Fallen Kingdom is a five-part Minecraft fanfilm by CaptainSparklez. The first and most well-known, a music video parodying "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay, covers the rise and fall of a happy kingdom with a Downer Ending of the King all alone… but it turns out the Prince survived, and the Kingdom might not stay so Fallen. Even if he has to take on the hordes of the Nether to do it.

The five videos are "Fallen Kingdom" (2012), "Take Back the Night" (2013), "Find the Pieces" (2015), "Dragonhearted" (2016), and "Rising Kingdom" (2022) (a prequel). Or you can watch the original tetralogy all together here.

Not to be confused with Fallen Kingdom (7King Bowser7), a Super Mario Bros. Dark Fic, or Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

The Fallen Kingdom quintology include examples of the following tropes:

• Adaptational Villainy: Zombie Pigmen in the game are harmless unless provoked. Here, they're minions of the Pigmen.
• Art Evolution: The quality of the animations and effects gets noticeably better as the series progresses.
• Big Damn Heroes: In "Dragonhearted", the Pigman invasion of a city is slowed by a brigade of Villagers with Iron Golems, and then thwarted entirely when the Prince and King show up.
• Bittersweet Ending: Herobrine is dead, the Nether invasion has been crushed and the kingdom is being rebuilt, but at the cost of the Prince's life.
• Cross-Dimensional Conflict: The premise of the main story is Herobrine leading a Nether army to invade the royal family's kingdom in the Overworld. In the finale, the King and Prince go into the End, where the King tames the Ender Dragon and rides it back into the battle in the Overworld.
• Decapitated Army: The destruction of the Pigmen's fortress deactivates their zombie mooks, destroys their Nether portals... and, for some reason, causes their ships to sink.
• Doomed Hometown: Twice for the Prince. His kingdom is destroyed when he's a child, and then as an adult, his adopted Village is attacked by Pigmen. In both cases, they're rebuilt, though.
• Devil, but No God: In many Minecraft animations, if there is Herobrine, Notch often appears as his enemy. In Minecraft community, Herobrine usually plays a demon's role whilst Notch plays a deity's role. However, in this series, Notch doesn't appear. No deity is mentioned in this series. On another side, Herobrine and many other monsters appear as antagonists in this series.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The song in the first video, the titular Fallen Kingdom, is a spoof of the Coldplay song Viva la Vida. The others are all original. Additionally, lyrics-wise, Fallen Kingdom features many more references to Minecraft than the rest of the pentalogy, which actually don't have much to do with Minecraft aside from the occasional reference (ex. "And I wish I could dig straight down" from Find the Pieces) and the accompanying animations featuring Minecraft characters.
• Empty Chair Memorial: "Take Back the Night" ends with the Prince killing Herobrine, while in the next music video, "Find the Pieces", we are shown the Pigmen's castle with Pigman King and Wither Skeleton leader's thrones, and an empty chair with a color scheme suspiciously similar to Herobrine's attire's.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: In "Take Back the Night", the Prince's horse suddenly stops on the route to Herobrine's castle. When the Prince tries to convince the horse to move forward anyways, the two are attacked by some sort of volcano giant that had been camouflaged amidst the terrain ahead of them.
• Falling Chandelier of Doom: In "Rising Kingdom", when confronted with two demonic guards, the King shoots an arrow to drop a chandelier on them.
• Fantastic Nuke: A Nether Star missile is used for the finale, and creates an explosion strong enough to wipe out the Pigmen's capital in one go.
• Fictional Flag: The flag of the Fallen Kingdom features a red cross on a yellow field.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: A few rules of Minecraft are overlooked for the sake of the narrative:
  • The Prince destroys the Wither by shooting an arrow into a nearby convenient pile of TNT. This would not work in the game without a Flame enchantment.
  • While the Pigmen being able to survive in the Overworld without zombifying may seem to be this to modern viewers, at the time of the video's release non-undead Pigmen, as they were called then, had not yet been added to the game.
  • The Warden is summoned after one Sculk catalyst/shrieker is triggered. In the game, it takes triggering four over the span of about ten minutes for this to happen.
• Giant Mook: Both regular and zombie Pigmen have large, hulking variants that aren't seen in the source material.
• A Handful for an Eye: The Prince turns the tide in his battle with Herobrine by doing this with lava, although he uses his sword to pick it up instead of his bare hand.
• Happy Flashback: All of "Fallen Kingdom" shifts between the King's happy memories of his kingdom… and wandering through the mob-infested wreck it is now.
• Hijacking Cthulhu: In "Dragonhearted", the King is able to turn the tides of battle by doing the impossible and taming the Ender Dragon. In the prequel, he similarly saves his own life by taming a Warden to fight against the other Warden pursuing him.
• Human Shield: At one point in "Rising Kingdom", the King impales a zombie on his sword and uses it as a shield against a Creeper explosion.
• Humongous Mecha: The Pigmen's ultimate weapon is a giant Nether Star-powered mech which boasts great strength, though it's no match for the Ender Dragon.
• Mythology Gag: Take Back The Night shows the Price roaming throughout faraway lands after his home is destroyed, in a similar manner to Steve during the creeper's verse in TNT, a previous Captain Sparklez music video.
• No Name Given: Except for Herobrine, the Wither, and the Ender Dragon (who aren't named in the actual videos) no one has a name due to the lack of dialogue.
• No-Sell:
  • The Sensei Villager is shown defeating ordinary minions with ease, but when a giant zombie Pigman appears, his kick just bounces off him.
  • When the King attacks a Warden with his sword, he only manages to snap part of the blade off.
• Planar Shockwave: When the Nether Star nuke goes off, it creates a large localized explosion in addition to a circular shockwave that ripples out far past its affected area.
• Plot Device: The staff the King uses to tame the Ender Dragon during the events of "Dragonhearted". "Rising Kingdom" reveals he stole it from Herobrine and similarly used it to tame a Warden.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The invading Pigmen seem less concerned with conquering humanity than with destroying everything in their way and setting the overworld's cities ablaze.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: The King grabs his sword and armor and goes out to fight as soon as he is aware of the invasion of his kingdom; however he is quickly overwhelmed and has to retreat, leading to the loss of the kingdom.
  • The Prince technically counts as he is of royal descent, but he was raised as a commoner by a sensei villager, so it is unsurprising that he is quite the fighter, even sacrificing himself to save the world in Dragonhearted.
• Silence Is Golden: A partial example. There's plenty of music and singing in the background, but nary a word of dialogue from the characters. As such, the story is told strictly through the use of actions, visuals, and facial expressions.
• Soft Water: Just like in the game, the King is able to survive falling hundreds of feet by landing in a small basin of water.
• Shown Their Work: In the happier times flashback in part one, the King is seen teasing a Creeper in a cage, which doesn't explode. Creepers won't detonate if there's a wall in the way, even if it's not a solid one.
• Trilogy Creep: Or rather, Tetralogy Creep. "Dragonhearted" was released in November 2016, and everyone thought it was the end of the story... until "Rising Kingdom", a prequel, was released in December 2022. Lampshaded in the latter video's description:
  After 6 years, we revisit the not yet Fallen Kingdom.
• Weaponized Animal: The Nether invaders are shown riding Ghasts with cannons strapped to them, and using flamethrowers powered by captive Blazes.
• When You Snatch the Pebble: The Sensei Villager trains the Prince until he can disarm him. It takes him until he's an adult.
• Xanatos Gambit: The Pigmen unleashing a Wither into an Overworld city will destroy their enemies, unless someone defeats it... in which case they can swoop in and grab the Nether Star to power their Humongous Mecha.