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Rightful King Returns

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Rightful King Returns	comment	This is the common High Fantasy plot that involves restoring the rightful heir to the throne. Requires, obviously, the Royal Blood trope; it doesn't work in a kingdom with elective monarchs. Obviously, this is a very idealistic trope. For a start, it's always absolutely clear (in the long run, at least) which of the claimants is the "rightful" king as there's rarely more than one descendant of the same line and none of that petty squabbling over family trees you get in Real Life. If there's any military opposition to this king's return at all, it's made obvious that these are bad guys who need deposing, because it's harder to get behind a guy invading a country solely in order to plant his behind on the throne if the current ruler is doing an acceptable job. And lastly, the rightful ruler is usually — and conveniently — a competent and moral ruler, even though in Real Life this isn't always the case. Sometimes started off by a Moses in the Bulrushes scenario. The true ruler may be identified by a Distinguishing Mark, such as a birthmark, or an Orphan's Plot Trinket. The rightful monarch may have been been a King Incognito for his own safety until the right moment, or he may learn his Secret Legacy and go to claim it, in a Rags to Royalty plot. Next thing you know, He's Back!, and The Usurper is gonna be defeated once and for all. This stuff is likely to end in an Awesome Moment of Crowning. If this king was exiled by a revolution, then expect it to be a case of The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized and for the king to retake power with the support of the loyalist population. Compare Prodigal Hero. Related to Fisher King, where the king is magically linked to the wellbeing of the whole country. See also King in the Mountain. Sister Trope to A Protagonist Shall Lead Them, who may be royalty but often is not. Contrast Offered the Crown and The Wrongful Heir to the Throne. Supertrope of the Man in the Iron Mask.
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Rightful King Returns / int_10175749	comment	Aquaman (2018): Arthur is forced to take the throne of Atlantis from his half-brother, Orm, in order to protect both Atlantis and the surface world from the war Orm is instigating that could cost millions of lives. However, Arthur struggles against Atlantean racism and his own weaknesses in addition to the challenges of taking on his half-brother. He eventually thwarts Orm's war and is crowned King, ensuring the safety of both the surface world and the seven seas.
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Rightful King Returns / int_10861ce9	comment	Dreamy Smurf in The Smurfs is treated by the Pookies as this in a dream (or so it would seem) when his Second Coming portends that they will be able to defeat the tyrannical Norf Nags. Papa Smurf also plays this role in "King Smurf" when he returns to stop the fighting among all his little Smurfs and to put an end to King Smurf's role as king.
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Rightful King Returns / int_150ce3ed	comment	Jason's motivation in the classic sword and sandals film Jason and the Argonauts. He is the exiled heir to Thessaly but wants something more inspiring for his people than stomping into the palace and killing his uncle. Hence, the quest to sail across the world and bring back the Golden Fleece.
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Rightful King Returns / int_1644d026	comment	King's Heir: Rise to the Throne: After all hell breaking loose with the assassination of the King in a coup, Randall, the long-lost Prince returns, and is crowned King.
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Rightful King Returns / int_16a8c5ae	comment	The Black Arrow: After Sir Daniel Brackley has been killed off and main character Richard "Dick" Shelton has married his love interest, he enters into the possession of his inheritance, the lands of Tunstall, which Sir Daniel had stealthily usurped after murdering Dick's father. For their part, the folks of Tunstall hamlet who had lived under the yoke of Sir Daniel are glad to be ruled by a reasonable lord for a change.
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Rightful King Returns / int_18a81596	comment	Kimba the White Lion: After his father's death, he must reclaim his kingdom. However, he will have to reclaim it from a black-maned scarred lion, who has usurped the throne in his absence. It must be told it was made forty years before Disney made The Lion King.
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Rightful King Returns / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: After King Cailan's death in Dragon Age: Origins, Arl Eamon tries to invoke this trope with the late king's bastard half-brother Alistair. The player can either go along with his plan (and maybe with a Female Warden as The Mistress or his Hot Consort), defy it by leaving Cailan's commoner-born Queen Consort Anora on the throne (maybe with a Male Warden as her Hot Consort), or arrange a political marriage between both parties involved. Alistair and Leliana discuss this trope when they speak about how many ballads there are about lost kings returning to reclaim their lands from the usurpers. A straighter example is found in the prequel novel Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne, which takes place during the Orlesian occupation of Ferelden. The novel starts as Prince Maric's mother (the rightful Queen) is betrayed and killed by nobles seeking to earn favor with the Usurper-King (a distant cousin of the Orlesian Emperor). Maric barely escapes and, eventually, leads La RÃ©sistance alongside Loghain Mac Tir, his best friend, and Rowan Guerrin (Eamon's sister), to whom Maric is betrothed. In the end, Loghain is able to secure Ferelden's freedom in a decisive battle, and Maric is crowned King with Rowan as his Queen (although she really loves Loghain). The Usurper is publicly executed. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Grand Duke Gaspard de Chalons was raised with the expectation that he would inherit the throne from his uncle, Emperor Florian, whose only child died as a baby; but he was outmaneuvered by his cousin, who became Empress Celene. This all took place some thirty years before the events of the game. At the time of the game, Gaspard is waging civil war against Celene in one last attempt to reclaim what he views as his rightful crown, and should he succeed (based on the player's decisions), his supporters view his coronation as this trope.
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Rightful King Returns / int_1d2ee408	comment	The Hooded Lanterns in Dungeons Of Drakkenheim hope to end the fifteen year long civil war wracking Westemar by finding royal regalia and possibly documents with which they can properly declare a new legitimate heir to the royal family of Westemar, who were killed when the kingdom's capital city, the titular Drakkenheim, was crushed by a Delerium meteor.
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Rightful King Returns / int_2268b84d	comment	Subverted in Shrek the Third: Shrek is himself a rightful heir (through his wife, Princess Fiona), but he proved to be a liability to the kingdom. He intentionally embarks on a quest to find another rightful heir — the king's nephew, Arthur Pendragon â€” and overthrow Charming to relieve himself of the duty.
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Rightful King Returns / int_22d74b2e	comment	While most monarchs in the Redwall series are presented as antagonists (aside from the Badger Lords), High Rhulain does employ this trope. An otter maid at Redwall Abbey discovers her great-great-etc. aunt was the ruler (or High Rhulain) of a kingdom of otters until she died fighting an invading force of wildcats, but her brother managed to escape with the royal regalia and settled at Redwall. Our heroine discovers this just as her rightful subjects are about to start a rebellion against their wildcat overlords.
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Rightful King Returns / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: The main characters return the Orb of Aldur to its rightful place in the Court of Riva, only for it to accept The Hero Garion as its new bearer and Belgarath the Sorcerer to proclaim him the lost heir of the Rivan throne. Garion, who had been raised as a Farm Boy and kept Locked Out of the Loop about his heritage, is a bit thrown.
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Rightful King Returns / int_25757379	comment	Bardic Voices: Purposefully subverted in The Lark and the Wren: the old king had driven the country to the point of rebellion, the usurper is doing an excellent job, and the rightful heir only comes back to publicly renounce the throne, having neither the training nor the inclination to run a country.
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Rightful King Returns / int_261c8d3f	comment	Subverted in The Simpsons, "Simpsons Bible Stories" episode. As part of a retelling of the story of David and Goliath, David (Bart) was forced into exile by Goliath II (Nelson). David reclaims his throne, however, his people arrest him as Goliath II (the Consensus Builder) was a popular ruler who genuinely improved their lives.
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Rightful King Returns / int_279cd0b8	comment	In Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures, it turns out that Hadji has Royal Blood, and was to become the Sultan of Bangalore, except his evil uncle and cousin killed his father, locked his mother up, and tried to kill him to take the throne, back when Hadji was just a little kid. Of course, he didn't die; he was saved by Pasha the Peddler and eventually adopted by Dr. Quest, which Pasha facilitated in the original series. Later, with the help of the Quest Team, he saves his mother and takes back his throne.
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Rightful King Returns / int_28184245	comment	In "A Witch Shall Be Born", the Fake King plot requires this.
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Rightful King Returns / int_29362ae	comment	In John Barnes's One for the Morning Glory, Princess Calliope returns to her native Overhill, which the usurper Waldo had seized when she was a child and is crowned there. A Fisher King effect comes into play.
