America's Next Top Model/Characters/Cycle Seventeen All Stars

Lisa D'Amato http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ep13-C Glisa_6450.jpg

"Shannon: "Lisa raised the bar pretty high." Dominique: "She's basically saying [to us] Fuck you all!""
 * The Ace
 * Badass
 * Badass Boast
 * Bare Your Midriff: Her casual outfits mostly are this.
 * The Cast Showoff: In episode 8, which was the music video episode.

"Tyra: "I'm so proud of your growth, La Puchinetta. Love, Tyra.""
 * Character Development: Gets past her Dark and Troubled Past, underwent self-reconstruction, made peace with most of the jury after her Rage Against the Mentor statements after losing Cycle 5. Upon retuning, she had a strong run in this Cycle ultimately winning it. Tyra's closing statement of this Cycle sums it best.

"Lisa: "I feel that the universe has finally aligned for me.""
 * Competence Zone: Averted. She's not insecure about her age like Camille and Bre. She even defied it by winning.
 * Cool Big Sis
 * Cool Shades: With revolvers attached.
 * Crazy Enough to Work
 * Daring Is An Awesome Brand: And she'll be the first to agree!
 * Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the Character Development and Reconstruction, it's great to see her win this. Listening to her closing statements best describes it.


 * For the Lulz: Not as bad as Cycle 5, but she's still prone to this.
 * Fun Personified
 * Genki Girl
 * Genre Savvy
 * Green Eyes
 * Hair of Gold
 * Idol Singer
 * In a Single Bound: Her signature leaps.
 * Jack of All Stats
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although she Took a Level in Jerkass, it's not to the point where she became bitchy and despicable.
 * Large Ham
 * Leitmotif: I'll Be Like Whoa!
 * Meganekko: Occasionally.
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Played straight.
 * Odd Friendship: With Shannon.
 * Older and Wiser
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Red Baron: The Wild Child, La Puchinetta.
 * Redemption Promotion
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Generally, she is the red except to Bianca and Angelea.
 * Refuge in Audacity
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Dominique.
 * Shorttank
 * Smug Super: She had her moments, but episode 8 is probably the most evident.
 * Tearful Smile: After winning.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Shannon's Girly Girl.
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Took a Level in Jerkass: The cockiness she was accused of in Cycle 5 was present here, albeit slightly.
 * The Unfettered

Allison Harvard


 * Always Second Best: The show's poster girl.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Innocent Blue Eyes
 * Blessed with Suck: Having beautiful eyes also meant that she would face difficulty in the sunlights.
 * Catgirl: In the motion editorial complete with Spy Catsuit.
 * Character Development: Allison is more sociable this time around.
 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Creepy Child: In her music video complete with white dress and Creepy Doll. Not to be confused with her Fan Nickname.
 * The Cutie
 * Disappeared Dad: Her Leitmotif, Underwater, was inspired by her deceased father.
 * The Ditz: Zig Zagged. She is a clever girl, but she does have ditzy moments, oh boy! In the end it just adds to her overall cuteness.
 * Expy: Of Amanda Swafford from Cycle 3, albeit she's more of her Shadow Archetype. She's also the Token White on her original Cycle's final 3.
 * Fan Service Pack
 * Friendship Moment: Mainly with Laura, especially in the last episodes. She also had one with Alexandria during the latter's fight with Bianca in episode 7.
 * Go Out with a Smile
 * Graceful Loser
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hidden Depths: She can be a Jack of All Stats or/and The Ace when she needs to be.
 * Humble Heroine
 * Indy Ploy: The entire Episode 8, as well as the photo and video shoots involving sunlight in the last few episodes.
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Double Subverted. Though she's Always Second Best, she's actually more stronger in challenges and pictorials compared to Cycle 12.
 * Neutral Female: When some of the girls start losing their tempers and becomes emotional (read: Lisa, Angelea, Shannon and Bianca), she just stay calm and generally avoids getting caught in the drama.
 * Nice Girl
 * Nightmare Fetishist
 * Odd Friendship: With Alexandria.
 * Older and Wiser
 * One of Us
 * The Quiet One
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the blue to everyone competing. Especially Laura.
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Laura.
 * Ryu and Ken: Her and Laura. Both of them are previous runners-up, have blond hair, and were [[Ensemble Darkhorse fan favor. This became a factor during the final elimination, sadly (the one that took an hour and a half) leading to Laura's Shocking Elimination.
 * Shadow Archetype: Of Cycle 3 second runner-up Amanda Swafford. Both of them are blond with beautiful eyes as their assets. Said assets are also their biggest flaw. But while Allison sucked with the light, Amanda needed it to do well.
 * Smarter Than You Look
 * Strange Girl
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: By default, she is everyone's Girly Girl. Including Shannon.
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Too Quirky to Lose: Unfortunately Averted. Again.
 * Unique Is An Awesome Brand
 * What Beautiful Eyes!
 * Weaksauce Weakness: Sunlight. Probably, her runway walk as well.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist

