like the kind of thing an overly-serious teenager might call his gorgeous girlfriend...that's because it is. Akhenaten was at most in his early 20s and probably his late teens when he ascended the throne, and Nefertiti was one of the great beauties of the realm when he married her. She seems to have accepted this name in large part because she was also crazy in love with him in the way that only teenagers can manage, ''and'' because she was equally devoted to the Aten cult. (Please note that Aten's popularity had been growing for decades by the time Akhenaten proclaimed Aten's supremacy, so the pump was thoroughly primed for this outpouring of Aten love.)[[/note]] It's accepted now that Smenkhkare was someone else, specifically Nefertiti and Akhenaten's son-in-law (married to their eldest child Meritaten) who took the throne either before Nefertiti (as a co-regent of Akhenaten) or after her. The confusion arose partly because they both used the throne name Ankhkheperure ("Life and Transfiguration of Ra" or perhaps "Living/Enduring Are the Forms of Ra"[[note]]Throne names of the form "[Whatever]kheperure" were common throughout the Eigteenth Dynasty, starting with UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}'s great-grandfather Amenhotep II Aakheperure "Great are the Forms of Re" and ending with the last one Horemheb Djeserkheperure "Holy are the Forms of Re". Some kind of repetition was probably almost inevitable.[[/note]]).

** Because the records from the end of the 18th Dynasty are so fragmented due to attempts to obliterate Akhenaten and his family, there was serious speculation for a time that the pharaoh Smenkhkare was Akhenaten's widow Nefertiti ruling as a male. Today, they are pretty sure that Nefertiti ruled as a woman under the personal name Neferneferuaten. It's accepted now that Smenkhkare was someone else, specifically Nefertiti and Akhenaten's son-in-law (married to their eldest child Meritaten) who took the throne either before Nefertiti (as a co-regent of Akhenaten) or after her. The confusion arose partly because they both used the throne name Ankhkheperure ("Life and Transfiguration of Ra" or perhaps "Living/Enduring Are the Forms of Ra"[[note]]Throne names of the form "[Whatever]kheperure" were common throughout the Eigteenth Dynasty, starting with UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}'s great-grandfather Amenhotep II Aakheperure "Great are the Forms of Re" and ending with the last one Horemheb Djeserkheperure "Holy are the Forms of Re". Some kind of repetition was probably almost inevitable.[[/note]]).