Since the appearance of nation-states, the forms of sovereignty have fragmented and changed according to the spirit of their time, they have dissolved and gone through a process of secularization and mediatization. From its original niche of God-King and Emperor of the World the sovereign has become dandy, celebrity, dictator and star; each of these transformations keeps the essence of the original relation of exception. If the terrible place is a theater, we will begin this study by researching its main character, the sovereign, who acts as the germ cell of exception and configures around him or herself the threshold we are bound to inhabit.