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