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Vanellope: Why are your hands so freakishly big?
Ralph: I don't know, why are you so freakishly annoying?

A self-important kid with a serious attitude problem.

Sometimes a younger sibling, other times an older one. Talks a good game but often falls into trouble and needs to be rescued when that isn't the job of the hero's love interest. Hates being called a kid but lacks real maturity. Often a boy, but female examples are not uncommon. Such a character seldom gets along with anyone, except The Hero. The getting along part always happens after The Hero knocks them down a few pegs.

Unlike the Mouthy Kid, the Bratty Half-Pint isn't the voice of reason of the party but rather a troublemaker who likes to get on people's nerves through sass or sabotaging their plans. At their best, they're small, mischievous annoyances or Attention Whores. At their worst, they're a huge pain in the ass, a millstone, made even worse because they enjoy being that way.

If overdone and excessively obnoxious the brat risks becoming The Scrappy to some of the audience. Often the party's attack magician if there isn't a Black Magician Girl. They may also use a slingshot. Attempts to insult people usually descend to Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head. Might also be a case of Motor Mouth if the kid is the kind to never shut up.

See also Tagalong Kid, Annoying Younger Sibling, Affection-Hating Kid, Spoiled Brat, Annoyingly Repetitive Child, and Kid-Appeal Character. Might grow into a Bratty Teenage Daughter or Dumbass Teenage Son. When downplayed, see Mouthy Kid.


Examples:

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    Comic Books 
  • Damian Wayne from Batman, son of Bruce and Talia ah-Ghul, starts out this way. Slowly, beginning in Batman and Robin, when he becomes Robin and sidekick to Dick Grayson as Batman, he begins to mature.
  • In Lucky Luke, Billy the Kid is portrayed this way, including an obsession with red candies.
  • The title character of Patty-Cake is a little blonde girl who is very mischievous and frequently gets in trouble with her parents.
  • The Modern Age Superboy (Kon-El) often played this role early on.
  • Suske en Wiske: Wiske can be very assertive, aggressive, hysterical and stubborn when something is not going her way.

    Comic Strips 
  • Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. He's an Attention Whore, and his massive ego is often the cause of many of his problems (when he doesn't cause mayhem for the sake of causing mayhem, anyway).
  • Barry from Curtis could be the Trope Codifier. When he's bored, he provokes Curtis, then runs sobbing to his mother that mean ol' Curtis is trying to hit him for no good reason at all. Then, for his sins, he is given ice cream and the opportunity to gloat over all the extra chores Curtis gets. This happens with such frequency that when Curtis assesses that the family could, in fact, be qualified as "poor", one wonders if the source of their economic troubles isn't all this damn ice cream Diane's buying for Barry.

    Eastern European Animation 
  • Masha from Masha and the Bear can be annoying at times and likes to talk a lot and easily becomes hyperactive.

    Fan Works 
  • Doing It Right This Time: Sakura Suzuhara is tiny, cranky, demanding, and constantly follows her big brother around. The "Don't like being called 'a kid'" came when Asuka did do right that.
  • Solakku the Turtle, a minor character in Don't Keep Your Distance. While she has a good heart, her behavior with new people is less than tactful (notably, demanding they stay still while she draws them, as she craves more practice as an artist) and her behavior even with her parents is more talking back than anything else (although they seem perfectly okay with it).
  • Jujutsu Kaisen: Gojo's New Students: In King's second-ever sentence spoken in this story is, quite literally "And who are these peasants?" to Luz and Gojo. While King might not literally be a king, he seriously makes you think that he is one based on how he acts when in reality King is merely just a child pretending to be something more than what he actually is.
  • Princess Miyaki from Kyoshi Rising constantly demands that people obey her commands as Princess of the Fire Nation (most of which are for one character or another to teach her Firebending). Kyoshi takes it upon herself to teach Miyaki patience, and Miyaki is able to mellow out considerably.
  • In The Lion King Adventures, Tara is this.
  • In A Load of Bulk, six-year-old Lana Loud from The Loud House drinks a strength potion which has the side effect of making her mean and she yells at and bullies her siblings.
  • In When the Brush hits the Canvas, Gulley is all too eager to throw Link to the wolves (a.k.a. his pissed-off father) and enjoy the show. He's even disappointed when the yelling stops.
    "For an adorable, seven-year-old, fully cheeked, short boy with blond hair, cute freckles, and wide sparkly blue eyes, Gulley could surely be a jerk."

