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Princess Phase
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Little girls love princesses. If you ever meet a girl who's in preschool or kindergarten, she will probably have a fairy tale princess's attitude making her anywhere between a gracious but breakable cutie to a Tiny Tyrannical Girl who might feel entitled to a pony. Bonus points if she is a fan of the Disney Princesses. She is or acts like she's seven years old at the most. Princesses Prefer Pink so that's probably her favorite color. She'll imagine herself as a pretty princess or pretend to be a princess bride. Her court will consist of stuffed animals and dolls. She might want a Prince Charming by her side as long as she still gets to be her Daddy's Girl, looking up to him as if he's a king. To emphasize this concept she might have a Sweet Tooth because Real Men Hate Sugar. While somewhat rare, it can happen with little boys, but in a different way. At around the time they learn the differences between genders, they may have an infatuation with femininity and look at girls differently than before. In short, they may be more likely to have a crush on princesses during their phase. If early childhood isn't specifically mentioned it might fall under Princess for a Day. This trope is so strongly associated with childhood that a teenage or adult woman still clinging to this attitude cannot but come across as childish. Still, even those who grow out of it will still cling to a wistful shred or two: a taste for romance and a Prince Charming, or a pretty gown they twirl around in when no one is watching. The wedding industry in particular is built around letting women be a "princess" for a day. The prominence of this trope in real life is likely why so many works have a Princess Protagonist or have a Gratuitous Princess inserted. Compare Real Men Wear Pink (where there's a little princess in each manly man), Pink Means Feminine, Graceful Ladies Like Purple. Contrast One of the Boys. For similar childhood interests, see Kids Love Dinosaurs, Boys Like Creepy Critters, and All Girls Like Ponies. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has Agitha, the Beetle Maniac of Hyrule Castle Town. She's not of actual royal lineage, but a Lonely Rich Kid who lives alone in a fancy house for no apparent reason and who takes herself for the princess of the "Insect Kingdom", a tree inside her house where golden bugs live. | |
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Rory Gilmore of Gilmore Girls doesn't want her grandmother to make her into a princess as she thinks of it as being something for small children. | |
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Haruka Haruno from Go! Princess Pretty Cure has this as a defining characteristic. It gets her no end of scorn from peers who look down on her dream as childish. Twilight in particular, who is an actual princess, doesn't respect Haruka for that. | |
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In The Princess and the Frog, Charlotte LaBouff is firmly in princess stage when we see her and Tiana as young girls in the opening — her room filled to the brim with pink frilly dresses, tiaras, and fairytale accessories while she moons over a fairytale read by Tiana's mother. Flash forward fifteen or so years, and we find very little has changed. | |
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Dirty Bertie: Implied for young Angela Nicely, Bertie's neighbor. She isn't seen going on about princesses or acting like a princess, but in one story, she writes a story where she's a princess and she's marrying Bertie, who she claims to be in love with even though she's six and he's seven. | |
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Yotsuba from Yotsuba&! starts to go through one in chapter 93, when she sees a picture of Cinderella in a picture book. After confirming with her father that princesses are in fact real, she decides to become a princess herself and dresses up accordingly. | |
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SCP Foundation: Played for Horror in SCP-5832, an apartment room previously inhabited by a sexually abused girl - the presence of several Disney Princess-themed items, including three heavily stained princess shirts and a colouring book with every image of the Beast scribbled out in red crayon, serves to underline just how young she was. | |
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Implied with Ella in Total Drama Pahkitew Island. She acts and dresses as a fairy tale princess even though she's a teenager. | |
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In at least one film version of A Little Princess, Sara Crewe lives such a charmed life that she not only fancies herself a princess but says that all girls are princesses. She's nearly a teenager but it fits since it takes place in the Victorian period which is when the phase came from so it is probably expected to last longer. It's worth noting that Sara's idea of being a princess does not mean it entitles you to be a spoiled brat. | |
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A Kid Like Jake is about a four-year-old boy named Jake who loves fairy tales, Disney princesses, and dressing up like a princess. | |
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In Unseen Academicals, we're told that Juliet Glossop still sleeps in a cheap four-poster-effect bed her mother was sold as "fit for a princess", in a room that is almost entirely pink with little crown decorations, the effect only slightly spoiled by the fact the legs fell off and were replaced with beer crates. Which weren't even painted pink. | |
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Marika from Bokura no Hentai is a trans girl who expressed herself at home by pretending to be a princess. In middle school, she begins doubting herself as a princess when male puberty hits and her sexuality awakens. | |
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Lana Lang's first scene on Smallville shows her as a child of three pretending to be a fairy princess — which is unfortunately immortalized forever, as that is what she was wearing when the meteors fall. | |
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One day Manny of Degrassi: The Next Generation imagines herself as Cinderella with Craig as her Prince. Craig likes her but says that he can't kiss her because she reminds him of his five-year-old sister. | |
