History Main / RebelliousPrincess

** Relena Peacecraft/Darlian in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. Even after [[spoiler:being made Queen of the World Sphere Alliance]], she refuses to go along with [[spoiler:Romefeller]]'s plans, makes her own policy instead, and when she can't fully institute it she prefers to leave matters to [[spoiler: Treize]] rather than being a puppet and bowing to the noblemen. [[spoiler: Her full and public rejection of the Princess mantle during ''Endless Waltz'' [[DoNotAdjustYourSet which is]] ''[[DoNotAdjustYourSet televised worldwide]]''.]]
** If we count the Deikun clan from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' as royalty, then Zeon Zum Deikun's daughter and [[BrokenAce Char Aznable's]] / [[BigBad Casval Deikun's]] sister [[spoiler: Sayla Mass/Artesia Deikun]] fits the trope quite well.
** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Gundam Unicorn]]'' has [[spoiler: Audrey Burn, a.k.a. Princess Mineva Lao Zabi, the last survivor member of the Zabi family and heir to the Principality of Zeon]], formerly a figurehead used by previous Neo Zeon movements, she's now decided to go out on her own to try to stop another war from breaking out.
** ''{{Deconstructed|Trope}}'' with Princess Marina Ismail from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]''. No matter what she tries to do, she's just a figurehead and ''never'' really accomplishes much despite her struggles. [[spoiler: Until the second season finale, where she starts rebuilding Azhadistan after the war is over]].

-->'''Catherine''': "I don't get why journalists do this. Everyone always asks the same questions. ''What's your favourite subject in school?'' "Latin", I have to say. I have to say that because of my role as a Princess, but the truth is, I hate studying!"

** ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfWonderWoman2016'' is a revisiting a slight tweaking of Diana's WWII-era origin as a child and young adult, she wants no part of being her mother's heir and runs away to secretly get training and learn things her mother tells her to drop and give up.

* In episode 2 of ''The Scary Cases of Scooby-Doo'', Maisie White fits the trope without being actual royalty. As the local renaissance fair's princess, Maisie's responsibilities boil down to "stand/sit around and look pretty", so she's tired of it and itching for adventure until the fair gets haunted by the Black Knight. Needless to say, she winds up tagging the gang along and ends up testing Velma's patience ([[FireForgedFriends at first]]).

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'', one of the princess emojis is mentioned as having run away from Textopolis and with the help of Jailbreak, went to live on the cloud. [[spoiler: it's later revealed that Jailbreak herself is the missing princess, who left because she was tired of the limits and stereotypes associated with her role.]]

** Subverted with Princess Leia, who may be a rebel, but so is her father Bail. Despite this, she [[spoiler: (and her twin brother)]] are still rebelling against [[spoiler: their biological father]]. The Princess Leia Diaries has her rebelling against social norms as well.

* In ''Film/{{Legend 1985}}'', it's implied that Lili frequently sneaks off into the woods to visit friends, one of whom even comments that she should be back at the palace and not hanging out with poor folks like them.

* ''Literature/TheApprenticeRogue'': Downplayed. While Leona is willing to go along with her arranged marriage she is not completely docile. [[spoiler: She rebels by seducing her bodyguard and having sex with him on the night before her wedding to her bodyguard's boss.]]

* ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy'': Aravis, princess of the Calormene province of Calavar who prefers hunting and riding and scimitar-fighting to what princesses like her best friend Lasaraleen are expected to do. Even leaves her home rather than being forced to marry the SmugSnake of the Tisroc's Prime Minister. [[spoiler: Ends up marrying Shasta aka Prince Cor and becoming the Queen of Archenland.]]

* Deconstructed in ''Literature/AMemoryOfFlames.'' Jaslyn is a princess who loves dragons more than people and loathes the thought of being Queen, [[spoiler: which she eventually becomes]]. However, her desire for rebellion leads her to single-handedly do more harm to the realms than anyone save Kemir; she raises and awakens Silence, one of the most bloodthirsty and cruel dragons of all. The trope comes full circle when she is eventually [[spoiler: driven virtually to madness by the potions designed to protect her from Hatchling Disease]] and submits to her new role.

* Princess Briony from the ''Literature/{{Shadowmarch}}'' series also sort of qualifies. Her father is in captivity and after her older brother Kendrik dies she is forced to pick up the crown. She is not so much averse and seems to enjoy it in principle - if only she were a boy and not subject to the expectations of the courtiers. She does not run away [[spoiler: at first at least]], but shocks everyone in the castle by wearing her twin brother's clothes most of the time. She does not want to stop being a royal altogether but would like to be treated like her brothers.
* Annice of ''Literature/SingTheFourQuarters'' by Creator/TanyaHuff. Her even ''being'' a bard is the direct cause of her having been legally stripped of royal status [[spoiler: mostly because her brother had a snit fit when she refused the ArrangedMarriage he'd set up in favour of attending the Bardic College - the prince he was setting her up to marry came from a queendom that was ''rabidly'' phobic of bards. The FridgeLogic inherent in his attempt is [[LampshadeHanging pointed out near the end of the book]] when the Bardic leader pretty much hits the king over the head with the fact that the bard-hating queendom wouldn't even have considered Annice as an eligible candidate once word of her ability to Sing the kigh got out]]. She and her brother don't talk much, even ''after'' he fixes his mistake and apologizes.

