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{{quote|''The prince went to meet her, took her by the hand and danced with her. He would dance with no other maiden, and never left loose of her hand, and if any one else came to invite her, he said, "This is my partner."''|'''[[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|The Brothers Grimm]]''', "[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/german.html Aschenputtel, or Cinderella]"}}
The [[Spear Counterpart]] to [[Princess Classic]], the '''Prince Charming''' is, well,
Except, actually, all the princes in those tales were very seldom named. It was simply a "prince" or "king" or [[Blue Blood|royalty]] of some sort. And when they did have names, they were genuine, even commonplace, names: John, Ivan, Jean, etc.
The term
The term stuck.
Nowadays, the classic
It's only the rarest of instances where he can be played straight and done right. And under those circumstances he will be given his own name, and not called Prince Charming. "Prince Charming" is guaranteed to be a subversion.
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* Played straight in the movie ''The Prince And Me'' as Prince Edvard goes from having a girl on each arm to "Eddie" who quotes [[Shakespeare]] like some [[Buffy-Speak|duke-lord guy.]]
* ''[[Kate and Leopold]]'' has Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany who writes the best apology letter in the history of mankind.
* In the Czech movie ''Byl jednou jeden král'' (''Once upon a time there was a king'', an adaptation of the fairy tale ''[http://english.muzeumbn.cz/texts/salt-over-gold.html Salt over gold]''){{Dead link}}
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Does he ride a white horse?
* [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] rather brutally by [[The Caligula|Prince Joffrey Baratheon]], who is basically the [[Complete Monster|hideous lovechild]] of [[The Caligula|Caligula]] and [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Azula]], and Ser Jaime Lannister, who is, {{spoiler|[[The Atoner|initially]]}}, ruthless, arrogant and amoral.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
* Justified in the contemporary book ''Dream Boy'' written by Ann Reit, which stars a charming, but immature teenager who learned it from his father.
* Played straight with Prince Jonathan of the realm of ''[[Tortall]]'' who is a lover and a fighter. And oh ''boy'' is he a [[Casanova|lover]] - right up until he meets Thayet, anyway, and she steals his heart and his ability to speak in all of ten seconds.
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** Also in ''Isabel: Jewel of Castilla'' where it takes less than two hours for Fernando, Prince of Aragon and King of Sicily, to steal the princess's heart with his humor, authority and imagination.
== [[Live
* Prince Charming is a character in ''[[Sesame Street]]'', using the same puppet as Guy Smiley and Don Music, who can be relied upon to totally mess up any fairy-tale he's involved in (he's not a [[Prince Charmless]], just [[Lord Error-Prone|incompetent and not very bright]]). He also works as a dance instructor, under the name Prince Cha-Cha-Charming.
* [[Gossip Girl|Nate Archibald]] is all but explicitly based on this trope. He is described as charming with extreme regularity, and has the tendency to fall passionately in love (with various girls) and deliver romantic speeches (occasionally hilariously out of context) while rescuing them from some emotional or social dragon. He is in the books given the epithet "prince of the upper east side" and it is said that he can "snap his fingers and have any girl he wants." If you gave him fencing lessons, he would basically be the Prince Charming from [[Fables]]
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* The main Prince in ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'', James, is sarcastically (at first) [[In-Series Nickname|nicknamed]] Prince Charming by his future wife, [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]], when he captures her in a net. She says that he's so charming if that's the only way he can get someone. Of course she did steal from him.
== [[
* ''[[Into the Woods]]'' actually has ''two'' examples: there are two Prince Charmings, married to Cinderella and Rapunzel, respectively. {{spoiler|In the second act, they abandon their wives for Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.}}
{{quote|"I was raised to be charming{{spoiler|, not sincere.}}" - Cinderella's Prince}}
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* [[Psychonauts]]'s official Psycho-Pedia has this to say about Lili's view of Raz:
{{quote|Clairvoyance reveals that Lili sees Raz as a Prince Charming-type, complete with cape, rose and slicked-back hair. [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|But she doesn’t have a crush on him. Not at all. No way.]]}}
* [[King's Quest|Alexander of Daventry]] pulls this off rather nicely, especially in ''[[King's Quest VI]]''. It's given a bit of a [[Deconstruction]] in the [[Expanded Universe]] material, though. [[Beneath the Mask|Because he spent so long as a slave, he still thinks of himself as "Gwydion."]] The persona of "Alexander" is like a mask or a cloak to him.
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* Gil from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is a kind of reconstruction. The Prince Charming has often been deconstructed by making him (the heir of) a tyrant. But Gil is very good at arguing his father is the most enlightened despot in the continent, and he's probably right. Also, Gil is beautiful, the ultimate warrior, [[Always Save the Girl]]… He just fails for the romantic side.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Played with in the person of Prince Piers of the Empire of Soleil in the [[Reincarnation Fantasy|Isekai]] web novel ''[[Tori Transmigrated]]'' by "Aila Aurie". He's stunningly handsome, noble, well-educated, one of the best swordsmen in the empire -- and firmly planted [[Ambiguous Disorder|somewhere on the autism spectrum]]. It takes several years of friendly guidance and help from the title character before he is able to actually ''function'' as a prince -- and he still comes off as stiff and odd at times.
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