Angelea Preston

"Dominique: "Angelea is so cute. I want to grab her.""
 * Always Third Placer
 * Arrogant Model Girl: In her bad days.
 * Badass Boast
 * Because Destiny Says So: Unfortunately subverted.
 * Being Good Sucks: She trashed everything bad we saw of her in Cycle 14. From her bitchy persona... and her fierceness.
 * Big OMG: Everytime towards the celebrity guest judges.
 * Break the Haughty: Not as bad as Bianca though.
 * Broken Bird
 * But Not Too Black
 * Butt Monkey
 * Canon Discontinuity: After she gets disqualified, her entire work during the competition is nullifed. Lisa and Allison were then re-evaluated only against each other.
 * Cerebus Syndrome: She started this Cycle as an arrogant yet funny girl to a Wangsty one.
 * Character Development: Unfortunately tainted due to Cerebus Syndrome.
 * The Chew Toy
 * Diabolus Ex Machina: She was plagued by this in the duration of the cycle. Everytime she gave a strong performance, she either gets upstaged by someone (e.g. Bre in the acting challenge) or make a last minute mistake (the public speaking challenge with the Greek dignitaries). Then there's the disqualification controversy..
 * Does Not Know Her Own Strength: She is a Jack of All Stats, but she couldn't handle those skills consistently.
 * Downer Ending: Her run in this Cycle.
 * Even the Girls Want Her: Dominique's interview after the public speaking challenge in episode 9 have shades of Les Yay / Foe Yay.

"Dominique: "Being an All Star, you gotta know it, you gotta own it, and you gotta believe it if you want everyone else to believe in you." Laura: "You can sing. You can act. You can model. But you don't know it!""
 * Genre Savvy
 * Hot-Blooded
 * Inferiority Superiority Complex: A form of recurring plot-device from the late episodes of Cycle 14.
 * Ironic Echo: Her Leitmotif have words in the lyrics that are Harsher in Hindsight.
 * It's All About Me
 * Kirk Summation: Dominique and Laura's speech in episode 10 claiming that she Does Not Know Her Own Strength qualifies as this.


 * Large Ham
 * Leitmotif: I'm Here, which is about her being a Plucky Girl her whole life.
 * Lovable Alpha Bitch
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Zig Zagged. She managed to reach the finale this time around, but she still finished 3rd. However, her run this cycle is considered inferior compared to her strong run in Cycle 14.
 * Non Gameplay Elimination
 * Noodle Incident: She was disqualified in the finals for unspecific reasons. This caused a lot of speculations, obviously.
 * Odd Friendship: With Laura.
 * Pretty in Mink: She wore them during her first and fourth pictorials.
 * Plucky Girl
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's generally the red, unless you pair her with Bianca or maybe Alexandria.
 * Sassy Black Woman: Half black, but she still fits.
 * Shaggy Dog Story: She is a Plucky Ascended Fangirl who came back after nearly reaching the finals in her original Cycle. She returns this time and survived four eliminations until finally reaching the final runway.. only to be disqualified in the end.
 * Smarter Than You Look: She's a history buff and had a quick analysis on the Greek language.
 * The Snark Knight
 * Straw Loser
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * This Is for Emphasis, Bitch
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy To Laura's Girly Girl.
 * The Unfettered
 * Unknown Rival: Sans Allison, she is this to everyone else, most notably Lisa. Subverted in the finale where Lisa considered her as her greatest competition based on how badly she wanted to win.

Laura Kirkpatrick


 * The Archer: In her last (yet best) pictorial.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Character Development
 * Covert Pervert: Maybe even a Good Bad Girl if her aformentioned bicycle metaphor and the orgasm conversations with Lisa and Shannon are indications.
 * Cry Cute: During her Elimination Statement.
 * Disturbing Statistic: This girl from the thirteenth Cycle ends up in fourth place.
 * Fan Service Pack
 * Girl Next Door
 * Hair of Gold
 * The Heart
 * Hotter and Sexier: Lampshaded many times during panels, notably by Nigel.
 * Humble Heroine
 * Leitmotif: Southern Sweet Girl
 * L Is for Dyslexia
 * Lovable Is An Awesome Brand
 * Morality Pet
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Double Subverted. Though her rank fell two notches lower compared to her original Cycle finish, she had a stronger run on this one by winning best photos twice (something she didn't achieve in her original Cycle) and a challenge, being on the bottom two aside.
 * Neutral Female: Much like (and usually, along with) Allison, she walks away from the scene when some of the girls are having a commotion. Except the time when she gave Angelea some words of advice.
 * Nice Girl
 * Odd Friendship: With Angelea, Bianca and, to a lesser extent, Lisa.
 * Older and Wiser
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Depends on whom she's with. She's the blue to Angelea and Lisa but the red to Allison.
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Allison and Angelea.
 * Ryu and Ken: Allison and her. Both of them are previous runners-up, have blond hair, and were fan favorites. This became a factor during the final elimination, sadly (the one that took an hour and a half) leading to her Shocking Elimination.
 * Southern Belle: It was almost always brought up.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: She is the Girly Girl to both Angelea and Lisa's Tomboy and the Tomboy to Allison's Girly Girl.
 * Took a Level In Badass

Dominique Reighard

"Dominique: "Last time I was shot by Nigel.. I went home. (laughs)""
 * Badass: As seen in the Snooki/Nene in a motorcycle photoshoot.
 * Being Good Sucks
 * Bifauxnen: In her first pictorial.
 * Celebrity Resemblance: To Leona Lewis. Additionally, Game commented that she's like a mix of Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé.
 * Character Development: As with other former Alpha Bitches from their Cycles. In fact she was the most obvious case. Marriage and motherhood probably helped.
 * Cool Big Sis: Subverted with Angelea.
 * Crack Defeat
 * Curse: Being photographed by Nigel Barker.


