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* A major plot point in [[ThePenthouseWarInLife The Penthouse: War in Life]] is how poorly the wealthy characters treat people poorer than themselves. As parents, they raise their children to be spoilt and disdainful of anyone they view as "beneath them".
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* A major plot point in [[ThePenthouseWarInLife The Penthouse: War in Life]] ''Series/ThePenthouseWarInLife'' is how poorly the wealthy characters treat people poorer than themselves. As parents, they raise their children to be spoilt and disdainful of anyone they view as "beneath them".
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* A major plot point in [[ThePenthouseWarInLife The Penthouse: War in Life]] is how poorly the wealthy characters treat people poorer than themselves. As parents, they raise their children to be spoilt and disdainful of anyone they view as "beneath them".
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Compare ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections, as well as EntitledToHaveYou. Contrast MiseryBuildsCharacter, FreudianExcuse, and SpoiledSweet. Also, AmbitionIsEvil is not the same as this trope, but can coincide. Also, a character doesn’t have to have been born into privilege to qualify so long as they are privileged now.
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Compare ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections, as well as EntitledToHaveYou. Contrast MiseryBuildsCharacter, FreudianExcuse, and SpoiledSweet. Also, AmbitionIsEvil is not the same as this trope, trope but can coincide. Also, a character doesn’t have to have been born into privilege to qualify so long as they are privileged now.
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** Freeza is the heir to an intergalactic empire. His father, King Cold, is overly doting, and as Cooler implies, he spoiled him rotten. He's also a mass-murdering sociopath that has destroyed many planets.
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** Freeza is the heir to an intergalactic empire. His father, father King Cold, Cold is overly doting, and as Cooler implies, he spoiled him rotten. He's also a mass-murdering sociopath that has destroyed many planets.
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** Who can forget Vegeta? Being the Prince of a ProudWarriorRace whom worked under Freeza and shows no remorse with his slaughtering. All with a huge ego to boot. He has mellowed out after his HeelFaceTurn to a degree.
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** Who can forget Vegeta? Being the Prince of a ProudWarriorRace whom worked under Freeza and shows no remorse with for his slaughtering. All with a huge ego to boot. He has mellowed out after his HeelFaceTurn to a degree.
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* Hongqi from ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}}'' is the son of a kind and wealthy Upper Ring merchant. Due to his privilege and entitlement, he takes a Lower Ring woman as a mistress and starts a family with her. When he gotten bored of her and sought to marry a noblewoman, he dumps her. But Hongqi doesn't want his ex-mistress to dare to move on from him. So he disfigures his mistress and drove her to suicide by taking her children. But when he needed to hide his illegitimate children from his potential noble in-laws, he horrifically murders said children by locking them into a kiln to be slowly burned alive.
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* Hongqi from ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}}'' is the son of a kind and wealthy Upper Ring merchant. Due to his privilege and entitlement, he takes a Lower Ring woman as a mistress and starts a family with her. When he gotten got bored of her and sought to marry a noblewoman, he dumps her. But Hongqi doesn't want his ex-mistress to dare to move on from him. So he disfigures his mistress and drove her to suicide by taking her children. But when he needed to hide his illegitimate children from his potential noble in-laws, he horrifically murders said children by locking them into a kiln to be slowly burned alive.
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** Adrien believes himself to be a NiceGuy, but his actions ([[BetrayalByInaction and inactions]]) tell a different story, as he [[SkewedPriorities prioritizes his own personal comfort]] over everything else. Lila's [[ConArtist scamming his classmates]]? Who cares; anything she steals can easily be replaced, right? Even though most of his friends aren't wealthy like him, he blows off the idea that they won't be able to ''afford'' replacements, or that anything might have value beyond the material. He's also [[EntitledBastard incredibly entitled]], expecting everything to go the way ''he'' wants without having to work for it or actually do anything ''good'' -- to his mind, just being a 'good person' is good enough, and he ignores all evidence to the contrary.
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** Adrien believes himself to be a NiceGuy, but his actions ([[BetrayalByInaction and inactions]]) tell a different story, as he [[SkewedPriorities prioritizes his own personal comfort]] over everything else. Lila's [[ConArtist scamming his classmates]]? Who cares; anything she steals can easily be replaced, right? Even though most of his friends aren't wealthy like him, he blows off the idea that they won't be able to ''afford'' replacements, replacements or that anything might have value beyond the material. He's also [[EntitledBastard incredibly entitled]], expecting everything to go the way ''he'' wants without having to work for it or actually do anything ''good'' -- to his mind, just being a 'good person' is good enough, and he ignores all evidence to the contrary.
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* Yue Qingyuan from ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' was once Yue Qi, Shen Jiu's fellow ex-slave. They both worked tirelessly to ascend the social ladder from the original position from the bottom of society. Shen Jiu and Yue Qi, then Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan reach the highest rank of their society through Yue Qingyuan's legitimization by his lord father, become respected and cultured immortal cultivators and have a loving and faithful marriage. Then Yue Qingyuan lets the privileges and power of his newfound noble rank go to his head. He starts to believe in the gossip decrying Shen Qingqiu as a possessive viper and that as a Lord, Yue Qingyuan deserved more. That Yue Qingyuan should act like the Lord he is and get more noble and richer spouses instead of being faithful to the nobody commoner he's with. Despite promising Shen Qingqiu to be faithful to him, Yue Qingyuan begins to think himself entitled to a harem like his fellow lords have. He cheats on Shen Qingqiu, doesn't fight for him when the Emperor has Shen Qinqiu demoted to Second Husband, marries his paramour and expects Shen Qingqiu to accept it and obey the new First Husband. In the original timeline, almost everyone involved died or became a worse person for it. The good timeline only happens when Yue Qingyuan faces meaningful consequence of [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu leaving him for another man.]]
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* Yue Qingyuan from ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' was once Yue Qi, Shen Jiu's fellow ex-slave. They both worked tirelessly to ascend the social ladder from the their original position from at the bottom of society. Shen Jiu and Yue Qi, then Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan reach the highest rank of their society through Yue Qingyuan's legitimization by his lord father, become respected and cultured immortal cultivators cultivators, and have a loving and faithful marriage. Then Yue Qingyuan lets the privileges and power of his newfound noble rank go to his head. He starts to believe in the gossip decrying Shen Qingqiu as a possessive viper and that as a Lord, Yue Qingyuan deserved more. That Yue Qingyuan should act like the Lord he is and get more noble and richer spouses instead of being faithful to the nobody commoner he's with. Despite promising Shen Qingqiu to be faithful to him, Yue Qingyuan begins to think himself entitled to a harem like his fellow lords have. He cheats on Shen Qingqiu, doesn't fight for him when the Emperor has Shen Qinqiu demoted to Second Husband, marries his paramour paramour, and expects Shen Qingqiu to accept it and obey the new First Husband. In the original timeline, almost everyone involved died or became a worse person for it. The good timeline only happens when Yue Qingyuan faces meaningful consequence of [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu leaving him for another man.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Circe}}:''This trope serves as an explanation for a characters personality shift if we include an UnreliableNarrator explaining the shift.
