History Main / PrinceCharming

** Notably in light of the above, the Princes in subsequent Disney films play with the trope in various ways, and have even come to subvert it quite forcefully. They may refuse their royal duties ([[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Simba]]), be jerks at first though they later [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold improve]] ([[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]], [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]]), start off as commoners who rise to the status of prince through marriage (WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Flynn Rider]]), appear charming but turn out to be a womanizing ManChild ([[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Naveen]]), or even [[spoiler:the BigBad]] ([[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Hans]]).

** WrongGenreSavvy Prince Quentyn Martell really ''wants'' to be a Prince Charming.

* ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour'': Richard of Gloucester is a deconstruction of this. He's an idealist and a moralist, and he certainly aspires to be a Prince Charming. He relishes saving his childhood sweetheart from the schemes of his brother, becoming her KnightInShiningArmor. However, Richard also has a furious temper, is stubborn and his brother observes that Richard thinks they are living in Camelot and not England.

* Gil from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is a kind of reconstruction. The Prince Charming has often been deconstructed by making him (the heir of) a tyrant. But Gil is very good at arguing his father is the most enlightened despot in the continent, and he's probably right. Also, Gil is beautiful, the ultimate warrior, AlwaysSaveTheGirl... He just fails for the romantic side.

Nowadays, the classic Prince Charming is [[DeadHorseTrope almost never used]], possibly because the {{Ruritania}}s which he often hailed from have largely abandoned monarchy, or joined the EU. The trope has been subverted, double subverted, inverted, averted, diverted, converted, and perverted (and ridiculed, but that's nothing to be scared of). Nowadays, he's more likely to be PrinceCharmless -- [[{{Jerkass}} rude]], {{smug|Snake}}, or [[TheEvilPrince evil]] -- or at least [[ShelteredAristocrat naive]], [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob unmotivated]], or [[RoyalBrat self-centered]].

Except, actually, all the princes in those tales were very seldom named. It was simply a "prince" or "king" or [[BlueBlood royalty]] of some sort. And when they did have names, they were genuine, even commonplace, names: John, Ivan, Jean, Hans, etc.

* ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'' is a variation of the RebornAsVillainessStory, where the prince fiances of the titular "[[AlphaBitch villainess]]" often have [[PrinceCharmless some glaring personality flaws]], ranging from BrokenAce at the most sympathetic to RoyalBrat at the least. His initial misunderstanding of Lieselotte's {{Tsundere}} behaviour aside, Prince Siegwald is one of the few cases that don't. This is probably due to it having a different PointOfView than the formula; whereas the mold place the point of view to the universe the prince is in, ''Endo and Kobayashi Live!'' puts the point of view on the ''other side'' of the FourthWall: two {{Ordinary High School Student}}s {{MST}}ing a RomanceGame featuring Siegwald.

* ''VideoGame/FableIII'': The Male Hero looks like a classic example of this Trope
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'s'' official Psycho-Pedia has this to say about Lili's view of Raz:
-->Clairvoyance reveals that Lili sees Raz as a Prince Charming-type, complete with cape, rose and slicked-back hair. [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend But she doesn't have a crush on him. Not at all. No way.]]

* The game ''VideoGame/OneHundredSleepingPrincesAndTheKingdomOfDreams'' relies on the lasting appeal of this trope. It's a {{Bishounen}}-collecting puzzle game featuring actually well over a hundred princes with varying styles of charm, but all of them are meant, first and foremost, to be [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys attractive]].

* Prince Dimitri of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is an interesting play on this trope. He comes off as a classic example--sincere, sweet, cheerful, and even boyish at times. His looks are also fairly archetypical of a fairy tale prince with [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde hair]], big blue doe eyes, and [[{{Bishonen}} soft features.]] While he is genuinely good-natured, it's to the point that [[spoiler: he's had a thirst for vengeance and [[BloodKnight violence]] after childhood trauma, and his pristine character is a [[MaskOfSanity mask]] he wears. After the timeskip of his Blue Lions route, he's allowed himself to become HeWhoFightsMonsters, and prioritizes his revenge over his kingdom.]]
* [[FreakyFashionMildMind Despite his infernal mode of dress]], Prince Zagreus of ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' is handsome, generous, soft-spoken (if [[GentlemanSnarker snarky]]), and friendly enough that it's easy to forget it's ''Hell'' he's prince of. Good thing DarkIsNotEvil.

* ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'' has Prince Ricardo, aka "Picky Dicky." He's [[TheAce great with heroics]], but insists on only marrying the ''best'' princess in the world, and has subsequently insulted just about every other in his search. His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him getting through the vines surrounding Sleeping Beauty's castle, which have claimed countless other men, leaning in to kiss her...and then leaving in disgust when it turns out that she wheezes in her sleep.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Prince Gumball from the gender-swapped episodes seems to be this (At least for what can be seen in his only two apparitions in the series) There is also [[spoiler:Prince Huge]] from the episode "The Hard Easy"
* ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'': In "The Fairy Godfather", there is a Princess Charming.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam:'' Is his zaku three times as fast as a normal zaku?

* In ''Manga/CandyCandy'', there is the mysterious "Prince from the Hill", a handsome young man dressed in a kilt, who makes Candy smile again when she was sad, and then vanishes in the into thin air, leaving only pendant with a small bell as the only evidence of his existence. [[spoiler:In the last episode of the series is finally revealed that the prince was Albert, who was also Candy´s MysteriousProtector "Uncle" William.]] Anthony (From the same series) also may count. [[spoiler:In fact, the first time Candy meets Anthony, she thought that he was her "Prince from the Hill" since both had a similar appearance and personality.]]
* James of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'''s Team Rocket has shades of this, with a little GentlemanThief for good measure. Given that he's from a rich, affluent family, it sort of fits.
* ''Manga/{{Negima}}'': The anime has Fate, playing it straight just to make Negi jealous.
* In ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Misaki Shokohou comments that whenever Touma Kamijou saves people, he looks like a gallant prince.
* In ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', the Drama Club often makes drama featuring characters of this type, usually {{cross cast|Role}} by [[{{Bifauxnen}} Kashima]]. Her participation in this kind of role earns her {{epithet}}, "the Prince of the School."

* Fate's tendency to [[BigDamnHeroes rescue Nanoha in the nick of time]] throughout the franchise of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has prompted their voice actresses to joke that Fate is Nanoha's prince. Gender inverted in that Fate is female, but then again, [[LesYay so is Nanoha]]. ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'', having kicked the ShipTease between the two up, has another character flat out state this. Nanoha's response is to [[LuminescentBlush blush heavily]].
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'':
** Utena aspires to be this, though she combines it part-and-parcel with KnightInShiningArmor. She in turn draws inspiration to be this from the enigmatic Prince Dios, who she barely remembers rescuing her from her sorrow after losing her parents. The Student Council (''sans'' [[AlphaBitch Nanami]]) also exhibit various Prince Charming subtropes, [[PrinceCharmless though they all fall short]].
** [[spoiler: While it's not immediately obvious, ''Utena'' pokes a ''lot'' of holes applying this trope to real life. By the end, the show makes it clear that [[{{Deconstruction}} the Prince archetype should neither be sought nor emulated, as it's almost impossible to achieve and completely unsustainable even then]]. Case-in-point: Prince Dios was a PhysicalGod with the power to revolutionize the world, and ''even he crumbled beneath the strain of embodying male perfection''.]]

* The Queen of Fables thinks that ComicBook/{{Superman}} is Prince Charming and wants to either kill him or marry him. Maybe both.

* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' subverts this ''without'' invoking PrinceCharmless. Prince Blueblood is handsome royalty and a perfect gentlestallion. Unfortunately, the heroine Rarity has a mile-wide masochistic streak, so she ''wants'' a prince who will boss her around and hurt her. Rarity loses interest in Prince Blueblood because he's too nice.
* In ''Fanfic/DividedRainbow'', Rarity's favorite pet name for Lero Michealides is 'my sweet prince.'

