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A character is offered the crown of a kingdom that he has not inherited through a normal line of succession, even if he has Royal Blood. A kingdom may be an Elective Monarchy and normally select their kings rather than have them inherit. Others resort to it when the last line become extinct, or is deposed, or when there is no previously existing line of succession (in a newly independent country or a country that is replacing some other form of government with a monarchy). Frequently a culmination of A Protagonist Shall Lead Them, if the character was not heir to the throne. Leads to an Awesome Moment of Crowning often enough, though he may refuse and make it stick. (Some reluctance is usually considered becoming.) In contrast to Standard Hero Reward, there is no bride, and usually there is no king already, so the character becomes the monarch, not the heir. Contrast Unexpected Successor, where the rules just lead to someone unusual, and the Rightful King Returns. If the character is offered the crown because he possesses a specific MacGuffin, that's Finders Rulers. May be a Cincinnatus when the government becomes a republic after the character refuses the crown. If the villain offers the hero this, it is often We Can Rule Together. Sometimes results from the assumption that Heroism Equals Job Qualification. If successful, it usually results in a Reluctant Ruler. See also Easily Elected, when a person somehow manages to get the position of power despite not having the qualification to run for the office. The prospect of this can lead to a Succession Crisis as nobles intrigue about whom to offer it to. And it has not always settled the matter. Truth in Television. |
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On Adventure Time, the goblins offer to make Finn their king, and he reluctantly accepts. It doesn't last, however. | |
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Heralds of Valdemar: In Mage Storms, Duke Tremane (formerly of the Eastern Empire) is offered the crown of Hardorn on condition that he is Bound to the land, as he has separated ties with his former country and Emperor and is proving himself to be a good leader. Valdemaran tradition claims that the refugees who originally founded the kingdom tricked Baron Valdemar into being crowned king. |
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Dragon Age: Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins, depending on player choices. According to one NPC in the Human Noble origin, it's said that many nobles in Ferelden would have preferred Teyrn Bryce Cousland to have taken the throne after King Maric died, instead of King Cailan, the rightful heir. However, the Teyrn is an ardent royalist and refused to even consider the prospect out of loyalty to the royal family. In the Templar Path of Dragon Age II, Hawke becomes Kirkwall's new ruler after the people practically beg him/her to do it. It doesn't last, however. As of the Trespasser DLC of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Varric has been made Viscount of Kirkwall. The way he tells it, they didn't so much offer him the crown as they pushed it onto his head. |
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In The Silver Eye, the enigmatic Velvare Bamidele was offered the crown of Gallitan after its king and queen died because of his involvement in a peace treaty that ended years of conflict. This is despite the fact that no one knew his real name, or had even seen his face. He turned it down, but later adopted their prince, becoming the ruler anyways. | |
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The Silmarillion: Maedhros would have become High King of the Noldor after Fëanor's death, but he abdicated in favor of his uncle Fingolfin in an attempt to end the feud between him and the House of Fëanor. | |
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At the climax of The Darkangel Trilogy, six different countries ask Aeriel to accept rulership of their nations; she refuses all of them (because Ravenna has already chosen her to rebuild the world, which is a very long-term, very solitary job). | |
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Fire Emblem: At the end of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Micaiah becomes the Queen of Daein despite having no blood relation to any of its former rulers and having more of a birthright to the Empire of Begnion instad. This can happen one of two ways: If former King Pelleas is alive, he appoints Micaiah as the new Queen before revealing his own lack of royal blood and deciding to stay by her side as her advisor. If he's dead, then Micaiah is crowned at her subject's entreaty. In Fire Emblem Fates, after the Golden Path is completed, Azura should be the Queen of Valla since she's the daughter of the deceased king and queen. The Avatar, however, becomes the King or Queen instead (despite being the child of the king's murderer), as Azura willingly relinquishes her own birthright on him/her (that is, unless Azura is married to the male Avatar herself, in which case she rules as his consort). However, it helps that Azura and the Avatar are canonically cousins (their mothers being sisters). But the issue is still a bit muddied as the game never really makes it clear which of Azura’s parents had the original claim to the throne. |
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In Dragon Quest III, this occurs very early on: after retrieving a stolen crown, the king immediately offers you his throne. Accepting leads to a temporary Nonstandard Game Over, But Thou Must! eventually convince him to take his crown back and let you get on with the whole "saving the world" thing. | |
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In The Chronicles of Prydain, protagonist Taran is stunned when his old friend, the childless King Smoit of Cadiffor, offers to adopt him and make him his heir. He declines, however, out of a genuine desire to find the identities of his birth parents, and later is declared High King of the entire country anyway. | |