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Rightful King Returns / int_2c3cd68a	comment	X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Eiattu IV went through an Anastasia-esque revolution in which the monarchs and all their children were killed, save a prince and princess who escaped. Years later though the revolution has cycled back out of power, there's a lot of division, and the last, lost princess is found as a pilot. Her retaking the throne happens quickly enough, her arc from there shows that her time away made her more sensitive and sympathetic to the people, and unimpressed by noble pressure and scheming.
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Rightful King Returns / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: The world inside the Sugar Rush game is ruled by King Candy, but he is exposed as a disguised Turbo who took over Sugar Rush after he got his own game decommissioned. After he's defeated, the game reset triggered by Vanellopenote Whose code he tried to delete, hence why she's a glitch crossing the finish line reveals that he stole the throne from her, and her status as Princess Vanellope von Schweetz is restored. Averted as she then switches from monarchy to democracy, declaring herself President instead.
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Rightful King Returns / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League has a rare villainous example when Darkseid returns. His home is embroiled in a struggle for succession, with two armies of mooks and super-beings about to settle the question of leadership in an epic battle... and then he simply teleports between them, and declares their "meaningless" war for the throne is at an end. Everyone falls to their knees without hesitation, and the leaders of the two sides immediately return to cooperating with each other to serve their returned master.
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Rightful King Returns / int_2f92f79b	comment	Richard III ends with Richmond, the rightful heir, recovering the throne from Richard. (At least, that's the way Shakespeare portrayed it — note that Queen Elizabeth was Richmond's granddaughter. The actual history is more controversial.)
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Rightful King Returns / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Fire Emblem: From Gaiden and its remake Shadows of Valentia: The female lead, Celica, is a princess of the country of Zofia, and in hiding prior to the start of the game. Her father, King Lima IV, is killed in a coup prior to the events of the game, leaving Zofia with the villainous Chancellor Desaix as the closest thing to a leader. Subverted in that it's actually the male lead Alm who liberates Zofia from Desaix; Celica's storyline revolves around her pilgrimage to the Temple of Mila, Zofia's patron goddess, and then her journey through the neighboring country Rigel to rescue Mila from the rival god Duma, though she does become queen of Zofia at the end of the game. The remake adds Conrad, Celica's elder brother also in hiding, which would presumably make him the true rightful heir to the Zofian throne. Celica still becomes queen at the end of the game, though, like in the original, with Conrad becoming Chancellor instead. Meanwhile, at the end of Act 4, with the death of Rigel's Emperor Rudolf, it is revealed that his killer, the male lead Alm, is Rudolf's son, and now emperor of Rigel. In the remake, this draws the ire of Rudolf's nephew Berkut, who had been led to believe that he was the rightful heir to the Rigelian throne, prompting him to sacrifice his fiancee to Duma to gain more power, and then use that power to attempt to kill Alm. This is basically what Seliph must do in Genealogy of the Holy War, as he is the rightful heir to The Empire since his Missing Mom Deirdre was the illegitimate daughter of the long-dead Crown Prince and the (brainwashed) wife to the current Emperor, Alvis. When he's ready to fight back against said Empire, he begins to organize and lead La RÃ©sistance... Similarly, Seliph's cousin Leif is the rightful heir to the throne of Leonster. His own struggles are the focus of the sequel to Genealogy, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. The Azure Moon route in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is both a literal and metaphorical example of this. Your lord, the Crown Prince of Faerghus, Dimitri, was framed for murder and spent five years in exile. Among other things, that exile has driven him mad by the time you find him again. The rest of the route is trying to build La RÃ©sistance to rescue his kingdom from The Empire and return him to the throne while helping Dimitri heal from his trauma and become the king he was meant to be. The chapter where you accomplish both is even called "The King's Triumphant Return".
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Rightful King Returns / int_30cf883b	comment	Grent's Fall: As the nephew of the last Stanley king, Warren Stanley seeks to return his family to the throne (or at least high nobility) by helping Henry Darro. Unlike most examples, he fails.
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Rightful King Returns / int_31905565	comment	In The Hour of the Dragon, "Valerius, rightful heir of the throne of Aquilonia." wants this — to depose Conan. Doesn't work as usual. For one thing, Conan sets out to implement this trope.
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Rightful King Returns / int_32625652	comment	In volume 14 of Dance in the Vampire Bund, Princess Mina Tepes broadcasts an announcement of her return as her Werewolf Commando Bodyguards help restore order in riot-ravaged Tokyo, then personally joins the missile-born airdrop sent against the island concession/domain in Tokyo Bay her Evil Twin has been oppressing.
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Rightful King Returns / int_35bceb50	comment	Hamlet is a subversion. Hamlet, the rightful heir, slays Claudius, who took over the throne, but doesn't live long enough to claim it himself. Then the kingdom gets taken over by Fortinbras, the rightful heir to another whole kingdom, because his kingdom had been usurped. By Hamlet's dad.
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Rightful King Returns / int_35e05f2a	comment	Ruby Rose returns to Beacon in Act II of Summer Rose Court and is crowned queen. Unlike most examples, The Usurper is only too happy to step aside, since not only did he not want the position in the first place, but because he was using Crescent Rose without Rose blood, the throne was actively harming him.
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Rightful King Returns / int_370d08af	comment	Slapstick aside, The Wizard of Oz (1925) revolves around returning Dorothy to Oz and restoring her as the rightful heir of Oz.
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Rightful King Returns / int_375ce394	comment	How Adrian was planning to use Bria to stop the clan fighting in The Last Dove. It wasn't quite that simple.
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Rightful King Returns / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Grand Duke Gaspard de Chalons was raised with the expectation that he would inherit the throne from his uncle, Emperor Florian, whose only child died as a baby; but he was outmaneuvered by his cousin, who became Empress Celene. This all took place some thirty years before the events of the game. At the time of the game, Gaspard is waging civil war against Celene in one last attempt to reclaim what he views as his rightful crown, and should he succeed (based on the player's decisions), his supporters view his coronation as this trope.
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Rightful King Returns / int_3b11106f	comment	Flash Gordon (1980): After Ming the Merciless is defeated, Vultan states that Prince Barin is the rightful ruler of Mongo.
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Rightful King Returns / int_3bdff8e5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005) ends this way, with the return of the missing Princess Zelda (who is immediately crowned Queen, thus making it the Rightful Queen Returns).
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Rightful King Returns / int_3ccba584	comment	Played with in King's Ransom, Queen Sacrifice. According to the law, the Regent is indeed the rightful heir to the throne once Laurent is confirmed to be an Omega. However, many regard Laurent as the rightful Queen of Vere because he is the last trueborn child of Aleron, the previous king. Who the throne rightfully belongs to is murky, and in the end, the Regent is deemed a pretender not because he actually isn't the heir, but because his tyranny has caused the majority of the people to reject his claim to the throne regardless of its legitimacy.
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Rightful King Returns / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: In Season 3, the new Levi Squad discovers that Historia Reiss' family is the real royal family, and the real power behind the throne. After the military enacts a coup against the false king and his advisers, they ask Historia to take the throne in his stead to give the coup legitimacy. It works, once she delivers the killing blow against her father, who had turned himself into a Titan in a desperate attempt to retake the powers of the Founding Titan.
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Rightful King Returns / int_40f13f1	comment	In The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a Ruritanian kingdom suffers under a succession of weak and squabbling rulers after the old royal house is done in by assassins, while legend says that the last prince of the old royal family, whose body wasn't found, escaped the assassins and one day one of his descendants will Return. At the end of the book, it happens. More attention is given than is usually the case to things like the diplomacy required to make sure the neighboring countries are on the side of the Returned King, and what kind of education a lost heir who might or might not be the one to Return actually gets. (On the other hand, all the usual Single Line of Descent issues occur and pass without comment.) There's also an interesting scene near the end where the new King tells the protagonist that he places the good of his country and people first, to the point that he'd cheerfully have stayed Lost if the country's rulers had managed to get their act together without him.
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Rightful King Returns / int_43f52aa9	comment	Subverted in Oblivion when the amulet needed to restore Martin Septim to his throne is stolen. It's later averted entirely when Martin gives his life to defeat Mehrunes Dagon.
