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Kingmaker Scenario

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Kingmaker Scenario	comment	A Kingmaker Scenario occurs when two sides in a conflict are evenly matched and the third one is unable to overpower the other two. The third power then becomes the "King Maker": while it cannot win itself, it can ally itself with one of the other two, breaking the stalemate and bringing victory to its chosen side ("crowning them king"). The term "kingmaker scenario" comes from the game theory and was most likely inspired by Richard Neville a.k.a. Warwick the Kingmaker, who, while not suitable for the English throne himself (owing to a lack of Royal Blood), installed and deposed two sovereigns in short succession during the Wars of the Roses. In multiplayer games, a King Maker is a player who, while unable to win himself, is able (or forced) to determine which of the other players will win. This will usually end up being the one who the "kingmaker" likes more at the time. This scenario is disliked by players except in games where personal politics play a role in the game's outcome by design (such as Diplomacy), and a game where such a scenario occurs frequently is referred to as having the "Kingmaker Problem". The kingmaker problem has roughly three degrees of severity, from worst to least-worst: The king-chooser who must declare another player the winner of the game without gaining anything for himself. Example: A rule that says "Award one point to the player to your right or your left" when both are one point away from winning. As this makes the game come down to "Who do I like more?", it's usually considered bad form in game design. The king-maker who may declare another player the winner of the game without gaining anything for himself. Example: A player who has no chance of winning can throw all his military might against another player so they are both weakened and can be scooped up by a third player, just to make the game end faster. While the problem is nearly impossible to avoid, the usual motivation behind it can be circumvented by not making players feel they have no chance at winning before the game is over. The king-breaker who may make it impossible or at least harder for another player to win without being in a position to profit from it. Example: A rule that says "Take one point from the player to your right or your left" when you're still trailing far behind them and the unhindered one will likely win. This is the least of the kingmaking sins and very hard to avoid because doing so also kills many completely fine game mechanics. A more detailed examination of possible Kingmaker Scenarios can be found in this article, at least until the link dies. A subtrope of MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois. Compare X Must Not Win. The party that makes the difference may be Vicariously Ambitious for one of the sides in the stalemate. Compare and contrast Offered the Crown and Unexpected Successor, when one or all of the involved sides decide to install an outsider candidate to settle on. Since real-life examples tend to degenerate into a political Conversation in the Main Page, they have been deemed unnecessary.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_10d303a2	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV plays it more or less like Nocturne, with the caveat that in the Chaos path, as Chaos philosophy invokes rule of the strongest, which you have proven yourself as by ensuring the destruction of Merkabah, you end as Mikado's new king.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_1818188b	comment	In Youth & Consequences has this happening with a High School Student Council President election. Lovable Alpha Bitch Farrah is so influential in school that both candidates are desperate for her support. When both get on her bad side, she raises her own candidate at the last minute, Grace Ho who manages to win the election, mostly thanks to Farrah's support.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_1a8d488a	comment	It is commonly accepted that in Munchkin, you need at least one other player helping you if you want to make the jump from level 9 to 10.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: This is the Modus Operandi of the Grey Wardens. In exchange for unwavering duty towards fighting the darkspawn for a lifetime, the Grey Wardens have iron-clad treaties from almost every nation that demand drafting from all citizens - from the lowest criminal to the highest king, all crimes and duties are dismissed in the face of wardenship. In between Blights, Wardens are encouraged to avoid politics, as it's ended badly before, and the treaties are as binding "as a clever tongue can make them". During a Blight, however, their authority is theoretically absolute. In the first game, the Warden protagonist can decide the ruler of two separate nations: In the Orzammar portion of Dragon Age: Origins, you come into such a scenario, between the named-heir Pyral Harrowmont, and King's son Bhelen Aeducan. Makes for an interesting scenario when your origin is Bhelen's older sibling or his new wife's sibling. Of course, no matter what your origin is, you can't become the ruler of Orzammar yourself. This also applies to deciding Ferelden's ruler if your character isn't a human noble. Otherwise, there's also an option to marry one of the contenders for the throne yourself. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the mission to avert Empress Celene's assassination turns into a scenario where you decide who will rule Orlais by the end of the party. Note that choosing anyone other than Celene means allowing the assassination to take place, with you stepping up to "avenge" her. In fact the situation ends up having four factions involved in addition to yours, two of which were trying to play kingmaker themselves (one openly and one in secret); the Inquisition's influence on the result is less about direct influence and more about what uncovered plots and counter-plots from the resulting mess they reveal to who. One of the potential endings is to blackmail the three remaining sides into making a truce by revealing you have enough on all of them to play kingmaker, which in their culture of The Great Game basically equates to winning at politics.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	In Might and Magic III, one of the quests is to give eleven (out of thirty-one) Orbs of Ultimate Power to the King of Good, Neutrality or Evil, which gives them theoretical governance over Terra and destroys the other two kings.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_1ed5c0a9	comment	Pretty much the entire plot of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Grindelwald is trying to take over the world. The only wizard powerful enough to fight him on even ground is Dumbledore; it's implied the two are so powerful that no other wizard or collection of wizards has a chance against either. However, Dumbledore and Grindelwald refuse to fight each other directly because they quite literally can't; a blood oath made in their youth binds them not to. Dumbledore tells Newt that a long time ago Grindelwald, a seer, had had a vision of an obscurial killing him. He'd gone to New York in the first movie trying to find said obscurial and found him in Credence. He thus spends the entire film trying to recruit Creedence, whom he claims is Dumbledore's long lost brother. Although Grindelwald is a known liar and manipulator, add some conflicting information and you have a very suspect revelation. The film ends with Credence joining Grindelwald, though we won't know how things shake out until later movies are released. It's worth pointing out that Credence- not being familiar with the wizarding world- doesn't know about the war and is completely unaware of his status as Kingmaker.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_210767ac	comment	In Crusader Kings II, rival claimants to a contested throne don't always have their own landed titles, so they'll often depend on the backing of a powerful noble within the realm to lead Factions to enforce their claims. These nobles frequently end up being Kingmakers both figuratively and literally, at least when their faction wins.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_2192aeb3	comment	In the Fire Emblem series: Fire Emblem Fates is built around this. Early in the game, Corrin has to choose to side with their biological family or the family they were raised with; this decision tips the odds in favour of their chosen side, ultimately leading to that country winning the war and that side's older brother being crowned king. Corrin can also refuse to pick a side, in which case everybody lives, both sides come together to defeat the real enemy, and both older brothers get to be kings. Reflecting this, Corrin's epithet is 'crux of fate'. Happens in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, where the seemingly innocuous choice of which house Byleth chooses at the beginning of the game and the far more nocuous choice of whether to side with Rhea or Edelgard at the end of one version of Chapter 11 determines who wins the war at the end of it. That said, the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind endings result in Byleth becoming ruler of a unified continent, Azure Moon places them in a position of power as Archbishop of the Church of Seiros, and both Azure Moon and Crimson Flower allow them to marry the ruler of the continent and become their consort. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes has two of them: Shez, naturally. The house they choose at the beginning of the game will always end up as one of the two nations in good shape at the end of the game. The Leicester Alliance. At the beginning of Part II, they inevitably ally with one of the other two nations. In Scarlet Blaze's good ending and Golden Wildfire, they ally with the Empire, and the game ends with the Empire putting the Kingdom on the back foot, killing Rhea, and having plenty of leverage to force a surrender. On the Azure Gleam route, they ally with the Kingdom, and the game ends with the Kingdom overthrowing the Empire's (puppet) emperor and killing every other major leadership figure in the Empire before marching south to finish things for good. In Scarlet Blaze's bad ending, they ally with the Empire only to betray them later, and the game ends with things devolving into a three-way war with no end in sight.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_21bf1f01	comment	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Both Angel Eyes and Tuco know the name of the grave site — Blondie is initially disadvantaged as he only knows the name on the grave itself, but will eventually become the Kingmaker and the other two know this. After Angel Eyes finds out Tuco's half of the secret, the film spends a little time watching the two fighting over who gets Blondie. (He sides with Tuco in the end, but out of choice. No-one gets to tell the Man With No Name what to do.)
