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** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', this applies to the rotting earth, especially the much more noticeably decayed earth on the subcontinent surrounding the Earth Cave, home of Lich the Earth Fiend.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': JustifiedTrope; when the evil Zant takes over Hyrule, the land becomes cloaked in perpetual twilight, because he's actually using dark magic to bring the [[AnotherDimension Twilight Realm]] to this plane. Things look pretty bad there, too, what with the sky darker than ever and the inhabitants all gone or [[spoiler:turned into the Shadow Beasts you repeatedly fight]]. Normally, it's actually pretty nice under its rightful ruler, [[spoiler:Midna]], the titular Twilight Princess.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'': Under the rule of Kozuki Oden, Wano was a prosperous and bright FantasyCounterpartCulture of Feudal Japan. Under Kurozumi Orochi, it's an industrial hellhole stricken by famine. [[spoiler: The trope is actually being intentionally invoked. Orochi wants revenge on the citizens of Wano for hunting down his clan, so as Shogun he deliberately misrules the country, allowing Kaido to build factories and raise an army there and generally doing his best to make everyone miserable.]]

** After [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias King Andrias]] reveals his true colors in the season 2 finale and [[spoiler: starts building an army to [[MultiversalConqueror take over Earth and other worlds]]]], Amphibia's color scheme goes from happy green to murky brown, most of the foliage that [[PollutedWasteland hasn't been ripped up completely]] has wilted, and is overpopulated by Frobots.
** When Andrias has done away with his benevolent public image to further the [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore Core's]] plan and the Core is ''actively'' enacting its malevolent will so it can return to multiversal conquest, just about all of Amphibia is reduced to an apocalyptic, smog-skied PollutedWasteland as Newtopia's {{magitek}} strip-mines the continent and multiplies, showing how the Core acting through Andrias cares nothing about its subjects or the welfare of its homeland at all when weighed against the Core's ambitions to be a MyopicConqueror. A more direct example occurs when Anne and Sasha confront Darcy for the first time in Andrias' throne room shortly before Darcy reveals theirself to the entire Resistance: the once-beautiful throne room is now infested with the Core's eye-studded cables, and the throne's center has been hollowed out and replaced with a gigantic [[HellishPupils Core eye]]: symbolizing that the Core as Darcy has done away with the illusion of benevolent monarchy that Aldrich and pre-"True Colors" Andrias projected, and that Darcy has stopped controlling things from the shadows via the King of Amphibia in favor of openly revealing theirself as the true despotic ruler of Amphibia.

The land of the Fisher King not only reflects the kind of rule they impose, but their moral alignment, state of health, and in some cases even their ''mood''. ("The Land and the King are One.") In this kingdom, the "{{divine right of kings}}" extends to a righteous link with the land. This is either a blessing or a curse, because though their joy [[CueTheSun brings]] [[{{Arcadia}} eternal spring]] and [[FertileFeet bounty]], their sadness and anger heralds [[GraveClouds rain]] and [[DramaticThunder thunderstorms]] respectively. If the king is dying or goes mad, expect [[{{Shadowland}} the kingdom]] to [[MysticalPlague become sickly]] and its inhabitants unhinged. If he's replaced by a villain, they either "inherit" the link or the kingdom itself resents this affront to the natural order and becomes a truly depressing {{Mordor}}-like place to live (or even [[EvilIsDeathlyCold wintry]]). It is much more justifiable in-universe when the rulers are supernatural in any way. At other times it is just RuleOfDrama and EmpathicEnvironment having their hand in that. A more mundane explanation that could apply for everything but the weather, is that a good and respectful ruler cares about the well-being of his land and his subjects and invests time and effort to make his kingdom as pleasant as possible for as many as possible, while a selfish and uncaring one [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans will only care for his own prosperity at everyone else's misery]], while a distracted and irrational one simply won't have the focus to address the necessary practicalities of day-to-day existence as they get consumed with their obsessions.

