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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Verence I''': Remember, good sisters, the land and the king are one.
'''Nanny Ogg''': One what?
|'''[[Terry Pratchett]]''', ''[[Discworld|Wyrd Sisters]]''}}
A house [[Environmental Symbolism|says a lot]] about the people living in it: their social and economic status, their religion and culture, their ''cleanliness''. The same can be said about a king and his kingdom. You're unlikely to find [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Moloch the Despoiler]] ruling [[Ghibli Hills|Hippity Hoppity Happy Hare Hill]], and a place like [[Mordor|the Firepits of Wrath]] is most certainly ''not'' going to be ruled by the iron-fisted Tooth Fairy (unless, of course, he's ''that'' Tooth Fairy)... though the Orcs would have had much better dental hygiene.
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May require a king of [[Royal Blood|the right family]]. Of course, in those works, the rightful king tends to be the good king.
The [[Trope Namer]] is the guardian of the Holy Grail in some versions of the [[King Arthur|Arthurian legends]]. He is wounded in the leg or thigh, which is a medieval
Contrast [[Friend to All Living Things]] and [[Enemy to All Living Things]], where their mere existence causes the changes (on a small scale).
Subtrope of [[Royalty Super Power]]. See also [[No Ontological Inertia]], [[Terminally Dependent Society]] and [[Genius Loci]]. If the place has this effect on its inhabitants, it's a [[Fisher Kingdom]]. If you are looking for the film of the same name, hop on over to ''[[The Fisher King]]''. Oh, and this has nothing to do with ''that'' [[Bleach|Fisher]], or the [[Star Wars|Fisher Princess]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]],'' the land of Cephiro is directly connected to how devoted its ruler, the Pillar, is to it. One of the major conflicts in the series occurs when the heroines ask whether or not this is right,
* Each country in ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]'' is governed by an immortal ruler chosen by a holy creature called a ''kirin''. If the ruler rules his or her kingdom effectively and with benevolence, the land prospers. If the ruler grows corrupt, the land is beset by [[The Plague|plagues]] and natural disasters. Also, the kirin sickens and dies, which, in turn, causes the ''ruler'' to sicken and die. If the ruler reforms before the death of the kirin, both can become well again - although such a thing has yet to happen in the recorded history of that world. There have, however, been instances of rulers committing suicide upon recognizing the illness of their kirin, which let them get better and be able to choose a new king - like {{spoiler|Queen Joukaku of Kei, who did that to save her land and her kirin Keiki; and king Shishou of Sai, whose death saved his kirin Sairin and let her choose his adoptive mother Chuukin as Queen.}}.
* The films of [[Hayao Miyazaki]] tend to be full of this, with "good" represented by [[Green Aesop|"natural"]].
** In ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky|Castle in
** In ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', after the {{spoiler|death of the Shishigami and Lady Eboshi turning over a new leaf,}} Irontown's exterior becomes covered with greenness.
** Commentary about ''[[
** In ''[[Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea]]'', Ponyo's half-way status causes enormous floods and draws the [[Weird Moon|moon]] close to earth.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Dreaming, the kingdom of Morpheus in ''[[The Sandman]]''; he literally ''is'' his kingdom, and it obeys his commands and bends to his will. This leads to the inhabitants knowing he was angst- ridden when it rained for months on end.
:In the spinoff series ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', Elaine, guardian spirit of Lucifer's world, inadvertently causes the environment around her to decay when she's angry. When Mazikeen points this out, Elaine controls her temper and the environment is restored.▼
▲In the spinoff series ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', Elaine, guardian spirit of Lucifer's world, inadvertently causes the environment around her to decay when she's angry. When Mazikeen points this out, Elaine controls her temper and the environment is restored.
* Isis in ''[[52]]'' brought beautiful flora to the country of Kahndaq, until she became saddened, then it poured with rain for weeks - and when she fell ill, the plants withered and died.