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_289f3039	comment	Subverted at the end of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's World of Light adventure mode: the player can choose to either destroy Dharkon and thus allow Galeem to bathe the world in light, or destroy Galeem and allow Dharkon to shroud the world in darkness. The third option which leads to the Golden Ending? Destroy both at once.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_2ade1ae9	comment	One of the scenes in the sample campaign from Nobilis is explicitly this. There's a miracle duel between two rival powers in the home base of the PCs. The GM's advice points out that, since the players are a handful of demigods of the same power level as the competitors, the winner is going to be the one who gets help from the PCs.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_2eab162f	comment	A nearly-identical situation happened in Steam Train's playthrough of Fortune Street; in this case, Ross played kingmaker and helped Arin beat Suzy.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei: Part of the plot of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne: the Demi-Fiend himself cannot create a Reason (due to his demonic body), but he can choose to support those created by others. Whichever Reason he supports will succeed without fail (or as close as you can get in an Atlus game). The problem with this system: There are six endings and only three Reasons. The Demi-Fiend is not strictly required to support any of them. Occurs early on in Digital Devil Saga: the Maribel and Solids Tribes are at a standstill, so the Embryon's tactician suggests forming an alliance with the former to destroy the latter. He later acknowledges he would have done the same thing with the Wolves and the Brutes had the Wolves lasted long enough. Devil Survivor 2 has the Protagonist being the Kingmaker for the entire cosmic scenario: it is, ultimately, his allegiance to a certain faction's plan (Tokyo's two potential plans, Nagoya's, Osaka's, or the Anguished One's plan) which breaks the stalemate and pushes said faction to win the right of recreating the world. One of the ending achievements gained from siding with a specific faction is even called "Kingmaker"! Shin Megami Tensei IV plays it more or less like Nocturne, with the caveat that in the Chaos path, as Chaos philosophy invokes rule of the strongest, which you have proven yourself as by ensuring the destruction of Merkabah, you end as Mikado's new king.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_2f7977d2	comment	In Requiem of the Rose King there are several scenarios with a king maker, who is the trope namer himself.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_318b09a0	comment	In The Inheritance Cycle, Orik's election to king comes down to this. He (favoring support for the Varden against Galbatorix and the Empire), Ã�orÃ»nn (motivation unknown), and Nado (favoring withdrawal of support for the Varden) are the three frontrunners for the position, with each having backers of their own. After an assassination attempt on Eragon's life ends in Vermund of Az Sweldn rak Anhuin being removed, Orik forces through a vote for the kingship. After ten votes, Nado and Orik each have five votes, with Ã�orÃ»nn and her backer Hreidamar both having yet to cast their votes. With dwarven policy being that if a deadlock remains after a round of voting, the candidate with the fewest votes is removed and voting recommences, and so Ã�orÃ»nn essentially cannot simply vote for herself. So she instead has Hreidamar and herself cast their votes for Orik, noting that they needed to stand together against Galbatorix or be annihilated, regardless of their feelings for the Varden.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_3bd86318	comment	My Father's Son: Tywin Lannister ends up in this scenario TWICE! First, in the middle of Rhaegar's Rebellion, he had the Westerlands declare the same neutrality as he did in canon. Yet as the fights continued, his daughter pointed out that they could get more concessions out of helping Rhaegar since Aerys was fighting from a position of authority. And when Melisandre presented him with a possibility of losing his legacy, he arrived just in time to help turn the Decisive Battle in the favor of Rhaegar. Second, there was the 4th Great Council, where the realms were basically split over whether to have Aegon son of Elia, or Baelon son of Lyanna as Crown Prince of the Seven Kingdoms. note Rhaenys was briefly floated as a candidate by Dorne, but the rest of the realm wasn't ready to accept a queen as future sovereign still. While the royal family wanted to make the switch for Egg's long term health, the various regions had their own desires, as most of the kingdoms ended up splitting their votes. However, Tywin was such a feared and respected leader that "If he wanted it, he could order the Westerlords to jump off Casterly Rock", making him one of the few united voting blocks besides The North. Tywin saw much more political prospect (and the pleasure of denying his princely rival more effectively) by supporting the position of Baelon, and so helped legalize the change in inheritance. This was part of a multiyear plan to regain influence, but in the short term, all he asked for was to have Gerion installed as royal master-at-arms.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_3e4a348a	comment	This frequently happens in Town of Salem - three people from different factions will be left standing, and it is up to one of them to decide who wins by providing the second vote needed for a lynchingnote If you're a Town member and the other two people with you are a Serial Killer and a Werewolf, for example, you're doomed to lose regardless, but can choose which of the two you'll help win by helping them lynch the other. Executioners, Jesters and Pirates, Neutral roles that can win with their own methods and regardless of which faction wins, are also frequent Kingmakers. One role in specific, the Survivor, has this as its main strategy - many killing roles will avoid killing them, since they can win with any other factions (as long as they survive) and generally agree to act as the kingmaker vote in exchange for not being attacked.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	The New Jedi Order series of Star Wars has one in the novel Destiny's Way. The secondary plotline deals with the New Republic Senate and government trying to regroup and reorganize on Mon Calamari, after the capital of Coruscant fell to the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. New Republic Chief of State Borsk Feyla died in a (successful) attempt to destroy military archives and data at the presidential residence to keep them out of Yuuzhan Vong hands, a case of Redemption Equals Death in his case. As such the Senate needs to elect a new leader quickly. There are five candidates for the office: Cal Omas, Fyor Rodan, Talaam Ranth, Cola Quis, and Pwoe. Quis has no real chance to win, and Pwoe is widely despised as a traitor after he tried to illegally declare himself Chief of State and was only interested in fighting long enough to surrender to the Yuuzhan Vong. He only gets three votes in the end. As such, the election is really between Omas, Rodan, and Ranth. Omas is the good candidate, wanting to work closely with the Jedi, and get the meddling politicians out of the military decision making (something that led to the invaders making it as far as they have). Rodan meanwhile is shady, arrogant, and has an Irrational Hatred of Jedi. Ranth meanwhile knew he couldn't beat the other two from the very start, planning all along to build up enough support to play the kingmaker. The first few rounds of voting having Omas and Rodan neck and neck, with Ranth in third with a pretty strong voting bloc. However, it ultimately proves unnecessary. Omas eventually pulls far ahead of Rodan, and by the time Ranth drops out and endorses him, Omas is all but assured a win and a majority on the final ballot. Omas wins with 85% support!!
