Tropescilloscope: The Smurfette Principle

All the main characters are male... except for one, whose femaleness is treated as her character trait. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Ass Shove Captain Obvious Captain Ersatz Overly Long Gag Line-of-Sight Name Self-Deprecation Action Survivor The Dog Bites Back The Smart Guy Kubrick Stare Black Comedy Rape The Atoner Dutch Angle She's Got Legs Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Translation Convention Book-Ends Immune to Bullets Big "NO!" Attempted Rape Broken Pedestal Annoying Younger Sibling Race Against the Clock Epic Fail Dark Reprise Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bowdlerise The Great Depression Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Light Is Not Good Extremely Short Timespan Action Prologue Developing Doomed Characters Dark and Troubled Past Show Within a Show Famous Last Words The Quiet One Older Than They Look Better to Die than Be Killed Spell My Name with an "S" Drugs Are Bad Bond Villain Stupidity Adaptation Distillation Take That! Badass Boast Improbable Weapon User Belligerent Sexual Tension Never My Fault Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Five-Man Band The Lancer Posthumous Character Offscreen Moment of Awesome Half the Man He Used to Be Insistent Terminology Reality Ensues Revenge Wham Shot No Name Given Fanservice Extra Drowning My Sorrows Anti-Villain Creative Closing Credits Dumb Blonde Instant Death Bullet Christmas Movies Index Apocalypse How Amusing Injuries Lampshade Hanging Darker and Edgier Karma Houdini Manly Tears Groin Attack As You Know Implacable Man The Mole Spanner in the Works Manchild Eagleland Historical In-Joke World of Ham Cowboy Cop Evil Plan Historical-Domain Character He Who Fights Monsters Get Out! Totally Radical Thriller Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Italian Films Documentary Amoral Attorney Anti-Hero Reasonable Authority Figure Sealed Evil in a Can Meaningful Background Event Establishing Character Moment Wham Line Freudian Excuse Every Car Is a Pinto Bavarian Fire Drill Corpsing Humiliation Conga Obstructive Bureaucrat All Girls Want Bad Boys Smoking Is Cool Pragmatic Villainy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fate Worse than Death Damsel in Distress For the Evulz Blood from the Mouth I'm a Humanitarian Serial Killer The Voiceless After the End From Nobody to Nightmare Antagonist Title Artistic License – Law Genre Throwback Japanese Films The Dragon Twist Ending Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Destination Defenestration The Faceless Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Babies Ever After Police are Useless Humans Are Bastards Disappeared Dad Femme Fatale Re-Cut Martial Arts Movie Hollywood Darkness Wrong Genre Savvy Domestic Abuse Evil vs. Evil A.I. Is a Crapshoot Accidental Murder Peek-a-Boo Corpse Foil Pimped-Out Dress Stepford Smiler The Musical The Load In the Back Villainous Breakdown Loads and Loads of Characters Pet the Dog Those Two Bad Guys Cool Shades In Medias Res My Beloved Smother Psycho for Hire Break the Cutie Stealth Pun Honor Before Reason Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Flashback The Starscream Deliberately Monochrome Advertised Extra Catch-Phrase Horror Films Chekhov's Gun Four-Temperament Ensemble Male Frontal Nudity Break the Haughty Unwitting Instigator of Doom Demoted to Extra No Good Deed Goes Unpunished '80s Hair Not Quite Dead Storming the Castle Beard of Evil Horror Comedy Decoy Protagonist The '90s Neck Snap The Mafia Meet Cute It's All About Me Bolivian Army Ending Body Horror BFG Zombie Stories Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Dropped a Bridge on Him Left the Background Music On Driven to Suicide Soft Glass Epic Movie Setting Update Television Movie Index Mundane Made Awesome Hidden Depths Fan Disservice Bi the Way Jerk Jock Breaking the Fourth Wall Does Not Like Shoes Vomit Indiscretion Shot Dual Wielding Token Minority Skewed Priorities Chekhov's Skill Due to the Dead Big Fancy House Kill It with Fire No Antagonist Accidental Misnaming Dying Moment of Awesome Ungrateful Bastard Punny Name Deliberate Values Dissonance Broken Bird A Date with Rosie Palms Dark Is Not Evil Music Stories Dirty Coward Determinator aka: The Determinator Death by Adaptation Would Hurt a Child Sole Survivor Abusive Parents Room Full of Crazy Eiffel Tower Effect Silence Is Golden Failed a Spot Check Eldritch Abomination Animated Credits Opening Cain and Abel Gender Flip Mexican Standoff Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Fish