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In Western systems, when royalty speak on behalf of their office, they tend to refer to themselves as if they were more than one person. In Latin, this is known as Pluralis Maiestatis — the Majestic Plural. In English, this is known as the Royal We. This was most famously attributed to Queen "We are not amused" Victoria, who believed herself to be the avatar for the British Empire. This happens in fiction as well. A good way to show when the monarch in question has had enough and demands obedience is to have them switch to this form of address. Another way is to use this comedically, have a monarch use this in informal contexts or have people confuse the majestic plural for the regular one ("Where are the rest of them?"). It can also be used to demonstrate an absurd degree of self-regard and pomposity if used by someone who isn't royal. The origin of this tradition is the idea that the monarch in question is speaking for the nation, although in times gone it was also used by religious officials speaking on behalf of the Church. Sometimes other characters will reinforce this by referring to the monarch by the name of their country; in Hamlet, for example, Claudius and the dead king are both referred to as Denmark, and another king is only ever called Norway. Also, some languages use the plural to address other people formally. Even English does this, in a way — originally, "you" was only used as a plural objective; the nominative was "ye" and the singular equivalents were (nominative) "thou" and (objective) "thee". (This system of pronouns can still be found in the King James version of The Bible). However, using "you" as a formal term for a single person, even as subject, became so commonplace that it replaced "ye" and "thou" entirely. Yes, you heard right: "you" was once more formal than "thou", regardless of how it sounds to the modern ear. The "Editorial We" is similar, meaning "I, speaking for this newspaper." You'll sometimes see something a lot like this used on TV Tropes, meaning "I, speaking for This Very Wiki."* This is NOT, under ANY circumstances, to be used to refer to the editor's personal opinions, ONLY for statements regarding administrative policy and the like. There's also the "Judicial We," which, particularly used in an opinion by a judge sitting alone, means "I, speaking for this court," and the "Lawyer's We," meaning, "I, speaking for my client(s)." A contrasting term is the "Patronizing We" or Nurse's We ("How are we feeling today?"), which means "you", and the "Rural Plural", which is part of certain British dialects and refers to the practice of people referring to themselves in the plural form (likely) because it is more fluid in conjecture, including non-standard plurals and pronoun contractions. Of course, if the royal in question is a Hive Queen, it all makes a lot more sense. Finally, note that no matter how many times she refers to herself as "We", the Queen of England does not like being addressed as "Y'all". A subtrope of Expository Pronoun. For other interesting (and a lot more complex and convoluted) shenanigans involving pronouns, see Japanese Pronouns. Compare I Am Legion, when the plural form is used because the speaker has (or thinks they have) multiple personalities themself, rather than speaking on behalf of separate individuals, and Third-Person Person, which can also be used to signal someone with an inflated sense of self. |
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Played straight and averted in the Soviet comedy Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession, where Ivan the Terrible ends up in modern-day (when the movie came out) Moscow. While he mostly speaks normally, he does, occasionally, use the royal "We", such as in the scene where he's interrogated by the cops. When asked for his last name, he replies "We are Rurikids" (i.e. of the Rurik dynasty). | |
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In Sunrider, PACT dictator Veniczar Arcadius refers to himself exclusively in plurals, using “we� instead of “I� and “ours� instead of “mine�. This is one of several traits foreshadowing the reveal that she is a collective of hive-minded clones rather than an individual. | |
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When Solaris and Selenay meet in Storm Rising, Solaris bounces back and forth between "We" and "I". Karal identifies her reasoning as 1) "I" to indicate she's not claiming any special precedence and 2) "We" because as High Priest Solaris speaks for Vkandis as well as herself. | |
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Cursed (2020): King Uther refers to himself using the royal "we." In the novel which was developed alongside the series, it's narrated that Nimue considers doing this herself as well, but decides against it for fear of confusing herself. | |
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Princess Rurichiyo speaks like this in the Amagai filler arc of Bleach, and Keigo once wonders why she's talking this way. Despite being lower in rank than Byakuya, she speaks as though she's higher in rank than him. This is lampshaded by Ichigo and Rukia when Ichigo complains about the way she speaks and Rukia observes not even her (extremely formal) brother speaks like that. | |
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Chumbawamba's parody of The Beatles' "Her Majesty" consists of several criticisms toward the Queen, one of which is "Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she's stuck with the Royal We." | |
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In the English translation of Magic Knight Rayearth Empress Aska constantly refers to herself this way. | |