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Charming}}'': Played with, as the prince's "charm" is part of a curse -- as long as it's in effect, no woman can love anyone other than him. The central plot revolves around him trying to get rid of his charm, only to get the real non-magical version in the process.

* While ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheThreeStooges'' almost squandered the leads, the prince had [[AdaptationExpansion a greatly expanded role]] compared to the actual fairy tale.
* Played straight in ''Film/PrinceCharming'', a 2001 made-for-television film starring Creator/SeanMaguire. It is the story of a prince who gets turned into a frog due to dashingly rescuing a damsel in distress, who starts trying to [[RescueSex reward him]].
* Played straight in the movie ''Film/ThePrinceAndMe'' as Prince Edvard goes from having a girl on each arm to "Eddie" who quotes Creator/WilliamShakespeare like some [[BuffySpeak duke-lord guy.]]
* ''Film/KateAndLeopold'' has Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany who writes the best apology letter in the history of mankind.
* In the Czech movie ''Byl jednou jeden král'' (''Once upon a time there was a king'', an adaptation of the fairy tale ''Salt over gold'') there are three princes who came to the kingdom as suitors for the three princesses: Prince Charming [[note]]who claims to be THE Prince Charming who rescued the Sleeping Beauty and the Snow White (but, contrary to what the fairy tales say, he didn't marry them)[[/note]], Prince Valiant, and Prince Cunning. They are all braggarts and cowards, and eventually they help themselves to the royal treasure - while the three princesses, as well as the king himself, get married to commoners in the end.
* ''Film/MirrorMirror'' is one of the very few modern movies based on fairy tales which play this trope almost completely straight with Andrew Alcott, a character with most of the usual Prince Charming traits.
* Subverted in ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' as the prince has become an ActionSurvivor due to the queen's tyrannical rule. He also becomes an [[spoiler: UnluckyChildhoodFriend]] to Snow White - but is still presented as a good guy.

* Kit, the prince in ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'', is a rare example in a modern film played straight. Though there is a slight subversion in that he [[spoiler: must learn how to be a competent ruler once his father dies]] and does end the story [[spoiler:as a king]].

* There is a PRINCESS Charming In Jerry Lewis’s ''Film/{{Cinderfella}}''. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderfella movie's]] plot is partially Cinderella gender-swapped, and the stepmother throws the ball. It being the 1960s, Princess Charming (yes, that's her actual name), plays straight most of the Charming and Classic tropes.

* Given how soon it was written after the term originated, ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' is likely one of the first subversions. Dorian is called this by [[WideEyedIdealist extremely naive]] [[TheIngenue actress]] Sybil who he seduces and abandons, driving her to suicide. Another lover also apparently called him this, and uses the nickname scornfully when he encounters her several years later as a prostitute.

* Creator/JohnMoore's ''Slay and Rescue'' has a [[TheAce professional hero]] who really '''is''' a prince named Charming, sent by his father's chancellor to rescue fair maidens all over the place (the theory is that it keeps him too busy to try to take over the throne). He deliberately pulls BigDamnHeroes arrivals, is a MasterSwordsman, and is very frustrated. Nonetheless, he's also basically decent.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Prince Joffrey Baratheon is PrinceCharmless and TheCaligula, but Sansa sees him as a Prince Charming… for a while.
** His brother Prince Tommen, however, is genuinely kind and sweet-tempered (though he's only eight). Sansa even says she would have preferred to have married Tommen.
** Prince Rhaegar Targaryen was a ''very'' charming prince until his love for a woman he was not betrothed to incited Robert's Rebellion
** WrongGenreSavvy Prince Quentyn Martell really ''wants'' to be a Prince Charming.
* In Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Glenda objects to Trev as Juliet's love because Juliet is special and all she needed was a prince -- and she remembers her own fantasies. [[spoiler:Juliet and Trev do end up together, and Glenda ends up with a king to be.]]
* Justified in the contemporary book ''Dream Boy'' written by Ann Reit, which stars a charming, but immature teenager who learned it from his father.

