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▲[[caption-width-right:300:Just a few of the many types of crowns.<ref>Left to right, top to bottom: [[HM the Queen|Queen Elizabeth II]], [[Lord of the Rings (Film)|Aragorn]], [[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]], [[Dragon Quest (Video Game)|King Slime]], [[The Princess and The Frog (Disney)|Tiana]], [[I Claudius|Claudius]], [[Disgaea 3|Sapphire]], [[Transformers the Movie|Starscream]].</ref>
A sure-fire way to get across that you are important is to wear a
* '''Tiaras''' are the iconic crown of the [[Princess Classic]] and heavily associated with fairytales. Perched directly on top of the head, usually with heart or flower designs worked in, they are dainty and [[Everything's Better
** Frill-like '''Diadems''', often seen being worn by Pageant Queens also tend to have the same connotations as tiaras despite having more robustness, similar to a heavy circlet.
* '''Circlets''' are the staple of [[Modest Royalty]]. Who wants to wear a heavy, clunky crown everywhere? These Royals need to be able to [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|move and get things done]]. The circlet is usually a ribbon-like strand of metal that wraps around the forehead, sometimes with a simple jewel on the front, or a heavier band that perches atop the head that may have other decorations, but no hoops or caps. They are worn by both genders, and [[Our Elves Are Better|Elves]] seem to like the really thin across-the-forehead kind, for some reason.
* '''Hoop Crowns''', with arches, jewels and velvety-cloth caps or [[Pretty in Mink|ermine-edging]] are the coolest crowns of them all and usually only Kings, and the occasional Queen, get to wear them. They are big and in your face and anyone wearing one is really important, or seems to want you to think he is. Even most Royalty don't like to wear them ''all the time'', though. During everyday royal activities such a crown may be exchanged for a circlet.
* '''Laurel Wreaths''' are associated with the Roman Caesars and despite being simpler than a typical crown (essentially a partial circlet), they tend to indicate someone who is at the top, in terms of importance. [[The Emperor|Emperors]] and [[Classical Mythology|Greek Gods]] really like them. The wreath is often gold, but just as often made of actual leaves.
* '''Pimped Out Helmets''' are perhaps the most [[Badass]] type of crown of all. These look like war helms, only with extra decorations like golden plating, wings, dragon teeth and the like - stuff that says "a crown, not a [[Helmets Are Hardly Heroic|grunt's helmet]]". These crowns are the best choice for [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]] of more warlike bent. The hoop crown is in fact a product of evolution of a certain type of pimped-out helmet that lost its practical (protective) function in the process of becoming more pimped-out.
[[Sub-Trope]] of [[Nice Hat]] and a key piece of [[Requisite Royal Regalia]].
Sometimes combined with it's [[Sister Trope]], [[Cool Helmet]].
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== General ==
* In high school settings, the King and Queen of the Prom (or Homecoming Queen and King) get crowns for the occasion.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Baraggan Louisenbairn has a bone-like protrusion out of his head that resembles a crown. Fitting, as prior to encountering Aizen, he was the king of Hueco Mundo. His Resurreccion form had a more normal crown on his head, made of gold and encrusted with all sorts of jewels.
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* When seen in animation, ''[[
== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* In ''[[Anastasia]]'', the titular Russian princess wears a very sparkly diadem with her princess dress.
* Rapunzel has a tiara in ''[[
* Princess Aurora from ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' wears a tiara, while her parents and father-in-law wear hoop crowns.
* Prince John from ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'' wears an oversized hoop crown.
* Arthur "Wart" Pendragon wears a giant crown at the end of ''[[The Sword in
* During his introductory scene in ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', the King can be seen throwing his crown out the window.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen|The Evil Queen]] from ''[[Snow White and
* Jasmine from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' wears a light blue tiara with a sapphire jewel on the front.
* King Triton, Queen Athena, and half of their daughters (Ariel is an exception) from ''[[
* Naveen and his parents from ''[[The Princess and
* Kuzco from ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* King Julian from ''[[Madagascar]]'' wears a crown made from leaves. At the end of the film, he replaces it with a larger crown with a gecko on it.
* The queens from ''[[Atlantis:
* The Queen of England from ''[[Cars 2]]'' is a large blue car wearing royal robes who appears to have a giant hoop crown on her roof. Her hood ornament is also shaped like a crown as well.