** Glaucus was polite and revered Circe when he was a mortal, thanked her for helping him and even at one point expressed a desire to wish he was a god to marry her. However, it becomes clear later on that this is less out of genuine love or care and more out of him trying to be respectful to Circe for her godly status and making his life easier. Once he's made a god, he becomes just as vain, self-centered, egotistical and arrogant as the rest. He completely tosses Circe aside now that he no longer has to rely on her (or beg for every scrap as he puts it) and chooses any of the much prettier nymphs over her. Circe recounts how Glaucus lost everything good in him and became a metaphorical monster at the end of the story, but this discounts another interpretation that Glaucus was always like that under his weak human demeanor and Circe elevating him to god status and removing his infirmities simply gave him permission to release his negative emotions.
** Glaucus was polite and revered Circe when he was a mortal, thanked her for helping him and even at one point expressed a desire to wish he was a god to marry her. However, it becomes clear later on that this is less out of genuine love or care and more out of him trying to be respectful to Circe for her godly status and making his life easier. Once he's made a god, he becomes just as vain, self-centered, egotistical and arrogant as the rest. He completely tosses Circe aside now that he no longer has to rely on her (or beg for every scrap as he puts it) and chooses any of the much prettier nymphs over her. Circe recounts how Glaucus lost everything good in him and became a metaphorical monster at the end of the story, but this discounts another interpretation that Glaucus was always like that under his weak human demeanor and Circe elevating him to god status and removing his infirmities simply gave him permission to release his negative emotions.
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* ''Literature/{{Circe}}:''This ''Literature/{{Circe}}:'' This trope serves as an explanation for a characters character's personality shift if we include an UnreliableNarrator explaining the shift.
** Glaucus was polite and revered Circe when he was a mortal, thanked her for helping him and even at one point expressed a desire to wish he was a god to marry her. However, it becomes clear later on that this is less out of genuine love or care and more out of him trying to be respectful to Circe for her godly status and making his life easier. Once he's made a god, he becomes just as vain, self-centered,egotistical egotistical, and arrogant as the rest. He completely tosses Circe aside now that he no longer has to rely on her (or beg for every scrap as he puts it) and chooses any of the much prettier nymphs over her. Circe recounts how Glaucus lost everything good in him and became a metaphorical monster at the end of the story, but this discounts another interpretation that Glaucus was always like that under his weak human demeanor and Circe elevating him to god status and removing his infirmities simply gave him permission to release his negative emotions.
** Glaucus was polite and revered Circe when he was a mortal, thanked her for helping him and even at one point expressed a desire to wish he was a god to marry her. However, it becomes clear later on that this is less out of genuine love or care and more out of him trying to be respectful to Circe for her godly status and making his life easier. Once he's made a god, he becomes just as vain, self-centered,
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** Dudley Dursley, Harry's cousin, gets spoiled rotten by his parents and his bullying behavior is slightly enabled, especially to Harry. When he was forced to go on a diet, he starts to gain muscle and starts beating up kids younger than him. Dumbledore actually lampshades this when he notes that Dudley was screwed up by his parents. Dudley does start making amends after Harry saves him from a Dementor attack and the Dementor put Dudley through hell (or rather, made him relive his life from an outsiders' view), giving him a JerkassRealization. He and Harry make up in the last book and remain on amicable if awkward terms as adults.
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** Dudley Dursley, Harry's cousin, gets spoiled rotten by his parents and his bullying behavior is slightly enabled, especially to Harry. When he was forced to go on a diet, he starts to gain muscle and starts beating up kids younger than him. Dumbledore actually lampshades this when he notes that Dudley was screwed up by his parents. Dudley does start making amends after Harry saves him from a Dementor attack and the Dementor put Dudley through hell (or rather, made him relive his life from an outsiders' outsider's view), giving him a JerkassRealization. He and Harry make up in the last book and remain on amicable if awkward terms as adults.
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* [[RoyalBrat Joffrey]] [[TheCaligula Baratheon]] from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (the adaptation of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'') is a shining example of this. All his life, Joffrey has rarely been told the word 'no' and been raised to believe that he is better than everyone else and entitled to just about everything, because he's the crown prince of the Seven Kingdoms and [[BlueBlood a Lannister]] on his mother's side [[spoiler: and [[InbredAndEvil his father's side]] too, [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe as it turns out]]]]. As a result, Joffrey rarely has to face the negative consequences of his actions or learn from them, expects everyone to serve his whims and lacks empathy for others. This is {{deconstructed|Trope}} over the course of the series, as Joffrey's bratty behavior and impulsively cruel actions ''do'' start to catch up to him, [[spoiler: culminating in [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty him being assassinated at his own wedding]]. The masterminds of his death straight up admit that the main reason they killed him was because of his StupidEvil tendencies]].
* While everybody in [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaTheGang the gang]] in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' are vile, reprehensible people, Dennis Reynolds might actually be the worst out of all of them. He is shown to be a manipulative sociopath, a {{Narcissist}} dolling out DisproportionateRetribution for minor insults, acts as a twisted subversion of the "OnlySaneMan" trope found in most sitcoms, and his actions cluing in that he may be a serial rapist and a murderer. His FreudianExcuse can be traced after his GoldDigger mother Barbara, who's an unapologetic RichBitch {{Jerkass}} who's ParentalFavoritism towards Dennis made a poor example for his upbringing.
* [[RoyalBrat Joffrey]] [[TheCaligula Baratheon]] from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (the adaptation of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'') is a shining example of this. All his life, Joffrey has rarely been told the word 'no' and been raised to believe that he is better than everyone else and entitled to just about everything, because he's the crown prince of the Seven Kingdoms and [[BlueBlood a Lannister]] on his mother's side [[spoiler: and [[InbredAndEvil his father's side]] too, [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe as it turns out]]]]. As a result, Joffrey rarely has to face the negative consequences of his actions or learn from them, expects everyone to serve his whims and lacks empathy for others. This is {{deconstructed|Trope}} over the course of the series, as Joffrey's bratty behavior and impulsively cruel actions ''do'' start to catch up to him, [[spoiler: culminating in [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty him being assassinated at his own wedding]]. The masterminds of his death straight up admit that the main reason they killed him was because of his StupidEvil tendencies]].
* While everybody in [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaTheGang the gang]] in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' are vile, reprehensible people, Dennis Reynolds might actually be the worst out of all of them. He is shown to be a manipulative sociopath, a {{Narcissist}} dolling out DisproportionateRetribution for minor insults, acts as a twisted subversion of the "OnlySaneMan" trope found in most sitcoms, and his actions cluing in that he may be a serial rapist and a murderer. His FreudianExcuse can be traced after his GoldDigger mother Barbara, who's an unapologetic RichBitch {{Jerkass}} who's ParentalFavoritism towards Dennis made a poor example for his upbringing.
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* [[RoyalBrat Joffrey]] [[TheCaligula Baratheon]] from ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (the adaptation of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'') is a shining example of this. All his life, Joffrey has rarely been told the word 'no' and been raised to believe that he is better than everyone else and entitled to just about
* While everybody in [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaTheGang the gang]] in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' are vile, reprehensible people, Dennis Reynolds might actually be the worst out of all of them. He is shown to be a manipulative sociopath, a {{Narcissist}} dolling out DisproportionateRetribution for minor insults, acts as a twisted subversion of the "OnlySaneMan" trope found in most sitcoms, and his actions cluing in that he may be a serial rapist and a murderer. His FreudianExcuse can be traced after his GoldDigger mother Barbara, who's an unapologetic RichBitch {{Jerkass}}
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* ''Series/StrangerThings:'' Troy, the bully from season 1, has a mother that spoils him rotten and never holds him accountable for anything. He also tried to stab Dustin if Mike didn't jump off a cliff (and the result was that he pissed Eleven off ''big time'').
