Does Not Play Well with Others

Self rescuing princesses are fine on their own, but there’s an annoying trend of using the trope while at the same time also having other people trying to the rescue the character as well, only to end up belittled, dismissed, or even outright viciously punished for their terrible crime of… risking their lives to save a princess from a dragon.   One of the most recent examples of this trend would be the Star Wars: Galaxy of Adventures animated shorts that reworked scenes from the original trilogy to make Leia go from being a formidable woman who helped her own rescuse to the best, most supremely unstoppable badass in the galaxy, while at the same time turning the rest of the the cast into a bumbling three Stooges in Space act who do nothing but slow down Leia’s daring escape from the Death Star.