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->'''Jasmine''': I've never done a thing on my own. I've never had any real friends... \\
'''Rajah:''' *makes a surprised and offended growl*\\
'''Jasmine:''' Except you, Rajah! ...I've never even been outside the palace walls.\\
'''Sultan''': But, Jasmine, you're a ''princess''.\\
'''Jasmine''': ...Then maybe I don't want to ''be'' a princess any more!\\
--'''Disney's {{Disney/Aladdin}}'''

To the Rebellious Princess, being [[RoyalBlood part of the royal family]] is overrated: You have no control over the path of your life, your responsibilities are numerous and burdensome (or not [[IJustWantToBeNormal burdensome enough]]), you're generally under everyone's thumb, or you're destined to live unhappily in an ArrangedMarriage. The only options are [[ErmineCapeEffect to throw off]] [[PimpedOutDress your frilly dress]] and to run off with the first hero who passes through (in old fashioned stories), or set off for ActionGirl adventures on her own [[KingIncognito on the sly]] (in the modern ones), making her a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething royal who actually does something]] while she's at it.

The Rebellious Princess is usually a teenager, typically brash (since it goes hand in hand with being rebellious), and often blonde. Quite often, she's the hero's love interest. Sometimes the Rebellious Princess is the StaffChick, but not always: in videogames she can also be the StraightArrow, the BlackMagicianGirl or the LadyOfWar.

Somewhat more common in the earlier days of the RPG genre than they are now; their population has dwindled with the reduced number of games involving monarchies.

Compare ModestRoyalty. Contrast PrincessClassic.

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* Lucia Nanami of ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' is the heroine, but doesn't understand nor appreciate her position -- so she just tries to do what she wants.
* Princess Euphemia li Britannia in ''CodeGeass'' renounces her throne succession rights and goes against her father the Emperor's policy (though not far enough to start a full-scale rebellion). She is also the love interest of one of the main characters, Suzaku Kururugi; this is "bad and rebellious" since in the eyes of the huge majority of the Brittanian ruling class Suzaku is a "[[EvilForeigner damn dirty foreigner]]."
** In R2, the rebellious princess mantle [[spoiler: that Euphemia dropped when she died]] is taken up by [[spoiler: her older sister [[LadyOfWar Cornelia]], who goes rogue to clear Euphie's name after the Euphinator incident.]] She later drops said mantle, but attempts to pick it up again at some point [[spoiler: when Schneizel shows his true colors, and almost [[DroppedABridgeOnHim gets a bridge dropped on her]] courtesy from him. She dodges it, but barely]]. After the final TimeSkip of the series, she is also the last Britannian Royal who still fights against [[spoiler:Emperor Lelouch, after Schneizel is geassed into submission, Nunnally is imprisoned, and the rest are killed off in one way or another]].
** In at least two AlternateContinuity manga series, she somewhat subverts this [[spoiler: by successfully becoming Governor of Area 11, and is seen to work hard at her station, with nothing mentioned about renouncing her succession rights. So much that, in ''Knightmare of Nunnally'', she actually ''becomes the 100th Empress of Britannia''.]]
** And of course, Lelouch vi Britannia, the man behind the titular rebellion.
* ''{{Gundam}}'' seems to have a fair number of these:
** Cagalli Yula Athha in ''GundamSEED'' is de facto the princess of the neutral state of Orb but runs off to wage guerrilla warfare against ZAFT in Africa. She is much less [[{{Tsundere}} volatile]] in the sequel, ''GundamSEEDDestiny''.
** In ''GGundam'', we have the tomboyish and willful Maria Louise from Neo France doing lots of un-princess-like things to get the attention of her "Knight in League" and local Gundam Fighter, George do Sand. After she actually grows up and learns her lesson, Maria doesn't lose her spirit and does what she can to aid George and the Shuffle Alliance.
