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)

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