Standard Hero Reward: Difference between revisions

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* Gender-flipped version in the story ''The Practical Princess''. A princess is blessed at birth to, among other things, be very practical. This helps when she is eventually imprisoned in a tower by her [[Abhorrent Admirer]]. There, she finds the prince of a neighboring kingdom {{spoiler|which said [[Abhorrent Admirer]] usurped the throne of}} and proceeds to figure out how to break the sleeping spell on him and use his very long beard to escape. The story ends with saying that because she rescued him, she got to marry him (though first she made him trim his beard).

* Subverted in Lawrence Watt-Evans' ''With a Single Spell'', in which the hero ''must'' marry the princess in order to collect his money and kingdom, despite having become betrothed to another woman while on his quest.

{{quote| "They were probably desperate for husbands - or at least their royal father was. Surplus princesses are a major export in the Small Kingdoms."}}

{{quote|"They were probably desperate for husbands - or at least their royal father was. Surplus princesses are a major export in the Small Kingdoms."}}

** Lucky for him his current wife was open-minded when there was enough money on the line, so things resolved amicably with a [[Tenchi Solution]].

** A woman who helped him slay the dragon was permitted her share of the reward without having to marry a princess.

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* Inverted in ''[[My World, My Way]]''. It's a princess who wants to marry the [[Prince Charmless|hero]], and she goes on a quest to earn him, and {{spoiler|she rejects him in the end}}.

* Lampshaded in the best ending of ''Kid Kool'':