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* King Elhokar from ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' deconstructs this. He's an incompetent, dangerously insecure {{Manchild}} who generally serves as TheLoad to the protagonists and an easily manipulated pawn for people like [[ManipulativeBastard Sadeas]]. However, it's shown he's aware that he's UnfitForGreatness and that he's an InadequateInheritor to his father, who was renowned for being TheGoodKing. Elhokar legitimately tries his best, but he's filtered by bad intel, scheming and manipulative advisors, and just plain bad luck. He eventually does start shaping up and becoming a legitimately good leader in his own right, [[spoiler:but he's assassinated before he can complete this by Moash.]]

* 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]].

* Colin Craven from ''Literature/TheSecretGarden''. He's referred to a few times as "the Rajah" because of the way he orders the servants around. Mostly he's just spoiled and cranky because he thinks he's going to die and [[DisappearedDad his father doesn't pay any attention to him]]. He finally snaps out of it when he meets his cousin, Mary Lennox -- not so much because of ThePowerOfFriendship, but more because she's the first person he's ever met who dares to stand up to him, being just as spoiled herself. Her parents neglected her, and the servants' only concern was to keep her quiet and out of the way. The two bond and help each other to grow into better people.

** 13-year-old Joffrey Baratheon, the [[AristocratsAreEvil Worst of His Name]], King of the [[DisproportionateRetribution Vandals]] and the [[GeneralRipper Rippers]] and the [[PsychoForHire Worst Men]], the reason this trope was ''almost'' called "The Joffrey", and the one whose portrait now adorns this page. He starts out as "merely" a spoiled and arrogant brat, but later reveals himself to be a thorough psychopath through and through. He was like this since childhood. He once was told that a pregnant cat had kittens inside her, so he killed the cat and proudly presented the kitten fetuses to his father. His father Robert Baratheon beat the shit out of him for it, but his mother didn't really give a fuck, implying that his behavior was encouraged by her (in the [[Series/GameOfThrones show]], Cersei gets CharacterDevelopment by admitting to Tyrion that she has always tried to control her son but is unsuccessful and has basically just given up even trying). Joffrey also [[spoiler: tried to have comatose-Bran killed when he overheard his father drunkenly saying Bran would be better off dead, as an attempt to impress his father]]. He reaches new levels of depravity once he becomes king and orders the execution of [[BigGood Eddard Stark]] in front of his daughter, Sansa, who’s also Joffrey’s fiancée. Joffrey even forces Sansa to look at her father’s head mounted on a spike. Sansa calls him out on his promise that he’d be merciful for her father, but Joffrey coldly states that [[ExactWords he never promised that he spare Eddard and firmly believed it was merciful since he originally planned to torture Eddard to death, but Sansa pleaded for mercy, so he gave him a quick death]]. He just gets worser with his treatment of Sansa. Thankfully, his siblings Tommen and Myrcella are much nicer.
** Flashbacks to Cersei as a child show that she was one herself when around his age. Which probably explains why she saw absolutely no problem with the show-and-tell project her son produced, later. [[spoiler: It's implied that, even before the tender age of 13, she'd thrown her friend down a well to die (or had at least watched her die), had already enjoyed watching servants get whipped in punishment for various transgressions (some of which may have been imagined) and had enjoyed physically bullying Tyrion at every chance she got and all this while already practising her charming way with words. She may well have instigated the sexual experiments with Jaime in a manner which may even have had a little coercion involved, at first.]] What a pleasant little girl who grew up to be... well... a [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]] and [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen and Queen Regent]] spawning a little hellion like Joffrey.
** Lord Robert Arryn is a marginal example. He is an extremely young, sickly (he's implied to be epileptic) and [[MyBelovedSmother sheltered]] boy with a particular interest in watching people "fly" by being thrown off a cliff. However, he doesn't really understand the consequences of his actions, being 6 years old, and doesn't seem to be knowingly malicious.