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* ''Series/StrangerThings:'' Troy, the bully from season 1, has a mother that who spoils him rotten and never holds him accountable for anything. He also tried to stab Dustin if Mike didn't jump off a cliff (and the result was that he pissed Eleven off ''big time'').
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** Ichiryusai Madarame is a famous artist who started suffering from Artists Block, so he began stealing his students art projects to pass off as his own. One of his former students committed suicide, and he deliberately let another student, Yusuke's mother, die from a seizure so he can get away with selling her painting.
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** Ichiryusai Madarame is a famous artist who started suffering from Artists Block, so he began stealing his students students' art projects to pass off as his own. One of his former students committed suicide, and he deliberately let another student, Yusuke's mother, die from a seizure so he can get away with selling her painting.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E17Antibug Antibug]]", SpoiledBrat HateSink daughter of the mayor Chloé Bourgeois ends up akumatized by [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] and gets upgraded into the [[AntagonistTitle titular]] Antibug, an EvilKnockoff of Ladybug with a burning desire to take revenge on the heroine for calling her a liar and [[TheMillStone a Mill Stone]] during their confrontation with [[DiscOneFinalBoss Vanisher]]. Keep in mind that Vanisher wouldn't have even existed if Chloé didn't try to alienate her only friend over an honest mistake. Come to think of it, most people Hawk Moth has akumatized were the result of Chloé's own petty attitude, something he himself lampshades in a BatmanGambit in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E02DespairBear Despair Bear]]."
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E17Antibug Antibug]]", SpoiledBrat HateSink daughter of the mayor Chloé Bourgeois ends up akumatized by [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] and gets upgraded into the [[AntagonistTitle titular]] Antibug, an EvilKnockoff of Ladybug with a burning desire to take revenge on the heroine for calling her a liar and [[TheMillStone a Mill Stone]] mill stone]] during their confrontation with [[DiscOneFinalBoss Vanisher]]. Keep in mind that Vanisher wouldn't have even existed if Chloé didn't try to alienate her only friend over an honest mistake. Come to think of it, most people Hawk Moth has akumatized were the result of Chloé's own petty attitude, something he himself lampshades in a BatmanGambit in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E02DespairBear Despair Bear]]."
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** Mr. Burns willingly abandoned his loving parents (and his favorite teddy bear, Bobo) so he could be raised by a wealthier family, leading him to becoming the CorruptCorporateExecutive that he is.
** Homer invokes this in ''A Star is Torn,'' by becoming the manger of a rival of Lisa's and revamping him into "Johnny Rainbow", a rich kid singing a boastful song about how he uses his wealth to make his life better than everyone else's. It works, and the kid is immediately rejected by the audience.
** Homer invokes this in ''A Star is Torn,'' by becoming the manger of a rival of Lisa's and revamping him into "Johnny Rainbow", a rich kid singing a boastful song about how he uses his wealth to make his life better than everyone else's. It works, and the kid is immediately rejected by the audience.
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** Mr. Burns willingly abandoned his loving parents (and his favorite teddy bear, bear Bobo) so he could be raised by a wealthier family, leading him to becoming become the CorruptCorporateExecutive that he is.
** Homer invokes this in ''A Star is Torn,'' by becoming themanger manager of a rival of Lisa's and revamping him into "Johnny Rainbow", a rich kid singing a boastful song about how he uses his wealth to make his life better than everyone else's. It works, and the kid is immediately rejected by the audience.
** Homer invokes this in ''A Star is Torn,'' by becoming the
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However, some villains had everything in life handed to them, and yet they still chose to be evil. Like how "power corrupts", so does privilege[note]As an interesting note [/note].
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However, some villains had everything in life handed to them, and yet they still chose to be evil. Like how "power corrupts", so does privilege[note]As an interesting note [/note].privilege.
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** Dudley Dursley, Harry's cousin, gets spoiled rotten by his parents and his bullying behavior is slightly enabled, especially to Harry. When he was forced to go on a diet, he starts to gain muscle and starts beating up kids younger than him. Dumbledore actually lampshades this when he notes that Dudley was screwed up by his parents. Dudley does start making amends after Harry saves him from a Dementor attack and the Dementor put Dudley through hell (or rather, made him relieve his life on an outsiders' view), giving him a JerkassRealization. He and Harry make up in the last book and remain on amicable if awkward terms as adults.
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** Dudley Dursley, Harry's cousin, gets spoiled rotten by his parents and his bullying behavior is slightly enabled, especially to Harry. When he was forced to go on a diet, he starts to gain muscle and starts beating up kids younger than him. Dumbledore actually lampshades this when he notes that Dudley was screwed up by his parents. Dudley does start making amends after Harry saves him from a Dementor attack and the Dementor put Dudley through hell (or rather, made him relieve relive his life on from an outsiders' view), giving him a JerkassRealization. He and Harry make up in the last book and remain on amicable if awkward terms as adults.
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** Mr. Burns willingly abandoned his loving parents (and his favorite teddy bear, Bobo) so he can be raised by a wealthier family, leading him to becoming the CorruptCorporateExecutive that he is.
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** Mr. Burns willingly abandoned his loving parents (and his favorite teddy bear, Bobo) so he can could be raised by a wealthier family, leading him to becoming the CorruptCorporateExecutive that he is.
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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire:'' Joffrey Baratheon is a spoiled prince UpToEleven, and is one of the cruelest characters in the series.
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* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire:'' Joffrey Baratheon is a spoiled prince UpToEleven, and is one of the cruelest characters in the series.
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* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is a SpoiledBrat who becomes a supervillain when the Powerpuff girls refuse her admittance into their group, completely ignorant of the fact that her utter disregard for other people makes a poor hero. She spends the rest of the series either trying to stage (ironically) morally bankrupt means of proving herself (like convincing a friend of theirs to shoplift just so she could arrest her), enacting [[EvilIsPetty petty]] revenge on them using her wealth to buy a means to do so (like making all crime legal in Townsville) to just flat-out attacking them with advanced, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney highly-expensive]] weaponry.
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* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' is a SpoiledBrat who becomes a supervillain when the Powerpuff girls refuse her admittance into their group, completely ignorant of the fact that her utter disregard for other people makes a poor hero. She spends the rest of the series either trying to stage (ironically) morally bankrupt means of proving herself (like convincing a friend of theirs to shoplift just so she could arrest her), enacting [[EvilIsPetty petty]] revenge on them using her wealth to buy a means to do so (like making all crime legal in Townsville) to just flat-out attacking them with advanced, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney highly-expensive]] weaponry.
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* ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'': The new antagonists, [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnFarZenith Far Zenith]], are a group of less than a hundred people of billionaires and geniuses, those who had the world at their fingertips, then they went off to live in a paradise on Sirius and created near-mystical technology. When they [[InvadingRefugees need to flee]] back to earth they don't ask for help or collaborate with the tribals they treat them like vermin intending to take what they want and leave no matter who they kill.