The land of the Fisher King not only reflects the kind of rule they impose, but their moral alignment, state of health, and in some cases even their ''mood''. ("The Land and the King are One.") In this kingdom, the "{{divine right of kings}}" extends to a righteous link with the land. This is either a blessing or a curse, because though their joy [[CueTheSun brings]] [[{{Arcadia}} eternal spring]] and [[FertileFeet bounty]], their sadness and anger heralds [[GraveClouds rain]] and [[DramaticThunder thunderstorms]] respectively. If the king is dying or goes mad, expect [[{{Shadowland}} the kingdom]] to [[MysticalPlague become sickly]] and its inhabitants unhinged. If he's replaced by a villain, they either "inherit" the link or the kingdom itself resents this affront to the natural order and becomes a truly depressing {{Mordor}}-like place to live (or even [[EvilIsDeathlyCold wintry]]). It is much more justifiable in-universe when the rulers are supernatural in any way. At other times it is just RuleOfDrama and EmpathicEnvironment having their hand in that. A more mundane explanation that could apply for everything but the weather, is that a good and respectful ruler cares about the well-being of his land and his subjects and invests time and effort to make his kingdom as pleasant as possible for as many as possible, while a selfish and uncaring one [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans will only care for his own prosperity at everyone else's misery.]]

* The Dreaming, the kingdom of Morpheus in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''; he literally ''is'' his kingdom, and it obeys his commands and bends to his will. This leads to the inhabitants knowing he was angst-ridden when it rained for months on end.
* In the spinoff series ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'', Elaine, guardian spirit of Lucifer's world, inadvertently causes the environment around her to decay when she's angry. When Mazikeen points this out, Elaine controls her temper and the environment is restored.
* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is this to the sea. NoPunIntended. Some of his more successful stories are his re-acquisition of the throne from his brother Orm or others.
* Isis in ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' brought beautiful flora to the country of Kahndaq, until she became saddened, then it poured with rain for weeks - and when she fell ill, the plants withered and died.
* Discussed in ''ComicBook/OnceAndFuture''. The story of the maimed Fisher King is brought up as the one man who knows where the Holy Grail is. [[spoiler:Bridgette's husband]] willingly acts as one to give Galahad a path to the Grail, before shooting himself in the head to prevent Bridgette from following. [[spoiler:Bridgette, as both mother and father figure to Duncan, decides to shoot herself to become a surrogate Fisher King, allowing Duncan to pursue Galahad.]]
* ''Franchise/XMen'':
** Though not always the official ruler of anything, ComicBook/{{Storm}} has this effect; her mutant weather-control powers tend to cause local weather to change to reflect her mood (in X-2, Xavier knows she's upset because the weather is overcast). In her past, this caused villagers to worship her as a goddess; unlike a true Fisher Queen, the power is not dependent on her location, though it could be interpreted as being linked to the Earth itself.