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In The Belgariad, the kingdom of Sendaria chose their first king by election. (Their previous ruler had been the Duchess of Erat aka Polgara the Sorceress, who had spent several centuries conditioning the population towards sensibility and levelheadedness, so it makes sense.) Due to the lengthy and muddled voting process, the winning regent (a rutabaga farmer) had completely forgotten he was in the running and was a bit worried when all these nobles showed up and fell to their knees before him. Mostly because he was busy fertilising the field they knelt in. | |
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In "The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa", the archer is offered the crown of the dead tsar. | |
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On The Simpsons, a Zorro movie has — among other historical inaccuracies — King Arthur abdicating and declaring Zorro the new King of England. | |
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At the end of The Others (1995) #3, Guardd is formally named as the new King of the Enclave after the death of King Skyglider. He turns it down, instead declaring that the Elders will rule in his place until Skyglider's original heir, the bunny-girl Alarm, comes of age. | |
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Richard III is offered the crown after the "unfortunate deaths" of his nephews. Though he is actually the successor to the throne at this point, having killed everyone else off, he refuses it twice to win over the people. The third time, he "caves" and allows himself to be made king. | |
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In Naruto, Jiraiya is asked to become Hokage because of his status as one of the Legendary Sannin and his experience. However, he turns down the position, agreeing to bring back a replacement he thinks is more suitable: fellow Sannin Tsunade. | |
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At the end of Fullmetal Alchemist, Olivier and Roy allow Grumman to be the Führer in place of Bradley, because Olivier doesn't want the hassle and Roy is blind. Roy gets better, though, and Word of God says he becomes the Führer down the road. | |
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RWBY: The World of Remnant videos explain that this is what happened at the end of the Great War eighty years prior to canon. After years of fighting between the Four Kingdoms, the King of Vale decided to personally lead the Final Battle in Vacuo. Apparently, he was so bloody and terrifyingnote Just to give you an idea, the other videos show that prior to the War, Vacuo was a tropical paradise, and today it's a lawless desert. that the other three rulers all offered him their kingdoms just to make him stop. He instead elected to set up a lasting peace treaty, convert all four kingdoms into democracies, and establish the four Huntsmen Academies from the series proper, all in hopes of preventing another Great War. | |
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As of the Trespasser DLC of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Varric has been made Viscount of Kirkwall. The way he tells it, they didn't so much offer him the crown as they pushed it onto his head. | |
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei is offered on multiple occasions Jingzhou, a critically strategic province, by its ruler, Liu Biao. He turns it down out of respect to Liu Biao and his heirs, much to the frustration of his generals and advisers. Also heavily subverted. Usurpers force the people they're usurping to offer them their throne...then turn it down in the name of propriety and force their victims to do it again. Usually, they only accept on the third offer. |
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Judge Dredd. In one of the rare moments in the movie that is entirely in-character for Dredd, after he saves the day the remaining Judges ask him if he would like to be the new Chief Judge, after Rico had already murdered Judge Griffin and the rest of the Council of Five. Just like in the comics, he insists that he prefers patrolling the city streets. | |
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In the ending of Baten Kaitos Origins, the prequel to Baten Kaitos, the Senate practically begs Geldoblame to become Emperor since he's the only suitable candidate left after the deaths of Baelheit and Verus. Geldoblame, having gone off the deep end thanks to Verus' betrayal, laughs and accepts. His first orders set up the plot of Baten Kaitos. | |
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The song "Alligator King" from Sesame Street. It's about an alligator king whom, because of his constant unhappiness, orders his seven sons to bring him gifts as an attempt to cheer up their father, and the one whose gifts are liked the most is given the King's crown. The first six sons attempt to do what the King tells them to, but they unfortunately fail, and in the process, the King is hurt when he falls down. Finally, the youngest son offers to help his father get back up and as a reward, he inherits the King's crown. | |
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The Discworld example of Tacticus is probably based on the real-life example of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's marshals who was offered the Swedish crown (strictly speaking he was offered to become crown prince, but the actual king was old and given the throne pretty much because he was old, heirless and not all that interested in doing any ruling stuff), took a few moments to review the situation, accepted it, and then promptly declared war against Napoleon. His family still reigns today. Bernadotte had been a staunch Republican and anti-monarchist in his youth. According to some sources, he actually had the Republican slogan "Death to Kings and Tyrants" tattooed on either his arm or his chest, which would be rather embarrassing once he got a throne of his own. Supposedly he never revealed his bare torso to anyone upon taking the throne until his death! There was actually a small political crisis when news of the offer