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