Spoiled Brat / Western Animation

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• Adventure Time: Lemongrab definitely counts. If he doesn't get what he wants (be it a reasonable or unreasonable demand), somebody is going in the dungeon. There are many reasons for his sour personality (mental illness, stupidity, immaturity), but he was raised in a castle in which everything was handed to him. That probably didn't help him much, in the long run.
• American Dad!:
  • Roger is referred to as a spoiled brat a few times in one episode, and he and Stan tend to embody this trope whenever enabled, usually by Francine. Yet again, calling Roger a spoiled brat is basically an understatement considering the fact that he's over 1600 years old and a sociopath.
  • Steve and Hayley, the actual kids of the family, have the odd bout of this as well, even if it's more out of defiance of their parents than being spoiled by them.
  • Steve becomes an extreme example after Hayley elopes with Jeff Fischer. Stan and Francine both think the other's parenting methods drove Hayley away, so after a bike race to decide how they raise Steve, which Francine wins, Francine's extremely laid-back parenting methods turn Steve into a fat, lethargic brat who practically lives on the couch. He still turns out better than the clone of him Stan had made due to his belief that his way of parenting is better. Stan's extremely strict parenting methods turn the Steve clone into a cat-killing psychopath who fakes running away and abducts the real Steve to take his place. The moral of the story is that Stan and Francine's parenting methods need to balance each other out.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Love Mummy threatens anyone who doesn't give it what it wants with a curse. However, the real curse is that the mummy is a socially inept spoiled brat with no manners.
• Arcane: Jinx. Her life isn't exactly rosy, but Silco caters to her every desire, scolds her a grand total of one time, constantly validates her actions, and protects her from any consequences, including taking the blame for her worst actions. While this keeps Jinx happy most of the time, it also makes her more easily agitated and angered when things don't go her way and more willing to hurt Silco's goons, his standing with Piltover, and even Silco himself.
• Arthur:
  • Muffy Crosswire comes from a wealthy family, so she is used to having, and expects to have, everything given to her on a silver platter. Despite this, she's actually pretty nice and fits in well with Arthur and the gang. An exaggerated and enforced example of this is when her family is chosen to be on a reality show and the director, J3, wants to create drama to appeal to the viewers. He suggests that Muffy bully her beloved butler, Bailey, whom she is very close with. This includes Muffy throwing food, badgering Bailey to drive faster, and a Mommie Dearest-inspired wire hanger scene.
  • Although D.W. Read comes from a modest middle-class household, she is sometimes prone to self-entitled, bratty behavior. One episode in particular which explores this is "More!", in which D.W. tries to persuade her parents to give her more allowance after finding out that her Spoiled Sweet friend Emily gets more than her.
  • The Tibbles. Their grandmother is a soft touch and no matter what they do, she never punishes them, except in the most serious of moments.

• Barbie and the Secret Door: The Big Bad is a little brat named Malucia who wants all of the magic in the land for herself.
• Beetlejuice: Claire Brewster is this in its most obnoxious way. She talks in Valley speak and takes no more delight than when she tries to humiliate Lydia. She'd succeed if not for the Ghost with the Most.
• Ben 10: Omniverse: Ben 23, an Alternate Universe counterpart of Ben who became an arrogant brat without Grandpa Max to guide him, using his powers for fame and fortune rather than helping people until the main Ben and his universe's Azmuth set him on the right path.
• Brickleberry: Much of Malloy's attitude problem seems to come from Woody spoiling him with junk food, firearms, and video games.
• Caillou: The titular character can be this at times in episodes from Seasons 1 and 2. One infamous example is from the Season 1 episode, "Caillou Joins the Circus", where Caillou throws a tantrum over not being able to go to the circus until the very next day. Averted in Seasons 3, 4, and 5, were he's more of a Nice Guy.
• Code Lyoko: Elisabeth Delmas, a.k.a. Sissi (yes, that is indeed her nickname), whose father is the headmaster of Kadic Academy, where she and the rest of the heroes go to school. She actually started out as a nice girl (and ends that way too), her obnoxious personality was largely an inadvertent result of the heroes' behavior.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: The villain in the episode "Out of Scale" has a daughter named Buffy, whose every whim is indulged by her father. Put simply, what Buffy wants Buffy gets and her desire for a pair of pet squirrels leads to Chip and Dale, mistaken for squirrels by the villain's underlings, being captured and ending up in Buffy's playroom, where she subjects them to several sadistic "games". When the other Rangers turn up to rescue Chip and Dale, she decides on a whim that she wants to make Monty and Gadget her pets too. Of course, she doesn't like it when the Rangers fight back and she likes it even less when they use a device her father's underlings stole from Professor Nimnul to restore several shrunken buildings and statues to their original size, resulting in the destruction of her father's mansion and all its contents, including her playroom.
  "All my dollhouses were wrecked and . . . I WANT A NEW TOY!"
• Codename: Kids Next Door: Heinrich von Marzipan certainly acts like this; though never explicitly stated to be wealthy, any child who can hire their own grunts/bodyguards probably has money to burn. Add to that a blatant disregard for historical sites, other people's lives, and basically anything that gets in the way of what he wants... yeah. She does get better after being transformed back into a beautiful girl named ''Henrietta'' Von Marizpan, though, and sets off to repair the damage caused by her selfishness and greed.
• Danny Phantom: Paulina. Her father can rent out a country club for her birthday.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Sarah certainly qualifies due to telling her mother on Ed for even the smallest provocations (like telling her mom that Ed hit her when a newspaper lightly tapped her heels as it rolled to the ground).
  • Eddy could certainly qualify as well, given his attitude when he doesn't have things his way.

