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This is basically when someone could not have otherwise become king without their mother's efforts. It doesn't have to necessarily be a king—it can refer to any situation where your mother makes sure you have power. It could be that your mother is a political actor in her own right who plans to get you into power, scheming and murdering all other heirs and finally you become king. A woman in such a society can't be head of state, so her son becoming king is the next best thing. In that case, she's likely the Woman Behind the Man, and her son, once he's in power, may be a Puppet King. For gender reasons, daughter variants are uncommon. What is common, though, is ambitious mothers or fathers parading their beautiful young daughter before a king or prince in hope she'd be picked as a Hot Consort. This is a three-generational plan: marry the daughter into the royal family, then the daughter has a son who will become king. Merely inheriting your throne via your mother's line doesn't count; your mother has to actively support you in assuming the position. (This usually means scheming.) While it doesn't actually have to be becoming king, that is the most common case. Historically, a king's father usually had to die before he could become king, but many kings' mothers were still alive and well during their reigns, often titled "Queen Mother." In the Ottoman Empire, sultans tended to have royal harems with many concubines—but they only had one mother (who was usually the favored concubine of their predecessor). She was effectively their queen, the second most powerful person in the empire after the sultan himself, and bore the title "Valide Sultan" — literally "Mother Sultan". The mothers in question tend to be villainous, often overlapping with Evil Matriarch and God Save Us from the Queen!. This is doubly true if the son in question is secretly illegitimate, or otherwise not the biological son of the late king, making him not the "rightful heir". If her son has half-brothers in line to the throne before him, she will certainly be a Wicked Stepmother to those stepsons. Subtrope to Vicariously Ambitious. The mom in question is (whether heroic, villainous or any combination thereof) most likely an Almighty Mom. If she was married to a king, she may have been a Lady Macbeth as well. Compare Villainous Mother-Son Duo. |
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Reign: Catherine loves being the mother of the king. Deconstructed over time with her eldest son Francis, and deconstructed even harder with her second son Charles. Lord Darnley's mother's Lady Lennox is determined to make her son king by marrying him to a queen. She's quite proud of herself for this, but when she and Catherine meet, Catherine quickly declares herself the queen of this trope, pointing out that Darnley is only king consort, while her son is a true king. |
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In Justice League (and Unlimited), this is the aim of Morgaine Le Fey, for her son Mordred (to whom she has granted immortality and eternal youth with her magic) to assume the throne of Camelot. She had pursued this goal for centuries, using and discarding many men (including Jason Blood) with promises of power and love to further her schemes. Unfortunately, circumstances result in Mordred's eternal youth enchantment being broken, rendering him an undying husk of a man. After this, Morgaine opts to abandon her quest in order to care for him. | |
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Red Queen: At the end of the first book, Queen Elara Merandus succeeds in putting her son, Maven, to the throne of Norta, having Compelled her stepson and the heir apparent, Tiberias VII "Cal", to kill his father, Tiberias VI. The third book features a grandmother example with Anabel Lerolan, wife of the late Tiberias V, who arranges for Cal to be able to reclaim the Nortan throne after Maven is banished from the court. |
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In Babylon (Beautiful Fiction), the Babylonian boy king, Kaleo, the Gate's first sacrifice was the son of the Big Bad Crown Princess Carmine. | |
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Dark Matter (2015): Empress Ishida is scheming to make her son Hiro the emperor. This is not good news for her stepson Ryo, who stands between Hiro and the throne. | |
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Pippin: King Charlemagne has two sons: Pippin (his eldest son by his late wife) and Lewis (his younger son by his current wife Fastrada). Fastrada is scheming to get her son on the throne. | |
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Kushiel's Legacy: Lyonette de Trevalion, known as "the Lioness of Azzalle," is the sister of the current king, a "Princess of the Blood." She plots with her son Baudoin to get him on the throne. It becomes a Defied Trope when both mother and son get caught, put on trial, and executed for treason. | |
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I, Claudius claims Livia Drusilla was this to Tiberius. | |
