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* WouldntHitAGirl: Some knights are more hesitant to fight Adrienne upon realizing she's a girl, usually with a misogynistic edge to the trope. Gahiji stops because he recognizes her as the thought-dead princess and leaves to claim his reward for finding the truth.
** WouldHitAGirl: While Zachary initially refused to battle Adrienne, after she used her sword to smack him on the ass he flew into a rage and attacked. Raphael planned to drug her and cart her off without trouble but was willing to fight when that didn't work.
** WouldHitAGirl: While Zachary initially refused to battle Adrienne, after she used her sword to smack him on the ass he flew into a rage and attacked. Raphael planned to drug her and cart her off without trouble but was willing to fight when that didn't work.
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* WouldHitAGirl: While Zachary initially refused to battle Adrienne, after she used her sword to smack him on the ass he flew into a rage and attacked. Raphael planned to drug her and cart her off without trouble but was willing to fight when that didn't work.
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to the trope. Gahiji stops because he recognizes her as the thought-dead princess and leaves to claim his reward for finding the truth.
** WouldHitAGirl: While Zachary initially refused to battle Adrienne, after she used her sword to smack him on * YouKeepUsingThatWord: Several princes call Adrienne "fair," clearly under the ass he flew into a rage and attacked. Raphael planned to drug her and cart her off without trouble but was willing to fight when mistaken impression that didn't work.
it means "beautiful." As Adrienne points out, it means ''white'', which she is not.
* WouldntHitAGirl: Some knights are more hesitant to fight Adrienne upon realizing she's a girl, usually with a misogynistic
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* FantasticRacism: King Ashe's men burn down Bedelia and her father's blacksmith shop as revenge on Bedelia and Adrienne, not knowing the latter's identity, for fighting them. They want to blame it on Sparky and think that nobody would believe the word of a dwarf.
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** King Ashe's men burn down Bedelia and her father's blacksmith shop as revenge on Bedelia and Adrienne, not knowing the latter's identity, for fighting them. They want to blame it on Sparky and think that nobody would believe the word of a dwarf. They were wrong on that count; King Ashe does believe him, and punishes his men accordingly. But the queen is dismissive when all he wants for her destroyed shop and dead daughter is some money, saying "that's all you can expect of a dwarf." [[spoiler:She breaks down when she realizes she's doing the ''exact same thing'']].
** King Ashe's men burn down Bedelia and her father's blacksmith shop as revenge on Bedelia and Adrienne, not knowing the latter's identity, for fighting them. They want to blame it on Sparky and think that nobody would believe the word of a dwarf. They were wrong on that count; King Ashe does believe him, and punishes his men accordingly. But the queen is dismissive when all he wants for her destroyed shop and dead daughter is some money, saying "that's all you can expect of a dwarf." [[spoiler:She breaks down when she realizes she's doing the ''exact same thing'']].
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* TakeThat: A loving jab comes in issue three, where Bedelia shows Adrienne three wildly impractical suits of armor designed for female warriors. They strongly resemble the costumes of WonderWoman, [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]], and Comicbook/RedSonja respectively, and a major source of humor comes from Adrienne pointing out how little protection they'd actually offer in battle.
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* TakeThat: A loving jab comes in issue three, where Bedelia shows Adrienne three wildly impractical suits of armor designed for female warriors. They strongly resemble the costumes of WonderWoman, Franchise/WonderWoman, [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]], and Comicbook/RedSonja respectively, and a major source of humor comes from Adrienne pointing out how little protection they'd actually offer in battle.
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->''"Don't let the dragon hit you on the way out"''
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->''"Don't let the dragon hit you on the way out"''
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* TheDragonslayer: A bunch of dwarf dragonslayers appear to take down Sparky. Luckily, some of them know Bedelia.
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After parting ways Raven decides it's time to start her own pirate crew and take back the title of Pirate Queen. That adventure is covered in a spinoff, ''[[ComicBook/PrincelessRavenThePiratePrincess Princeless - Raven: The Pirate Princess]]''
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After parting ways Raven decides it's time to start her own pirate crew and take back the title of Pirate Queen. That adventure is covered in a spinoff, ''[[ComicBook/PrincelessRavenThePiratePrincess Princeless - Raven: The Pirate Princess]]''Princess]]''.
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* MistakenForRacist: In the first issue, a bumbling prince tries to compliment Adrienne by telling her she looks "fair". Adrienne is quick to point out the racial implications behind referring to her as "fair", rendering the prince quite embarrassed.
** Although, [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].
** Although, [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].
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* MistakenForRacist: In the first issue, a bumbling prince tries to compliment Adrienne by telling her she looks "fair". Adrienne is quick to point out the racial implications behind referring to her as "fair", "fair"[[note]]While it's often used in the sense of "beautiful", it's also commonly used in the sense of "pale skinned". Adrienne is most definitely '''not''' the latter.[[/note]], rendering the prince quite embarrassed.
** Although, [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].embarrassed.
** Although, [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].
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* BerserkButton: Adrienne's shaping up to be something of a GrammarNazi. She especially hates it when people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misuse]] the word "fair" to mean "beautiful" rather than "pale," which her family definitely is not.
** Although, [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].
** Although, [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].
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* BerserkButton: Adrienne's shaping up to be something of a GrammarNazi. She especially hates it when people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misuse]] the word "fair" to mean "beautiful" rather than "pale," which her family definitely is not.
