Line #3 PlayingWith/RoyaltySuperPower


1	'''Basic Trope''': The royal family in a kingdom each have a special power.
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3	* '''Straight''': Prince Alexander has SuperStrength, WhiteMagic, and KiManipulation. His father, King Aslan has all those three powers, ''and'' CompellingVoice. His younger sister, princess Alice, has HealingFactor, while his brother Prince Abel is a GravityMaster.
4	* '''Exaggerated''': Having royal blood, no matter how little, gives one RealityWarper powers.
5	* '''Downplayed''': The royal family are stronger, faster, and more durable than regular people. They can also heal from wounds and sickness faster than normal. However, they otherwise don't exhibit flashy super powers.
6	* '''Justified''':
7	** The royal family was initiated by [[DivineRightOfKings the Gods]], and the deities grant them powers as a sign of their blessings for the family's right to rule.
8	** Alternatively, the royal family are [[DivineParentage living descendants of a god (or goddess)]], which gave them [[SemiDivine demi-divine blood]] and the accompanying powers.
9	** The ancestor of the royal family started out as a commoner who got lucky enough to have superpowers and used said powers to rise up and become royalty or married into royalty and passed his abilities on to his descendants.
10	* '''Inverted''': StrongEmpireShriveledEmperor
11	* '''Subverted''': The royal family are rumored to possess superpowers, but this turns out to be a propaganda spread to discourage rebellion and insurrections.
12	* '''Double Subverted''': While the stories about the Royalty Superpowers are grossly exaggerated, the King and his children do possess inhuman strength and dexterity that allows them to easily curb any major threats to their power.
13	* '''Parodied''': The royals constantly use their RealityWarper powers to modify the kingdom, such as building lakes and mountains in the middle of the town square, and demolishing landscapes at will.
14	* '''Zigzagged''': King Alsan and Prince Alexander possesses super powers, but not Princess Alice and Prince Abel. Then Princess Alice marries Duke Charles, and their first daughter Satine has powers, but not the second one, Velvet. Prince Abel eventually develops his latent super powers after a TraumaticSuperPowerAwakening, but he never marries and or have children. Meanwhile, Prince Alex's wife, the commoner Beatrice, gains super powers after marrying into the royal family, but all of their children are powerless.
15	* '''Averted''': The royal family are just normal human beings, and are no more or less powerful than their people.
16	* '''Enforced''': The author is a royalist and wants to show that the Royalty is inherently better than their subjects.
17	* '''Lampshaded''': "I'd rather take on a whole platoon of soldiers than fight anyone in the royal family."
18	* '''Exploited''': Alexander goes on every mission himself and doesn't bring soldiers to avoid the loss of life.
19	* '''Defied''': Alexander [[BroughtDownToNormal gives up his powers]] and [[EveryoneIsASuper distributes them evenly amongst his people.]]
20	* '''Discussed''':
21	--> '''Danny:''' "I heard the Prince of Tropestan is able to single-handedly [[OneManArmy slay a thousand men]]. That can't be true, right?"
22	--> '''Eric:''' "That's nothing. I hear the king is able to vanquish ten-thousand. That's why none of the other kingdoms dare invade the country."
23	* '''Conversed''': "Since that guy's the king, I bet he's the most powerful."
24	* '''Deconstructed''':
25	** An internal dispute between Prince Alex and Prince Abel results in the near-destruction of the kingdom since each of their powers are strong enough to level cities.
26	** All the political and supernatural power combined go to the ruler's head, and they declare the entire world theirs. After all, who would be able to stop someone with ''that'' much power?
27	** Because official members of the royalty had a habit of siring bastards behind closed doors, and said bastards have a chance of having children of their own, this leads to a number of illegitimate heirs possessing dangerous powers as clear indicators of their lineage running around inside and outside the kingdom with varying ideas of how to use them.
28	* '''Reconstructed''': After the two princes reconciled, they used their powers to fix everything.
29	* '''Played For Laughs''': Alexander's [[CuteBruiser seven-year-old sister, Princess Lillian,]] constantly beats up the guards when she doesn't get her way.
30	* '''Played For Drama''':
31	** Alexander's power makes him the one who goes on a heroic quest to save his kingdom.

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