out of Water As Himself Evil Sounds Deep Victoria's Secret Compartment I Did What I Had to Do Roaring Rampage of Revenge How We Got Here Early Installment Weirdness Fantasy Films Betty and Veronica Badass in a Nice Suit Dramatic Irony You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Henpecked Husband Ominous Latin Chanting An Axe to Grind What Happened to the Mouse? Non-Indicative Name Anachronism Stew Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Took a Level in Jerkass Scenery Gorn As the Good Book Says... Novelization Reckless Gun Usage Australian Movies Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cat Scare The Bad Guy Wins Those Two Guys Rousing Speech Alpha Bitch Nice Hat Parental Incest Retirony "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bring My Brown Pants Rule of Cool Continuity Nod Your Head A-Splode Expy Adorkable Big Brother Instinct Throwing Your Sword Always Works Broken Aesop Sacrificial Lion Fingore Would Hit a Girl The Film of the Book Death of a Child Blonde, Brunette, Redhead An Arm and a Leg Artistic License – Gun Safety Authority Equals Asskicking Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hate Sink Rasputinian Death No OSHA Compliance The Alleged Car Death Glare Soundtrack Dissonance Ship Tease Hypocrite Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The '80s Redemption Equals Death Whole Plot Reference Very Loosely Based on a True Story Central Theme Works Set in World War II Ms. Fanservice Eye Scream Death by Sex Jump Scare Tranquil Fury Precision F-Strike Super Strength Improvised Weapon Dressing as the Enemy Woman Scorned Handicapped Badass Bury Your Gays The Hero Dies Vacation Films The Cameo Up to Eleven Unusually Uninteresting Sight Grey and Gray Morality Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Didn't Think This Through Mooks Sci-Fi Horror Heroic Sacrifice Berserk Button Star-Crossed Lovers Moment Killer Did Not Get the Girl Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Extreme Doormat Wicked Cultured Spared by the Adaptation Happily Married No-Sell Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome All Just a Dream Flipping the Bird Not Even Bothering with the Accent Only in It for the Money Fanservice Take a Third Option Early-Bird Cameo Not So Different Mighty Whitey Cool Car Arranged Marriage The Dreaded Anguished Declaration of Love Chewing the Scenery Your Cheating Heart He Knows Too Much Romantic Comedy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Beta Couple Hair-Trigger Temper Only Sane Man Rich Bitch Put on a Bus Leitmotif Ax-Crazy Conspicuous CG Recycled IN SPACE! Easily Forgiven The Reveal Unspoken Plan Guarantee Plot Hole Big Damn Heroes A Father to His Men Outrun the Fireball Armor-Piercing Question Depraved Bisexual Chase Scene May–December Romance Gilligan Cut Shoot the Shaggy Dog And Starring Bottomless Magazines Adaptational Heroism What You Are in the Dark Imagine Spot Catapult Nightmare Coming-of-Age Story Fiery Redhead Only Known by Their Nickname Canon Foreigner Historical Hero Upgrade As Long as It Sounds Foreign Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dwindling Party Creepy Child Mood Whiplash Important Haircut Loophole Abuse Nothing Is Scarier Vitriolic Best Buds Fun with Acronyms Word of God All for Nothing Straight Gay Affectionate Parody Retcon timeperiod Adaptation Dye-Job Large Ham Action Genre Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Sexy Discretion Shot No Celebrities Were Harmed There Is No Kill Like Overkill Closed Circle The Stinger Paper-Thin Disguise Never Found the Body It Can Think Obviously Evil Evil Is Hammy Protagonist Title Jitter Cam Ambiguously Gay Unreliable Narrator Laser-Guided Karma Heel Realization Blatant Lies The Stoner Meaningful Echo Girl-on-Girl Is Hot It Will Never Catch On Retired Badass Too Dumb to Live Despair Event Horizon Random Events Plot Facial Horror Department of Redundancy Department Oh, Crap! Motor Mouth Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Training Montage Funny Background Event Black Comedy Face Death with Dignity Stalker with a Crush Fainting Let's Get Dangerous! Evil Counterpart Obfuscating Stupidity Evil-Detecting Dog Evil Cannot Comprehend Good You Killed My Father The Stoic Chekhov's Gunman Toplessness from the Back Comically Missing the Point Intergenerational Friendship Not Using the "Z" Word Bar Brawl Knight Templar War Is Hell Rule of Symbolism Faking the Dead Cool Old Lady Genre Savvy Bound and Gagged Frame-Up The Ditz "Shaggy Dog" Story Dirty Old Man Made of Iron Our Zombies Are Different Genre Shift Serious