• Goof Troop: Pistol is extremely demanding and is favored by her father. She successfully goaded him into giving her 100 dollars for no reason at one point, despite being kindergarten age.
• A Hollywood Hounds Christmas: One of the characters in the show is a rich man's daughter, who wants to win the Mushy Chum commercial audition at all costs. To satiate her, her dad sabotages the hounds' performance, and then he tries to buy them for her so no one else can own musical pets. She then proceeds to throw a temper tantrum when Michael and his dad refuse to sell the hounds.
• Home Movies: Fenton, especially during his birthday party. Spoiled Jerkass is more accurate. In one episode, he and his mother are shown eating nothing but rice for dinner, as though it's a regular occurrence. Maybe a nutritional deficiency is partly responsible for his behavior.
• Jackie Chan Adventures: A Season 2 episode sees Jackie and Jade helping an incredibly rich Manchild search for a mythical lost city. The guy's long-suffering butler has it even worse, as he has to put up with his employer's every demand even after they are both magically de-aged. First lines of the episode?
  Jackie: I cannot believe I am stuck in the jungle with such a spoiled brat.
  Jade: [hurt] You invited me!
  Jackie: I was talking about him!
• Jem: Pizzazz is an adult but a Spoiled Brat nevertheless. She has a horrible attitude, gets angry easily, is constantly begging her daddy for things, and hates being second in anything. In "Father's Day" it's revealed that Pizzazz started acting out when her mother abandoned her as a child. Her millionaire dad spoiled her with gifts instead of actual attention and this didn't help her situation.
• Kaeloo:
  • Pretty, the cast's Alpha Bitch. The most notable example of her being this is in "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?". First, she takes Kaeloo's pet horse by force because she likes horses. Later in the episode, when Kaeloo gets a pet unicorn, Pretty starts screaming and crying because she wants one too. When she does get one, she shoots the "normal" horse in the head with a gun.
  • Stumpy may also count as one, although he's nowhere near as bad as Pretty. He demands all sorts of new toys, video games, and comic books, and sometimes throws tantrums if he doesn't get what he wants. In one episode, he even goes as far as staging a street protest when his mom doesn't get him something he wants.

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• Littlest Pet Shop (2012): The Biskit Twins, to the point of near absurdity. They're so used to their wealth they barely seem to function without it.
• Lola & Virginia: Virginia a spoiled Rich Bitch, who was transferred from a private school to a public school, because of her mindset that the whole world revolves around her. She always does everything to get her way and to torment Lola, but she usually gets what's coming to her.
• Looney Tunes: A retelling of the Goldilocks story has a girl mouse encountering three cats — Sylvester, his wife, and his son, who is constantly referred to as a spoiled brat, and that's apparently his name too. Said son is Sylvester Jr, more known for his appearances in the Hippity Hopper shorts. While not quite as pronounced as in said short, he is often a condescending little know-it-all who whines or expresses shame for his father whenever he doesn't add up to his standards of an ideal role model or formidable vermin chaser.
• The Loud House: Lola Loud. Her parents are shown to spoil her at times, since she has her own toy car, and her dad gave her a subscription to the Princess Channel in one episode. She also acts ill-tempered and is even liable of Disproportionate Retribution when she doesn't get her way. There is also the fact that she regularly attends beauty pageants and acts like a spoiled princess most of the time.

