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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 euphemism
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
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[
* Each country in ''[[
* The films of [[Hayao Miyazaki]] tend to be full of this, with "good" represented by [[Green Aesop|"natural"]].
** In ''[[Laputa: Castle in
** In ''[[
** Commentary about ''[[
** In ''[[Ponyo
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Dreaming, the kingdom of Morpheus in ''[[
: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 ''[[
* 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 ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Excalibur (
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
* Laura in ''[[Men in Black (
{{quote|
'''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 [[
* 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.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** The Plateau of Gorgoroth is not evil-looking because Sauron set up his home there; it was the volcano that causes the region to be so barren and foreboding that brought Sauron there in the first place.
** In the movie Aragorn made the Tree of the Kings bloom with his sheer presence, while in the book he had to find a new tree to replace the dead old one.
* ''[[Scotland, PA]]'' is a black comedy adaptation of ''[[Macbeth]]''. The Fisher King trope of the original is inverted: When Joe McBeth kills Norm Duncan and takes over Duncan's Cafe (renaming it "McBeth's") business starts booming. After McBeth's death, Lt. McDuff turns it into a vegetarian restaurant and business completely dries up.
* ''[[
** When [[Prince Charmless|Prince Charming]] takes over Far Far Away in ''Shrek the Third'', he turns it from a beautiful kingdom to a barren ghost town, and even renames it "Go Go Away."
* ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. With Lady not having been in steam and running on it for decades, the eponymous Magic Railroad has become overgrown by of vines and apparently sunk below ground, and is in danger of vanishing. When Lady is steamed up again and travels on the tracks once more, the railroad is revitalized. Light shines through, brighter and brighter. The rails gleam, and the foliage shrinks away, shortly after which Lady's face reappears.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Patricia
* 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
* J.M. Barrie's ''[[Peter Pan]]'' works this way. Neverland awakes when Peter returns. When he becomes angry, the land is covered in storms. When he's happy, it's sunny and summer. [[Peter Pan (
* In both the film and the book ''[[The Last Unicorn (
** Though part of that was because {{spoiler|all the unicorns in the world went stampeding across it after being freed from the Red Bull}}. Given the apparent powers of unicorns, that would tend to springify the place.
* In Terry Brooks' novel, ''[[Magic Kingdom of Landover|Magic Kingdom for Sale]]'', the palace in the [[Magical Land]] has a larder which restocks itself. Sterling Silver itself, as well as her larder, became tarnished, decrepit, and dying due to the neglect and ruin that spread from there being no legitimate king. While the contract set up by the land's old rulers made anyone who 'filled the spot' a technically legal king, none of them were morally right or fit to hold the throne. Years of one such selfish, frivolous, ineffectual king after another was just as bad as having no king at all, with the trend not reversed until Ben came along. But that fits this trope even better.
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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.
* [[
* 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 ''[[
: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.
* In [[Tanith Lee]]'s ''Death's Master'', Narasen's kingdom is cursed to be as barren as she was. After her death, she returns and reinvokes the curse in jealous revenge, contaminating the land with the poison that killed her.
* In [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe]]'' series the King eventually gains possession of a jewel that can make the land itself rise against invaders if necessary. Notable in that there is a huge famine as a result of using that power after the King is forced to use it, and as later described by the characters, the power to make the land attack the invaders came from the living potential of the entire kingdom's stores of edible plants - specifically, the stores that would have been used to produce a crop for the next year. Result: a near bankrupt kingdom for several years because they had to buy all the food that they would normally have grown. Not exactly the best start to the new king's reign, but it gets better.
* Lancre in ''[[
** For that matter, Carrot has a remarkable ability to bring people around to his point of view, even if said people are residents of [[Wretched Hive|Ankh-Morpork]]. Practically everyone in the city knows him; he's also very well-liked, and no one has been known to actually ''dislike'' him. Part of his charisma may come from his naturally humble and bright outlook on life. {{spoiler|Of course, it could also be attributable to the fact that he is the rightful heir to the vacated throne of Ankh-Morpork, and in the Disc's magical environment, such titles carry a lot more meaning behind them.}}
* ''[[
* The kingdoms in ''Mirror Dreams'', each being constructed out of raw magic by a single mage, tend to reflect their creator's personality. More powerful mage, bigger kingdom. Stormpoint, home of protagonist Laenan Kite, responds to his moods by changing the weather.