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* ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'': The new antagonists, [[Characters/HorizonZeroDawnFarZenith Far Zenith]], are a group an elitist cabal of less than a hundred people of Old-World billionaires and geniuses, those geniuses who had fled Earth before the world at their fingertips, then they went off to live in apocalypse. They spent hundreds of years building a psychopathic paradise on Sirius Sirius, where they could live in VR worlds and torment artificial intelligences for eternity. Then they created near-mystical technology. and tortured an A.I. until it went mad and hacked Sirius to death. When they Zenith [[InvadingRefugees need needs to flee]] back to earth Earth, they don't ask for help or collaborate with the tribals tribes, they treat them like vermin intending to take what just use the natives as target practice for kicks until they want can flee once more and leave no matter who they kill.Earth to an even worse tyrant.
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* [[PreppyName Robson Parke Westerfield]] from ''Literature/DaddysLittleGirl'' could well be the poster boy. While it's entirely possible he was born with a predisposition for [[TheSociopath sociopathic traits]], his extremely privileged upbringing clearly exacerbated and reinforced this. Due to his family's prominence and wealth, he grew up thinking he was above everyone else and that consequences don't apply to him, especially as his family use their wealth and influence to bail him out whenever he gets into trouble. Even spending two decades in prison for murder has done little to temper his arrogance, although he's gotten better at hiding his nastier traits in public.
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* ''Literature/{{Circe}}:''This trope serves as an explanation for a characters personality shift if we include an UnreliableNarrator explaining the shift.
** Glaucus was polite and revered Circe when he was a mortal, thanked her for helping him and even at one point expressed a desire to wish he was a god to marry her. However, it becomes clear later on that this is less out of genuine love or care and more out of him trying to be respectful to Circe for her godly status and making his life easier. Once he's made a god, he becomes just as vain, self-centered, egotistical and arrogant as the rest. He completely tosses Circe aside now that he no longer has to rely on her (or beg for every scrap as he puts it) and chooses any of the much prettier nymphs over her. Circe recounts how Glaucus lost everything good in him and became a metaphorical monster at the end of the story, but this discounts another interpretation that Glaucus was always like that under his weak human demeanor and Circe elevating him to god status and removing his infirmities simply gave him permission to release his negative emotions.
** Glaucus was polite and revered Circe when he was a mortal, thanked her for helping him and even at one point expressed a desire to wish he was a god to marry her. However, it becomes clear later on that this is less out of genuine love or care and more out of him trying to be respectful to Circe for her godly status and making his life easier. Once he's made a god, he becomes just as vain, self-centered, egotistical and arrogant as the rest. He completely tosses Circe aside now that he no longer has to rely on her (or beg for every scrap as he puts it) and chooses any of the much prettier nymphs over her. Circe recounts how Glaucus lost everything good in him and became a metaphorical monster at the end of the story, but this discounts another interpretation that Glaucus was always like that under his weak human demeanor and Circe elevating him to god status and removing his infirmities simply gave him permission to release his negative emotions.
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* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom:''
** The students in Class-A, particularly the Elite 5, are intelligent and they don't hesitate to [[InsufferableGenius brag about it]] and bully the students in Class-E.
** Principal Asano is wealthy enough to have built the school himself, and he employs a system that discriminates the less-intelligent students. However, it's later revealed that [[spoiler: he was once a CoolTeacher, but became cruel after a former student of his committed suicide from being bullied]].
** God of Death lived in a big fancy house and had a wealthy family. He was also a sociopath that didn't care that his father was murdered and even bagged his father's killer to train him.
** The students in Class-A, particularly the Elite 5, are intelligent and they don't hesitate to [[InsufferableGenius brag about it]] and bully the students in Class-E.
** Principal Asano is wealthy enough to have built the school himself, and he employs a system that discriminates the less-intelligent students. However, it's later revealed that [[spoiler: he was once a CoolTeacher, but became cruel after a former student of his committed suicide from being bullied]].
** God of Death lived in a big fancy house and had a wealthy family. He was also a sociopath that didn't care that his father was murdered and even bagged his father's killer to train him.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure:''
** Flip-flopped with Dio Brando. He lived a life of poverty and abuse from his alcoholic father, but his evil colors started to show when he was taken in by the wealthy Joestar family.
** Also flip-flopped with Yoshikage Kira. On the one hand, he had overly loving parents, but on the other, he deliberately avoided privilege and praise so that he could fall under the radar.
** J. Geil (or "[[WritingAroundTrademarks Centerfold]]" in the dub) is a sadistic serial killer and a rapist. However, his mother, Enya, spoiled him rotten, never held him accountable for his crimes, and treated him like he was a kind saint even [[spoiler: after his death]].
* One episode of ''Anime/KillLaKill'' had Mako becoming a club president and through her hard work and dedication escalating through the Star ranks of the student class. While this brought up some appreciated benefits (such as her family living in increasingly-better housing), it also made her increasingly more of a jerk, culminating with getting in a fight (which was going to be ''to the death'', but thankfully ThePowerOfFriendship was able to snap her out of it in a crucial moment) with Ryuko because the latter was getting concerned about her. She ended up deciding that her friendship was not worth it, and quit her post.
** Flip-flopped with Dio Brando. He lived a life of poverty and abuse from his alcoholic father, but his evil colors started to show when he was taken in by the wealthy Joestar family.
** Also flip-flopped with Yoshikage Kira. On the one hand, he had overly loving parents, but on the other, he deliberately avoided privilege and praise so that he could fall under the radar.
** J. Geil (or "[[WritingAroundTrademarks Centerfold]]" in the dub) is a sadistic serial killer and a rapist. However, his mother, Enya, spoiled him rotten, never held him accountable for his crimes, and treated him like he was a kind saint even [[spoiler: after his death]].
* One episode of ''Anime/KillLaKill'' had Mako becoming a club president and through her hard work and dedication escalating through the Star ranks of the student class. While this brought up some appreciated benefits (such as her family living in increasingly-better housing), it also made her increasingly more of a jerk, culminating with getting in a fight (which was going to be ''to the death'', but thankfully ThePowerOfFriendship was able to snap her out of it in a crucial moment) with Ryuko because the latter was getting concerned about her. She ended up deciding that her friendship was not worth it, and quit her post.
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* One episode of ''Anime/KillLaKill'' had Mako becoming a club president and through her hard work and dedication escalating through the Star ranks of the student class. While this brought up some appreciated benefits (such as her family living in increasingly-better housing), it also made her increasingly more of a jerk, culminating with getting in a fight (which was going to be ''to the death'', but thankfully ThePowerOfFriendship was able to snap her out of it in a crucial moment) with Ryuko because the latter was getting concerned about her. She ended up deciding that her friendship was not worth it, and quit her post.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure:''
** Flip-flopped with Dio Brando. He lived a life of poverty and abuse from his alcoholic father, but his evil colors started to show when he was taken in by the wealthy Joestar family.
** Also flip-flopped with Yoshikage Kira. On the one hand, he had overly loving parents, but on the other, he deliberately avoided privilege and praise so that he could fall under the radar.
** J. Geil (or "[[WritingAroundTrademarks Centerfold]]" in the dub) is a sadistic serial killer and a rapist. However, his mother, Enya, spoiled him rotten, never held him accountable for his crimes, and treated him like he was a kind saint even [[spoiler: after his death]].
* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom:''
** The students in Class-A, particularly the Elite 5, are intelligent and they don't hesitate to [[InsufferableGenius brag about it]] and bully the students in Class-E.