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Rightful King Returns / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Subverted by Carrot Ironfoundersson in Ankh-Morpork. He's the rightful king, and would make a really good one, too, caring about both his people and the city... but he stays away from the throne for exactly that reason, as he knows that monarchy is exactly what Ankh-Morpork doesn't need, and possibly because he ascribes to Vimes' problem with the term 'rightful'. He'll occasionally exploit his status, though, using it to pull off the narrative tricks that come with this trope, such as fighting other enemies aware of narrative causality who realize you can't beat a rightful king who's not yet on the throne, especially when he's got justice and is outnumbered. He once very politely asked Vetinari if he would do him a favor, and grant Vimes noble rank. The whole thing is best described by this prophecy with a twist: Unlike the Tolkien example below, both the Patrician (heir to the revolution that deposed and executed the last king) and the Rightful King are happy with the status quo: Vetinari can rest secure in the knowledge that, if anyone DOES try to organize a coup to restore the Rightful Heir to the throne, they haven't got the correct Heir. Meanwhile, the heir knows the city is being taken care of by the right man for the job. Pratchett does the same trick in Wyrd Sisters in which Tomjon returns to Lancre but rejects the kingship in favour of being an actor. Luckily he has a secret half-brother. Said half-brother is the son of the former King's jester; Tomjon is the illegitimate son of the queen and the jester. But the good folk of Lancre believe the opposite, and since there's no such thing as paternity tests on the Disc, there's no way to disprove it. Draws on Macbeth.
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Rightful King Returns / int_4817e818	comment	Lord of the Rings: One of the threads of the movie trilogy is that Aragorn, a wandering Ranger, is actually a descendent of Isildur and the rightful King of Gondor. His birthright is opposed by Denethor II, the steward who has been serving as de facto king and initially by the steward's sons, Boromir and Faramir. However, after Aragorn's pivotal roles in saving Rohan, Gondor, and Middle Earth, combined with his ability to command Anduril, forged from Narsil, he is crowned King.
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Rightful King Returns / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII uses this trope with Lady Ashe.
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Rightful King Returns / int_4f6c4ec5	comment	Invoked in Summers at Castle Auburn. This is the image of Bryan taking power that everyone pretends is the truth, because the reality that he'll make a terrible king is too depressing.
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Rightful King Returns / int_501ad241	comment	Most of the possible story paths in Queen at Arms have the player character Marcus reclaiming her birth name and her throne as the rightful Queen of Orthera.
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Rightful King Returns / int_52b6c04d	comment	The Prisoner of Zenda is almost a subversion of the trope though since the guy helping to restore the king is agreed by the king's allies to actually be a better ruler, and in fact, the guy who overthrew the king is also a much better ruler.
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Rightful King Returns / int_52e8fba	comment	Land of Oz: Princess Ozma, the true ruler of Oz, is restored to her throne some time after Dorothy's original adventure; by the time Dorothy returns to Oz in the third book in the series, Ozma's back on her throne and ruling wisely and peacefully. Although the second book in the series details Ozma's recovery (she had been usurped by the Wizard and the wicked Witches and disguised as a boy for her entire life, so that even she didn't know who she was), Baum changed her origin story no less than three times during the writing of the rest of the series. Note that Ozma rules as anointed sovereign, but usually is not addressed as Queen; you know why. However, at the end of The Land of Oz, Ozma is referred to as a "Queen".
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Rightful King Returns / int_52e90e3b	comment	Subverted in Otherbound. The princess, Cilla, who lays claim to the throne isn't even the real princess.
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Rightful King Returns / int_57c5fcc1	comment	Loric in Sword Daughter is a villainous version, or at least claims to be an example. He says that he was forced out of his rightful kingdom, and is amassing power to reclaim it — by hiring mercenaries and orc raiders, and having his minions capture and enslave travelers to put them to work excavating a Dragon Hoard.
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Rightful King Returns / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: The two sides of the Skyrim Civil War both have this as their goal. The Imperial soldiers want the High King's widow Elisif to take her late husband's place as the ruler, while the Stormcloaks want the crown to go to their Rebel Leader, Jarl Ulfric. Whichever side the Dragonborn takes is, of course, the one that ultimately wins. Arngeir, leader of the Greybeards, sees this as the nature of the Dragonborn's coming. He remarks that the "Stormcrown" has languished too long without a worthy brow to bear it, and once the Dragonborn completes the requisite Fetch Quest, the Greybeards are only too happy to hold a ceremony (which verges on being an Awesome Moment of Crowning) in which they rejoice that there is once again a worthy Dragonborn.
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Rightful King Returns / int_5bd0554b	comment	Warcraft and World of Warcraft: In the original Warcraft series, the human kings suspected Anduin Lothar, the last descendant of the Arathi royal bloodline, wanted to rebuild the Empire of Arathor and that the Alliance was just a stepping stone to that goal. He had no such intentions. Varian Wrynn in Wrath of the Lich King's patch 3.0.2, after his prolonged absence from Stormwind ever since the game's launch, explained in the spin-off comic series. Subverted in the leadup to Legion. When Ironforge's king, Magni Bronzebeard, re-emerges from having been Taken for Granite back in the Cataclysm expansion, several dwarves worry that this will happen and become a Spanner in the Works for the uneasy coalition between the dwarves of Ironforge, the independent-minded Wildhammer dwarves, and the formerly antagonistic Dark Iron dwarves, as the latter two groups will not want to serve under Magni's sole rule. Fortunately, Magni has bigger issues to deal with, as he is sent on a mission by Azeroth itself and leaves Ironforge's government alone.
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Rightful King Returns / int_5d1b7e1f	comment	The Hearts of Iron 4 Alternate History mod The New Order Last Days Of Europe has no less than four different monarchist paths for Russia, which shattered into pieces after the German victory during Operation Barbarossa: The most infamous and one of the most horrific examples imaginable. Sergey Taboritsky wishes to restore Alexei Romanov as Tsar of Russia, which of course is impossible as Alexei was murdered by the Soviets as a boy. The mad regent treats Alexei as a divine entity who will return only when Russia is "pure", which leads to Khmer Rouge-esque purges of all kinds of people across the country — academics, the poor, criminals, racial minorities, etc. And then when the clock strikes twelve, Taboritsky realises that Alexei is dead and not coming back, and things get even worse. In an example that would make Taboritsky roll in his grave, Alexei IInote or rather, Michael Goleniewski, who in real life pretended to be Alexi can come to power in a post-Taboritsky Russia, instituting the exact opposite ideas that Taboritsky promoted. Vyatka, which consists of forces loyal to Vladimir Kirillovich, the real life candidate who likely would have been crowned in real life had the monarchy had been restored after the USSR's dissolution. However, his claim is sullied by the fact that Vladimir and his forces only entered Vyatka in the first place because of the Germans, who forced him to lead a force against Soviet remnants during a war in the 1950s by holding his wife hostage. Vladimir's entire story arc in Russia has him overcoming his past and truely trying to usher in a better future for Russia. Then there's Chita in the Far East, a military dictatorship ran by White Army generals from the original Russian Civil War who have Michael Andreevichnote in real life, Michael's legitimacy was disputed by many, including the aforementioned Vladimir, in part due to him being the product of a morganic marriage on the throne as a puppet. If Mikhail fails to subvert the White Army dictatorship from within, he's sent home and replaced by Nikita Alexandrovichnote who ironically did have a legitimate claim to the throne.. In a more outlandish example, Rurik IIInote obviously not an actual member of the Rurik dynasty, but rather, Soviet General Nikolay Krylov, who apparently went insane after being on the receiving end of a mutiny on top of a defeat by anarchists can reunite Russia from his warlord state in Kemerovo, creating a "Kingdom of Rus" that harkens back to Russia's medieval past, which his children continue.
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Rightful King Returns / int_5d1b85db	comment	In The Shadow Speaker, the main character Ejii's father takes over a small village in Niger. The queen returns and beheads him in front of all the citizens.
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Rightful King Returns / int_5e150650	comment	The basic theme of Exalted is the return of the Solar Exalted, previously deposed, and sealed away by Sidereals and Terrestials. However, while heroic Solars are the default Player Characters, half of all Solars has been turned to dark powers and the ones that stayed shiny and glorious may be even worse. Moreover, the adventure book Return of the Scarlet Empress posits a subversion. The Empress also heralds the return of some of world's overthrown creators, but this is a very bad thing.