    Film 
  • In Alligator, the cop protagonist has to deal with a pretty mouthy kid who is a witness to one of the eponymous creature's attacks.
  • In Are You Being Served?, an annoying child prods Captain Peacock with a balloon in the store.
  • The Book of Life:
    • Implied with the Detention Kids, given how they all were given detention. Goth-kid exemplifies this the most.
    • Joaquin shows shades of this as a child. He denies an old man, Xibalba in disguise, bread and eats said bread in front of him. It's only when Xibalba offers him the Medal of Everlasting Life does a young Joaquin give it up.
  • In Doctor in Trouble, a boy finds Dr. Burke hiding in a lifeboat and immediately tries to get him in trouble with Captain Spratt for being a stowaway.
  • Ash in Fantastic Mr. Fox is actually older than his unbearably perfect cousin Kristofferson but he otherwise fits the character trope with his resentful ill temper. However, he dramatically matures in the story and becomes a nice kit at the end.
  • The protagonist's son, Bobby in Final Score (1986), who demands his ex-military dad to call him "sir" and when his father had to leave for a meeting in Jakarta, orders the dad to get him a new toy gun because "it's his birthday and he's a man NOW". Given how the hero's entire family gets killed within the film's first ten minutes to set up his Roaring Rampage of Revenge, it's likely the filmmakers wants to portray the child to be as unlikable as possible so nobody will feel too sad about his inevitable demise.
  • W. C. Fields films often involved Fields as a Child Hater, a Henpecked Husband, or both, and thus often used this trope. In It's a Gift bratty son Norman leaves roller skates on the floor for Harold (Fields) to trip on and irritates Harold on a family road trip by continually blowing a whistle in the back seat. In The Bank Dick his bratty daughter Elsie whacks him over the head with a director's bullhorn when Egbert (Fields), working as a director, won't put Elsie in the movie.
  • Connie's spoiled nephew Raymond in George Washington Slept Here.
  • Dani in Hocus Pocus — an extreme version, who offers up various comments about her Big Brother's non-existent sex life. (She's only eight.)
  • Little Arthur from Holiday on the Buses is quickly growing up to be a terror, getting on Stan and Arthur's nerves with his toy pistols and using a donkey to drag away Blakey's deckchair.
  • The Hug stars Aiden, a bratty, short-tempered birthday boy who cheats at skee ball and demands a show from Pandory despite him being on his "dinner break".
  • In It's Love I'm After, Gracie has a habit of peeping through keyholes and telling everyone whatever she overhears.
  • Mowgli as portrayed in The Jungle Book (1967) qualifies, despite being the main character, bratty and insisting that he possesses the necessary jungle skills when he clearly does not. Of course, he does Take A Level In Badass eventually.
  • The Young Man with a Cornflower in Loving Vincent repeatedly teases Armand. Even his father concedes he's an annoyance.
  • Alexander in Murder, She Said.
  • No Kidding:
    • The Treadgolds are rude, stuck-up, and won't stop complaining about how Chartham Place doesn't meet up to their expectations.
    • Vanilla constantly lies about her home life for attention.
    • The rest of the children at Chartham Place seem alright, but once they're all given freedom to do what they like turn into terrors, chopping down trees, playing nasty pranks, and stealing the Robinsons' car:
      Catherine: David, they're... they're alright.
      David: No, they're not, they're all wrong. Wrong as is possible for children to be, dear. Selfish, spoiled, thoughtless, uncontrolled, wrong!
  • The Prophet: Almitra's mischief and constantly stealing doesn't delight her to the Baker or the other townsfolk.
  • In Ship of Monsters, Lauriano has an annoying little brother named Chuy, who is always sticking his nose in his business and getting in trouble.
  • A Slight Case of Murder: When Marco visits the orphanage where he grew up, he volunteers to spend a month fostering the brattiest kid at the orphanage to try and "mold" him into a productive member of society. The kid is fairly surly and annoying throughout the film.
  • In The Ten Commandments (1956), it is Rameses II's first-born son Prince Amun who clearly is not only rude and spoiled, he has the nerve to kick Moses' staff that he used to demonstrate God's power by turning into a cobra, thereby insulting both Moses and God. This is clearly so we don't mind too much what happens later to the princely brat when the Death Angel comes calling.

