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* Charlie Morningstar from ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fits this trope to a T, although she prefers suits over dresses. She is sweet, kind, completely adorable, and prone to bursting into song. She also quite stubbornly believes the best of everyone and wants everyone to have a chance to be the best person they can be. It's just that her domain happens to be {{Hell}}, and Charlie is literally the daughter of Lucifer. Since Hell's inhabitants are overall utterly depraved, it's a ParodiedTrope, and her sunny attitude and faith towards them comes across as barely sane.

* She is [[TheIngenue innocence personified]]. All virtue, no vice. More than likely, she's a [[VirginPower virgin]] (if that even comes up). She's good and kind, no matter what, and would be an AllLovingHero or even a MessianicArchetype.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. What traits of the trope does she show?** Nunnally Lamperouge looks the part at first glance, but the moment you ''begin'' going below the surface she suddenly becomes more of a deconstruction than anything. She's ''much'' more like her [[GuileHero Guile]] AntiHero brother than at first glance.

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': Prim Fiorire is a teenage version. The basics are there: female, [[RoyalBlood royal]], and TheIngenue. Additional traits include being part of TheBeautifulElite that is [[TheAlliance the Seven Shields]], the long [[RoseHairedSweetie pink]] hair, the [[CoolCrown tiara]], and the preference of SimpleYetOpulent clothing in either white or pink. Prim straddles the line between the traditional and modern take of this archetype. She's described as [[DelicateIsBeautiful delicate]], because she wasn't groomed to be a KnightInShiningArmor like her cousin Alicia. Nonetheless, she proves to be quite opinionated in the belief that [[NinetiesAntiHero the Hunter]] is actually not a bad person and is able to contribute to Eostia's cause. Astonishingly, the resident [[TheCynic cynic]] of the story (the aforementioned Hunter) has never [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids mocked Prim for her idealism]].

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'''s [[WhiteMagicianGirl Estellise]] "Estelle" [[ShelteredAristocrat Sidos]] [[CombatMedic Heurassein]] [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructs]] this. Definite girly girl, innocent, sweet, and has powerful HealingHands abilities from her [[RoyaltySuperPower royal heritage]]. Fully capable of [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse kicking ass]], is actually ''not'' a FriendToAllLivingThings despite attempts otherwise, she's somewhat stuck politically speaking in a SuccessionCrisis, and said healing power [[spoiler: actually makes her an ApocalypseMaiden until the resident TeenGenius Rita solves the problem.]] She does, however, still need some saving at times (though it's fully justified) and though she has a "[[KnightInSourArmor Knight]]" in [[DeadpanSnarker Yuri]] [[BloodKnight Lowell]], there is absolutely no romance between her and him (though there is some ShipTease, it's ultimately not portrayed as a romance); she instead shows more interest in the [[BlackMagicianGirl hot-tempered mage]] Rita, who is [[LesYay even more interested in her]].

* Charlie Morningstar from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fits this trope to a T, although she prefers suits over dresses. She is sweet, kind, completely adorable, and prone to bursting into song. She also quite stubbornly believes the best of everyone and wants everyone to have a chance to be the best person they can be. It's just that her domain happens to be {{Hell}}, and Charlie is literally the daughter of Lucifer. Since Hell's inhabitants are overall utterly depraved, it's a ParodiedTrope, and her sunny attitude and faith towards them comes across as barely sane.

* ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess'': Sadie is a shy, kind, innocent girl with long hair who's always clad in a blue gown.

** The late Elia Martell is often described in these terms. Elia was a princess of Dorne and married into the Targaryen royal family. She is an example of DelicateIsBeautiful as she was prematurely born and noted to have "delicate beauty". SHe was known to be kindhearted, sweet, clever, and not to mention, brave. She fought fiercely to save her infant's life and was brutally murdered for it. Many remark she was absolutely TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth.

** The late Elia Martell is often described in these terms. Elia was a princess of Dorne and married into the Targaryen royal family. She is an example of DelicateIsBeautiful as she was prematurely born and noted to have "delicate beauty", known to be kindhearted, sweet, clever, and not to mention, brave. She fought fiercely to save her infant's life and was brutally murdered for it. Many remark she was absolutely TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth.

