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