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[[caption-width-right:300:Just a few of the many types of crowns.<ref>Left to right, top to bottom: [[HM the Queen|Queen Elizabeth II]], [[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|Aragorn]], [[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]], [[Dragon Quest (Video Game)|King Slime]], [[The Princess and Thethe Frog (Disney)|Tiana]], [[I, Claudius|Claudius]], [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice|Sapphire]], [[Transformers: theThe Movie|Starscream]].</ref>
 
A sure-fire way to get across that you are important is to wear a [[Cool Crown]]. It's the headgear of choice for Kings, Queens and [[Princess|Princesses]] alike, and no [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] would be complete without it.
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=== Cool Crowns come in many sizes and shapes but a few have distinct associations: ===
 
* '''Tiaras''' are the iconic crown of the [[Princess Classic]] and heavily associated with fairytales. Perched directly on top of the head, usually with heart or flower designs worked in, they are dainty and [[Everything's Better Withwith Sparkles|sparkly]] and make [[Hair Decorations|great hair accessories]]. It's almost solely women who wear tiaras, and doesn't even need to be Royalty, although queens and princesses will wear the fanciest ones. [[Real Life]] examples tend to be heavily [[Gem-Encrusted]].
** Frill-like '''Diadems''', often seen being worn by Pageant Queens also tend to have the same connotations as tiaras despite having more robustness, similar to a heavy circlet.
* '''Circlets''' are the staple of [[Modest Royalty]]. Who wants to wear a heavy, clunky crown everywhere? These Royals need to be able to [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|move and get things done]]. The circlet is usually a ribbon-like strand of metal that wraps around the forehead, sometimes with a simple jewel on the front, or a heavier band that perches atop the head that may have other decorations, but no hoops or caps. They are worn by both genders, and [[Our Elves Are Better|Elves]] seem to like the really thin across-the-forehead kind, for some reason.
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== [[Film]] - Animated ==
* In ''[[Anastasia]]'', the titular Russian princess wears a very sparkly diadem with her princess dress.
* Rapunzel has a tiara in ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]''. Her parents have hoop crowns.
* Princess Aurora from ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' wears a tiara, while her parents and father-in-law wear hoop crowns.
* Prince John from ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'' wears an oversized hoop crown.
* Arthur "Wart" Pendragon wears a giant crown at the end of ''[[The Sword in The Stone (Disney)|The Sword in Thethe Stone]]''.
* During his introductory scene in ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', the King can be seen throwing his crown out the window.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen|The Evil Queen]] from ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' apparantly wears a hoop crown over what appears to be a black hood.
* Jasmine from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' wears a light blue tiara with a sapphire jewel on the front.
* King Triton, Queen Athena, and half of their daughters (Ariel is an exception) from ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'' series films all appear to be wearing crowns made from coral.
* Naveen and his parents from ''[[The Princess and The Frog (Disney)|The Princess and Thethe Frog]]'' all wear hoop crowns on their heads, while Tiana is first seen wearing a silver tiara, and later on a green tiara made from flowers.
* Kuzco from ''[[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]'' wears a gold crown shaped like a semicircle.
* King Julian from ''[[Madagascar]]'' wears a crown made from leaves. At the end of the film, he replaces it with a larger crown with a gecko on it.
* The queens from ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' (such as the unnamed queen seen in the prologue, and her daughter at the end of the film) all appear to be wearing small gold tiaras with large pink and blue feathers coming out of the back on their heads. The kings (such as [[Leonard Nimoy|Kashekhim Nedakh]], and his son-in-law at the end of the film) normally do not wear crowns.
* The Queen of England from ''[[Cars 2]]'' is a large blue car wearing royal robes who appears to have a giant hoop crown on her roof. Her hood ornament is also shaped like a crown as well.
* In another Pixar film, ''[[A Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]'', both Princess Atta and her mother, the Ant Queen wear crowns made from flowers.
* And in a soon-to-be third Pixar example, ''[[Brave (Animation)|Brave]]'', both King Fergus and Queen Elinor both wear circlets on their head. Subverted with their daughter Princess Merida, however, who is forced to wear a headdress that covers her entire head, but she prefers not to.
* The Queen and King of Hearts from ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
** And the Red Queen in [[Alice in Wonderland (Filmfilm)|the live-action adaptation]], though she actually stole it from the White Queen.
* The Emperor of China from ''[[Mulan]]'' wears a traditional Chinese royal headdress on his head.
* Esmeralda wore a small gold tiara with emeralds on it (referencing both her name and her [[Green Eyes|eye color]]) during her pole dance in the song "Topsy Turvy" from ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
 