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_40103bc1	comment	In Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, one mission of the East Anglia arc is indeed called "Kingmaker" since it involves Eivor having to help make Oswald, who was the consort to the previous king, rise up to become the king of the region to secure an alliance with Ravensthorne.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: The Summer and Winter Knights and Emissaries. The Summer and Winter Courts of Fairie are always evenly matched in power, but the Knights and Emissaries are mortal, and have the potential to tip the balance of power. Aurora's Plan in Summer Knight was pretty much this. She wanted to end the war between Summer and Winter. She doesn't have the power to win the war for Summer, but she can give some of Summer's power to Winter, tipping the balance and causing Winter to win.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_44715363	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh!, this came into play when Seto wrested control of KaibaCorp from Gozaburo. Seto formed a voting bloc with the five department heads, controlling 49% of the shares between them. Gozaburo holds another 49% himself, meaning that the remaining 2%, held by Mokuba, determined who would become the new CEO.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_4bb90246	comment	In Sengoku Rance, warmongering Takeda House has gotten itself tied up in a war with both Uesugi House and Hojo House. Its resources are spread too thin, but if you attack either Uesugi or Hojo, Takeda will instantly conquer the other. This is especially problematic on later playthroughs, as Uesugi and Hojo are both home to one of the heroines whose plots you can follow for an alternate ending. You can attack Takeda itself, but that will only convince it to turn on you almost full-time, and they have four endgame-level generals, a blitzkrieg strategy and a unique cavalry unit. Good luck with that!
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_4dc4fbf5	comment	During the second season of Jericho (2006), this plays out between the Allied States Of America and the remaining pieces of the United States Of America. Whichever side can convince the now-independent Republic of Texas to ally with them will be able to defeat the other.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_4df2c1e9	comment	The Drinking game in Puzzle Pirates can result in a Kingmaker Scenario when played with three or more players. It is possible (and not terribly uncommon) for two players to be one move away from a win simultaneously, while a third player is active with possible moves that would allow them to "steal" 20 points from either of the two leaders, allowing the other leader to win on his/her next move.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_4f067404	comment	In an episode of Just Shoot Me!, Jack takes a holiday and leaves Maya, Elliot, and Nina jointly in charge of the magazine. Maya and Elliot can't agree on anything, while Nina doesn't care one way or the other; this gives her complete control as the others spend the entire episode vying for her swing vote.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_4f7a49d9	comment	The Keys Stand Alone: The basic plot. Everything seems to have stalled between the Power Groups competing to bring down the Black Tower, so the four are brought into the mix and told to throw their support behind one of the groups. The four aren't powerful enough to bring down the Black Tower themselves, but they have enough power that their support should tip the scales in someone's favor.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_4ff8055d	comment	The civil war preceding the main events of Labyrinths of Echo began and ended that way. The various power-hungry magical Orders were almost evenly matched in their ability to drain the world's magic, so the King picked "the one ally worth counting on" â€“ the Order of the Seven-Leaf, led by a cunning and pragmatic wizard â€“ and declared war on the rest, eventually emerging victorious.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_51c15d94	comment	Common in Risk. The game will often devolve to a point where only some players have a chance at winning. To maintain fairness, the others are supposed to turtle up and defend as long as they can. Considering how much fun that tends to be (i.e. not at all), many a losing player shortens their suffering by a suicidal charge that weakens themselves and another player to a point where someone else can easily take over both territories.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_5205343c	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_5205343c	comment	A similar scenario unfolded years later on Fortune Street's "Alefgard" board. This time, Emile found himself lagging behind Jon, Tim, and Masae Anela; at one point, Masae comments on how he's never been less relevant, only for Jon to point out that the exact opposite is true. If Emile goes Bankrupt, that instantly ends the game... and at that juncture, the race between the three of them was so tight that any one of them could end up with the most money. Especially if it was one of their spaces that Bankrupts him. Ultimately, Jon gets the kill-shot.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_52cac107	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_52cac107	comment	In Mario Kart 64's Battle Mode, anyone who runs out of Balloons when there are still 2 or more players left becomes a Mini Bomb Kart. They've officially lost that match but can drive right up to any remaining players and explode in their faces, putting the bomb out of the game but costing their target a life.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_557434b6	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_557434b6	comment	Xion and Roxas are in this position in Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, even if they don't know it until the end of the game. Whoever gains control of them gains control of Sora's fate, and he is critical to the failure of Xehanort's plans in the long run. Also, it means Organization XIII loses both of their Keyblade wielders, which makes their job a lot harder. It takes a lot of effort, manipulation, and a virtual reality to achieve it, but eventually both of them choose Sora over the Organization.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_5908ee91	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_5908ee91	comment	In Skyrim's Civil War questline, you get to be this for whichever side you choose to support. By leading that side to victory (essentially being an unstoppable One-Man Army), their leader (Elisif for the Imperials, Ulfric for the Stormcloaks) will be placed on the throne.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_59091c4c	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_59091c4c	comment	In the fourth round of Liar Game, Akiyama's group become this by having control of their own 5 man alliance and the Extras alliance.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_59da62aa	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_59da62aa	comment	The major arc of Fallout: New Vegas involves deciding which power bloc gets dominion over the Mojave. The "kingmaker" in this case is a single individual, although the main way you influence the war is by persuading other minor factions to join your chosen side (or destroying them so they can't join the enemy). There's also a subversion in that the player can supplant one of the major players and take power for themselves.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_5d588cfb	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_5d588cfb	comment	The Apprentice usually does a take on this in the final episode of the season - eliminated contestants will come back and work for the finalists on a big final project. In some cases, they do their jobs in an exemplary manner. In others... not so much. Hell's Kitchen does this as well, with pretty much the same results except for the addition of a badass sous chef threatening to hunt people down if they ruin the finalist's chances.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_5e50079	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_5e50079	comment	The final choice that determines the climax of Lunarosse is this. Do you side with Corlia or Yliandra to determine who wins the ten-year-long war and rules Lunarosse? The smart thing is to align with neither. This opens up a new area where you can proceed to the best ending.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_629cd094	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_629cd094	comment	In the Orzammar portion of Dragon Age: Origins, you come into such a scenario, between the named-heir Pyral Harrowmont, and King's son Bhelen Aeducan. Makes for an interesting scenario when your origin is Bhelen's older sibling or his new wife's sibling. Of course, no matter what your origin is, you can't become the ruler of Orzammar yourself.