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While kings and princes can be good or evil and princesses are [[Always Lawful Good|always good]], queens tend to be the royalty version of [[Always Chaotic Evil]]. Restrained by a competent king, this usually doesn't show, but once a queen is in charge, things get nasty. Either the king is missing or died in an accident (the queen might have [[Black Widow|helped things along herself]]), or he's easily manipulated for some reason. Note that there are good queens in fiction, [[Missing Mom|but they normally don't stay around for very long, or at all.]] And this trope comes into play whether they are ruling in their own right or as regents for [[A Child Shall Lead Them|the under-age king]]. (The latter group tends to fall under [[My Beloved Smother]], as well.)

 

 

If the evil queen is in charge of a [[Hive Mind]], she is by definition a [[Hive Queen]]. Also overlaps with [[Matriarchy]] (particularly the Sexist Matriarchy) and sometimes [[Evil Matriarch]].

 

[[Sister Trope]] and [[Evil Counterpart]] of [[The High Queen]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Mizumi, Queen of the Moraine Kingdom in the manga ''[[Return to Labyrinth]]''.

* In ''[[Dai Mahou Touge]]'', the queen of Magical Land is ruthless, domineering and just plain evil. Her daughter Punie, also known as the heroine of the series, is following in her tracks.

* Queen Himiko in the Dawn arc of [[Phoenix]] is portrayed as an insane tyrant whose only goal in life is to find the Phoenix and gain immortality.

* In Kiyudzuki Satoko's manga ''[[Shoulder a Coffin Kuro]]'', one of the short stories in the second volume features an incredibly spoiled princess who orders travelers to expand upon her favorite storyteller's fairytale featuring her. If she doesn't like where the story goes, she orders the traveler's beheading. {{spoiler|However, this is eventually subverted when Kuro and the twins' story brings her to her senses, and her courtiers reveal that they've been using the guillotine to chop up pumpkins to fool her and let the travelers escape.}}

* The Dark Queen in ''[[Mirror Mask]]''. Also happens to be [[My Beloved Smother|extremely pushy]].

* The White Witch in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''.

* The entire plot of ''Outlaws of [[Gor]]'' was subduing the one dominant female character, the queen.

** Which sums up Gor's main theme about how all women should know their place, and that place is being slaves to men.

** From the protagonists' perspective, Queen Azala. Then again, she seemed to do good for her people and [[Designated Villain|ended up a villain]] only because the Reptites and Ayla's tribe were fighting each other for survival in the primeval world.

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|"Queen Pulsating, Bloated, Festering, Sweaty, Pus-filled, Malformed, Slug-for-a-butt"]] from ''[[Earthworm Jim (Video Game)|Earthworm Jim]]''.

* ''[[Ico]]'' has another Queen that fits this.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]: Radiant Dawn'' has an aversion of this with Queen Elincia, who in her arc of the game must deal with a rebellious noble who wants to be Crimea's leader and obviously doesn't have Crimea's best interests in mind. She later joins the rest of the cast in helping save Tellius. Of course, she was a princess in the previous title ''Path of Radiance''. Also there is {{spoiler|Micaiah,}} who becomes Queen of Daein in the game's epilogue; and (blunt but good-hearted) Nailah, Wolf Queen of Hatari. The last female ruler is Empress Sanaki, who is [[Wise Beyond Her Years]] and the only member of the Begnion ruling class ''not corrupted and evil''.

** ...and then played straight in ''Awakening'' with [[The Baroness]] of the Blackmarsh. While not a crowned Queen, she was the Orlesian governor of the area during the Occupation, and {{spoiler|a blood mage who used the blood of innocent villagers to keep herself young, then trapped the whole town in a [[Lotus Eater Machine]]}}. Depending on your decisions, the female player character can also exhibit elements of this trope as ruler of Amaranthine.

** In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', Knight-Commander Meredith isn't the queen but is more or less the actual power of Kirkwall. She rules with a fist of iron and is particularly merciless where mages are concerned, but you'll find out that all of this is out of necessity (with the whole Mages and Templars' [[Vicious Cycle]] being much more complex in the city) being that she does keep order, and the mages truly are the danger the templars fear due to the Veil in and around Kirkwall being thin and full of holes due to the actions of the Tevinter Imperium. {{spoiler|People need actual saving from her when she goes over the edge later in the game due to getting a sword made out of that evil lyrium idol you find in the Deep Roads in the first act.}}

* In [[Guild Wars]], Varesh Ossa. She's "Warmarshal" of Kourna (think a sort of shogun) rather than a crowned queen, but she fits this trope neatly as the Nightfall campaign continues, acting like a classic tyrant; {{spoiler|she hits her [[Moral Event Horizon]] when she orders the massacre of the priests of Lyssa at their chief temple in order to clear the way for a key ritual to free the dark god Abaddon from his prison. This sets up a key [[Heel Face Turn]] when General Morgahn, Varesh's best general, defects to the player's side out of horror and outrage at the atrocity against the clerics of his patron goddess}}.

