History Main / MafiaPrincess

* [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batfamily]]:
** The Helena Bertinelli version of the ComicBook/{{Huntress}} has this as her origin story. After rivals massacred her family, she spent years training to become a superhero ready to take on the entire mob.

** Eiko Hasigawa, [[AffirmativeActionLegacy who wore the mantle of]] Catwoman for a time, is the daughter of a prominent {{Yakuza}} family in Gotham. [[spoiler: She ultimately hangs up the tights to run her clan after her father is killed.]]
** ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Darla Aquista. [[spoiler:She dies in ''War Games'', and her father tries to have her come BackFromTheDead; she ends up [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]] - sort of - and joins Shadowpact in her new condition, under the name "Devil's Daughter".]]

* Benito Medici from ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'' is a double subversion of this trope being how he's male and is fully aware of his father's illegal activities. However, he still wishes to remain apart from them.
* The villainess Madame Masque of ''ComicBook/IronMan'' and ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' fame was raised by another family on orders of her father, the ''Film/JamesBond''-esque international crime boss Count Nefaria largely because he couldn't be bothered to raise a child. But in subversion of this, once her adopted father died, Nefaria came calling and forced his daughter to serve as his right hand (wo)man, going so far as to out her true parentage to her politician fiancé, who dumped Madam Masque upon learning his soon to be bride's true parentage.

* The Comicbook/GreenArrow character Shado is the daughter of a disgraced Yakuza member who committed {{Seppuku}} after betraying his clan.

* Rosalie Carbone, one of [[ComicBook/ThePunisher the Punisher's]] recurring enemies, is this for the Carbone crime family, and she's every bit vested in the group's underworld interests. As Frank describes her in one of the promotional pieces for ''ComicBook/ThePunisherSuicideRun'': "Rosalie Carbone: mafia princess. Looks good, but she's bad." She started out as just as a harmless young woman living in her father's circle (although not ignorant about what he does) but got mean pretty fast after the Punisher's interventions got her father and various other people in her life killed in front of her, causing her to take over the mob herself and constantly send assassins after the Punisher between beauty treatments and shopping sprees.

* Gender-inverted with Izuku in ''Fanfic/ConversationsWithACryptid''. He's never met his estranged father Hisashi, but the man does provide for Inko and Izuku (although his job in this case is 'media baron', so where he got the money isn't in question). It's just once he starts digging into his father's work that he notices some discrepancies, and comes to the conclusion that Hisashi is a direct subordinate of All for One. [[spoiler: He's wrong. Hisashi isn't a subordinate to All for One, he ''is'' All for One.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMysteryOfTheBatwoman'' features Kathleen Duquesne, daughter of crimelord Carlton Duquesne.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Fru Fru, an arctic shrew that Judy saves from getting crushed by a giant doughnut turns out to be the daughter of the most powerful crime lord in Tundra Town, earning her the loyalty of Fru Fru's father, "Mr Big". She and Judy end up being very good friends (Fru Fru plans to name her daughter after Judy, and make her the godmother), but on the other hand, her reaction to the imminent icing of two mammals she hadn't yet recognized was essentially: "Daddy, what did we say? No icing anyone at my wedding!"

* A plot point in ''Literature/RonjaTheRobbersDaughter'' is the titular character finding out that she is a robber's daughter -- and what exactly "robber" means. [[spoiler:This is one of the reasons she runs away from home. In the end, [[HappilyEverAfter she finds a better source of income.]]]]

* Partially subverted in the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' novels. Although kingpin Chodo Contague did pamper his daughter Belinda, he was always truthful with her about what line of business he was in. [[spoiler: And he paid the price for his honesty when Belinda took over the Outfit after his stroke, putting her own words in the mouth of her father's comatose body.]]
* ''Literature/MonaLisaOverdrive'' by Creator/WilliamGibson. Kumiko Yanaka, a 13-year-old Japanese girl, daughter of a fearsomely powerful {{Yakuza}} boss, suffers for being a Mafia Princess. She lives a life of [[GildedCage powerless, dreary, luxury.]] All her relationships are with smooth, cold, servants of her father. She would be far too valuable in the hands of his enemies for him to risk giving her freedom.
* ''[[Literature/GentlemanBastard The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'' features a subversion in the form of Nazca Barsavi; while she grows up in the lap of the luxury, she knows from a young age ''exactly'' what her father does, and is even groomed to serve as his heir. [[spoiler: At least, until a rival kills her off in a horrifying fashion to deliver a message to her father...]]