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_6609abed	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_6609abed	comment	Battle Girls: Time Paradox has Oda Nobunaga faced with Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin. Both of them hold a part of the Crimson Armour that Nobunaga is trying to complete; being Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, they've fought 598 fights to 598 draws. Akechi Mitsuhide thus proposes that they join forces with one, claim the Armour piece of the other as spoils of war, and request the Armour piece of the first as payment. Nobunaga takes away her glasses for even suggesting it.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_67ce5a04	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates is built around this. Early in the game, Corrin has to choose to side with their biological family or the family they were raised with; this decision tips the odds in favour of their chosen side, ultimately leading to that country winning the war and that side's older brother being crowned king. Corrin can also refuse to pick a side, in which case everybody lives, both sides come together to defeat the real enemy, and both older brothers get to be kings. Reflecting this, Corrin's epithet is 'crux of fate'.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_69811250	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_69811250	comment	One of the potential King parties, Gaia, in Foundation's Edge engineers a kingmaker scenario. They very likely could have manipulated things to win without it (of the two other parties, only one of them was even vaguely aware of Gaia, and this was limited to deducing their possible existence from statistical analysis until evidence was deliberately provided), but they don't trust their own judgement as to which vision of the future would be best since they're inherently biased in favor of themselves — so they manipulate things to create a Mexican Standoff between themselves, the First Foundation and the Second Foundation, with a single specific individual of near-preternatural intuition being able to tip the balance to any of the three factions. Whichever faction won the standoff would be able to gain a firm edge over the other two, and be set to have their vision be the dominant one.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_69f21bb7	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_69f21bb7	comment	Devil Survivor 2 has the Protagonist being the Kingmaker for the entire cosmic scenario: it is, ultimately, his allegiance to a certain faction's plan (Tokyo's two potential plans, Nagoya's, Osaka's, or the Anguished One's plan) which breaks the stalemate and pushes said faction to win the right of recreating the world. One of the ending achievements gained from siding with a specific faction is even called "Kingmaker"!
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_6c1d09b4	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: There are four factions with different policies for Synthetic Humans: Kill Them (Brotherhood of Steel), Free Them (Underground Railroad), Enslave Them (The Institute), and Who The Fuck Cares (Minutemen). Each has their own unique strengths and weaknesses, and those with more power are also more entangled/hindered, so the conflict has come to an even standstill. You can side with any of the first three and kill the other two, use the fourth to destroy the third yourself, or broker an alliance between the Brotherhood and Railroad with the Minutemen as ambassadors and wipe out The Institute.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_6d62b35d	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_6d62b35d	comment	Res Arcana: If you play at three or more players, you may sometimes find yourself in situations where you can't win, but will decide which one of your opponents will win. Example scenario: Alice currently has ten points and no way to gain more. Bob has eight, but his engine can get him to twelve if the round is allowed to continue. You are too far behind to catch up, but you do have a Place of Power with a "check victory now" power. So, do you use the power and hand the victory to Alice, or pass and allow Bob to catch up and win during the end-of-round victory check?
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_7041cf12	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has no real chance of inheriting the family business empire due to being an illegitimate child, but she had Hayasaka collect a wealth of blackmail material on all three of her older brothers that could tip the scale in any of their favor. This also paints a massive target on Hayasaka's back when she decides to retire from her role as Kaguya's valet.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_780abeb2	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_780abeb2	comment	This is at the heart of Apples to Apples, which switches which player is the "kingmaker" every round. The main strategy of the game is appealing to the judge's ideas of a given quality. Played properly, though, the judge doesn't know who played which cards until he picks the winner.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_7ac0e0b0	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_7ac0e0b0	comment	I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: One of the requirements for the Golden Ending is to get Governor Lum voted out by the six-person Council, of which each member needs to be individually convinced. Among them, Antecedent has a opinion of Lum that is mixed enough that she won't vote against him on her own, but should at least three other members of the Council be confirmed to want to do so, she'll go along with their decision. Because of this, Antecedent's vote can only be secured once three others have been.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_7c9ace71	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_7c9ace71	comment	In their first round of Fortune Street, on "Yoshi's Island", Emile found himself with no real hope of winning, while there was a tight contest between Tim and Jon. Emile decided to deliberately tilt the balance in Tim's favor as much as possible, mostly because he didn't want to see Jon win.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_83022f98	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_83022f98	comment	At the end of The Chronicles of Riddick, in the final fight between Riddick and the Lord Marshall, he gets caught in mid-teleport and realizes that he's screwed. There are two places he can re-materialize from his teleport: at one of them, Riddick will kill him; at the other, Vaako will. He chooses to die by Riddick's hand, thus fulfilling a prophecy that he will be killed by a Furyan. Since You Kill It, You Bought It is the Necromonger way, Klingon Promotion ensues, resulting in Riddick becoming the new Lord Marshall.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_83d41855	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_83d41855	comment	In Gargoyles, Findlaech seemed to be a Kingmaker, or at least Duncan saw him as such (and ordered him murdered so that he couldn't raise his son Macbeth to the throne).
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_84dfb5d5	comment	Can happen in Galactic Civilizations II quite a bit, as the AI plays smart enough to make several-way-stalemates a common occurrence. Also, an empire facing military defeat will frequently surrender to one of the attacker's rivals to deprive the invader of their resources.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_85a5a3b9	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In Transformers: Prime, Starscream manages to find himself in such a scenario. He has the keys to reactivate Cybertron, but he has no army to enforce his will or any ability to play this to his political advantage. So he's forced to pick a side. He picks the Decepticons, using the keys as bargains to regain Megatron's favour and forgiveness.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_863b7825	comment	The Yes, Minister 1984 Christmas Special episode "Party Games" hinges on this. Over the course of a Cabinet shakeup necessitated by the unexpected retirement of the Prime Minister and a scandal forcing his most likely successor (the Home Secretary) to resign in disgrace, the party is evenly divided over who should be their next leader and thus the next Prime Minister. Hacker (as Party Chairman) is the last remaining member who has yet to declare one way or the other, and so both leading candidates (The Chancellor Of The Exchequer or the Foreign Secretary) try to persuade him to back themself. The problem is that the two candidates are extremely divisive figures from opposing ends of the Party's political spectrum; the only question is if the party splits in months or weeks. Hacker is unable to decide one way or the other until Humphrey (who doesn't want either to win because he doesn't believe that they would be easily managed by the Civil Service), with some help from the Chief Whip, suggests an alternative - enter the race himself, and persuade both of the other frontliners to withdraw and back him instead to prevent the other from winning (achieved through Sirs Humphrey and Arnold supplying Hacker with plenty of Blackmail material from each candidate's Confidential Files). The episode ends with Humphrey delivering three important words to Hacker: "Yes, Prime Minister!"
