Line #28 PlayingWith/GodSaveUsFromTheQueen


1	'''Basic Trope''': Evil and/or incompetent woman as queen.
2	* '''Straight''': Queen Alice of Troperia is the BigBad, oppresses her people, and is extremely vain.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Queen Alice of Troperia is [[CompleteMonster far and away the cruelest, vilest, most heinous character in the story]].
5	** Troperia has a long line of queens regnant with [[TheMagnificent nicknames]] like "the Terrible" and "[[GroinAttack the Castrating.]]"
6	** Empress Alice is a cruel tyrant who [[EvilWearsBlack wears all black]], complete with [[MakeUpIsEvil dark make-up with black lips]] and [[FemmeFatalons long nails]] and whose rule is mainly about turning the best-looking men into {{Sex Slave}}s, killing or permanently disfiguring any woman prettier than herself, [[EvilMatriarch abandoning her children to other women and executing the ones who show any sign of disobedience]], torturing anyone who displeases her, conquering new lands to supply her with new studly military and displaying her wealth and power for all to see.
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** Queen Alice can be a bit HotBlooded and heavy-handed, and she's certainly made a few bad choices as queen, but the story has GreyAndGrayMorality and she's basically doing the best she can.
9	** Queen Alice may be evil, but [[TheHighQueen Queen Carol]] is the BigGood.
10	** Queen Alice is a well-meaning but dimwitted and lazy ruler who leaves most of the work to her ministers.
11	* '''Justified''':
12	** ''[[UnfortunateImplications All]]'' females in the setting are portrayed as evil.
13	** [[GoodRepublicEvilEmpire All monarchs in the story are portrayed as evil, regardless of their sex.]]
14	** It's a setting where MightMakesRight. Queen Alice could only become queen if she [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership fought her way to the top]]. Naturally, she continues to act cruelly to keep power.
15	** Queen Alice rules in a traditionally male-dominated society which distrusts women with power and sees benevolence as weakness. In order to gain respect (and survive) she must prove herself to be [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale twice as cold-hearted and ruthless as her male counterparts and rivals]].
16	** Queen Alice is DrunkWithPower.
17	** Queen Alice is DaddysLittleVillain in a RoyallyScrewedUp family. Her mother, a mere queen consort, is just as much of a bitch as Alice is, [[VillainousLineage just like her sister, her asshole brothers and her cruel and sadistic father King Bob the Terrible]].
18	* '''Inverted''':
19	** TheHighQueen.
20	** Alice is the first woman to be elected president or prime minister of her democratic country. She is or becomes [[PresidentEvil a villainous, callous]], [[CorruptPolitician nakedly self-serving politician]] who makes the worst of her male counterparts look good.
21	* '''Gender Inverted''':
22	** EvilOverlord.
23	** King Bob was the first king of [[LadyLand the Amazons]]. He is a complete megalomaniac who makes the previous worst queens look like good rulers.
24	** Prince Consort Bob is TheManBehindTheMan for the [[PuppetKing weak-willed Queen Alice]] (in a setting with gender-equal inheritance laws or even a matrilineal secession), and thanks to his influence the country has become a desolate place.
25	* '''Subverted''':
26	** Queen Alice seems to be a tyrannical bitch, [[ToughLeaderFacade but is actually doing what she does out of genuine concern for her people.]]
27	** Queen Alice's behavior seems extreme with her wars and conquests [[TheExtremistWasRight but she's eventually vindicated by history]].
28	* '''Double Subverted''':
29	** Queen Alice explains that she is acting out of concern for her people, but when push comes to shove she's willing to make them suffer for her own gain.
30	** Queen Alice only wins a one-off victory by dumb luck and/or a PyrrhicVictory for Troperia.
31	* '''Parodied''':
32	** As a princess, Alice was fine -- but once she becomes the queen, she turns into a terror.
33	** Queen Alice commits no more than a handful of FelonyMisdemeanor[=s=], but she is ritually castigated for them.
34	* '''Zig-Zagged''':
35	** Queen Alice ''is'' wicked but does something noble, but only because it serves her ends as well.