• Mickey Mouse: In the 1932 short "Mickey's Good Deed", a bratty pig boy named Adelbert demands that his father buy him Pluto as a Christmas present. Poor Pluto ends up tormented by the little brat's games until Adelbert's father gets fed up by the chaos they're causing, throws Pluto back out into the snow, and gives Adelbert a well-deserved spanking.
• Miraculous Ladybug: Chloé Bourgeois, whose doting and severely spine-lacking father is the mayor of Paris. She's very used to getting her way because of her father's influence and is prone to throwing tantrums or doing petty things if she doesn't. Is it any surprise to know that she's responsible for most of the people in the show getting akumatized by ruining their mood and making them emotionally vulnerable? While she does improve significantly as the show goes on, even briefly becoming a superhero, come "Heart Hunter", she immediately takes a nosedive straight past brat and down into villain territory when her frustration towards Ladybug for not calling on her assistance anymore leads her to willingly team up with Hawk Moth just so she can have her Miraculous back.
• Moral Orel: Shapey is bad enough that he seems to have a behavioral problem. His parents (and Orel, by their command) turn a blind eye to his destructive behavior and cater to his every whim, lest the neighbors complain about his high-pitched screaming. Later on he does grow out of it, and in the Distant Finale in "Honor" he grows up to become a decidedly functioning adult.

• Mother Up: Apple swings between her normal personality of being rather nice and this. Whenever she's affected by too much sugar or performance-enhancing drugs, Apple turns into a demanding little monster.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, an Alpha Bitch duo whose names sum up their cutie marks. In the MLP universe, your cutie mark defines what you're best at; thus, these two are destined to be little more than rich bitches. However, at least we know that Diamond's father, Filthy Rich, is a stand-up pony who is obviously not encouraging his daughter's brattiness. In "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", everyone finds out that Diamond Tiara has a Freudian Excuse for her brattishness: an emotionally abusive Rich Bitch of a mother (named Spoiled Rich, natch) whom Diamond tried to emulate to win her love. After Diamond puts her foot down and tells off her mother, she starts warming up to her classmates and makes a Heel–Face Turn, finding out the real meaning of her cutie mark in the process: the gift of leadership. As for Silver Spoon, even she gets sick of Diamond Tiara and abandons her. They become friends again after Diamond's Heel–Face Turn.
  • Angel Bunny, Fluttershy's rabbit companion, has shown extreme signs of this as of "Putting Your Hoof Down", throwing a violent temper tantrum over a salad.
• Paradise PD: Robby acts like an absolute bitch whenever his birthday comes around by screaming at his parents, demanding a bunch of expensive gifts from them, and even forcing his father to kill his meemaw just so that he can use her iron lung.
• Melba Manners from Pet Alien frequently bullies or scares others into giving her things or otherwise making them do things for her.
• Pound Puppies (1980s): Brattina, true to her name, is an unpleasant child who throws tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Princess Morbucks is this to a ridiculous extent, and a deconstruction. Due to her being so spoiled, her father just gives her money so he won't have to put up with her behavior. Also, she has bad social skills, making it so difficult for her to make friends her age. The fact that she becomes a supervillain simply because the Powerpuff Girls rejected her desire to join their team (merely because she's jealous of their superpowers — something that she doesn't have), and even temporarily bribed her way into becoming mayor to legalize crime, doesn't help much.
• Ready Jet Go!: Mitchell Peterson is a downplayed example. In "The Grandest Canyon", when he and his father look at the Propulsions' pictures of Valles Marineris, Mitchell whines that the hats that the group wore in the picture were not at the store that was at the canyon that the Petersons went to. Also, in "Mindy's Weather Report", Mitchell whines that the sandbags are too heavy, and his father spoils him by carrying his sandbag for him.
• Rugrats (1991): Angelica Pickles is mostly extremely spoiled in the early seasons. There is an episode where the parents take a quiz of fifty questions to determine whether or not their children are spoiled brats. Didi worries about pampering Tommy too much because she answered "Yes" to one of the questions. Chaz reassures her that answering up to ten with "Yes" is quite normal. Drew answered "Yes" to forty-nine and a half of them, and considers ceasing to spoil his daughter. However, given that it's hinted that Lipschitz is a "crackpot", Drew decides to not take his advice, and Angelica remains spoiled. In later episodes, Angelica isn't quite as much of a spoiled brat as before, but her bossiness still hasn't changed much.
• Sheep in the Big City: Lisa Rental is a bratty little girl obsessed with making Sheep her pet. When she doesn't get her way, she gets furious and whiny.
• She-Ra: Princess of Power: Hordak's favoritism and his own sense of entitlement make Imp into one of these, to the point that he seems under the impression that the other Hordesmen are supposed to obey him as readily as Hordak himself. "Of Shadows and Skulls" may have disabused him of this notion though.
• The Simpsons:
  • Male example: there's a bratty boy named Gavin who sometimes appears, bawling out his mother if she displays any reluctance to cater to his latest whim. He frequently refers to her by derogatory names such as "Stupid" on a casual basis as well. In a particularly ironic scene when Bart is caught shoplifting a videogame his mother refused to buy him, as he's being taken away Gavin's mother shakes her head saying, "The parents of that kid are really messing him up."
  • Bart Simpson himself used to come off this way, if only by default because he was so disobedient and disrespectful but never seemed to get punished severely for these actions. (His name is an anagram for "brat", after all.) One episode played this up by having Bart repeatedly play pranks and pull obnoxious stunts, leading his teacher to demand that Marge and Homer discipline him. Marge really does try, but her efforts are all futile because Homer constantly feels sorry for Bart and undoes Marge's punishments when she isn't there.
  • Harper Jambowski, a girl and one-shot character. Her father Mike Jambowski is extremely rich, which turned Harper into a selfish and spoiled kid. She doesn't let Lisa participate in any of the activities they do together, although it's shown that she can be good sometimes. She buys Lisa a new, expensive bike, but Lisa refuses it, making Harper upset since Lisa would "rather have [her] crappy bike". They discuss this and decide to end their friendship.
• South Park: Eric Cartman constantly demands his mom give him everything he wants without ever showing gratitude, and she caters to his every whim (with a few exceptions) because of how lonely she is.
  Cartman: Mom, can you get me some Weight Gain 4000?
  Liane: Okay Eric. I'll get you some at the store tomorrow.
  Cartman: But mom, I need it for tomorrow!
  Liane: But, tomorrow is grocery day, Eric.
  Cartman: Mooooooom! [whines incoherently]
  Liane: Okay, okay. Well, I guess I'll be going to the store now, then.
  Cartman: [smiles] Sweet.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Squidward Tentacles becomes this in "Can You Spare a Dime?", when he becomes extremely entitled towards SpongeBob when the latter takes him in after the former loses his job. SpongeBob tries to give out some blatantly obvious hints to Squidward that he should get a job, but Squidward doesn't care in the slightest and it sends SpongeBob off the deep end.
  • Patrick Star has always been a Manchild and has had selfish tendencies before, but in "Yours, Mine and Mine", they get to the point of being a whiny baby who complains when things don't get his way. In the episode, when Mr. Krabs manufactures a Patty Pal toy for Patrick and SpongeBob to share, Patrick goes out of his way to keep the toy for himself. He even goes as far as to eat the toy, screaming that if he can't have it, no one does.
• Steven Universe: Pink Diamond was this. Being the youngest of the Diamonds, she didn't have as many privileges as they did at first and constantly demanded to be respected and to have her own colony. We even see Stevonnie portray her having a temper tantrum in "Jungle Moon". It got to the point where Pink hated herself for this and chose to retire her Pink Diamond persona and become Rose Quartz.
• Super Mario Bros.: Wendy O./Kootie Pie Koopa from the cartoons is a huge example. One of her catchphrases is simply "I WANT IT! I WANT IT! I WANT IT!" (See for yourself!) At one point she demands, and is given, Antarctica, and then briefly demands to be Empress of America.
• Thomas & Friends: Daisy is one of the (presumably) older examples of the trope. In her debut episode, she throws a tantrum over being assigned to pull a milk tanker and gets away with it. However, by the CGI series, she eventually grows out of this persona.

