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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The Toyota Highlander commercials featuring the little blonde kid. He talks about how his parents used to be lame before they got the "cool" Highlander. The way he brags about it and the way he looks down on the kid whose parents drive an older car really give off the Spoiled Brat vibe.{{when}} <!-- MOD: When were these commercials run, and in what market? Are they on YouTube? -->
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Veruca Salt of ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', along with the two movies based on it, is one of the most iconic examples. In the book and the first movie, it's explicitly mentioned she's [[Pretty in Mink|wearing a mink coat]]. It's not [[Fur and Loathing]] here; it's that mink coats were almost never made for girls at the time (they wore mostly rabbit), no matter how wealthy the family.
** The stereotypical [[All Girls Like Ponies|"pony" line]] is spoofed in the 2005 movie:
{{quote|'''Veruca''': Daddy, I want ''[[Oh, No, Not Again|another]]'' pony.}}
:* Although Veruca is the most glaring example in the book, the other children (except for [[The Hero|Charlie]], of course) are all spoiled brats themselves. Augustus Gloop is a glutton whose mother just won't stop feeding him, Mike Teavee is allowed to spend all of his time watching television and apparently subsists on TV dinners, and Violet Beauregard goes unquestioned on any of her decisions by her parents.
* Another male example: [[Harry Potter|Draco Malfoy]] shows symptoms of this, and his parents don't seem inclined to put any limits on his behavior.
** Similarly, Dudley Dursley, although [[Eviler Than Thou|he's tame compared to Draco]]. Whereas Dudley just likes to beat up Harry (until the seventh book, anyway), Draco actually wants him dead.
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* Some versions of [[Classical Mythology|Artemis]] have her as the spoiled brat of which all others are shadows. Namely when she asks Zeus for presents, he one ups each request!
** On the other hand, Artemis is definitely an [[Action Girl]]. That uber-special silver bow that Zeus had custom-made for her? She uses ''one arrow to '''kill a city of criminals'''.''
** Of course, spoiling his children may have been pragmatism on Zeus' part. His own father Cronos was a horrid tyrant who ''ate'' his children until he was overthrown (something Zeus had firsthand knowledge of, having led the rebellion against him) and Cronos' father Uranus was just as bad, showing favoritism towards the Titans and imprisoning his other children in Tartarus. For obvious reasons, Zeus did not want to repeat this mistake.
** Zeus pretty much acts like a spoiled brat too. He beds any woman he likes, regardless of her wishes, which always lands said woman in trouble with Hera. He gets away with whatever he wants to do and his wrath when angered puts him in [[Psychopathic Manchild]] territory.
* Ishtar of Babylonian myth. Utterly shallow [[Psychopathic Manchild]] who routinely threatens to ''[[The End of the World as We Know It|destroy the world]] via [[Zombie Apocalypse]]'' whenever someone says 'no'.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Isheil (Breshen's daughter) in [[Juathuur]]. She drinks a small dose of poison because her father won't come to her birthday. {{spoiler|And dies in agony.}}
* Gavin Gothicus in ''[[Wizard School]]'' spends his time listing things his father [https://web.archive.org/web/20130503182512/http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1405 owns or bought for him.]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209160907/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1833 Percy accuses Pooch of spoiling his ball, unlike the tough love he gives his own ball of yarn.]
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