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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Gender-flipped and played as a HappyEnding, to boot. Elizabeth breaks off her planned marriage to Ronald after seeing what an ungrateful jerk he is and seems content with remaining single for the foreseeable future.

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* DidNotGetTheGirl: Gender-flipped and played as a HappyEnding, to boot. Elizabeth breaks off her planned marriage to Ronald after seeing what an ungrateful jerk UngratefulBastard he is and seems content with remaining single for the foreseeable future.
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One of Canadian author Creator/RobertMunsch's most famous children's books, ''The Paper Bag Princess'' was written and published in 1980. The picture book stars [[PrincessClassic Princess Elizabeth]], who's vying to marry the handsome [[PrinceCharmless Prince Ronald]]. Unfortunately, an evil dragon snatches Prince Ronald and incinerates everything around Elizabeth in the process -- including her clothes! Undaunted, Elizabeth finds an old paper bag, puts it on and pursues her prince.

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One of Canadian author Creator/RobertMunsch's most famous children's books, ''The Paper Bag Princess'' was written and published in 1980. The picture book stars [[PrincessClassic Princess Elizabeth]], who's vying going to marry the handsome [[PrinceCharmless Prince Ronald]]. Unfortunately, an evil dragon snatches Prince Ronald and incinerates everything around Elizabeth in the process -- including her clothes! Undaunted, Elizabeth finds an old paper bag, puts it on and pursues her prince.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy: Despite being mostly [[CensorSteam censored by steam]], Elizabeth doesn't have any nipples after her clothes are burned off.

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* BarbieDollAnatomy: Despite being mostly [[CensorSteam censored While the lower half of Elizabeth's naked body is covered by steam]], Elizabeth doesn't have steam, her exposed top half is drawn without any nipples after her clothes are burned off.nipples.

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Not A Subversion. a subversion requires a setup to make it look like the trope is going to happen


* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted, considering Prince Ronald is decidedly ''not'' pleased to see his potential love interest half-naked. Of course, it ''is'' a children's book and they're both still children.

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[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_paper_bag_princess.jpg]] One of Canadian author Creator/RobertMunsch's most famous children's books, ''The Paper Bag Princess'' was written and published in 1980. The picture book stars [[PrincessClassic Princess Elizabeth]], who's vying to marry the handsome [[PrinceCharmless Prince Ronald]]. Unfortunately, an evil dragon snatches Prince Ronald and incinerates everything around Elizabeth in the process — including her clothes! Undaunted, Elizabeth finds an old paper bag, puts it on and pursues her prince.

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One of Canadian author Creator/RobertMunsch's most famous children's books, ''The Paper Bag Princess'' was written and published in 1980. The picture book stars [[PrincessClassic Princess Elizabeth]], who's vying to marry the handsome [[PrinceCharmless Prince Ronald]]. Unfortunately, an evil dragon snatches Prince Ronald and incinerates everything around Elizabeth in the process -- including her clothes! Undaunted, Elizabeth finds an old paper bag, puts it on and pursues her prince.



* ActionGirl: Elizabeth takes it upon herself to come to Ronald's rescue.



* BarbieDollAnatomy: Despite being mostly censored by steam (as noted below), Elizabeth doesn't have any nipples after her clothes are burned off.

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* BarbieDollAnatomy: Despite being mostly [[CensorSteam censored by steam (as noted below), steam]], Elizabeth doesn't have any nipples after her clothes are burned off.



* DistressedDude: Prince Ronald gets captured by the dragon.
* FallenPrincess: Her castle is destroyed, and her dress is replaced by a paper bag. She didn't happily marry Prince Roland after all.

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* DistressedDude: Prince Ronald gets captured by the dragon.
dragon and has to be rescued.
* FallenPrincess: Her castle is destroyed, and her dress is replaced by a paper bag. She didn't happily marry Prince Roland Ronald after all. all.



* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance and tell her to "come back when [she’s] dressed like a real princess."