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King John uses it sporadically in the Lord Darcy stories. Typically if he's giving a briefing, he doesn't use it; in one case, transitioning between its use and its non-use is noted as a change from briefing to a more normal sovereign-to-subject talk. In other words when King John calls himself 'I' instead of 'We' one is free to interrupt with questions and otherwise treat him - temporarily - like a regular person rather than one's dread sovereign. This can be a bit jarring, especially to American readers, when he speaks as the sovereign: in the note accompanying the gift of a pistol to Lord Darcy, he ends with "If We hear that it is hanging on the wall of your trophy room in a golden frame, or other such foolishness, We will personally come over there and take it away from you." This series also uses the name of a realm ruled by a noble to refer to the noble very consistently: for example, the Marquis of London note a takeoff on Nero Wolfe, complete with Lord Bontriomphe (a French analogue of Goodwin) as his wisecracking, womanizing assistant is referred to as though de London is his name. |
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Spoofed in Angel with a case of Demonic Possession. | |
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Silas from Kings; in this case it is intended in the religious sense, not the "avatar of the nation" sense, as Silas was chosen by God. | |
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Defied in the Honor Harrington "Torch" subseries. Queen Berry refuses to use the Royal "We". | |
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Queen Christina uses this when speaking in her official capacity but not in private conversation. | |
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In one episode of Clarissa Explains It All, Ferguson's birth certificate is lost, so Ferguson starts thinking he's adopted and really descended from royalty. He starts doing this. | |
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The Administrator from Echo Chamber never refers to himself in the first person, though he does appear to speak for an entire wiki... so... possibly justified? He also expects other tropers to refer to themselves in the third person. | |
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Referenced in The Big Lebowski, when The Dude talked to the title character. Although, this is more because of a slip of the tongue (he was to deliver ransom money alone) and him trying and barely able to backpedal over his mistake. | |
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In Hey Dad..!, Nudge used it, when he became convinced that he was long-lost royalty. | |
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Fou-Lu uses the Royal We in the English localization of Breath of Fire IV. | |
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Vanellope of Wreck-It Ralph uses this term jokingly in her first meeting with Ralph. Serves as foreshadowing for The Reveal that she's a princess. | |
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The Anti-Spiral in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann never refers to himself in the singular, because he's speaking on behalf of his species. In fact, it's thought that he is his entire species in a merged consciousness, if so, it makes even more sense. | |
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In Hamlet, Claudius uses it even when referring to himself personally: he calls Gertrude "our sometime sister, now our Queen". Of course Gertrude is also the nation's Queen, but was never its sister(-in-law). | |
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Henry V has some monologues where he switches from "we" to "I." Some productions use that as the point at which he loses his temper or composure. | |
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Elizabeth II speaks like this on Animaniacs, which leads Yakko, Wakko and Dot to believe she has Multiple Personality Disorder. | |
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In Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!, all members of the wealthy Kuki family talk this way, reflecting their status as some of the richest and most powerful people on the planet. | |
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The Sacred Blacksmith: Queen Zenobia. | |
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The Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III DS. She's like this in Dissidia, too. Her character profile claims this is because her two tentacles have minds of their own, so she is quite literally speaking for multiple entities. |
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Nicholas and Alexandra: Nicholas II (see Real Life below) tends to use this on formal occasions, like when signing his abdication letter. | |
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Done in a round of "Stars in Their Ears" on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Tim is asked to sing Queen in the style of the Queen. "We are the champion, my friends..." | |
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The Machineries of Empire: The leader of the Kel faction uses an archaic, formal first-person plural when speaking on behalf of the Kel Command Hive Mind and an equally archaic first-person singular when speaking personally. | |
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Maximilian of Valkyria Chronicles speaks like this - most of the time, anyway. Occasionally, he speaks without it. | |
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In Code Name: Hunter Queen Moraine only uses the royal "we" when things are getting serious. | |
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TNA's Matt "The Blueprint" Morgan tends to use the Royal We most of the time. This started after he successfully defended the world Tag Team titles without his partner. | |
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Used in Casanova by the non-royal (but equally well-known) Casanova when he's with his manservant Lupo. Amusingly, Lupo uses it, as well. | |
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The Goblin King of The Parselmouth of Gryffindor uses this to a fault, even though he doesn't speak in a particularly solemn way otherwise. | |