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_8847c632	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_8847c632	comment	Civilization V: The City-States are the kingmakers for the Diplomatic Victory path, which requires a supermajority vote at the United Nations. They don't count as world powers themselves, but each adds its voting power to the civilization with which it's allied; a civilization that's gained the support of every city-state can sometimes* (Albeit usually only with additional means of inflating its votes.) appoint itself World Leader over every other civilization's opposition.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_90e2f673	comment	For the longest time, the Capellan Confederation in BattleTech was viewed as sitting in this scenario. They were unlikely to make it to the top of the heap in a setting full of political intrigues and Humongous Mecha when they were often plagued by both severely crazy rulers and the smallest army of the five Successor States. However, what they had was the ability to 'king' almost any of the other four houses by virtue of choosing who they fought. While such a fight could doubtless reduce the Capellan Confederation to little more than a memory, it would also weaken the enemy they fought enough for that nation's other foes to gain the upper hand. Flanked as they were by the Federated Suns and the Free Worlds League, throwing themselves fully at the Suns would result in the eventual victory of the Draconis Combine and the League, while spending themselves against the League would result in inevitable victory for the Lyran Commonwealth and by extension their Federated Suns allies. This Unstable Equilibrium almost fell apart during the Fourth Succession War, and completely went to pot during the Post-Jihad era. Something similar happened in the Clans as well, as the Home Clans (Clans which did not physically participate in the invasion of the Inner Sphere) were potential kingmakers for the six or so Clans that actually punched into the Inner Sphere itself. Any of the weaker Clans could expend themselves to weaken a rival Invading Clan, but a combination of hidebound honor and a culture-wide focus on the survival of one's Clan meant that this was rarely the case.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_95818d99	comment	Killer7: The Smiths are hired to take out Matsuken, the leader of a significant, 10 million-strong voting block, before he can rig the US presidential elections. Statistically, he commands less than 1% of the vote, but since in this case the state elections are near-tied, if Matsuken herded all of his followers into a single small state and had them vote his way, he could win the election for whichever kiss-ass the Japanese favor. And then you find out this was all a big distraction so nobody would realize the Department of Education has been swapping out ballot machines.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_9bb149b3	comment	Diplomacy, being a game based around negotiations and personal politics, incurs kingmaker scenarios frequently by players who are still alive but are far behind the leaders in terms of supply centers by choosing to ally with one of them to help them to victory. Especially skillful players can also Subvert the scenario altogether if they end up taking the lead themselves and winning outright, which however improbable is always possible so long as they aren't eliminated. In Diplomacy terminology, a player who is not out to win for themselves, but instead to support another player (likely because their chances of winning for themselves are minimal), is called a "janissary".
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Near the end of Daggerfall's main quest, you come into possession of a powerful artifact which allows a person of royal blood or supernatural power to control the Numidium. You cannot utilize it yourself,note you can try, but it causes a Non-Standard Game Over with Tamriel-wrecking results but you can choose one of several Iliac Bay powers to hand it over to, allowing them to tip the balance of power in the region in their favor. (Later games reveal that, canonically, all of the possible endings happen in a Merging the Branches scenario, thanks to a Reality Warping Time Crash known as the "Warp in the West." In Skyrim's Civil War questline, you get to be this for whichever side you choose to support. By leading that side to victory (essentially being an unstoppable One-Man Army), their leader (Elisif for the Imperials, Ulfric for the Stormcloaks) will be placed on the throne.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Criston Cole, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard was literally called "The Kingmaker" in A Song of Ice and Fire. He championed Viserys I's younger son Aegon II over his chosen heir, elder daughter Rhaenyra. This led to the Dance of the Dragons, a bloody civil war that tore the realm in half (including the Kingsguard itself) and led to the death of most of the Targaryen dragons. Aegon II won, but was ultimately succeeded by Rhaenyra's son, Aegon III. A variation happened in A Storm Of Swords when the Night's Watch was electing their lord commander. Their custom is when a lord commander dies, a voting is done every day until someone gets at least two third of the votes. The most popular nominees were Cotter Pyke and Denys Mallister, with Janos Slynt, a Smug Snake sent by the Lannisters, at the third place, continuously increasing in popularity. If either Mallister or Pyke would have resigned in favor of the other, Slynt would have immediately lost, and Sam Tarly goes to both trying to convince them to do so. Unfortunately both Pyke and Mallister have diametrically opposed ideas of what a lord commander should be, and viewed each other as unsuited to the position. At this point Sam decided to Take a Third Option and he convinces both Pyke and Mallister to resign in favor of Jon, who wasn't even a candidate at that point, in order to keep Slynt from winning. They both urge their supporters to vote for Jon, and Jon promptly becomes the new lord commander. The series itself is rife with this (see page quote). A running theme in the ongoing civil war is for the noble houses to swing the balance of power by switching sides. As of the end of the fifth book, there is still one Great House that hasn't committed to any faction — House Arryn of the Vale, which Littlefinger has taken de facto control of. Most people believe Jaime Lannister assassinated Mad King Aerys as part of his father's power play. Jaime had nothing to do with it. He had far better reasons to kill Aerys. And of course there's Eddard Stark who proclaims the rightful but unpopular Lord Stannis Baratheon king despite objections that this means war. It does and Ned and his men become the first casualties. Lord Mace Tyrell, Head of the powerful Tyrells, plays this part well. He supports Robert's youngest brother Renly in their attempted usurpation of the Iron Throne when they marry his daughter. After Renly's death, he switches his support to the Lannisters so their candidate, Joffrey, can marry his daughter. Former Kingsguard Ser Barristan Selmy wants nothing to do with kingmaking, as befitting an honorable knight of the Kingsguard. Unfortunately, he's such a great example of an honorable "True Knight" that any candidate for the throne would gain legitimacy just by having him on their side. His very nature makes him a Kingmaker whether he likes it or not (and he doesn't). More than one character notes in passing the role the Iron Bank of Braavos could take in affairs if anybody were stupid enough to, say, default on any outstanding loans they may have accrued over the course of, say, the War of the Five Kings. Then Cersei repeatedly tells them (quite undiplomatically) where to go, and they visibly and invisibly move into action like a well-oiled machine. It's not instantaneous, but over just one book, the Bank's various actions start having very direct effects on the stability of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Lannister-Frey-Bolton alliance finds itself inexplicably attacked from multiple, incredibly well-funded (and otherwise unrelated) sides in the midst of a quite unpredictable credit crisis with resulting liquidity freeze. Just when they appeared to be beginning to solidify their hold on their powerbases, too. Almost like an carefully engineered political pincer manoeuvre to hit them when they're still getting their feet under them. Funny, that.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_9d80bbcf	comment	Pathfinder: Kingmaker and the Pathfinder adventure module it's based on aren't necessarily an example, as the player character is building a kingdom and taking power themself rather than determining which other party will rule. Nyrissa, the nymph who "helps" you in the beginning, on the other hand...