* The ComicBook/{{Justice League|OfAmerica}} once fought Rama Khan, ruler of the hidden magic kingdom of Jarhanpur. Not only was the land a paradise so long as the Khan was happy, but he could also cause the earth of his country itself to rise up and smack people around when they displeased him. Likewise, the loss of his heir threatened to destroy the entire nation.
* In ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' the Oracle is this for Kandrakar, as the Fortress changes to reflect the reigning Oracle. Already hinted when [[spoiler: Phobos]] managed to take over the position for a while and Kandrakar became similar to [[spoiler: Meridian]] under his reign and resumed its previous appearance as soon as Himerish returned the Oracle, it was confirmed at the end of the ''New Power'' story arc, when [[spoiler: Yan Lin]] becoming the new Oracle changed the look of the Fortress as soon as she decided it.
* In ''[[ComicBook/MarvelZombies Marvel Zombies Destroy!]]'', it's shown to be the case with Odin. One bite from a zombie turns the whole of Asgard into zombies.
* In ''ComicBook/MageTheHeroDiscovered'', the big bad of the first series is hunting "the fisher king" to use him in a ritual to bring an age of darkness to the world. Though it is subverted slightly in that it is not an actual king or ruler but an actual embodiment of goodness. Last time the ritual succeded brought about [[spoiler: the world war 2 and before that the dark ages]].
* Mentioned by name in ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' during the "Cubs in Toyland" arc, though this one overlaps with both the magical and mundane FisherKingdom. Nine-year-old [[spoiler: Therese Wolf]] is taken to the ruined wasteland of Discardia, a realm of toys who [[spoiler: accidentally killed their children (by choking, catching fire, falling on top of a sleeping baby and smothering it, etc.)]]. The toys had brought her there hoping that a good queen would have a restorative effect on their deteriorating bodies, but a combination of starvation (nothing grows there,) and the sort of HeroicBSOD you might expect from a somewhat spoiled, selfish child suddenly taken away from her loving family and landing in this situation ends up turning her into a killer, and the land remains blighted and [[spoiler: Therese]] continues to starve [[spoiler: as had all the previous child monarchs with whom the toys had tried this]]. The toys [[DiscussedTrope discuss]] the overlap with FisherKingdom when one points out that instead of the land and their bodies being improved by her presence, she's being diminished by theirs. It's only when her brother [[spoiler: kills himself, mixing the effect of his HeroicSacrifice and the BloodMagic provided by their powerful mixed parentage]], that the land heals enough to provide food for [[spoiler: Therese]], at which point she mentally [[YourMindMakesItReal and physically]] grows up, and [[TheAtoner leads the toys in atoning]] for their crimes. After [[YearInsideHourOutside an unclear amount of time]] passes with their mission being successful, the land is vibrant and fertile, and the toys are healed/repaired, though [[spoiler: Therese]] remains guilt-ridden and broken-hearted.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': The 5th Dimension, home of Superman's long-time nuisance Mr. Mxyzptlk, is one of these, [[TimeyWimeyBall or was, and will be...]] When the King-Thing's wife dies in childbirth, he falls into a deep depression that turns the entire dimension grey and gloomy, only being lifted when Mxyzptlk appears to perform magic that cheers the king up again.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman''
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1'': Artemis is the ruler of the moon, and when Mars drugs and kidnaps her the moon goes dark.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanBlackAndGold'': In the story, "Without Love", the world becomes monochrome and devoid of the emotion of love when Eros[[note]]also known by his Roman name, Cupid[[/note]], god of love and sex, rips out his own heart with Eris' encouragement.
* In ''ComicBook/ZombiesChristmasCarol'', mankind's dim prospects and the encroaching zombies have made the Ghost of Christmas Present into a lumpy, troll-like figure who's somewhere between full to bursting and emaciated.
* The Nightshade's Lands reflect the state of their ruler. Once they were a fantastic land filled with oddities but beautiful, then when the deposed Queen was murdered everything started to decay and was slowly twisted to reflect her murderer who had now possessed her son. When her son his possessor were killed by her daughter Nightshade everything sort of disintegrated, though Nightshade still uses the place to teleport through.

* ''WebVideo/FeatherAdventures'': Sporshey's appearance and GreenThumb ability is limited by how much pollution there is in their land. When the land is unpolluted, they are very energetic and quick, have a strong grasp on their powers and vibrant green feathers, and emit spore particles wherever they go; when the land is highly polluted, their powers weaken and their feathers become a much more greyish shade of green.

* The Briarwoods and the de Rolo family in ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' are this to the city of Whitestone, a sacred city of the Dawnfather Pelor. Under the heel of the Briarwoods, the farmlands are barren and the sky is perpetually overcast and dark; the people are starving and miserable, ruled over by the undead, and the land is being stripped of material for use in the Briarwoods' dark magic cult ritual in service to the lich Vecna. Once Vox Machina defeats them and gives control of the city to Percival and Cassandra de Rolo—the last survivors of its original ruling family—the land begins to heal and the city flourishes once more, and the ensuing Winter's Crest festival is a joyous celebration.

* In ''Film/{{Matilda}}'', while Miss Trunchbull resides in the former Honey mansion, it has a [[OldDarkHouse dark, dingy, and foreboding atmosphere]]; once Trunchbull skips town and Miss Honey reacquires the house, it returns to its former bright, pristine glory.
* Laura in ''Film/MenInBlackII'' is the semi-divine daughter of an alien queen and has a similar link to the weather.