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Rightful King Returns / int_5e9ea81e	comment	Black Panther: Killmonger seemingly kills T'Challa in the Trial by Combat challenge. The royal family flees in fear of their lives and Killmonger takes the throne as the new king of Wakanda. He initiates his plan to use Wakanda's weapons to topple what he deems oppressive governments across the globe. Just as the first planes launch, T'Challa returns, revealing that he had not actually been killed as previously believed. T'Challa demands that all Killmonger's orders be halted immediately, citing that he neither forfeited the ceremonial challenge nor died and was thus still technically the king since he had not been officially dethroned. After an extended battle, T'Challa defeats Killmonger and his status as king is reinstated.
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Rightful King Returns / int_5ef424cf	comment	Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic sees King Eric III of Drostardy return to his throne after breaking out of a drow dungeon. (The reason he was in there in the first place? He hit on Arachne.)
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Rightful King Returns / int_629cd094	comment	After King Cailan's death in Dragon Age: Origins, Arl Eamon tries to invoke this trope with the late king's bastard half-brother Alistair. The player can either go along with his plan (and maybe with a Female Warden as The Mistress or his Hot Consort), defy it by leaving Cailan's commoner-born Queen Consort Anora on the throne (maybe with a Male Warden as her Hot Consort), or arrange a political marriage between both parties involved. Alistair and Leliana discuss this trope when they speak about how many ballads there are about lost kings returning to reclaim their lands from the usurpers.
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Rightful King Returns / int_630755ab	comment	Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series uses this, although regarding the heir to the throne, not the actual ruler, ending a bubbling Succession Crisis. Due to a Contrived Coincidence, it's literally the case that the earth shakes and the sky turns red when the long-lost prince declares his true identity publicly.
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Rightful King Returns / int_63409895	comment	Sofia the First and it's spin-off,* Elena of Avalor, we have the Case of Elena, who was magically sealed inside Sofia's amulet by almost 40 years, with her parents killed by the evil sorcerer Shuriki and the rest of her family sealed inside a portrait until Sofia freed her from the amulet, helping Elena to recover what was left of her family and retake her kindgom.
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Rightful King Returns / int_63935537	comment	Ivanhoe: Richard the Lionhearted, finally freed of his imprisonment after the Third Crusade, returns disguised as a Black Knight to reclaim his rightful throne from his conniving brother, John Lackland. This example is notable for being written before it was revealed that Richard actually returned incognito to England and besieged a castle belonging to a rebellious baron after the Third Crusade.
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Rightful King Returns / int_64b51b44	comment	King Ralph: After a rather ridiculous accident during a mass family photo shoot toasts almost every member of British Royalty, the call goes out to find anyone with the right bloodline. The first heir left in line is Ralph -but he doesn't like the job.
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Rightful King Returns / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor, the rightful heir, in his titular movieâ€”then zig-zagged when Odin wakes back up. Black Panther: Killmonger seemingly kills T'Challa in the Trial by Combat challenge. The royal family flees in fear of their lives and Killmonger takes the throne as the new king of Wakanda. He initiates his plan to use Wakanda's weapons to topple what he deems oppressive governments across the globe. Just as the first planes launch, T'Challa returns, revealing that he had not actually been killed as previously believed. T'Challa demands that all Killmonger's orders be halted immediately, citing that he neither forfeited the ceremonial challenge nor died and was thus still technically the king since he had not been officially dethroned. After an extended battle, T'Challa defeats Killmonger and his status as king is reinstated.
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Rightful King Returns / int_6e1d5f36	comment	In the follow-up comic book to Farscape, Rygel is contacted by his remaining wife, who tells him that his cousin Bishan, who deposed Rygel and made himself Dominar decades before, has grown quite unpopular among the people and the aristocracy. She urges Rygel to return to Hyneria to lay claim to his rightful throne, telling him that the people will support his claim. However, this turns out to be a trap. Bishan captures Rygel and imprisons him along with several of Rygel's supporters. In the end, Rygel shows that the long exile has changed him for the better, and he leads an escape and captures Bishan. Rygel resumes his position as Dominar Rygel XVI of the Hynerian Empire.
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Rightful King Returns / int_719ec300	comment	War of Omens has a dark variation. The Rightful Queen used her time in exile to become an Evil Imperialist Blood Knight and cheerfully slaughters her way across the country so she can reclaim her throne and resume her family's legacy of unabated tyranny.
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Rightful King Returns / int_72078fd2	comment	This is the villain's motivation in Heroic Trio: he is kidnapping children with imperial ancestry so he can bring back the monarchy. As he rants when our heroes go to take him down, "China must have a king!"
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Rightful King Returns / int_72146c5e	comment	Fiona Patton's Tales of the Branion Realm: The Painter Knight is all about this trope; concerning a Usurper Evil Uncle who assassinates the monarch and seizes the regency of his five-year-old heir. She escapes his clutches with the help of a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, who discuss and deconstruct the trope in the process of running for their lives.
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Rightful King Returns / int_72a9864b	comment	Played with in the Hindu epic Ramayana. The titular Rama is designated Crown Prince heir to the throne, but has to abdicate and exile himself for 14 years, because of a promise his father had made. His half brother Bharat is forced to rule as regent until Rama returns. Although by all accounts, Bharat was a competent ruler, everyone in the kingdom want Rama back.
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Rightful King Returns / int_747a18bc	comment	The flagship campaign in the Battle for Wesnoth requires Konrad, the only surviving nephew of the former king, to retreat from his homeland amidst death threats, round up allies, and return later to conquer the kingdom from his aunt, the Queen. Subverted, though; the real Konrad died 17 years prior with the rest of the heirs, and he's an (unknowing) impostor. Just before the final battle for Wesnoth, he has to hand over the kingdom to Li'sar, who he befriended along the way. Possibly double subverted in that, since she ends up marrying him in the lore, he gets to be king anyway.
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Rightful King Returns / int_74945bfb	comment	The Crimson Shadow: After Greensparrow is killed, the true queen of Avon (whose father he usurped, making her a duchess), takes over.
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Rightful King Returns / int_74f7210c	comment	Frequently part of The Legend of Zelda games, at least the ones where Princess Zelda is the rightful ruler. She's not going to return by herself, though; you (Link) have to rescue her.
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Rightful King Returns / int_75601693	comment	A straighter example is found in the prequel novel Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne, which takes place during the Orlesian occupation of Ferelden. The novel starts as Prince Maric's mother (the rightful Queen) is betrayed and killed by nobles seeking to earn favor with the Usurper-King (a distant cousin of the Orlesian Emperor). Maric barely escapes and, eventually, leads La RÃ©sistance alongside Loghain Mac Tir, his best friend, and Rowan Guerrin (Eamon's sister), to whom Maric is betrothed. In the end, Loghain is able to secure Ferelden's freedom in a decisive battle, and Maric is crowned King with Rowan as his Queen (although she really loves Loghain). The Usurper is publicly executed.
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Rightful King Returns / int_7cea4fb2	comment	The basic plot of the second half of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) revolves around trying to bring down King Ghidorah, who has taken the top spot as Alpha Titan from Godzilla, and awakened all the other Titans around the world to level the Earth. Ghidorah is stated to be a "false king" and not part of the natural order because he's actually an extraterrestrial who tried to take over the Earth in prehistoric times, and at the end Godzilla defeats Ghidorah, taking back his place as King of the Monsters as the other Titans bow before him, signifying that order was been restored.
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Rightful King Returns / int_7de1376e	comment	Pratchett does the same trick in Wyrd Sisters in which Tomjon returns to Lancre but rejects the kingship in favour of being an actor. Luckily he has a secret half-brother. Said half-brother is the son of the former King's jester; Tomjon is the illegitimate son of the queen and the jester. But the good folk of Lancre believe the opposite, and since there's no such thing as paternity tests on the Disc, there's no way to disprove it. Draws on Macbeth.
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Rightful King Returns / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	In Frozen, after the whole Endless Winter disaster has been averted and Hans's brief reign being put to an end for his treachery, Elsa returns to resume her role as Queen of Arendelle after a disastrous first impression at her coronation. And with nothing to hide from anymore, her first act after returning is to reinstate the open door policy and use her ice powers to make a skating rink for everyone to make the citizens and Anna happy.
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Rightful King Returns / int_7fc78282	comment	Aragorn of The Lord of the Rings is the rightful heir to the kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor, of which the former is defunct and the latter is ruled by stewards after the line of kings has died out. At the end of the third book, aptly titled The Return of the King, he is crowned king of Gondor and later (as told in the appendices) restores the kingdom of Arnor.
