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But then something happens. She turns out to be [[The Chosen One]], perhaps, or gets covered in [[I Love Nuclear Power|radioactive]] [[Green Rocks|green goo]] that gives her [[Freak Lab Accident|gives her superpowers]], or whatever. For whatever reason, the very thing that makes her a hero also makes her an outcast. Now she sits [[How the Mighty Have Fallen|on the outskirts of her school's peer groups]] with [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|a rag-tag bunch of fellow 'losers']]. At first she regrets not being able to rejoin the jet set, but her drop in status opens her eyes to the goodness and decency of the people she once rejected. She becomes a better person, the ([[Hollywood Nerd|suspiciously attractive]]) geeks get a cool friend and all of them save the world and solve mysteries together. Awww, bless.

Alternatively, the '''Fallen Princess''' can be a secondary character who is initially portrayed as the [[Alpha Bitch]], but who is [[Lovable Alpha Bitch|revealed to be insecure or to have other sympathetic traits that make the audience like her]], prior to her taking a leap down in the social strata.

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Ultimate SpiderWoman|: Change With the Light]]'': Mary Jane Watson]] is a partial example. While she's certainly got the beauty, talent and apparent social standing to qualify as a "princess", and she now only hangs out with a few close friends while struggling to make ends meet, her powers have nothing to do with her isolation and her friends aren't really geeks.

== [[Film]] ==

* In "[[Adalmina's Pearl|Adalminas Pearl]]", this is the main plot. Adalmiina's fall is very hard, too: she goes from a spoiled, ultimately intelligent, extremely beautiful, [[Rich Bitch|unbelievably rich]] princess to literal rags in a moment ([[A Wizard Did It|A faerie godmother did it]].), and also loses her looks, smarts, and even her memory.

== [[Literature]] ==

* Neone Delft of [[Stationery Voyagers]] discovers she is actually {{spoiler|Princess Wendim Shinroff}} of Neomlot, and that Hidicky Delft was only some kind carpenter that adopted her after a particularly lazy [[Evil Sorcerer]] merely [[Ripped from the Headlines|abandoned her in a dumpster to die]]. She is finally reunited with her biological parents; only she views her new life as a Voyager as her true [[Mission Fromfrom God]]. After a brief moment of happiness, they tell her that bringing the family back together was all for nothing: [[Downer Ending|Astrabolo is about to destroy everything and there is no hope]]. On the other hand, being unable to do anything whatsoever with her royal heritage doesn't get her too down: she had no intentions of actually saving Neothode anyway because [[Genre Savvy|she already realized it was hopeless]].

* Caitlin from [[Sixteen6teen|6Teen]] was just as snooty and stuck up as her "friend" Tricia, until her dad cut her off and made her get a job. Without her money, her so called friends ditched her. Plus that lemon hat... she eventually becomes a classic case of [[Spoiled Sweet]] when she makes some real friends.