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, at the opening of the Battle of Marineford, Sengoku claims that Whitebeard took in Portgas D. Ace, who was actually Gol D. Roger's son and made him part of his crew so that he could raise him to be the new Pirate King, which was something Whitebeard himself couldn't do. Ace protests this saying he joined so he could make Whitebeard King, but Sengoku retorts that he is the only one who actually believes that.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_9e2f90f4
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a32877f1	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a32877f1	comment	Subverted by Yrael from the Old Kingdom series in the backstory. The Destroyer and the Seven Bright Shiners were evenly matched in their war over whether the world would exist and have life; Yrael was weaker than both sides on his own, but was enough that whichever side he chose would win. However, he refused to join either side, earning Neutrality Backlash from both; when the Seven eventually won and sealed the Destroyer in a can, they made Yrael Sealed Evil in a Teddy Bear, and forced him to serve the Abhorsens. But played straight when the heroes have to try and re-seal the Destroyer and release Yrael from his Restraining Bolt, giving him the choice again whether to fight for or against the Destroyer.
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Old Kingdom	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_a32877f1
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a346e791	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a346e791	comment	Brought up in an episode of NUMB3RS revolving around a rigged voting machine scheme. Since the scheme was done in California, which has the most voting electors, it quickly becomes clear that the masterminds behind the scheme are shaping themselves up to be kingmakers.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a346e791	featureApplicability	1.0
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NUMB3RS	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_a346e791
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a49a709b	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a49a709b	comment	Quite frequently appears in Settlers of Catan, where two players will be roughly equidistant from winning when a third rolls a seven. Seven allows you to steal a card from a player and put the bandit on any part of the grid to block production, which can be used to cripple a vital resource.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a49a709b	featureApplicability	1.0
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a49a709b	featureConfidence	1.0
Settlers of Catan (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_a49a709b
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a5ee9024	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a5ee9024	comment	In Cards Against Humanity, the Card Czar is always in this position. Since this person doesn't play a white card on this turn, they can't win the round; however, they're the one that picks the funniest card, and thus the round's scorer.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a5ee9024	featureApplicability	1.0
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Cards Against Humanity (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_a5ee9024
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a825da3e	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a825da3e	comment	This can come up in multi-player Magic: The Gathering games. If one plays frequent games with more than two players, Kingmaker decks can become handy things to have... Especially common in the popular Commander format, which is intended to be multi-player from the get-go. It's a frequent occurrence where one player has the resource to defeat one other player, but not all of them, and is in a position to be defeated by any of those players regardless of who he or she takes out first. Since the game is resource-based and is timed on a turn-by-turn basis, it's actually not that uncommon for the kingmaker to turn the tables on his ally and claim victory for himself. (E.g: if the victor of the stalemate spends all his resources to beat the stalemate, leaving himself vulnerable to the kingmaker)
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Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_a825da3e
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a8a64abf	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a8a64abf	comment	Similar to the Skyrim example, the Geneforge series involves a number of Kingmaker plots. In each game, the factions present are in relative deadlock that the player character can tip.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_a8a64abf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Geneforge (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_a8a64abf
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ad9d37ca	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ad9d37ca	comment	They encountered a kingmaker scenario with the Mario Party 4 board "Koopa's Seaside Soiree". NCS/Tim was at Boo, and could steal from ProtonJon, netting Chugga/Emile the win, or could steal from Emile, netting Jon the win. He stole coins from the AI, denying Emile the Coin Star — so, indirectly, he stole from Emile.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ad9d37ca	featureApplicability	1.0
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NintendoCapriSun (Lets Play)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_ad9d37ca
Kingmaker Scenario / int_af7f68ad	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_af7f68ad	comment	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes has two of them: Shez, naturally. The house they choose at the beginning of the game will always end up as one of the two nations in good shape at the end of the game. The Leicester Alliance. At the beginning of Part II, they inevitably ally with one of the other two nations. In Scarlet Blaze's good ending and Golden Wildfire, they ally with the Empire, and the game ends with the Empire putting the Kingdom on the back foot, killing Rhea, and having plenty of leverage to force a surrender. On the Azure Gleam route, they ally with the Kingdom, and the game ends with the Kingdom overthrowing the Empire's (puppet) emperor and killing every other major leadership figure in the Empire before marching south to finish things for good. In Scarlet Blaze's bad ending, they ally with the Empire only to betray them later, and the game ends with things devolving into a three-way war with no end in sight.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_af7f68ad	featureApplicability	1.0
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Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_af7f68ad
Kingmaker Scenario / int_b30ae4db	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: House Tyrell serves as this by supporting the Lannisters in the War of the Five Kings. House of the Dragon: Ironically for a person who was ruled out in the kingship election to succeed King Jahaerys, Rhaenys Targaryen finds herself in situations where her support can determine who the lords, kings or queens will be: Viserys gives her the final word on the crisis of the Velaryon succession, and she confirms Corly's wishes to make Lucerys and not Vaemond the heir to Driftmark. She ultimately casts her lot with the Blacks on the crisis of the Targaryen succession after Otto Hightower's coup crowns Aegon II. It's even discussed In-Universe beforehand and brought up as part of the reason for the Hightowers imprisoning Rhaenys as quickly as possible following Viserys's death. With Rhaenys, Rhaenyra has a clear advantage and thus a good chance to strike first, making war a certainty; without Rhaenys, Alicent is hopeful that Rhaenyra can be persuaded to negotiate instead.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_b30ae4db	featureApplicability	1.0
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_ba084d45	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ba084d45	comment	In Hamilton, the Election of 1800 between Jefferson and Burr ends up being a tie. The people look to Hamilton and ask who he thinks should be the third President of the United States. Hamilton chooses his ideological rival Jefferson over his old friend Burr. His reasoning is that Jefferson at least has an ideology, while Burr just wants power for its own sake. And if you know history, it ends badly for Hamilton.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_bbcd4e9b	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_bbcd4e9b	comment	Occurs early on in Digital Devil Saga: the Maribel and Solids Tribes are at a standstill, so the Embryon's tactician suggests forming an alliance with the former to destroy the latter. He later acknowledges he would have done the same thing with the Wolves and the Brutes had the Wolves lasted long enough.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_c007a111	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c007a111	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, the mission to avert Empress Celene's assassination turns into a scenario where you decide who will rule Orlais by the end of the party. Note that choosing anyone other than Celene means allowing the assassination to take place, with you stepping up to "avenge" her. In fact the situation ends up having four factions involved in addition to yours, two of which were trying to play kingmaker themselves (one openly and one in secret); the Inquisition's influence on the result is less about direct influence and more about what uncovered plots and counter-plots from the resulting mess they reveal to who. One of the potential endings is to blackmail the three remaining sides into making a truce by revealing you have enough on all of them to play kingmaker, which in their culture of The Great Game basically equates to winning at politics.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c007a111	featureApplicability	1.0