* Though not always the official ruler of anything, Marvel's [[Storm]] has this effect; her mutant weather-control powers tend to cause local weather to change to reflect her mood. In her past, this caused villagers to worship her as a goddess; unlike a true Fisher Queen, the power is not dependent on her location, though it could be interpreted as being linked to the Earth itself.
* The [[Justice League of America]] once fought Rama Khan, ruler of the hidden magic kingdom of Jarhanpur. Not only was the land a paradise so long as the Khan was happy, he could cause the earth of his country itself to rise up and smack people around when they displeased him. Likewise, the loss of his heir threatened to destroy the entire nation.
* In ''[[W.I.T.C.H.|WITCH]]'' the Oracle is this for Kandrakar, as the Fortress changes to reflect the reigning Oracle. Already hinted when {{spoiler|Phobos}} managed to take over the position for a while and Kandrakar became similar to {{spoiler|Meridian}} under his reign and resumed its previous appearance as soon as Himerish returned the Oracle, it was confirmed at the end of the ''New Power'' story arc, when {{spoiler|Yan Lin}} becoming the new Oracle changed the look of the Fortress as soon as she decided it.
== [[Film]] ==
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'''Laura:''' "Lots of people get sad when it rains."
'''Agent K:''' "It rains ''because'' you're sad." }}
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', the captain of the Flying Dutchman has this effect on the ship. A good captain has a nice ship, while a corrupt one (Davy Jones) makes the ship [[A Worldwide Punomenon|a little fishy]]. Thus, when {{spoiler|Will Turner}} becomes the captain, the ship's appearance improves and the sailors are no longer human-fish hybrids. In fact, you can see the fishy bits falling off of his crew when he takes over. {{spoiler|Will's father}} even takes the starfish off his face on camera.
* [[David Lynch|David Lynch's]] [[Film of the Book]] ''[[Dune]]'' ends with Paul Atreides taking up his rightful place as the Kwisatz Haderach, at which point Arrakis, a planet defined by its absurd dearth of water, is consumed by a torrential downpour of rain. Subtle. In the book, it took years of [[terraform]]ing.<ref>From what we know, rain would also kill the sandworms, to whom water is toxic. The consequences of the deluge to vital spice production are not covered in the movie: the rain is presented as a Good Thing.</ref>
* In [[Jim Henson|Jim Henson's]] ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'', the area around the crystal castle is barren and gloomy while the Skeksis are in power. Once the Ancients return and hand it over to the Gelflings, cue sunshine and green grass everywhere.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Patricia A. McKillip]]'s [[The Riddle
* In ''Being a Green Mother'', the fifth book in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' series, Gaea's fury over being deceived by the man she's in love with triggers massive earth-wide storms. Later, when she's grieving, her tears are echoed by worldwide rain.
* In John Barnes's ''[[One for the Morning Glory]]'', Overhill has been reduced to a [[Mordor|wasteland]] under the reign of the usurper Waldo. [[Rightful King Returns|Queen Calliope, returning]], is told that it has even become better since the usurper left to continue his conquests.
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* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Chalion|The Curse of Chalion]]'', the royal family's curse causes every decision they make, be it directing a war or political maneuverings, to have the worst possible outcome.
** More that the curse twists against their actions, increasing the likelihood of failure by mischance or enemy action. Were the worst possible outcome the only option, {{spoiler|they would never have broken the thing at all.}}
* The fairy kingdom of Lost-hope in ''[[Jonathan Strange
* ''[[Merry Gentry]]'' - by [[Laurell K Hamilton]]. The Courts of Faerie are only as alive and fertile as their rulers. Both Taranis (Seelie Court) and Andais (Unseelie Court) learn of their infertility, and handle it differently. Taranis, King of Illusion, pretends everything is fine, and murders, banishes or beats anyone who says otherwise, terrified of losing his throne (and life). Andais, after centuries of a dying sithen and a bloodthirsty tyrannical rule, finally gives in and goes to a human doctor, who confirms her infertility. She grudgingly agrees to give up the throne to whichever of her two descendants can make a baby first.
