Rest assured that the following synopsis does not, and could never adequately describe or explain this short.
The short begins as a king sets out to visit Agustus the Agreeable, the king of rats. But Agustus is too agreeable, and the visiting monarch quickly wraps his enormous hands around the Ratking's head, squeezing free his skull. The new king claims the ratking's crown, placing it atop his own crown. And thus does Agustus die, and thus begins the reign of the Double King.
Envoys of the Rat Kingdom are dispatched to the Double King's palace, but are met with indifference bordering on contempt by the Double King; he supplies them with a rattrap complete with a piece of fine cheese. The envoy are unmoved, and remain outside to await their audience. They will be waiting for some time.
Far away, an ill-advised nibble on a nearby branch causes the crown of Goat Queen Daisy VII to fall from her head, landing on a cloud below and christening Stratomonarchus, King of Clouds. Stratomonarchus rains on a pumpkin patch, elevating to monarchy one of the gourds, Lady Gertrude of Squash. Her reign is short lived, as the Double King rushes in and smashes her, claiming her vine-crown for his own. He is now... The Triple King?
Alas, no, as vegetable matter makes a poor crown. It soon wilts, and attracts flies, including their becrowned Lord. Their attempt to carry off the wilted crown of Lady Gertrude during breakfast draws the Double King's ire, and he beheads the Lord of The Flies with his table knife. The crown of the Lord of the Flies is too small to be a proper crown, but it does make an adequate finger ring.
Elsewhere, the land shifts as a titanic snake wakes from her slumber. This is Harg, the Serpent Queen, but she is felled when the Double King climbs her and stabs her with his gigantic knives. He claims her crown for his own, stuffing himself into it, but the falling snake monarch nudges the crown and king with her tongue, sending him careening off the side of a cliff and into the ocean.
Meanwhile, Envoys of the Snake Kingdom approach the castle of the Double King to await an audience, behind envoys of the Fly, Gourd and Rat kingdoms. Their waiting is patient but futile, for the Double King is in the ocean realm of King Ronald the Moist, whom the Double King hauls onto land to dethrone. But before the Double King can claim the crown, it is stolen by a crab.
In another land, the caterpillar people watch with a bittersweet pride as King Aldo of the Glade passes his crown to his sworn heir, Queen Aldine of the Glade. Then, by ancient tradition, the failing body of their former king is placed on his leaf bier and passed onto the lake, where he undergoes a magnificent transformation. The new butterfly Aldo flies off to take his place with his ancestors, but is pursued by the Double King in his flying egg, the Ovum Regia.
In the paradisiacal land of the Butterflies, the Double King accosts Aldo, but Aldo is no longer a king, so the Double King quickly loses interest, especially when he sees the realm of Olov the Mountain King, who is literally his kingdom. The Double King acquires a mobile fortress and assaults King Olov, who is unmoved by the Double King's attack, but also makes no attempt to prevent the Double King from scaling his facade and stealing into the forest beyond. The Double King's lust for power is deteriorating the Double King's already tenuous sanity, making him turn on the fortress which got him to his goal in the first place.
While exploring Olov's forest, he comes across the royal guard protecting the Mushroom Monarch Durt the Elder. The Double King seizes this crown quickly, but it's not the kind of crown he's accustomed to, so he is confused. Then he spies a cockatoo with regal plumage resembling a proper crown! But the cockatoo are not kings and they evade his grasp, until the Double King is lost and confused deep within Olov's forest. Bereft of new crowns to seize, he spies the Lord of the Flies' crown on his hand, and assuming he has found the King of Hands, lops off the finger this ring is on.
This was not a good idea.
Perhaps the Double King hallucinates as he bleeds out, and perhaps his blood feeds the surrounding flora, but soon the Double King lie dead on the ground. The attendants of Death claim him (without his crowns), and see him delivered to the afterlife. He awakens there in the underworld, where he is terrorized by the terrible denizens there and troubled by his lack of crown, but he follows a crown shaped sign assuming that this is where he must go to reclaim his crowns. It is not. Instead he finds himself at the Royal Banquet, attended by the fallen monarchs that he has killed. The only crown here is that of Agatha, Matriarch of Death. He makes several attempts to claim the crown, and Agatha is amused, at least until the Double King grows violent in his attempts to claim her crown, punching her in the eye socket, which forces Agatha to grab the Double King and put him back into his chair to make him toe the line. Irritated, Double King folds his napkin into an ersatz crown but Agatha takes it from him. This drives the Double King into a rage, screaming and pounding on the table and generally making a nuisance of himself until Agatha finally gives the Double King her damned crown.
Pleased by this, the Double King rushes out of the banquet hall and to the gates of the Underworld, throwing himself out the gates and off the planet itself, to float randomly through the endless void.
The End.