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Used occasionally by Emperor Gregor Vorbarra in the Vorkosigan Saga. He's generally unassuming (unless you get him mad at which point he gets very quiet, and very dangerous) (Miles at one point says "He'd be shy if he could, but he's not allowed.") and usually refers to himself in the first person singular. But when he finds it necessary to subtly emphasize that he is the Emperor, the Royal We comes out. At one point he gets in trouble while traveling incognito and tells a potential rescuer that "If you were to help Us, We could see to it that you were handsomely rewarded." The narrative states that only the other Barrayarans in the room can hear the capitals. | |
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The English translation of Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- has Ashura-ou speak with the Royal We, and the translator even explained what the Royal We was in the translation notes. | |
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The trope gets named dropped* Which isn't surprising considering Kaiser himself is a troper in The Plan To Eradicate Christmas special in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. | |
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In The Smiling Lieutenant, the Emperor of Austria (a great power) uses this, but the king of tiny little Flausenthurm does not. | |
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Ozma in Patient is an asylum patient who believes she's a princess. She uses the Royal "We". This is because she is actually a princess (or, really a queen who's called a "princess"). | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Nagas tend to believe themselves, personally, the pinnacle of creation, and usually use plural pronouns for themselves. Most go further and specifically refer to themselves with Ssa'Naja, "We the Ideal". | |
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Vow of Nudity: The Star King speaks exclusively using this...until Haara pisses him off enough, where he slowly shifts back to singular pronouns while boasting of his power over her. | |
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Hotohori talks like this in Fushigi Yuugi. It's a Justified Trope, since he's The Emperor of Konan. However, he starts doing it less and less as he begins to interact with the other Seishi as friends. | |
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Something*Positive alludes to the practice in the punchline of this strip. | |
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Dormin from Shadow of the Colossus uses this a lot, although, to be fair, Dormin is compromised of a male and female entity, so this trope is used quite appropriately. However, as the game goes on, the masculine side of Dormin eventually eclipses the feminine side. It is speculated that this may be because the feminine portion of Dormin is harboring Mono's body, per the deal Dormin upheld with Wander. Further speculation even goes into ICO, but you probably don't care. | |
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Stargate SG-1: Some of the Tok'ra use this, as the symbiote shares the body of the host. Played straight with the Goa'uld Hathor, who uses it in the royal sense. An interesting One-Liner by O'Neill before killing Hathor. |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice has Queen Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, who always uses this when she is speaking to you. She abandons this once the final trial begins. | |
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Cradle Series: Naru Huan, Emperor of the Blackflame Empire, does this most of the time. He relaxes in private. He's in charge of a rather minor province under the control of the Monarch Akura Malice. Malice herself never bothers with such trappings. Why would she? She's so incredibly powerful she has no reason to care about social niceties. | |
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The Baronet in Quest for Glory I talks like this when he thanks you for breaking the enchantment that turned him into a bear and returning him to normal. He's portrayed as being rather pompous. | |
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In The Ten Commandments (1956), Seti I uses both forms in one line, when addressing the King of Ethiopia and his sister: "Our son has dealt wisely with you, Ethiopia." | |
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When Alexander VI becomes pope in The Borgias, he lampshades the fact he'll now be using the royal "we". For the rest of the series he's consistent: acting as pope, he always uses "we". When privately conniving, it's "I". When he wants to have the last word with people he's privately conniving with, he switches back to "we". | |
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Runt calls himself "we", and in Wraith Squadron he's specifically asked if it's a royal "we". It's plural. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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Precocious: Suzette speaks like this while going mad with power. Inverted later on, when a rare Jacob Slam slings it right back at the self-proclaimed royalty. |
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Used in the Shining Time Station finale "Queen for a Day." Some crooks uncoupled the Queen's private car from an American railtour and left her stranded in the countryside - leaving the locals baffled as to where the other people are whom this poor old lady keeps mentioning. | |
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The Palaververse: At the end of Wedding March, there's confusion about how many people "we" a Lady is talking about. Long day: | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Conklin occasionally, and pompously, uses "we" to address others. Really, he means "you". Miss Brooks is unamused when he uses it with her. (Mr. Conklin is the principal of Madison High School) | |
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Some fanworks of Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) depict King Ghidorah addressing himself as "we", "us", etc., for obvious reasons. A similar case for fanworks including the GMK Godzilla, due to him being a revenant corpse possessed by the collective spirits of all those who died in Imperial Japanese warcrimes. |