    Literature 
  • There's a children's picture book called 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Any More, which is sort of like an illustrated version of Skippy's List or Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG starring an adorable little girl.
  • Pinocchio, in The Adventures of Pinocchio. He caused much trouble to his dad and was mischievous and bratty. He got better through character development.
  • Angela Nicely:
    • Downplayed for Angela, who sometimes whines or fumes, but not any morseo than a typical six-year-old.
    • Played straight for Tiffany, who always pouts and complains whenever she doesn’t get her way, and who is obsessed with attention.
  • Karen from The Baby-Sitters Club. Dear god, Karen. Jenny Prezzioso is seen as such by the sitters.
  • Sybil Russell in the Chalet School series, partly due to her resentment at having to compete for her mum Madge's attention with several older cousins. One nasty incident involving a kettle and her little sister Josette, later, however, she gets over it.
  • Todd Lyons from The Clique.
  • Scabmona from Robin Jarvis' Deptford Mouselets book Fleabee's Fortune. She revels in being as vile and unpleasant as possible. As they are rats, her parents are actually proud of her rude behaviour, while they are ashamed of her polite older sister Fleabee.
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Exaggerated with Manny. He throws tantrums over things such as having mustard applied on his hot dog "wrongly" (he wants it vertically down the middle, not horizontally across) and not having his sandwich cut into slices.
  • Lila Little Hawk from Gives Light.
  • Tara Webster from the Goosebumps story The Cuckoo Clock of Doom'' seems to live solely to make her older brother Michael's life a living hell. Going by some of her actions she might well be The Sociopath, and her being Ret-Gone seems to be a net positive for everyone.
  • Robert A. Heinlein is fond of this trope, especially in his juvenile novels.
  • Major plot point in the Mercedes Lackey's Arrows of the Queen with Princess Elspeth, who was being raised to be this by her nurse. She gets better.
  • Jaine Austen Mysteries: In Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge, Jaine's father has to deal with a little kid causing trouble for him on the cruise. The kid ends up banned for life from the cruise line for the crap he pulls on it. Unfortunately, Jaine's dad does as well.
  • The eponymous Junie B. Jones.
  • Gavroche of Les Misérables (the book) is an inversion of this trope — he's the one who rescues Bratty Half Pints, and is one of the most likable and mature characters. In the musical version, he's a straight example of the trope except that he doesn't get rescued.
  • Monster of the Year: Lulu Toomaloo, whom Michael and Kevver view as "the most spoiled kid we had ever seen" after their first day.
  • Constance from The Mysterious Benedict Society is constantly annoying her older friends with her complaining and her grumpy attitude. After the reveal that she is only just turning three years old her immaturity makes more sense.
  • Peek-a-Boo Poo:
    • Downplayed for Alfie in the first book. He does poo everywhere, but he's also described as a happy, giggly boy, and when his mother tells him off, he uses his potty without a struggle.
    • Played straight for Heidi in the second book — right off the cuff, she's described as a "terror", and she's extremely messy and splashes at bath time. Also, while Alfie initially refrained from using the potty due to fear (only to get carried away and keep doing it as a game once he was no longer scared), Heidi has no such excuse and seemingly did it just for the giggles, and unlike Alfie, she keeps doing it even when told not to.
  • Ramona Quimby
    • Willa Jean. She ages from book to book, but Ramona still can't stand her. Willa is such a spoiled brat who doesn't get in trouble for anything she does because, don'tcha know, she's just sooo cute (though she does try patience on some occasions), that you just gotta hate her.
    • Ramona herself was like this when she was younger. A running gag was that when her older sister Beatrice and her friend Henry would play checkers and ignore Ramona, she'd forcibly break up the game by ramming the table with her tricycle. Ramona was actually mortified when she was told she'd been as bad as Willa Jean once.
  • The title character of The Ransom Of Red Chief, so much so that his kidnappers are willing to pay his father $250 just to take him off their hands.
  • Roys Bedoys: Roys and Loys can sometimes be rude in their dialogue, calling names and making rude jokes.
  • Penelope from The Serpent's Egg trilogy does this, except everyone believes her insane stories. Except, of course, the true one about that magical elf land she goes to with a Druid. She also happens to have a toy poodle which she always paints a new color each book... And yes, she does eventually wise up.
