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