came back to Sweden — the man who asked Bernadotte to take the throne hadn't actually been authorised to do that, only to inquire with Napoleon about acceptable monarchs (the circumstances that led up to all of this involved Sweden getting into war with some of Napoleon's then-allies and losing. The first choice was to offer the crown princehood to one of the sons of the monarch of one of the winning countries — Denmark — but that candidate ended up dying while touring Sweden). It was quickly decided to roll with it, since Napoleon seemed okay with it and at least it wasn't one of Napoleon's own family (see below).note Technically, Bernadotte was related to Napoleon, but only as an in-law and indirectly at that: his wife Desiree (a one-time fiancee to Napoleon himself) was the sister-in-law of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, as her sister Julie had married him. That's why Napoleon thought he could trust his old rival to rule Sweden in his name, only to be shocked when Bernadotte brought Sweden into the Sixth Coalition. |
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In Homestuck, long after PM, a simple Parcel Mistress, informs the White Queen about Jack's assassination attempt and helps her out in her plan to counter him, the Queen offers PM the crown in her place. This fits in with Chess Motifs in that PM was originally effectively a pawn but, by reaching the other end of the board, she was promoted to a queen. PM refuses, though, finding the whole idea very bothersome. She does put the ring on later, though, to gain its powers and avenge AR's death and WV's injury. | |
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In Rupert of Hentzau, the sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda, Rudolf Rassendyll is offered the crown in earnest, after the death of the king of Ruritania whom he exactly resembles. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: In The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn is of Royal Blood and has shown the traditional "signs" of kingship, but the Kingship has been in abeyance for hundreds of years (and the line of descent he claims has been rejected by Gondor before), so Faramir asks the people of Gondor if Aragorn should be king. They say yes. The Fall of Númenor: The first kings of Númenor had the custom of willingly passing the Sceptre to their eldest child when they became too old to rule. Over time, the kings would drop this old custom and cling to power until their deaths, one of the first signs of their civilization's decline. Meneldur, fifth King of Númenor, passes the Sceptre to his son Aldarion due to feeling under-qualified to deal with the war-like situation in Middle-Earth. The Silmarillion: Maedhros would have become High King of the Noldor after Fëanor's death, but he abdicated in favor of his uncle Fingolfin in an attempt to end the feud between him and the House of Fëanor. |
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In the second Elemental Blessings novel, it is revealed that the young heir to the throne is mentally stunted to the point where she will never be able to rule. Eventually, the heads of the five most important noble families get together and decide to crown the regent as king, as he'd been doing the job for years anyway. | |
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In the Babar books, Babar is offered to become the King of the Elephants after the Old King dies, because his human upbringing and experience with civilization makes him well-suited for the position. | |
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Evil Magician Trent at the end of A Spell for Chameleon is told that his exile will be rescinded on two conditions. First, he must marry; second, he must accept the crown. | |
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The Parselmouth of Gryffindor: Hermione anticipates that Slughorn is going to nominate her as Acting Minister for Magic after Fudge disappears — and flat-out refuses. She's too busy already. | |
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Alistair in Dragon Age: Origins, depending on player choices. According to one NPC in the Human Noble origin, it's said that many nobles in Ferelden would have preferred Teyrn Bryce Cousland to have taken the throne after King Maric died, instead of King Cailan, the rightful heir. However, the Teyrn is an ardent royalist and refused to even consider the prospect out of loyalty to the royal family. |
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At the end of Dragon Quest game, the Hero is offered the crown of Alefgard. The protagonist declines, and decides to found his own kingdom in another country...with the help of the Princess. | |
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Titus Andronicus is offered the crown at the start of the play, but he turns it down. This act does not end well for him. | |
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In Fire Emblem Fates, after the Golden Path is completed, Azura should be the Queen of Valla since she's the daughter of the deceased king and queen. The Avatar, however, becomes the King or Queen instead (despite being the child of the king's murderer), as Azura willingly relinquishes her own birthright on him/her (that is, unless Azura is married to the male Avatar herself, in which case she rules as his consort). However, it helps that Azura and the Avatar are canonically cousins (their mothers being sisters). But the issue is still a bit muddied as the game never really makes it clear which of Azura’s parents had the original claim to the throne. | |
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Several Pathfinder adventure paths, including Curse of the Crimson Throne and Reign of Winter, can end with PCs becoming rulers (though there's always at least one good NPC candidate, too, in case no one is interested). In Kingmaker the players become rulers at the start of the second adventure and growing their kingdom is a significant part of the gameplay. | |