36	** Queen Alice has BlueAndOrangeMorality.
37	* '''Averted''': There is no queen or the queen is not in power.
38	* '''Enforced''':
39	** The story is HistoricalFiction, based on a piece of history where there was a cruel, tyrannical queen.
40	** The producers of "The Chronicles of Troperia" are big fans of [[Series/GameOfThrones Cersei Lannister]] and ordered the inclusion of an {{Expy}}.
41	%% Enforced means the trope occurs for a reason OTHER THAN the author wanting to include it.
42	* '''Lampshaded''': "People are oppressed, and Black Guards look ''too'' sexy and studly. Must be an Evil Queen."
43	* '''Implied''': There are {{Cryptic Background Reference}}s to Queen Alice, and it ''seems'' like ''maybe'' she's tyrannical, but honestly we don't know.
44	* '''Invoked''': TheEvilPrince Bob decides to [[UnholyMatrimony marry an evil woman]], so that when he's king, she'll have absolutely no problem with his abuse of power. King Bob and Queen Alice become an evil RulingCouple.
45	* '''Exploited''': In an attempt to divide the competition, a group of misogynist {{aristocrats\|AreEvil}} (who are among those eligible to take up the throne) use the queen's tyrannical reign to justify why women should not be allowed to rule.
46	* '''Defied''':
47	** Any woman who manages to make it to be a ruling queen [[HadToBeSharp is better than any living king in the generation because any flaw would be used as an excuse to oust her.]] Queen Alice is GenreSavvy that way and constantly acts to disprove any accusations of malevolence or incompetence because of her gender.
48	** Those around Crown Princess Alice dread the day of the her coronation and ascent to the throne because of this trope, but when the day comes she [[SheIsTheKing proclaims herself king]].
49	** A system is set up so that women are fairly evaluated, but just as strictly as men are, before deciding who gets to rule the country.
50	** The laws of Troperia are written with two notable things: a high degree of gender equality for rulers. And an order to immediately execute said rulers of they are ever corrupt, with a [[TheKingslayer Kingslayer Corps]] that also holds a great degree of gender equality.
51	* '''Discussed''':
52	** "Yes, that's Queen Alice. She's evil."
53	** A StrawMisogynist says of the queen, "She's a woman in power; ''of course'' she's evil!"
54	* '''Conversed''': "Why is the Queen always evil in these shows?"
55	* '''Deconstructed''':
56	** Because Queen Alice set a precedent with her wanton cruelty to her underlings and people alike, her reckless spending and her debauched orgies, her long-lived reign of terror and decadence is used as a justification to bar any woman from wielding power again from then on.
57	** Alternately, she [[ALighterShadeOfBlack isn't quite as evil]] as the typical ruler of the period locale, but she gets a bad reputation precisely because society is sexist and she's a woman--things that a male king could get away with are considered "atrocities" when she commits them because [[WomenAreDelicate women are supposed to be gentle and delicate]].
58	* '''Reconstructed''':
59	** Queen Alice's wickedness is part of the Machiavellian MagnificentBastard traits that got her to the throne in the first place, given that it's a male-dominated and particularly cutthroat medieval setting. A nicer woman would never have made it.
60	** Or even in a society where women and men have the same rights, only a few women would prefer ruling the country, only to get ousted by that wicked woman, together with the rest of the men.
61	* '''Played for Laughs''':
62	** Queen Alice is only a constitutional monarch whose predecessor died just after setting up the new regime and denying her the chance to rule as an absolutist tyrant. Having nothing to do, she spends her private moments complaining about this new arrangement.
63	** Even if Queen Alice ''does'' have a hand in policymaking, she's hilariously inept at it.
64	** Queen Alice is an AbhorrentAdmirer of the hero, Bob, who says the trope word-for-word.
65	* '''Played for Drama''': Queen Alice has a HeelRealization, but [[IveComeTooFar she's committed too many crimes to stop]].
66	* '''Played for Horror''': Queen Alice is a Queen [[TheCaligula Caligula]]. [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Cersei Lannister]] has nothing on her pettiness, vileness, blood thirst and madness.
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