** Historically, the Princess Aerea Targaryen [[spoiler:or, quite possibly, her twin sister Rhaella]] turned into one of these after her mother Queen Rhaena took Dragonstone as her seat—and in doing so, took Aerea back with her, away from the court and city that she'd called home, and whose people had made her the center of attention. After that, Aerea became a terror—going so far as to empty a chamber pot on her father's head simply because she was angry at her mother—culminating in the fateful day when she mounted a dragon and disappeared for the better part of two years. [[spoiler:The day she returns is the day she dies one of the most horrific deaths in Westerosi history.]]
** A generation later, there came the Princess Saera Targaryen, described by her own mother as Aerea writ small, and others as ''worse''. Being the ninth-born child of the royal family, she was even more starving for attention than Aerea, and she becomes the terror of the Red Keep for just about all her days as a princess. Her own septas call her evil after all the mean pranks she delights in playing (including one where she convinces the poor court fool to climb the Iron Throne, only to be mutilated by its many blades). It all comes to a screeching halt when one of Saera's pranks ends up leaving one of her friends pregnant, Saera herself shipped off to serve as a silent sister—though this wouldn't last for long—and her royal father to disown her.

* Princess Violet in ''[[Literature/SwordOfTruth Wizard's First Rule]]'' is this taken to the extreme. As she enters the story, she's just starting to have people executed, and later on partakes in torturing the protagonist and threatening to have his love interest raped to death. Then he kicks her in the face. [[spoiler: A few books later, she is taught to cast curses through magical drawings. Cut to a LittleMissBadass coming to visit; ''Well... Who's that on the drawing? Oh, that's right, it's me. (draws a few lines) Well, Violet, now it's you. Cut to SoundOnlyDeath.'']]

* Augusta [=Hozenberg-Lemonov-Bouragne=] in ''Literature/TheHaremProtagonistWasTurnedIntoAGirlAndDoesntWantToChangeBack'' is an heiress to various European royal lines with a huge estate and is the most abrasive of protagonist Svetlana's love interests. She was only interested in Svetlana as she wanted to have a baby with her, pre-Svetlana's [[TransRelationshipTroubles transition]] when Svetlana was still going by "Kevin", and is the most outright resistant and transphobic member of the group - partially due to a baby now being off the cards [[spoiler:until she finds out alien technology can bypass this issue]] and partially due to her [[HeteronormativeCrusader religious upbringing]]. She also starts arguments with the other girls the easiest.

** 13-year-old Joffrey Baratheon, the [[AristocratsAreEvil Worst of His Name]], King of the [[DisproportionateRetribution Vandals]] and the [[GeneralRipper Rippers]] and the [[PsychoForHire Worst Men]], the reason this trope was ''almost'' called "The Joffrey", and the one whose portrait now adorns this page. He starts out as "merely" a spoiled and arrogant brat, but later reveals himself to be a thorough psychopath through and through. He was like this since childhood. He once was told that a pregnant cat had kittens inside her, so he killed the cat and proudly presented the kitten fetuses to his father. His father Robert Baratheon beat the shit out of him for it, but his mother didn't really give a fuck, implying that his behavior was encouraged by her (in the [[Series/GameOfThrones show]], Cersei gets CharacterDevelopment by admitting to Tyrion that she has always tried to control her son but is unsuccessful and has basically just given up even trying). Joffrey also [[spoiler: tried to have comatose-Bran killed when he overheard his father drunkenly saying Bran would be better off dead, as an attempt to impress his father]]. He reaches new levels of depravity once he becomes king and orders the execution of Eddard Stark in front of his daughter, Sansa, who’s also Joffrey’s fiancée. Joffrey even forces Sansa to look at her father’s head mounted on a spike. He just gets worser with his treatment of Sansa. Thankfully, his siblings Tommen and Myrcella are much nicer.

** 13-year-old Joffrey Baratheon, the [[AristocratsAreEvil Worst of His Name]], King of the [[DisproportionateRetribution Vandals]] and the [[GeneralRipper Rippers]] and the [[PsychoForHire Worst Men]], the reason this trope was ''almost'' called "The Joffrey", and the one whose portrait now adorns this page. He starts out as "merely" a spoiled and arrogant brat, but later reveals himself to be a thorough psychopath through and through. He was like this since childhood. He once was told that a pregnant cat had kittens inside her, so he killed the cat and proudly presented the kitten fetuses to his father. His father Robert Baratheon beat the shit out of him for it, but his mother didn't really give a fuck, implying that his behavior was encouraged by her (in the [[Series/GameOfThrones show]], Cersei gets CharacterDevelopment by admitting to Tyrion that she has always tried to control her son but is unsuccessful and has basically just given up even trying). Joffrey also [[spoiler: tried to have Bran killed in his sleep when he overheard his father drunkenly saying Bran would be better off dead, as an attempt to impress his father]]. Thankfully, his siblings Tommen and Myrcella are much nicer.