* [[Michael Ende]]'s ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]'': Phantasién (or Fantasia/Fantastica) is linked to the Childlike Empress: She is the source of all life, and without her, the world could no longer live, like a human body that had lost its heart. As an extension of this, Phantasién is subjected to The Nothing whenever the Childlike Empress needs a new name.
* In [[Simon R. Green]]'s ''Blood and Honour'', Castle Midnight starts sliding into a hellish (literally) state without a King. As soon as a King is on the throne again the darkness subsides.
* As [[Robert Jordan]]'s ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' goes on, the world becomes a worse place to live, the weather system is screwy as hell, and chaos reigns in most of the countries due to years of near constant warfare, from civil strife to human to inhuman invasion. Bubbles of Evil cover the earth killing people, and ghosts are even appearing as the Pattern itself becomes unstable. This is reflected by Rand's mental health, as he slowly goes mad. By the end of ''Knife of Dreams'' Rand is schizophrenic, {{spoiler|is missing a hand, and his eyes are damaged}}. He also has the traditional unhealing wound in his side. Moridin even refers to Rand as the Fisher King, after a crucial piece in a complicated, nearly forgotten board game. Even in book 1 (when the weather was only mildly odd and Rand not yet mad or injured) we get the phrase, 'The Dragon is one with the land, and the land is one with the Dragon'.
:In the conclusion of ''The Gathering Storm'', {{spoiler|Rand has gone through his [[Despair Event Horizon]] and out the other side, and it's implied he has fixed his schizophrenia--at any rate, Lews Therin won't be talking in his head anymore--and, for the first time in virtually the entire book, the clouds break and pure sunlight shines through.}} Immediately following this in the next book, Rand {{spoiler|makes an entire orchard of rotten apples grow instantly, and wherever he goes, the clouds clear up and the sun shines}}.▼
▲In the conclusion of ''The Gathering Storm'', {{spoiler|Rand has gone through his [[Despair Event Horizon]] and out the other side, and it's implied he has fixed his schizophrenia--at any rate, Lews Therin won't be talking in his head anymore--and, for the first time in virtually the entire book, the clouds break and pure sunlight shines through.}} Immediately following this in the next book, Rand {{spoiler|makes an entire orchard of rotten apples grow instantly, and wherever he goes, the clouds clear up and the sun shines}}.
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms|Five Hundred Kingdoms]]'' series, this is seen as a manifestation of "The Tradition", a universal force that basically compels the world to act out fairy tales.
* A variant and partial inversion from [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Valdemar]]'' series: After Ancar usurps the throne of Hardorn, he damages the land by draining its magical energy for his own use. After he gets taken down, the locals insist that his [[Reasonable Authority Figure|replacement]] accept a magical link to the land to prevent him from doing the same, since harming the land would mean harming himself. Since the land is still damaged when this happens, this is rather unpleasant for the new king at first.
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* In the ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'', the eponymous forest apparently has a kind of low-level sentience, which is linked to the status of its king. If he dies, the forest reacts in a dramatic fashion. As one character mentions, reflecting on a prior such occasion, "none of us got any sleep for three weeks."
* In novel ''Inne Pieśni'' (''The Other Songs'') by Polish author Jacek Dukaj ([[Gushing About Shows You Like|pity the fact he's not translated into English, guys and girls!]]), world is ruled by both "casual" kings (who do not exhibit this trope) and ''kratistoi'', virtually demigods whose [[Determinator]][[Up to Eleven|-plus]] level force of will influences both people and land of their domains.
* Happens all the time in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s Middle-earth writings. Justified when the kings in question are semi-divine, and their will and nature has direct influence on physical matter; so the land of the Valar (angels) is
:Also, the forest kingdom of Doriath is protected by Queen Melian's divine magic, an almost literal fence or maze that keeps unwanted visitors out. When the King dies and she abandons the land, Doriath is very soon overrun by its enemies. Galadriel, though an Elf, learned a lot under Melian and hence later on she does something very similar for Lórien.▼
▲Also, the forest kingdom of Doriath is protected by Queen Melian's divine magic, an almost literal fence or maze that keeps unwanted visitors out. When the King dies and she abandons the land, Doriath is very soon overrun by its enemies. Galadriel, though an Elf, learned a lot under Melian and hence later on she does something very similar for Lórien.