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Rightful King Returns / int_83c5459c	comment	Trinity Blood ends with Esther being crowned queen.
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Rightful King Returns / int_83c9e5b	comment	Arn: The Knight Templar: Downplayed. Harald plays with the idea of claiming his right to the throne of Norway but chooses not to. He realizes that restarting a civil war against a friend of his fatherâ€™s, whose claim his friend Arnâ€™s clan backed, is not going to lead to anything good. In the end, he swears allegiance to King Sverre and is granted many honors by his fatherâ€™s old friend. He does, however, claim his fatherâ€™s position as chieftain of the Birkebein clan.
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Rightful King Returns / int_86814ea1	comment	This appears to be the premise of Final Fantasy XV. The game's protagonist is prince Noctis, heir apparent to the kingdom of Lucis. His father sends him, alongside three of his friends, to get married. A couple of days on the road and news of Insomnia, Lucis' capital city, falling to the empire reaches Noctis and his friends. The rest of the game is spent finding out more about what happened, gathering power, and returning to their fallen home, to reclaim it from their enemies.
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Rightful King Returns / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: While she isn't a Queen per se, Agatha Heterodyne reclaiming her birthright by taking Castle Heterodyne and triggering the ringing of the Doom Bell definitely has major overtones of this trope. Tarvek Sturmvoraus is the end result of the plots of several factions (it's complicated) to create an heir to the Storm King and use him to legitimize their conquest of Europa. He wasn't really pushing his claim, but Martellus von Blitzengaard, another possible Storm King, appeared on the scene pressing his. Later, they're both out of favor with the factions for various reasons and current front-runner for the title of Storm King is none other than Gilgamesh Wulfenbach.
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Rightful King Returns / int_89ce309d	comment	Macbeth ends with Malcolm, the rightful heir, recovering the throne from Macbeth.
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Rightful King Returns / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Deconstructed and Played for Horror with Meteora. She's the true heir to the Butterfly throne and is well within her rights to claim it for herself, but after 300 years of suffering, she lost all sanity and her attack on the kingdom is less of a coup and more of a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the whole populace. By the time she gets to the throne, she's already drained the souls of nearly everyone. Played straighter but still zig-zagged with Eclipsa, who was forcibly removed from the throne centuries prior. After Meteora's defeat, Star gives the throne and wand back to Eclipsa, however her taking the throne doesn't fix everything and actually leads to a whole new set of problems. Eclipsa's efforts to increase rights for monsters simply causes Mewmans to try and overthrow her. This isn't helped by Eclipsa's somewhat blasÃ© attitude toward it all which means Star ends up doing a lot of work running the kingdom.
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Rightful King Returns / int_8bb042d4	comment	In the Name of the King shows that the Kingdom of Ehb already has a just king named Konreid. However, he's at the end of his life (sped up by him being poisoned by the Big Bad), and his sole heir is his incompetent and jerkish nephew Duke Fallow, who only cares about his birthright and couldn't give a crap about the common people of Ehb (unlike Konreid). During a heated battle with the Krug, Fallow takes the opportunity to put an arrow in King Konreid's chest. While everyone treats him as a traitor, the rules of succession are clear, and all generals are sworn to obey the King of Ehb no matter the circumstances. As Fallow gloats his triumph, the King's magus appears and declares the discovery of Konreid's long-lost son, Prince Camden Konreid, who was thought to have been killed decades before in a time of turmoil. Fallow is immediately arrested, as he's no longer the rightful King (in an alternate scene, Commander Tarish simply slits his throat).
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Rightful King Returns / int_8f8df73b	comment	The Lion King: In the third act, Simba returns to Pride Rock to remove his usurperous uncle, although he doesn't find out Scar's treachery until the latter smugly gloats to Simba about his murder of Mufasa.
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Rightful King Returns / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, this is the basis of the justification of the Seanchan's expansionist policy towards the Westlands: they are Arthur Hawkwing's legitimate heirs, and since Hawkwing's rule over the Westlands predates those of all of the current kings and queens, they are the rightful rulers of the place. Rand later throws back this argument to them in a quite hilarious way by pointing that since he is the reincarnation of Lews Therin, whose rule predates Hawkwing's by several centuries, he is the legitimate ruler of both the Seanchan and the Westlands.
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Rightful King Returns / int_93acba01	comment	From Gaiden and its remake Shadows of Valentia: The female lead, Celica, is a princess of the country of Zofia, and in hiding prior to the start of the game. Her father, King Lima IV, is killed in a coup prior to the events of the game, leaving Zofia with the villainous Chancellor Desaix as the closest thing to a leader. Subverted in that it's actually the male lead Alm who liberates Zofia from Desaix; Celica's storyline revolves around her pilgrimage to the Temple of Mila, Zofia's patron goddess, and then her journey through the neighboring country Rigel to rescue Mila from the rival god Duma, though she does become queen of Zofia at the end of the game. The remake adds Conrad, Celica's elder brother also in hiding, which would presumably make him the true rightful heir to the Zofian throne. Celica still becomes queen at the end of the game, though, like in the original, with Conrad becoming Chancellor instead. Meanwhile, at the end of Act 4, with the death of Rigel's Emperor Rudolf, it is revealed that his killer, the male lead Alm, is Rudolf's son, and now emperor of Rigel. In the remake, this draws the ire of Rudolf's nephew Berkut, who had been led to believe that he was the rightful heir to the Rigelian throne, prompting him to sacrifice his fiancee to Duma to gain more power, and then use that power to attempt to kill Alm.
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Rightful King Returns / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince season 3 has Ezran return to Katolis to become king, and a running plotline that covers the difficulties of being a child king during a critical moment of history.
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Rightful King Returns / int_971602	comment	Kaamelott: Premier Volet: A deposed Arthur Pendragon is expected to come back by everyone in his former kingdom to overthrow Lancelot's tyranny... but he really, really doesn't want to. Circumstances end up forcing his hand.
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Rightful King Returns / int_9804a8e2	comment	As does "The Scarlet Citadel", where Conan escapes the title dungeon with the help of a freed sorcerer and takes back his throne from Puppet King Arpello.
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Rightful King Returns / int_9ba3174f	comment	A huge part of the back-plot of The Quest of the Unaligned. The current king and queen of the land of Caederan have unbalanced the four elements, favoring wind over the others and inducing hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes all across the country. Most of the country has pinned their hopes on the return of Crown Prince Alaric, who has been raised in magicless Tonzimmiel and so theoretically should be able to restore the proper balance. Unfortunately, if he doesn't complete the titular quest by the summer solstice, he will be ineligible for coronation, and Caederan will almost certainly have its first civil war in two hundred years.
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Rightful King Returns / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Subverted in Oblivion when the amulet needed to restore Martin Septim to his throne is stolen. It's later averted entirely when Martin gives his life to defeat Mehrunes Dagon. Skyrim: The two sides of the Skyrim Civil War both have this as their goal. The Imperial soldiers want the High King's widow Elisif to take her late husband's place as the ruler, while the Stormcloaks want the crown to go to their Rebel Leader, Jarl Ulfric. Whichever side the Dragonborn takes is, of course, the one that ultimately wins. Arngeir, leader of the Greybeards, sees this as the nature of the Dragonborn's coming. He remarks that the "Stormcrown" has languished too long without a worthy brow to bear it, and once the Dragonborn completes the requisite Fetch Quest, the Greybeards are only too happy to hold a ceremony (which verges on being an Awesome Moment of Crowning) in which they rejoice that there is once again a worthy Dragonborn.