** Although, [[http://www.not. [[note]]For the record, though, "fair" ''could'' generally mean "beautiful", as shown by [[https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].com/word/fair the word's etymological history]].[[/note]]
** Although, [[http://www.
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The series is currently available in trade paperback, and the first issue is [[https://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/14327941703489.pdf available for free in digital form.]]. A new series, Princeless: the ''Princeless: The Pirate Princess, Princess'', began in 2015, in which Adrienne and her {{Sidekick}} Bedelia befriend and rescue Raven, an Asian pirate princess.
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After parting ways Raven decides it's time to start her own pirate crew and take back the title of Pirate Queen. That adventure is covered in a spin off, ''Princeless: Raven spinoff, ''[[ComicBook/PrincelessRavenThePiratePrincess Princeless - Raven: The Pirate Princess''Princess]]''
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* BadassPrincess: Adrienne to a core.
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* SymbolicBaptism: In Book 5, Chapter 0, Adrienne and Bedelia fun in a lake, swimming around. As they play, Adri talks about her experiences with her hair and how she was insecure about it and how it hindered her. She convinces herself to cut it all off and feels much better about herself and her journey.
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** Sir Rocks the Mighty, who shoes up at the end of the fifth volume with Sir Walsh, indicating they will jointly be problems for rescuing the twins.
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* OverlyLongGag: Sometimes, such as the entire early issue spoofing the ChainmailBikini trope. Regardless of how seriously a work including that trope may take itself, one only has to look at such an outfit to know it's purely for {{Fanservice}}.
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* OverlyLongGag: Sometimes, such as the entire early issue spoofing the ChainmailBikini trope. trope, where it's treated as an earthshattering revelation when Adrienne suggests that a female warrior might wear armor with enough coverage to actually ''protect'' them. Regardless of how seriously a work including that the trope may take itself, one only has to look at such an outfit to know it's purely for {{Fanservice}}.
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** Although, [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fair "fair" ''could'' generally mean beautiful]].
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* HatesBeingTouched: Angelica, but with good reason.
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* IronicEcho: "Did you ''see'' that girl's arms? They're ''pipe cleaners''! She's not climbing down anything." - "Your princess can't climb down she's got tiny ''delicate'' pipe cleaner arms."
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* IronicEcho: In the first issue and the short comic that follows it:
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The series is currently available in trade paperback, and the first issue is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/20/free-eisner-nominated-princeless/ [[https://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/14327941703489.pdf available for free in digital form.]]. A new series, Princeless: the Pirate Princess, began in 2015, in which Adrienne and her {{Sidekick}} Bedelia befriend and rescue Raven, an Asian pirate princess.
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** The Black Knight, who is seemingly revealed as a SixthRanerTraitor when it looks like he kidnapped the queen. [[spoiler: But "he" is more heavily foreshadowed to ''actually be the queen.'']]
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** The Black Knight, who is seemingly revealed as a SixthRanerTraitor SixthRangerTraitor when it looks like he kidnapped the queen. [[spoiler: But "he" is more heavily foreshadowed to ''actually be the queen.'']]
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* BenevolentMonsters: The dragons breathe fire and eat knights because it is the cultural expectation of the humans that they will protect the princess until a worthy suitor comes to slay it and rescue the princess. The dragons are intelligent and generally don't realize that they're supposed to just die for the sake of the hero. Adrienne actually befriends her dragon and informs her of this. Sparky is resultingly horrified and happy to change the status quo.
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* BenevolentMonsters: The dragons breathe fire and eat knights because it is the cultural expectation of the humans that they will protect the princess until a worthy suitor comes to slay it and rescue the princess. The dragons are intelligent and generally don't realize that they're supposed to just die for the sake of the hero. Adrienne actually befriends her dragon and informs her of this. Sparky is resultingly naturally horrified to dscover that the plan is for her to die and is happy to change the status quo. quo.
** It turns out many monsters come from a monster farm up in the mountains [[spoiler: run by Bedelia's mother.]] Most of the other princess guardians are from there, as is a swamp monster [[spoiler: the goblin president hired in order to terrorize the locals to make his platform more popular.]]
** It turns out many monsters come from a monster farm up in the mountains [[spoiler: run by Bedelia's mother.]] Most of the other princess guardians are from there, as is a swamp monster [[spoiler: the goblin president hired in order to terrorize the locals to make his platform more popular.]]
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* TheBlacksmith: Bedelia. Her father taught her the craft and she's the one creating the shop's armor. Unfortunately, due to double standards, nobody would buy it if they knew, so she keeps this fact hidden.
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* TheBlacksmith: Bedelia. Her father taught her the craft and she's the one creating the shop's armor. Unfortunately, due to double standards, standards (with dwarves only men can smith), nobody would buy it if they knew, so she keeps this fact hidden.hidden. [[spoiler: When the truth is known, her dwarven grandfather states that as a half dwarf she should not be bound by such customs, and he goes on praising her craftsmanship.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: There are several chracters who sparkle. Some do it naturally and some when they're emoting powerfully about something.
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* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: There are several chracters characters who sparkle. Some do it naturally and some when they're emoting powerfully about something.