** Principal Asano is wealthy enough to have built the school himself, and he employs a system that discriminates the less-intelligent students. However, it's later revealed that [[spoiler: he was once a CoolTeacher, but became cruel after a former student of his committed suicide from being bullied]].
** God of Death lived in a big fancy house and had a wealthy family. He was also a sociopath that didn't care that his father was murdered and even bagged his father's killer to train him.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure:''
** Flip-flopped with Dio Brando. He lived a life of poverty and abuse from his alcoholic father, but his evil colors started to show when he was taken in by the wealthy Joestar family.
** Also flip-flopped with Yoshikage Kira. On the one hand, he had overly loving parents, but on the other, he deliberately avoided privilege and praise so that he could fall under the radar.
** J. Geil (or "[[WritingAroundTrademarks Centerfold]]" in the dub) is a sadistic serial killer and a rapist. However, his mother, Enya, spoiled him rotten, never held him accountable for his crimes, and treated him like he was a kind saint even [[spoiler: after his death]].
* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom:''
** The students in Class-A, particularly the Elite 5, are intelligent and they don't hesitate to [[InsufferableGenius brag about it]] and bully the students in Class-E.
** Principal Asano is wealthy enough to have built the school himself, and he employs a system that discriminates the less-intelligent students. However, it's later revealed that [[spoiler: he was once a CoolTeacher, but became cruel after a former student of his committed suicide from being bullied]].
** God of Death lived in a big fancy house and had a wealthy family. He was also a sociopath that didn't care that his father was murdered and even bagged his father's killer to train him.
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[[folder: Fan Works]]
* Yue Qingyuan from ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' was once Yue Qi, Shen Jiu's fellow ex-slave. They both worked tirelessly to ascend the social ladder from the original position from the bottom of society. Shen Jiu and Yue Qi, then Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan reach the highest rank of their society through Yue Qingyuan's legitimization by his lord father, become respected and cultured immortal cultivators and have a loving and faithful marriage. Then Yue Qingyuan lets the privileges and power of his newfound noble rank go to his head. He starts to believe in the gossip decrying Shen Qingqiu as a possessive viper and that as a Lord, Yue Qingyuan deserved more. That Yue Qingyuan should act like the Lord he is and get more noble and richer spouses instead of being faithful to the nobody commoner he's with. Despite promising Shen Qingqiu to be faithful to him, Yue Qingyuan begins to think himself entitled to a harem like his fellow lords have. He cheats on Shen Qingqiu, doesn't fight for him when the Emperor has Shen Qinqiu demoted to Second Husband, marries his paramour and expects Shen Qingqiu to accept it and obey the new First Husband. In the original timeline, almost everyone involved died or became a worse person for it. The good timeline only happens when Yue Qingyuan faces meaningful consequence of [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu leaving him for another man.]]
* Lan Xichen from ''Fanfic/ImpenetrableWalls'' is genuinely well-meaning and sweet-tempered. However, he has been spoiled rotten since his birth, every single wish of his granted by the Imperial Palace's servants, so when he becomes Emperor he naturally believes he can do anything he pleases. It includes abducting the man his baby brother is crushing on and turning him into a SexSlave for the prince, and he actually thinks Wei Wuxian will be happy with his fate.
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* Lan Xichen from ''Fanfic/ImpenetrableWalls'' is genuinely well-meaning and sweet-tempered. However, he has been spoiled rotten since his birth, every single wish of his granted by the Imperial Palace's servants, so when he becomes Emperor he naturally believes he can do anything he pleases. It includes abducting the man his baby brother is crushing on and turning him into a SexSlave for the prince, and he actually thinks Wei Wuxian will be happy with his fate.
* Explored in ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'' through Adrien and Chloe:
** Adrien believes himself to be a NiceGuy, but his actions ([[BetrayalByInaction and inactions]]) tell a different story, as he [[SkewedPriorities prioritizes his own personal comfort]] over everything else. Lila's [[ConArtist scamming his classmates]]? Who cares; anything she steals can easily be replaced, right? Even though most of his friends aren't wealthy like him, he blows off the idea that they won't be able to ''afford'' replacements, or that anything might have value beyond the material. He's also [[EntitledBastard incredibly entitled]], expecting everything to go the way ''he'' wants without having to work for it or actually do anything ''good'' -- to his mind, just being a 'good person' is good enough, and he ignores all evidence to the contrary.
** Chloe grew up as a SpoiledBrat, always throwing temper tantrums to get her way. However, she has a HeelRealization when faced with a situation she ''can't'' use [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her family's money]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections and connections]] to 'solve'. Unlike Adrien, she decides that she [[CharacterDevelopment wants to become a better person]] even if it proves hard or challenging, and her efforts eventually pay off.
* Yue Qingyuan from ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' was once Yue Qi, Shen Jiu's fellow ex-slave. They both worked tirelessly to ascend the social ladder from the original position from the bottom of society. Shen Jiu and Yue Qi, then Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan reach the highest rank of their society through Yue Qingyuan's legitimization by his lord father, become respected and cultured immortal cultivators and have a loving and faithful marriage. Then Yue Qingyuan lets the privileges and power of his newfound noble rank go to his head. He starts to believe in the gossip decrying Shen Qingqiu as a possessive viper and that as a Lord, Yue Qingyuan deserved more. That Yue Qingyuan should act like the Lord he is and get more noble and richer spouses instead of being faithful to the nobody commoner he's with. Despite promising Shen Qingqiu to be faithful to him, Yue Qingyuan begins to think himself entitled to a harem like his fellow lords have. He cheats on Shen Qingqiu, doesn't fight for him when the Emperor has Shen Qinqiu demoted to Second Husband, marries his paramour and expects Shen Qingqiu to accept it and obey the new First Husband. In the original timeline, almost everyone involved died or became a worse person for it. The good timeline only happens when Yue Qingyuan faces meaningful consequence of [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu leaving him for another man.]]
* Explored in ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'' through Adrien and Chloe:
** Adrien believes himself to be a NiceGuy, but his actions ([[BetrayalByInaction and inactions]]) tell a different story, as he [[SkewedPriorities prioritizes his own personal comfort]] over everything else. Lila's [[ConArtist scamming his classmates]]? Who cares; anything she steals can easily be replaced, right? Even though most of his friends aren't wealthy like him, he blows off the idea that they won't be able to ''afford'' replacements, or that anything might have value beyond the material. He's also [[EntitledBastard incredibly entitled]], expecting everything to go the way ''he'' wants without having to work for it or actually do anything ''good'' -- to his mind, just being a 'good person' is good enough, and he ignores all evidence to the contrary.
** Chloe grew up as a SpoiledBrat, always throwing temper tantrums to get her way. However, she has a HeelRealization when faced with a situation she ''can't'' use [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney her family's money]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections and connections]] to 'solve'. Unlike Adrien, she decides that she [[CharacterDevelopment wants to become a better person]] even if it proves hard or challenging, and her efforts eventually pay off.