* Tej in ''Literature/CaptainVorpatrilsAlliance'' is the daughter of one of the robber barons of Jackson's Whole.
* Creator/RudyardKipling's poem "A Smuggler's Song”:
-->If you do as you've been told, likely there's a chance,
-->You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France,
-->With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood –
-->A present from the Gentlemen, along o’ being good!

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'': [[spoiler:Mariko]], one of the teachers at the Onibaku's school, doesn't seem to be involved in her father's Yakuza activities, but she was able to borrow a couple of his goons to get back at Eikichi and Ryuji after they tried to blackmail her and [[spoiler:Ayumi]].

* [[spoiler: Risha]] of Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic is revealed to be one of these (of the "groomed to take father's place" variety) at the end of Act 1 as well as [[spoiler: a literal princess]]. She's been trying to restore his massive criminal empire and [[spoiler: claim the throne]] for years, enlisting the help of [[spoiler: the smuggler.]]

* ''Videogame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' reveals early on that [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne himself]] turns out to be this, with [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] being a member of a crime syndicate that laid the foundations of modern-day Gotham.
* ''Videogame/{{Skullgirls}}'': One of the protagonists ([[spoiler:Filia, of course]]) is the amnesiac, missing scion of the Medici crime family.

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%%* ''Film/{{Dogville}}'': [[spoiler:Grace]] turns out to be a reluctant Mafia Princess.
* ''Film/EasternPromises'': A couple girls from Semyon's family -- his granddaughters -- get plenty of attention. Not as extreme of an example as some of the others here, but the way they're treated is used for a stark contrast with [[spoiler:how Semyon and the ''rest'' of his [[TheMafiya family]] treat women, even implicitly children who may be his granddaughters' ages.]]

** Michael's youngest daughter Mary, in the third film, takes this role and is legitimately oblivious to her father's corrupt ways, also striking a romance with [[KissingCousins her cousin]] Vinnie. [[spoiler: The poor kid ends up shot to death as a result of her father's crimes coming back to bite him on the ass since an assassin sent to snipe Michael after her brother's opera debut shoots her instead by mistake; she dies in Michael's arms, and he's pushed to the DespairEventHorizon.]]

* In Baz Luhrmann's ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'', the action is set in a mafia-controlled beach city. As a consequence, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's Romeo and Creator/ClaireDanes' Juliet are both mafia kids, and so is John Leguizamo's Tybalt.

** Eiko Hasigawa, [[AffirmativeActionLegacy who wore the mantle of]] Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} for a time, is the daughter of a prominent {{Yakuza}} family in Gotham. [[spoiler: She ultimately hangs up the tights to run her clan after her father is killed.]]
** Darla Aquista from the [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin series]] published in ''Robin Unmasked'', ''War Drums'', and ''War Games''. [[spoiler:She dies in the latter, and her father tries to have her come BackFromTheDead; she ends up [[CameBackWrong coming back wrong]] - sort of - and joins Shadowpact in her new condition, under the name "Devil's Daughter".]]

** The season 2 MythArc has Jamie Reagan go undercover inside the Sanfino family after saving the life of {{the don}}'s nephew Noble during an unrelated undercover op. He ends up befriending Noble's sister Bianca, who is one of these. [[spoiler:When the undercover operation concludes in the season finale, Bianca turns state's evidence and goes into witness protection.]]