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* LampshadeHanging: The comic's first page with the FakeOutOpening illstrates not only the formula of what many expect the general fairy tale to be, but also to which characters and tropes they are restricted. The blue-eyed, blonde, helpless princess trapped in a tower; the equally good and pure and ''white'' prince who saves her; the marriage between them, because he saved her. As soon as her mother finished the story, young Adrienne points out the various flaws, including the question why anyone would want to imprison the princess in the first place.
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* LampshadeHanging: The comic's first page with the FakeOutOpening illstrates illustrates not only the formula of what many expect the general fairy tale to be, but also to which characters and tropes they are restricted. The blue-eyed, blonde, helpless princess trapped in a tower; the equally good and pure and ''white'' prince who saves her; the marriage between them, because he saved her. As soon as her mother finished the story, young Adrienne points out the various flaws, including the question why anyone would want to imprison the princess in the first place.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: All of volume three takes a break from the quest at hand to introduce Princess Raven and her story for the spinoff. Bedelia is almost completely sidelined after the first issue and the issues could almost be skipped entirely plot-wise.
* PureIsNotGood: One of the knights sent after Adrienne is Zachary "The Pure" who has bishie sparkles around him at all times and claims there's a place in the world for everyone while he charms animals with his touch. Turns out he ''means'' everyone has a preordained role in the world that they ''must'' follow and is actually a misogynistic jerkass since a woman's role is not to fight.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The knights assembled in the second volume by the king to find the "princess killer." Adrienne generally faces off with one per volume.
** Sir Rocks the Mighty, who shoes up at the end of the fifth volume with Sir Walsh, indicating they will jointly be problems for rescuing the twins.
** Sir Gahiji the Hunter, who is an antagonist in the second volume. He leaves after discovering Adrienne's identity [[spoiler: and is strung up by the Black Knight when he tells them about it, to prevent him from going to the king.]]
** Sir Raphael the Handsome, a charmer who is the antagonist once they reach Angoisse's castle, as he is Angoisse's boyfriend. Also a vampire. After Adrienne traps him in a tree, [[spoiler: the Black Knight exposes him to sunlight to get rid of him for good.]]
** Sir Walsh the Braggart, who shows up at the end of the fifth volume with Sir Rocks.
** Sir Zachary the Pure, who is fought at the end of the second volume/the start of the third in a repeated battle. He makes a poor showing against Adrienne, spending more time complaining about her not knowing her place and only fighting when she enraged him. Thanks to Raven stopping his men from interfering, he is forced to yield and is locked in Raven's tower.
** The Black Knight, who is seemingly revealed as a SixthRanerTraitor when it looks like he kidnapped the queen. [[spoiler: But "he" is more heavily foreshadowed to ''actually be the queen.'']]
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: The knights assembled in the second volume by the king to find the "princess killer." Adrienne generally faces off with one per volume.
** Sir Rocks the Mighty, who shoes up at the end of the fifth volume with Sir Walsh, indicating they will jointly be problems for rescuing the twins.
** Sir Gahiji the Hunter, who is an antagonist in the second volume. He leaves after discovering Adrienne's identity [[spoiler: and is strung up by the Black Knight when he tells them about it, to prevent him from going to the king.]]
** Sir Raphael the Handsome, a charmer who is the antagonist once they reach Angoisse's castle, as he is Angoisse's boyfriend. Also a vampire. After Adrienne traps him in a tree, [[spoiler: the Black Knight exposes him to sunlight to get rid of him for good.]]
** Sir Walsh the Braggart, who shows up at the end of the fifth volume with Sir Rocks.
** Sir Zachary the Pure, who is fought at the end of the second volume/the start of the third in a repeated battle. He makes a poor showing against Adrienne, spending more time complaining about her not knowing her place and only fighting when she enraged him. Thanks to Raven stopping his men from interfering, he is forced to yield and is locked in Raven's tower.
** The Black Knight, who is seemingly revealed as a SixthRanerTraitor when it looks like he kidnapped the queen. [[spoiler: But "he" is more heavily foreshadowed to ''actually be the queen.'']]
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* TomboyPrincess: Adrienne, who is sarcastic, direct, easily annoyed; who doesn't wear pink clothes, clads in armor, begins sword-fighting, and fights her supposed role as a PrincessClassic.
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Some knights are more hesitant to fight Adrienne upon realizing she's a girl, usually with a misogynistic edge to the trope. Gahiji stops because he recognizes her as the thought-dead princess and leaves to claim his reward for finding the truth.
** WouldHitAGirl: While Zachary initially refused to battle Adrienne, after she used her sword to smack him on the ass he flew into a rage and attacked. Raphael planned to drug her and cart her off without trouble but was willing to fight when that didn't work.
** WouldHitAGirl: While Zachary initially refused to battle Adrienne, after she used her sword to smack him on the ass he flew into a rage and attacked. Raphael planned to drug her and cart her off without trouble but was willing to fight when that didn't work.
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** "What are you going to do? Hit me?" Is not something Ximena should ask a bad guy.
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* TheBlacksmith: Bedelia. Her father taught her the craft and she's the one creating the shop's armor. Unfortunately, due to double standards, nobody would take Bedelia serious to make armor or buy it if they knew. So she keeps this fact hidden.
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* TheBlacksmith: Bedelia. Her father taught her the craft and she's the one creating the shop's armor. Unfortunately, due to double standards, nobody would take Bedelia serious to make armor or buy it if they knew. So knew, so she keeps this fact hidden.