* Yue Qingyuan from ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' was once Yue Qi, Shen Jiu's fellow ex-slave. They both worked tirelessly to ascend the social ladder from the original position from the bottom of society. Shen Jiu and Yue Qi, then Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan reach the highest rank of their society through Yue Qingyuan's legitimization by his lord father, become respected and cultured immortal cultivators and have a loving and faithful marriage. Then Yue Qingyuan lets the privileges and power of his newfound noble rank go to his head. He starts to believe in the gossip decrying Shen Qingqiu as a possessive viper and that as a Lord, Yue Qingyuan deserved more. That Yue Qingyuan should act like the Lord he is and get more noble and richer spouses instead of being faithful to the nobody commoner he's with. Despite promising Shen Qingqiu to be faithful to him, Yue Qingyuan begins to think himself entitled to a harem like his fellow lords have. He cheats on Shen Qingqiu, doesn't fight for him when the Emperor has Shen Qinqiu demoted to Second Husband, marries his paramour and expects Shen Qingqiu to accept it and obey the new First Husband. In the original timeline, almost everyone involved died or became a worse person for it. The good timeline only happens when Yue Qingyuan faces meaningful consequence of [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu leaving him for another man.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}:'' Chris Hargensen is a sadistic bully, and her lawyer father always finds loopholes to get her out of trouble. However, she takes matters into her own hands when her father isn't able to convince the staff to let her go to prom.
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** Draco Malfoy comes from an incredibly wealthy family, being old money. He's also a bully, a card-carrying racist, and later [[spoiler: joins the Death Eaters]]. Of course, his behavior comes to bite him [[spoiler: and he realizes BeingEvilSucks during his tenure in the Death Eaters.]]
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** Draco Malfoy comes from an incredibly wealthy family, being old money. He's also a bully, a card-carrying racist, and later [[spoiler: joins [[spoiler:joins the Death Eaters]]. Of course, his behavior comes to bite him [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and he realizes BeingEvilSucks during his tenure in the Death Eaters.]]Eaters]].
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* ''Literature/{{Carrie}}:'' Chris Hargensen is a sadistic bully, and her lawyer father always finds loopholes to get her out of trouble. However, she takes matters into her own hands when her father isn't able to convince the staff to let her go to prom.
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* ''Series/StrangerThings:'' Troy, the bully from season 1, has a mother that spoils him rotten and never holds him accountable for anything. He also tried to stab Dustin if Mike didn't jump off a cliff (and the result was that he pissed Eleven off ''big time'').
* While everybody in [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaTheGang the gang]] in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' are vile, reprehensible people, Dennis Reynolds might actually be the worst out of all of them. He is shown to be a manipulative sociopath, a {{Narcissist}} dolling out DisproportionateRetribution for minor insults, acts as a twisted subversion of the "OnlySaneMan" trope found in most sitcoms, and his actions cluing in that he may be a serial rapist and a murderer. His FreudianExcuse can be traced after his GoldDigger mother Barbara, who's an unapologetic RichBitch {{Jerkass}} who's ParentalFavoritism towards Dennis made a poor example for his upbringing.
* While everybody in [[Characters/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphiaTheGang the gang]] in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' are vile, reprehensible people, Dennis Reynolds might actually be the worst out of all of them. He is shown to be a manipulative sociopath, a {{Narcissist}} dolling out DisproportionateRetribution for minor insults, acts as a twisted subversion of the "OnlySaneMan" trope found in most sitcoms, and his actions cluing in that he may be a serial rapist and a murderer. His FreudianExcuse can be traced after his GoldDigger mother Barbara, who's an unapologetic RichBitch {{Jerkass}} who's ParentalFavoritism towards Dennis made a poor example for his upbringing.
* ''Series/StrangerThings:'' Troy, the bully from season 1, has a mother that spoils him rotten and never holds him accountable for anything. He also tried to stab Dustin if Mike didn't jump off a cliff (and the result was that he pissed Eleven off ''big time'').
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* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': The Prep clique consists of rich Jerkasses that torment the lower class. However, [[SadistTeacher Mr. Hattrick]] proves to be worse than all of them. He comes from an Old Money family and lives in a nice mansion. Despite having no financial need to be a teacher at Bullworth, he signed up anyway so that he could torment his students.
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange:'' Nathan Prescott always uses his father's connections to get him out of trouble. One example is shown in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm the prequel]], where if depending on how you played, [[spoiler: he severely injures a girl named Samantha who had a crush on him]]. Sean Prescott can be overheard at the hospital convincing Samantha's mother not to press charges. In the main game, he [[spoiler: works with his teacher and famous photographer, Mark Jefferson, to abduct classmates of his, drug them, and have Jefferson take photos of them]].
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange:'' Nathan Prescott always uses his father's connections to get him out of trouble. One example is shown in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm the prequel]], where if depending on how you played, [[spoiler: he severely injures a girl named Samantha who had a crush on him]]. Sean Prescott can be overheard at the hospital convincing Samantha's mother not to press charges. In the main game, he [[spoiler: works with his teacher and famous photographer, Mark Jefferson, to abduct classmates of his, drug them, and have Jefferson take photos of them]].
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** Subverted with [[spoiler: Goro Akechi]]. While he's a celebrity with legions of fangirls, it's revealed he's also [[spoiler: the bastard child of Masayoshi Shido. His mother committed suicide after years of SlutShaming (remember that being a bastard child is viewed much worse in the East than in the West) and he got bounced around through various foster homes]].
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** Subverted with [[spoiler: Goro [[spoiler:Goro Akechi]]. While he's a celebrity with legions of fangirls, it's revealed he's also [[spoiler: the bastard child of Masayoshi Shido. His mother committed suicide after years of SlutShaming (remember that being a bastard child is viewed much worse in the East than in the West) and he got bounced around through various foster homes]].
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** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc:'' [[spoiler: Junko Enoshima]], the BigBad of the series, is also a famous [[spoiler: fashion model]].
** ''Anime/DanganRonpa3:'' Natsumi, Fuyuhiko's sister, is revealed to be a SpoiledBrat who used her father's Yakuza power to bully her way into Hope's Peak Academy as a Reserve Course Student. She was unsatisfied with her class and often threatened Mahiru so that she can be a full Ultimate Student. This leads to her [[spoiler: getting killed by Mahiru's friend]].
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange:'' Nathan Prescott always uses his father's connections to get him out of trouble. One example is shown in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm the prequel]], where if depending on how you played, [[spoiler: he severely injures a girl named Samantha who had a crush on him]]. Sean Prescott can be overheard at the hospital convincing Samantha's mother not to press charges. In the main game, he [[spoiler: works with his teacher and famous photographer, Mark Jefferson, to abduct classmates of his, drug them, and have Jefferson take photos of them]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': The Prep clique consists of rich Jerkasses that torment the lower class. However, [[SadistTeacher Mr. Hattrick]] proves to be worse than all of them. He comes from an Old Money family and lives in a nice mansion. Despite having no financial need to be a teacher at Bullworth, he signed up anyway so that he could torment his students.
** ''Anime/DanganRonpa3:'' Natsumi, Fuyuhiko's sister, is revealed to be a SpoiledBrat who used her father's Yakuza power to bully her way into Hope's Peak Academy as a Reserve Course Student. She was unsatisfied with her class and often threatened Mahiru so that she can be a full Ultimate Student. This leads to her [[spoiler: getting killed by Mahiru's friend]].
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange:'' Nathan Prescott always uses his father's connections to get him out of trouble. One example is shown in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm the prequel]], where if depending on how you played, [[spoiler: he severely injures a girl named Samantha who had a crush on him]]. Sean Prescott can be overheard at the hospital convincing Samantha's mother not to press charges. In the main game, he [[spoiler: works with his teacher and famous photographer, Mark Jefferson, to abduct classmates of his, drug them, and have Jefferson take photos of them]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': The Prep clique consists of rich Jerkasses that torment the lower class. However, [[SadistTeacher Mr. Hattrick]] proves to be worse than all of them. He comes from an Old Money family and lives in a nice mansion. Despite having no financial need to be a teacher at Bullworth, he signed up anyway so that he could torment his students.