* Haruka Sawamura of ''Franchise/{{Yakuza}}'', although she's an unusual example in that she's HappilyAdopted by one instead of being biologically related to him, and that only occurs after Kiryu retires from the Tojo Clan. That said, the status of her being the daughter of the Tojo Clan's Fourth Chairman has stuck with her; those within the Tojo Clan show her tremendous amounts of care and compassion in addition to being ready to protect her in a moment's notice, while those against them target her due to being Kiryu's own AchillesHeel.

* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'': In a rare male example, Team Rocket leader Giovanni wanted his son [[spoiler:Silver]] to be his successor, but [[spoiler:Silver]] was [[AdultFear kidnapped as a toddler]] and ended up fighting against his father's organisation twice before [[LukeIAmYourFather discovering his heritage]].

** Hakuron's arranged fiancée Reilan is this, too.

** As well as Neon Nostrade, who is literally a Mafia Princess, except one of her hobbies is collecting human body parts so the spoiled part gets a bit twisted.

* ''Manga/KaseiYakyoku'': Nami, though she seems to be aware of her family's dealings.

* Lola Palooza from '' Cherry Comics''.

* Appolonia Franchetti in ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'' (who provides the page image) is a deconstruction of this trope, showing how bad this trope can be for a girl with an unhinged psycho like Frankie [[WouldHurtAChild "Kill the children too"]] Franchetti for a father: while he was never abusive towards her, one day as a child, she saw him [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killing a man with a blowtorch]] in front of her mother Lauren because said man was her lover and Frankie caught both of them in the act. While Frankie never intended for Appolonia to see this, he left his wife catatonic and turned Appolonia into a ruthless and cruel individual driven to make her father pay for what he did to her mother.

* The girlfriend in ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'' may count, but his mother definitely does.

* Lila Zacharov from ''Literature/TheCurseWorkers'' trilogy by Creator/HollyBlack

* Creator/JackieCollins' character, Lucky Santangelo, in the eponymous book, ''Lucky''.

* Irene Zuko in ''Series/DueSouth.''

* Jewel Diamond from ''Series/SuburbanShootout''.

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* {{Subverted| trope}} by Mia Mancini in Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s version of FCW, who claimed innocence but was anything but.
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* Maya Carrasco in ''The Sentinel.''

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'': Trish Una fits the biological component as her father is the Don of Passione, but while acting a tad snobbish and spoiled at times she ultimately averts the common stereotypes of the role [[spoiler: especially when it becomes apparent that her father wants her dead due to having a near-psychopathic obsession with his own anonymity that she could be a potential hole through.]]

* Antonia Bottino in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is the daughter of a former Mafia boss who's made a lot of enemies. She's met in a RandomEncounter where the PlayerCharacter can potentially save her from being BuriedAlive. Doing so results in her grateful family transferring $60,000 dollars to your account.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}:'' Sofia Falcone fits this to a T. She [[spoiler:ascends to TheQueenpin after arranging for her father's death.]]
** Interestingly, Lee Thompkins became this for a while in season 3 with her engagement to Mario Falcone. While Mario himself isn't involved in the "family business", Thompkins isn't afraid to pull the father-in-law card when other characters threaten her, and Carmine genuinely seems to like her and treats her like a daughter.

This is the life of a [[TheMafia Mafia]] Princess, with varying degrees of TruthInTelevision. Some girls join in the family business without qualms, some are aware of the business but not really involved in it; some are actually kept out of the loop entirely, with the parent [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids refusing to allow their child to throw their lives away like the parent did]]. One of the ways not [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses everything is better with princesses]] and a common characterization of women pertaining to TheMafia.

* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': Momo Ryuju, whose parents are the head of the Ryujugumi. She appears to have a [[SitcomArchNemesis natural enmity]] with the KendoTeamCaptain (whose father is the Superintendent General of the metropolitan police) and once threatened to kill Karen and Erika [[IResembleThatRemark because they implied that she'd have them killed for angering her just because her parents are yakuza]].

Compare TheDon, DaddysLittleVillain, DarkMistress.