** The late Elia Martell is often described in these terms. Elia was a princess of Dorne and married into the Targaryen royal family, and she was always an example of DelicateIsBeautiful for being prematurely born, known to be demure and kindhearted and her wit was sweet, and many remark she was absolutely TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth.

** Subverted in the manga and ''Crystal'', especially if your introduction to the character was the 90s anime. While the physical description still applies, her personality is the complete opposite of a Princess Classic. Princess Serenity here is a lot like Usagi: flighty, reckless, doesn't like school and will actively attempt to avoid her lessons, into boys, and generally lives in a dream world. Her and Endymion's relationship thus ceases to be her only vice. She's still helpless and has bodyguards and a knight-themed PrinceCharming with a sword, but it's to emphasize how different she is from Sailor Moon, who's a strong fighter in her own right (actually stronger than her boyfriend and bodyguards put together) and how she fights alongside of them instead of being protected by them. She still dies, but instead of being TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth, she's painted as a tragic princess. [[spoiler:Also committing suicide isn't very Princess Classic-like. Takeuchi was instead going for a ''Romeo & Juliet'' vibe fitting with the manga's maturer tone]]. Also the manga implied that Endymion and Serenity were having sex, but didn't portray the act as in any way sullying her.

* Charlie Mosrningstar from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fits this trope to a T, although she prefers suits over dresses. She is sweet, kind, completely adorable, and prone to bursting into song. She also quite stubbornly believes the best of everyone and wants everyone to have a chance to be the best person they can be. It's just that her domain happens to be {{Hell}}, and Charlie is literally the daughter of Lucifer. Since Hell's inhabitants are overall utterly depraved, it's a ParodiedTrope, and her sunny attitude and faith towards them comes across as barely sane.

* Charlie from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fits this trope to a T, although she prefers suits over dresses. She is sweet, kind, completely adorable, and prone to bursting into song. She also quite stubbornly believes the best of everyone and wants everyone to have a chance to be the best person they can be. It's just that her domain happens to be {{Hell}}, and Charlie is literally the daughter of Lucifer.

* Charlie from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' fits this trope to a T, although she prefers suits over dresses. She is sweet, kind, completely adorable, and prone to bursting into song. She also quite stubbornly believes the best of everyone and wants everyone to have a chance to be the best person they can be. It's just that her domain happens to be {{Hell}}, and Charlie is literally the daughter of Satan.

* ''Literature/TheQueenOfIeflaria'': Esofi is a beautiful, feminine elegant princess who's devoted to her kingdom, accepting being in an arranged marriage as just part of her duty and not understanding other people disliking them.

Actually, this character [[NewerThanTheyThink started in the Victorian Era]]. In that time when stories were being shaped by {{Disneyfication}} and {{Bowdleri|se}}zation, the concept of CourtlyLove was warped to take all the sexual SubText out, and turn the noble lady into an [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism ideal of the times]]. All to provide only the most positive and uncomplicated image to children, and even adults as well.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''' Princess Peach is the quintissential Princess Classic of video games: Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, possesses IncorruptiblePurePureness, is beautiful, has long, golden hair... Depending on the game, she flip flops between being a helpless DistressedDamsel who needs saving, and being more than capable of defending herself and kicking butt alongside heroes like Mario and Luigi.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''' Peach is sometimes a parody (or at least heavily lampshaded version) of this (see the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games).
%%Needs more context beyond DamselInDistress.* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda's'' Zelda starts out like this. Zelda even lampshades this in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' by saying that waiting for the hero to do his job is a "family tradition."

* Princess Bubblegum of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is mostly an AffectionateParody of this trope, but is often played straight. She is prim, proper, poised, is frequently a DamselInDistress, and loves pink. Later seasons have been subverting it more and more, revealing her to be a LadyOfWar ActionGirl, PragmaticHero who will do ''[[WhatTheHellHero anything]]'' to protect her people, and teetering very close to becoming a MadScientist, all of which earned her quite a few RonTheDeathEater portrayals by fans. Her male counterpart Prince Gumball fits the trope a lot closer, being more demure, less combat-oriented, and gleefully taking interest in feminine hobbies like baking.