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** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc:'' [[spoiler: Junko [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]], the BigBad of the series, is also a famous [[spoiler: fashion [[spoiler:fashion model]].
** ''Anime/DanganRonpa3:'' Natsumi, Fuyuhiko's sister, is revealed to be a SpoiledBrat who used her father's Yakuza power to bully her way into Hope's Peak Academy as a Reserve Course Student. She was unsatisfied with her class and often threatened Mahiru so that she can be a full Ultimate Student. This leads to her[[spoiler: getting [[spoiler:getting killed by Mahiru's friend]].
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange:'' Nathan Prescott always uses his father's connections to get him out of trouble. One example is shown in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm the prequel]], where if depending on how you played, [[spoiler: he severely injures a girl named Samantha who had a crush on him]]. Sean Prescott can be overheard at the hospital convincing Samantha's mother not to press charges. In the main game, he [[spoiler: works with his teacher and famous photographer, Mark Jefferson, to abduct classmates of his, drug them, and have Jefferson take photos of them]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': The Prep clique consists of rich Jerkasses that torment the lower class. However, [[SadistTeacher Mr. Hattrick]] proves to be worse than all of them. He comes from an Old Money family and lives in a nice mansion. Despite having no financial need to be a teacher at Bullworth, he signed up anyway so that he could torment his students.
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** ''Anime/DanganRonpa3:'' Natsumi, Fuyuhiko's sister, is revealed to be a SpoiledBrat who used her father's Yakuza power to bully her way into Hope's Peak Academy as a Reserve Course Student. She was unsatisfied with her class and often threatened Mahiru so that she can be a full Ultimate Student. This leads to her
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange:'' Nathan Prescott always uses his father's connections to get him out of trouble. One example is shown in [[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm the prequel]], where if depending on how you played, [[spoiler: he severely injures a girl named Samantha who had a crush on him]]. Sean Prescott can be overheard at the hospital convincing Samantha's mother not to press charges. In the main game, he [[spoiler: works with his teacher and famous photographer, Mark Jefferson, to abduct classmates of his, drug them, and have Jefferson take photos of them]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': The Prep clique consists of rich Jerkasses that torment the lower class. However, [[SadistTeacher Mr. Hattrick]] proves to be worse than all of them. He comes from an Old Money family and lives in a nice mansion. Despite having no financial need to be a teacher at Bullworth, he signed up anyway so that he could torment his students.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E17Antibug Antibug]]", SpoiledBrat HateSink daughter of the mayor Chloé Bourgeois ends up akumatized by [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] and gets upgraded into the [[AntagonistTitle titular]] Antibug, an EvilKnockoff of Ladybug with a burning desire to take revenge on the heroine for calling her a liar and [[TheMillStone a Mill Stone]] during their confrontation with [[DiscOneFinalBoss Vanisher]]. Keep in mind that Vanisher wouldn't have even existed if Chloé didn't try to alienate her only friend over an honest mistake. Come to think of it, most people Hawk Moth has akumatized were the result of Chloé's own petty attitude, something he himself lampshades in a BatmanGambit in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E02DespairBear Despair Bear]]."
* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is a SpoiledBrat who becomes a supervillain when the Powerpuff girls refuse her admittance into their group, completely ignorant of the fact that her utter disregard for other people makes a poor hero. She spends the rest of the series either trying to stage (ironically) morally bankrupt means of proving herself (like convincing a friend of theirs to shoplift just so she could arrest her), enacting [[EvilIsPetty petty]] revenge on them using her wealth to buy a means to do so (like making all crime legal in Townsville) to just flat-out attacking them with advanced, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney highly-expensive]] weaponry.
* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is a SpoiledBrat who becomes a supervillain when the Powerpuff girls refuse her admittance into their group, completely ignorant of the fact that her utter disregard for other people makes a poor hero. She spends the rest of the series either trying to stage (ironically) morally bankrupt means of proving herself (like convincing a friend of theirs to shoplift just so she could arrest her), enacting [[EvilIsPetty petty]] revenge on them using her wealth to buy a means to do so (like making all crime legal in Townsville) to just flat-out attacking them with advanced, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney highly-expensive]] weaponry.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E17Antibug Antibug]]", SpoiledBrat HateSink daughter of the mayor Chloé Bourgeois ends up akumatized by [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] and gets upgraded into the [[AntagonistTitle titular]] Antibug, an EvilKnockoff of Ladybug with a burning desire to take revenge on the heroine for calling her a liar and [[TheMillStone a Mill Stone]] during their confrontation with [[DiscOneFinalBoss Vanisher]]. Keep in mind that Vanisher wouldn't have even existed if Chloé didn't try to alienate her only friend over an honest mistake. Come to think of it, most people Hawk Moth has akumatized were the result of Chloé's own petty attitude, something he himself lampshades in a BatmanGambit in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E02DespairBear Despair Bear]]."
* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is a SpoiledBrat who becomes a supervillain when the Powerpuff girls refuse her admittance into their group, completely ignorant of the fact that her utter disregard for other people makes a poor hero. She spends the rest of the series either trying to stage (ironically) morally bankrupt means of proving herself (like convincing a friend of theirs to shoplift just so she could arrest her), enacting [[EvilIsPetty petty]] revenge on them using her wealth to buy a means to do so (like making all crime legal in Townsville) to just flat-out attacking them with advanced, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney highly-expensive]] weaponry.
* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is a SpoiledBrat who becomes a supervillain when the Powerpuff girls refuse her admittance into their group, completely ignorant of the fact that her utter disregard for other people makes a poor hero. She spends the rest of the series either trying to stage (ironically) morally bankrupt means of proving herself (like convincing a friend of theirs to shoplift just so she could arrest her), enacting [[EvilIsPetty petty]] revenge on them using her wealth to buy a means to do so (like making all crime legal in Townsville) to just flat-out attacking them with advanced, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney highly-expensive]] weaponry.
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* Hongqi from ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}} is the son of a kind and wealthy Upper Ring merchant. Due to his privilege and entitlement, he takes a Lower Ring woman as a mistress and starts a family with her. When he gotten bored of her and sought to marry a noblewoman, he dumps her. But Hongqi doesn't want his ex-mistress to dare to move on from him. So he disfigures his mistress and drove her to suicide by taking her children. But when he needed to hide his illegitimate children from his potential noble in-laws, he horrifically murders said children by locking them into a kiln to be slowly burned alive.
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* Hongqi from ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}} is the son of a kind and wealthy Upper Ring merchant. Due to his privilege and entitlement, he takes a Lower Ring woman as a mistress and starts a family with her. When he gotten bored of her and sought to marry a noblewoman, he dumps her. But Hongqi doesn't want his ex-mistress to dare to move on from him. So he disfigures his mistress and drove her to suicide by taking her children. But when he needed to hide his illegitimate children from his potential noble in-laws, he horrifically murders said children by locking them into a kiln to be slowly burned alive.
