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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Primadonna girl, yeah
''All I ever wanted was the world
''I can't help that I need it all
''The primadonna life, the rise and fall
''You say that I'm kinda difficult
''But it's always someone else's fault.''
|Marina and the Diamonds, ''Primadonna''}}
Compare [[Taking Advantage of Generosity]].
{{noreallife|this [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|isn't a compliment]].}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Bianca Castafiore from the ''[[Tintin]]'' comics.
== [[Film]] ==
* Lina Lamont in ''[[Singin' in the
* Sharpay Evans from the ''[[High School Musical]]'' movies.
* Samantha James in ''[[Just Friends (film)|Just Friends]]''
* Margo Channing in ''[[All About Eve]]''.
* Norma Desmond in ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'' is a [[White Dwarf Starlet]] who clearly used to be this. Due to her sheltered life, she still believes millions of fans are desperately eager to see her next picture.
* The plot of ''[[Thank Your Lucky Stars]]'', such as it is, involves getting [[Glamorous Wartime Singer]] Dinah Shore into a benefit revue while keeping her manager Eddie Cantor away from it by any necessary means.
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* Parodied with Helen Sinclair in ''[[Bullets Over Broadway]]''.
* [[Cute but Cacophonic|Lena Marelli]] in ''[[Bugsy Malone]]''.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Carlotta from ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''. In the musical, she even gets a song ''called'' "Prima Donna" as the new theatre owners suck up to her and assure her that they won't let this "Opera Ghost" dictate how she should be treated
* Eventually, Veda in ''[[Mildred Pierce]]''.
== [[Live
* Vanilla Hoare in the "Scott of the <s>Antarctic</s> Sahara" sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
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* Rachel Berry in ''[[Glee]]'' seems to be one of these in-training.
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* Jenna and Tracy on ''[[30 Rock]]''. Tracy often shows up extremely late or not at all and Jenna once locked herself in her dressing room because her niece drew a picture of her that made her look fat.
* ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'': Parodied with Dawn Robbins from
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Dilbert]]
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Sheridan Whiteside from ''[[The Man Who Came to Dinner]]''.
* Frieda Hatzfeld from ''[[Music in the Air]]''.
* Gussie in the musical ''[[Merrily We Roll Along]]''. In the original play,
* The title character in Alban Berg's opera ''Lulu'', a renowned dancer. She feigns a fainting spell on stage when she sees her lover, Dr. Schön, in the audience with his
* Desiree Armfeldt in ''[[A Little Night Music]]'' is a somewhat lesser version. There's only one [[Grande Dame]] in her family, and that's her mother.
* Dorothy Brock in ''[[42nd Street (musical)|42nd Street]]''. The [[Ultimate Job Security]] which allows her to get away with this is not her talent (as she's long past her prime), but that she's the mistress of the show's sponsor. She gets over this attitude after she breaks her ankle and is forced to leave the production.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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