The fairest tropes of all.
Once Upon a Time, in
The Kingdom of Indexes, the
King and
Queen had a beautiful daughter, whom they named
Princess Tropes.
Okay, not quite, but this index is about the various kinds of princesses, and tropes associated with them.
Types of Princesses, or characters who are often Princesses
Tropes related to Princesses
- Costume Porn
Beautiful and detailed costuming, as befitting someone of her station.
- Distressed Damsel
Princesses are often these.
- Ermine Cape Effect
Royalty and nobility wearing fancy clothes all the time.
- Everything's Better With Sparkles
Sparkles are pretty.
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry
Jewelry is glamorous.
- Friend to All Living Things
Animals flock around a character, who can often speak to them.
- Girl in the Tower
Captured princesses tend to get put in towers.
- Magical Girl Queenliness Test
A Magical Girl princess must prove she can also be a queen.
- Pimped Out Dress
Dress with loads of fancy trimmings.
- Princess Phase
The time in a young girl's life when she idolizes all things related to princesses.
- Princess Curls
Curled hairs at the front of the head, signifying a lady's high social class.
- Princesses Prefer Pink
Princesses often wear pink in fiction, since Pink Means Feminine.
- Princesses Rule
Princesses often are absolute rulers, rather than heirs, in fiction.
- Rags to Royalty
A peasant ends up royalty, by either birth or granting.
- Requisite Royal Regalia
The crowns, capes, thrones, and other things to signify royalty.
- Royal Blood
Power inherent in royal birth.
- Rule of Glamorous
Anything that makes a princess more beautiful is acceptable.
- Save the Princess
A character kidnapped in a video game, likely a princess.
- Standard Hero Reward
Marriage to a princess is part of this.
- Suddenly Suitable Suitor
A character can now marry someone thought to be below that character's station before.