* In ''Film/MirrorMirror'', the weather turns bad the instant the evil queen ascends the throne, and the sun comes out the moment Snow White knocks her off of it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Atlantis is left in deteriorating state after being sunk by a tidal wave [[spoiler: caused by the King's abuse of the Heart of Atlantis crystal by using it as a weapon of mass destruction]], with the [[spoiler: Crystal being hidden underneath the palace]] to prevent Kida from succumbing to the exact same fate that killed her mother, the Queen, when she was sacrificed in the prologue. Later, when [[spoiler: Rourke]] tricks Kida into bonding with the [[spoiler: Crystal]] by deliberately harassing it due to its sentience, prompting the [[spoiler: Crystal]] to fuse with Kida as a form of self-defense, [[spoiler: Rourke]] then takes the [[spoiler: crystallized Kida]] away from Atlantis, knowing that this will destroy the kingdom with its removal. As he does so, all of the water in Atlantis dries up, and the Atlanteans' smaller crystals all stop glowing. After the King warns Milo and his friends that Kida will die [[spoiler: if she remains in her crystal form too long, like with what happened to her mother]], before he finally dies from [[spoiler: being fatally injured by Rourke]], this prompts Milo and friends to defeat [[spoiler: Rourke]] and and return Kida and the [[spoiler: Crystal]] back to Atlantis before a volcanic eruption [[spoiler: caused by Rourke's blimp being destroyed]] destroys Atlantis for good. [[spoiler: The Crystal then separates from Kida, and is then moved above the kingdom where it rightfully belongs, with the ending shot showing Atlantis finally restored because of this.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', Atlantis is left in deteriorating state after being sunk by a tidal wave [[spoiler: caused by the King's abuse of the Heart of Atlantis crystal by using it as a weapon of mass destruction]], with the [[spoiler: Crystal being hidden underneath the palace]] to prevent Kida from succumbing to the exact same fate that killed her mother, the Queen, when she was sacrificed in the prologue. Later, when [[spoiler: Rourke]] tricks Kida into bonding with the [[spoiler: Crystal]] by deliberately harassing it due to its sentience, prompting the [[spoiler: Crystal]] to fuse with Kida as a form of self-defense, [[spoiler: Rourke]] then takes the [[spoiler: crystallized Kida]] away from Atlantis, knowing that this will destroy the kingdom with its removal. As he does so, all of the water in Atlantis dries up, and the Atlanteans' smaller crystals all stop glowing. After the King warns Milo and his friends that Kida will die [[spoiler: if she remains in her crystal form too long, like with what happened to her mother]], before he finally dies, this prompts Milo and friends to defeat [[spoiler: Rourke]] and and return Kida and the [[spoiler: Crystal]] back to Atlantis before a volcanic eruption [[spoiler: caused by Rourke's blimp being destroyed]] destroys Atlantis for good. [[spoiler: The Crystal then separates from Kida, and is then moved above the kingdom where it rightfully belongs, with the ending shot showing Atlantis finally restored because of this.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': After [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias King Andrias]] reveals his true colors in the season 2 finale and [[spoiler: starts building an army to [[MultiversalConqueror take over Earth and other worlds]]]], Amphibia's color scheme goes from happy green to murky brown, most of the foliage that [[PollutedWasteland hasn't been ripped up completely]] has wilted, and is overpopulated by Frobots.

** The corruption of Sauron is reflected in the harsh barren landscape of Mordor, although this is an inverted example as the land was like that before he settled there. Played traditionally after Sauron's overthrow, where the land literally opens up and swallows his army (it's handled a bit better if, less visually interesting, in the book).
** This trope is reflected in the Tree of the Kings in Minas Tirith, used as the symbol of Gondor. In the prologue, it is shown in full bloom on the Gondorian armour, but by the time of the Ring Quest, it is completely withered as a reflection of the Steward Denethor with the line of kings missing. The coming of the heir Aragorn causes a single flower to appear on the tree, and by his coronation, it is alive and well again. This contrasts the books where Aragorn had to find a new tree to replace the dead old one.
** Inverted with Arwen, who sickens as evil contaminates the land, and heals as it is driven back.