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* Averted in ''[[Star Wars]]''. Despite having royalty, no one ever sports a crown.
** Queen Amidala wears plenty of ridiculous headdresses in The Phantom Menace. Which one is the formal crown is harder to say.
* In ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)]]'', King Richard's helmet has a crown built into it.
* In the ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' [[Film of the Book]] (specifically [[Return of the King]]), the crown of Gondor looks like a circlet, though a fairly large one. Contrary to the book, where it looks like a helm (not exactly hoop crown but close).
** The elven lord Elrond sports a circlet of the "stock thin elven" type. The elven High King of old, Gil-Galad does, too.
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== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series, the Valdemaran royals wear understated circlets to go with their [[Modest Royalty]] and indicate they don't think they are better than their subjects. Other royals in neighboring countries either copied them or came up with the idea independently (probably the latter).
* The [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] scene in ''[[The Lion, the Witch Andand Thethe Wardrobe]]'' makes a special point of mentioning that the crowns given to the Pevences aren't the heavy, gaudy, over-emblished sort (like the British Crown Jewels) but elegant circlets. The royal lines of [[Narnia]] all tend to fall in the [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]] camp.
* ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]'' book ''A Crown of Swords'' is named after the Laurel Crown of Illian. The crown is of a laurel wreath design, but between the leaves are tiny daggers alternately pointing up and down; the intention in the design is that the wearer can never wear it comfortably, reminding him of the obligation and danger it represents. After he notices this, Rand gives the Laurel Crown its other name.
* The crown of the dragons in ''[[The Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'' is a heavy circlet made of iron. When, after her first day as King, Kazul exhaustedly hurls it against the wall, Cimorene chides that she shouldn't treat the crown that way. Kazul responds, "Of course I should. It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron and not something soft and pliable like gold."
* In ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' the first crown of Gondor was a war helm that belonged to Isildur, and the second (Aragorn was crowned with it), was a more pimped-up, crown-like helm. And in the other Numenorean kingdom, Arnor, a simple circlet with a single diamond was used. The Arnorian crown also existed in two iterations: the original and the replacement that was made after the original was lost. [[All There in the Manual|After LOTR]], the original circlet was found, giving Aragorn a total of three cool crowns.
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** Caitrin Quinnell, ''soi-disant'' Queen of Meara, has a regal crown of gold set with sapphires and rubies. This one is notably heavy; it creases Caitrin's brow (the marks are visible when she takes it off), Ithel flinches under its weight when Caitrin briefly sets it on his head, and Kelson complains of its weight after wearing it at the surrender ceremony in Laas.
** Mátyás brings a crown from Torenth's treasury when he comes to Rhemuth to escort Liam-Lajos back for his investiture: "a handsome circlet of beaten gold, nearly the width of a man's three fingers, set round with smoky balas rubies, baroque pearls, and chunky rough-polished emeralds the size of a man's thumbnail." Liam receives a newer traditional Torenthi crown at the ceremony: "a golden diadem studded with rubies and emeralds and pearls, with great jeweled pendants hanging just short of his shoulders at either side.".
* In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'' Lancre doesn't have a flashy crown, well not compared to the crowns a group of actors have. It's lampshaded by Granny Weatherwax that imitation crowns are always cool and flashy looking, because that is what people expect crowns to be. Real crowns are just an impractical hat and badge of office so aren't that impressive.
* In the ''[[Elenium]]'', the sapphire rose [[Cosmic Keystone|Bhelliom]] once adorned the Crown of Thalasia, until the loss of both crown and the king who wore it in circumstances [[Shout-Out|very similar]] to [[The Lord of the Rings|Isildur's loss of the One Ring]].