This is the life of a [[TheMafia Mafia]] Princess, with varying degrees of TruthInTelevision. Some girls join in the family business without qualms, some are aware of the business but not really involved in it; some are actually kept out of the loop entirely, with the parent refusing to allow their child to throw their lives away like the parent did. One of the ways not everything is better with princesses and a common characterization of women pertaining to TheMafia.

** Constanzia "Connie" Corleone (Talia Shire) may be the archetypal example of this. By the end of the first film, however, when her abusive husband is murdered by her brother Michael for his role in setting up the murder of the oldest sibling Sonny, [[BrokenBird Connie finds herself quite jaded]] and goes into a downward spiral of debauchery and drinking to punish her brother Michael. It takes the death of her mother Carmela to get her to clean her act up, at which point she convinces Michael to reconcile with turncoat brother Fredo. By the third film, she's been upgraded to full-blown Godmother and has taken the role of adviser/Corleone Family mentor to Sonny's illegitimate son Vinnie, who has followed his father's footsteps into organized crime.

If she brings up her suspicions to her father or boyfriend, of course he's going to deny this. He'll even [[ChewbaccaDefense twist her words to make her look wrong for even bringing that up]]. A SpoiledBrat may ignore it completely, a DragonLady may join up, while a SpoiledSweet girl may end up just getting on with her life and making it clear she doesn't want in on the family business -- though it's never that easy.

This is the life of a [[TheMafia Mafia]] Princess, with varying degrees of TruthInTelevision. Some girls join in the family business, some are aware of the business but not really involved in it; some are actually kept out of the loop entirely, with the parent refusing to allow their child to throw their lives away like the parent did. One of the ways not everything is better with princesses and a common characterization of women pertaining to TheMafia.

** Minor character Nicoletta De Vesci also counts, being the flirty, somewhat pampered daughter of one of the mob's main assassins. She is LockedOutOfTheLoop that her dad, godfather (the above-mentioned Frankie), and older boy she had a rush growing up on are criminals, are that her father killed her mom for talking to the police.

* ''Manga/StopHibarikun'': Hibari has three sisters and herself in her yakuza family. Her sisters are more cherished though, [[WantedAGenderConformingChild since Hibari is]] {{transgender}}. Ironically, despite Ibari's griping about [[HeirClubForMen his "only son's"]] femininity making her an InadequateInheritor, [[GirlyBruiser Hibari would be more than capable of taking over]]. All of them get along pretty well with their father's subordinates, to the point the youngest Oozora sister often bosses one of them around.

* ''City Streets'': Nan Cooley is happy being the daughter of a racketeer at first but after spending time in jail for being an accessory to a murder her father committed, she wants no part in it. To make matters worse, her boyfriend (played by Creator/GaryCooper) got into bootlegging while she was locked up.

A girl's boyfriend or father just lavishes love, attention and gifts on her. Especially gifts. [[EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry Jewelry]], dresses, [[PrettyInMink fur coats]], vacations, and it all seems to come from… um, wait, hold on a second. Where does he afford that? [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck He claims to have a job that puts him in a tax bracket way too low to afford all this.]]

If the story is from a heroic point of view, the hero will [[DatingCatwoman fall in love]] with a [[TheMafia mafioso's]] [[InLoveWithTheGangstersGirl girlfriend]] or daughter. Both of them could be in danger of their lives. In more idealistic stories, the scary mobsters make an exception from scariness for her. If they like her father, they love and cherish her, pamper her, and [[BattleButler protect her with their lives]]. Their behavior might be interpreted as them seeing her as a symbol of innocence and gentle emotions, all the things these hardened criminals have lost. Additionally, the Boss [[PapaWolf probably wouldn't be happy]] if something happened that they could've prevented. Plus he might genuinely not want her to get involved in this world, since EvilParentsWantGoodKids. Either that, or he may be actively grooming her [[DaddysLittleVillain to take over his operations.]] In extreme cases, she may even covet Daddy's position and [[SelfMadeOrphan arrange for him to suffer an "accident"]] [[TheEvilPrincess so that she can take over the mob for herself.]] If she succeeds in taking over, she may become TheQueenpin.