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Sons of Anarchy: Gemma is shown to very much be pulling the strings on the men in her life. Women are not allowed to be members of the motorcycle club but Gemma always manages to be attached to the President of the club. Her first husband, JT, was a founding member. When he no longer wanted to live the outlaw life, it is implied that Gemma conspired with JT's best friend Clay Morrow, to kill JT so Clay could become President. Clay and Gemma married shortly after JT's death, making Gemma once again, the revered wife of the club president. Once Clay got older and struggled with arthritis which made it hard to ride his motorcycle, a requirement to be an active club member, Gemma began manipulating her son, Jax to take Clay's place. Many considered Jax the rightful heir to the club Presidency, even referring to him as the crown prince, but Jax was only 15 at the time of JT's death, too young to be an active member of the club much less the president. With Gemma's encouragement, Jax challenged Clay for presidency and won, making Gemma now the revered mother of the club's president. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who, "Paper Cuts": What the Queen Mother is trying to do for her son. Though she didn't technically kill the Emperor, she has forced him into suspended animation in an orbiting tomb. | |
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In Fushigi Yuugi, Hotohori's mother pulled some strings to get him onto the throne. Conveniently, the real crown prince, Tendou, had been sent away to live as a commoner, because someone made an attempt on his life. | |
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Ramayana has this as a partly Defied and partly Deconstructed Trope. King Dasarath has four sons by his three wives. The king decides to retire, and his oldest son, Rama, is about to be crowned. On the day before the coronation, the king's favorite wife Kaikeyi (mother of the second-born Bharat) decides to call in an old You Owe Me favor: she asks for Rama to be exiled and for Bharat to be crowned instead. This Sadistic Choice forces the king to either exile his universally beloved, virtuous first-born or shame his family's reputation for adhering to their word and dishonor his ancestors. The King complies with her request, but promptly dies of a broken heart (helped along by a previous curse incurred in his youth). Bharat as out of town during this, but once he returns to find his father dead and his brother exiled, he's absolutely absolutely horrified. He disowns his mother on the spot, and — after much angst about being the son of such a wicked mother — waltzes off to find and crown his brother. Since their father is dead and can't revoke his oath, Rama feels obliged to serve his 14 years of exile, but once he returns after many heroic deeds, Bharat is all too happy to hand over the crown. | |
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Red River (1995): Queen Nakia's goal is to invoke the trope with her son Juda no matter what, and is trying to kill her stepsons. | |
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I, Claudius: Livia will have her own family killed or banished if it means her son Tiberius will become emperor. Please note that Tiberius doesn't even want to be emperor. (Bonus points because Tiberius is only a stepson to Augustus—Livia's husband and the previous emperor—though Roman inheritance doesn't care.) | |
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In the ''The Goblin Emperor", it is commented Sheveän Drazharan could have been a great general if she had been a man; unfortunately, the only acceptable occupations for a woman of her rank are marrying well, having children, and supporting her son's position. So she orchestrates an attempted coup against her brother-in-law on her son's behalf. He is not pleased when he finds out. | |
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In Shrek 2 Fairy Godmother tries to put her son Prince Charming on the throne by marrying Fiona, who is heiress to the throne of Far-Far-Away; the original plan was for him to have saved Fiona from the dragon's tower but he got there after Shrek had already saved and married her. So Fairy Godmother tries to get rid of Shrek in other ways, setting up the whole plot of the movie. | |
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An in-universe historical figure in the The Elder Scrolls games is Potema, the Wolf Queen of Solitude, who plotted and schemed to try and get her son, Uriel III, on the Imperial throne. Potema briefly achieved this goal after starting a civil war and capturing and executing Empress Kintyra, her niece, which allowed Uriel to succeed her. Unfortunately for Potema, Uriel was soon burned alive by an angry mob, causing her to undergo Sanity Slippage and lose what few redeeming qualities she may have had. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire loves this trope. Queen Cersei Lannister puts her secretly illegitimate son Joffrey in line for the Iron Throne by passing him off as King Robert's legitimate son. She then gets him on the throne by killing Robert and his bastards (whose physical appearance would prove that Joffrey wasn't Robert's) and having a person who discovered her secret imprisoned on charges of treason. Because Joffrey is young, Cersei—in varying degrees—rules in his name, thought he's a loose cannon and sometimes goes off on his own. This is a 3-generation version, since Cersei herself became queen thanks to her father Tywin's scheming. Visenya Targaryen—one of Aegon the Conqueror's sister-wives—is suspected of this, with her stepson/nephew King Aenys I dying from an illness while under her care. Her son Maegor the Cruel then became king and she became his strongest supporter. Then deconstructed, as after her death Maegor's reign begins to fall apart and he is overthrown by one of Aenys' sons. Queen Alicent Hightower was the mother of eldest prince Aegon II. Her husband, Viserys I, had declared his daughter Rhaenyra—the only surviving child of his first marriage—his heir. Alicent repeatedly asked him to choose Aegon instead, without success. Upon Viserys' death, Alicent moved to secure power and crown her son as Aegon II before Rhaenyra could return to the capital, leading to a civil war known as "the Dance of the Dragons". This is implied to be a 3-generation version: Alicent's father Otto was a powerful courtier when she married the king, and the idea that he didn't have an hand in that seems unlikely. During the chaos that engulfed King's Landing during the Dance of the Dragons civil war, a woman named Essie proclaimed her 4-year-old son Gaemon king, claiming he was the bastard of the prior King Aegon II. After the city was reclaimed, she was hanged. |