* In the ''[[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant|Second Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant]]'', Lord Foul is a sort of Fisher King, or rather the Fisher King's illness. His presence corrupts the magical Earthpower, causing the Sunbane which warps the Land's weather so severely that travel is impossible without powerful magic. His defeat allows Linden to restore the natural order.
* A rather large part of [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[The Waste Land]]''. The motif of dry/wet and its symbolism of life, death, and resurrection recur in the poem, and parts III and V explicitly refer to the Arthurian motif. Indeed, Eliot's notes to the poem specifically cite From Ritual to Romance, a book which discusses the origins of the Fisher King motif in Arthurian legend in much detail.
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* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|Up Jim River]]'', the emperor of Morning Dew hates his position because all his subjects believe this trope, and therefore he's to blame for anything that goes wrong.
* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' has not-quite-real worlds, including ones accidentally born out of dreams, working like this and usually dying with their creator—unless or until they acquire full independent reality. The latter, at least according to one ancient being, is the whole purpose of [[Reality Warper|Arbiters]]' existence, not that they aren't apt to accidentally create such near-realities themselves.
** The last dynasty set up an enormously overcomplicated system of Court rules, ceremonies and public rituals. It can be tough to serve in the Court, [[The Chains of Commanding|but the King gets the worst of it]]. Gurig VIII (the current King) rearranged what little freedom he had in his life and even himself (using breath exercises) to this end, then began to push against the traditional palace rules little by little - both for the sake of his (and his hypothetical heirs') sanity and out of duty, since he came up with a private theory that the general state of affair correlates with the King's happiness. Because the real troubles started only under his ancestors, eventually escalating to a civil war of everyone against everyone and near destruction of the world - even though their rule is considered generally more sensible that of their predecessors, some of whom barely paid attention to their job, yet kept the kingdom prosperous.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* The ancient Indian epic ''[[Ramayana]]'' features a semi-demonic king whose emotions seem to effect the whole world's climate. When he becomes lovestruck, the seasons change rapidly, and time itself stops temporarily.
* Chinese emperors believed themselves to be responsible for the well-being of the land in varying degrees ("The Mandate of Heaven," which even modern communists try not to upset too much- ever see a government official slack off when a Chinese natural disaster strikes?), and thus instituted a number of rituals in which they'd attempt to appease the heavens; some of them apparently have been heard to directly appeal to the gods to [[Take Me Instead!|punish them instead]] during natural disasters. People who worked for the emperor were often [[Genre Savvy]] about this, sending memorials to the Imperial palace about bad omens like solar eclipses in various places (which have been calculated by modern scientists to be impossible at that time and place) simply to politely tell the Emperor that his policies were unpopular in (X) Province.
* River based kingdoms in general(like Egypt and China above)had states whose power came from the ability to predict weather and flooding patterns and organize hydraulic works. The ability to do so would surely have looked like preternatural powers to peasants especially as what we would consider mundane science and engineering would often be combined with attempts at sorcery.
* [[Oedipus the King]], who kills his father, marries his mother and becomes the king of Thebes. This moral stain—even though he has no idea that ''they'' are his parents—brings year-long famine to the land.
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: A variation appears in ''[[Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld|Inannas Descent to The Netherworld]]''. The Mesopotamian fertility goddess Inanna mourned her husband Dumuzi each year when he died. Her grief (and guilt for killing him) transformed the earth into a parched wasteland where nothing could grow. Only the annual return of Dumuzi could cheer her up.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* In ''[[Nobilis]]'', a powerful PC (or least one with a lot of Realm) will affect their Chancel this way - in one of the book's Flash Fictions, a Noble being drowned causes the entire kingdom to flood.
* In ''[[Dungeons
** In [[Ravenloft]], the various Domains were actually karmic prisons for their Darklords, which reflected their crimes. The Domains and their lords varied wildly, ranging from lands that reflected every whim of their public ruler, to realms where the Darklord was a hounded, outcast monster. Even then, all the realms were intrinsically tied to their Darklords, who could close the borders of their realm at any time.
