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