History Main / RebelPrince

* Music/DschinghisKhan gives us the "Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the son of]] UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan who doesn't want to be king and instead wants to dedicate to rock 'n roll, like his idol Music/RingoStarr. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext No, really!]]

* Music/DschinghisKhan gives us the "Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the son of]] UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan who doesn't want to be king and instead wants to dedicate to rock 'n roll, like his idol Music/RingoStarr. [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext No, really!]]

* Music/DschinghisKhan gives us the "Rocking Son of Dschinghis Khan", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the son of]] UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan who doesn't want to be king and instead wants to dedicate to rock 'n roll, like his idol Creator/RingoStarr. [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext No, really!]]

* Prince Dmitri Gallitzin (also known as Augustine Smith, the name he took up as an American), a Russian aristocrat-turned-Catholic priest on the American frontiers at the end of 19th century who became known as "the Apostle of the Alleghenies." He did not just abandon his noble title and inheritance, he converted to a foreign religion not held in high regard by most Russians, became a Catholic priest (he was the first Catholic priest ordained in United States), and migrated to the frontiers of the New World. (doubly ironic since the House of Gallitzin is actually Lithuanian in origin and traces its ancestry to a Lithuanian prince of the House of Gediminas who putatively sided with the Orthodoxy and Russia rather than Catholicism and Poland when Lithuania became Christian--perhaps being a rebel prince runs in the family.).

* Prince Dmitri Gallitzin (also known as Augustine Smith, the name he took up as an American), a Russian aristocrat-turned-Catholic priest on the American frontier at the end of 19th century who became known as "the Apostle of the Alleghenies." He did not just abandon his noble title and inheritance, he converted to a foreign religion not held in high regard by most Russians, became a Catholic priest (he was the first Catholic priest ordained in United States), and migrated to the frontiers of the New World. (doubly ironic since the House of Gallitzin is actually Lithuanian in origin and traces its ancestry to a Lithuanian prince of the House of Gediminas who putatively sided with the Orthodoxy and Russia rather than Catholicism and Poland when Lithuania became Christian--perhaps being a rebel prince runs in the family.).

* Prince Dmitri Gallitzin (also known as Augustine Smith, the name he took up as an American), a Russian aristocrat-turned-Catholic priest on the American frontier at the end of 19th century who became known as "the Apostle of the Alleghenies." He did not just abandon his noble title and inheritance, he converted to a foreign religion not held in high regard by most Russians, became a Catholic priest, and migrated to the frontiers of the New World. (doubly ironic since the House of Gallitzin is actually Lithuanian in origin and traces its ancestry to a Lithuanian prince who putatively sided with the Orthodoxy and Russia rather than Catholicism and Poland when Lithuania became Christian--perhaps being a rebel prince runs in the family.).

[[PrinceCharming Charming]] or [[PrinceCharmless not,]] he's the spear counterpart to the RebelliousPrincess; born to privilege as the Heir apparent of a kingdom, company, or some other sort of organization who does not want to assume whatever his princely responsibilities are. AlwaysMale because kings and C.E.O.s tend to think [[HeirClubForMen only a son deserves the inheritance]], and when it is the daughter, she always seems to want it passed on to her. The problem with a RebelliousPrincess, on the other hand, is that she has the royal position but none of the inheritance that her brothers have. The Prince does not necessarily dislike government; in fact any aristocrat who opposes a hereditary government [[DemocracyIsBad despite his position]] would qualify. Perhaps he prefers democracy over simply inheriting a position by bloodline.

** Renouncing his entitlement to the throne like Lelouch did in the beginning is, in fact, the very thing every rebel prince wishes he would do.
** In a slight degree, Suzaku may count as well, though his father was the Prime Minister rather than the King.

* ''Anime/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 of becoming a pilot.

** This was also Charmy Bee's original portrayal; he was a 16 year old prince who even had a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage waiting for him, but he couldn't stand being a prince, so he ran away from home and became a Freedom Fighter instead. When Sega asked Archie to make him more game-accurate, Archie complied by having Charmy become so brain damaged that he reverted to a child-like persona. His pre-brain damage lore was then quietly swept under a rug.