** George, Duke of Clarence, covets his brother's crown and he's demanding and preening, despite not being as good a solider as either of his brother.
** Edward V is a spoiled and arrogant bully. This makes it easier for his Uncle Richard to take the crown and it actually saves Edward V's younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury because [[spoiler: Edward V takes his little brother's fine clothes and give them to a servant. It's that boy who is [[TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower murdered by assassins sent by Buckingham]], along with Edward V.]]

** Edward V is a spoiled and arrogant bully. This makes it easier for his Uncle Richard to take the crown and it actually saves Edward V's younger brother Richard of Shrewbury because [[spoiler: the younger Richard is so fed up with his brother he sends a servant boy to live with Edward in his place. It's that boy who is murdered by assassins sent by Buckingham, along with Edward V.]]

** Edward V is this, much to Richard of Gloucester's dismay. The arrogant boy has been raised by his Woodville relatives and away from his far more politically astute father and uncle. Richard fears for the kingdom if he can't control the boy king, enough to that when Richard is presented with genuine evidence that the boy is illegitimate...[[UsefulNotes/RichardIII well...what would you do?]]

* ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'': Crown Princess Alassa of Zangaria begins as one, being an AlphaBitch who bullies Emily, but they grow into friends, with her [[JerkToNiceGuyPlot becoming nice over time]].

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Wilfried is the oldest son of a nobleman who's giving primogeniture a try in a setting where potentials heirs usually compete for the succession before one is chosen. As a result, the attendants intended to educate Wilfried have limited motivation to force him to attend the classes he doesn't like. On top of this, he gets spoiled by his grandmother. This has made him into an entitled boy who gets extremely upset when he doesn't get what he wants and hates everyone who isn't a YesMan towards him. His eventual HumblePie moment is the direct result of him getting jealous of his slightly younger adoptive sister having nice things that she put work into getting.

** [[TheSociopath Venandakatra the Vile]] takes it UpToEleven. The way he's described suggests that he ''would'' be thin if he didn't eat so much, he travels around in [[ConspicuousConsumption a pavilion so obscene that it might as well be a palace]], he inflicts the CruelAndUnusualDeath of [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement on a short stake]] on anyone ([[BadBoss servant]] or foe) who makes him angry, and he keeps a harem of young girls who apparently tend to die in captivity on account of him being a {{Sadist}}. He also reacts with extreme anger when he's not in control; his response to rebellions in the Deccan is to have his soldiers RapePillageAndBurn indiscriminately, and when unable to punish [[TokenGoodTeammate Damodara]] over a disagreement, he simply blows up in his face.

** Ser Duncan the Tall and his suspiciously violet-eyed squire got kind of invited to one of those trademarked horrible Westerosi weddings, once. Well... for the tourney attached to it, at least. At the Twins. Where they got to meet a spectacularly obnoxious little Walder Frey after he'd just ruined his sister's life by being a sneak. Yes, it's [[{{Troll}} that one]], all right. Back when he still had hair and baby teeth. Duncan starts thinking fondly of throwing the brat down a well, for some reason.

** Lord Robert Arryn is a marginal example. He is an extremely young, [[IllBoy sickly]] (he's implied to be epileptic) and [[MyBelovedSmother sheltered]] boy with a particular interest in watching people "fly" by being thrown off a cliff. However, he doesn't really understand the consequences of his actions, being 6 years old, and doesn't seem to be knowingly malicious.

* Colin Craven from ''Literature/TheSecretGarden''. He's referred to a few times as "the Rajah" because of the way he orders the servants around. Mostly he's just spoiled and cranky because [[IllBoy he thinks he's going to die]] and [[DisappearedDad his father doesn't pay any attention to him]]. He finally snaps out of it when he meets his cousin, Mary Lennox -- not so much because of ThePowerOfFriendship, but more because she's the first person he's ever met who dares to stand up to him, being just as spoiled herself. Her parents neglected her, and the servants' only concern was to keep her quiet and out of the way. The two bond and help each other to grow into better people.