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Rightful King Returns / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Deconstructed in the Westerosi Succession Crisis. Several of the claimants to the Iron Throne see themselves as this (Stannis is the rightful heir of the former King Robert who claimed his throne by conquest; Viserys and Daenerys are the children of the king before Robert, Aerys II Targaryen, and the scions of a royal line that had ruled the realm for centuries; Aegon is Aerys' grandson, thought to have been killed as a baby; although this Aegon may well be an imposter descended from a long-established, exiled, cadet branch of Targaryens, the Blackfyres, who claim decent from Daemon Blackfyre, who they say was the only true heir of King Aegon IV from about eight or nine decades back). The modern Targaryens are thoroughly swept up by this trope, believing their return to the throne will inevitably unite their people and restore peace to the realm. However, it's frequently shown throughout the series that there's not necessarily any correlation between right to rule, ability to rule, or ability to win a civil war, and that the court of public opinion, while it bears no legal weight, matters. Exemplified by Viserys Targaryen. While he is the last son of King Aerys and claims he is the rightful King, he's a massive jerk who abuses his sister, sells her off as a wife to Khal Drogo, and arrogantly treats everybody as inferior to him. The breaking point was when he threatened to take Daenerys back and cut her and Drogo's child out of her belly, at which point Drogo promises him a crown of gold and pours molten gold over Viserys's head. Done on a lower level with rule of the North. After Lord Roose Bolton betrays and murders Robb Stark, the King in the North, he is granted control of the North. It is believed Eddard Stark's two younger sons Bran and Rickon Stark were killed by Theon Greyjoy, however they are still in hiding and the Boltons want to eliminate them. They try to legitimise their rule by having Roose's legitimised Bastard Bastard Ramsay marry a false Arya Stark but most of the North despise them and want to see the Starks returned to rule. Theon's sister, Asha Greyjoy, hopes to do this herself with her brother Theon, to remove their uncle Euron Greyjoy from the throne. Although, she wasn't aware of the state he was in when she went looking for him... In-universe, the ruling class is more than aware of the power this trope in the minds of the people. A conquering House is always very careful to either eliminate the conquered House's bloodline or marry off their heir-apparent to the conquered House's (possibly killing off a few potential heirs before arriving at a cooperative one of suitable age and sex) so that their heir will be seen as the rightful ruler. Part of the reason why Blackfish is disinclined to trust Jaime Lannister's offer of clemency in their negotiations to end the siege of Riverrun is that it includes allowing Edmure Tully (rightful lord of Riverrun) to live, something most in his position would consider a dangerous tactical error. Though it is commented that if Edmure was executed the Blackfish may declare his great-nephew Robert Arryn Lord of Riverrun.
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Rightful King Returns / int_9d963831	comment	Septimus Heap: The first book, Magyk, involves Jenna Heap learning that she is the rightful princess of the Castle, and with the other heroes working to overthrow the Custodians who killed her mother and the Darke wizard who backs them.
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Rightful King Returns / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Twisted in One Piece: the rightful king of Dressrosa, Donquixote Doflamingo, returns after another bloodline has ruled his kingdom for eight hundred years. However, that other dynasty was a kind and pacifistic one, while the "rightful" king, as his family, is evil. Also inverted by the rightful King of Drum, a tyrant that ruined the kingdom and abandoned it after a pirate attack. The kingdom actually got better without him in charge, and Drum's people were terrified by the idea of the King's return.
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Rightful King Returns / int_a32877f1	comment	Old Kingdom: The royal family is one of the Great Charter bloodlines and necessary for the Kingdom's stability. In the first book, one of the reasons for the chaos of the interregnum that has lasted for 200 years is because the Big Bad massacred the family in his attempts to break the Charter, except for his half-brother Touchstone, who Sabriel finds as a Human Popsicle in the burial ground Holehallow. He takes the throne after Kerrigor's defeat.
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Rightful King Returns / int_a5549ed0	comment	The original Jewish concept of the messiah was that a descendant of David would return to resume the dynasty. This is one common interpretation of passages in The Bible (including as far back as the prophetic Book of Hosea).
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Rightful King Returns / int_a68c19b8	comment	This is basically what Seliph must do in Genealogy of the Holy War, as he is the rightful heir to The Empire since his Missing Mom Deirdre was the illegitimate daughter of the long-dead Crown Prince and the (brainwashed) wife to the current Emperor, Alvis. When he's ready to fight back against said Empire, he begins to organize and lead La RÃ©sistance...
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Rightful King Returns / int_a6f6433c	comment	The backstory for the Jak and Daxter franchise has Baron Praxis overthrow Haven City's monarchy, banishing King Damas to the Wastelands, and seeking out Prince Mar to use him for eco experiments and locating the last Precursor Stone. However, Mar would peacefully live out his childhood in the past under the name Jak, and when he returns to the present as a teen, he overthrows Praxis out of revenge for being subjected to the Dark Warrior project for two years. However, Jak has forgotten his past, and doesn't realize The Kid is his younger self until Metal Kor spills it out at the end of the second game. By the end of Jak 3, Jak is legally King of Haven City upon Damas' death, but for the time being, he's letting Ashelin and Torn goven the city while he and Daxter embark on "more adventures".
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Rightful King Returns / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Played With in Final Fantasy IV. The true king's dead, but the main character Cecil takes his place. Justified because the true king had no blood heir, but had adopted Cecil as his own. Final Fantasy XII uses this trope with Lady Ashe. This appears to be the premise of Final Fantasy XV. The game's protagonist is prince Noctis, heir apparent to the kingdom of Lucis. His father sends him, alongside three of his friends, to get married. A couple of days on the road and news of Insomnia, Lucis' capital city, falling to the empire reaches Noctis and his friends. The rest of the game is spent finding out more about what happened, gathering power, and returning to their fallen home, to reclaim it from their enemies.
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Rightful King Returns / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: For the Southlands. The Southlanders receive Halbrand with open arms after learning that he is the king that was promised. Then Galadriel does some further digging into the Elven archives and finds out that the last king of the Southlands died without an heir over a thousand years ago.
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Rightful King Returns / int_a9570fac	comment	Victoria: Has a Christian Tsar restoration off-page as part of the backstory. The Tsar supports the Victorian's rebellion against the US Government, and in the end abdicates in favor of his brother in order to lead a multi-denominational order of crusader knights in destroying Islam forever.
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Rightful King Returns / int_a97a40f0	comment	The Witch of Knightcharm: Gelila Wongel, a new student at an evil Wizarding School, is trying to set this up. She claims to be descended from Seble Wongel, Empress of the Ethiopian Empire, and wants to learn The Dark Arts so she can forcibly reestablish that empire (which would presumably mean annexing Eritrea) and take back the throne which she believes is hers by right.
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Rightful King Returns / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Heavily Deconstructed by the Succession Crisis that results from too many characters seeing themselves as this and by the frequent disparity between rulers' claims, capabilities, and reputations. As the last scions of the exiled Targaryen dynasty, Daenerys and Viserys see themselves as this and believe the people eagerly await their return to inevitably unite the realm and restore peace. After the Spice King disabuses her of this, Daenerys decides she must prove herself to be The High Queen before returning. Ser Jorah also notes that Dany's ancestor Aegon the Conqueror didn't establish the Targaryen dynasty in Westeros in the first place because he had any right, he did it because he could. However, in season 7 when she finally returns to Westeros, she views herself this way again. Given that Robert had no trueborn heirs, notorious Determinator Stannis Baratheon is the true heir to the Baratheon dynasty, (which overthrew the Targaryens), as the king's oldest surviving male sibling, and he resorts to dark magic and fratricide in his quest for the Iron Throne. Unfortunately for him, many see him as King Joffrey's Evil Uncle and dismiss his true accusations of adulterous twincest as a self-serving lie. Yet he never quite makes good on his claim, his closest victory being Blackwater where he was defeated by Lannister-Tyrell reinforcements. The charismatic Renly Baratheon is the younger brother to Stannis but sees himself as the rightful king because he believes that he would be a better ruler, arguing that nobody made a fuss about the line of succession when they rebelled against the Targaryens not two decades before. Westerosi society sees more value in blood than talent however, and he is seen by many as just another pretender. Robb Stark and Balon Greyjoy are both regarded as this by their followers but are called rebels by other factions for reasserting their regions' former independence. The irony in all this? None of these people are the true rightful king. The actual rightful king is Jon Snow, who is really Aegon Targaryen, the trueborn son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. The only reason he hasn't staked his claim on the throne is that he's completely unaware of his true heritage at first. And when he did find out about it, he has no interest in it and let Daenerys take it instead. However, the knowledge of his heritage is eventually known to seven people including Daenerys and three of these people want Jon to be the king. All of these contributed to Daenerys' paranoia and madness, forcing Jon to kill her. But because he killed the queen, he's exiled to the far North and the remaining lords of Westeros choose Bran Stark as the new king instead. Of course, this does depend on whether the Targaryens can still be considered rightful rulers. In a successful instance, after four and a half seasons of Winterfell being under the Greyjoys' and later the Bolton's control, House Stark rules Winterfell once again.
