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