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The New Yorker has a cartoon that showed a king answering the phone with "Yes this is we." We're sure they've done other Royal We jokes as well. | |
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Bastard Operator from Hell sometimes uses "the Bastard 'we'". | |
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Olaf from Kaeloo sometimes calls himself "we" instead of "me". Nobody seems to mind except Mr. Cat, who is quick to pull out a weapon on him. | |
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The arrogant Lord Dearche of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable games naturally has a tendency to pepper her speeches with this when she's feeling especially hammy. And with No Indoor Voice. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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In Yes, Minister, Humphrey invokes this to rub in that the Minister has made a bad decision because he wanted to sound important. The Minister has been assigned an awful role, one which Humphrey would have advised him against taking, but he jumped at it because the holder would be described as a "supremo". When he decides that he doesn't want it anymore: | |
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Zeromus (but not Zemus) in the Game Boy Advance version of Final Fantasy IV. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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Girl Genius: Queen Albia of England utilizes this manner of speech, which is appropriate given her title. An occasional "I" still slips in there. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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M. Bison in the Street Fighter movie. "We have decided to grant her a private audience." | |
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Lexx: Upon settling into her role, Pope Genevieve I only refers to herself in the majestic plural. | |
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King Knight of Shovel Knight uses this at first. He stops after Shovel Knight calls him out on not even being a real king. | |
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In The Rolling Stones (1952), an overeager young lawyer is rebuked for using this: | |
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Royal "We" | |
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In The Goblin Emperor, not only the emperor but all members of the imperial family and court refer to themselves as we and use our in place of my in formal conversations. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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Run the Jewels Let's Go (The Royal We) is about the execution of an enemy of the state, told from the perspective of the leader. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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The King of Canalot talks this way in the DS version of Dragon Quest IV, using capitalization of the first person plural, of course. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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A clever use in Robin Hood: To make the point that the Robin Hood legend wasn't just about him, Robin had the gang reciting "We are Robin Hood!" When they go to the Holy Land and meet King Richard, he asks them to represent him when they get back to England. "You are Richard. And we are Robin Hood." | |
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Although actual insect royalty in Bug Fables don't speak in this manner, old-fashioned party member Leif refers to himself as "we". It later turns out he IS a "we", in a manner of speaking, though he isn't initially aware of that. | |
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In one Star Trek: The Original Series tie-in novel, Captain Kirk meets an ambassador from a Vulcan-like race who frequently uses the pronoun "we" and wonders if she's using it in the royal sense. As it turns out, it's pretty crowded inside her head. (To clarify, her people took the "katra transfer" thing that Spock does in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and turned it up a notch. The ambassador in question currently has 413 personalities inside her, which is almost the crew complement of a Constitution-class starship like the Enterprise.) | |
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The Elder Scrolls: In the series' Backstory and some In-Game Novels, Tiber Septim, founder of the Third Tamriellic Empire and Septim Dynasty, who ascended to godhood as the Ninth Divine, Talos, upon his death, was known to speak in this fashion, albeit inconsistently. He tended to do it when giving a command that he personally disliked but was for the betterment of the empire, such as ordering Barenziah's child by him to be magically aborted: In Morrowind's Tribunal expansion, King Hlaalu Helseth speaks like this. |
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Royal "We" | |
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Vivaldi (the Queen of Hearts) from Alice in the Country of Hearts uses this the whole time. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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Bannon & Clare: When Queen Victrix does this, it's a sign that she's speaking for both herself and Britannia, the ruling spirit residing inside her body. | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di, being a transcendent human / ultimate life-form as well as Emperor, uses the royal "We". So does the Assassin of Nightless City before him. It's actually a clue to her True Name — Empress Wu Zetian. |