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Rightful King Returns / int_b349ef5b	comment	In Children of the Black Sun, Cam had been named heir to the throne of his country, but he never really wanted it and his succession was interrupted by a usurper. He is conflicted as to whether to do anything about it â€” he doesn't want the throne, but the people who currently rule won't leave him alone and are generally bad for the country.
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Rightful King Returns / int_b370ddd1	comment	Thor, the rightful heir, in his titular movieâ€”then zig-zagged when Odin wakes back up.
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Rightful King Returns / int_b7c3d6c5	comment	Prince Caspian: His father ruled until slain by his uncle Miraz. Miraz considered Caspian a suitable heir... until his own son was born. In a variation, Miraz and Caspian are Telmarines, a conquering people not descended from either of the previous ruling dynasties of Narnia (the Pevensies and the house of King Frank, the first king) and so not the "rightful" king by right of primogeniture. But, Narnia being Narnia, the rightful king is whomever Aslan says it is.
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Rightful King Returns / int_b841bc51	comment	Talion: Revenant: Subverted. Once we learn that Nolan holds a claim to Hamis, it looks like the story is shaping up this way. King Tirrell even offers to abdicate, but Nolan declines the throne.
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Rightful King Returns / int_b9b796cf	comment	Gilgamesh of Fate/stay night views his return to the living world as this. As the King of Heroes, he believes himself to be the sole rightful king of humanity with all other rulers being pretenders. His second life is a chance to reclaim his stolen throne and unite humanity once again.
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Rightful King Returns / int_baf3bcd7	comment	This happened near the end of the Wraith: The Oblivion Metaplot, but quickly went terribly awry. Charon had arranged for the Mnemoi to store his memories for when he came back. Unfortunately, the guild had collapsed long before his return. So when Charon did finally come back, he came back without any memories... and without any Angst, causing him to immediately Transcend.
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Rightful King Returns / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Critical Role: After the murder of his family, the rulers of Whitestone, Percival de Rolo became the rightful heir as Sole Survivor of the massacre. He eventually returns to the city and brings down the usurpers with the help of his friends/adopted family, Vox Machina. The epilogue reveals that he took his place as Lord de Rolo upon his retirement from adventuring.
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Rightful King Returns / int_be03a5ee	comment	The whole point of Jesus' second coming in the Left Behind book series.
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Rightful King Returns / int_c1932cd8	comment	Mirror, Mirror: At the end, it turns out Snow White's father wasn't dead, but made into the Beast. Once he's turned back, he soon retakes his throne.
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Rightful King Returns / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who novel The Clockwise Man, this is what the characters are trying for Russia, as Freddy is apparently the rightful heir, and Dastaria, which Repple claims to be the deposed King of.
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Rightful King Returns / int_c675b3d7	comment	In Star Trek Expanded Universe, he is known as Emperor Kahless II, obviously showing that he's not the same person. Of course, one novel suggests that the DNA from which he was cloned may not have belonged to Kahless at all.
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Rightful King Returns / int_c6f7e804	comment	Deconstructed in Blake's 7. Blake is on a primitive planet ruled by The Caligula and rescues his more noble brother who apparently fulfills this trope. Turns out the rightful ruler is the crazy old man dying in the cells, who was overthrown by his sons who then fell out with each other.
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Rightful King Returns / int_ca1fa4c9	comment	Season 1 of Vikings: Valhalla ends with the villains seemingly winning, only a very pissed king Sweyn Forkbeard to appear with his fleet intent on taking the villain's head for attempting to make Norway independent.
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Rightful King Returns / int_ca876243	comment	King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: After Vortigern murders his brother King Uther, Uther's wife, and Uther's son, he becomes the King of England. However, as his rule becomes more and more corrupt and harsh, rumor begins to spread that King Uther's son Arthur may have secretly survived the slaughter, making Arthur the Born King. Both Vortigern and La RÃ©sistance begin searching for the rightful heir but with diametrically opposed intentions of course. By the end of the story, Arthur has defeated Vortigern to return to the throne as the Rightful King.
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Rightful King Returns / int_cb339e98	comment	Also in The Horse and His Boy. In this case, the good King of Archenland is still alive and well, but his son and heir Corin has gone missing. As has his older son and real heir, Cor, who is actually Shasta.
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Rightful King Returns / int_cfb2d509	comment	The Mark of the Horse Lord: Invoked and subverted by the conspirators who hire a ringer to impersonate their lost heir to the throne. Luckily for him, the only real requirement for being a king is acting like one.
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Rightful King Returns / int_d475ebbd	comment	Happens in Mitsumete Knight R: Daibouken Hen with The Hero MacLeod, if you finish the game in an odd-numbered playthrough holding the "Licence of Heartless" item: in this storyline, MacLeod, revealed as the prince of the fallen kingdom Parmet, achieves his revenge against The Empire Orcadia by destroying it, then restores Parmet Kingdom and becomes its King.
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Rightful King Returns / int_d4c2b99b	comment	An unusual example appears in Heroes of Might and Magic IV. In "The True Blade", the kingdom of Erathia was destroyed along with the rest of Enroth during the Reckoning. Many of the survivors who ended up on Axeoth were led by the Erathian knight Sir Lysander who formed a small kingdom for them, Palaedra. He refused to officially become king himself, believing that only a true Gryphonheart could rule Erathia's people even if Erathia itself is no more. Along comes Sir Worton who bears and draws the supposed Gryphonheart sword which only a true Gryphonheart can wield. Lysander is suspicious and soon discovers that Worton is a pretender and his blade is a mere forgery. In the final scenario of the campaign, Lysander ends up drawing the true blade himself, and thus discovers that he is a Gryphonheart. The people of Erathia had their rightful king all along. Script notes from the game's writer also reveal that Lysander isn't the only Gryphonheart left. Two of the other campaign leads, Waerjak and Gauldoth Half-dead, are his long lost brothers. All three were the offspring of King Nicholas Gryphonheart's secret relationship with a woman named Idunna. There is another Gryphonheart of sorts on Axeoth, as revealed in Might and Magic IX — Nikolai Ironfist, but his descent is a bit shakiernote his mother was Catherine Gryphonheart, the daughter of Nicholas. She did take the throne in Heroes III, but it was an emergency action, and she later abdicated, with a renewed search for a new king. Worse, Nikolai was already the heir to another kingdom and dynasty, the Ironfists of the Kingdom of Enroth, and he is over in a region distant enough from Palaedra that neither has heard of the other.
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Rightful King Returns / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door: During the episode, Operation I.T, Numbuh 362 gives up her position as Supreme Leader after growing exhausted with it. However, after Father takes over due to a loophole, Numbuh 362 joins Numbuh 1 in fighting him and takes her title back, with operatives cheering for her once she makes it clear she's staying for good this time.
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Rightful King Returns / int_da89c5dd	comment	Happens twice in the Mahabharata. First, the elderly king Ugrasen is returned to the throne of Mathura after a long imprisonment by the usurper Kansa. It requires his grandsons Balaram and Krishna to overthrow Kansa. Then, towards the end, Yudhistir assumes his rightful place as King of Hastinapur after having defeated the Kauravas in the Kurukshetra War.
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Rightful King Returns / int_dac7c837	comment	Subverted in the A Wizard in Rhyme series by Christopher Stasheff. One of the characters is the directly descended heir to his universe's equivalent of Charlemagne, and technically the rightful ruler of about half a dozen countries. However, he has vowed only to reveal himself if things get so screwed up that they can't be fixed any other way, and he works behind the scenes to make sure that doesn't happen.
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Rightful King Returns / int_dbb68ab6	comment	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: His father ruled until slain by his uncle Miraz. Miraz considered Caspian a suitable heir... until his own son was born. In a variation, Miraz and Caspian are Telmarines, a conquering people not descended from either of the previous ruling dynasties of Narnia (the Pevensies and the house of King Frank, the first king) and so not the "rightful" king by right of primogeniture. But, Narnia being Narnia, the rightful king is whomever Aslan says it is. Not just the eponymous hero, either. All four Pevensie kids were the rightful rulers of Narnia before they got suckered into going back to being boring kids again. Also in The Horse and His Boy. In this case, the good King of Archenland is still alive and well, but his son and heir Corin has gone missing. As has his older son and real heir, Cor, who is actually Shasta.
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Rightful King Returns / int_dbbf2001	comment	In the Prince Roger series the titular prince's return, following an assassination attempt on him as part of a successful coup against his mother the Empress, provides the spark to trigger a counter-coup, and regain control of the Empire of Man.