* In another Pixar film, ''[[A Bug's Life
* And in a soon-to-be third Pixar example, ''[[
* The Queen and King of Hearts from ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
** And the Red Queen in [[Alice in Wonderland (
* The Emperor of China from ''[[Mulan]]'' wears a traditional Chinese royal headdress on his head.
* Esmeralda wore a small gold tiara with emeralds on it (referencing both her name and her [[Green Eyes|eye color]]) during her pole dance in the song "Topsy Turvy" from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* Averted in ''[[Star Wars]]''. Despite having royalty, no one ever sports a crown.
** Queen Amidala wears plenty of ridiculous headdresses in The Phantom Menace. Which one is the formal crown is harder to say.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)]]'', King Richard's helmet has a crown built into it.
* In the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' [[Film of the Book]] (specifically [[Return of the King]]), the crown of Gondor looks like a circlet, though a fairly large one. Contrary to the book, where it looks like a helm (not exactly hoop crown but close).
** The elven lord Elrond sports a circlet of the "stock thin elven" type. The elven High King of old, Gil-Galad does, too.
* In the third ''[[The Elusive Avengers]] movie'', appropriately titled ''The Crown of the Russian Empire'', the titular Greater Imperial Crown of Russia was the [[MacGuffin]]. (Google it. It's one of the most awesome hoop crowns of [[Real Life]]).
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== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series, the Valdemaran royals wear understated circlets to go with their [[Modest Royalty]] and indicate they don't think they are better than their subjects. Other royals in neighboring countries either copied them or came up with the idea independently (probably the latter).
* The [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] scene in ''[[The Lion, the Witch
* ''[[
* The crown of the dragons in ''[[The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'' is a heavy circlet made of iron. When, after her first day as King, Kazul exhaustedly hurls it against the wall, Cimorene chides that she shouldn't treat the crown that way. Kazul responds, "Of course I should. It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron and not something soft and pliable like gold."
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' the first crown of Gondor was a war helm that belonged to Isildur, and the second (Aragorn was crowned with it), was a more pimped-up, crown-like helm. And in the other Numenorean kingdom, Arnor, a simple circlet with a single diamond was used. The Arnorian crown also existed in two iterations: the original and the replacement that was made after the original was lost. [[All There in the Manual|After LOTR]], the original circlet was found, giving Aragorn a total of three cool crowns.
* In the ''[[Deryni]]'' works, there's a number of these:
** The Haldanes have the State Crown of Gwynedd, bejeweled and with intertwined gold leaves and crosses, worn at coronations and state occasions. Even Kelson wears this when duty calls for it, though he prefers a "simpler circlet of gold" like the hammered gold circlet he wears when addressing the bishops at Valoret in ''The Quest for Saint Camber''.
** Also in ''The Quest for Saint Camber'', Kelson wears "the oldest and plainest of Kelson's official crowns: a band of hammered gold two fingers wide, chased with a design of Celtic interlace and set with small, round cabochon rubies in some of the interstices."
** Caitrin Quinnell, ''soi-disant'' Queen of Meara, has a regal crown of gold set with sapphires and rubies. This one is notably heavy; it creases Caitrin's brow (the marks are visible when she takes it off), Ithel flinches under its weight when Caitrin briefly sets it on his head, and Kelson complains of its weight after wearing it at the surrender ceremony in Laas.
** Mátyás brings a crown from Torenth's treasury when he comes to Rhemuth to escort Liam-Lajos back for his investiture: "a handsome circlet of beaten gold, nearly the width of a man's three fingers, set round with smoky balas rubies, baroque pearls, and chunky rough-polished emeralds the size of a man's thumbnail." Liam receives a newer traditional Torenthi crown at the ceremony: "a golden diadem studded with rubies and emeralds and pearls, with great jeweled pendants hanging just short of his shoulders at either side.".
* In ''[[
* In the ''[[Elenium]]'', the sapphire rose [[Cosmic Keystone|Bhelliom]] once adorned the Crown of Thalasia, until the loss of both crown and the king who wore it in circumstances [[Shout-Out|very similar]] to [[The Lord of the Rings|Isildur's loss of the One Ring]].
