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23 Fictional TV Royals For Whom We Would Bend the Knee

Whether they are born to it, achieve it through combat or guile, or have it thrust upon them by circumstance, the crown (or the title which implies a crown) raises the expectations a leader must meet.

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So what commands your respect? Ethics? Experience? Sheer unmitigated, terror-inducing presence? 

Or maybe it depends on what they command already. Minions of the Underworld? Magical powers? Dragons?

We’ve listed here a pantheon of rulers, crowned and self-acclaimed, who demand allegiance.

Which banner would you follow?