The Japanese variant of this trope is the {{Yakuza}} princess; the female heir (or the daughter of the current heir) of a Yakuza clan who is both fully aware of the nature of the family enterprise and is often fully supportive of it. Also a common characterization for {{Yakuza}} leaders's consort (known as ''ane''), with the addition of being way more involved in the organization's activities.

A woman ''working'' for TheMafia or wilfully partaking in their activities '''[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant isn't]]''' a Mafia Princess, even though she may have been one in the past. The daughter of a rank and file mafioso (Soldato or even most Capos for example) is usually not considered a Mafia princess.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': [[TheIngenue Eve Genoard]] is entirely unaware that most of the money her family makes isn't through their textile plants, but from the marijuana and cocaine market.

* ''Anime/FutakoiAlternative'': Sakurazuki Kira and Yura, two teenage twins, granddaughters of the local yakuza boss. They see the yakuza in general as a good thing, but fight against their most extreme actions.
* ''Manga/{{Gangsta}}'': 14 year old [[LittleMissBadass Loretta Cristiano]] is assumed to be one of these when Alex first meets her, only for Alex to be shocked when she finds out that Loretta is actually ''[[YoungAndInCharge the head of the Cristiano family]]''. Presumably Loretta did qualify before her father died and she ascended to the position, but it's implied even before that she'd held quite a bit of power and sway over the family.
* ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}'': Kumiko hits between here and DaddysLittleVillain; she has full knowledge of her {{Yakuza}} background, is proud of it, but doesn't intend to live/work as one, instead choosing to be a teacher. And also does what ever she can to keep her students from ever thinking of joining the Yakuza.

* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'': The flashbacks reveal that Goldie Musou used to be this, knowing the true nature of her family quite well, but trying to use the respect her position provided for good ends. Then her parents got killed by an associate, and she went on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge using [[{{Brainwashed}} Brainwashing]] and drugs to force the innocent family members of the guilty parties to kill them, or be killed in the process.

** [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] may or may not be the unacknowledged illegitimate daughter of Carmine Falcone, one of the mob bosses that Batman took down in his early years. She believed she was, but was never able to find any actual proof one way or the other. Her maybe-sister Sofia Gigante definitely qualifies.

* Benito Medici from ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'' is a double subversion of this trope being how he's male and is fully aware of his father's illegal activities. However he still wishes to remain apart from them.
* The villainess Madame Masque of ''ComicBook/IronMan'' and ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' fame was raised by another family on orders of her father, the ''Film/JamesBond''-esque international crime boss Count Nefaria largely because he couldn't be bothered to raise a child. But in an subversion of this, once her adopted father died, Nefaria came calling and forced his daughter to serve as his right hand (wo)man, going so far as to out her true parentage to her politician fiancé, who dumped Madam Masque upon learning his soon to be bride's true parentage.

* Janice Lincoln, the new female Beetle of ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' is revealed to be the daughter of the mob boss Tombstone. [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids Her father wanted her to pursue a legitimate]] ([[SubvertedTrope but still evil]]) career as an AmoralAttorney, and Janice attended and excelled at a high ranking law school. However, Janice's goal is to break the glass ceiling of the criminal underworld as a supervillain.

* Appolonia Franchetti in ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'' (who provides the page image) is a deconstruction of this trope, showing how bad this trope can be for a girl with a unhinged psycho like Frankie [[WouldHurtAChild "Kill the children too"]] Franchetti for a father: while he was never abusive towards her, one day as a child, she saw him [[CruelAndUnusualDeath killing a man with a blowtorch]] in front of her mother Lauren because said man was her lover and Frankie caught both of them in the act. While Frankie never intended for Appolonia to see this, he left his wife catatonic and turned Appolonia into a ruthless and cruel individual driven to make her father pay for what he did to her mother.
** minor character Nicoletta De Vesci also counts, being the flirty, somewhat pampered daughter of one of the mobs main assassins. She is LockedOutOfTheLoop that her dad, godfather (the above-mentioned Frankie) and older boy she had a rush growing up on are criminals, are that her father killed her mom for talking to the police.