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Interestingly, The Bible has God do this twice during the Adam and Eve Plot. First, He says "Let us make man," and later, after the Fall, "They have become like one of us, knowing good and bad." There are several interpretations of this. For Christians, it can be taken as evidence of the Trinity. To Jews, God was speaking to the angels (or, in the first example, the earth that He formed Adam from). Either way, some sort of cosmic hierarchy is being implied. Ancient Hebrew had a similar grammatical quirk where a noun's importance could be emphasized by giving it a plural ending, even if adjectives and verbs remained singular. The most common example is Elohim, a name of God which literally means "gods/powers." Likewise the Behemoth's name literally means "beasts." |
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In The Qur'an God refers to Himself as "We" all the time, despite Islam being stringently monotheistic. | |
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Rohoph of Taming Dreams uses the Royal We along with Flowery Elizabethan English. Mardek occasionally copies both, but it's not clear if he's emulating Rohoph or referring to himself and Rohoph. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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Chairman Jack from Chairman Jack: Emerge, due to the fact that his brain works like a Mind Hive parliament. | |
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M14 of Girls' Frontline refers to herself as "We" instead of "I". She does this in memory of a line of defective Doll models (of which she was an example of) who underwent a series of harsh trials that ended when she was the only specimen remaining. | |
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Royal "We" | |
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"Krákumál": As a king, Ragnar speaks of himself in plural. For example, the first line of every stanza: "We struck with our swords!" really means that Ragnar did so. | |
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Escape from Terra: In his guise as "King Reginald the First" Reggie King has to remind himself to refer to himself in the plural. | |
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The Hive Queen in the Ender's Game franchise always refers to herself as we. Considering she is the mind of her population, it's justified. | |
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The Shoes Of The Fisherman: The newly elected Russian Pope Kiril I uses the Royal We in public during the first few weeks after his election, but after his coronation as Pope he abandons it as he informs the people of the world that under him the church will sell off its excess to feed the starving people of the world. | |
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Referred to in a FoxTrot comic where after Thanksgiving Roger is going through the fridge commenting "Boy we really polished off that turkey, eh? And that stuffing, we really did a number on that! Oh no, did we eat all the pumpkin pie?", etc, to which Andy replies "You're using the royal we, I assume" | |
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In the Spider-Man mythos, Venom usually refers to himself as "we", since Venom is the result of a symbiote (a sentient alien costume) bonding with a human host. When a host of a symbiote stops using this, it's a sign that the symbiote has completely taken over. Or in Carnage's case, that the host has completely taken over (or, in some interpretations, that the symbiote and host are so compatible that the host and symbiote personalities completely merge). | |
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An episode of Timon & Pumbaa uses this when the title duo meet a rich pig who is being carried by several servants and introduces himself by saying "We are Mr. Pig," to which Pumbaa replies, "All of you?" Timon quickly points out that he was using the royal "we". | |
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In Morrowind's Tribunal expansion, King Hlaalu Helseth speaks like this. | |
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Disco Elysium: Coalition Warship Archer, as represented by the second signaller, speaks in the Royal "We", explaining that comms officers are trained to identify themselves in the third-person plural to ensure they never forget they are speaking for the Moralintern and first world as a whole, not only themselves. | |
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Judge John Deed: The circuit administrator Laurence James always refers to himself as "we", and is sometimes mocked by John for doing so. | |
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Downplayed in Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus; when Specter and Easter accidentally fuse, they use a "we" to address themselves, more in the sense of them becoming one person instead of anything indicating royalty. Humorously, the Red Lotus Uprising has two members of royalty (King Atticus and Prince Lexi) and neither of them use this trope. | |
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Used for comedic effect in the Blackadder Christmas special. Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their Royal Chairbearer have turned up on Baldrick's doorstep. | |
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Princess Luna speaks like this in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic - a holdover from 1,000-year-old royal etiquette. It takes a while for her to catch up with the times. | |
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On Doctor Who, when the Doctor and Rose encounter Queen Victoria, they bet that they can make her say her famous (and apocryphal) line, "We are not amused." Then it's subverted when she says, "I am not amused!", and they wonder whether that still counts. | |
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In Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Queen Drosera always uses "We", "Our", "Us", and always capitalizes them regardless of their place in the sentence. | |
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The Queen Bee of Honeyhive Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy uses the royal we, for example complaining that "The most furious itchiness plagues our entire being!" | |