• Total Drama:
  • Season 1 has Heather. You know it's bad when we see her parents actually partying that she's gone.
  • Total Drama Action gave this to Courtney, who practically and blatantly rigs the contest in her favor, threatening to sue if she doesn't "get the win she deserves". Ironically she doesn't, because even her lawyers can't stand her whining.
  • Total Drama Revenge of the Island brought us fame magnet Dakota, who's more interested in the publicity rather than winning the contest. Chris decides to knock her down a few pegs because of it.
  • Pahkitew Island gave us Sugar. Though nowhere near rich, her obsession with being a "beauty pageant queen" pretty much screams this.
  • The spinoff Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race gave us Taylor, who is spoiled, entitled, rude, and treats her mother like crap.
• The Town Santa Forgot: Jeremy Creek. He starts out spoiled until his parents stop buying him toys. He then gets the idea of writing a huge Christmas list to Santa, but all the toys he wants go to a town with his name. Seeing the selfishness of his ways, he decides to reform, and therefore becomes generous.
• WordGirl: Eileen the Birthday Girl literally thinks that every day is her birthday, and if she doesn't get what she wants, she'll throw a tantrum. This is a bigger problem than it sounds like since she also has the power to grow into a giant when she gets angry. As put by the mayor in one episode, it's cheaper to buy her as many toys as she wants than to let her destroy the town.