Hollywood seems so allergic to it when so many girls and women still fantasize about being scooped up by a royalty chad.
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When was the last time the prince charming trope was played straight?
this is why webtoons are winning
This seriously, now is the time to be an independent writer an artist
Yeah, this. Was just reading Vengeance from a Saint Full of Wounds where the male lead love interest is a prince charming used in a good and interesting way
Don't girls shlock to books about cruel sociopath princes nowadays?
There are a lot of TV movies about this specific trope
Yeah. Hallmark and lifetime have a bunch. I feel like Lacey Chabert pays her bills making them
Those princes are too busy playing golf and practicing for tourneys.
Prince charming has always been an aspirational character for men, women just rolled with it because it allowed them riches. Women love broke ass guys with anger issues like peter parker or sociopaths like bruce wayne
Nah, they love the prince charming shit. They all want a chad to sweep in after they've been run through to clean up their mess
Guys guys, you're both right.
These are both one in the same, in the eyes of women. They're both equally Chad. They literally hardwired to not be able to tell the difference.
Shockingly true. See the "I can fix him" cope, any evil shithead can become a prince charming in the eyes of naïve girls/women
Fun fact, did you guys know Cinderella's Prince is named Henry?
the cinderella remake maybe
Because its a literal non-character. Closer to a McGuffin than anything else
You can do interesting things with em
I know they're royalty, but that castle is beyond excessively opulent. Russian Oligarchs have more restraint.
He's Spider-Man.
And Prince Eric. And Greg Brady.
Naveen, kind of? He was a genuinely gallant, upstanding dude once the circumstances forced him to grow up from his manchild ways.
I would say Disney's Enchated 2, where Prince Edward Is a good brave guy who rescues a New Yorker from her awful city and it's show to still be happy with her.
I've always been more of a Prince Ferdinand fan myself
His name is Florian, Ferdinand was just confusion from Disney's actual Ferdinand short.
1987, Prince Strongheart from the cartoon Princess Lovely Locks, but even then he was in fact a dog for most of it's runtime.
How would a prince charming trope even work in modern cartoons? You'd need a set-up for this good-natured charming prince-like guy but modern cartoons hate characters like that.
The Little Mermaid is from 1989 and Eric is so much a prince charming he's utterly forgettable.
"Prince Eric; putting the Eric in generic"
-Lindsay Ellis
He can't be more generic than the unnamed princes from Snow White and Cinderella, he at least gets named in the movie rather than supplemental material.
Eric had his unabashedly romantic view of the Sea going for him.
But that's a movie. Otherwise I would have mentioned the Barbie movies having their own prince characters. I don't think there have been any cartoon series with a prince charming type character that wasn't a joke like Ever After High (at least that's how I remember them)
>But that's a movie
It's strictly a movie trope, what are you complaining about?
I miss reading and thought it was about prince charming types in cartoons not just movies
prince charming trope is really basic, maybe as basic as the damsel in distress thing.
They don't really allow those today either
My bad, I googled it just in case before I posted and turns out Google is wrong.
What would be a good way of making Prince charming less generic, the same way the damsel in distress has many ways of spicing it up. And I dont mean make the Prince charming a fake prince charming who turns out to be evil because that is arguably worse than the original (its not even a subversion of prince charming its false romantic lead which is something else entirely)
Have him be a poorly closeted gay man.
>pander to one of the worst group of humans on earth
How about no?
I could only guess maybe give the character a clear hobby or dream unrelated to the love interest, maybe have an actual but of kingdom politics in the story?
Maybe make him be the golden retriever boy or some shit like N from Murder Drones or Jaune from RWBY
Prince charming saves her, but only because her father, the king, hired him to. In reality, he was just a humble sellsword seeking adventure and challenge. Truthfully, that's all he lives for, not much else.
Add in that she falls for him and cant marry him because of politics and class status or whatever
Nah, she just goes back to whatever kingdom she's from and does what they do there.
I swear there was a recent manhua about a demon queen into romance novels who kidnapped a princess to go back with the knight while pretending to be the princess but I can't find it
Funny
God,
I hate hallmark and lifetime
>What would be a good way of making Prince charming less generic, the same way the damsel in distress has many ways of spicing it up.
Wasn't that the point of Tangled? Taking the prince in the original and rewriting him to be an actual character (Flynn).
Yeah but they also changed so much that Flynn really doesn't fit the type at all.
I rather like the charming thief and princess angle anyway.
Make him a himbo?
>prince charming who turns out to be evil
This can still work, like he got a sadistic or sociopathic hidden personality streak that comes out feom time to time when situation demands it, but he's still on your side.
>yandere prince charming
I swear there is also a romance fantasy manhua out there with this as the male lead but I'm coming up with blanks
To clarify the knight did go save the princess because he wanted the kingdom but it was because an evil duke was trying to shut down his orphanage home, and while he's actually a knight charming it's still close enough to count. The original princess also ran off with the demon queen's butler because they fell in love and she didn't want to marry the knight out of obligation.
>yandere prince charming
>I swear there is also a romance fantasy manhua out there with this as the male lead but I'm coming up with blanks
The closest I can't think of are just smuts.
these looks yaoi
>all anime style is gay
This is your brain on fujos
>Female on cover
That's not how yaoi works
If only
I mistook this for The Villian Discovered My Identity and while the male lead is described as a villian I would argue he doest fit the prince charming vibes
Well frick me I meant he does fit the prince charming stereotype despite the main girl constantly being a dumb b***h by thinking everything he does is bad and evil
Maybe
>I Corrupted the Good Male Lead
But I wasn't interested in the story in general because the female lead is too lame
Yeah, the MC should be a witch or something, with the princess trying to stop the corruption.
Give him some goddamn personality, these dudes are about as entertaining as watching your Ken doll sit around.
How about a Tragic Villain Prince Charming with high-class daddy energy.
This sound delicious, but can't for the life of me conjure up any image in my mind, got any potential candidates that would fit this model.
I think Hans from Frozen would fit that, wouldn't he?
For something named after a Disney character, Disney animation sure didn't use it much themselves. In fact, I question whether it was ever a real trope at all, much like the "Disney princess movie" of which there are only three examples of before the release of the Little Mermaid.
the timeline goes with
>Big corpo does a thing
>Parodies make jokes about it
>People consider the parody what the original thing was about
That's how we got more parodies of Princesses being damsel in distress than movies about them being
They were already out of ideas by Sleeping Beauty.
>much like the "Disney princess movie" of which there are only three examples of before the release of the Little Mermaid.
"Disney Princess" didn't become an actual brand until the 2000s, by which point they had plenty in their stable. No one ever claimed that it predated the Disney Renaissance.
Anyone got the gif of him leaping out of a second story window?
Only literal baby girls like dopey princes
Girls and women like the evil guy
>Girls and women like the evil guy
You can just say most women have shit taste anon, its ok we're all anonymous here
>implying leftist men would ever say anything negative about any women
The toxic shit they say is hidden in positivity
Like a woman.
Shit taste TO YOU. Not them.
Seriously. Guys who whine about women liking evil men are the male version of those disgusting purple haired landwhale feminists who b***h about men liking hot b***hes.
You can’t shame anyone into liking you.
I think it would be hard to even pinpoint what a Prince Charming character is unless they rarely appear or have little to no personality, becuase they would be considered some other trope type.
>was hoping people would at least post examples of prince charmings
>they're so rare there are no recent examples
How many fantasy/fairy tale stories do we even get? Honestly?
Maybe because its so bland, like damsel in distress trope is so bland you never see it played straight. Then again, no one has posted examples of variations of prince charming
Actual royal scions are pretty rare these days.