That en passant was hot. Be my queen.

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You can actually promote a pawn to any other piece as well (rook, bishop, knight, etc.), this is known as underpromotion. It's mostly a "why would you ever do that?" thing, though.

There are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate

Or to humiliate your opponent

Or possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.