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Scarlet Overkill from Minions apparently grew up unloved and thought that becoming a princess or queen would make up for that. Years later, she's still stuck in that phase. She achieved success and infamy as a supervillain, but she still has her heart set on being crowned. In preparation for her coronation, she demands that the dressmaker copy the princess drawing she made as a five-year-old and blows him out of the palace with rockets when he balks at the idea. At the very end of the film, having lost everything she's built up in her life thanks to the Minions' antics, she still thinks she's won because she at least managed to snatch the crown again right before she and Herb are frozen by kid Gru, who takes the crown from her. | |
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In Girl Genius, Big Bad Zola 'Heterodyne' aka Zola Anya Talinka Venia Zeblinkya Malfeazium, cousin to Agatha Heterodyne exploits this trope enormously, successfully convincing multiple characters that the only reason she's agreed to pretend to be the Heterodyne is because of the pretty dresses and fancy parties. It really, really isn't. She turns out to be one of the most formidable antagonists in the comic to date. | |
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Sophie at the start of the series The School for Good and Evil is firmly placed in one of these, using fairy tales as an escape from the mundane world she considers herself too good for. However, it is shown that she wants to emulate her pretty princesses because they are associated with the Happily Ever After she is determined to get. Sophie may crave a life of glamour, pampering, and mass adoration, but ultimately, she doesn't care if she gets it through being Good or through being Evil. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events has Carmelita going through one, though she takes it up by being a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian. She abandons it when she goes through a tomboy phase. | |
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Lola Loud from The Loud House is a six-year-old who dresses up like a princess, complete with a pearl necklace, sash, and tiara. Unusually, her male version (who existed in a dream her brother Lincoln had in the episode "One of the Boys"), Lexx, goes through a prince phase. He's decked in a pink scarf (according to concept art, he was originally decked entirely in pink) and a prince crown. | |
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I Am Jazz: Jazz, Samantha, and Casey enjoy dressing up as princesses together. | |
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Rugrats: Angelica often writes stories where she is a princess (if not an angel). In "Princess Angelica", she starts to wonder if she really is a princess. | |
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Implied for little Virginia in Super Sized Family, who wears a crown on her head. | |
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Sarah from The Princess (2009) is in a princess phase. She's almost never seen without her crown. Her mother has no clue what to do when her child, who previously lived as a boy, renames herself and starts claiming she's a princess. | |
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"Pink" Dawn Crumhorn a.k.a. The Princess in Danger Mouse. A young spoiled poodle who is solidly in the middle of her princess phase and who becomes powerful after her tiara comes into contact with personality-amplifying mind gel. | |
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Peanuts: Lucy Van Pelt is firmly in this phase - sort of. She wants to be Queen, focusing less on the dresses and Prince Charming and more on the authority that being royalty would give her. | |
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Martha Speaks: Helen's cousin Carolina apparently went through a phase of acting like a princess, which meshed with her bossy attitude that she still has. Apparently, she only outgrew her princess phase because her tiara got too small for her. | |
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When Vivian of Pretty Woman was a little girl she would pretend she was a princess... trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And she would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue her. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown: One of Surrey Street's many residents is a little girl named Emilia Greenwall, who always dresses like a fairy tale princess. Greg thinks she's been watching too many Disney movies. | |
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Dingo Doodles: "Potato Girl"/Bouclaire is firmly in this phase.... and is also evil and more than happy to murder-via-poison anyone standing in her way to becoming a princess / queen. She manages to get herself adopted by the Royal Family of the Kingdom of Kylandria and then kills her adopted parents and takes the throne from the rightful heirs. She then forces the kingdom to be repainted in a garish pink-and-glitter color scheme and begins executing any dissenters. | |
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Harshly deconstructed by Rosemary Applefield in Ashita no Nadja. As a little girl, Rosemary pretended she was a princess to cope with growing up in an orphanage. However, by the time she's thirteen, the imaginary world where she's lost royalty waiting for a prince to take her away to her castle is the only world she can stand to live in. When Rosemary learns her old friend Nadja is the real heiress, her waning sanity takes a nosedive and she plots to usurp Nadja's identity, whatever the cost. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Awakening, if Cynthia is the daughter of Chrom, her recruitment conversation with Chrom mentions that her father used to call her "my little pega-pony princess." Although Cynthia would literally be a princess, since Chrom is royalty. | |
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Barbie: Princess Charm School: Emily is so firmly in the phase that, being too young to register in the princess school, she did it for her big sister instead. | |
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