Business Not So Stoic Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Funny Foreigner The Ghost Determinator One Steve Limit Fantastic Racism Daddy's Girl La Résistance Be Careful What You Wish For Made of Explodium Freeze-Frame Bonus Black Best Friend Small Name, Big Ego Biopic Film Noir Index Becoming the Mask Canadian Movies Bloodless Carnage Married to the Job Cold-Blooded Torture Distracted by the Sexy Index of Film Westerns Does This Remind You of Anything? Defiant to the End Downer Ending Aside Glance Hooker with a Heart of Gold Face–Heel Turn Double-Meaning Title Riddle for the Ages Exactly What It Says on the Tin Pretty in Mink Psychological Thriller Heroic BSoD Public Domain Feature Films Artistic License – Military Hypocritical Humor Camp Gay Scenery Porn Crapsack World Diabolus ex Machina Anyone Can Die Contrived Coincidence Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Heel–Face Turn Men Are the Expendable Gender Mama Bear Real Life Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Even Evil Has Standards Rule of Three Demonic Possession Tagline Stuff Blowing Up Interrupted Suicide Title Drop Badass Bookworm Big Bad Duumvirate Love Triangle Hollywood Law Adult Fear Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Badass Longcoat folderlabel Age Lift Cat Fight Trailers Always Spoil Exact Words Hero Antagonist Composite Character Crazy-Prepared Woman in White For Want of a Nail Laughing Mad Insane Troll Logic Cruel and Unusual Death My God, What Have I Done? No Ending Author Appeal Faux Affably Evil The Cavalry Jerkass Has a Point Mad Scientist Homage Product Placement Neck Lift Lock and Load Montage Parental Abandonment Leave the Camera Running Big-Bad Ensemble Suspiciously Similar Substitute One-Man Army Running Gag Animal Title Index Psychopathic Manchild Worthy Opponent Reality Has No Subtitles Those Wacky Nazis Action Girl Country Matters Unusual Euphemism Author Avatar Shell-Shocked Veteran Dies Wide Open Empathic Environment The Smurfette Principle Ironic Echo Disney Death Never Trust a Trailer Monumental Damage I Need a Freaking Drink Based on a True Story Almost Kiss Shown Their Work The Big Guy Adaptational Attractiveness Danny Peary Cult Movies List The Remake Framing Device The End... Or Is It? Dogged Nice Guy Say My Name Dramedy Daylight Horror Affably Evil Informed Ability Dramatic Gun Cock Dirty Cop Love at First Sight Bittersweet Ending Adults Are Useless Adapted Out Camera Abuse Maybe Ever After Villain with Good Publicity Noodle Incident British Films Actually Pretty Funny Poor Communication Kills Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bland-Name Product And I Must Scream Not So Above It All I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Anachronic Order Greater-Scope Villain Smug Snake Undying Loyalty Award-Bait Song Names to Run Away from Really Fast Call-Forward Children Are Innocent Crucified Hero Shot The Lost Lenore Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mind Screw Taking You with Me The Bully Bald of Evil Green-Eyed Monster Malevolent Masked Men Vomit Discretion Shot Back from the Dead Awesome, but Impractical Not What It Looks Like Bare Your Midriff Film Series The Power of Love Irony The Oner Getting Crap Past the Radar Leaning on the Fourth Wall Shipper on Deck Suspiciously Specific Denial Slasher Smile Car Fu Death by Irony Pyrrhic Victory Artistic License – Geography Artistic License – History Unresolved Sexual Tension Red Right Hand The Un-Reveal Dissonant Serenity Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Spiteful Spit Mythology Gag Character Development Offscreen Teleportation Enemy Mine Ambiguous Disorder It's Personal Big Applesauce Bad Boss Asshole Victim Red Herring Film Noir Deal with the Devil Ghost Fiction Chiaroscuro Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Calling the Old Man Out Heroes Want Redheads N-Word Privileges Brick Joke Earn Your Happy Ending Ambiguous Ending Intrepid Reporter The '60s Fatal Flaw Only a Flesh Wound Covers Always Lie Mr. Fanservice Stock Footage German Films True Companions Fatal Family Photo Man on Fire Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Idiot Ball Combat Pragmatist Race Lift Sequel Hook Logo Joke Here We Go Again! Jerkass Villain Opening Scene One-Word Title Guile Hero Adaptational Villainy NO INDOOR VOICE The Chick An Aesop Blackmail Curb-Stomp Battle Parental Substitute Auto Erotica Cluster F-Bomb Card-Carrying Villain Villain Song Shower Scene Our Vampires Are Different Refuge in Audacity Credits Gag The X of Y Celebrity Paradox Villain Ball Double Entendre