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The Avatar: The Last Airbender finale has a discussion about who should be Fire Lord after Ozai's defeat. Zuko, Ozai's son, wants his uncle Iroh to take it, but Iroh convinces Zuko that he really is a worthy heir himself. For added fun, Ozai himself had passed the title onto Azula, his remaining loyal heir and Zuko's younger sister. And Azula and Zuko had just fought a formal duel for throne, with an... ambiguous outcome. And Ozai only got the title through a Klingon Promotion just as the eldest son and heir-apparent was half a world away, suffering from severe depression after the death of his son and in no shape to oppose him. It's been a while since the Fire Nation has had a plain old normal succession. | |
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In Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest, Prince Rupert recounts how his fathernote Frederick V of the Palatinate was offered the crown of Bohemia — and held it briefly, until military defeat drove him off. Although this is an alternate history, that was taken from Real Life. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: On their first meeting, Weyoun boasts about the Dominion's intel on Sisko and how well he already knows him, then tries to tempt Sisko into siding with the them by offering to make him absolute ruler of the Federation, with no president or Starfleet chief of staff looking over his shoulder. Sisko, having only a few months earlier derailed an attempted coup d'etat by an Admiral with those same ambitions, dismisses the offer out of hand and tells them their intel needs work if that was supposed to be a tempting offer. | |
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At the end of Quest for Glory V, you are offered the crown of Silmaria and can choose whether or not to accept it, among other possible choices. | |
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The Crimson Shadow: Eriador has no native monarchy left apparently so after it gains its freedom, their king becomes Brind'Amour, the Big Good ancient wizard who aided them in their liberation. | |
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In Rocket Age the priests of the Martian city-state of Herscal actually created a false prophesy to offer the crown to a Venusian who had just slain the mercenaries who killed the state's royalty. This arrangement is less than ideal as the new prince is essentially a communist, but it has helped keep the nation united. | |
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In the prologue of Sojourn, the hero Ayden rallied an army and defeated the Dark Lord Mordath and personally struck down the villain with a magical arrow. His army then asked him to become their new king. Ayden refused, stating that he was a king once, and not a very good one. He then vanished into the horizon, promising that he would return if needed. | |
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"The Story of King Odd" ends with the king giving his kingdom to a winter-guest who helped break the curse on the king. | |
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In Wyrd Sisters, how Verence becomes king of the kingdom of Lancre. Though the witches made everyone else, including Verence, think he was a legitimate successor. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn is of Royal Blood and has shown the traditional "signs" of kingship, but the Kingship has been in abeyance for hundreds of years (and the line of descent he claims has been rejected by Gondor before), so Faramir asks the people of Gondor if Aragorn should be king. They say yes. | |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Dorothy is asked to be the Queen of Winkie Country in the place of the Wicked Witch of the West. After insisting that the Tin Man and Scarecrow be put back together first, she declines, and returns to Emerald City to get home again. Instead, the Tin Man becomes the ruler. | |
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Gideon is offered the crown after he defeats the pagan invaders; prior to this Israel had had no set king. He declines, saying their only ruler should be God. However, God would later appoint a king, Saul, through the prophet Samuel. Saul accepted only reluctantly. (Though he was quite keen on holding onto the throne when God changed His mind...) | |
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At the end of Conan the Destroyer, the newly crowned Queen Jehnna asks Conan to be her king. Manly Barbarian Hero that he is, Conan prefers to win a crown with his own sword rather than as Hot Consort. But that is another story... | |
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The Weaver Option: Cegorach is able to capture two purified essences of Slaanesh and devises a plan to incubate them into new Eldar gods. He offers an essence to Lelith Hesperax who flatly refuses; two other Drukhari accept instead. | |
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At the end of Final Fantasy IV, Cecil is the new King of Baron. The After Years later revealed that Yang became King of Fabul. In both cases, it actually makes sense. The previous King of Baron had died with no blood relatives alive, and Cecil was his adopted son. The King of Fabul was an old man who also had no heirs, so he abdicated in favor of Yang, who was the commander of Fabul's army. | |
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In Invincible, the alien hero Omni-man leaves Earth and encounters a peaceful race of short-lived insectoid aliens. These aliens live for only a few months or years and when they find out that Omni-man is thousands of years old, they quickly make him their king. Later in the series, fellow Viltrumite Thragg becomes monarch of that species because of his age. | |
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In Death Note, when the detective L was killed by Kira, Mello and Near (his two candidates for succession) are called to their caretaker's office, to inform them of this fact...and that having not anticipated his death, L hadn't actually picked out a successor yet... but that perhaps, maybe, possibly they could work together to catch Kira, the way he would have wanted. Near is ambivalent, but Mello freaks out and refuses to work with Near. He technically gives the role of Successor to Near before storming off in a fit of sour grapes and leaving for Los Angeles, California (just like B from Another Note before him). | |
