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