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* BonusMaterial: Several side story isses have been released so far: ''Short Stories for Warrior Women #1, Short Stories for Warrior Women #2, Tales of the Family Ashe,'' and ''Tales of Girls who Rock''.
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* CoolOldGuy: Bedelia's grandfather.
* FantasticCasteSystem: In Dwarven society only men are allowed to be smiths, so most of the women are warriors.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The Ashe Family, they might be somewhat dysfunctional but they are at the end of the day a loving family.
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The series is currently available in trade paperback, and the first issue is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/20/free-eisner-nominated-princeless/ available for free in digital form.]]. A new series, Princeless: the Pirate Princess, began in 2015, in which Adrienne and her {{Sidekick}} Bedelia befriend and rescue Raven, an Asian pirate princess after parting ways Raven decides it's time to start her own pirate crew and take back the title of Pirate Queen.
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The series is currently available in trade paperback, and the first issue is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/20/free-eisner-nominated-princeless/ available for free in digital form.]]. A new series, Princeless: the Pirate Princess, began in 2015, in which Adrienne and her {{Sidekick}} Bedelia befriend and rescue Raven, an Asian pirate princess after princess.
After parting ways Raven decides it's time to start her own pirate crew and take back the title of PirateQueen.
Queen. That adventure is covered in a spin off, ''Princeless: Raven - The Pirate Princess''
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The series is currently available in trade paperback, and the first issue is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/20/free-eisner-nominated-princeless/ available for free in digital form.]]. A new series, Princeless: the Pirate Princess, began in 2015, in which Adrienne and her {{Sidekick}} Bedelia befriend and rescue Raven, an Asian pirate princess.
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* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:[[ClassicalMythology A maze and a minotaur]]]] guard Appalonia.
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->''"Don't let the dragon hit you on the way out"''
''Princeless'' is an Eisner award-nominated comic book series written by Jeremy Whitley and drawn by M. Goodwin. Set in a relatively standard fairy tale setting, the series stars Adrienne, a young black princess who has, since childhood, thought that the tradition of sticking princesses in towers to be rescued is stupid. She especially hates that the princesses are all helpless and can't help themselves. Adrienne swears she will never be one of those pitiful princesses stuck in a tower to wait for some guy to "deserve" being her husband by slaying a dragon.
Her parents, however, overrule her and uphold tradition. Finding herself in the tower, Adrienne decides that she is not sitting still for this. She befriends her dragon, tells her what her role in the tableau is, and that she is done being a DamselInDistress. Escaping from the tower where she is being held prisoner with the aid of the dragon that was guarding her, and donning armor left over from the dead previous suitors, Adrienne sets out to rescue her sisters from the prisons they are being held in.
The series takes delight in taking many fantasy tropes and turning them on their heads, while also telling a tale about love and family. The series also boasts a diverse cast, lampshading the fact that most mass media versions of fairy tales, despite coming from all over the world, are made with white people.
The series is currently available in trade paperback, and the first issue is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/20/free-eisner-nominated-princeless/ available for free in digital form.]]. A new series, Princeless: the Pirate Princess, began in 2015, in which Adrienne and her {{Sidekick}} Bedelia befriend and rescue Raven, an Asian pirate princess.
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!!This comic provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Adrienne, who busts out of her castle prison [[spoiler:by befriending the dragon who's supposed to be guarding her, mind you]], her sidekick, Bedelia, and Princess Raven.
* TheAlcoholic: Bedelia's dad, confirmed at the end of "The Smiths", to the point that her mother was planning on leaving with Bedelia to get away from him. He spends most of his time in the pub nowadays and hasn't made armor in years.
* ArchnemesisDad: Adrienne's dad will likely evolve into this, though he doesn't yet know that she broke herself out, and Adrienne at least considers him the FinalBoss of her quest.
* BadassPrincess: Adrienne to a core.
* BenevolentMonsters: The dragons breathe fire and eat knights because it is the cultural expectation of the humans that they will protect the princess until a worthy suitor comes to slay it and rescue the princess. The dragons are intelligent and generally don't realize that they're supposed to just die for the sake of the hero. Adrienne actually befriends her dragon and informs her of this. Sparky is resultingly horrified and happy to change the status quo.
* BerserkButton: Adrienne's shaping up to be something of a GrammarNazi. She especially hates it when people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misuse]] the word "fair" to mean "beautiful" rather than "pale," which her family definitely is not.
* BlackComedy: Adrienne asks Sparky if she's eaten both of the knights already in issue #1. The dragon sits against the tower, picking her teeth with a sword and a satisfied grin, surrounded by the remaining armor of the knights. Adrienne worries that Sparky maybe gets a stomach ache.
** When Adrienne later fetches armor pieces from the dead knights to wear, she picks up a gauntlet.
--> Adrienne (disgusted, but still calm): "Eewww! This one still has a ''hand'' in it."
* TheBlacksmith: Bedelia. Her father taught her the craft and she's the one creating the shop's armor. Unfortunately, due to double standards, nobody would take Bedelia serious to make armor or buy it if they knew. So she keeps this fact hidden.
* BonusMaterial: Several side story isses have been released so far: ''Short Stories for Warrior Women #1, Short Stories for Warrior Women #2, Tales of the Family Ashe,'' and ''Tales of Girls who Rock''.
* BookEnds: ''Mr. Froggy'' starts and ends with Prince Wilcome talking to a frog - the first when he was a child playing outside in the mud, the latter as a prince trapped in the dungeon.