* Nevyn of the ''Literature/{{Deverry}}'' novels started out as this. As [[SpareToTheThrone spare to the spare to the throne]], another spare behind him, all he had to look forward to was a life spent hanging around the court and wasting his family's money. His father disagreed with his decision to take up dweomer as a hobby, resulting in his being disowned and kicking of the sequence of events that got three people killed and Prince Galrion of Deverry starting on the path that made him become Nevyn, Master of the Aethyr.

* [[spoiler: The eight year old Oak]] in the ''Literature/TheFolkOfTheAir'' turns out to be one, rejecting his lineage as the heir of [[TheFairFolk Elfhame]] and desiring to continue [[spoiler: living life as a normal boy in the human realm]].

* ''{{TabletopGame/Cyberpunk}}'': Yorinobu Arasaka, upon finding out what his father planned for him after he came of age, left his father's palace in the middle of the night, and began fighting a guerilla war against his father's MegaCorp. However, by the time of ''Videogame/Cyberpunk2077'' he's returned to the fold as an Arasaka executive, albeit one who still has ambitions of bringing his father down from within [[spoiler:with his endgame being to destroy the company by running into the ground via massacring all higher ups and plunging the company into an unwinnable war]].

* [[RealPersonFic Prince Harry]] in ''Theatre/KingCharlesIII'', whose SpareToTheThrone position behind his brother William has led to his laissez faire attitude and carefree bachelor lifestyle -- until he begins to date Jess, an opinionated Republican. As their relationship grows more serious, Prince Harry begins to believe that he'll find happiness and fulfilment if he rejects his royal duties and settles down with Jess to lead the life of a commoner. He goes so far as to request that his father Charles revoke his royal titles and inheritance, [[spoiler: but he ultimately breaks up with Jess and retains his titles, dedicating himself (unhappily) to upholding the institution of British monarchy alongside his family]]. Ironically, [[spoiler: he actually did the opposite of this in RealLife, ditching his titles for the sake of his family.]]

** Shanan takes up the RebelPrince mantle in Part 2 since he's one of the leaders of Seliph's army which is hell-bent into destroying the tyrannical Empire of Grandbell. [[spoiler:There's something of a subversion, however: while a rebel against the Empire, he also is the ''legitimate'' heir to the throne of Isaac (a nation of {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s that was usurped and oppressed for years), and he intends to gain his homeland back to rebuild it. If he lives through the whole second part of the game, he succeeds.]]

** And now Prince Harry, former SpareToTheThrone (his older brother now has three children), has resigned from all his royal duties and positions, taking the position of Duke of Sussex, and chosen to leave the UK along with his wife and son. The behaviour of the more unapologetically vile UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers after he chose to marry a biracial American woman is apparently to blame, though that was apparently the icing on the cake in a long and fractious relationship with said newspapers, which he blames (and not without good reason) for his mother Diana's death. He outright stated that he feared the same thing would happen again, this time to his wife, and he decided that he wasn't having it.

* Dom Pedro I, the founder of Brazil and the "Liberator" of both Brazil and Portugal. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Portuguese royal house had to abandon Lisbon for Rio de Janeiro. After the war, the king left his son, Prince Pedro, as the regent in Brazil. During the 1820s, Pedro defeated numerous insurrectionist movements and reformed the government of Brazil based on liberal principles instead of an absolute monarchy, helped create the Brazilian nation instead of many squabbling fiefdoms in conflict among themselves, and, in so doing, also clashed with the reactionary elements of the old regime, upon whose defeat he proclaimed a new country, Brazil, as a constitutional monarchy. Upon the death of his father, he briefly became the king of Portugal as well, but he abdicated only after a few months and returned to Brazil. In 1831, however, Portugal (and Spain) falling into revolutionary chaos with the liberal reformers clashing with reactionaries, Dom Pedro abdicated, returned to Europe, raised an army of volunteers, and offered his services as a mere citizen to his own daughter who became the legitimate ruler of Portugal after his abdication (from the Portuguese throne) but had been overthrown since by the reactionaries. His campaign in Europe was cut short, however, as he died of illness in 1834.

* ''VideoGame/TroubleshooterAbandonedChildren'': Sion is a downplayed example. While he did reject his family heritage and his personal privileges and duties in favor of trying his luck on his own in Valhalla, and he has stayed in touch with his family. His family, on the other side, disapprove, but they are also grudgingly proud that he protecting people, and is good enough at it to make headlines.