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This is the common [[High Fantasy]] plot that involves restoring the rightful heir to the throne. Requires, obviously, the [[Royal Blood]] trope; it doesn't work in a kingdom with elective monarchs. (Not that many works actually use elective monarchies.)
Sometimes started off by a [[Moses in The
Related to [[Fisher King]]. It wouldn't be so important who sits on the throne if he wasn't magically linked to the wellbeing of the whole country. See also the [[King in The Mountain]]. [[Sister Trope]] to [[A Protagonist Shall Lead Them]], who may be royalty but often is not.
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Supertrope of the [[Man in The Iron Mask]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* [[CS Lewis (Creator)|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Prince Caspian]]''
** Not just the eponymous hero, either. {{spoiler|All four Pevensie kids were the rightful rulers of Narnia before they got suckered into going back to being boring kids again.}}
** Also in ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]'', {{spoiler|[[Moses in The
* The [[Belgariad]]. If you can't figure out who it is, you need to read some more.
* Played with in [[Lloyd Alexander]]'s [[Prydain Chronicles]]. The country has a bunch of lesser kings who are overseen by one High King, and although throughout the series there is a kindly and just man in this position, the oracular ''Book of Three'' foretells the coming of a truly great High King. There is also an evil overlord threatening the land. The series follows the adventures of a foundling child, who is rescued by a great wizard and is raised by him out in the middle of nowhere.
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* Subverted in ''[[Rangers Apprentice]]''. When {{spoiler|Halt}}, who is the rightful inheritor of the throne of Clonmel, returns to his kingdom, it is only to convince the king to stand up against an evil cult which threatens the kingdom. {{spoiler|When it becomes clear that the king is in no way interested in helping his people, Halt briefly impersonates the king rather than deposing him, even though he had enough local support, as well as the right, to have carried it off.}}
* Epidemic in the [[Ruritania|Ruritanian]] Romance. [[Dorothy L Sayers]] satirized it in her [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novel ''Have His Carcase'' where the murder victim was obsessed with his claimed [[Royal Blood]] and his right to the crown of Russia. {{spoiler|The murderers used that to lure him to his death.}}
* In the [[Chivalric Romance]] ''King Horn'', Horn [[Moses in The
* In the [[Chivalric Romance]] ''Havelock'', Havelock is living in menial disguise in England when Princess Goldborough's guardian decides he can marry them off and keep her from the throne. After, Havelock returns to Denmark to reclaim his throne, and with the army he acquires there, returns to England to reclaim the throne for Goldborough.
* Princess Ozma, the true ruler of [[Oz]] in [[L Frank Baum]]'s series of books, is restored to her throne some time after Dorothy's original adventure; by the time Dorothy returns to Oz in the third book in the series, Ozma's back on her throne and ruling wisely and peacefully. Although the second book in the series details Ozma's recovery {{spoiler|(she had been usurped by the Wizard and the wicked Witches and disguised as a boy for her entire life, so that even ''she'' didn't know who she was)}}, Baum changed her origin story no less than three times during the writing of the rest of the series. Note that Ozma rules as anointed sovereign, but never becomes Queen; [[
** At the end of ''The Land of Oz,'' Ozma is referred to as a "Queen."
* Jim Butcher's ''[[Codex Alera]]'' series used this. Due to a [[Contrived Coincidence]], it was ''literally'' the case that the earth shook and the sky turned red when the long-lost prince declared his true identity publically.
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** ''Charlie is My Darlin'''- Another song commemorating Prince Charlie's return during The '45.
** ''Will Ye No Come Back Again?''- After the '45 Rebellion failed, Prince Charles fled Scotland and went back to France; this song laments that the Stuarts are leaving ''yet again'', and wonders if they will ''ever'' return another time (they didn't).
** ''When the King Enjoys His Own Again''- Actually written after the [[English Civil War]], when England was ruled by a [[
** ''Skye Boat Song''- Commemorating Prince Charles' escape by boat after the failure of The '45, the last line promises "Charlie will come again".
** ''There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame''- Commemorates the failure of The '15 and the flight of the eponymous James III, "the Old Pretender".
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* Elyon in ''[[WITCH (Animation)|WITCH]]''.
* In ''[[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Animation)|The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'', it turns out that Hadji has [[Royal Blood]], and was to become the Sultan of [[Sim Sim Salabim|Bangalore]], except his evil uncle and cousin killed his father, locked his mother up and tried to kill ''him'' to take the throne, back when Hadji was just a little kid. Of course he didn't die, he was saved by Pasha the Peddler and eventually adopted by Dr. Quest. Later on, with the help of the Quest Team, he saved his mother took back his throne.
* Dreamy Smurf in ''[[The Smurfs]]'' is treated by the Pookies as this in a dream ([[Or Was It a Dream?|or so it would seem]]) when his [[Second Coming]] portends that they will be able to defeat the tyrannical Norf Nags.
** Papa Smurf also plays this role in "King Smurf" when he returns to stop the fighting among all his little Smurfs and to put an end to King Smurf's role as king.
* Inverted in [[The Simpsons]], "Simpsons Bilbe Stories" episode. As part of a retelling of the story of David and Goliath, David (Bart) was forced into exile by Goliath II (Nelson). David reclaims his throne, however, his people arrest him as Goliath II (the Consensus Builder) was a popular ruler who genuinely improved their lives.
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