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In the Cinderella film musical The Slipper and the Rose, as part of his song "Why Can't I Be Two People?", the Prince argues that since it is natural for royals to use the plural, he should have the right to be more than one person. | |
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Jenny’s exoskin in My Life as a Teenage Robot spoke this way in the episode "The Return of the Raggedy Android". | |
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Katamari Damacy: The King of All Cosmos speaks like this. Which is weird, because the King has no cabinet or anything to speak of. Just the queen and the tons of cousins. The cousins really don't count. | |
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Used fairly often in Safehold, unsurprisingly as a Ruling Couple are main characters, and one or the other of them makes a speech in this mode once or twice a book on average, and other royalty show up as well and are sometimes seen making such speeches. In the earlier novels, Sharleyan will often use first person singular when discussing matters with her council, but break out the "We" to indicate she's made her decision. |
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Luna talks like this all the time in My Bride is a Mermaid, and it's easy to see why. She's a famous and hugely popular Idol Singer and the daughter of one of the most economically (and physically) powerful (mer)men in all of Japan (and Japan's seas). The only time she ever refers to herself in the singular is when Nagasumi teaches her a lesson in humility. | |
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In E.V.O.: Search for Eden, the King and Queen Bees don't do this, and neither does the Rogon King. When Bolbox revives the Queen Bee and restores her to her giant size near the end of the game, she seems to start using the Royal We, as no other giant insects are seen, barring Bolbox's giant Profasu/Cockroach. | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Sybil also does in Sam and Max Save the World: Bright Side of the Moon after becoming Queen of Canada. The Pharaoh Sammun-Mak from Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse abuses this trope in "They Stole Max's Brain!". |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Jack Atlas, being the (former) king of the riding duel, speaks this way in the original Japanese version. | |
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Given that several of the main characters are or become royalty, this shows up occasionally in The Chronicles of Narnia. It's fairly low-key and easy to miss when it does, though, and someone unfamiliar with the trope (as many children might be expected to be) could easily take it as nothing more than a leader speaking for his immediate associates, and the story loses nothing with this interpretation. "We are the Empress Jadis," though, spells it out pretty clearly. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the White Witch says to Edmund "Not know the Queen of Narnia? You shall know us better hereafter." In his challenge to Miraz, King Peter uses both the royal 'we' and the possessive 'our' ("our trusty brother"). |
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GLaDOS uses We instead of I in Portal before the big reveal. This more of the editorial sense of the word though, as she is ostensibly speaking for the scientists and other personnel running the test. This is also to hide the fact the she is an AI rather than a recording. "I" would imply that the speaker is an actual entity, where We refers to those that speaker represents. In fact, once you officially go Off the Rails, she accidentally lets the "I" slip out; she tries to correct it, but then drops the facade entirely once she knows there's no going back. | |
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Chainsawsuit features a variant, the Royal I. | |
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A more literal use of the plural pronoun is seen in Matthew Swift. The narrator switches between singular and plural pronouns frequently, sometimes in the middle of a sentence and even during dialogue. This is because he's sharing his body with the blue electric angels. The choice of pronouns indicates which part of their collective personality is talking. | |
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Princess Lipid from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, who is a part of Bowser's mucus membranes, speaks like this in addition to using early modern English. | |
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The King of Greenhorne in Miitopia uses this continuously. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Tenel Ka uses this on very rare occasion — it works specifically because she is generally informal (especially with the Jedi). Runt calls himself "we", and in Wraith Squadron he's specifically asked if it's a royal "we". It's plural. |
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She's like this in Dissidia, too. Her character profile claims this is because her two tentacles have minds of their own, so she is quite literally speaking for multiple entities. | |
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Wiseman from Baten Kaitos Origins speaks like this. It might be entirely possible, however, that he could be referring to the magnus contained within him. |
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The Pharaoh Sammun-Mak from Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse abuses this trope in "They Stole Max's Brain!". | |
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The Hands of the Emperor: The emperor of Astandalas freely switches between the royal "we" and the more personal "I", allowing people who know him to discern whether he speaks more as himself or more as his royal persona. | |
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The wife of the late Centari Emperor in Babylon 5 speaks in plural, but because she is traditionally assumed to be speaking for her dead husband. | |
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