Everything's Better with Princesses: Difference between revisions

 

 

But a genuine princess is exceedingly rare!"''|''[[Once Upon a Mattress]]'', "Many Moons Ago"}}

 

* Princess Sapphire, the eponymous ''[[Princess Knight]]''.

* Rather disturbing example in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', in Kaiba's virtual reality video game there is a princess whose appearance is based on Mokuba. (Probably Kaiba [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] Mokuba's [[Distressed Damsel]] tendencies.) Naturally, ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' had a field day with this.

'''Joey:''' Maybe it's a shemale. You know, like Bakura. }}

* Kuro in ''[[Kurokami]]'' is a princess.

* In the first installment of ''[[Project A-ko]]'', C-ko is revealed to be an alien princess.

* When [[Yotsuba&!]] first glimpses tomboy Miura's highrise apartment:

'''Miura:''' Yes. I've been hiding it, but I'm actually a princess. Listen, don't tell anyone, OK? It's a secret. }}

* The titular heroine of ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' is a circus acrobat who performs under the stage name of "Princess Nadia", unaware that her [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]] identifies her as a genuine princess from a lost civilization. Subverted in that Nadia doesn't ''like'' being called "princess" because the word has bad associations for her.

* Subverted in the book ''Summer Knight'' of [[The Dresden Files]], where {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] turns out to be Aurora, the effectively-princess of the usually-nicer half of the [[Fair Folk]].}}

* Princess Irene, the title princess of [[George MacDonald]]'s ''The Princess and the Goblin'' and ''The Princess and Curdie''.

That the princess was a real princess you might see now quite plainly; for she didn't hang on to the handle of the door, and stare without moving, as I have known some do who ought to have been princesses but were only rather vulgar little girls. She did as she was told, stepped inside the door at once, and shut it gently behind her.'' }}

** However, it is worth mentioning that the author either subverts this trope or takes it [[Up to Eleven]] by breaking the fourth wall to tell the reader that they are a princess too.

== Music ==

* The Coup "Wear Clean Draws", the rapper Boots Riley gives advice to his daughter:

* Inverted in [[Vocaloid|The Story of Evil]], in which the "Daughter of Evil" Rillianne, though technically a ruling queen, [[Princesses Rule|prefers to retain the title of Princess]]. She is a spoiled [[Royal Brat]], a tyrant and a [[Green-Eyed Monster]].

 

* Feena Fam Earthlight from ''[[Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na]]'' is a princess, despite the fact that matriarchal monarchy seems to be an unlikely government type for a country that was founded by humans who had colonized the moon. Royal politics do come into play later in the story, however.

* ''[[Jabless Adventure]]'' features what we can only assume is a parody of the standard "rescue the princess" plot. Specifically, the princess isn't even mentioned until the game is almost over:

'''Squiddy:''' Neither did I... }}

** Then, after you defeat the final boss, said princess shows up out of nowhere.