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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 ''[[Gaunt's 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 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
* Laurana in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' novels is a [[Spoiled Sweet]] elven princess with a [[100% 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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* Rhonda from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'' became this when she realizes she needs to wear thick eyeglasses.
** Even further when her family goes temporarily broke.
* Caitlin from [[
* 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]].
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