History Main / RoyalBrat

* ''Series/BecomingElizabeth'': Edward VI is this, albeit a sympathetic one. His mother died in childbirth and his father was a [[UsefulNotes/HenryVIII]] notorious, wife-killing tyrant.]] When he inherits the throne upon his father's death, the haughty boy becomes even more isolated as his various uncles and counselors vie for control of him. He develops into a religious fanatic, delighting in humiliating his older sister. Yet, he also cries real tears when his Uncle Thomas kills his beloved dog in an ill-advised attempt to kidnap the boy.

* ''Series/BecomingElizabeth'': Edward VI is this, albeit a sympathetic one. His mother died in childbirth and his father was a [[UsefulNotes//HenryVIII notorious, wife-killing tyrant.]] When he inherits the throne upon his father's death, the haughty boy becomes even more isolated as his various uncles and counselors vie for control of him. He develops into a religious fanatic, delighting in humiliating his older sister. Yet, he also cries real tears when his Uncle Thomas kills his beloved dog in an ill-advised attempt to kidnap the boy.

* ''Literature/TheVirginWidow'': In the historical novel, Anne Neville loves her childhood friend Richard of Gloucester but is forced to marry the prince, Edward of Lancaster. The two young men are of similar age, but the prince has been overly indulged and protected by his mother and is given to tantrums, petty cruelty and empty boasts. Richard, on the other hand, has real-world experience in battle and politics and carries himself like a grown man.

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* UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette...[[HistoricalVillainUpgrade in legend]], anyway. Her reputation while she was Queen was that she was vapid, spoiled, and got what she wanted through nefarious means, and during the [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Revolution]], liberals and republicans portrayed her consistent conservatism as the cries of an ungrateful Austrian bitch (they even called her ''l'autrichienne'', a blend of the French words for, well, "Austrian" and "bitch") when things did not go her way. The reality of [[WrittenByTheWinners her history is more complicated]].
* [[UsefulNotes/KingJohnOfEngland Prince John]] (of ''RobinHood'' fame) was reputed to be like this. His portrayal in ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' is that of a spoiled, block-headed teenager who's a constant, unwitting pawn in his elder brothers' schemes.
** Considering his older brother's antics historically speaking, this probably ran in the family. [[UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart Richard the Lion-Heart]] was famously restless, impulsive, and kind of a jerk; however, his great skill as a warrior and his general respect for the then-developing rules of chivalry saved his reputation.
* Kaiser William II of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI fame had this reputation. British propaganda charged him with starting the pre-World War I naval arms race (a major factor in the environment that led to war) out of envy of his British cousins. This wasn't that far wrong; he had an odd love-hate relationship with Britain for [[FreudianExcuse all kinds of complicated family reasons]], including his somewhat strained relationship with his mother (the British Princess Victoria) and his deformity (his left arm was withered as a result of his traumatic birth). He was, however, fond of his grandmother, UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria.
** Kaiser Wilhelm's uncle Edward VII, in his days as Prince of Wales, also enjoyed this reputation. As a young man, he famously could never concentrate on his studies, and later on he was noted for getting up to all kinds of scandals, mostly involving sex, drinking, or gambling. These included two cases where he had to testify in court (basically unheard-of before then): once in the ''divorce'' trial of an MP he had cuckolded (which was scandalous on multiple levels), and a second time in a bizarre case involving some friends of his cheating at cards. That being said, the prince eventually grew out of it (well, some of it; he drank and smoked and gambled[[note]]His last words related to horse racing, albeit about how a horse he owned had won rather than anything about one he was betting on[[/note]] and kept a mistress till the day he died, but his partying did mellow as time went on) and ended up a pretty good king.
** Edward's great-uncle, George IV, was also known for terribleness; the son of the relentlessly temperate and pious (though eventually insane) George III, George IV reveled in engaging in every kind of debauchery and excess known to man in his era. By the time he was monarch, his revelry had taken such a toll on him that he could no longer do any of it, and therefore spent most of his reign trying to deprive his hated wife of her privileges without actually divorcing her. It's worth noting that he spent £240,000 on his coronation while his younger brother and successor King William IV spent only £30,000. He also died without any legitimate offspring, though is speculated to have had bastards.
* In modern times, [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry of Wales]] showed occasional tendencies towards this trope in his teens; but unlike most other examples in this section he showed promising signs of [[CharacterDevelopment growing out of it]] when he [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething joined the army and served in the combat front line]]. It could possibly be due to [[FreudianExcuse his mother's untimely passing]], although he may have had those trouble-seeking traits as a child, if that one bit of news footage showing him making faces at the camera through the car window is any indication. More recent events, however, suggest he still has a tendency towards brattishness and making trouble because of his estrangedness from his family. Time will tell.
* King Frederick William I, stern father of UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat, saw Frederick as one of these and put the prince through a brutal regime of discipline to knock it out of him. However, [[AvertedTrope it seems from the record that Frederick was not actually that terrible]] -- certainly no more rambunctious than any other person his age, although ''possibly'' with homosexual tendencies that, while not bratty, might have been seen as such in that era -- and that Frederick William was just seeing things that weren't there.
* A noted trend in UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire is that the worst Emperors before the Crisis of the Third Century were consistently those that came to the throne at a very young age. Between UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}, Commodus, Caracalla, Geta, and Elagabalus, the oldest of those at the time of his accession was TheCaligula himself at the age of 24. The historian Creator/MikeDuncan postulates that being given absolute power at such a young age before they learned to responsibly wield it led to the trend of young emperors neglecting their responsibilities in favor of hedonism and indulging their cruel streaks.
* It's been noted that the children of ruthless dictators are often even more twisted and psychotic than their parents. Many in Iraq didn't feel the old regime had ended until they saw proof that Saddam's AxCrazy sons, Uday and Kusay, were both dead. And while opinion in Serbia was split regarding UsefulNotes/SlobodanMilosevic, that of his freeloading, playboy son Marko was not.
** Uday Hussien was particularly unpopular due to [[DroitDuSeigneur his habit of raping brides on their wedding night]]. He got his assassination decoy to take a dangerous job by [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil threatening to rape the man's sisters]]. This would have traumatized them while they were still dealing with their brother's disappearance and presumed death in battle. A fuller account was published by Magazine/TimeMagazine and can be found [[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,454453,00.html here]].
* Yair Netanyahu - son of Israeli PM UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu - was recorded by one of his state-funded bodyguards lambasting a friend of his, who was the son of a prominent gas executive, for not buying him a lapdance at one of Tel Aviv's notorious strip clubs. Why was he upset? Because his dad had brokered some lucrative deals for his friend's father. Oh, and he then proceeded to offer up the sexual favors of his then-girlfriend for money. The recording was leaked to the media. The younger Netanyahu has not done anything to improve his reputation since, consistently making provocative and insulting comments about anyone investigating his father for corruption. His brother Avner is [[AvertedTrope an aversion]], keeping a low profile and mostly known for [[JewishAndNerdy winning the International Bible Competition]] and doing his [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles military service]] in the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps.
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* In modern times, [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince Harry of Wales]] showed occasional tendencies towards this trope in his teens; but unlike most other examples in this section he [[CharacterDevelopment grew out of it]] and [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething joined the army]]. It could possibly be due to [[FreudianExcuse his mother's untimely passing]], although he may have had those trouble-seeking traits as a child, if that one bit of news footage showing him making faces at the camera through the car window is any indication.