** Relena Peacecraft/Darlian in ''GundamWing''. Even after [[spoiler:being made Queen of the World Sphere Alliance]], she refuses to go along with [[spoiler:Romefeller]]'s plans, makes her own policy indeed, and when she can't fully institute it she prefers to leave matters to [[spoiler: Treize]] rather than being a puppet and bowing to the noblemen. [[spoiler: Her full and public rejection of the Princess mantle during ''Endless Waltz'' which is ''televised worldwide'' is her most famous CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]
** If we count the Deikun clan from MobileSuitGundam as royalty, then Zeon Daikun's daughter and [[TheAce Char Aznable's / Casval Deikun]] sister Sayla Mass/Artesia Deikun fits the trope quite well.
** ''[[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]'' with Princess Marina Ismail from {{Gundam 00}}. No matter what she tries to do, she's just a figurehead and ''never'' really accomplishes much despite her struggles. [[spoiler: Until the second season finale, where she starts rebuilding Azhadistan after the war is over]].
* Princess Fala/Allura in ''GoLion'' (and presumably ''Lion {{Voltron}}''). She doesn't actually run away, but has to go against her advisors (who even tied her up at the start to keep her from piloting the blue lion). Later, she gets her wish to join the team as their Chick.
** She takes it a step further in a late episode, ultimately refusing a demand from fellow planetary sovereigns that she take full command of GoLion/Voltron. She is at last confident enough to lead a planet and an alliance of planets, but still be just a team member when it comes to the Super Robot, albeit designated as Black Lion's alternate pilot. Of course, her possible romantic feelings for Akira/Keith may play a role in that as well.
* Farnese from {{Berserk}} is a deconstruction (although she's technically not a princess). She becomes rebellious and pyromaniacal because her parents never paid any attention to her (when her father instructed her to burn an old toy of hers, her half-brother Serpico remarks that it was the first time her father spoke to her in a year). This earns her the social isolation it would realistically earn her, and she eventually burns the mansion her family lived in down out of frustration. She then gets shipped off to a convent and becomes the leader of the ChurchMilitant because that's all the various nobles and churchmen believe her to be good for.
* Princess Ana Medaiyu of ''OvermanKingGainer'' becomes a willing hostage to have some fun, and play along with going on Exodus with the Yapan. Later she tries to returns, but decides to stay once her father publically disowns her to protect her from London IMA in case the Duke's line is discontinued, for allowing such a large Exodus to take place.
* Being the top-ranked priestess and direct conduit to the Purato god, [=JuJu=] of ''MahoujinGuruGuru'' is as close to a princess as you can get without actual royalty. She opts to run away and seek out the heroes after a RunningGag involving a ClingyMacGuffin makes things too ridiculous to tolerate at home.
* Flora Skybloom from ''{{Basquash}}!'', after feeling the pure hotbloodedness of Dan and the rest of his team from their Bigfoot basketball matches, escapes from her castle, hides her identity and makes her way into his inner circle.
* ''MacrossFrontier'''s Alto Saotome, while not technically royalty counts. The heir to a well known family of Kabuki actors, he instead went and pursued his dream becoming a pilot. It also helps that he really does [[{{DudeLooksLikeALady}} look like a japanese princess]] whenever we're shown a flashback of his kabuki days (there's a reason he's known as ''[[FanNickname Sakura-hime]]'').
* Variation: Candace aka Candy from CandyCandy plays the role quite well, but she's a member of the ''extremely'' rich and high-class Andree family only after being adopted by the leader, and against the will of several other members.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Destrii - the Primatrix Destriianatos - from ''DoctorWhoMagazine''. A decidedly different take on the trope, in that Destrii's a DarkActionGirl rebelling against her EvilMatriarch mother, and while her people see her as their heroine, she only wants to escape her {{dystopia}}n homeworld. When she finally does, she has repeated run-ins with the Eighth Doctor, which eventually see her homeworld's nobility overthrown, her mother dead, and Destrii herself slowly starting a HeelFaceTurn under the Doctor's tutelage.
* Princess Azura, daughter of Ming The Merciless in FlashGordon was rebelling all the way back in the 1930s. She was just as determined to marry Flash as Ming was to kill him. The fact that Dale Arden was Flash's love interest simply complicated things more.