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* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance and tell her to "come back when [she’s] [she's] dressed like a real princess."

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* ManOnFire: Ronald.

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* BarbieDollAnatomy: Despite being mostly censored by steam (as noted below), Elizabeth doesn't have any nipples after her clothes are burned off.



* BrokenAesop: The story's feminist aesop is undermined by the ending, which has Elizabeth leave with the dragon, effectively relying on a male character.

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* BrokenAesop: The story's feminist aesop Aesop is undermined by the ending, which has Elizabeth leave with the dragon, effectively relying on a male character.

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* FallenPrincess: Her castle is destroyed, and her dress is replaced by a paper bag. She didn't happily marry Prince Roland after all.



* HeelRealization: Downplayed with Ronald. He sings that hes kind of flawed but says hes not a perfect guy.

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* HeavySleeper: The trope varies in the cartoon, as the dragon wakes up instantly when he hears Elizabeth being angry and Ronald.
* HeelRealization: Downplayed with Ronald. He sings that hes he's kind of flawed but says hes he's not a perfect guy.
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* HeelRealization: Downplayed with Ronald. He sings that hes kind of flawed but says hes not a perfect guy.

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* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted, considering Prince Ronald is decidedly ''not'' pleased to see his potential love interest half-naked. Of course, it ''is'' a children's book and they're both still children.



* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted, considering Prince Ronald is decidedly ''not'' pleased to see his potential love interest half-naked. Of course, it ''is'' a children's book and they're both still children.

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* ActionGirl: Elizabeth takes it upon herself to come to Ronald's rescue.



* ActionGirl: Elizabeth takes it upon herself to come to Ronald's rescue.



* CulturalTranslation: In the original Canadian version of the book, Elizabeth dumps Ronald by declaring, "You look like a real prince, but you are a bum." In Scholastic International's British English version of the book, Elizabeth instead calls Ronald, "...a toad."

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* CulturalTranslation: In the original Canadian version of the book, Elizabeth dumps Ronald by declaring, "You look like a real prince, but you are a bum." In Scholastic International's British English version of the book, Elizabeth instead calls Ronald, Ronald "...a toad."



* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance and tell her to "come back when [she’s] dressed like a real princess".

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* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance and tell her to "come back when [she’s] dressed like a real princess".
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* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance and tell her to "come back and rescue him when [she’s] dressed like a real princess".

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* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance and tell her to "come back and rescue him when [she’s] dressed like a real princess".
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* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance.

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* UngratefulBastard: Prince Ronald's reaction to being rescued is to insult Princess Elizabeth's appearance.
appearance and tell her to "come back and rescue him when [she’s] dressed like a real princess".
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* AnachronismStew: No, they did not have paper bags in medieval times. And while [[OlderThanTheyThink tennis does indeed date back to the medieval period]], Ronald's very '70s tennis outfit is clearly not period either.

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* AnachronismStew: No, they did not have paper bags in medieval times. And while [[OlderThanTheyThink [[invoked]][[OlderThanTheyThink tennis does indeed date back to the medieval period]], Ronald's very '70s tennis outfit is clearly not period either.

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* ActionGirl: Elizabeth takes it upon herself to come ti Ronald's rescue.

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* AnachronismStew: No, they did not have paper bags in medieval times. And while [[OlderThanTheyThink tennis does indeed date back to the medieval period]], Ronald's very '70s tennis outfit is clearly not period either.
* ActionGirl: Elizabeth takes it upon herself to come ti to Ronald's rescue.



* AnachronismStew:
** In the first scene alone, the narrator drives by, chatting on his cell phone, while elves come out of trees.
** Of course, as evidenced by the title, the book included an oh-so-historically-accurate paper bag.

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* AnachronismStew:
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AnachronismStew: Even more so than the original book. In the first scene alone, the narrator drives by, chatting on his cell phone, while elves come out of trees.
** Of course, as evidenced by the title, the book included an oh-so-historically-accurate paper bag.
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