* Played straight with Prince Jonathan of Tortall in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' who is a lover and a fighter. And oh ''boy'' is he a [[TheCasanova lover]] - right up until he meets Thayet, anyway, and she steals his heart and his ability to speak in all of ten seconds.

* Prince Kai from ''Literature/TheLunarChronicles: Cinder''.
* ''The Hero's Guide To Saving Your Kingdom'' by Chris Healy takes this trope and runs all over the map with it. The princes of four different fairy tales (Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White) get the short end of the stick when their stories are popularized because everyone remembers the princesses' names, but their names (Fredrick, Gustav, Liam and Duncan respectively) are lost and are just called "Charming", even though all four are radically different people. They eventually team up and become a league of Princes Charming.
* In ''Literature/GunsOfTheDawn'', Luthrian IV of Lascanne, although a king rather than a prince, fits this archetype — young, handsome, unmarried, and a good dancer — as Emily personally discovers. He's widely hailed by his adoring subjects as TheGoodKing, too — [[spoiler:but isn't]].

* ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'' is a variation of the RebornAsVillainessStory, where the prince fiances of the titular "[[AlphaBitch villainess]]" often have [[PrinceCharmless some glaring personality flaws]], ranging from BrokenAce at the most sympathetic to RoyalBrat at the least. His initial misunderstanding of Lieselotte's {{Tsundere}} behaviour aside, Prince Siegwald is one of the few cases that don't. This is probably due to it having a different PointOfView than the formula; whereas the mold place the point of view to the universe the prince is in, ''Endo and Kobayashi Live!'' puts the point of view on the ''other side'' of the FourthWall: two {{Ordinary High School Student}}s {{MST}}ing a RomanceGame featuring Siegwald.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Joffrey intentionally puts on this act for Sansa. It lasts for about half an episode before his true colors are revealed.
* Prince Charming is a character in ''Series/SesameStreet'', using the same puppet as Guy Smiley and Don Music, who can be relied upon to totally mess up any fairy-tale he's involved in (he's not a PrinceCharmless, just [[LordErrorProne incompetent and not very bright]]). He also works as a dance instructor, under the name Prince Cha-Cha-Charming.
* ''Series/GossipGirl'': Nate Archibald is all but explicitly based on this trope. He is described as charming with extreme regularity, and has the tendency to fall passionately in love (with various girls) and deliver romantic speeches (occasionally hilariously out of context) while rescuing them from some emotional or social dragon. He is in the books given the epithet "prince of the upper east side" and it is said that he can "snap his fingers and have any girl he wants." If you gave him fencing lessons, he would basically be the Prince Charming from {{ComicBook/Fables}}

* Played straight in the ''Series/VeronicaMars'' episode "Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough" where Logan meets Hannah who he says is "like the hot daughter of a king he marries off to get like Denmark or something."
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s favorite millionaire playboy Lex Luthor.

* Imitated/played for laughs so to speak on Series/{{Bones}} "The Prince in the Plastic", which had a victim who created a doll called 'Prince Charmington' and a suspect who dressed as the doll for store openings and such.

* The "Dream Prince" in ''{{Series/Akumuchan}}'' is a deliberate example of this trope. He is handsome, charming, rides a horse, and seems to exist for the sole purpose of rescuing Ayami from her troubled dreams and wooing her.
* He appears in ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'' to any lady who wore the Glass Slipper. He then traps her in his world with the help of one of Cinderella's Stepsisters. [[spoiler: His true form is that of a monster, and he is killed off by the Boukengers.]]
* Simon Tam from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is not a literal prince, but he ''is'' a kind, brave, attractive young man from a wealthy, aristocratic family who insists on acting "properly" (in the OldSchoolChivalry sense) even in the worst of circumstances, making him a rare modern straight example.