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DragonAgeInquisition	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_c007a111
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c02ce5b4	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Ironically for a person who was ruled out in the kingship election to succeed King Jahaerys, Rhaenys Targaryen finds herself in situations where her support can determine who the lords, kings or queens will be: Viserys gives her the final word on the crisis of the Velaryon succession, and she confirms Corly's wishes to make Lucerys and not Vaemond the heir to Driftmark. She ultimately casts her lot with the Blacks on the crisis of the Targaryen succession after Otto Hightower's coup crowns Aegon II. It's even discussed In-Universe beforehand and brought up as part of the reason for the Hightowers imprisoning Rhaenys as quickly as possible following Viserys's death. With Rhaenys, Rhaenyra has a clear advantage and thus a good chance to strike first, making war a certainty; without Rhaenys, Alicent is hopeful that Rhaenyra can be persuaded to negotiate instead.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c02ce5b4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_c03c2b44	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c03c2b44	comment	Captain Jack Sparrow is in this position in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Every other pirate has voted for themselves for Pirate King, and if he does the same, the result will be a deadlock and no one will be Pirate King. This is against his interests, so he gives the one candidate who shares his interests the vote needed to make them Pirate King.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_c4771251	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c4771251	comment	Invoked in Mistborn: The Original Trilogy in the second book; knowing that one army will be marching on them they manipulate a second into showing up so they can play this role, though with the aim of weakening both enough that they'll have to retreat. The approach of a third army composed of barely controlled inhuman berserkers does throw their already risky plans off a bit though.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_c51b8d7a	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c51b8d7a	comment	Part of the plot of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne: the Demi-Fiend himself cannot create a Reason (due to his demonic body), but he can choose to support those created by others. Whichever Reason he supports will succeed without fail (or as close as you can get in an Atlus game). The problem with this system: There are six endings and only three Reasons. The Demi-Fiend is not strictly required to support any of them.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_c57bc832	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c57bc832	comment	The Vampire: The Eternal Struggle CCG is designed around this. In multiplayer games, the rules dictate that a player can attack the player on his left on his turn, and only that player. In return, he need only defend himself from attacks by the player on his right. (Hunter > Player > Hunted, proceeding clockwise.) This leads to (and indeed, the game encourages) discussions, arguments, and deal-making among the players, as a player can offer not to attack his target, leaving the target free to devote resources to attacking his own target, or the player can offer concessions to keep another player off his back while he launches a full-fledged assault. In addition, when a player is eliminated, the hunting order skips over him to the next player, making long-term planning a must. Also relevant is that the rules specify a way for a player to withdraw from the game without necessarily losing, though not to reenter. In fact, the first player out of the game could end up as the winner (though that's unlikely). The possibility of players having in-game motivations other than to be the "last one left" makes the game even more political.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_c6313d49	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c6313d49	comment	The King Nobody Wanted: At the start of the story, by sending Lyanna and her son abroad and opting to support Viserys instead, the surviving Targaryen Kingsguard who had been at the Tower of Joy were deciding who should be king. This is not what you want in a royal bodyguard.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_c675b3d7	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_c675b3d7	comment	In the Star Trek Expanded Universe novel Serpents Among the Ruins, the negotiations between the Federation and the Romulans at Algeron are in a stalemate. Both sides are trying to court the neutral Klingons to their side in order to gain leverage over the other side. A Starfleet Intelligence False Flag Operation results in Romulans looking even more dishonorable than usual, so the Klingons have no choice but to take Federation's side. With the deck stacked against them, the Romulans decide to retreat to their space, only demanding that the Federation not make use of any cloaking devices, something they had no intention of doing anyway. Thus one problem goes away, and another becomes an ally.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_cbbfcdb0	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_cbbfcdb0	comment	The Darkling class in Dokapon Kingdom is made for kingmaking; they can't advance in the quest for gold, and only the player in last place can fall to darkness, but the class is designed for dragging other players down. Also, through an exploit, the Darkling can be used to give overpowered equipment to another player with no penalty: Darkling gear vanishes when you stop being a Darkling, but only if it's in the Darkling player's hands. (In theory, a Darkling player could trade his equipment off to another player and then ask for it back when he comes out of it, but expecting the other player to follow through is a wee bit unlikely.)
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_cdedd56a	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_cdedd56a	comment	In Exo Squad, the Pirate Clans become the kingmaker in the Neosapien War, since despite their military strength being too small to beat both Exofleet and Neosapiens, their allegiance proves crucial for either side to win the war. From the moment Simbacca allies himself with Winfield in the first arc of season two, it becomes clear that Exofleet is going to win (as long as the alliance persists).
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_d11e211f	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_d11e211f	comment	This is perhaps the best way to describe the latter act of Kamen Rider Gaim. Two of the characters express a disinterest in taking the Golden Fruit for themselves and would rather have people they trust grab it. In the end, they don't become kingmakers but rather the heroine of the show, with a little assistance from the local Bunny-Ears Lawyer. Though even then, she doesn't decide between two parties but rather (unintentionally) thin the number of potential people to three people and have the lawyer go from there.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_d29757b8	comment	Those Who Stand for Nothing Fall for Anything: L doesn't get the respect he deserves because he's openly gay but he has enough power and influence to greatly help Light's career.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_d5f03f8d	comment	In Worms it's possible to reach this point in a multiplayer match. If three players each possess only a single worm, an attack which eliminates one enemy will all but ensure the other enemy claims victory.
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Worms (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_d5f03f8d
Kingmaker Scenario / int_d616724d	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_d616724d	comment	In League of Legends, Kayn has this built into his gameplay. The champion is actually two persons: Kayn, a human assassin, and Rhaast, the sentient Darkin scythe he wields. Kayn wants to expel Rhaast and master the scythe, and Rhaast wants to take Kayn's body for himself. In gameplay, killing ranged and melee champions will further Kayn or Rhaast's respective positions, and whoever ends up with the most power will eventually force the other out, allowing the player to specialize in either squishy-hunting (Kayn) or tankbusting (Rhaast).