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In Kaiba, Warp's mother poisoned him, giving him just enough poison to make him indisposed during the war of succession, in which all his brothers died. | |
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The Bible: In the Book of Genesis, Rebecca tricks Isaac into giving Jacob the greater blessing that he intended to give Esau. An unusual example, since Rebecca is Esau's mother too. She just favors Jacob. As King David is near death, his son Adonijah declares himself king, even though it had been prophesized that another son, Solomon, would rule. Solomon's mother, Bathsheba, works with the prophet Nathan to reveal Adonijah's actions to David and get Solomon on the throne. |
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Magnificent Century is set in the royal court of the Ottoman Empire, so it's full of this. An unusual heroic example: protagonist Hürrem whose scheming makes one of her sons the next sultan… although to be fair, antagonist Mahidevran is doing the exact same thing. Hürrem's motivation is less about power and more to do with the fact that if Mahidevran's son wins the throne, he has the right to strangle his half brothers to avoid a civil war. (Mustafa probably wouldn't have, but Mahidevran would.) Hürrem wins... unfortunately the son that ends up winning is the Inadequate Inheritor, foreshadowing the decline of the Ottoman Empire. | |
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Stardust: After the Game Between Heirs and the Witches have killed all the sons of the King of Stormhold and due to the fact the throne of Stormhold can't pass to a Woman, Tristan, as son of Princess Una and the one who finds the ruby, becomes King. | |
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Godspeaker Trilogy: The first book is about a nameless brat who rises to Mother of the Heir via slavery and soldiery with divine guidance. Her ambition is to use her son as a "Hammer" to take over the world. | |
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Game of Thrones: Like in the books (see "Literature"), Cersei Lannister is the one who puts Joffrey Baratheon in line for the throne by killing Robert and imprisoning Ned Stark. Though it is actually Joffrey who kills all of Robert's bastard children, out of the fear that one of them will try to claim the throne. Eventually, after all her children have died, Cersei crowns herself Queen Regnant of Westeros. | |
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: Zira will do anything to make her son Kovu king by training him as a Tyke-Bomb to kill Simba. What the Pridelands would look like after that happens is not entirely clear, as Zira is more concerned with avenging her lover Scar's death than power in of itself. | |
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House of the Dragon: A 3-generation plan. Otto Hightower is Hand of the King (think the king's Number Two). It's the highest position someone who's not part of the royal family can achieve, so the only way Otto can continue climbing the social ladder is via his offspring. He arranges for the widowed King Viserys to marry his daughter Alicent, making her queen consort. Alicent and Viserys have several children, of which the eldest is Aegon. However, Viserys decides to go against tradition and make his only surviving child from his first marriage—his daughter Rhaenyra—heir instead. This is an unpopular move in an Heir Club for Men world, and plenty of people think Aegon might end up inheriting regardless. Otto tries to invoke this trope in Alicent by arguing that Rhaenyra will put Alicent's children to the sword to solidify her unpopular claim. Alicent initially isn't so keen on it, as she's friends with Rhaenyra. Over the years, though, Alicent begins to resent Rhaenyra since, as heir, she enjoys enormous privileges that Alicent is denied. By the time Viserys actually dies and the matter of succession becomes relevant, Alicent is ready to embrace this trope and advance her son's claim with The Coup. A civil war begins, with Aegon as a claimant and mom Alicent and grandpa Otto as his biggest supporters. They want Aegon to be a Puppet King while the two of them actually run things. | |
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Into the Badlands: Lydia is actively working to ensure her son succeeds her husband Quinn as baron, even though Quinn himself doesn't think Ryder is tough or smart enough. But after one mistake too many, Lydia comes to agree with her husband and tells Ryder that he's not suited to becoming a Baron. | |
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Criminal Minds: The episode "Rock Creek Park" features an up-and-coming congressman whose wife is kidnapped. Through the course of the investigation, the team realizes that the man's mother had been molding him since his childhood and had basically discarded his older brother when a childhood injury disfigured him, making a successful career in politics unlikely. She set up her daughter-in-law's kidnapping and planned murder as a way to get rid of what she considered an unworthy suitor and to earn him sympathy from voters to further his career. In the end, the congressman tells his mother that what she did was unforgivable, but since it worked, he continues allowing her to advise him. The team genuinely believes he's on track to become President one day. | |