* ''Fanfic/TheStanfordAdventureClub'' has a RareMaleExample with Tarvek Sturmvoraus, whose father is a mob boss and tries to make his thirteen years-old son his successor. Tarvek decided he would rather run away with his cousin Violetta and did such after his father's death.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14997911/chapters/34760702 The Horsewomen Of Las Vegas]]'', Wrestling/CharlotteFlair was originally one. She didn't learn about "the family business" until she was 16, when she was denied a spot on the US Olympic Equestrian team "because of her last name". After that, she sought to distance herself from it by focusing on school work, going to medical school and planning on becoming a doctor. However, her father, Wrestling/RicFlair, recruited her to become head of the family when it became clear his son, David, didn't have the skills to be an effective leader. Charlotte accepted the role [[spoiler: when she found out her best friend (Santana Garrett) and her fiancee (Wrestling/ShaneDouglas) were undercover FBI agents.]]

** Constanzia "Connie" Corleone (Talia Shire) may be the archetypal example of this. By the end of the first film however, when her abusive husband is murdered by her brother Michael for his role in setting up the murder of the oldest sibling Sonny, [[BrokenBird Connie finds herself quite jaded]] and goes into a downward spiral of debauchery and drinking to punish her brother Michael. It takes the death of her mother Carmela to get her to clean her act up, at which point she convinces Michael to reconcile with turncoat brother Fredo. By the third film, she's been upgraded to full-blown Godmother and has taken the role of adviser/Corleone Family mentor to Sonny's illegitimate son Vinnie, who has followed his father's footsteps into organized crime.
** Michael's youngest daughter Mary, in the third film, takes this role and is legitimately oblivious to her father's corrupt ways, also striking a romance with [[KissingCousins her cousin]] Vinnie. [[spoiler: The poor kid ends up shot to death as a result of her father's crimes coming back to bite him on the ass, since an assassin sent to snipe Michael after her brother's opera debut shoots her instead by mistake; she dies in Michael's arms, and he's pushed to the DespairEventHorizon.]]

* ''Film/KnockaroundGuys'': Matty and Chris are male versions. They’ve been trying to make it in legitimate profession (sports agent and restauranteur) but attract too much infamy from their family names (although Chris isn’t above his to avoid getting laid) and are ultimately desperate enough to get drawn back into their old lives, although Matty severs ties with his father for good at the end.

* ''Film/AMostViolentYear'': Anna's father was a gangster whose reputation seems to precede him. Her background seems to have influenced her negotiation style considerably. Peter refers to being raised as a male version of this. it’s ambiguous if that’s the extent of it or if he he’s an actual criminal (it’s implied he is in his last scene but he could be lying either to keep Abel from doing something he'll regrets or to intimidate him)

* In ''Film/{{Pusher}} 3'', it's revealed that the ruthless druglord Milo has a very demanding adult daughter. The film is set on the day of her birthday, while he's trying to throw her a celebration that meets her standards. Along the way, he discovers that her boyfriend is a drug-dealer, so Milo browbeats the boyfriend into buying all of his drugs from him. When Milo's daughter finds out, she browbeats ''Milo'' into lowering his price. Whatta family!
* In Baz Luhrmann's ''[[Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet Romeo + Juliet]]'', the action is set in mafia-controlled beach city. As a consequence, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio's Romeo and Creator/ClaireDanes' Juliet are both mafia kids, and so is John Leguizamo's Tybalt.

* In ''Time to Depart'', by Lindsey Davis, crime boss Balbinus Pius is given 'time to depart'-- he is exiled from Rome and its territories. However, a power vacuum creates in his absence, and a new boss emerges-- his son-in-law, married to his daughter, the Mafia Princess Balbina Milvia, who ends up having an affair with the main character's best friend... who happens to be the guy who exiled her father. Oops. He almost loses his job, and his life at that.