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In Sailor Moon Neo Queen Serenity became the ruler of Earth this way, being elected as queen at 22 (under unspecified circumstances in the manga, after saving the world from a sudden ice age in the anime). | |
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The Wheel of Time: Rand was already the de-facto ruler of Tear, Cairhien, and Caemlyn when he invaded Illian and killed the Forsaken Sammael. After that, the Illianers offer the Laurel Crown to Rand, who renames it the Crown of Swords. Rand later offers the crown of Tear to High Lord Darlin in order to end a rebellion of Tairen nobles. |
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Princess Maker: The King can do this to the daughter and transfer power by giving the daughter his crown in an Awesome Moment of Crowning: | |
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Army of Darkness: In the end, Ash is offered to become the new ruler of the medieval kingdom that he saved from an undead army, but he elects to return to his own time instead. | |
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At the end of Battle of the Gods, Goku is once again offered a God Job: the God of Destruction in this case. Again he turns it down. | |
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In Julius Caesar: | |
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In Craig of the Creek, after he defeats Xavier, the kids of the Other Side acknowledge Craig as the new king, but he immediately turns the position down, as he feels the Creek is better off without one. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, a Downplayed version occurs during the Time Skip between Oblivion and Skyrim to High Chancellor Ocato. After the deaths of Emperor Uriel Septim VII and his last remaining heir, Martin, Ocato exhausts every alternative before reluctantly accepting the title of Potentate (Regent) in accordance with the Elder Council Charter.note Following a Succession Crisis in the late 1st/early 2nd Eras, Potentate had become a reserve title allowed by the Elder Council Charter if no imperial heir could be agreed upon in the event of the line of succession being disrupted, allowing the High Chancellor of the Council to take up most imperial authority as Potentate. For the next ten years, Ocato served capably in this role and, against all odds, held the strained empire together. Thanks to his successes, many nobles thought he would (and even should) declare himself Emperor. Unfortunately, the Thalmor would have him assassinated in a successful attempt to destabilize the empire, allowing for the rise of the Aldmeri Dominion under their leadership. No other leader would come even close to Ocato's successes in the two centuries that followed. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: In the backstory, Maester Aemon was offered the crown, even though his position would normally remove him from the line of succession. He turned them down. And to make sure wars would not be fought over this, he took ANOTHER vow that would keep him from inheriting a title, by joining the Night's Watch. After Ned Stark's execution, the outraged Northern lords call for the secession of their region and demand from Robb, Ned's son, that he takes the restored crown of the North. The Greyjoy family normally follows the same rules of primogeniture as the rest of Westeros, but this is complicated when King Balon dies with all but one of his sons dead, and the surviving son presumed dead and castrated to boot. His daughter Asha would be next in line, but the Isles had never been led by a ruling queen, so they held a "kingsmoot" where, theoretically, anyone could have been crowned. They went with Balon's brother Euron. |
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Norville Barnes inherits Hudsucker Industries in The Hudsucker Proxy due to the fact that he happened to stumble into the top floor at exactly the right time, with the right amount of dim-witted, to be perfect for Sidney Mussburger's plan, following Waring Hudsucker's 44-story drop. | |
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In Planescape: Torment you are offered the throne of the Undead Nations after you discover the Silent King is long (and permanently) dead. Accepting it leads to a Nonstandard Game Over. | |
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The Fall of Númenor: The first kings of Númenor had the custom of willingly passing the Sceptre to their eldest child when they became too old to rule. Over time, the kings would drop this old custom and cling to power until their deaths, one of the first signs of their civilization's decline. Meneldur, fifth King of Númenor, passes the Sceptre to his son Aldarion due to feeling under-qualified to deal with the war-like situation in Middle-Earth. |
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The Bible: Gideon is offered the crown after he defeats the pagan invaders; prior to this Israel had had no set king. He declines, saying their only ruler should be God. However, God would later appoint a king, Saul, through the prophet Samuel. Saul accepted only reluctantly. (Though he was quite keen on holding onto the throne when God changed His mind...) Jesus is offered kingship of the nations by Satan if He would bow down and worship Satan, but Jesus refuses and tells Satan to worship and serve the Lord God only. In the Gospel of John, following His miraculous feeding of the masses with five loaves of bread and two fish, the same crowd also offered to make Jesus their king, but he refused that offer. |
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Towards the end of Avengers: Endgame, Thor abdicates his role as Asgard's king and calls on Valkyrie to succeed him, citing that she's a much more capable leader than he is. | |