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Queen Louveria from Final Fantasy Tactics confines herself to Offstage Villainy but her actions have ripple effects throughout the plot. If you read the character profiles over the course of the game, she eventually murders her husband and exiles/executes her way through most of his retainers just so her (possibly illegitimate) son has a better position in the coming civil war. She's apprehended and tossed in the dungeon of an impregnable fortress and the attempt to rescue her by her brother Duke Larg ignites the "War of the Lions". | |
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Queen Prim Marlon of Marlon in the Story of Evil novels is this to a T. Obsessed with the idea of her son Kyle (originally the fifth-in-line for the throne) becoming king and creating an empire to rival her best friend-turned-rival's kingdom of Lucifenia, after her husband's death, she systematically poisoned all but one of her stepchildren and any dignitary who might oppose her, drove the remaining stepchild's mother to renounce his claim to the throne, and drove another branch of the royal family out of the country so Kyle could be crowned. When Kyle showed interest in becoming an artist instead, she bribed art critics and famous artists to demoralize and criticize his work so he would give up on his dream. It all comes back to bite her eventually, though. | |
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Barbie as the Island Princess: Queen Ariana is deadset on overthrowing King Peter in revenge for a slight from years ago, and how she plans to go about this is by having her daughter Luciana marry Peter's son Antonio, then poisoning the entire royal family during the wedding so that Luciana will become queen by default and Ariana can act as Regent for Life. | |
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Only Murders in the Building: Although not literally royalty, Cliff is a nepotism baby who has clearly been given his whole career in producing because of his domineering, incestuous, and extremely successful mother, Donna, who's also a producer. She keeps denying that she's involved in the production of ''Death Rattle'' (Cliff's first "solo" show) while simultaneously riding roughshod over the production. | |
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Once Upon a Time: An example of Mother Makes You Queen. Cora manipulates events so that Regina saves the recently widowed King's young daughter and he takes Regina as a wife. It is also revealed she killed the previous Queen in the first place. | |
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In the Book of Genesis, Rebecca tricks Isaac into giving Jacob the greater blessing that he intended to give Esau. An unusual example, since Rebecca is Esau's mother too. She just favors Jacob. | |
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The Riftwar Cycle has a protagonist example: At the end of Mistress of the Empire, Mara of the Acoma puts her son Justin on the throne by marrying him to the daughter of the late Emperor, making him the next Emperor. | |
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Birna Bran, the widow of King Bran of Skellige, repeatedly insists her son Svanrige is the rightful king, even though the monarchy is not hereditary in Skellige; instead the monarch being chosen by the clan chiefs, all of whom despise Birna and think her determination to see Svanrige crowned king is just so she won't have to give up her position and power now her husband is dead. She's prepared to go as far as murdering any and all other claimants to make her son king; unfortunately for Birna, if her plan to crown Svanrige succeeds, her son demonstrates (by way of burying an axe in the skull of a Nilfgaardian ambassador she was negotiating with) that he has no intention whatsoever of being her Puppet King. | |
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Long Live the Queen: Next in line for the Novan throne after Crown Princess Elodie is Laurent, her maternal uncle. After that is her cousin Charlotte, Laurent's daughter. Lucille, Charlotte's mother, orchestrates multiple assassination attempts against Elodie over the course of the game with the aim of getting Charlotte on the throne, in order to rule vicariously through her. Of course, with the right information and actions, there are means to nip this in the bud. | |
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Chronicles of the Kencyrath: Kenan, Lord Randir, owes his position entirely to his mother Rawneth's efforts, including driving the rightful heir into exile. Bonus points because Kenan's secretly illegitimate. Rawneth's strongly implied to be the power behind the throne, as it's said that mother and son speak with a single voice, and the one action Kenan takes without his mother's input is a failure. Timmon's mother Distan is strongly implied to be this. Lord Ardeth—Distan's father—is very old and will die in the foreseeable future, and she wants her son to be the next Lord Ardeth. In Kothifir, Princess Amantine is this to her son Ton. With his support, he makes an attempt to usurp the throne, though he fails. |
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In the Belisarius Series, Photius is made Emperor at the age of eight by both his mothers - his natural mother Antonina and his adoptive mother Empress Theodora - after Emperor Justinian is blinded and thus disqualified from the holding the throne. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon: Excellinor the Witch, mother of Alvin the Treacherous, is able to make her son King of the Wilderwest through her scheming. | |
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In the Klingon house of Duras in Star Trek: The Next Generation, aunts Lursa and B'Etor scheme to get their nephew Toral on the council. | |
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