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[[folder:Film]]
* Outside of the interactive electronic oeuvre, practically every female protagonist in the DisneyAnimatedCanon since [[strike: ''TheLittleMermaid'']] ''TheBlackCauldron'' has been of this type (Ariel, Jasmine, Pocahontas, etc. etc. etc.), possibly as a response to feminists complaining about how "Disney Princesses" ''had'' been treated previously (almost exclusively) as [[DistressedDamsel Distressed Damsels]]. Belle from ''Beauty and the Beast'' is a notable departure from both character types (she's rebellious, but she's a rebellious intellectual of no bloodline worth mentioning), as are Lilo and her older sister Nani from ''Lilo and Stitch''.
** ''KingdomHearts'' adds emphasis to Belle (who elbowed [[ThatOneBoss Xaldin]], took the rose from him and laughed as she ran) & Ariel (the ''Chemist'' of KingdomHearts). Everyone else got the short end of the stick though.
* According to the adverts, Princess Kyla of the flop movie ''Delgo''.
* [[AudreyHepburn Princess Ann]] in ''Roman Holiday'', who runs away for a day in the city of Rome due to the pressure put upon her.
* Princess Vespa from ''{{Spaceballs}}''
* Subversion: [[StarWars Princess Leia]] may be a rebel, but so is her father Bail.
** But she [[spoiler: (and her twin brother)]] are still rebelling against [[spoiler: their biological father]].
* Jodhaa in ''JodhaaAkbar'' definitely fits the bill. She's a beautiful Rajput princess who's not only an ActionGirl who can hold her own in a sword fight against the Mughal emperor of Hindustan, but she also refuses to marry him (and after she marries him, show him outward affection) until he shows her and the rest of India religious tolerance.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Princess Eilonwy from ''[[PrydainChronicles The Prydain Chronicles]]'', whose outspokenness and rebelliousness at times border on childish brattishness.
** And since Disney created TheFilmOfTheBook with ''The Black Cauldron'', Eilonwy is also part of the previously listed Disney line-up. Given the above plus the fact that she predates Ariel, the Rebellious Disney Princess trope is OlderThanTheyThink.
** As we see in ''The High King,'' she apparently thinks that adventures and swordplay are just what princesses do. The ladies of the Court of Mona who were trying to teach her how to act like, well, a princess... ''they'' were the weird ones.
* Ista from LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Paladin of Souls'' would fit this almost perfectly were it not for the detail of being a forty year old widow and ''mother'' of the [[AChildShallLeadThem young queen]]. She started out guilting her [[strike: keepers]] attendants into permitting her an incognito [[strike: vacation]] pilgrimage, and by the end....
-->'''dy Hueltar''': (having caught up with Ista after the breaking of a sorcerous siege) "Now that you are ''calmer'', Lady Ista, surely it is time we began to think of going safely to Valenda...."
-->'''Ista''': "I'm not going back to Valenda. I'm going to follow the army into Jokona to hunt demons for the Bastard. ''Safety'' [[CosmicPlaything has little to do with the god's chores.]]"
** Her other series, the ''VorkosiganSaga'', has [[TheEmperor Emperor]] Gregor, who's almost a male version of this in ''The Vor Game'', partly because he's suicidal and afraid of going insane and being a horrible ruler. He gets over it.
* Ce'Nedra from David and Leigh Eddings' ''{{Belgariad}}'' series certainly has the attitude and the love interest bit down, but she actually loves being a princess- one of her major problems with marrying Garion was the fact that, as Overlord of the West, he outranked her.
* Princess Andromeda (Andie) in the second book of MercedesLackey's ''Five Hundred Kingdoms'' novels. Subverted slightly in that Andie is led to rebellion by her intelligence and virtue, as the Queen and her Chief Advisor have nothing but bad intentions.
** This is a world where tropes have a force stronger than ''law itself''. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen]] and [[EvilChancellor her advisor]] ''couldn't have'' been good, and the book [[LampshadeHanging says so]].
* Princess Cimorene from the ''EnchantedForestChronicles'' - early in the first book, she intentionally gets herself "kidnapped" by a dragon in order to escape her current life and an arranged marriage.
* Princess Meg from ''The Runaway Princess'', a typical "hates doing princessy things like embroidery" princess, starts off the book by questioning the stereotypical princess story her mother reads to her before bed, and later defies her father and attempts to interfere with the contest he set up to marry her off and help stimulate the kingdom's economy. She ends up winning the contest herself, accidentally.