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In Princess Natasha, King Karl was installed on the throne after the citizens of Zoravia voted his older brother Lubek out of office. | |
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In The Grateful Beasts, Ferko is made king after the wolf has his fellow wolves eat up the wicked king, Ferko's wicked brothers, and the court who supported the king. (Though he does marry the princess as well.) | |
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Victoria: Guerrilla leader John Rumford is eventually offered the post as chief of the general staff in the Confederation. | |
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In The Bastard of Kosigan, your character ends up being offered the title of Count of Kosigan by virtue of everyone with a better claim having been killed off by each other/you/Alex/French assassins. | |
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In the Neverwinter Nights module A Dance with Rogues, the protagonist becomes a Countess during the extended ending. Of course, the player character was already a princess, albeit of a country that has been conquered by The Dhorn Empire. | |
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In Feet of Clay, the latest conspiracy against Vetinari offers the crown to Nobby Nobbs of all people, who runs in horror from the idea, partly because it's volunteering, and mostly because Mister Vimes would go spare. | |
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Game of Thrones: Seeking aid in retaking the North, Stannis offers to raise Jon to Jon Stark, Lord of Winterfell. Jon refuses this longtime daydream, out of his sense of duty and because he took a vow for the Night's Watch. He ends up getting crowned anyways at the end of Season 6. In Season 8, Jon Snow refuses the Iron Throne multiple times. As the hidden legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark instead of Ned Stark's illegitimate son, as Jon believed for all his life, he is the heir to the Iron Throne. Sam, and later Varys, implore Jon to take the throne but Jon refuses, abdicating his claim in favour of Daenerys Targaryen's. Daenerys fears the truth of Jon's parentage, afraid people will force Jon on the throne over her if they know the truth. Jon tells Daenerys that he doesn't want the throne and he'll refuse because she is his queen but he must be honest with his family, certain they will keep it secret and that he, Daenerys, Sansa, and Arya can all live together as one. However, when Jon confides the secret of his true parentage to his sisters and swears them to secrecy, Sansa breaks her promise to Jon. She tells Tyrion, who tells Varys, who betrays Daenerys and tries to put Jon on the throne despite Jon's refusal. At the end of the show, Bran Stark is elected as the new king of the Six Kingdoms when Westeros is left without a ruler.note The former Queen Cersei Lannister is killed during the massacre on King's Landing when Daenerys Targaryen snaps after experiencing a terrible series of losses and grief and she burns the population of King's Landing after the city surrenders to her. When the new Queen Daenerys resolves to continue killing to build her better world and refuses mercy, Jon tries but fails to dissuade her from this path and reluctantly assassinates her to stop her destruction. Bran himself is not interested in politics but Tyrion insists it because he was able to survive the odds and became the Three-Eyed Raven. |
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Talion: Revenant: King Tirrell offers to abdicate in Nolan's favor near the end of the book. Nolan originally dreamed of this, but by then turns it down, having grown beyond the desire. | |
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In Kingdom of Heaven, Balian is offered a chance to rule by way of marrying Sibylla, the sister to the dying King of Jerusalem, which would place him in a position of great power note exactly what position varies between the theatrical cut, where he would be the next King, and the director's cut, which would make him the husband of the Queen-Regent and stepfather of the King. Though he wants the same outcomes the King does and would love to marry Sibylla (with whom he has been having an affair), Balian ultimately refuses because the plan would require the death of Sibylla's current husband and he doesn't want that on his conscience. | |
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The Dark Crystal: The urSkeks basically left Jen in charge of the castle and the Crystal after he restored the latter. He became king, with Kira as queen, as shown by the comics The Power of the Dark Crystal. | |
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Queen Zixi of Ix: Bud is offered the crown after the king dies and the laws decree that the forty-seventh person to pass through Nole's eastern gate at sunrise is the new monarch. | |
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House of the Dragon: Ser Erryk Cargyll of the Kingsguard considers Aegon as The Usurper, steals the Targaryen crown when Aegon is crowned during The Coup of the Hightowers, and brings it to the one he considers as the legitimate heir, Rhaenyra. | |
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FFS, I Believe in You: When the lizalfos retrieve the Zora's sapphire, a number of them offer it and the rulership it represents to General Isolda. She rejects it, as she has no wish to be queen and the lizalfos' history of promoting generals and warlords to the throne gave them nothing but terrible rulers. | |
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This happens to Velleman at the end of one of the routes of Blaze Union. | |
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How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom: The plot is set in motion when the King of Elfrieden abdicates the throne and leaves it to Souma. Despite the initial struggles and opposition he faces, he quickly proves himself to be The Good King by solving the country's inner troubles, and gains the support of both his people and the neighboring countries. | |