  • From the moment she poked her little fire-breathing snout of the eggshell, it was obvious that Iskierka from Temeraire was going to turn out like this.
  • Pretty much any kid who appears in a P. G. Wodehouse story or novel.
  • In The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, the main character acts like one in the beginning, despite being 14 years old.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Mitch's son Hobie on Baywatch. A regular 'victim of the week', constantly almost drowning despite being the son of a lifeguard.
  • The Brittas Empire: Carole's young son Ben falls into this beginning in Series 5, calling his mother a "poo-head" for not getting him an air rifle and biting other children with such regularity that he's become The Dreaded amongst them. It culminates in "Snap Happy" when Carole convinces a pirate entertainer to let him become a party guest, where he promptly has a never-ending screaming fit before holding several girls hostage so that he can have all of the party bags.
  • Buffyverse:
    • Dawn, Buffy's sister in Buffy. She gets in trouble so frequently that it gets a Lampshade Hanging, and gets all huffy whenever someone calls her a kid. Or, at points in the sixth season, for saying practically anything at all. It gets to the point where Dark Willow threatens to kill her just to put an end to her constant whining. She's grown out of it by Season 7.
    • Connor from Angel. He's like Dawn only even more Wangsty and with superpowers, allowing him to interact with the plot all the more.
  • Baby Sinclair from Dinosaurs, who is the youngest of the three Sinclair children and is often quite a troublesome pest to the rest of the family.
  • Drake & Josh has Megan, who is a young evil genius that frequently gets the boys in trouble.
  • Emergency!: In the episode "Details," Squad 51 is called to a house where a boy (later to be revealed as being named Jackie) was bit by a dog. The bite victim is very bratty here, first retorting to Roy when Roy asks him his name (saying "Firemen stink!"), then next refusing to unfold his arms (unless he sees his mother) so Johnny can treat the bite (which turns out to be a flesh wound). Roy asks whose dog it was that bit the boy, only to be told by a woman at the scene that no one knows whose it is. Roy then says that the dog has to be found, or the boy will have to have rabies shots. Another boy at the scene says he knows, and indicates as such; the dog turns out to be under the porch of the house. The dog is located, and Roy asks what the dog's name is, assuming it's a male; the boy retorts, "Tammy— it's a her, dummy!" They get Tammy out from under the porch of the house, and bring her over to the boy. Roy asks if Tammy was the culprit, and the boy says she was, but wishes a lion would eat her; Johnny says "You're a real prince, kid." Johnny then finds a bite on the dog, and Roy asks the boy if he bit the dog; the woman on the scene says the boy did bite the dog. Johnny asks the boy if he bit the dog, and the other boy says that the victim did bite the dog. Roy then has to correct the boy, saying that biting a dog invites a bite in retaliation; the boy blows a raspberry at him and rudely dismisses him. Johnny uses harsher methods to try to get the point across (apparently a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique). The boy's mother arrives, and reveals that she is Valerie, the woman that Johnny was thinking about marrying; Johnny did not know that Valerie was the boy's mother. Roy then confirms what happened earlier to Valerie, and says that both the dog and the boy will be okay, and recommends a tetanus shot for the boy. Valerie then reveals to Johnny that she has two other kids besides Jackie; one is a daughter named Sharon (apparently a younger sister of Jackie), and the other is a toddler who looks like a boy. Jackie then puts the icing on the cake by biting Johnny on the leg; Johnny and Roy beat a hasty retreat.
  • Full House:
    • Due to Danny's tendency to assume she could do no wrong, Michelle acts this way for much of the series' run until Danny is forced to confront the truth that he has let her get away with too much and starts disciplining her.
    • Nicky and Alex, who are introduced midway in the series as Jesse and Rebecca's offspring, are also troublemakers in their own right, and one episode has them acting up while the family is dining out in a restaurant, requiring Jesse to step up and put his foot down.
    • Among Michelle's classmates, Aaron is a Mouthy Kid with a bad attitude, something many a Tanner adult all too quickly finds out upon meeting him, a case in point taking place while Joey coaches Michelle and her classmates in a soccer session:
      Joey: Any questions?
      [Aaron raises his hand]
      Joey: Anyone?
      Aaron: Hey, I got one.
      Joey: *reluctantly* Yes, Aaron?
      Aaron: Are you going to treat us for pizza after the game, or are you just too cheap?
      Jesse: Can we trade him [Aaron] over to another team for some other kid with a big mouth?
  • Gabe, from Good Luck Charlie.
  • Damon, from Heroes. He toes the line when after Micah tells him that, even though his vintage comics from his late father are worth a lot of money, he still wouldn't sell them. Damon steals them from Micah and not only sells them himself but also sells the medal of valor that was awarded to Micah's dad for saving a little girl from a fire and is the only memento Micah has of his father. When Micah confronts him about this, Damon tells him, "I'll buy you a new one."
  • Maddigan's Quest has Lilith, who verges on being the show's Damsel Scrappy. Her attention whoring almost gets Eden killed in Witchfinder, whilst in other episodes, she does little more than get herself into trouble and whine at the people causing it until she's rescued, and despite the fact that the show's timeline undergoes two major changes in-series, she doesn't change at all.
  • Obi-Wan Kenobi: Young Leia Organa who has inherited the Skywalker snark from her father and the Amidala stubbornness from her mother.
  • Our Miss Brooks: The bank president's son in "Magic Christmas Tree".
  • Parker's little sister Shelly in Parker Lewis Can't Lose.
  • Max from Power Rangers Wild Force who is in love best friends with Danny and thus hangs off him most of the time. While he doesn't suffer from needing rescues very often (he is a Power Ranger), it doesn't help that one of the two girls on the team is ex-Air Force and second-in-command, while the other is a responsible college student that was trained from childhood in martial arts by her sensei father, and thus both are far more capable in battle than he'll ever be.
  • Scoundrels (2010): Hope is a young and smart Little Miss Snarker with a huge ego, which often annoys her older siblings.
  • Whenever a kid appears on Seinfeld, expect them to act all bratty:
    • In "The Parking Garage," George defends a little boy who is being mistreated by his mother, and the boy thanks him by saying that he's ugly.
    • Joey, George's "little brother" from the two-parter "The Raincoats" may act all nice in front of the Big Brother rep. But when he's not around, he is quite the brat. He calls George "Four eyes," sticks his gum to the wall of the airport, and throws food in George's face.
    • Then there's Jimmy, the boy Elaine babysits in "The Blood." Throughout the entire episode, he is a brat to Elaine and everyone he meets as he kicks people in the shins and pours orange juice in Elaine's purse.
  • Nog in the earlier seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This is partly excused by the characters as a part of his Ferengi nature — except that Rom and Quark seem to get annoyed with him as much as anyone.
  • The Twilight Zone (1959) gives us Anthony Fremont from the episode "It's a Good Life". His Reality Warper powers have allowed him to avoid being disciplined for doing wrong, which leads to him doing whatever he wants without regard for others.
  • Jake Harper on Two and a Half Men was originally this before becoming a Dumbass Teenage Son and outright Jerkass in the later seasons.
  • Kenard from The Wire. What separates him from others is that he is really psychotic, putting lighter fluid on a cat in one scene and committing a murder in the same episode.
  • Young Sheldon:
    • Missy. She openly insults and messes with her two brothers and is even rude to her own mother. She is aware of her own bad attitude, such as when Mary angrily asks her why she is such a brat and she claims she is "crying for attention". She in general just seems to enjoy her dysfunctional family because they amuse her but only as long as she gets her way with everything. Though Missy is often neglected in favour of Sheldon, so her attitude is excusable.
    • Sheldon is a young child and he certainly has his moments of ticking people off through his failure to properly decode social and emotional situations, but in general he is thoughtful and obedient and pretty conscientious about following the rules as he understands them. But he is frequently rude to his teachers, often puts down the rest of his family for not being as smart as he is, and can be just as bad as Missy and Georgie when it comes to tormenting his siblings. However some of his behaviour can be chalked up to him simply not understanding that there are certain situations where it's impolite to state the truth, such as when he comments loudly on his female teacher's moustache. Sheldon can be a sweet child when it comes to Mary and Connie, and occasionally George.

