| rdfs:comment | - A girl's boyfriend or father just lavishes love, attention and gifts on her. Especially gifts. Jewelry, dresses, fur coats, vacations, and it all seems to come from... Um, where does he afford that? He claims to have a job that puts him in a tax bracket way too low to afford all this. This is the life of a Mafia Princess, with varying degrees of Truth in Television. One of the ways not everything is better with princesses. If the story is from a heroic point of view, the hero will fall in love with a mafioso's girlfriend or daughter. Both of them could be in danger for their lives.
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| abstract | - A girl's boyfriend or father just lavishes love, attention and gifts on her. Especially gifts. Jewelry, dresses, fur coats, vacations, and it all seems to come from... Um, where does he afford that? He claims to have a job that puts him in a tax bracket way too low to afford all this. If she brings up her suspicions to her father or boyfriend, of course he's going to deny this. He'll even twist her words to make her look wrong for even bringing that up. A Spoiled Brat may ignore it completely, a Dragon Lady may join up, while a Spoiled Sweet girl may end up just getting on with her life and making it clear she doesn't want in the family business - though it's never that easy. This is the life of a Mafia Princess, with varying degrees of Truth in Television. One of the ways not everything is better with princesses. If the story is from a heroic point of view, the hero will fall in love with a mafioso's girlfriend or daughter. Both of them could be in danger for their lives. In more idealistic stories, the scary mobsters make an exception from scariness for her. If they like her father, they love and cherish her, pamper her and protect her with their lives. Their behavior might be interpreted as them seeing her as a symbol of innocence and gentle emotions, all the things these hardened criminals have lost. Additionally, the Boss probably wouldn't be happy if something happened that they could've prevented. Plus he might genuinely not want her to get involved in this world, since Evil Parents Want Good Kids. The Japanese variant of this trope is the Yakuza princess; the female heir (or the daughter of the current heir) of a Yakuza clan who is both fully aware of the nature of the family enterprise and is often fully supportive of it. Compare The Don, Daddy's Little Villain, Dark Mistress. Examples of Mafia Princess include:
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