* ''Literature/MonaLisaOverdrive'' by Creator/WilliamGibson. Kumiko Yanaka, a 13-year old Japanese girl, daughter of a fearsomely powerful {{Yakuza}} boss, suffers for being a Mafia Princess. She lives a life of [[GildedCage powerless, dreary, luxury.]] All her relationships are with smooth, cold, servants of her father. She would be far too valuable in the hands of his enemies for him to risk giving her freedom.

** Though the family knows that he's really, ''really'' law abiding… and therefore just has him "help" without his knowledge, like in the start of Son of the Mob 2 where they switched his "clothes for college" suitcase with an identical one containing ill-gotten money so he'd unknowingly take it across state lines for them (leading to a switch at an airport that caused mass chaos). He and his innocent (but also an FBI agent's daughter) love interest are not happy. His best friend thought it was cool and wanted to keep "their take."

* Carrie Asai's "Samurai Girl" series and the ABC miniseries based off it are all about the main character Heaven discovering her father's a Yakuza boss, and subsequently fighting off assassins and generally kicking ass...
* In ''All These Things I've Done'' by Gabrielle Zevin, Anya Balanchine is a Mafiya princess, only in this dystopian future (around 2083), the contraband they sell is chocolate. Her father was shot to death in front of her because of a deal gone bad. She is aware of what they do, but doesn't know much of the details. Anya ends up falling in love with the District Attorney's son, which causes problems for their relationship.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Vanessa Marianna sees no problems with dating Wilson Fisk, knows full well about all of his criminal deeds, and stands firmly by his side even as all of his criminal allies are picked off. In season 3, when she returns to New York from exile (while Fisk was doing time in prison), she insists on being more involved in Fisk's affairs. Her first such decision as Fisk's equal, ordering the death of [[spoiler:Ray Nadeem]], ends up sending him back to prison.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': Mariah Dillard starts the show as one. She grew up as a member of the Stokes crime family, though she branched out from the family's criminal activities and became a New York City councilwoman. Despite this, she enjoys reaping the benefits of Cottonmouth's gun running operations. After Cottonmouth's death, she steps up to run the organization.

* The mother on ''Series/GroundedForLife'' eventually learns her uncle is in the mob, after her husband and brother-in-law blow a favor for him ([[CouldHaveBeenMessy fortunately not a big favor]]).

** The episode "Let It Bleed" had a local Mafia Princess as the victim. Everyone involved with the events leading up to her death is convinced that her father will kill them for allowing this to happen, despite the fact that her death was an accident and that the drugs she had willfully been taking at the time played a major part in it. A montage at the end of the episode shows that he in fact, did have everyone killed, including the two idiots who had inadvertently caused her death, the club owner who had supplied the drugs, her best friend, who she had ditched to acquire said drugs, and her aunt/guardian, whose house she had sneaked out of to begin with.

* Princess was even ''Series/EastEnders''' Den Watt's famous pet name for his adopted daughter Sharon whom he spoiled rotten. Den wasn't exactly a gangster but had a habit of being used as something of a {{buttmonkey}} for the local Firm. He ends up being shot by the Firm and Sharon is left grieving only to have her dad [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]] fourteen years later, having just faked his death to hide from the Firm all along. [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Hello Princess]] indeed. His love-child Vicky may also qualify, at least in the 80's when Den [[TheUnfavourite actually loved both his daughters]].
** Played up more with Ruby Allen who's father Johnny was actually a Mafia boss. Unlike Sharon though, Ruby wasn't initially her father's top priority and it's implied he favored her sister, Scarlet, whom he named his nightclub after. But after the house fire which killed both Ruby's mother and Scarlet, Johnny sent Ruby off to boarding school and barely sees her again until she tracks him down in Walford. It turns out that Johnny saved Ruby from the fire but only because he mistook her for Scarlet as the sisters had swapped beds. They do reconcile and Ruby becomes more true to the trope, even after she discovers her father is more than just a 'business' man.