    Music 
  • In the song "Nuttin' for Christmas," the singer's character is a bratty half-pint singing about delighting in his wicked deeds. Stan Freberg's cover of the song even ends with him gleefully letting a burglar into his family's house on Christmas evening for a cut of the fence.

    Roleplay 
  • Elicia from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues is a headstrong and prideful young girl who doesn't hesitate to let her opinion be known. Her aggravating attitude is due to being tumultuously raised in poverty.

    Video Games 
  • Angelia Avalonne is this in Arcana Heart with most of her screentime involving acting superior to the other characters or bullying Fiona.
  • Melodia from Bahamut Lagoon is another female one... Squaresoft loves this trope.
  • Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack introduces Trinity, a bossy and obnoxious little twerp who clings to Django like headlice and seemingly only exists to annoy the crap out of you, actively hinder your progress, halt the game for his antics, or drop exposition that anyone with even half a brain cell has already figured out. Glad you came back from the future to tell us the world will be destroyed if The Immortals win; we never would have guessed. Even his one genuinely useful act, freeing Django from the dungeon he was sealed in at the beginning of the game, was done unintentionally and accidentally.
  • Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.
    • Soren. Normally, his mouthiness is restricted to disapproving arguments. However, there is one notable scene where he nearly gets himself killed by hurling derogatory terms at a man who can turn into a frickin' tiger. This is subverted later after learning of his past and his hatred of laguz.
    • Empress Sanaki is shown to be a bratty half pint who uses her power to make cruel jokes. However, she also helps the heroes quite a bit.
  • This, combined with Breaking the Fourth Wall pretty well sum up Shoutaro from Flower, Sun and Rain. His Dad is an adult versionit's as annoying as it sounds.
  • Makina in The Fruit of Grisaia is a weird, immature girl who tends to copy the people around her and mock Michiru as much as possible. There's more to her than that, but unfortunately by The Eden of Grisaia flanderization has left her with little else.
  • Roan in Grandia II is a subversion. He's introduced as being a whiny brat who demands that the party go get his mommy's pendant, but when he decides to go do it himself and you run after him to rescue him, it turns out he doesn't need rescuing, though could still use more capable fighters' assistance. After he joins the party he's shown to actually be shockingly mature and Wise Beyond His Years. And to top it off, he turns out to be a prince, and subsequently a good king. And even the pendant was of vital importance.
  • Nougat is the youngest character in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist who you can add on your friend list, being only three years old at the earliest possible meeting, and she's quite a handful when babysitting or tutoring her. She isn't attentive in learning activities and would rather make a mess in the creche or study room, and it's up to you to discipline her and guide her in her lessons.
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails:
    • Trails in the Sky: Luke sets off Estelle and Joshua's first real job after he convinced Pat to run off with him to Esmelas Tower which is full of monsters.
    • Trails from Zero: Barely being a teenager has not stopped Jona from having a big ego and making several sharp-tongued comments towards the SSS.
  • Nash from Lunar: The Silver Star falls into this despite being one of the older members of a party made up of young teens...
  • Ram and Rom are this to their older sister Blanc in the Neptunia series, constantly causing her trouble. Ram is worse compared to her twin though, because she antagonizes Blanc and Nepgear, even after joining the latter's team.