* Princess Amy from ''The Ordinary Princess'' bolts from her home after her parents and their councillors come up with a plot to hire a dragon and imprison her in a tower in order to force some prince into marrying her. Amy's deception of being an ordinary person is helped by the fact that, as a baby, a fairy actually blessed her to be ordinary -- she doesn't look or act like a stereotypical princess at all!
* Annice of ''Sing the Four Quarters'' by TanyaHuff. Her even ''being'' a bard [[spoiler: - not to mention pregnant, despite this being an act of treason due to a proclamation her brother, the king, wrote -]] is the direct cause of her having been legally stripped of royal status [[spoiler: mostly because her brother had a snit fit when she refused the ArrangedMarriage he'd set up in favour of attending the Bardic College, in spite of his IdiotBall slash FridgeLogic moment of even trying to set up the ArrangedMarriage in the first place - the prince he was setting her up to marry came from a queendom that was ''rabidly'' phobic of bards...to the point of having had a mob kill one of the ones Shkoder (Annice's country) had sent as diplomats. The FridgeLogic inherent in his attempt is pointed out near the end of the book, when the Bardic leader pretty much hits the king over the head with the fact that the bard-hating queendom wouldn't even have considered Annice as an eligible candidate once word of her ability to Sing the kigh got out.]] She and her brother don't talk much, even ''after'' he fixes his mistake and apologizes. And if you think being legally outcast disqualifies her? There's the fact that even though Annice isn't legally part of the royal family any more, ''the whole kingdom'' still refers to her as the Princess-Bard and the people who know about her royal heritage (she tries to hide it, being rather miffed with her brother over the whole thing) still treat her as royalty.
* Anne Dare of Greg Keyes' ''The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone'' tetralogy -- though she is thwarted in her rebelliousness first by family members who are actually smart enough to predict her defiance and catch her at it, then by some (well-deserved) guilt-tripping from her friend and maidservant, and finally by, well, reality, in the form of a legion of disasters, tragedies and prophecied battles.
* Aravis of ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: The Horse and his Boy'' -- princess of the Calormene province of Calavar who prefers hunting and riding and scimitar-fighting to what princesses like [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl her best friend]] [[TheOjou Lasaraleen]] are expected to do. Even leaves her home rather than being forced to marry the SmugSnake of the Tisroc's Prime Minister. [[spoiler: Ends up marrying Shasta aka Prince Cor and becoming the Queen of Archenland]].
* Arya Stark from George R.R. Martin's ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' is a {{deconstruction}} of this. In order to survive in [[CrapsackWorld Westeros]], she has to become a DarkActionGirl, and eventually progresses to being a cold-blooded HeroicSociopath.
* Nerilka of [[DragonridersOfPern Pern]] isn't a princess, but she's the closest Pernese equivalent. She refuses to sit at home and waste her skills during a devastating plague, quietly leaving to work incognito with the healers instead.
* Both of the "Twice Royal" Balitang girls in the [[TortallUniverse Daughter of the Lioness]] books. Sarai takes the traditional rebellious teenager route, while Dove becomes an actual rebel.
** Pierce uses this for a character in ''The Song of the Lioness'' quartet. Thayet is the princess of a war-torn country who runs from potential assassination or a dreaded ArrangedMarriage after meeting up with [[TheHero Alanna]], [[spoiler:and ends up marrying Alanna's ex-boyfriend/best friend, King Jonathan]].
* Susan Sto Helit of the {{Discworld}} books is a reigning duchess rather than a princess but otherwise fits the bill in that she displays no interest whatsoever in using her title or position and ends up taking a job as a lowly schoolmistress. Though it must be said she has very few of the tradtional personality traits associated with this trope.
* Although Éowyn of ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'' does not carry the title of 'princess', her uncle is the king and her brother Éomer is his heir (after their cousin Théodred died in the war); she also [[spoiler:marries Faramir, Prince of Ithilien, a province of Gondor]]. Her uncle had given her the responsibility of leading the people to the safe Dunharrow in the mountains. When she was later [[DeathSeeker despairing about things]], she secretly rode into battle with the rest of the army [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as a man]], where she killed [[TheDragon the Witch-king]] (with Merry's help).