* In ''[[What Dreams May Come]]'', everyone in the afterlife is ruler of their own personal Heaven. Interestingly, the protagonist's "paradise" is heavily influenced by his still-living wife, as it's originally based on her paintings.
** The paintings are only in [[Film of the Book|the movie]]. In the original novel Annie was a housewife, not an artist, and Heaven (and Hell) [[Your Mind Makes It Real|are what you make of them]].
* In [[Robin McKinley]]'s ''Chalice'', the Master of a demesne is a Fisher King. Apparently that is not enough: the demesne needs an entire Fisher ''Court'' to run properly. Every demesne is like this, and part of the reason things were so unbalanced is because the emperor (the Master of the Masters) was a corrupt, evil man.
* ''[[
* ''[[Harry Potter (
* 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 [[
: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 [[
* The villain of [[Tim Powers]]'s ''Last Call'' is a gangster who claimed the archetype of the Emperor over Las Vegas. Before doing so, however, he was shot [[Groin Attack|there]] by his wife... and used the iconography of the Fisher King to rally power for his takeover when he usurped the position from [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Bugsy Siegel]]. He then used his power to "tamp down" the wild magic of Vegas and kill any potential challengers for the throne, so it's no big surprise that he doesn't care for the "makes the land suffer" aspect of the archetype. The novel contains many references to ''The Waste Land''.
* Also by [[Tim Powers]], ''The Drawing of the Dark'': It is implied that the 1529 siege of Vienna (a real historical event) happened because the western Fisher King was sick, inviting an attack from the Eastern King. When the Western King is treated, the Turkish army gives up and goes away.
* In ''[[
* In [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[The Tale of Five]]'', Kings and Lords are bound to their lands. In times of famine, a Lord may be sacrificed to the land by his people, his body being plowed into the soil; this normally helps matters. One of the signs of the evil taking over the land is it interfering with that ancient bond.
* In ''The Tale of Desperaux'', the queen of the land dies driving the king into an extended depression in which the once happy kingdom becomes dreary, overcast, and generally miserable.
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** In [[The Merlin Conspiracy]], the weather and magic in general in the Isles of Blest goes wrong when the people in power are corrupt - though notably this starts happening ''before'' they have persuaded the king to abdicate in favour of his more pliable teenage son. It doesn't help that the king's weather wizard has been kidnapped, leaving Blest stuck with oppressively hot weather. However, in an inversion of this trope, it's necessary to "raise the land" to get rid of the corrupt leaders, not the other way about.
** And in [[A Sudden Wild Magic]], the magical imbalance between Earth and the Pentarchy causes the gods of the Pentarchy to become ill and weak, and the lands to suffer climate change. In order for the imbalance to be removed, the political figures whose actions caused it must either die, or redress the imbalance by leaving the Pentarchy for Earth.
* In ''[[An Elegy for
* In [[Diane Duane]]'s ''Stealing The Elf-King's Roses'', the position of the Laurin, the King of All Elves, turns out to be something like this. The world of Alfheim has a [[Genius Loci|will of its own]], and the title of the Laurin must be held by an Alfen who possesses a strong enough command of "worldmastery" to understand that they are a servant to that will rather than the master of it. A good bit of the plot is set into motion by the current Laurin's fear of what would happen if the people of other worlds succeeded in invading Alfheim and wiping out the Alfen without any understanding of worldmastery, and the resolution of the storyline hings on the fact that, as the Laurin himself states, "As I go, so go my people."
* Escalated in ''The Lords of Dûs'' series where it is not the ruling king who influences the land, but the ruling ''god'' who influences ''the world''. Each of the gods rules the world for a given age, and during that age the world reflects their nature. The novel begins during the Age of the Goddess of Decay, when all the kingdoms are in decline. It transitions into the Age of Destruction and wars break out. The ultimate fear of many characters is when the Fifteenth Age begins, ruled by the God of Death.
* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm
* ''[[
** 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]] ==
* In ''[[The X-Files]]'' the agents visit a town where the weather is the reflection of the emotional state of one man. Inverted in that the man in question is only the town's TV Weatherman.
* An episode of ''[[
* The trope namer is featured in a season 3 ep of '[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' , where his kingdom and he are under a curse, and Arthur travels to him to retrieve an artifact. Merlin secretly gets an artifact of his own from the king before allowing him to die and end his suffering.
== [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* [[Trope Namer]] is from [[Arthurian Legend]]. See the trope description.