  • Paper Mario 64: Jr. Troopa is very annoying. He initially seems like a temporary roadblock in the first part of the game, but he quickly proves himself to be more of a nuisance than a threat. He reappears multiple times throughout the game to try getting his revenge against Mario. Still, even if you find this guy to be a pain, he does give you a great amount of experience.
  • Cody Hackins in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is a snotty 7-year-old fanboy who disrespects Phoenix, Edgeworth, Wendy Oldbag, and even the Judge, simply because they're "dumb adults" (Cody calls Phoenix this several times when Phoenix doesn't know the difference between the rarity of the Steel Samurai trading cards). However, if Mia talks to Cody, he'll suddenly become nice and do what she says. It probably has something to do with her obvious physical features.
  • In Potion Permit, Russo is a naughty little boy who likes pranking people and hates doing his homework. While he's a handful for his guardian Socellia, she still does her best to raise him.
  • Date Masamune's characterization in Samurai Warriors (when he isn't being a Smug Snake), especially in the first game, where even his character model is hilariously tiny compared to everyone else's, including Genki Girl Oichi.
  • Laura from Silent Hill 2 is an infamous example, but it's not particularly unjustified after you find out about James' treatment of Mary.
  • Lymle in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. The voice actress might be the real culprit on this one, not the script/characterization ... it's hard to tell. She talks slow because she's catatonic, but is otherwise played up as a Tsundere, so it's more the latter.
  • Mission Vao in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Subverted when Zaalbar, her Wookiee companion, is the one who ends up getting kidnapped and in need of rescuing.
  • Suikoden:
    • Luc in the first two games is this. He makes it clear he has no interest in participating in your righteous war, is only voluntarily helpful when he has a personal vendetta and otherwise spends most of his time baiting the rest of your party. He also happens to be the strongest magician you recruit. Even as he gets older through the games, thanks to his immaturity and immortality remains in this trope.
    • Ted in Suikoden IV is also this. Notable in that he shares the same Star of Destiny slot as Luc.
  • Tales Series:
  • Genis in Tales of Symphonia was bratty at times, but was actually smarter than the main character...and pretty much every character in the game for that matter. And he knew it. Of course, this didn't stop Raine from slapping Genis upside the head whenever he got too carried away.
  • Rubia Natwick in Tales of the Tempest, pre-character development, combines this and Tsundere.
  • Anise Tatalin in Tales of the Abyss, along with being a Gold Digger engaging in Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour by trying to marry anyone with any money or influence.
  • Karol in Tales of Vesperia may come across this way to some pre-character development, due to having a Small Name, Big Ego and being a Cowardly Lion who'll often desert your party just as a battle begins.
  • Elle Mel Marta from Tales of Xillia 2. She doesn't like being treated like a kid and pretends to be more mature, when she isn't, including pretending that she isn't scared of lightning or thunder. While the party in general is nice to her and pity her for her current situation, she always acts like a brat with majority of them. The only ones she is really nice around are Ludger, Alternate Milla and slowly begins to warm up to Gaius after Alternate Milla sacrifices herself.
  • The Scout from Team Fortress 2 is the youngest out of the 9 mercenaries — he seems to be a teenager, but is actually about 23-years-old according to the Track Terrorizer's description. He has a big mouth and an ego to match.
  • From Um Jammer Lammy, as well as its soundtrack album Make It Sweet!, we have the baby bunny in "BABY BABY!!", who is shrill and demanding and keeps saying "gimme" this and "gimme" that, everything from normal things a baby would want, like food or a potty, to a "car, one that goes vroom!"