* ChainmailBikini: Several of the suits of "armor" Bedelia tries to sell Adrienne fit this trope.
* CoolPet: Sparky, Adrienne's former dragon guard.
* DamselInDistress: By the story's nature, this trope is explored, lampshaded, subverted, invoked, exploited and played with in other ways.
* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Adrienne knew she'd be locked up when she turned sixteen, and her father had her food drugged so she could be taken off without resistance.
** She wants to save her youngest sister Appalonia first, since she isn't sixteen yet. Unfortunately, Devin declared a few days ago to his father he would run away with Appolonia from him. The next day, King Ashe has his daughter taken and locked away somewhere.
* DoubleStandard: The story points out the setting's gender restrictions imposed on both females and males, like the iconic imprisonment of princesses in towers, guarded by dragons, until princes slay the beasts and marry the princessess. A humorous short comic depicts that a special school forces princes into this system. It also shows society distinguishes between young men "ready" to be princes and these who actually are going to battle for their country.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: There are several chracters who sparkle. Some do it naturally and some when they're emoting powerfully about something.
* FakeOutOpening: The first issue begins with the story of a typical blonde, blue-eyed princess who finds happiness after being rescued by a man. This is quickly revealed to be [[RecursiveFiction nothing more than a story being read to Adrienne]], which she is quick to criticize.
* FakingTheDead: By burning her tower, Princess Adrienne misleads everyone who'd be looking for her into think she was burned as well.
** [[spoiler:Everyone believes Bedelia was inside the shop when King Ashe's men burnt it down. The comic shows her eager to go with Adrienne, without any thought to leave a message for her father, so Bedelia is probably fine with that.]]
* FantasticRacism: King Ashe's men burn down Bedelia and her father's blacksmith shop as revenge on Bedelia and Adrienne, not knowing the latter's identity, for fighting them. They want to blame it on Sparky and think that nobody would believe the word of a dwarf.
** Elves are also considered dangerous man-eating monsters.
* FunnyAfro: Adrienne's hair turns into this if she doesn't tame it regularly. WordOfGod says that this will be a recurring theme.
* GenderFlip: The story itself is a gender-flip of the usual prince/princess dynamic in fairy tales, although it's meant to be a traditional one with the King imprisoning his daughters so that only worthy suitors get to them.
* GirlInTheTower: Royality in the story's setting deliberately invokes this scenario with their daughters.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Averted. Adrienne and Bedelia fight with a sword and a hammer respectively up close, while Raven shoots with a bow.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Adrienne's polka dot underwear gets exposed after her first set of armor's belt gets slashed in a fight.
** Prince Wilcome's heart underwear shows from where Sparky took a bite from the seat of his pants.
* HatesBeingTouched: Angelica, but with good reason.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Bedelia's father is a dwarf while her mother is a human, and she takes [[GirlsWithMoustaches mostly]] after her mother.
* {{Goth}}: Adrienne's sister Angoisse. For bonus points her name can literally be translated as ''angst''.
* IHaveNoSon: Devin's father went as far as saying that.
* InadequateInheritor: How Adrienne's twin brother Devin is seen by their father.
* IronicEcho: "Did you ''see'' that girl's arms? They're ''pipe cleaners''! She's not climbing down anything." - "Your princess can't climb down she's got tiny ''delicate'' pipe cleaner arms."
* JockDadNerdSon: Adrienne's father and Devin have this sort of dynamic going on.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Bedelia. Adrienne, a real princess, requests her to make functional armor to buy - she goes at the task with manic laughter. Adrienne then asks her to help her fight the soldiers that barged into the shop - Bedelia fetches a hammer whose head is bigger than her torso and lays the smack on the men. After they have booted them out, the soldiers start a fire on the outside of the shop, and they flee upstairs - here Adrienne crashes through a window to jump to a different house's roof to escape, followed by the awed Bedelia. To top it all, she ''blackmails'' Adrienne to take her with on her quest or strip off her armor - since the payment for it was inside the blacksmith when the princess got it burnt down.
--> "OHMIGODOHMIGODOHMIGOD! That was so much fun! Forget making things, I just wanna do that all day!"
* LadyOfWar: Adrienne.
* LampshadeHanging: The comic's first page with the FakeOutOpening illstrates not only the formula of what many expect the general fairy tale to be, but also to which characters and tropes they are restricted. The blue-eyed, blonde, helpless princess trapped in a tower; the equally good and pure and ''white'' prince who saves her; the marriage between them, because he saved her. As soon as her mother finished the story, young Adrienne points out the various flaws, including the question why anyone would want to imprison the princess in the first place.
--> Adrienne: "That story is complete ''hogwash''."
* LetterMotif: All of the girls in Adrienne's family have names starting with the letter A.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Adrienne and her brother Devin.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Adrienne is one of seven girls, in addition to their brother.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: When flying on Sparky's back after Bedelia joins Adrienne, they pass by a cottage in the forest under them [[spoiler:where King Ashe has imprisoned Appalonia]]. Ironically, Adrienne is talking about her this moment while she wonders where she could be.
* MistakenForRacist: In the first issue, a bumbling prince tries to compliment Adrienne by telling her she looks "fair". Adrienne is quick to point out the racial implications behind referring to her as "fair", rendering the prince quite embarrassed.