* A variant is Demeter, the goddess of verdant stuff in the [[Greek Mythology]], especially in the story of the kidnapping of her daughter Persephone by Hades. When she is with her daughter, the world is lush and green. When her daughter is away with her hubby Hades, the world is hot, dry, and barren. Give yourself a pomegranate seed! Persephone goes away for half the year. This is, of course, the origin story of the change of seasons.
* In some ancient cultures the king and his personal piety and virility were equated with such things as the success of the crops and life of the land in general. So, in the early ages, the Pharaoh of Egypt [[Squick|masturbated into the Nile]] annually at the festival of ''Shemu'' to ascertain the flood.
* The ancient Indian epic ''[[
* 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.
* [[
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: A variation appears in ''[[
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* In ''[[
* 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 ''[[
** 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.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [[GURPS]] Fantasy provides highly abstract rules for this as an Advantage. Due to it's limited nature and serious drawbacks it is not particularly expensive to have.
* In ''[[Infernum]]'', this is the effect of one of the Noble Mutation chains (sets of powers that a demon can acquire by taking control of sufficient territory). With the Chain of The Screaming Sky, the demon can make its land hotter, [[Evil Is Deathly Cold|colder]] or darker. At first level, it merely determines the weather. By third level, its kingdom is either under a permanent night sky, or swallowed up amidst either glaciers or volcanoes. A similar Noble Chain is the Chain of The Burning Land, which ties a demon more strongly to its kingdom- this makes it more powerful in its home turf, as well as giving it early warnings of things like gatherings, invading armies, riots, Et cetera.
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== [[Theater]] ==
* [[William Shakespeare]]: ''[[
* ''Exit the King'' takes this trope absolutely literally; the king's mental and physical decline shrinks and collapses his kingdom on a scale reminiscent of The Nothing in ''The Never-Ending Story''. It even extends into ''time.''
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* In ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream
== [[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:
* [[Justified Trope]] in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Zelda games are quite fond of this trope, as it applies to ''Ocarina Of Time'', as well. Although it's implied via back story that Hyrule has seen its fair share of civil war, by the time the game takes place the country is lush, thriving, and tranquil. Ganondorf changes all of that.
* The ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' series does this with the Pillars of Nosgoth - the twist being that not only are the pillars literal pillars, but they're also represented by a person. When the Pillar of Balance is murdered and her lover, the Pillar of Mind (with all the psychic power that implies), goes mad... Nosgoth itself suffers, and suffers more later as a result of {{spoiler|Kain's climactic choice}}.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VIII
* The Shivering Isles expansion of ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV
* The lands (and skies) under your control in ''[[Black and White]]'' and ''[[Overlord]]'' change to reflect your alignment.
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games make heavy use of this from time to time.
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
** In ''[[
* In ''[[Wild
* In ''[[Fate/stay
: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
* Alice becomes Wonderland's fisher king in ''[[
* The ''[[
* The mental realms from ''[[
* In ''[[God of War (
* In the second ''[[
* 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
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Agrabah in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' reflected the alignment of the ruler. The good sultan made it a sunny place of wonder, Jafar a dark and dreary land.
** In the original treatment, Jafar's first wish was not only to be sultan, but to ''always'' have been sultan. This would cause a wave of magic to spread out over the kingdom, retroactively changing it to a gloomy and poverty stricken place (with Aladdin spared because the Carpet protected him by wrapping him up).
** The animated series included one episode with a child king whose good or bad moods outright affected the weather of his kingdom.
* In ''[[Beauty and
* The savannah in ''[[The Lion King]]'' reflected the rule of its king. Pride Rock turns into a desolate wasteland under Scar's evil rule, partly the result of and partly a symbolic indication of how he has forced the pride to overhunt their territory until the natural "circle of life" is unbalanced and disrupted. (It started raining the ''second'' Simba took the "throne".) What makes this an even better, and more moving, example of the trope is that the kingdom of the Fisher King could not be healed until the king himself
** In the Pride Lands level of ''[[
* In ''[[The Tale of Despereaux]]'', [[The Kingdom]] turns cloudy and the colors go away when the king is grieving.
* Reversed in one of the episodes of ''[[Captain N:
* Justified in ''[[WITCH (
** 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
* Done in a [[The Da Vinci Code|Da-Vinci code]] spoof episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* Played twice on ''[[The Emperor's New School
* Whenever [[Mad God|Discord]] rules [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Nightmare Moon qualifies as well. Under her power, Equestria would never again see the light of day.
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