* Daemon worlds of ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'', every single [[The Fair Folk|True Fae]] is a god unto their own realm in Faerie, having control over every single aspect of their home, from whether the sky is blue to the conditions as to when a fire will or will not cook a person's food. The Changelings, human slaves abducted to act as servants, have to enter pacts with every element in order to even survive. The world changes according to what a Faerie thinks is entertaining. The True Fae are powerful outside their realms, but have nowhere near this level of control over other domains.
** To a lesser degree, there is a [[Because Destiny Says So|Fatebound Merit]] named after the [[Trope Namer]]. As long as the holder is not suffering from serious damage, all their Social Merits function at double efficiency, but they suffer serious damage whenever a member of their Court dies and unrest in their kingdom is physically painful.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Video Game/Cythera|Cythera]]'', an old game by [https://web.archive.org/web/20120415025210/http://www.ambrosiasw.com/ Ambrosia Software], had Alaric the Landking.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past|The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past]]'' featured The Dark World, a magical dimension which had become dark and corrupt when it fell under Ganon's rule. (Said land also had the ability to turn anyone who ventured ''into it'' into an animal or monster supposedly reflecting their "true nature" - a bully becomes a fanged and horned demon, and an indecisive kid becomes a bouncy pink immobile ball - Link becomes a pink anthropomorphic rabbit for some reason). In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', Zelda's castle and city become corrupted once Ganon takes control of them.n
* [[Justified Trope]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]''; when the evil Zant takes over Hyrule, the land becomes cloaked in perpetual twilight, because he's actually using dark magic to bring the [[Another Dimension|Twilight Realm]] to this plane. Things look pretty bad there, too, what with the sky darker than ever and the inhabitants all gone or {{spoiler|turned into the Shadow Beasts you repeatedly fight}}. Normally, it's actually pretty nice, under its rightful ruler, {{spoiler|Midna,}} the titular Twilight Princess.
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** In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', {{spoiler|the world is all but destroyed when the Warring Triad's balance is broken, and their power is usurped by Kefka as the new source of magic. This leaves the land barren and desolate, and Kefka's rule over it keeps it the land from recovering (his razing it with the almighty [[Kill Sat|Light of Judgment]] doesn't help things, either.) However, when Kefka is destroyed and magic dissipates, life across the world blooms triumphantly.}}
** In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', {{spoiler|the future world of Ultimecia under her domination, and most especially her castle.}}
* In ''[[Wild
* In ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', a [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] known as a "Reality Marble" shows the inner workings of a Mage's soul by making a world that represents that Mage overlap the real world. These worlds, being shaped by the Magi's inner nature, are of the Fisher King nature. One inner world shown during the course of the game and the anime is [[Field of Blades|Unlimited Blade Works]], which belongs to Archer ( {{spoiler|and by extension, Emiya Shirou}}).
:Other Reality Marbles mentioned include that of ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Nrvnqsr Chaos (pronounced Nero Chaos), which is always active and allows him to join his being to other creatures, giving him a body that is incapable of dying so long as at least one part of it remains alive and he can maintain magic energy to feed it. Unless you're [[One-Hit Kill|Shiki.]] Satsuki's Reality Marble represents her loss without gain (Isn't it sad? No, really, not just a meme in this case) and passively destroys any mana in a radius around her that is not contained in a living being. Reality Marbles are bizarrely specific and produce equally strange results.▼
▲Other Reality Marbles mentioned include that of ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Nrvnqsr Chaos (pronounced Nero Chaos), which is always active and allows him to join his being to other creatures, giving him a body that is incapable of dying so long as at least one part of it remains alive and he can maintain magic energy to feed it. Unless you're [[One-Hit Kill|Shiki.]] Satsuki's Reality Marble represents her loss without gain (Isn't it sad? No, really, not just a meme in this case) and passively destroys any mana in a radius around her that is not contained in a living being. Reality Marbles are bizarrely specific and produce equally strange results.