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Judge Dredd: Dredd has been asked to be the new Chief Justice of Mega-City One on several occasions after having saved the city from grave dangers that wiped out or killed off the previous sitting ruling order. Every time, Dredd turns them down as he can't stand the more bureaucratic side of Justice Dept. and prefers dispensing justice on the streets. He does run for the office of Chief Judge during Sinfield's reign, as he figures being Chief Judge is the lesser of two evils compared to Sinfield in charge. Of course, he does find a way out of it. | |
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It's revealed in supplementary material that this was the case for Celestia and Luna in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. After the three tribes (that each had their own leader) united, the obvious question of who would lead was averted by inviting two worthy outsiders to oversee a federation. Though Celestia's powers and authority have grown considerably since that time, she likewise elects successors from among the common folk (Cadance and Twilight Sparkle) to rule beside her. It's unstated if she's sired any blood heirs during her rule, but if she has they don't seem to hold any political power. | |
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In AdventureQuest Worlds, at the end of the Sandsea saga, the people of the Sandsea, who are without a ruler for the first time in centuries, offer the Hero the crown of the Sands in thanks for defeating Zahart and Tibicenas. The Hero proceeds to relinquish the crown to Zhoom instead, since there's still a lot of enemies that the Hero needs to take on. | |
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At the end of Disney's Goliath II, the titular elephant is made the new leader of his herd just for saving them all from an attacking mouse. | |
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The canonical King's Quest games have this for Graham (King's Quest I) and Alexander (King's Quest VI). The Fan Remake version of King's Quest II has this as an option during the Air Gem test where Connor (the protagonist of the controversial eighth game) can be declared First Knight of Daventry. | |
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Disenchantment: In the Grand Finale, Zog, Bean and Rulo all step down as royals, and Rulo gives the crown of Dreamland to Mop Girl, having realized she is far more fit to be queen despite not being royalty. | |
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The hero at the end of Quest for Glory II is adopted as a son by the Sultan in return for saving the city, earning him the title Prince of Shapeir, although he doesn't stay. | |
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This tends to happen to the heroes at the end of Suikoden games, though without an actual crown since they're usually setting up some sort of republic having just overthrown a monarchy or empire. Though some games let you accept, canonically the heroes always refuse. | |
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The Twilight Saga: Jacob inherited the position of Alpha male, but didn't want the responsibility so he gave it to Sam. This is what allows him to disobey the 'Alpha's' orders in Breaking Dawn by running away and forming his own pack with Leah and Seth. | |
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The General's President: General Thomas Cromwell is brought to the White House during the middle of a national emergency and told that the beleaguered president is ready to resign as soon as he appoints a new vice-president. He wants Cromwell to be that Vice-President. Cromwell is told that new legislation will allow the president swear in Cromwell as vice-president without the approval of Congress and will also give him unrestricted powers to solve the financial crisis. Cromwell has the opportunity to seize all of that power with nothing standing in his way. Instead, he emphatically refuses and sets out to find someone better qualified for the job. | |
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In the Templar Path of Dragon Age II, Hawke becomes Kirkwall's new ruler after the people practically beg him/her to do it. It doesn't last, however. | |
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In Inheritance Cycle Eragon is offered the chance to lead the Empire, but he declines, as being a Dragon Rider is enough for him. And also because he's afraid of turning into a tyrant similar to the one he just overthrew. The council also toys with the idea of offering the crown to Eragon's cousin Roran, but conclude that given his questionable (albeit mostly successful) methods of leading large groups of people in the past, as well as his general inexperience in governance, he's not really cut out for the job. | |
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Dragon Quest: In Dragon Quest III, this occurs very early on: after retrieving a stolen crown, the king immediately offers you his throne. Accepting leads to a temporary Nonstandard Game Over, But Thou Must! eventually convince him to take his crown back and let you get on with the whole "saving the world" thing. At the end of Dragon Quest game, the Hero is offered the crown of Alefgard. The protagonist declines, and decides to found his own kingdom in another country...with the help of the Princess. |
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Stargate Atlantis, "The Tower": | |
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Merry in the Merry Gentry series is an official heir, but is probably not going to get it due to her bloodline. Then she is first-and-a-half in line due to some interesting politics. Then she gives up her chance at the crown to save Frost from being inhuman for no-one-knows-how-long. Then, as a now non-heir, she is offered the crown again, in a straight example of this trope. | |
