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