-->-- '''Rarity''' (to [[PrinceCharmless Prince Blueblood]]), ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

* Wolfram "Little Lord Brat" von Bielefeld from ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh''. He's in his ''eighties'', (although he ''is'' also 14 years old mentally) so his skills and maturity are really very low. He also does not like to share his fiancé with others despite said fiancé being their new king. (Though with people throwing themselves at his betrothed it's a little hard to blame him sometimes.) He ''does'' grow up however largely thanks to Yuuri.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Empress Petralka in ''Literature/OutbreakCompany''. She initially appears to be a royal brat, but it quickly becomes obvious that she works hard to try to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure but is struggling under the stress of having been crowned empress at such a young age (with a little bit of FantasticRacism that she ends up getting over as the story progresses and some annoyance at Shinichi's more obnoxious antics thrown in).

* Princess Malty Melromarc/Myne Sophia from ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' is this [[TheSociopath to the extreme]]. Not only does she consider everybody else beneath her because of her royalty status, but she also goes so far as to attempt to [[CainAndAbel murder her younger sister Melty]] all to inch closer to the Melromarc throne. She ultimately takes the trope [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype to its logical conclusion]] in that EVERYBODY, even her previously doting father Aultcray, wants her dead, [[spoiler:and her downright horrendous personality is what ultimately does her in]]. [[spoiler:Being a fragment of [[JerkassGod Medea]] probably had something to do with that]].

* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Everywhere, practically a PlanetOfHats with their hat being SpoiledBrat, and most characters are nobles attending academies. Many exceptions fall under SpoiledSweet. The author is clearly a big fan of the BreakTheHaughty trope, which this helps set up.
** In Holfort, Leon's sisters as well as several unnamed girls, are RichBitch GirlPosse types, only seeing men as wallets, expecting to be escorted by [[SexSlave full time gigolos]] and have the boys do all the work, only marrying for GoldDigger reasons, and expecting her future HenPeckedHusband to pay for a distant palace where she'll live with her lovers. While [[PrinceCharmless the five princes]] are each a ShelteredAristocrat who has major problems with ItsAllAboutMe and being RichInDollarsPoorInSense. King Roland likely started as one of these and never grew out of it. The ''Marie Route'' AlternateTimeline introduces more male brats from the rich, such as Earl Offrey's son and the Beudon Brothers.
** Alzer nobles fall under this combined with a heavy dose of SmugSuper (especially Pierre, but even the more sympathetic nobles), with Loic having an EntitledToHaveYou attitude with regard to Noelle added in.
* Princess Shoukei from ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms''. [[FallenPrincess Until her family is killed]] [[BreakTheHaughty and she's dragged into the dirt.]]

