History Main / PrincessProtagonist

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

* ''Webcomic/PrincessPrincess'' is about two princesses, Amira and Sadie, who defeat Sadie's evil sister and fall in love.

* The protagonists of the ''Literature/RoyalDiaries'' series are the daughters of various royal houses throughout the world and in different time periods. These include princesses from England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Hawaii, Russia, India, Egypt, and several other countries.

* The protagonist of each installment of the ''Literature/RoyalDiaries'' series is the daughter of various royal houses throughout the world and in different time periods. These include princesses from England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Hawaii, Russia, India, Egypt, and several other countries.

* Princess Peach of ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' fame, while usually a DamselInDistress, takes on this role in ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach''. In this game, it's [[BadassInDistress Mario and Luigi who get captured by Bowser and his Koopa army]], and it's up to Peach (with the help of a sentient parasol named Perry) to rescue them.

** Then there’s Kiara in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2SimbasPride'' though she isn’t in the Princess line due to not being human. She’s the main focus of the film and helps to end the feud between the halves of the pride.

* In the busy and spatially ambiguous ''Art/LasMeninas'', it is the Infanta who has pride of place. The lighting and her white dress make her the most prominent character in the scene, and many of the questions surrounding the painting involve why she's looking out at the audience.

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': In season 3, Bo-katan Kryze, meber of clan Kryze and officialy helding the title of princess, is heavily featured, while the Mandalorian takes a sit back as the SupportingProtagonist helping her to find her own Mandalorian way.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': One of the two lead character is Tasia, who starts out as a princess (later becoming Empress).

* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' centers around a 15-year old girl named Pacifica Casull, a [[GenkiGirl cheerful, perky]] (and somewhat [[TheDitz naive]]) princess who is [[ApocalypseMaiden destined to cause]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

** Then there’s Kiara in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2SimbasPride'' though she isn’t in the Princess line due to not being human. She’s tye main focus of the film and helps to end the feud between the halves of the pride.

** ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' (2012), PlayedWith when it's revealed Vanellope is actually the ruler of the world in "Sugar Rush" after everyone in the game gets their memories back. However, after going through the whole ordeal in the movie, decides to abdicate the throne and turn the kingdom into a democracy. This does get a cute lampshade in [[WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet the second movie]] when she meets the rest of the Disney princesses while milling around on a Disney website.

** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheMagicOfPegasus'', the main protagonist Princess Annika sets out on a quest to save her parents and people from an evil sorcerer. It also turns out that secondary protagonist Brietta is a princess [[spoiler:she being Annika's long-lost older sister, who left after being transformed into a pegasus by a curse]].

** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsRapunzel'', it's revealed that Rapunzel is the long-lost daughter of a king, [[spoiler:who was kidnapped as an infant by sorceress to incite war between Rapunzel's father and another king (who is the father of her love interest Prince Daniel)]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'': The film focuses on Anastasia, a princess in exile discovering her secret royal past. While the real Anastasia was royalty, she is recognised as "Grand Duchess" rather than princess.[[note]]The Russian royals called their daughters Grand Duchesses instead of princesses to give the impression that, as imperial royalty, they were of higher rank than a regular princess of a mere monarchy (or than one of the many 'regular' princesses in the Russian nobility, for that matter). The actual title, ''velikaya knyazhna'', is difficult to accurately translate into English.[[/note]] But the film frequently refers to her as a princess just to avoid confusion. In a twist, she also [[spoiler: gives up the title and chooses to elope with Dimitri]]. [[AllAnimationIsDisney Often confused with Disney's princesses]] (notably because Creator/DonBluth was an ex-Disney animator and it shows), which became ironic when Disney came to own it when purchasing 20th Century Fox.

Contrast SaveThePrincess, an ExcusePlot where the princess is a HostageMacGuffin whose personality or even status a princess is rarely important. May overlap with GratuitousPrincess, where the character's princess-ness isn't relevant to the story or setting.

* ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' is about the sole daughter of the king and queen, who is cursed to prick her finger on a spindle and die, but instead falls into a deep sleep, and is eventually revived by a prince who marries her.
* ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'' is an older version of ''Sleeping Beauty''. The first half of the tale is much the same, focusing on Princess Talia, who falls into a death-like state after an encounter with a spinning wheel. In this story, she is raped by a king and bears him twins while still asleep, before eventually waking up and marrying the king after a series of shenanigans occur.
* The titular ''Literature/SnowWhite'' is the princess of her tale, who is forced to flee from her wicked stepmother.
* The sister in the Brothers Grimm's ''Literature/TheSixSwans'' is the daughter of a king and his first wife, but becomes a FallenPrincess after her new stepmother turns all her brothers into birds. She later wins the eye of a king and becomes a queen.

* In ''Literature/{{Donkeyskin}}'', after promising to marry a woman as beautiful as his dead queen, the king tries to marry his own daughter, the princess. She delays her father's insane request by asking for three wonderful dresses and the hide of the kingdom's gold-producing donkey, then becomes the titular Donkeyskin when she flees to another kingdom.

* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'' has TomboyPrincess Marianne, the eldest daughter of the fairy king, as the protagonist.

* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessNatasha'': The main character is a princess from a fictional {{Ruritania}} who goes undercover as a spy in the United States to stop a threat to her kingdom.

** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'', Princess Genevieve is one of twelve royal sisters, who have to save their kingdom from the evil Duchess Rowena.

* The big reveal in ''WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessCharmSchool'' is that Blair [[spoiler:is the long-lost heir to the throne of Gardenia and thus was a real princess all along]].

** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (1937): Snow White was threatened by her WickedStepmother, but is saved by some dwarfs and a handsome prince.

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}} '': Barbie is a Princess Protagonist in about half of her movies, though she often doesn't discover this until near the end of the film (i.e. ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker'', ''WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessCharmSchool'').