* One half of the soul and fiber of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' is about subverting this one by turning Princess Fiona into TheLadette. Princess Fiona is beautiful and content to play by the rules she's been given and be the DamselInDistress... so long as her PrinceCharming actually shows up. If she's attacked, she'll turn into a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse, though, and as she spends more time with Shrek, she slowly reveals a somewhat naughty side. (She's not always so nice to animals.) She's not as demure as she seems, and at the end of the movie, [[spoiler:she transforms into an ogre permanently.]]

* ZigZagged with Princess Cecily of ''WebOriginal/IWentToAnotherWorldButGotSentBackWithMyParty''. Being the stereotypical princess from a Medieval Fantasy world, she has a constant air of politeness and elegance, but by the time the story begins Damian has known her long enough to see [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask vulnerability behind the mask.]] Then there's the fact [[PrettyPrincessPowerhouse she knows how to fight]]: her [[FantasyCharacterClasses character class]] is ''assassin'', and she's really good with her knives.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has the youngest royal daughter, Villian, who is an apparently timid but virtuous young woman.

* George Martin's ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':

** Sansa Stark always aspired to be this since toddlerhood and she actively cultivates all the the traits of trope she can express as hard as possible throughout the series ([[PassiveAggressiveKombat including turning them into barely adequate weaponry when needed]]). She can even do the "can talk to the well-trained and polite animals" one (for a time). Unfortunately, she also lives in a politically volatile CrapsackWorld within a [[DeconstructorFleet story dedicated to deconstructing common fantasy tropes]] (with some reconstruction on the side). So you can guess where her initial bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, pink-dyed romanticism is heading.

** Zigzagged with Sansa. Though not initially a princess in her own right, she was raised by her mother to be the perfect princess and is eager to fulfill this role when she is betrothed to a prince, only to find her PrinceCharming is a petulant psychopath ruling over a CrapsackWorld. Then her brother Robb declares himself King in the North, which ''does'' make her a princess in her own right. Too bad her hosts don't recognize Stark claims of sovereignty. By the time she could be undeniably referred as a princess (in season 6 when her brother Jon is crowned king), the naiveté and innocence associated with the trope have long faded. [[spoiler:She concludes the series by being crowned Queen in the North in her own right, promoting her from this to TheHighQueen.]]

** Myrcella is a young, lovely, golden-haired princess in a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage to a handsome PrinceCharming.

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': Prim Fiorire is a teenage version. The basics are there: female, [[RoyalBlood royal]], and TheIngenue. Additional traits include being part of TheBeautifulElite that is [[TheAlliance the Seven Shields]], the [[LongHairIsFeminine long]] [[RoseHairedSweetie pink]] hair, the [[CoolCrown tiara]], and the preference of SimpleYetOpulent clothing in either [[VirginInAWhiteDress white]] or [[PrincessesPreferPink pink]]. Prim straddles the line between the traditional and modern take of this archetype. She's [[DelicateIsBeautiful delicate]], because she wasn't groomed to be a KnightInShiningArmor like her cousin Alicia. Nonetheless, she proves to be quite opinionated in the belief that [[NinetiesAntiHero the Hunter]] is [[PetTheDog actually not a bad person]] and is able to contribute to Eostia's cause. As a bonus, the resident [[TheCynic cynic]] of the story (the aforementioned Hunter) has never [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids mocked Prim for her idealism]]. Astonishing.

* Debatable if there are actual examples in RealLife (that weren't this from being sheltered and not taught about the world), but Queen Victoria of England did her best to make royal ladies appear to be this way. This is where we get the UrbanLegend of noblewomen being advised to "[[LieBackAndThinkOfEngland close your eyes and think of England]]". Queen Vicky was pretty sheltered herself, as a result of her mom not wanting her to see her dad's relatives and their scandals potentially affecting Vicky's reputation before she hit puberty. In fact, it was probably this upbringing that led to Victorian prudishness in the first place (and her husband [[RareMaleExample Albert]] was even more prudish than her!).