* ''VideoGame/AtelierAnnieAlchemistsOfSeraIsland'', along with the Japan-only ''VideoGame/AtelierLieseTheAlchemistOfOrde'' features this in [[spoiler: Liese Randel herself. It's a little different in that she actually loves her parents and they love her... however, her father is a financial idiot and has managed to get the entire kingdom into a multimillion-gold debt to a foreign bank, and if the kingdom can't pay it off, the bank will foreclose on the rights to rule the kingdom - by any means necessary. Thus Liese disguises herself and leaves home to make a fortune in a neighboring kingdom, setting ''Atelier Liese'''s action and plot into motion. She fits the other parts of the trope to a T, being a bit brash and overbearing and she did technically dodge an arranged marriage by doing this - an arrangement to the Prince of the kingdom she's now in. [[HilarityEnsues Ooops]]]].
** This pops up again [[spoiler: when Liese appears in ''Atelier Annie''; she's evidently given her parents, who she did manage to bail out in the last game, the flip and run off to Sera Island to participate in the development contest, ostensibly for the prize money. That may not be her only motivation for coming, though..]].

* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' is somewhat unusual when it comes to this trope in that rebellious ''princes'' outnumber their female counterparts. Probably the most famous of these is Hector of Ostia from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Blade]]''; he's technically a minor noble compared to others [[spoiler: (until he becomes the leader of Ostia by the end of that game, and later of the whole Lycia alongside Eliwood)]], but otherwise hits every note of this trope.

** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade The Binding Blade]]'', there's Princess Guinevere of Bern who's on the run for openly questioning [[CainAndAbel her older brother]], [[StrawNihilist King Zephiel]]. [[spoiler: She's finally crowned as Queen when Zephiel dies at the hands of Roy, but still has lots of nobles hissing at her.]]

** ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'' has Lilly Pendragon, the SpoiledBrat daughter of the leader of the Tinto Republic. A super-bossy HeroicWannabe, she finds an excuse to head into the Grasslands just before things start going to hell and ''insists'' on staying there until she can complete her self-assigned mission. In the end, [[spoiler: she has to leave when their funds run out... only to lead Tinto's army back in to officially align with the Fire Bringer and join the war]].

* ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' gets Cecilia the princess of Adlehyde. Her rebellion against her father unfortunately [[spoiler: puts the PlotCoupon in the hands of the [[BigBad demons]] and inadvertently kills her father]] [[spoiler: She rebels because she feels isolated due to her status but eventually realizes that it's her on coldness that keeps people at a distance]].

* Jillian Zamussels in ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' did not get along with her father King Banhammer, and preferred to spend as much time as possible away from home on mercenary missions. After her kingdom fell while she was away, she had no interest in returning home to re-establish it [[spoiler: until politics and circumstances forced her in that direction]].

** There's also [[spoiler:Feferi's ancestor/descendant]] Meenah, who ran away to the moon to avoid becoming empress, which was a position she saw as a glorified slave. Unlike most examples, she's [[SociopathicHero far from heroic]]. [[spoiler: Ironically, after the Scratch she wound up in servitude to Lord English, and actually became a glorified slave.]]

* In ''Webcomic/RoyalBlue'' Princess Lobelia has a history of disobeying her father and her escape was just the first successful attempt. [[spoiler: Captain Mar]] also became a [[spoiler: pirate captain]] because her parents, the rulers of Askar, didn't care about the famine killing their people.

* ''Fanfic/{{Alicorn}}'': To say that Rainbow is rebellious woule be an understatement. She hates being coped up in the castle, she hates the way everyone treats her, and most of all she hates that she can't get out from Celestia's shadow and will never be known as anything other than Princess Aurora. She also ditches her guard entourage more often than not, to the point where Celestia just tells them to let her do as she wills because they can't keep up with her anyway.

* Ninjette from ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' is the Rebellious ''{{Ninja}}'' Princess of her clan.

* Milly in ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos Origins'' is an aristocrat's daughter who got fed up with the lifestyle, ran away, and latched on to Sagi. [[spoiler:She's actually not rebellious at all - her father, [[BigBad Baelheit]], sent her after Sagi to spy on him. It does get played straighter later, when she stops giving Baelheit useful information.]]

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' is somewhat unusual when it comes to this trope in that rebellious ''princes'' outnumber their female counterparts. Probably the most famous of these is Hector of Ostia from ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Blazing Blade]]''; he's technically a minor noble compared to others [[spoiler: (until he becomes the leader of Ostia by the end of that game, and later of the whole Lycia alongside Eliwood)]], but otherwise hits every note of this trope.

* Lady from the Japanese-only game ''VideoGame/LadyStalker'' is a [[{{Ojou}} rich girl]] instead of a princess, but is otherwise not only a perfect example but is so much like Alena that she's one of the pieces of evidence used to back up the rumor that the game was originally intended as a ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' GaidenGame focused on Alena.

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* In ''Webcomic/PrincessPrincess'', Amira runs away to rescue princesses instead of staying at home and marrying a prince.

* ''Anime/FutureRobotDaltanious'': Kento Tate spent most of his life believing he was an ordinary human boy. When he managed to revive Beralios from his slumber, Earl realized the boy was descended from Emperor Palmillion, the last ruler of his long-destroyed planet, the Helios Empire. Earl instantly sets out on making Kento read up on Helios' history and learn how to act diplomatic to potential allies. Kento ''hates'' this, and often reacts by screaming at Earl and calling him an old man. Their friction is so bad that in one episode, Earl has to use a robot to haul a naked Kento away and force him into formal attire so he can attend a meeting.

* ''Anime/FutureRobotDaltanious'': Kento Tate spent most of his life believing he was an ordinary human boy. When he managed to revive Beralios from his slumber, Earl realized the boy was descended from Emperor Palmillion, the last ruler of his long-destroyed planet, the Helios Empire. Earl instantly sets out on making Kento read up on Helios' history and learn how to act diplomatic to potential allies. Kento ''hates'' this, and often reacts by screaming at Earl and calling him an old man. In one episode, Earl uses a robot to haul a naked Kento away and force him into formal attire so he can attend an important meeting.