* The True Crown in ''[[
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, the Diadem of Ravenclaw is decorated with an eagle motif and the inscription "wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure". It's said to [[Putting
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Sheldon and Amy have a fight, and Sheldon [[Distracted
* The Corona Aurora of ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]''. It and its five scattered jewels serve as the [[MacGuffin
* [[King Arthur]] and King Uther go through a couple of crowns on ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', and Arthur gets the short end of the stick each time. Whilst Uther wore a simple but respectable looking circlet, Prince Arthur had something that looked like a shiny metal head-band. In a [[Flash Forward]], Arthur was seen wearing Uther's crown, but when he finally became King himself, he switched to a giant gold crown with fleur-de-lis spikes on it, which most people thought looked a little bit like the Burger King crown. Guinevere on the other hand, is lucky enough to wear a very elaborate, but still elegant-looking silver crown adorned with jewels. Since her coronation was filmed twice (first as a [[Flash Forward]], and then in real time) you can see the difference in Arthur's crown [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITE-bwZ29o here], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeW-oDlLvxY&feature=related here].
== [[
* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' used to have Elves fond of various crowns and diadems, especially enchanted ones. So much that the armed conflicts between Cormanthyr and Netherese survivor states were named "The Crown Against the Scepter Wars" after signature magical devices of the sides.
▲* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Sheldon and Amy have a fight, and Sheldon [[Distracted By the Luxury|gives Amy jewelry as an apology]]. Amy is chewing Sheldon out for such a shallow gesture, until she sees it's a tiara. She goes into [[Princess Phase]] mode and kisses Sheldon in delight.
▲* The Corona Aurora of ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]''. It and its five scattered jewels serve as the [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]] that everyone's after, granting incredible power if they're reunited.
▲* [[King Arthur]] and King Uther go through a couple of crowns on ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'', and Arthur gets the short end of the stick each time. Whilst Uther wore a simple but respectable looking circlet, Prince Arthur had something that looked like a shiny metal head-band. In a [[Flash Forward]], Arthur was seen wearing Uther's crown, but when he finally became King himself, he switched to a giant gold crown with fleur-de-lis spikes on it, which most people thought looked a little bit like the Burger King crown. Guinevere on the other hand, is lucky enough to wear a very elaborate, but still elegant-looking silver crown adorned with jewels. Since her coronation was filmed twice (first as a [[Flash Forward]], and then in real time) you can see the difference in Arthur's crown [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITE-bwZ29o here], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeW-oDlLvxY&feature=related here].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Super Mario]]'' series subverts the association of Princesses with tiaras by giving Princess Peach a heavy gold circlet decked out in sparkly jewels. Her crown is also a treasure in ''[[Pikmin Two]]'' (the first region, pretty much as far away as you can get from the landing site). Daisy and Rosalina also wear similar crowns as well.
* In ''[[Angry Birds]]'', some of the bigger and tougher Pigs wear crowns. Such attire is usually switched with whatever headgear is appropriate for the level's theme, however.
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' enemy bosses have these, although [[Big Bad|Bowser]], the Koopa King doesn't wear one.
** [[You Don't Look Like You|Though he does]] in [[Super Mario Bros. (
* Princess Zelda from ''[[
* Slowking from ''[[
* In ''[[
** The "elemental" abilities (Fire, Ice, Spark, for example) that Kirby obtains generally have a base design of a crown with the element being emitted from the top.
* The crown of the High King of ''[[Skyrim]]'' is a prime example of a pimped-out helmet: it's a helmet decorated with dragon's teeth.
** The crown of Barenziah from the same game is kinda hard to classify. It's technically a circlet but gold wings big enough that it seems to be a helm when looked from the front. Barenziah also never was seen wearing this crown in either ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
** Also from ''[[Morrowind]]'', Almalexia wears a circlet made of some green metal (orichalcum?).
* ''[[
==
* ''[[Exiern]]'' King Urtica has the circlet (emblazoned with a stylised sun) style of crown, which is in keeping with his status as a hard-working (albeit in a [[Magnificent Bastard]] cum [[Chessmaster]] kind of way) monarch.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[My Little Pony:
* All fairies on ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' wear "floaty crowny things".
* The Fire Lord and his family of the Fire Nation in ''[[
** Let's not forget that big-ass helmet, the Phoenix King's crown.
* The King of Town from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' appears to be wearing a paper crown he bought at Burger King, according to Strong Bad.
* [[The Starscream|Starscream]] wore one of these in ''[[Transformers:
* Seeing as the main cast of ''[[Sofia the First]]'' are royals, most of them have one, but Amber has a whole ''collection'' of tiaras.
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