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Rightful King Returns / int_e04f934e	comment	The Azure Moon route in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is both a literal and metaphorical example of this. Your lord, the Crown Prince of Faerghus, Dimitri, was framed for murder and spent five years in exile. Among other things, that exile has driven him mad by the time you find him again. The rest of the route is trying to build La RÃ©sistance to rescue his kingdom from The Empire and return him to the throne while helping Dimitri heal from his trauma and become the king he was meant to be. The chapter where you accomplish both is even called "The King's Triumphant Return".
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Rightful King Returns / int_e817aba1	comment	Given a slightly more cynical twist in the 2018 Battletech game, where the protagonists are Private Military Contractors hired by Kamea, a queen-in-exile ousted in The Coup, to re-take her kingdom. While she is a morally better person than the Evil Uncle who usurped her, ultimately the throne is only re-taken through a brutal multi-front Civil War. Kamea muses in the end that history is Written by the Winners; she won the war because she was a better strategist and politician than her uncle, this trope is just what it will look like in retrospect once nothing but stories of the campaign are left.
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Rightful King Returns / int_ef4cccbd	comment	The Court Jester has this as the basis of the plot. However, the rightful king happens to be an infant, so he's largely treated as a Living Macguffin instead of a character.
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Rightful King Returns / int_f1d492d4	comment	Chronicles of the Kencyrath: In Torisen's backstory, he's definitely a bit of an Aragorn figure. Over a decade after his father renounced his titles and went into exile, Torisen arrived among his people but passed as a relative of Lord Ardeth until he came of age when he declared himself and took up his hereditary position. He's been Highlord for about three years or so when we first meet him. Deconstructed a little—Torisen talks about how at first, the lords all liked the idea of him being Highlord, after 31 years without one, but quickly became disillusioned because being a Universally Beloved Leader is impossible.
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Rightful King Returns / int_f4b0cbe2	comment	Subverted in Ranger's Apprentice. When Halt, who is the rightful inheritor of the throne of Clonmel, returns to his kingdom, it is only to convince the king to stand up against an evil cult which threatens the kingdom. When it becomes clear that the king is in no way interested in helping his people, Halt briefly impersonates the king rather than deposing him, even though he had enough local support, as well as the right, to have carried it off.
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Rightful King Returns / int_fab6bdd9	comment	Young Avengers: Hulkling is the son of the late Skrull princess Anelle, who died when Galactus ate the Skrull homeworld some years back. According to prophecy, he'll reunite the Skrulls and get them to work together with the Kree. Since Teddy first learns this when Super-Skrull incinerates his foster mother, his general reaction to all this is to refuse. In later instances, his reaction to any sign of destiny is boredom and irritation. Until 2019, when he finally gives in.
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Rightful King Returns / int_fc5ce88	comment	Averted in Hanasakeru Seishounen. Kajika should be first in line for the throne, but because no one apart from the audience, Lee Leng, Harry, Quinza, and Fred know this by the time Rumaty is crowned, she does not become queen. Everyone is fine with this, however, because they were all rooting for Rumaty anyway. Even before the events of the above spoiler, this trope is inverted with Somand who is first in line for the throne, but is completely unfit to be king. His younger brother, Rumaty, is far more likely to become a king who actually cares about the country of Raginei.
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Rightful King Returns / int_fd0b756	comment	The main plot of The Hobbit is Thorin Oakenshield's quest to reclaim his ancestral kingdom of the Lonely Mountain by killing Smaug, the dragon who has laid the Mountain and the neighboring city of Dale to waste. Eventually, the Mountain is retaken by the dwarves under a new King Under the Mountain, initiating a prosperous era for the dwarves and their neighbors, even though Thorin has died in battle, and the new rightful king is his cousin Dain. The motif is echoed within the same book by the dragonslayer Bard, who, as a descendant of the royal house of Dale, re-establishes the ruined city after Smaug's death.
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Rightful King Returns / int_ff9ab17f	comment	The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rightful Heir" plays with this. Klingon messiah Kahless, the first Emperor of the Klingon Empire, seemingly returns, as he promised to, and claims the vacant throne of the Empire. It turns out that he is just a clone of Kahless raised to think that he is him, but Worf notes that he is still the rightful heir, and so he is installed as emperor, in a ceremonial role. In Star Trek Expanded Universe, he is known as Emperor Kahless II, obviously showing that he's not the same person. Of course, one novel suggests that the DNA from which he was cloned may not have belonged to Kahless at all.
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Jason and the Argonauts / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Kaamelott: Premier Volet / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Les Visiteurs / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Mirror Mirror (2012) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Return to Oz / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
7 Zwerge / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Snow White & the Huntsman / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Adventures of Robin Hood / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Beastmaster / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Court Jester / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Exception / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Iron Mask / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Sword and the Sorcerer / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Vikings / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Tabaluga (Franchise) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Smurfs (Franchise) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Tolkien's Legendarium (Franchise) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
A Clash of Kings / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
A Dance with Dragons / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
A Witch Shall Be Born / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Albert Campion / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Arn: The Knight Templar / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Bardic Voices / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Chronicles of Magravandias / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Deltora Quest / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Deryni / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Enchanted Forest Chronicles / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
EternalAnhelia	seeAlso	Rightful King Returns
Fire & Blood / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Gods and Warriors / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Guards! Guards! / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Hagwood / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Her Diamond Heart / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Hollow Kingdom Trilogy / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Ivanhoe / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
King Solomon's Mines / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Knight's & Magic / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Left Behind / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Lone Wolf / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Look to the West / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Mara, Daughter of the Nile / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Mistwood	seeAlso	Rightful King Returns
1983: Doomsday / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Now Blooms the Tudor Rose / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Old Kingdom / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Overheaven / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Ozma of Oz / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Ranger's Apprentice / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Raven of the Inner Palace / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Retief / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Summers at Castle Auburn / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Black Arrow / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Book of Mormon / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Crimson Shadow / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Death of Russia / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Dolphin Ring / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Dragon Knight / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Eagle Down Under / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Egyptian / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Fire Never Dies / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Hereward Trilogy / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Heroic Legend of Arslan / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Hobbit / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Last King of Osten Ard / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Legacy of the Glorious / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Mark of the Horse Lord / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Merlin Trilogy / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Odyssey / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Old English Baron / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Shadows Between Us / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Sorcerer's Daughter / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Star of the Guardians / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Sword of Good / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Tale of the Five / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Trojan Cycle / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Ultimate Adventure (1939) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Worm Ouroboros / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Throne of Glass / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
We'll Meet Again / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Wyrd Sisters / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
MaraDaughterOfTheNile	seeAlso	Rightful King Returns
Mistwood	seeAlso	Rightful King Returns
SiegerkranzGermanysPlaceInTheSun	seeAlso	Rightful King Returns
Murder Princess (Manga) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
My Neighbor Seki (Manga) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Sabaton (Music) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
A Sword Without A Hilt (Roleplay) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Neo Pokeforum (Roleplay) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Emerald City / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Leonardo / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Machos / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Robin Hood / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Robin of Sherwood / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Elephant Princess / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The White Princess / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Drakkenheim (Tabletop Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Nentir Vale (Tabletop Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Hamlet (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Macbeth (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Prince Kaguya (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Richard III (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Gondoliers (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Libation Bearers (Theatre) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Affairs of the Court (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Cat Quest II (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Crusader Kings III (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Hearts of Iron (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Mabinogi (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Mischief Makers (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Przygody Reksia (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Red World (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
SaGa Frontier 2 (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Summoner (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Symphony Of War (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Total War: Three Kingdoms (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Triangle Strategy (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
War for the West (Video Game) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Dark Romance / Videogame / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Black Wolves Saga (Visual Novel) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Heart of the Woods (Visual Novel) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Reigning Passions (Visual Novel) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Summer Rose Court (Visual Novel) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Crown & the Flame (Visual Novel) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Audience! (Web Animation) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Extra Credits (Web Animation) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Brony D&D (Web Video) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
DougDoug A.I. Invasion (Web Video) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Silver Eye (Webcomic) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Overused Sci-Fi Storylines (Website) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Elena and the Secret of Avalor / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Plan Bee / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Dragon Prince / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Lion Guard / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Loud House Movie / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Wakko's Wish / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Wreck-It Ralph / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
The Hour of the Dragon / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns

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