*** [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Ghidorah]] -- an [[spoiler:extraterrestrial whose powers upset the very natural balance of the Earth]], and an OmnicidalManiac who is actively seeking to destroy all non-kaiju complex life on the planet -- is constantly accompanied by a hurricane of black clouding filled with his yellow lightning wherever he goes, and once he becomes the ruling King of the Monsters (and in essence the king of the planet), almost every location on the Earth's surface that the heroes visit is being pounded by torrential rainstorms which are heavily implied (and confirmed in the novelization) to be generated by Ghidorah's reign.

* The 2003 movie version of ''Film/PeterPan'' uses this trope abundantly; Neverland is locked in winter when Peter is away and rapidly transforms into summer when he returns. Later, Hook and the pirates assume that because it's snowing and a raging storm has suddenly appeared, Peter has to be dead ([[spoiler:he's not; he's grieving for Tinkerbell's HeroicSacrifice]]). When the storm suddenly becomes a shining summer day ([[spoiler:when Tinkerbell returns to life]]), Hook immediately realizes that it means Peter's still alive.
* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', the captain of the Flying Dutchman has this effect on the ship. A good captain (or at least a captain who [[TheGrimReaper does the job]]) has a nice ship, but a corrupt one who doesn't (e.g., Davy Jones) makes the ship [[{{Pun}} a little fishy]]. Thus, when [[spoiler:Will Turner]] becomes the captain in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third film]], the ship's appearance improves, and the sailors are no longer human-fish hybrids. In fact, you can see the fishy bits falling off of his crew when he takes over. [[spoiler:Will's father]] even takes the starfish off his face on camera. Unfortunately, the latest film seems to retcon this, as [[spoiler:Will is shown to be turning into Davy Jones Lite despite Elizabeth waiting for him and Will doing his job]].
* ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'': Although Pleasantville slowly changes to color throughout the film, the town only fully changes over to become a fully realized world after both [[spoiler:George and The Mayor]] are changed in quick succession. Either character (or both) might be considered the Fisher King in this case as the former was [[spoiler:the last of the in-show "Protagonist Family" to change]] and sets off an entire crowd when he does change while the latter [[spoiler:is the highest authority in the town]] and is the only character to actually be shown changing on-screen.

** ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Whoever holds the magical map to the wishing star is this for the Dark Forest. The map sees inside the hearts of whoever looks upon it, which causes the woods to transform into obstacles fit for a person. Puss, who is trying to get back his lost lives, gets a fiery, deadly wasteland, while Kitty Softpaws, [[spoiler:who wants to wish for someone she can trust]], gets a desolate and lonely bog. Goldilocks, [[spoiler:who wants to wish for a family of her own, gets a recreation of the Three Bears’ cabin, which is the forest’s way of trying to tell her the bears are her family]]. And Perrito, who has no wish, gets a serene meadow with flowers that are only deadly if the traveler doesn’t smell them.

** The deterioration of that land in [[Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance the prequel series]] into the state seen in the movie reflects the Skeksis's slide from seemingly-benevolent overlords into overt tyrants.

* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', and the way Britain falls apart as Myth/KingArthur does, [[spoiler:but after he drinks from the Holy Grail the sun emerges and the trees blossom]].

** This trope is reflected in the Tree of the Kings in Minas Tirith, used as the symbol of Gondor. In the prologue, it is shown in full bloom on Gondorian armour, but by the time of the Ring Quest, it is completely whithered as a reflection of steward Denethor, with the line of kings missing. The coming of heir Aragorn causes a single flower to appear on the tree, and by his coronation, it is alive and well again. This contrasts the books where Aragorn had to find a new tree to replace the dead old one.

* In ''Film/WhatDreamsMayCome'', everyone in the afterlife is ruler of their own personal Heaven, and it shifts to fit them uniquely. Interestingly, the protagonist's "paradise" is heavily influenced by his still-living wife, as it's originally based on her paintings.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Armello}}'' the kingdom gets worse as the game progresses and the King gets more corrupted, not merely because his proclamations become more insane but also more Banes appear and they get stronger.

* Similarly in ''VideoGame/ForHonor'', the maps change with the controlling faction. Land occupied by the Knights is temperate, land occupied by the Samurai becomes foggy marshland, and land occupied by the Vikings [[GrimUpNorth becomes rather frigid]].