* Princess Miriamele from the ''[[MemorySorrowAndThorn Memory, Sorrow and Thorn]]'' series [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a boy]] and flees her father's castle to avoid an ArrangedMarriage, and also because she hates what he's doing with the kingdom. True to the trope, she ends up being the LoveInterest for Simon and [[StraightArrow kicks no little ass herself]]. What makes her interesting is that her ultimate motivation is to [[WhereItAllBegan return home]] to [[LoveRedeems redeem her father]], which [[spoiler:fails to stop the EvilPlan but does set her up to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill her father]] when it's the only way to defeat the [[BigBad Storm King]] afterwards]].
* Arya, from the [[InheritanceCycle Inheritance Cycle]]. Sort of.
* Aeriel in TheDreamlandChronicles is a minor aversion. She is an Amazon Princess so her adventuring doesn't really make her a rebel. What makes her a rebel to her people is that she [[StrawFeminist falls in love with a man]] and is willing to do things for him that her tribe considers dishonorable.
* A rare male version is present in Meghan Whalen Turner's ''Thief'' books. [[spoiler: It's Gen, the titular Thief, although the also male Sophos may count as well to a degree.]]
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In {{Forgotten Realms}} setting princess of Cormyr [[http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Alusair_Obarskyr Alusair]] decided that everything may go far and fast but ''she'' will devote to adventures ([[IfYouKnowWhatIMean in different senses]]) all time she can spare. Frequently to the point of prolonged inaccessibility via all but emergency communication means. Some people were displeased, but few dared to confront her and she was only second daughter, not crown princess anyway. [[spoiler:That is, until she was forced to become Steel ''Regent''.]] ''[[TookALevelInBadass Earned]]'' nickname "[[ActionGirl The Steel Princess]]" not just because AuthorityEqualsAsskicking (though access to high-end equipment and elite troops doesn't hurt) but via constant training and enough experience to write "The Steel Princess' Field Guide to Tactics of [[PraetorianGuard the Purple Dragon]]". And when talking with sister about how few less-than-elite commanders read this book...
--> Tanalasta: Perhaps because your style was stiff. I'll be happy to help you liven it up in a revision.\\
Alusair: There isn't going to be a revision -- there's going to be an order.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* Guinevere in the musical ''{{Camelot}}''.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the {{Aveyond}} series, Alicia Pendragon in ''Ahriman's Prophecy'' can count as this.
* Pretty much every character named Nina in the ''BreathOfFire'' series.
**Not in the fourth, where Nina is nowhere as rebellious, and in the fifth, where she wasn't a princess at all.
* Extremely common in ''FinalFantasy'' games:
** In ''FinalFantasyIV'', the player encounters Edward/Gilbert, a rebellious ''prince'' who masquerades as a "SpoonyBard".
** Faris in ''FinalFantasyV'' - having [[SweetPollyOliver disguised herself as a man]] and become the captain of a gang of pirates, distinctly more so than the former. To her defense, she had been adopted by the pirates' captain after a tragic [[GlobalAirship Hiryuu]] accident.
** Rinoa of ''FinalFantasyVIII'' is not quite a princess, but fits the trope nicely -- she's the leader of a terrorist group seeking to overthrow the Galbadian government, of which her father is the Minister of Defense. And her party nickname IS "princess".
** Garnet from ''FinalFantasyIX'' is a borderline member -- she has a much calmer, shyer personality than most, but she's still a Rebellious Princess.
* Marle from ''ChronoTrigger'' also exemplifies this trope, even going so far as to use a pseudonym (her real name is Nadia).
* Princess Seraphine from ''PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords''. The player character is supposed to escort her to the court of the man to whom she's betrothed, but she begs for help in escaping. If the player elects not to force her into her arranged marriage, she joins the party and aids with future battles.
* Princess Alena from the second chapter of ''DragonQuestIV''. In fact, within the realm of video games, she's the ur-example.