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League of Legends (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_d616724d
Kingmaker Scenario / int_d6b6971d	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_d6b6971d	comment	Deliberately used in Survivor - the eliminated contestants vote between the final two or three for the winner. This also frequently showed up as a result of the last Immunity Challenge when the show used a Final Two: with three players in the last vote before the finals, two would be forced to vote against one another (as they couldn't vote for themselves or the challenge winner) and cancel each other out; leaving the challenge winner free to choose exactly who they faced in the finals. The winner of the challenge would either choose a weaker opponent that they could crush, or they would be the weaker opponent no matter who they chose and become a Kingmaker deciding which player gets to beat them. The show has since made Final Three the standard specifically to avoid this situation, as having four players in the penultimate vote means everyone's vote matters. In the first season, the final three consisted of Rudy, who everyone liked, and two fairly-hated contestants. Richard Hatch threw the last immunity challenge, forcing the other hated contestant to be kingmaker, which in this case is a bad thing; she had to vote Rudy off (she would have lost the final vote against him), which made her even more hated, giving Hatch a close win. If Hatch had been kingmaker, he almost certainly would have lost the final vote no matter who he let through. Hatch, however, only won due to a Spanner in the Works, in his favor...namely, one swing vote guy voted for him, for a...rather racist reason.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_d7720ed7	comment	The storylines of Beyond Skyrim's High Rock and Cyrodiil projects will give the Dragonborn the oppotunity to respectively crown both a new High King of the former and a new Emperor of the latter.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_d806f895	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_d806f895	comment	Hell's Kitchen does this as well, with pretty much the same results except for the addition of a badass sous chef threatening to hunt people down if they ruin the finalist's chances.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_dcfe8809	comment	The Virgin Widow: The trope namer, The Earl of Warwick, is the protagonist's father in this novel about Anne Neville.
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The Virgin Widow	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_dcfe8809
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_ddd4b174	comment	While not official, it is very common in a Monopoly game for a player to just hand over all his savings and property to another and leave the game. In a more official capacity, sometimes a player who's ahead will be shut out of trades because the other players don't like said player; instead, they choose to deal with a second player who has a chance of winning. At least one Monopoly championship was decided in exactly this manner.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_dea37b6c	comment	The Ironclaw scenario "Lost Heir of the Rinaldi" has the player characters hired to find the recently-deceased king's missing son. He turns out to be catatonic from a curse, and another party has presented a very convincing, and functional, impostor already. Players might want to strike a deal with them instead of trying to cure the real prince.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_e04f934e	comment	Happens in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, where the seemingly innocuous choice of which house Byleth chooses at the beginning of the game and the far more nocuous choice of whether to side with Rhea or Edelgard at the end of one version of Chapter 11 determines who wins the war at the end of it. That said, the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind endings result in Byleth becoming ruler of a unified continent, Azure Moon places them in a position of power as Archbishop of the Church of Seiros, and both Azure Moon and Crimson Flower allow them to marry the ruler of the continent and become their consort.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_e6ae1948	comment	In Yuri is My Job!, the cast, which works at a salon in which they roleplay as students at Liebe Girls' Academy, holds an election to choose Lady Blume, a student who will gain the power to make a decree. The two frontrunners are Mitsuki Ayanokouji and Sumika Tachibana, the former of whom has a significant but not insurmountable edge by the time of the final vote. Since each of the salon employees get a vote worth 90 ordinary votes, Kanoko considers backing Sumika on the condition that she use her decree to abolish the schwester system. While Sumika refuses Kanoko's request, she does ultimately get Kanoko's vote and win the election, with 1,869 votes to Mitsuki's 1,751- Mitsuki would have won if Kanoko had chosen her instead.
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Kingmaker Scenario / int_ea2f4ce2	comment	The Runaway Guys: They encountered a kingmaker scenario with the Mario Party 4 board "Koopa's Seaside Soiree". NCS/Tim was at Boo, and could steal from ProtonJon, netting Chugga/Emile the win, or could steal from Emile, netting Jon the win. He stole coins from the AI, denying Emile the Coin Star — so, indirectly, he stole from Emile. In their first round of Fortune Street, on "Yoshi's Island", Emile found himself with no real hope of winning, while there was a tight contest between Tim and Jon. Emile decided to deliberately tilt the balance in Tim's favor as much as possible, mostly because he didn't want to see Jon win. A similar scenario unfolded years later on Fortune Street's "Alefgard" board. This time, Emile found himself lagging behind Jon, Tim, and Masae Anela; at one point, Masae comments on how he's never been less relevant, only for Jon to point out that the exact opposite is true. If Emile goes Bankrupt, that instantly ends the game... and at that juncture, the race between the three of them was so tight that any one of them could end up with the most money. Especially if it was one of their spaces that Bankrupts him. Ultimately, Jon gets the kill-shot.
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The Runaway Guys (Lets Play)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_ea2f4ce2
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ea91a4bf	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ea91a4bf	comment	Near the end of Daggerfall's main quest, you come into possession of a powerful artifact which allows a person of royal blood or supernatural power to control the Numidium. You cannot utilize it yourself,note you can try, but it causes a Non-Standard Game Over with Tamriel-wrecking results but you can choose one of several Iliac Bay powers to hand it over to, allowing them to tip the balance of power in the region in their favor. (Later games reveal that, canonically, all of the possible endings happen in a Merging the Branches scenario, thanks to a Reality Warping Time Crash known as the "Warp in the West."
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ea91a4bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ea91a4bf	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_ea91a4bf
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ec28245c	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ec28245c	comment	During the Freeza Saga of Dragon Ball Z, Vegeta tries to convince Krillin, Gohan, and Dende that they can't defeat Freeza on their own, but they can help Vegeta wish for immortality so that he can defeat Freeza. They're understandably reluctant, but end up going along with it - except Guru passes away right before they can make the third wish.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ec28245c	featureApplicability	1.0
Kingmaker Scenario / int_ec28245c	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Ball Z	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_ec28245c
Kingmaker Scenario / int_eef69f10	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes: In "The Second Stain", the Prime Minister sees Great Britain as having the role of kingmaker in European politics; this is why a certain document, which could cause friction between Britain and one of the factions if published, is wanted by several spies.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_eef69f10	featureApplicability	1.0
Kingmaker Scenario / int_eef69f10	featureConfidence	1.0
Sherlock Holmes	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_eef69f10
Kingmaker Scenario / int_fc281dbc	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Kingmaker Scenario / int_fc281dbc	comment	The Sunne in Splendour features the Trope Namer, The Earl of Warwick, in a supporting role where he serves as a Parental Substitute to the protagonist, Richard of Gloucester, early in the book. Richard takes the earl's falling out with his older brother, Edward IV hard as he dearly loves both men. This quarrel also leads to the breaking off of Richard's betrothal to his childhood sweetheart, Warwick's daughter Anne.
Kingmaker Scenario / int_fc281dbc	featureApplicability	1.0
Kingmaker Scenario / int_fc281dbc	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sunne in Splendour	hasFeature	Kingmaker Scenario / int_fc281dbc

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