Fallen Princesses in Western Animation.
- As Told by Ginger: In the last episode of the show, Courtney Gripling's family loses their fortune when their father is arrested, and she has to learn about living on a budget, and not having everything always handed to her on a silver platter. A somewhat odd example though, since Courtney was actually nice to everyone from the beginning, but just naive about middle and lower class lifestyles.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Less shallow than the trope description, but same general pattern in fantasy setting, with a male: Prince Zuko was the Season 1 villain, a Spoiled Brat in the sense that he yelled at people when they or the universe didn't give him what he wanted and had no use for tact. Still had some moments of awesome, and his most impressively evil moment involved holding a piece of jewelry hostage. Near the end of the season, his ship was blown up. Early in Season 2, he wound up a fugitive from his own nation, living as a faceless refugee for the horrible crime of... not successfully Punching Out Cthulhu, apparently. He spends most of that season learning humility and otherwise having Character Development, and by the series finale is one of the True Companions.
- Zuko's sister Azula also followed this path, with a villainous twist. She started out as a beautiful and talented princess who was not only spoiled rotten but openly sociopathic thanks to her father's parenting skills. She was the Alpha Bitch of a Girl Posse who basically served as her Quirky Miniboss Squad; together, they were capable of conquering an enemy city that had eluded the Fire Nation's best generals, including her own uncle, thanks to her brilliant strategic mind. Yet, she had No Social Skills, so she literally could not act normally around anyone, not even her family or her friends. In the end, even the Girl Posse did not want to be around her, and she went into a tragic and terrifying downward spiral that left her institutionalized in a mental asylum, straitjacket and all. Unlike other examples, she averts the point of the trope. She doesn't try to bond with Team Avatar and constantly seeks her own goals and ambitions and still carries herself around with a haughty attitude.
- Danny Phantom had Valerie; a shallow Rich Bitch who lived off her father's money until a ghost dog cost him his job. Fallen out of grace, she took up ghost hunting for revenge before making it a full-time job. Eventually, she starts to abandon her shallow views of the people she once rejected and even falls for the unpopular Danny.
- The Doug episode "Beebe Goes Broke", in which...Beebe goes broke.
- Four Eyes!: The premise implies that Emma is actually quite popular and attractive back on her planet. On Earth however, it's the complete opposite as her human disguise makes her look like a total geek.
- Parodied with Pacifica Northwest in the Grand Finale of Gravity Falls, as the Northwest family goes broke but still manages to stay wealthier than most people through selling their mansion... but now Pacifica's only going to get "just one pony" for her birthday. The horror!
- Rhonda from Hey Arnold! became this when she realizes she needs to wear thick eyeglasses.
- Even further when her family goes temporarily broke.
Helga: How the Mighty Have Fallen. - The Legend of Korra: Zig-Zagged. Asami is the Spoiled Sweet daughter of Hiroshi Sato, who is basically the Henry Ford of the Avatar world. She is fabulously wealthy, lives in a huge mansion, and is connected to many socialites in Republic City. Her fall happens when she attacks her genocidal father because he's an Equalist. Most of the second season features her trying to get her ailing family business back up to snuff. She manages to do it, but it takes a lot of suffering and hard work. It was also thanks to the United Republic Government for giving Asami a contract to redesign Republic City's infrastructure to fully bring her out of the rubble.
- Parodied in The Oblongs. The matriarch of the family, Pickles Oblong, is a former upper-class resident — she left her rich and attractive family and friends to marry the lower-class Bob Oblong. This means she got exposed to all the toxic, body-warping chemicals in his neighborhood, leading to total baldness on her part, and a clutch of mutated children. However, she seems fine with this.
- In the episode "Disfigured Debbie," one of the school's Girl Posse of Inexplicably Identical Individuals falls all right — into a wheat thresher. Now living with the only kids who will accept her freakish appearance, she drives them crazy with her clingy behavior. Until she gets plastic surgery and returns to the fold ("You know, this means I'll have to hate you again"). Ten seconds later, and we can't even tell which one she is anymore.
- Caitlin from 6teen was just as snooty and stuck up as her "friend" Tricia, until her dad cut her off and made her get a job. Without her money, her so-called friends ditched her. Plus that lemon hat... she eventually becomes a classic case of Spoiled Sweet when she makes some real friends.
- In Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Bo-Katan is The Dragon of the Mandalorian Big Bad, but it turns out that she is the estranged sister of Big Good Duchess Satine as well as the second daughter of the late Duke Adonai. It is implied the two had lost contact, but Satine had told their nephew Korkie to seek out Bo-Katan in the event of an emergency, which he does towards the end of the show and leads to the two sisters doing an Enemy Mine. Word of God has stated that Bo-Katan's Dark and Troubled Past caused her to join Death Watch and that she took up the position of leading Mandalore after Satine was removed from power and killed by a third party.
- Star Wars Rebels reveals that Bo-Katan carries guilt over not being able to hold her position as Mand'alor and believes she is an inadequate successor to her sister, but many Mandalorians still believe that she is the rightful ruler of Mandalore.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
- It's revealed that Miss Heinous, the former headmistress of St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses, is actually the long-lost daughter of Queen Eclipsa and her monster lover. Since she's part monster, her birthright as a princess was ignored, and she was swapped for a peasant girl ‘Festivia’ who became a queen instead.
- In response to the above, the third season finale has Star Abdicate the Throne back to Eclipsa, pulling herself entirely out of the line of succession (though she still has magic and the current queen's favor).Star: You let us live a lie. We shouldn't even have the throne. Eclipsa isn't even— Wait. [turns to Eclipsa] You aren't actually my great-great-great-great-something-grandma.
Eclipsa: No, sweetie, I'm not.
Star: Then... that means... we're no more royal than anybody else.
Moon: You're still a princess, Star.
Star: No, Mom. We're nobody.