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Yakuza series: At the end of the first game, Kiryu resigns as Fourth Chairman of the Tojo Clan and gives the title to Yukio Terada, an ally of his father figure Kazama from the rival Omi Alliance. This ends up causing tension between Kansai and Tokyo that spills into Yakuza 2, and Terada is assassinated in the first thirty minutes of the game. Kiryu then offers the Chairmanship to Daigo Dojima, the disillusioned son of his former boss, and Daigo leads the Tojo Clan for the rest of the series until Yakuza: Like a Dragon when he chooses to dissolve it to avoid coming under the thumb of corrupt Governor Ryo Aoki. | |
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In Assassin's Creed III, in the DLC Tyranny of King Washington, the epilogue features a phantom created by the Apple of Eden suggests that Washington crown himself king of the United States. Washington rebukes such a proposal before the phantom disappears after Connor drops the Apple in the ocean. | |
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In The Kingpriest Trilogy, Brother Beldyn, a monk with some of the most powerful clerical magic ever seen, is revealed as the mythical Lightbringer. But even though the Lightbringer prophecies say nothing about the throne, Kurnos, the reigning Kingpriest, nonetheless sees him as a threat to his power and so uses dark magic borrowed from Fistandandilus to try and eliminate him. Between Kurnos' violent overreaction to Beldyn and a rebellion in a faraway province, along with Beldyn's incredible healing powers which cures an otherwise uncurable plague in that region, Istar's public favor swings rapidly in Beldyn's direction, leading him to eventually overthrow the Kingpriest and claim his throne. More literally, Beldyn seeks to claim the Miceram, or Crown of Power, from its hidden resting place. After entering the lower sanctum and encountering ghouls that render Beldyn unconscious, Cathan MacSeverin encounters the spirit of the last Kingpriest to hold the crown, who offers to give the crown to him rather than Beldyn. He refuses, insisting that the Miceram doesn't belong to him, but to the Lightbringer. However, due to some creative prophecy interpretation, it is later revealed that Cathan really was the true Lightbringer, and thus the true heir to the Kingpriest's throne. However, this comes long after Beldyn (now named Beldinas) has tipped all the way into Knight Templar status and stretched the Balance to the breaking point. Cathan learns of this after crossing the continent with the Discs of Mishakel, far too late to stop Beldinas from demanding supreme power from the gods and causing the Cataclysm. He angsts over What Might Have Been, but the god Paladine consoles him by telling him that it really couldn't have gone any other way for him. Now, Lord Soth, on the other hand... |
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BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm: Catie at the end of the first game. It happens again with Shift as a gag in the sequel. | |
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Babylon 5: Not a king per se, but the Narn people offer to make G'Kar an absolute ruler after he more or less single-handedly liberates the planet by organizing and supplying the rebellion, then working with Londo to orchestrate the Centauri withdrawal. He is horrified and disgusted at the suggestion, as although he's the last member of the Kha'Ri from before the war, they spoke with many voices, not just his one. He will sit in the Kha'Ri when they do reform it, however. Londo, however, is offered the Imperial Throne and takes it. He does so long after he lost all ambition for it, and then he only accepts because he fears what will happen to his people if someone else takes it. So does Vir. Delenn refuses leadership of the Grey Council several times, only taking it to break the old council. Then there is Sheridan... |
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knight of the dreadfort (the ballad of the red king): House Ryswell has a very unorthodox succession in that the lord nominates his successor from his own family. The current sitting lord Lord Rodrik would have picked his nephew Ser Mark, who was described as The Ace; unfortunately he was killed late in Robert's Rebellion 15 years earlier. So at the onset of the War of the Five Kings the current candidate is a nine-year-old boy named Little Rick. | |
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At the end of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Micaiah becomes the Queen of Daein despite having no blood relation to any of its former rulers and having more of a birthright to the Empire of Begnion instad. This can happen one of two ways: If former King Pelleas is alive, he appoints Micaiah as the new Queen before revealing his own lack of royal blood and deciding to stay by her side as her advisor. If he's dead, then Micaiah is crowned at her subject's entreaty. | |
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The Sunne in Splendour: The future Richard III is dealing with the politically fraught nature of being Lord Protector to a boy king who is also a bit of a Royal Brat. When Richard is privately given information that indicates his brother's marriage was invalid and his nephews illegitimate, he has to decide whether to press his own claim. He does, and Parliament offers him the crown. Truth in Television, if you believe Richard believed the evidence brought to him. | |
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In Guards! Guards!: When the dragon incinerates the prospective king, the high priest instead offers the crown to the dragon. Although the dragon doesn't take it (it's imitation gold, and the priest gets roasted instead) people aren't exactly lining up to point out this technicality. At the end, Vetinari is weighing up the way the future might potentially go; the crown of Ankh-Morpork is - tacitly - offered to Carrot Ironfoundersson, who he suspects is the legitimate heir, but Carrot refuses. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's Worf at least twice, once as Regent for Life with the Duras Sisters, and again after a Klingon Promotion. That second case, as just saying no wasn't exactly an option in the circumstances, leads to Worf turning it around and doing it to someone else — Martok. | |
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