* Wolfram "Little Lord Brat" von Bielefeld from ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh''. He's in his ''eighties'', (although he ''is'' also 14 years old mentally) so his skills and maturity are really very low. He also does not like to share his fiancé with others despite said fiancé being their new king. (Though with people throwing themselves at his betrothed it's a little hard to blame him sometimes.) He ''does'' grow up however largely thanks to Yuuri.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by Empress Petralka in ''Anime/OutbreakCompany''. She initially appears to be a royal brat, but it quickly becomes obvious that she works hard to try to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure but is struggling under the stress of having been crowned empress at such a young age (with a little bit of FantasticRacism that she ends up getting over as the story progresses and some annoyance at Shinichi's more obnoxious antics thrown in).

* Princess Malty Melromarc/Myne Sophia from ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' is this [[TheSociopath to the extreme]]. Not only does she consider everybody else beneath her because of her royalty status, but she also goes so far as to attempt to [[CainAndAbel murder her younger sister Melty]] all to inch closer to the Melromarc throne. She ultimately takes the trope [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype to its logical conclusion]] in that EVERYBODY, even her previously doting father Aultcray, wants her dead, [[spoiler:and her downright horrendous personality is what ultimately does her in]]. [[spoiler:Being a fragment of [[JerkassGod Medea]] probably had something to do with that]].

* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Everywhere, practically a PlanetOfHats with their hat being SpoiledBrat, and most characters are nobles attending academies. Many exceptions fall under SpoiledSweet. The author is clearly a big fan of the BreakTheHaughty trope, which this helps set up.

* Kuzco, the JerkAss protagonist and titular Emperor of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', starts off as an entitled brat who sees no problem with making life a living hell for his subjects and servants. Much needed CharacterDevelopment happens after his [[EvilChancellor even worse advisor]] attempts to kill him but inadvertently [[BalefulPolymorph turns him into]] [[FallenPrincess a llama]] instead.

* In ''Go To I Know Not Where, Bring Back I Know Not What'', the king gives the title command to get rid of a husband.

** In Holfort, Leon's sisters as well as several unnamed girls, are RichBitch GirlPosse types, only seeing men as wallets, expecting to be escorted by [[SexSlave full time gigolos]] and have the boys do all the work, only marrying for GoldDigger reasons, and expecting her future HenPeckedHusband to pay for a distant palace where she'll live with her lovers. While [[PrinceCharmless the five princes]] are each a ShelteredAristocrat who has major problems with ItsAllAboutMe and LoveMakesYouDumb. King Roland likely started as one of these and never grew out of it. The ''Marie Route'' AlternateTimeline introduces more male brats from the rich, such as Earl Offrey's son and the Beudon Brothers.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7135641/11/Let-s-bungle-in-the-jungle Let's Bungle In The Jungle]]'', the canonical character of Prince Samuel, (Crown Prince of a state in Howondaland which appears to be an UpToEleven {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/{{Nigeria}}), is given more depth. He turns out to be a true Royal Brat: given too much power by his elderly father, he is capricious, cruel to the point of psychosis, greedy, egotistical, and vicious. Although here his egotism and greed prove to be his downfall.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[TheCaligula The King]] can [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem do as he likes!]]"'']]

* [[SissyVillain Prince John]] from {{WesternAnimation/RobinHood}} is an extremely [[ItsAllAboutMe self-entitled]], [[{{manchild}} childish]] PsychopathicManchild. Unfortunately, he's also in charge of the kingdom for most of it.

* King Xavier of ''WesternAnimation/CraigfOfTheCreek'' who ruled the Other Side of Creek was a tyrant who dictated everything on The Other Side, banning things he didn't like or wasn't good at, ranking everyone by how close they were to him and handing out benefits based on that, blackamiling or tattling on people who dared to oppose him, insisting on always being the center of attention and getting mad when he wasn't and generally being a spoiled brat. [[spoiler: All of this contributed to his downfall in the end.]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders''. Although Prince Pyrus is introduced proclaiming "[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem I'm the prince, and I can do whatever I want!]]" and acting like a BrattyHalfPint, he's actually a responsible and legitimately competent, albeit reckless leader whose attitude comes from his refusal to allow his planet's pointless and xenophobic traditions to limit him, and he is one of the key players in forming the Alliance because of his open-mindedness.