* MoodWhiplash: The short comic ''Mr. Froggy''. Wilcome, the unfortunate prince we saw in the first issue, narrates how he entered "[[PrinceCharming Prince Charming's]] Charm School for Future Kings" as a boy. He had to fight helmet hair, train easy smirking while sword-fighting and undergo the tower obstacle course (read: save a princess who has pipe cleaner arms from a tower after killing the cut-out dragon). The bright colors and the drawing style of faces and expressions enhance the silliness. Unfortunately, he approaches Adrienne's tower, Sparky chases him off, and [[ForegoneConclusion lands in the dungeon]]. Even the colors shift to a darker tone once King Ashe appears.
* TheMuse: Angelica serves as one to a whole village of artisans camped outside her tower.
* OhCrap: The bumbling prince's reaction when she told him not to let the dragon hit him "on the way out". It seems nobody warned him there'd be a dragon.
** We see [[spoiler:Appalonia's mythical guard, a minotaur,]] and the chapter ends on her expression.
* OutnumberedSibling: Devin has seven sisters.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Outspoken TomboyPrincess Adrienne and her InTouchWithHisFeminineSide sensitive poet brother Devin.
** Adrienne's twin sisters Andrea and Antonia also try to be this, including dyeing their hair different colors.
* PrinceCharming: Parodied in ''Mr. Froggy''.
* PrincessClassic: Appalonia, Adrienne's youngest sister, is the clearest example, crossed with ThePollyanna.
* RebelliousPrincess: Adrienne, naturally.
* SamusIsAGirl: Happens several times in the first few issues, first when Devin realizes who she is after she breaks into the castle and then again when Bedelia makes her remove her helmet.
** [[spoiler: It's been pretty heavily implied that the Black Knight is in fact Adrienne's Mother, AKA, The Queen.]]
* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:[[ClassicalMythology A maze and a minotaur]]]] guard Appalonia.
* {{Stripperific}}: Mercilessly lampooned during the armor shop sequence in issue #3.
* TakeThat: A loving jab comes in issue three, where Bedelia shows Adrienne three wildly impractical suits of armor designed for female warriors. They strongly resemble the costumes of WonderWoman, [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]], and Comicbook/RedSonja respectively, and a major source of humor comes from Adrienne pointing out how little protection they'd actually offer in battle.
* TemptingFate: Young Adrienne warns her mother that she and her father better not lock her in some tower once she turns sixteen. Next panel and a GilliganCut later, she's sixteen and locked in a tower.
** Adrienne decides she's going to save Angelica first instead of Appalonia, since she doesn't know yet where her youngest sister is. So their next destination are the grasslands. Bedelia wonders if creatures like "rhinogs" and "elegators" truly exist there, which Adrienne voices her doubts about. She says next time Bedelia will tell her that centaurs and minotaurs exist. Some panels later, we see [[spoiler:a massive specimen of the latter - and he's Appalonia's guard, the meanest of the bunch]] according to King Ashe.
* TomboyPrincess: Adrienne, who is sarcastic, direct, easily annoyed; who doesn't wear pink clothes, clads in armor, begins sword-fighting, and fights her supposed role as a PrincessClassic.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Bedelia's father is a dwarf (the fantasy kind) and not the attractive kind. She's quite thankful that she takes after her mother instead.
** She inherited [[GirlsWithMoustaches one distinctive feature from him]], however, and she's not too happy about that one.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Adrienne's sister Angelica is described as this. So much so that the first spiteful witch tried to curse her at age three, and she got her first marriage proposal from a besotted knight at age six.
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->''"Don't let the dragon hit you on the way out"''
''Princeless'' is an Eisner award-nominated comic book series written by Jeremy Whitley and drawn by M. Goodwin. Set in a relatively standard fairy tale setting, the series stars Adrienne, a young black princess who has, since childhood, thought that the tradition of sticking princesses in towers to be rescued is stupid. She especially hates that the princesses are all helpless and can't help themselves. Adrienne swears she will never be one of those pitiful princesses stuck in a tower to wait for some guy to "deserve" being her husband by slaying a dragon.
Her parents, however, overrule her and uphold tradition. Finding herself in the tower, Adrienne decides that she is not sitting still for this. She befriends her dragon, tells her what her role in the tableau is, and that she is done being a DamselInDistress. Escaping from the tower where she is being held prisoner with the aid of the dragon that was guarding her, and donning armor left over from the dead previous suitors, Adrienne sets out to rescue her sisters from the prisons they are being held in.
The series takes delight in taking many fantasy tropes and turning them on their heads, while also telling a tale about love and family. The series also boasts a diverse cast, lampshading the fact that most mass media versions of fairy tales, despite coming from all over the world, are made with white people.
The series is currently available in trade paperback, and the first issue is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/20/free-eisner-nominated-princeless/ available for free in digital form.]]. A new series, Princeless: the Pirate Princess, began in 2015, in which Adrienne and her {{Sidekick}} Bedelia befriend and rescue Raven, an Asian pirate princess.
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!!This comic provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Adrienne, who busts out of her castle prison [[spoiler:by befriending the dragon who's supposed to be guarding her, mind you]], her sidekick, Bedelia, and Princess Raven.
* TheAlcoholic: Bedelia's dad, confirmed at the end of "The Smiths", to the point that her mother was planning on leaving with Bedelia to get away from him. He spends most of his time in the pub nowadays and hasn't made armor in years.