** In its sister series ''[[Tsukihime]]'' there is introduced in its back story a group of beings called the Ultimate Ones, the final singular lifeform that embody the hereditary of the now-dead planet of which it originates. Their very presence is enough to cast a permanent denial of reality sphere called Alien Order, overwriting Earth's laws of physics with those of their original planet as it was when it still bore life. In the main series, this is the effect Type-Mercury is having on a region in South America. In the far-flung future of ''Notes'', the body of Ultimate One Type-Venus is blown out of the sky and, crashing onto the dead Earth of the future, its "corpse" is the only place that can still sustain life, albeit Venusian life.
** The prequel of ''[[Fate/stay night|Fate Stay Night]]'', ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', also has Servant Rider's shared Reality Marble, "Ionioi Hetaroi", which summons the [[Badass Army]] which conquered half of the world in his lifetime.
* Alice becomes Wonderland's fisher king in ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''.
* The ''[[
* The mental realms from ''[[Psychonauts]]''. Obviously. This trope is taken to the point where ''everything'' in a mental world corresponds to the personality and mental state of the mind-holder, from the general layout (a obsessive-compulsive character whose psychic specialty is turning repressed emotions into firepower has a mind consisting of a large black, white, and grey cube floating in dark purple space) to the Figments (several plot points are hinted at upon close examination of the Figments in each mind) to the characters (in a paranoid schizophrenic's mind, the mailboxes ''have eyes and stalk you'').
* In ''[[God of War (series)|God Of War III]]'', killing gods changes the world for the worse: Kill Poseidon, and the seas flood the coasts. Kill Hades, and the souls of the dead escape from Tartarus. Kill Helios, and the sun is shrouded by the clouds. Kill Hermes, and swarms of insects are released. Kill Hera, and all plantlife dies. Kill Zeus, and the constant lightning storms begin.
* In the second ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' set, the mental state of the god of time, Dialga, is reflected by the physical state of Temporal Tower, his hidden abode.
* Uzume Tennouboshi from [[Megadimension Neptunia VII]] is a variant version of this, and while she doesn't have direct control over her power (nor is she aware of it), she can cause the world around her to change in mild to moderate ways based on her whims, with the last word being operative, as being conscious of this fact would prevent it from being effective. {{spoiler|Which isn't quite true, but keeping her ignorant of this does serve as a [[Restraining Bolt]] against the possibility said power could be used for evil, as her [[Enemy Without]] Kurome Ankokuboshi has the same power, just horribly twisted for doing evil}}.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2010/12/why-talking-is-still-a-free-action/ Whimsy] is apparently caused by a [[Reality Warping]] Fisher King of sorts—and treated [[Oh Crap|accordingly]].
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
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** There's also the fact that {{spoiler|Elyon}} is pretty much a [[Reality Warper]] and Phobos, while not as strong, is still quite a powerful [[Evil Sorcerer]]. They really ''do'' have the power to mold their kingdom to suit their aesthetic preferences.
* [[Evil Prince]] Aragon from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' is a [[Jerkass]] whose isolated stuck-in-the-Dark-Ages (''literally'') kingdom reflects his aggressive rules. It's only when his timid sister, Princess Dora finally gets the gumption to dethrone him did the dying kingdom regale in happiness. It's expected it'll only get better from here; Dora's first act is restoring time so they can catch up to the rest.
* When Crocker and later Vicky [[Take Over the World]] in ''[[The Fairly
** Also extended to Timmy's dad when he got to be Mayor for a day after winning the Miss Dimmsdale pageant. Though that may have just been set up to mess with Dinkleburg.
* Chanticleer's farm from ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' is always sunny and bright, but when the evil owl tricks Chanticleer into oversleeping and making the Sun rise without him, all of Chanticleer's friends make fun of him and as a result Chanticleer gives up and moves to the city, causing the Sun to set and stop rising altogether, and therefore allowing the evil owl to terrorize all of the farm animals in constant darkness. But then some kid gets turned into a <s> furry</s> cat by said evil owl...
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