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