    Web Comics 
  • Poor Gabby from Charby the Vampirate has her throat torn out by the titular character for her fearless, whiny, and loud complaints about his behavior, which at the time consisted of drinking blood from a dog, and his wearing "lipstick" (actually blood). To his horror, she returns as a nigh immortal vampire with a severe case of sire attachment and no more maturity than she had in life.
  • Muted: Rowena LeRoux definitely counts. She was introduced at the end of Episode 10 wearing Camille's locket. When Camille tries to claim the locket back from her in the next episode, she refuses to hand it over, claiming that the locket was "a gift from the swamp" and makes excuses for why it belongs to her, even after the former tries to call attention to the engraved initials and the photo inside the locket (which would have proved ownership had Rowena opened it). When Camille eventually decides to just take the locket, Rowena smacks her in the face and uses the distraction to run back to the LeRoux orchard. She then gloats about how the barrier around said orchard can only be crossed by either the LeRoux themselves, or outsiders with explicit permission, and proudly proclaims that Camille is neither (or so she thinks), even Blowing a Raspberry just before she's completely past the barrier. She only returns the locket after Camille has a Heroic BSoD after the latter snaps at the former and demands to return the locket, only to be reminded of Athalie's abuse. However, when Camille mentions to Rowena how every plant in her care dies, Rowena uses her Green Thumb powers to trap Camille in a vine cage, calling her a "murderer". Luckily, another LeRoux, Jazmin, discovered Camille and freed her shortly after.
  • Off-White has a Bratty Half-Pint wolf pup that gives Jera a permanent scar and dies with everyone he has known and loved.
  • In Rascals, while slightly obscure, Reiko's innocent child when Issy enters her demon mind as seen on this page.
  • Sleepless Domain:
    • Forte Drums "thinks she can get away with anything just cause she's cute" and her classmate Swing Blitz shows similar mischievousness.
    • Sally, especially when compared to Sylvia, can come off as this in some of her moments, especially during the fight when she says Tessa looks down upon them.
  • Stand Still, Stay Silent: HÃ¥kan, Sune and Anna Västerström have an on-panel record of patting the guest who Hates Being Touched even after being told not to, calling another guest fat, taking advantage of a mage being in trance to cut his hair and dressing the family cat. As for their off-panel record, it's perfectly summed up by their babysitter quitting and calling them "those changelings" right after their introduction.
  • White Dark Life: Damien and Priscilla are noted to be total pains in the neck at times, with Damien eating any food he can get his hands on and Priscilla always bringing the attention to herself. they are also demons.

    Web Videos 
  • A video by Brian Holtzman under his Omeletto persona shows him calling out a little girl who loudly complains in a restaurant over wanting candy. The video can be found here. She continues to cry and he continues to shut her up.
  • Dodo from Kittisaurus when he was a kitten. He would frequently smack the older cats in the face and became notorious for his many, many food thefts. In Kittisaurus Villains, he's shown to have a bratty streak by being rude to both Momo and DD in comparison to the only slightly more mature Lulu. Case in point; after being stuck in a cupboard and coming out to see DD obstructing their way...
    Dodo: Mr DD! You're in the way!
    Lulu: Please move, DD.
  • Rats SMP: Izan Icraga, the son of the family residing in the Mansion, takes delight in causing mayhem and angering the household staff, throws green beans across the room at meals, and is an annoying force of nature to the rats as well in his relentless pursuits. The Butler suspects — and it's later confirmed in one of the Father's letters home — that this is the reason he was left behind for the family holiday at the start of the series, under the belief "it will teach him some manners".

 
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Hortensia of Elusia

When she is introduced as one of Alear's enemies prior to joining the party after Chapter 14, Hortensia comes off being a spoiled brat due to her being overly demanding, immature, wanting things to go her way, and not taking "no" for an answer.

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