** Lady from the Japanese-only game ''Lady Stalker'' is a [[{{Ojou}} rich girl]] instead of a princess, but is otherwise not only a perfect example, but is so much like Alena that she's one of the pieces of evidence used to back up the rumor that the game was originally intended as a ''DragonQuest'' GaidenGame focused on Alena.
* Nalia from ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate 2]]'' follows this trope to the letter, except that she's nobility rather than royalty. She also spouts somewhat condescending quasi-liberal about helping the "less fortunate", but in a world where even the most egalitarian governments tend to be oligarchic and the economy is a sort of capitalism, she's fighting a losing battle. She's also shown as being somewhat of a self-righteous poser. Nalia's character is somewhat vindicated about halfway through the D'Arnise hold quest, where the player character meets her aunt- a woman who is outraged that some of her servants left their posts at the castle ''after trolls attacked and conquered it''. When the player considers that this attitude is in line with what many other noble NPCs believe, suddenly Nalia's hopeful idealism doesn't sound so bad.
* Jelanda in ''ValkyrieProfile'', and Alicia and Celes in ''Valkyrie Profile 2''
* Eclair in ''LaPucelleTactics''.
** Does that really count? She heads off adventuring after receiving her mother's blessing, which was only given when the queen realized Eclair had suffered a complete breakdown due to the enormous pressure and responsibility placed on her. It had progressed to the point that [[spoiler: she created an alternate personality to deal with it]].
* Parodied in ''KingdomOfLoathing'', in which one of the randomly encountered enemies in the "Penultimate Fantasy Airship" zone is the Spunky Princess.
* Princess Peach in her own game, ''SuperPrincessPeach'' and ''{{Super Mario RPG}}''. In pretty much any other game, she's a DistressedDamsel, though.
* ''JadeEmpire'' has [[spoiler:Silk Fox]], who enjoys escaping the pressures of palace life by donning a disguise that looks like a cross between a ninja suit and a harem girl outfit. Mainly, she just wants to take down the EvilChancellor to her father. Interestingly enough, her character model is the only one that changes throughout the entire game: She removes her veil in the Imperial Palace and after the PointOfNoReturn.
* ''SuperRobotWars'' has not one, but three:
** Princess Shine from the Original Generation series, who starts piloting a HumongousMecha to liberate her kingdom and eventually ups and joins the heroes outright...
** Princess Armana Tiqvah from the Alpha series (actually, Alpha 3), who bucks the trend by being a princess of TheEmpire instead.
** One of the protagonist of the mostly forgotten Super Robot Wars 64, Manami Hamill, actually fits this despite not being a Princess, but an {{Ojou}}. She's a daughter of a high ranking family that actually supports the resistance force in attempt to liberate the Earth.
* Princess Tiltyu of Freege in ''FireEmblem 4'' though her dad is a duke instead of a king. Pretty much she's the only noblewoman in the first generation who ran away from home because she disagreed with their methods (Princess Ayra of Isaac did run off from home, but she still adheres her Kingdom's ethics ''and'' it was per her brother thr King's request, since she had to keep Prince Shanan safe).
** In FireEmblem 6, there's Princess Guinevere of Bern who's on the run for opemly questioning [[CainAndAbel her older brother]], [[NietzscheWannabe King Zephiel]] [[spoiler: She's finally crowned as Queen when Zephiel dies at the hands of Roy, but still has lots of nobles hissing at her.]]
** Fire Emblem is somewhat unusual when it comes to this trope in that rebellious ''princes'' outnumber their female counterparts. Probably the most famous of these is Hector of Ostia from the seventh game; he's technically a minor noble, but otherwise hits every note of this trope.
* Angela of ''[[WorldOfMana Seiken Densetsu 3]]''. While her motive might not quite fit the trope, her personality and actions are certainly a match.
** In that game's predecessor, ''Secret of Mana'', Princess Purim runs off with the hero in search of her love interest, Dyluck.
*** Though she's not actually a princess, but she is the daughter of a noble and she did run away from the castle, SoYeah.
* Kumatora from ''{{Mother 3}}'' - how many princesses do you know that can take on an army tank ''and live?''[[spoiler: Though, to be fair, she's not really the princess of anything.]]
