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Contrast [[Alpha Bitch]], [[Princess in Rags]]. Compare the [[Ojou]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Film ==
* The movie ''[[Heathers]]'' revolves around the sole non-Heather member of a clique of girls named Heather, who, with the help of an attractive but weird loner, decides to get back at them for their bullying ways with pranks which, though initially innocent, quickly turn into a killing spree.
* A male example, Simba from [[The Lion King]]. Once a naive, curious cub, now a [[
* A variation happens to Cady in ''[[Mean Girls]]'' where she's a [[Cool Loser]] to start the film off, then she becomes the [[Alpha Bitch]] and realises how much that life sucks before going back to her original self. Also happens to Regina who discovers that the whole school actually hates her but then reforms, joining the field hockey team to work on her anger issues. The end implies that she is a bit nicer as well.
* Lilli in ''[[Snow White a Tale of Terror (Film)|Snow White a Tale of Terror]]''. She's forced to run away and try and live in the wild.
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* In "[[Adalminas Pearl (Literature)|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.
* According to Kabbalah mysticism, the Shekhinah ("Presence"), a feminine divinity, was cast out when the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed and now wanders the world disconsolate. Jewish fairytales involving exiled princesses may be seen as metaphors for this idea.
* The Grimm's fairy tale "King Thrushbeard" has an example of this. The main character is a princess who is such an [[Alpha Bitch]] that she doesn't consider any of her suitors worthy of her hand. Eventually, her frustrated father forces her to marry a poor peddler. One [[Humiliation Conga]] and a "[[My God, What Have I Done?]]" later, the peddler is revealed to the eponymous king, whom the princess had mocked earlier, and who officially marries her once she has learned her lesson.
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* In Joan D. Vinge's ''The Snow Queen'' and its sequels, BZ Gundhalinu is a male example: coming from the upper level of an extremely hierarchical society, he's thrown into unfamiliar circumstances by bad luck, attempts suicide because of the dishonor of it, and then realizes that life is actually better outside his former world.
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunts Ghosts]]'' novel ''Honour Guard'', Kolea tells Curth that in joining the Ghosts, she has become this, since the two of them were not of anything like equal status back home -- she would never have known his name. She shrugs it off: she knows many people of his status now.
* 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
* Laurana in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' novels is a [[Spoiled Sweet]] elven princess with a [[Hundred Percent Adoration Rating]] until she runs away from home to try and win back her [[Halfbreed|half human]] ex-boyfriend. She is then completely ostracized for disgracing her family. When she returns home she is snubbed by everyone, her brother cruelly mocks her romantic difficulties and her father publicly calls her a whore and ends up [[I Have No Son|disinheriting]] her. {{spoiler|She still goes on though to become the [[Red Baron|Golden General.]]}}
** She's better off without 'em anyway - ''Dragonlance'' elves [[Can't Argue With Elves|are almost all a bunch of insufferable, arrogant, hypocritical pricks]] (case in point: the civil war that split the elves millenia ago was fought because a royal elven prince had the gall to take a human bride. Guess who Laurana is descended from.)
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== Video Games ==
* Bordering on [[Anvilicious]] are the visual novels under the ''[[Purple Moon]]'' banner. Try to make friends with the [[Alpha Bitch]], and ''every single time'', something will backfire and make her hate you. (It's a bit of a [[Family
* Rozalin of ''[[Disgaea 2]]''. One day she's living in [[Princess Classic|complete luxury]] (if entirely isolated), and the next she's pulled into the Veldime equivalent of Kansas against her will and tearing her dress in the woods.
* The player character in [[A Dance With Rogues]].
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** Nina from ''[[Breath of Fire III (Video Game)|Breath of Fire III]]'' is an even better example; she left behind the life of a princess because she preferred life outside the castle, helping to fix the kingdom's problems, to her pampered life in the castle.
* [[Fire Emblem]], in many of of its incarnations, has fallen princes and princesses either in the backstory or in between your trope:
** Lyndis's mother Madelyn in ''[[Fire Emblem]] 7'', who chose to run away from her father's castle in Caelin than [[Star
*** ''Lyn'' herself. She was the princess of the Lorca tribe... then they were all slaughtered before the game even started, leaving her completely alone.
*** A partial example would be Rath, prince of the Kutolah tribe ho was exiled due to a prophecy saying that he had to search for hsi destiny on his own. He's a bit luckier, though, since his solo ending says he's taken back by the tribe.
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* The female Human Noble Origin from ''[[Dragon Age]]'' could also apply, depending on how you RP the character. You are not a princess, but you are daughter of the second-highest ranking noble in the country, so that should count for something. {{spoiler|Especially because you lose your entire family and become a Grey Warden.}} Of course, by the end of the game you can {{spoiler|become the Queen of Ferelden...not a bad trade-off, there.}}
** This may actually apply to the female Dwarf Noble Origin more, as you actually ARE a princess in that origin. {{spoiler|However, you don't get to become Queen at the end of that game. You do get to become a Paragon, though, which is much more awesome.}}
* ''[[Mitsumete Knight (Video Game)|Mitsumete Knight]] R: Daibouken Hen'' has a male example with {{spoiler|1=[[The Reveal|none other than]] [[The Hero]][[The Reveal|, Christopher MacLeod]]: he's actually Prince Conor of the fallen Parmet Kingdom, thanks to the schemes of [[The Empire|Orcadia]], an [[The Empire|Empire]] bent on the conquest and domination of Zardos Continent. Conor is on a quest of [[Revenge]] again Orcadia, ''not'' because of his fallen kingdom and the loss of his parents (he was 4 at the time, thus too young to remember them), but because when he was 12, Orcadia's men discovered him and his beloved little sister Melinda, captured and atrociously tortured them, to the point that [[Kill the Cutie|Melinda died]] [[Cold
* Princess Zelda fits this category in a few games. In the Ocarina of Time, she spend seven years in exile as Sheik; in Wind Waker, she is the last heir of the fallen royal line; And of course, in Twilight Princess, her throne is stolen by Zant right before her coronation, though Midna's exile from her own kingdom overshadowed that.
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* Caitlin from [[Sixteen|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.
* The ''[[Doug]]'' episode "Beebe Goes Broke", in which...[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Beebe goes broke]].
* Less shallow than the trope description, but same general pattern in fantasy setting, with a male: Prince Zuko was the season one villain, a spoiled brat in the sense that he yelled at people when they or the universe didn't give him what he wanted and had no use for tact. Still had some moments of awesome, and his most impressively evil moment involved holding a piece of jewelry hostage. Near the end of the season, his ship was blown up. Early in Season Two, he wound up a fugitive from his own nation, living as a faceless refugee for the horrible crime of...not successfully [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Punching Out Cthulhu]], apparently. He spends most of that season learning humility and otherwise having [[Character Development]], and by the series finale is one of the [[True Companions]].
** Note that he sides with his evil sister against his former enemies when she offers him the chance to come home and be part of the family and crown prince again, and does a full-on [[Defector From Decadence]] routine halfway through season three. This is actually a standard variation on the standard plot, except when we're dealing with stuff on the Lifetime movie level the Princess is just going back because her new friends are just oh-so-much better and awwwww, rather than due to the need to take a stand on war crimes and [[Abusive Parents]].
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