* Queen Nanesi, a character in the PC adventure game ''Siege of Avalon'', comes across as a sweet and bubbly subversion, charming the dickens out of everyone. {{spoiler|It turns out that she's one of the major forces on the side of the [[Big Bad]] all along, and is part of the reason your character is suspected of treason at one point.}}

* Appears [[Rule of Three|three times]] in ''[[Dragon Quest III (Video Game)|Dragon Quest III]]'':

** One of the scenarios that can determine the hero's personality in the [[Updated Rerelease|Updated Rereleases]] revolves around a queen who lies to her husband and leads him to declare war on another country... simply because she covets the jewelry worn by that kingdom's queen. While the hero overhears her [[Evil Gloating]], they can't expose her outright; instead, the [[Secret Test of Character]] hinges on whether they choose to obey their ruler's orders despite knowing the truth.

** Meanwhile, Zipangu is led by Himiko, who encourages her followers to keep [[Dying Like Animals]] and [[Human Sacrifice|sacrificing young girls to the]] [[Orochi]]. She refuses to entertain even the thought of trying to slay the beast... and when the heroes try, they discover {{spoiler|that Himiko ''is'' the Orochi}}.

* Queen Protea of Granorg in ''[[Radiant Historia (Video Game)|Radiant Historia]]'' bears a more-than-passing resemblance to Empress Theodora from ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'', right down to having an heir-apparent who futilely resists her greed, egomania and expansionist ambitions. In her very-first appearance, she goes on a lengthy rant about how living in outrageous opulence while the people starve is perfectly okay, since she's such an amazing individual that her mere ''presence'' imbues the life of the 'common rabble' with a purpose - they should be ''happy'' that they get to toil in poverty for her leisure. If nothing else, she does a great job of setting herself up as [[Smug Snake|someone you]] ''[[Smug Snake|REALLY]]'' [[Smug Snake|want to slap]].

** Lucrezia could probably be nominated for this role as well - she was married to THE Heterodyne, and even better a ''beloved'' Heterodyne (instead of the usual 'feared') -- but outside of popular stories told by the public, she [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110316 was not well thought of, particularly by the staff]. She also was The Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter and had her own powerful Sparky gifts, although the details on those are still fuzzy on the reader's end yet.

* [[Genius Ditz|Jim]] as [[Star Wars|Padme Admidala]] in ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', although Padme is no longer Queen of Naboo when he takes over, turning this into [[God Save Us From the Queen|God Save Us From The Senator]]. Immediately after taking the role of the character, Jim interrogates Padme's body double after an assassination attempt ''while she is lying on the ground dying'', threatens to eradicate [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Bail Organna]]'s entire planet if he does not vote in favour of creating a Grand Army for the Republic, and constantly tries to have her [[Evil Chancellor|Not So Evil Chancellor]], Sio Bibble (which Jim keeps mangling as "Bubble"), executed just for having a goatee.

** Averted with the [[Good Counterpart|White Queen]], though. She isn't seen much in any incarnation, but when she does appear she's always gracious, level-headed and competent. In the [[Alternate Universe|Alpha session]], she even [[Mama Bear|stops Jack from murdering Jane]] by [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006500 smashing him in the face with her staff.]

** The queen of the trolls, Her Imperious Condescension, flies around the universe in her ship greeting new civilizations with politeness. She then leaves and sends a portion of her vast army to annihilate her new acquaintances. And then once she signs on with [[Big Bad|Lord English]], she becomes [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Betty Crocker]] and sets off a series of disastrous events, including taking over the Alpha Derse by dethroning the Black Queen.

** Queen La from ''[[The Legend of Tarzan (Animation)|The Legend of Tarzan]]'', who basically looks like an evil version of Princess Kida from ''[[Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]''. ([[Word of God]] even confirmed that as in [[Tarzan|the original novels]], La too is an Atlantean.)

** Other Disney aversions include Queen Sarabi from ''[[The Lion King (Disney)|The Lion King]]'' (and you could say Queen Nala eventually as well), and also the Queen from ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Sleeping Beauty]]''. You can even count Queen Athena from ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'', who shows up in the prequel.

** "Cruel" is [[Fanon]]. "Prankster" is [[Canon]].

** Becoming this trope was arguably also the goal of Nightmare Moon, though since her attempt failed in only the second episode [[What Could Have Been|we'll never know]] just ''how'' bad her reign would have actually turned out to be.

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