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