* ''[[{{Atelier}} Atelier Annie]]'', along with the still-Japan-only ''Atelier Liese'' features this in [[spoiler: Liese Randel herself. It's a little different in that she actually loves her parents and they love her... however, her father is a financial idiot and has managed to get the entire kingdom into a multimillion-gold debt to a foreign bank, and if the kingdom can't pay it off, the bank will foreclose on the rights to rule the kingdom - by any means necessary. Thus Liese disguises herself and leaves home to make a fortune in a neighboring kingdom, setting ''Atelier Liese'''s action and plot into motion. She fits the other parts of the trope to a T, being a bit brash and overbearing and she did technically dodge an arranged marriage by doing this - an arrangement to the Prince of the kingdom she's now in. [[HilarityEnsues Ooops.]] ]]
** This pops up again [[spoiler: when Liese appears in ''Atelier Annie''; she's evidently given her parents, who she did manage to bail out in the last game, the flip and run off to Sera Island to participate in the development contest, ostensibly for the prize money. That may not be her only motivation for coming, though...]]
* Is it still rebellious if Daddy was the same way? Flare of ''SuikodenIV'' is strong willed and, if not brash, at least unflinchingly true to her core principles. Then again, King Lino en Kuldes spends most of his days in sandals and a sleeveless t-shirt. C'mon. You know you want this royal family.
** Flare runs away from home in Tactics to help Kyril and his crew defeat Iskas and his crowd. Semi-subverted because she sees it as duty to her country and her father ends up catching up with them. Also semi-subverted because she had her hypochondriac doctor guard with her throughout [[spoiler:unless you let him die, then he's dead forever]].
** Princess Lymsleia from SuikodenV qualifies, although her being rebellious is aimed towards the Godwins' scheming and is trying to be as much of a hindrance to them as possible until the prince can stop them.
* ''BatenKaitos'' has [[spoiler:Xehla]], who is a rebellious ''queen.'' Milly in ''Baten Kaitos Origins'' is of the rebellious rich sheltered girl type.
** The first {{Suikoden}} also has Odessa Silverberg being a RebelliousPrincess, you probably won't notice unless [[AllThereInTheManual you read the novels]]. She starts out as [[TheWhitePrince The White]] [[TheOjou Princess]], but fell in love with a rebel leader, and starts seeing the error of TheEmpire. When her lover is about to get executed, she broke through the execution in attempt to rescue her lover, with a sword and wearing ''a wedding dress''. Her lover still died, but at least she got him out of being executed by the enemy and he still gets to transfer his ideals to her, leading her to become the leader of [[LaResistance The Liberation Army]].
** How is Xelha a rebellious queen [[spoiler:when the reason why she left her country was to find a way to prevent the evil god Malpercio from returning and save the world]]? That's pretty responsible action to take for her kingdom. Not to mention that her mother, the previous queen, told her that she would need to take the action if the need arises.
** Subverted with Milly in ''Baten Kaitos Origins'' as [[spoiler:the real reason that she joins Sagi and Guillo is [[TheMole to spy on them and report any important findings back to her father, Baelheit]].]]
* Elise from MyWorldMyWay is a spoiled brat of a princess who goes out to become an adventurer after an adventurer rejects her.
* Kara from ''{{Illusion Of Gaia}}'', though she does continue to act like a spoiled princess for some time.
* [[spoiler:Tahlkora]] from {{Guild Wars}}. The fact that she is a princess is kept secret from the player until halfway through the game, when you find her chatting away to her father, the Prince you've just spent several missions trying to get to.
* [[TheLegendOfZelda Princess Zelda]] is a boarderline case: She's stated to frequently sneak out of her castle and when her kingdom falls, she becomes a Ninja instead of hiding out the old fashioned way. About 1000 years latter, her descendant balantly refuses to be called princess or "Zelda". She instead sails around as the 12-years old Capitan of an all-adult crew of pirates. Oh, did I already mention that she wears manlier clothes than [[TheHero Link]], ties her hair up and kicks ass frequently? "Why boarderline?" you may ask now. Well, because there's no kingdom left to rule anyway...