* The True Crown in ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]''. Made from the gold of the spiders of Aurum, it was withold by Queen Etheldredda from her daughter Esmeralda and only taken back by Princess Jenna five hundred years later.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, the Diadem of Ravenclaw is decorated with an eagle motif and the inscription "wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure". It's said to [[Putting Onon My Thinking Cap|bestow wisdom on the wearer]]. Sadly, it's been lost for centuries, and {{spoiler|has been turned into a Horcrux by Voldemort}}.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Sheldon and Amy have a fight, and Sheldon [[Distracted Byby the Luxury|gives Amy jewelry as an apology]]. Amy is chewing Sheldon out for such a shallow gesture, until she sees it's a tiara. She goes into [[Princess Phase]] mode and kisses Sheldon in delight.
* The Corona Aurora of ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]''. It and its five scattered jewels serve as the [[MacGuffin|MacGuffins]] that everyone's after, granting incredible power if they're reunited.
* [[King Arthur]] and King Uther go through a couple of crowns on ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', and Arthur gets the short end of the stick each time. Whilst Uther wore a simple but respectable looking circlet, Prince Arthur had something that looked like a shiny metal head-band. In a [[Flash Forward]], Arthur was seen wearing Uther's crown, but when he finally became King himself, he switched to a giant gold crown with fleur-de-lis spikes on it, which most people thought looked a little bit like the Burger King crown. Guinevere on the other hand, is lucky enough to wear a very elaborate, but still elegant-looking silver crown adorned with jewels. Since her coronation was filmed twice (first as a [[Flash Forward]], and then in real time) you can see the difference in Arthur's crown [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITE-bwZ29o here], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeW-oDlLvxY&feature=related here].
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Super Mario]]'' series subverts the association of Princesses with tiaras by giving Princess Peach a heavy gold circlet decked out in sparkly jewels. Her crown is also a treasure in ''[[Pikmin Two]]'' (the first region, pretty much as far away as you can get from the landing site). Daisy and Rosalina also wear similar crowns as well.
* In ''[[Angry Birds]]'', some of the bigger and tougher Pigs wear crowns. Such attire is usually switched with whatever headgear is appropriate for the level's theme, however.
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' enemy bosses have these, although [[Big Bad|Bowser]], the Koopa King doesn't wear one.
** [[You Don't Look Like You|Though he does]] in [[Super Mario Bros. (Animationanimation)|the cartoon]], however.
* Princess Zelda from ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' series games normally wears a circlet.
* Slowking from ''[[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]'' has a Shellder (who is normally bivalve-shaped, but becomes gastropod-shaped if evolved with Slowpoke) for a crown.
* In ''[[Kirbys Return to Dream Land]]'' {{spoiler|there is a powerful crown called the Master Crown guarded by the four-headed dragon Landia that Magolor desires to rule the universe with. He guides Kirby and the others to beat Landia for him and takes it.}}
** The "elemental" abilities (Fire, Ice, Spark, for example) that Kirby obtains generally have a base design of a crown with the element being emitted from the top.
* The crown of the High King of ''[[Skyrim]]'' is a prime example of a pimped-out helmet: it's a helmet decorated with dragon's teeth.
** The crown of Barenziah from the same game is kinda hard to classify. It's technically a circlet but gold wings big enough that it seems to be a helm when looked from the front. Barenziah also never was seen wearing this crown in either ''[[The Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall (Video Game)|Daggerfall]]'' or ''[[Morrowind]]'' where she appeared in person (she wore various circlets and tiaras instead).
** Also from ''[[Morrowind]]'', Almalexia wears a circlet made of some green metal (orichalcum?).
* ''[[Fantasy Quest (Video Game)|Fantasy Quest]]'' presents you with the Crown of Destiny, which grants you access to a sword you need.
 
== Webcomics ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Rarity wore a tiara with her dress for the Galloping Gala and Rainbow Dash wore a Laurel Wreath. Twilight also has a tiara-thing that she wears when the ponies must use the Elements of Harmony. Both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna also wear tiaras.
* All fairies on ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' wear "floaty crowny things".
* The Fire Lord and his family of the Fire Nation in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' all have a hair ornaments that stand in as crowns.
** Let's not forget that big-ass helmet, the Phoenix King's crown.
* The King of Town from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' appears to be wearing a paper crown he bought at Burger King, according to Strong Bad.
* [[The Starscream|Starscream]] wore one of these in ''[[Transformers: theThe Movie]]'' just right before being melted by Galvatron.
 
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