* ''{{Series/Charmed|1998}}'':
** "A Knight To Remember" summons a prince from medieval times to San Francisco. Aside from the obvious issues of a medieval knight in 21st century California would face, he's quite charming. Of course some of this is due to him being under a love spell.
** Mentioned in the FairyTaleMotifs episode "Happily Ever After". Paige eats Snow White's poisoned apple and it's said that a prince's kiss will free her. But thankfully once the WickedWitch that cursed her is defeated, the spell wears off. Nonetheless one of the dwarves suggests she get a prince just in case it happens again. The episode also features a love interest for Phoebe whose last name is Prince - and he serves as the prince in the Cinderella portion of the episode. But with one small difference: he's under the control of the Wicked Witch.
** Again alluded to by Phoebe's child self, who loved Cinderella and asked if Cole was her Prince.

* [[ManipulativeBastard Loki]] suggests that ComicBook/{{Hulkling}} of the ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' is really this, having been created by his boyfriend Wiccan's RealityWarper powers to subconsciously fulfill his fantasy of meeting and falling in love with this type of character. He points out the improbability of a gay teenage boy meeting, and perfectly matching, a gay alien prince. Of course, this is coming from [[ConsummateLiar Loki]], and both Hulkling and Wiccan were listed as part of the Avengers Fail-Safe Program, being descendants of prior members of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers''. Teammate [[TeenGenius Prodigy]] dismisses the whole matter as "existential nonsense".

* Prince Kai from ''Literature/LunarChronicles: Cinder''.

* Fate's tendency to [[BigDamnHeroes rescue Nanoha in the nick of time]] throughout the franchise of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has prompted their voice actresses to joke that Fate is Nanoha's prince. Gender inverted in that Fate is female, but then again, [[LesYay so is Nanoha]]. ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'', having kicked the ShipTease between the two UpToEleven, has another character flat out state this. Nanoha's response is to [[LuminescentBlush blush heavily]].

Nowadays, the classic Prince Charming is [[DeadHorseTrope almost never used]], possibly because the {{Ruritania}}s which he often hailed from have largely abandoned monarchy, or joined the EU. The trope has been subverted, double subverted, inverted, averted, diverted, converted, and perverted (and ridiculed, but that's nothing to be scared of). Nowadays, the Prince is often PrinceCharmless -- a {{Jerkass}}, SmugSnake, or downright [[TheEvilPrince evil]]. Possibly, he'll be [[ShelteredAristocrat naive]] or [[RoyalBrat selfish]].

It's only the rarest of instances where he can be played straight and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools done right]]. And under those circumstances he will be given his own name, and not called Prince Charming. "Prince Charming" is guaranteed to be a subversion. When he does have charm he can be found practicing OldSchoolChivalry. In most instances, he will start out with some flaws and undergo CharacterDevelopment to earn his "Prince Charming" status.

When not referring to a royal prince, the concept refers to a young man with the charm of a rich boy. Contrast the bad boy charm of AllGirlsWantBadBoys.

* ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries2RoyalArrangement'': Andrew Jacoby is an English duke[[note]]the next step down from actual princehood[[/note]] but fits the part in all other aspects. He's an Oxbridge-educated young man who does volunteer work and photography, has experience as a military pilot, and is apparently a champion swimmer. He's nothing but kind and understanding to Mia and accepts that a MarriageOfConvenience with her won't all be smooth sailing.

* The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Frankie, My Dear" has a Prince Charming imaginary friend. He is indeed handsome, charming, romantic--and smitten with Frankie Foster. Frankie tells him that she outgrew his type years ago, but don't worry, Friends like him get snatched up by little girls in no time.

** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'': At the end of ''Rescue at Midnight Castle'', [[spoiler:Scorpan]] is revealed to be a charming human prince whom Tirac turned into a monster.

* Prince Gumball from the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' gender-swapped episodes seems to be this (At least for what can be seen in his only two apparitions in the series) There is also [[spoiler:Prince Huge]] from the episode "The Hard Easy"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' episode "The Fairy Godfather", there is a Princess Charming.

* In ''Manga/CandyCandy'', there is the mysterious "Prince from the Hill", a handsome young man dressed in a kilt, who makes Candy smile again when she was sad, and then vanishes in the into thin air, leaving only pendant with a small bell as the only evidence of his existence. [[spoiler:In the last episode of the series is finally revealed that the prince was Albert, who was also Candy´s MysteriousProtector "Uncle" William.]] Anthony (From the same series) also may count. [[spoiler:In fact, the first time Candy meets Anthony, she thought that he was her "Prince from the Hill" since both had a similar appearence and personality.]]