* While not actually royal, Soon-to-be-Queen Isabel in ''HeroesofMightandMagic V'' definitely has these traits early on. The demons are all too aware of it and use it against her.
* Princess Sapphire of {{Disgaea}} 3 believes that the best way to defend her kingdom is to assassinate enemies before they get around to starting a war. The player never meets her parents or advisors, but they've probably told her to stop if they aren't [[AxeCrazy terrified of her]].
* From ArcTheLad: Sania of Milmana and Kukuru of Seyra: princesses and wanted terrorists: Sania is not adverse to the idea of blowing up her own capital if this means killing her ennemies.
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* Princess Voluptua in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has issues with her father the Emperor—not the least of them being that he tried to [[ArrangedMarriage marry her off]] to a [[StarfishAlien walking jellyfish.]]
* Although [[{{ptitlejmt00a4r}} Princess Saffron Lachesis]] respects her father, she doesn't really cut most people's expectations of a modest princess. The fact that [[ActionGirl she wields a cane sword and beats up criminals]] doesn't help.
* Aylia is a duchess and [[AllThereInTheManual is legally required to obey her parents.]] However, as her mother has [[TheDitz proven]] [[CloudCuckooLander her]] [[ParentalObliviousness incompetence]] to her by [[AMagicalRoommate sending her off to college]], so whilst away from the castle she continued to practice the wizardry that her mother thought was "not for ladies."
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* ''{{Animaniacs}}'' sent up the above example in their ''Pocahontas'' parody with the song "Just the Same Old Heroine." ("First I tuned an aerial / Then I rang a bell...")
* Partially subverted in ''GummiBears''. Princess Calla, a CuteBruiser in training who loves to go adventuring, has her father discover her [[KingIncognito secret participation]] in a contest for the winner to become an official protector for herself. However, far from disapproving, he is deeply impressed with [[PluckyGirl her physical prowess]] and says publicly that it's clear she needs no personal protector after all.
* Toph from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Not exactly a princess (her family is rich, but not titled unless you count an actual last name) and not quite a teenager (she's twelve), but other than that she fits the trope dead-on.
* One could argue Starfire from ''{{Teen Titans}}'' being that leaving her home planet to do the hero thing on Earth, plus fighting against her sister when it was time to go back, is pretty rebellious.
* Sam in ''DannyPhantom''. She's not a princess, but she is rebellious and individual and filthy rich, so you get the point.
** The creator seemed to acknowledge the trope in ''Beauty Marked''. Sam was placed in an ArrangedMarriage with Prince Aragon, and told to behave like PrincessClassic. She single-handedly destroyed her wedding feast and would have escaped... if it wasn't for Danny and Tucker.
* In the StrawberryShortcake episode ''A Princess Named Rap'', a [[FracturedFairyTale retelling of Rapunzel]], the titular princess wants to be a good ruler, but has a hard time keeping her individualistic tendencies at bay. At one point, she even sings a preteen anthem with the line "Why can't the things I love be part of royalty?"
*Jillian, Darth Vegan's daughter from JohnnyTest.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_of_Sweden Queen Christina of Sweden]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margaret,_Countess_of_Snowdon Princess Margaret of England, Countess of Snowdon]].
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Hungary Saint Elisabeth of Hungary]], either as a princess (she preferred to spend her time in direct charity rather than just making donations, which the other nobles didn't approve of and even her husband Ludwig was skeptical of, fearing her protegés would abuse her kindness) or as a widow (she left the Warburg court willingly after her husband's death so she wouldn't have to bow to her brother-in-law's regency, wanted to be a nun rather than re-marrying, went through TrainingFromHell to enter the Dominic Tertiaries and even threatened to ''[[BeautyIsNeverTarnished disfigure herself]]'' so her relatives wouldn't trap her in an ArrangedMarriage)
* Another famous and very rebellious Elisabeth was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Bavaria Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress Consort of Austria and Queen Consort of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia]], better known as ''Sisi''. Her position as the Rebellious Empress ''and'' the eccentric BunnyEarsLawyer in the Austrian Imperial Court would bring her [[BreakTheHaughty much]] [[BreakTheCutie misfortune]], and her myth was the inspiration for the German musical ''{{Elisabeth}}''.
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