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== Anime
* Rurichiyo speaks like this in the Amagai filler arc of ''[[Bleach]]''. Keigo once wonders why she's talking this way. Despite being lower in rank than Byakuya, she speaks as though she's higher in rank than him. This is lampshaded by Ichigo and Rukia when Ichigo complains about the way she speaks and Rukia observes not even her brother speaks like that.
* Shi Ryuuki's [[Japanese Pronouns|"yo"]] is sometimes translated this way in ''[[Saiunkoku Monogatari]]''.
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* There was a [[New Yorker]] cartoon that showed a king answering the phone with "Yes this is we" (I'm sure they've done other Royal We jokes as well)▼
* Referred to in a ''[[FoxTrot]]'' comic where after Thanksgiving Roger is going through the fridge commenting "Boy we really polished off that turkey, eh? And that stuffing, we really did a number on that! Oh no, did we eat all the pumpkin pie?", etc, to which Andy replies "You're using the royal we, I assume"▼
* Pab Sungenis uses it a lot in his picture-collage strip ''[[The New Adventures Of Queen Victoria]]'', naturally.▼
* [[Archangel Lucifer|Lucifer]] speaks this way in the first volume of ''[[The Sandman]]'' and in his initial appearance in ''A Season of Mists''. {{spoiler|He stops once he abdicates from the throne of Hell, and stays that way for the rest of the comic as well as in [[Lucifer (comics)|his spin-off]].}}
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== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Sven Hassel]]'' books, Gregor Martin always describes his unnamed [[General Ripper]] whom he served as a batman via the Royal We (''e.g.'' "my general and our monocle") right up to the moment the general commits suicide "And then we shot ourselves!" after which he's described normally.
* Given that several of the main characters are or become royalty, this shows up occasionally in ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. It's fairly low-key and easy to miss when it does, though, and someone unfamiliar with the trope ([[Parental Bonus|as many children might be expected to be]]) could easily take it as nothing more than a leader speaking for his immediate associates, and the story loses nothing with this interpretation.
** "We are the Empress Jadis," though, spells it out pretty clearly.
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== Music ==
* The Silversun Pickups' song ''The Royal We'' could be said to be about threats of war from the perspective of the ruler of a nation.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* Referred to in a ''[[FoxTrot]]'' comic where after Thanksgiving Roger is going through the fridge commenting "Boy we really polished off that turkey, eh? And that stuffing, we really did a number on that! Oh no, did we eat all the pumpkin pie?", etc, to which Andy replies "You're using the royal we, I assume"
== Periodicals ==
▲* There was a ''[[New Yorker]]'' cartoon that showed a king answering the phone with "Yes this is we" (I'm sure they've done other Royal We jokes as well).
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* ''[[Chainsawsuit]]'' features a variant, the [http://chainsawsuit.com/2009/12/28/ha-ha-treated-like-royalty/ Royal I].
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has [[God-Emperor|Her Undying Majesty Albia of England]] as the ''only'' one doing it — all the time, even in whispered asides to her daughter; curiously, her [[Brain Uploading|stored personality]] from (presumably) shortly after her transformation to godlike status [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181212 refers to herself in singular] — and later when she switches back and forth, the first-person pronoun changes accordingly.
▲* Pab Sungenis uses it a lot in his picture-collage strip ''[[The New Adventures Of Queen Victoria]]'', naturally.
== Web Original ==
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