* ArchnemesisDad: Adrienne's dad will likely evolve into this, though he doesn't yet know that she broke herself out, and Adrienne at least considers him the FinalBoss of her quest.
* BadassPrincess: Adrienne to a core.
* BenevolentMonsters: The dragons breathe fire and eat knights because it is the cultural expectation of the humans that they will protect the princess until a worthy suitor comes to slay it and rescue the princess. The dragons are intelligent and generally don't realize that they're supposed to just die for the sake of the hero. Adrienne actually befriends her dragon and informs her of this. Sparky is resultingly horrified and happy to change the status quo.
* BerserkButton: Adrienne's shaping up to be something of a GrammarNazi. She especially hates it when people [[YouKeepUsingThatWord misuse]] the word "fair" to mean "beautiful" rather than "pale," which her family definitely is not.
* BlackComedy: Adrienne asks Sparky if she's eaten both of the knights already in issue #1. The dragon sits against the tower, picking her teeth with a sword and a satisfied grin, surrounded by the remaining armor of the knights. Adrienne worries that Sparky maybe gets a stomach ache.
** When Adrienne later fetches armor pieces from the dead knights to wear, she picks up a gauntlet.
--> Adrienne (disgusted, but still calm): "Eewww! This one still has a ''hand'' in it."
* TheBlacksmith: Bedelia. Her father taught her the craft and she's the one creating the shop's armor. Unfortunately, due to double standards, nobody would take Bedelia serious to make armor or buy it if they knew. So she keeps this fact hidden.
* BonusMaterial: Several side story isses have been released so far: ''Short Stories for Warrior Women #1, Short Stories for Warrior Women #2, Tales of the Family Ashe,'' and ''Tales of Girls who Rock''.
* BookEnds: ''Mr. Froggy'' starts and ends with Prince Wilcome talking to a frog - the first when he was a child playing outside in the mud, the latter as a prince trapped in the dungeon.
* ChainmailBikini: Several of the suits of "armor" Bedelia tries to sell Adrienne fit this trope.
* CoolPet: Sparky, Adrienne's former dragon guard.
* DamselInDistress: By the story's nature, this trope is explored, lampshaded, subverted, invoked, exploited and played with in other ways.
* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Adrienne knew she'd be locked up when she turned sixteen, and her father had her food drugged so she could be taken off without resistance.
** She wants to save her youngest sister Appalonia first, since she isn't sixteen yet. Unfortunately, Devin declared a few days ago to his father he would run away with Appolonia from him. The next day, King Ashe has his daughter taken and locked away somewhere.
* DoubleStandard: The story points out the setting's gender restrictions imposed on both females and males, like the iconic imprisonment of princesses in towers, guarded by dragons, until princes slay the beasts and marry the princessess. A humorous short comic depicts that a special school forces princes into this system. It also shows society distinguishes between young men "ready" to be princes and these who actually are going to battle for their country.
* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: There are several chracters who sparkle. Some do it naturally and some when they're emoting powerfully about something.
* FakeOutOpening: The first issue begins with the story of a typical blonde, blue-eyed princess who finds happiness after being rescued by a man. This is quickly revealed to be [[RecursiveFiction nothing more than a story being read to Adrienne]], which she is quick to criticize.
* FakingTheDead: By burning her tower, Princess Adrienne misleads everyone who'd be looking for her into think she was burned as well.
** [[spoiler:Everyone believes Bedelia was inside the shop when King Ashe's men burnt it down. The comic shows her eager to go with Adrienne, without any thought to leave a message for her father, so Bedelia is probably fine with that.]]
* FantasticRacism: King Ashe's men burn down Bedelia and her father's blacksmith shop as revenge on Bedelia and Adrienne, not knowing the latter's identity, for fighting them. They want to blame it on Sparky and think that nobody would believe the word of a dwarf.
** Elves are also considered dangerous man-eating monsters.
* FunnyAfro: Adrienne's hair turns into this if she doesn't tame it regularly. WordOfGod says that this will be a recurring theme.
* GenderFlip: The story itself is a gender-flip of the usual prince/princess dynamic in fairy tales, although it's meant to be a traditional one with the King imprisoning his daughters so that only worthy suitors get to them.
* GirlInTheTower: Royality in the story's setting deliberately invokes this scenario with their daughters.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Averted. Adrienne and Bedelia fight with a sword and a hammer respectively up close, while Raven shoots with a bow.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Adrienne's polka dot underwear gets exposed after her first set of armor's belt gets slashed in a fight.
** Prince Wilcome's heart underwear shows from where Sparky took a bite from the seat of his pants.
* HatesBeingTouched: Angelica, but with good reason.
* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Bedelia's father is a dwarf while her mother is a human, and she takes [[GirlsWithMoustaches mostly]] after her mother.
* {{Goth}}: Adrienne's sister Angoisse. For bonus points her name can literally be translated as ''angst''.
* IHaveNoSon: Devin's father went as far as saying that.
* InadequateInheritor: How Adrienne's twin brother Devin is seen by their father.
* IronicEcho: "Did you ''see'' that girl's arms? They're ''pipe cleaners''! She's not climbing down anything." - "Your princess can't climb down she's got tiny ''delicate'' pipe cleaner arms."