MacGuffin Off with His Head! Pay Evil unto Evil Corrupt Corporate Executive Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dark Action Girl Evil Is Petty Beware the Nice Ones Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Black and Gray Morality Defrosting Ice Queen Missing Mom Kill 'em All Took a Level in Badass Scary Black Man Slap-Slap-Kiss Gainax Ending Really Gets Around The Vamp Reality Is Unrealistic Meaningful Name Deconstruction Red Shirt Redshirt Army Badass Normal Suddenly SHOUTING! Off-into-the-Distance Ending Rewatch Bonus Well-Intentioned Extremist I Have Your Wife Creator Cameo Manipulative Bastard Naked People Are Funny Last-Name Basis Big Bad In Name Only You Have Failed Me A Minor Kidroduction Rape as Drama Playing Gertrude Disney Villain Death The Brute Arc Words Air-Vent Passageway Bait-and-Switch Death Seeker Cloudcuckoolander Together in Death Sinister Minister Once More, with Clarity! Adaptation Expansion Improbable Aiming Skills Cool Old Guy Guns Akimbo Shout-Out Morality Pet Adaptational Badass Cassandra Truth Bloodier and Gorier Politically Incorrect Villain Plucky Comic Relief Spiritual Successor Kids Are Cruel Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sassy Black Woman "Awesome McCool" Name The Place Knife Nut Bad "Bad Acting" More Dakka Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Properly Paranoid Brutal Honesty Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Alcoholic Foregone Conclusion Gone Horribly Right Badass Grandpa Ripped from the Headlines Impaled with Extreme Prejudice All There in the Script Time Skip Mistaken for Gay Mystery and Detective Films Hoist by His Own Petard Drill Sergeant Nasty Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Darkest Hour Arch-Enemy Everyone Has Standards The '70s Rule of Funny Gratuitous English Abhorrent Admirer Red Eyes, Take Warning Punch-Clock Villain "The Reason You Suck" Speech Shirtless Scene Mercy Kill Same Language Dub Boom, Headshot! Major Injury Underreaction Slashed Throat The Sociopath The '50s Lighter and Softer Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Ace Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas O.O.C. Is Serious Business Stealth Hi/Bye Nice Guy Fire-Forged Friends Have a Gay Old Time Gold Digger Taking the Bullet What the Hell, Hero? Kick the Dog Sequel Escalation Fat Bastard Friend to All Children Blood Knight Science Fiction Films Actor Allusion Superhero Red Oni, Blue Oni Deadpan Snarker Final Girl Rated M for Manly Truth in Television Evil Brit Killed Mid-Sentence Needs Wiki Magic Love Tempting Fate Hong Kong Films Video Credits Expository Hairstyle Change Crazy Jealous Guy Grievous Bottley Harm Gory Discretion Shot Shut Up, Hannibal! Beauty Is Never Tarnished Wretched Hive French Films From Bad to Worse Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Costume Porn Police Brutality Papa Wolf Disproportionate Retribution Insult Backfire Black Dude Dies First Eyepatch of Power Bilingual Bonus Bullying a Dragon Brother–Sister Incest Pretty Little Headshots Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sir Swears-a-Lot Real Life Writes the Plot Artistic License – Biology Russian Films All Men Are Perverts Agony of the Feet Heterosexual Life-Partners "Well Done, Son!" Guy Romantic False Lead Match Cut My Greatest Failure The Chessmaster Call-Back Vampire Fiction B-Movie Sadistic Choice And the Adventure Continues Animal Motifs All There in the Manual A God Am I 20 Minutes into the Future Good Is Not Nice Curse Cut Short Adaptation Name Change Male Gaze Sanity Slippage Batman Gambit Slasher Movie Hero of Another Story Madness Mantra She Cleans Up Nicely Fourth Date Marriage Narrator Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Casting Gag Naïve Newcomer The Hero Ascended Extra Brainless Beauty This Is Gonna Suck Silent Movie Visual Pun Cool Guns Alas, Poor Villain Yandere Foreshadowing Kick the Son of a Bitch Evil Laugh Gorn Only One Name Hell Is That Noise Aluminum Christmas Trees Parental Neglect Big Eater Disguised in Drag Tap on the Head Mugging the Monster Mr. Exposition Historical Villain Upgrade Villain Protagonist Scare Chord The Casanova Pragmatic Adaptation Eureka Moment Sports Stories Butt-Monkey Alliterative Name Dull Surprise Fake Shemp You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Artistic License – Physics Drives Like Crazy Karmic Death Stylistic Suck Overprotective Dad Bond One-Liner Hope Spot Market-Based Title Deus ex Machina Bloody Hilarious Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Military and Warfare Films Make It Look Like an Accident