* In ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' Alex is this as her father was a Russian oligarch. She becomes a FallenPrincess when her father is killed and his right hand man is put into power.

* ''Series/TheFBI'': In "To Free My Enemy", an international pornopgrapher is kidnapped just before he is about to leave the business. His daughter, who is studying to be a teacher, knows nothing of his true occupation and believes he is a publisher of textbooks and religious tracts. She firstly refuses to believe her mother when she tells her his real occupation, but then later coopoerates with the FBI (unlike her mother) because she believes they are her best hope of getting her father back alive.

* In indie game ''Hot Dog King'', you can hire the daughter of a mafia boss for free, mistreat her by overwork or by making her wear clothes she feel uncomfortable in and well… let's just say your empire will fall…

** One mission has you kidnap ([[RichBitch a particularly annoying]]) one of these, Gracie Ancelotti, for ransom. In ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' it turns out she's one of Tony's entourage (and Luis doesn't like her any more than Niko did).

* ''Videogame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'' reveals early on that [[spoiler:Bruce Wayne himself]] turns out to be this, with [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne]] being a member of a crime syndicate that laid the foundations of modern day Gotham.

* In ''VisualNovel/KissedByTheBaddestBidder'', both Carolina Bucci (in Eisuke's route) and Mei Ling Lee (in Soryu's) fit the "yakuza princess" subtype, although neither of them are from yakuza families. Carolina's father Antonio is a [[TheMafia Mafia]] [[TheDon don]], while Mei Ling is the daughter of [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] boss Simon Lee. In both cases, their fathers clearly dote upon them, and neither woman has any particular issues with her father's activities, although Mei Ling chafes a bit at the lack of freedom that comes with being a Triad boss's daughter.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': While there are far more instances of DaddysLittleVillain, there are two notable examples of this as well: Envy and Glyph. While neither started out as 'princesses', once their GenderBender transformations occur, the trope take full force. Notably, as the sixth [[TheQueenpin White Lady]], Glyph is technically the ''head'' of the her crime family now, as she [[VillainousLegacy inherited]] the matrilineal role (and her magic powers, and her new sex) when her grandmother, mother, and older sister (who had been the designated heir) were murdered by a rival crime boss.

** Subverted by Adriana La Cerva, who grew up in the mob, fully understands how her boyfriend Christopher makes his money, and is proud of him and her "[[HonoraryUncle uncles]]". [[spoiler:At least, until she turns to the FBI in large part due to them forcing her to face up to the fact that one of her uncles was killed by Tony. When she tries to get her boyfriend to enter the Witness Protection Program with her, things do not go well for her, as Christopher informs Tony of Adriana's informant status, leading to her whacking by Silvio Dante]].

** Michael's youngest daughter Mary (Sofia Coppola, covering up for Winona Ryder), in the third film, takes this role and is legitimately oblivious to her father's corrupt ways, also striking a romance with [[KissingCousins her cousin]] Vinnie. [[spoiler: The poor kid ends up shot to death as a result of her father's crimes coming back to bite him on the ass, since an assassin sent to snipe Michael after her brother's opera debut shoots her instead by mistake; she dies in Michael's arms, and he's pushed to the DespairEventHorizon.]]

* ''Manga/StopHibarikun'': Hibari has three sisters and herself in her yakuza family. Her sisters are more cherished though, [[WantedAGenderConformingChild since Hibari is]] {{transgender}}. Ironically, despite Ibari's griping about [[HeirClubForMen his "only son's"]] femininity making her an InadequateInheritor, [[GirlyBruiser Hibari would be more than capable of taking over]]. All of them get along pretty well with their father's subordinates.

* ''Manga/StopHibarikun'': Hibari has three sisters and herself in her yakuza family. Her sisters are more cherished though, since her dad is bitter that his only son is {{transgender}}.

* Marian from ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'' is the granddaughter of the [[Film/TheGodfather Goodfeather]], the Honchkrow in charge of Alola's largest flock.