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Grandes Dames do not ''have'' to be useless, of course. A Grande Dame can be a noblewoman or tribal elder and act as {{Seers}}, an IronLady stoutly and cunningly defending her domain. Sometimes she's simply an aged ProperLady.
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* Jamison Rook's mother in the Series/{{Castle}} tie-in novels is referred to as the "Grande [[{{Pun}} Damn]]".

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* Jamison Rook's mother in the Series/{{Castle}} Series/{{Castle|2009}} tie-in novels is referred to as the "Grande [[{{Pun}} Damn]]".
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* Mrs. Van Hopper in Daphne du Maurier's ''Film/{{Rebecca}}''; du Maurier may have been inspired by her father, George du Maurier, who was fond of portraying the type in his cartoons for the English humour magazine ''Magazine/{{Punch}}''.

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* Mrs. Van Hopper in Daphne du Maurier's ''Film/{{Rebecca}}''; ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}''; du Maurier may have been inspired by her father, George du Maurier, who was fond of portraying the type in his cartoons for the English humour magazine ''Magazine/{{Punch}}''.
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* Mrs. Van Hopper, played by Florence Bates, in Daphne du Maurier's ''Film/{{Rebecca}}'' is a full-fledged RichBitch.

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* Mrs. Van Hopper, played by Florence Bates, in Daphne du Maurier's ''Film/{{Rebecca}}'' ''Film/{{Rebecca|1940}}'' is a full-fledged RichBitch.
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* Lady Anavere Damodred in the second season of ''Series/TheWheelOfTime''.
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* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': Phryne's Aunt Prudence is a stout, elderly society lady of considerable means. Although she's quite prim and reputation-conscious, she often reveals herself to be kind-hearted and an outright MamaBear whenever children or the disadvantaged are involved -- public opinion doesn't stop her from taking in a destitute girl who'd gotten pregnant out of wedlock when the need arises.

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* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': Phryne's Aunt Prudence is a stout, elderly society lady of considerable means. Although A pillar of Melbourne Society, she's quite prim and reputation-conscious, she but often reveals herself to be kind-hearted and an outright MamaBear whenever children or the disadvantaged are involved -- public opinion doesn't stop her from taking in a destitute girl who'd gotten pregnant out of wedlock when the need arises.
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** Also Mrs Miranda Pelham, mother of Bertie Pelham, with a particular emphasis on moral propriety. While being the wife of a somewhat impoverished distant cousin of a marquess doesn’t seem to be the greatest basis for this, as it turns out [[spoiler:her son was next in line for the marquessate and she intends to use her position as mother of the marquess to make the family seat a center of proper virtue]].
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%%* [[WholesomeCrossdresser Dame Edna Everage]]

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%%* [[WholesomeCrossdresser Dame Edna Everage]]Creator/DameEdnaEverage
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* A straight example occurs in Meowth’s backstory in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. Meowth was a stray kitten, taken in by a Persian who was the leader of a group of Meowth street thieves. He fell in love with a Meowth owned by a lady fitting this trope and learned to speak in an effort to impress her. After learning how to speak, Meowth returned to find his crush dumped on the street after her master lost all her money, and she had been taken in by the Persian who took Meowth in earlier and had fallen in love with him. Meowth’s jealousy at this became the reason he grew to hate Persians so much.

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* A straight example occurs in Meowth’s backstory in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''.''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries''. Meowth was a stray kitten, taken in by a Persian who was the leader of a group of Meowth street thieves. He fell in love with a Meowth owned by a lady fitting this trope and learned to speak in an effort to impress her. After learning how to speak, Meowth returned to find his crush dumped on the street after her master lost all her money, and she had been taken in by the Persian who took Meowth in earlier and had fallen in love with him. Meowth’s jealousy at this became the reason he grew to hate Persians so much.

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