* JockDadNerdSon: Adrienne's father and Devin have this sort of dynamic going on.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Bedelia. Adrienne, a real princess, requests her to make functional armor to buy - she goes at the task with manic laughter. Adrienne then asks her to help her fight the soldiers that barged into the shop - Bedelia fetches a hammer whose head is bigger than her torso and lays the smack on the men. After they have booted them out, the soldiers start a fire on the outside of the shop, and they flee upstairs - here Adrienne crashes through a window to jump to a different house's roof to escape, followed by the awed Bedelia. To top it all, she ''blackmails'' Adrienne to take her with on her quest or strip off her armor - since the payment for it was inside the blacksmith when the princess got it burnt down.
--> "OHMIGODOHMIGODOHMIGOD! That was so much fun! Forget making things, I just wanna do that all day!"
* LadyOfWar: Adrienne.
* LampshadeHanging: The comic's first page with the FakeOutOpening illstrates not only the formula of what many expect the general fairy tale to be, but also to which characters and tropes they are restricted. The blue-eyed, blonde, helpless princess trapped in a tower; the equally good and pure and ''white'' prince who saves her; the marriage between them, because he saved her. As soon as her mother finished the story, young Adrienne points out the various flaws, including the question why anyone would want to imprison the princess in the first place.
--> Adrienne: "That story is complete ''hogwash''."
* LetterMotif: All of the girls in Adrienne's family have names starting with the letter A.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Adrienne and her brother Devin.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Adrienne is one of seven girls, in addition to their brother.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: When flying on Sparky's back after Bedelia joins Adrienne, they pass by a cottage in the forest under them [[spoiler:where King Ashe has imprisoned Appalonia]]. Ironically, Adrienne is talking about her this moment while she wonders where she could be.
* MistakenForRacist: In the first issue, a bumbling prince tries to compliment Adrienne by telling her she looks "fair". Adrienne is quick to point out the racial implications behind referring to her as "fair", rendering the prince quite embarrassed.
* MoodWhiplash: The short comic ''Mr. Froggy''. Wilcome, the unfortunate prince we saw in the first issue, narrates how he entered "[[PrinceCharming Prince Charming's]] Charm School for Future Kings" as a boy. He had to fight helmet hair, train easy smirking while sword-fighting and undergo the tower obstacle course (read: save a princess who has pipe cleaner arms from a tower after killing the cut-out dragon). The bright colors and the drawing style of faces and expressions enhance the silliness. Unfortunately, he approaches Adrienne's tower, Sparky chases him off, and [[ForegoneConclusion lands in the dungeon]]. Even the colors shift to a darker tone once King Ashe appears.
* TheMuse: Angelica serves as one to a whole village of artisans camped outside her tower.
* OhCrap: The bumbling prince's reaction when she told him not to let the dragon hit him "on the way out". It seems nobody warned him there'd be a dragon.
** We see [[spoiler:Appalonia's mythical guard, a minotaur,]] and the chapter ends on her expression.
* OutnumberedSibling: Devin has seven sisters.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Outspoken TomboyPrincess Adrienne and her InTouchWithHisFeminineSide sensitive poet brother Devin.
** Adrienne's twin sisters Andrea and Antonia also try to be this, including dyeing their hair different colors.
* PrinceCharming: Parodied in ''Mr. Froggy''.
* PrincessClassic: Appalonia, Adrienne's youngest sister, is the clearest example, crossed with ThePollyanna.
* RebelliousPrincess: Adrienne, naturally.
* SamusIsAGirl: Happens several times in the first few issues, first when Devin realizes who she is after she breaks into the castle and then again when Bedelia makes her remove her helmet.
** [[spoiler: It's been pretty heavily implied that the Black Knight is in fact Adrienne's Mother, AKA, The Queen.]]
* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:[[ClassicalMythology A maze and a minotaur]]]] guard Appalonia.
* {{Stripperific}}: Mercilessly lampooned during the armor shop sequence in issue #3.
* TakeThat: A loving jab comes in issue three, where Bedelia shows Adrienne three wildly impractical suits of armor designed for female warriors. They strongly resemble the costumes of WonderWoman, [[Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]], and Comicbook/RedSonja respectively, and a major source of humor comes from Adrienne pointing out how little protection they'd actually offer in battle.
* TemptingFate: Young Adrienne warns her mother that she and her father better not lock her in some tower once she turns sixteen. Next panel and a GilliganCut later, she's sixteen and locked in a tower.
** Adrienne decides she's going to save Angelica first instead of Appalonia, since she doesn't know yet where her youngest sister is. So their next destination are the grasslands. Bedelia wonders if creatures like "rhinogs" and "elegators" truly exist there, which Adrienne voices her doubts about. She says next time Bedelia will tell her that centaurs and minotaurs exist. Some panels later, we see [[spoiler:a massive specimen of the latter - and he's Appalonia's guard, the meanest of the bunch]] according to King Ashe.
* TomboyPrincess: Adrienne, who is sarcastic, direct, easily annoyed; who doesn't wear pink clothes, clads in armor, begins sword-fighting, and fights her supposed role as a PrincessClassic.
* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: Bedelia's father is a dwarf (the fantasy kind) and not the attractive kind. She's quite thankful that she takes after her mother instead.
** She inherited [[GirlsWithMoustaches one distinctive feature from him]], however, and she's not too happy about that one.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Adrienne's sister Angelica is described as this. So much so that the first spiteful witch tried to curse her at age three, and she got her first marriage proposal from a besotted knight at age six.
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