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* Lan Xichen from ''Fanfic/ImpenetrableWalls'' is genuinely well-meaning and sweet-tempered. However, he has been spoiled rotten since his birth, every single wish of his granted by the Imperial Palace's servants, so when he becomes Emperor he naturally believes he can do anything he pleases. It includes abducting the man his baby brother is crushing on and turning him into a SexSlave for the prince, and he actually thinks Wei Wuxian will be happy with his fate.
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** Subverted with [[spoiler: Goro Akechi]]. While he's a celebrity with legions of fangirls, it's revealed he's also [[spoiler: the bastard child of Masoyushi Shido. His mother committed suicide after years of SlutShaming (remember that being a bastard child is viewed much worse in the East than in the West) and he got bounced around through various foster homes]].
** Masoyushi Shido is a CorruptPolitician who uses his connections to get away with atrocities including murder and rape. When the Protagonist caught him trying to have his way with a woman and he ended up tripping on his own feet, [[NeverMyFault he pressed charges against the Protagonist]], an act that would ultimately [[CreateYourOwnHero come back to haunt him]].
** Masoyushi Shido is a CorruptPolitician who uses his connections to get away with atrocities including murder and rape. When the Protagonist caught him trying to have his way with a woman and he ended up tripping on his own feet, [[NeverMyFault he pressed charges against the Protagonist]], an act that would ultimately [[CreateYourOwnHero come back to haunt him]].
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** Subverted with [[spoiler: Goro Akechi]]. While he's a celebrity with legions of fangirls, it's revealed he's also [[spoiler: the bastard child of Masoyushi Masayoshi Shido. His mother committed suicide after years of SlutShaming (remember that being a bastard child is viewed much worse in the East than in the West) and he got bounced around through various foster homes]].
**Masoyushi Masayoshi Shido is a CorruptPolitician who uses his connections to get away with atrocities including murder and rape. When the Protagonist caught him trying to have his way with a woman and he ended up tripping on his own feet, [[NeverMyFault he pressed charges against the Protagonist]], an act that would ultimately [[CreateYourOwnHero come back to haunt him]].
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Many of the antagonists the Phantom Thieves face embody this. Many of them are prolific individuals who's high lot directly or indirectly influence their actions (namely, the loss of their position makes them go to heinous lengths.)
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** Masoyushi Shido is a CorruptPolitician who uses his connections to get away with atrocities including murder and rape. When the Protagonist caught him trying to have his way with a woman and he ended up tripping on his own feet, [[NeverMyFault he pressed charges against the Protagonist]].Protagonist]], an act that would ultimately [[CreateYourOwnHero come back to haunt him]].
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** Kunikazu Okumura is the CorruptCorporateExecutive of a food business that went into fast food. He combines this with AmbitionIsEvil since we learn he's motivated by his impoverished childhood and a desire to be te opposite of his father (a kind-hearted businessman who was not very successful.) He achieves his success by running his workers to the ground with minimal breaks and tries to achieve political power by marrying off his daughter Haru to the son of a prominent senator.
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** Kunikazu Okumura is the CorruptCorporateExecutive of a food business that went into fast food. He combines this with AmbitionIsEvil since we learn he's motivated by his impoverished childhood and a desire to be te the opposite of his father (a kind-hearted businessman who was not very successful.) He achieves his success by running his workers to the ground with minimal breaks and tries to achieve political power by marrying off his daughter Haru to the son of a prominent senator.
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* Yue Qingyuan from ''Fanfic/SVWishes'' was once Yue Qi, Shen Jiu's fellow ex-slave. They both worked tirelessly to ascend the social ladder from the original position from the bottom of society. Shen Jiu and Yue Qi, then Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan reach the highest rank of their society through Yue Qingyuan's legitimization by his lord father, become respected and cultured immortal cultivators and have a loving and faithful marriage. Then Yue Qingyuan lets the privileges and power of his newfound noble rank go to his head. He starts to believe in the gossip decrying Shen Qingqiu as a possessive viper and that as a Lord, Yue Qingyuan deserved more. That Yue Qingyuan should act like the Lord he is and get more noble and richer spouses instead of being faithful to the nobody commoner he's with. Despite promising Shen Qingqiu to be faithful to him, Yue Qingyuan begins to think himself entitled to a harem like his fellow lords have. He cheats on Shen Qingqiu, doesn't fight for him when the Emperor has Shen Qinqiu demoted to Second Husband, marries his paramour and expects Shen Qingqiu to accept it and obey the new First Husband. In the original timeline, almost everyone involved died or became a worse person for it. The good timeline only happens when Yue Qingyuan faces meaningful consequence of [[spoiler: Shen Qingqiu leaving him for another man.]]
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** Really, the Death Eaters in general are this trope, since almost all of them come from similar backgrounds to Malfoy (and many are his immediate family). The exceptions are Voldemort himself, who grew up in an orphanage, and [[spoiler:Snape]], who winds up [[TheMole becoming a double agent for the good guys anyway]]. None of the Death Eaters seem to realize that, by virtue of being a cult that tortured and murders wantonly, they have ''[[MotiveDecay far]]'' less right to be considered “civilized” than their victims.
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** Really, the Death Eaters in general are this trope, since almost all of them come from similar backgrounds to Malfoy (and many are his immediate family). The exceptions are Voldemort himself, who grew up in an orphanage, and [[spoiler:Snape]], who winds up [[TheMole becoming a double agent for the good guys anyway]]. None of the Death Eaters seem to realize that, by virtue of being a cult that tortured tortures and murders wantonly, they have ''[[MotiveDecay far]]'' less right to be considered “civilized” than their victims.
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->''"Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance, and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions."''
-->-- '''Thomas Paine'''
-->-- '''Thomas Paine'''
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* ''Manga/{{Narutaru}}:'' Aki Honda is an AcademicAlphaBitch who torments a girl named Hiromi just for getting better grades than her and many are too scared to stand up to her. One of her offenses includes [[spoiler: raping Hiromi with a test tube]].
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* ''Manga/{{Narutaru}}:'' ''Manga/ShadowStar:'' Aki Honda is an AcademicAlphaBitch who torments a girl named Hiromi just for getting better grades than her and many are too scared to stand up to her. One of her offenses includes [[spoiler: raping Hiromi with a test tube]].
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** Really, the Death Eaters in general are this trope, since almost all of them come from similar backgrounds to Malfoy (and many are his immediate family). The exceptions are Voldemort himself, who grew up in an orphanage, and [[spoiler:Snape]], who winds up [[ReverseMole becoming a double agent for the good guys anyway]]. None of the Death Eaters seem to realize that, by virtue of being a cult that tortured and murders wantonly, they have ''[[MotiveDecay far]]'' less right to be considered “civilized” than their victims.
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** Really, the Death Eaters in general are this trope, since almost all of them come from similar backgrounds to Malfoy (and many are his immediate family). The exceptions are Voldemort himself, who grew up in an orphanage, and [[spoiler:Snape]], who winds up [[ReverseMole [[TheMole becoming a double agent for the good guys anyway]]. None of the Death Eaters seem to realize that, by virtue of being a cult that tortured and murders wantonly, they have ''[[MotiveDecay far]]'' less right to be considered “civilized” than their victims.
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* Ilithyia from ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand''. The root cause of her selfish sense of entitlement and lack of empathy is the fact she was raised by a wealthy and powerful father who let her have anything she wanted, and she never had to face negative consequences for her actions.
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