* The Queen of Fables thinks that Franchise/{{Superman}} is Prince Charming and wants to either kill him or marry him. Maybe both. [[TheHero Given his nature]], it's understandable that the delusional Queen would make this mistake.

* Played with in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'': Prince Alannon was a dignified, quiet-spoken man, who was very handsome and liked to take regular baths. Very charming. However, his [[ExoticExtendedMarriage marriage]] to the protagonist's grandmothers came about not by him rescuing one of them, but by his being ''kidnapped'' by them. He eventually seems to have consented to marry them, which is not such a big surprise considering that the best he could have hoped for would have been an ArrangedMarriage, anyway. And they ''did'' build him a bathhouse.

Alternative title(s): Princess Charming

* Bill Willingham's comic book ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' (about characters from fairy tales living in secret in New York) has Prince Charming, who was married three times, to Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. He's a bit of a MagnificentBastard and eventually becomes [[spoiler:Mayor of Fabletown]]. Deconstructed as well, in that the effortless charmer is an absolute master at ''getting'' what he wants, but actually putting in the hard work to ''keep'' it is another matter entirely. He ends up [[spoiler: failing horribly as mayor and resigning, and instead leading the Fabletown war effort against the Adversary, where his personal daring, intense focus on goals, and excellent mind for XanatosSpeedChess over longterm [[TheChessmaster chessmastering]] make him extremely successful]].

* [[ManipulativeBastard Loki]] suggests that ComicBook/{{Hulkling}} of the ''Comicbook/YoungAvengers'' is really this, having been created by his boyfriend Wiccan's RealityWarper powers to subconsciously fulfill his fantasy of meeting and falling in love with this type of character. He points out the improbability of a gay teenage boy meeting, and perfectly matching, a gay alien prince. Of course, this is coming from [[ConsummateLiar Loki]], and both Hulkling and Wiccan were listed as part of the Avengers Fail-Safe Program, being descendants of prior members of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''. Teammate [[TeenGenius Prodigy]] dismisses the whole matter as "existential nonsense".

* ''Film/IntoTheWoods''

* [[{{Theatre/Tsukiuta}} Tsukino Empire - Unleash your mind -]] has Shun as the second prince of the empire. He certainly is charming, enough to win over Kai to being his knight upon their first meeting. The twins from the fourth fleet are also dazzled by him.

* VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'s official Psycho-Pedia has this to say about Lili's view of Raz:

* The game ''VideoGame/Yume100: Hundred Sleeping Princes in the Kingdom of Dreams'' relies on the lasting appeal of this trope. It's a {{Bishounen}}-collecting puzzle game featuring actually well over a hundred princes with varying styles of charm, but all of them are meant, first and foremost, to be [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys attractive]].

* In the I am Weasel episode The Fairy Godfather, there is a Princess Charming.

* Given how soon it was written after the term originated, ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'' is likely one of the first subversions. Dorian is called this by [[WideEyedIdealist extremely naive]] [[TheIngenue actress]] Sybil who he seduces and abandons, driving to suicide. Another lover also apparently called him this, and uses the nickname scornfully when he encounters her several years later as a prostitute.

* There is a PRINCESS Charming In Jerry Lewis’s '"Film/{{Cinderfella}}''. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderfella movie's]] plot is partially Cinderella gender-swapped, and the stepmother throws the ball. It being the 1960s, Princess Charming (yes, that's her actual name), plays straight most of the Charming and Classic tropes.

* There is a PRINCESS Charming In Jerry Lewis’s Cinderfella.

* Played straight in ''Film/PrinceCharming'', a 2001 made-for-television film starring Creator/SeanMaguire, It is the story of a prince who gets turned into a frog due to dashingly rescuing a damsel in distress, who starts trying to [[RescueSex reward him]].