 * Fan Service Pack: As Mr. Jay said, getting rid of her "masculine vibes" she used to have on Cycle 10 made her Hotter and Sexier.
 * Green Eyes
 * Happily Married
 * Hidden Depths
 * Hotter and Sexier
 * Hot Mom
 * Leitmotif: Tooch Ya Booty.
 * Ms. Fanservice
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Double Subverted. She finished a rank lower compared to her original Cycle finish, yet she won best photos twice. Like Laura, that's something she never achieved in her original Cycle.
 * Older and Wiser
 * Redemption Equals Elimination
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: With Lisa. Subverted with Angelea.
 * Shocking Elimination
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Took a Level In Kindness: Unlike most of the former Alpha Bitches who entered this Cycle still in the process of defrosting, she came completely warm and nice.
 * Warrior Princess: In her Javelin-wielding last pictorial.
 * Younger Than They Look

Shannon Stewart-Ratliff


 * Alliterative Name: Subverted that she's married now.
 * Being Good Sucks
 * Blue Eyes
 * Chekhov's Boomerang: Her reluctance to pose in underwear and lingerie becomes a plot device once again. And when she did refused, the panel declared that they'll consider Shannon's entire body of work. They did. Including those from Cycle 1. Ultimately, the deciding factor whether she stays was her very first photo.
 * Eternally Pearly-White Teeth
 * Face Elimination With Dignity
 * The Fettered
 * Girl Next Door
 * Good Is Boring
 * Go Out with a Smile
 * Hair of Gold
 * Happily Married: So much that her Leitmotif was inspired by her husband.
 * Honor Before Reason: This, coupled with Badass Decay, ultimately became her Fatal Flaw.
 * Hot Mom
 * The Ingenue
 * Insane Troll Logic: The panties and bikinis debate.
 * I Regret Nothing
 * Leitmotif: World Go Round.
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted.
 * Not So Different: With Bianca due to them sticking to their brand at all cost.
 * Odd Friendship: With Lisa and Alexandria.
 * Onee-Sama
 * Our Angels Are Different: In her first pictorial.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Generally, she is the blue by default. The only time she could have been the red is if she paired with Allison.
 * Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Is she ever!
 * So First Cycle: She might have survived elimination after her reluctance to do a sexy photoshoot in Cycle 1, but not this time.
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Lisa's Tomboy.

Alexandria Everett

"Tyra:(episode 6) "I'm surprised. You're pictures are usually high fashion. Here, you look like a reality star being shot next to Coco [Rocha]." Tyra:(episode 7 during panel deliberations) "Her photo is more character than high fashion. And I like it.""
 * Being Good Sucks
 * Biker Babe: In her first pictorial.
 * Blue Eyes
 * Celebrity Resemblance: With Amanda Seyfried and Jordana Spiro.
 * Character Development: Alex was no longer the Jerkass Alpha Bitch she was in her original Cycle.
 * Cry Cute: In episode 1 after the reaction she received. In episode 2 she shed Tears of Joy after her Important Haircut. And in episode 8 backstage during panel delibirations prior to her boot.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Hair of Gold
 * Hidden Depths
 * Important Haircut: Her change of heart started after this.
 * Leitmotif: Hers is titled Go, Go, Go!.
 * Lighter and Softer: In both good and bad ways.


 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted.
 * Odd Friendship: With Shannon and Allison.
 * Redemption Equals Elimination
 * Sugar and Ice Personality
 * Tagalong Kid: She fits by being one of the youngest girls in the competition as well as the girl from the newest (previous) Cycle.
 * Took a Level In Kindness

Bianca Golden


 * Alpha Bitch: Unlike most of the Alpha Bitches who returned this Cycle, she didn't change her ways.
 * Arrogant Model Girl
 * Break the Haughty
 * Candid Is An Awesome Brand
 * Celebrity Resemblance: With Logan Browning.
 * The Fettered
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Bre.
 * Honor Before Reason
 * Insufferable Genius
 * Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted.
 * Not So Different: With Shannon due to them sticking to their brand at all cost.
 * Odd Friendship: With Kayla and Laura.
 * Pet the Dog: She's the first to rush to Kayla and ask for help when the latter was awfully sick in episode 4.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: She is the red to everyone competing. Especially Angelea and Alexandria.
 * Sassy Black Woman
 * Sitcom Arch Nemesis: To both Lisa and Shannon, though she got better with the latter.
 * Rivals Team Up: She was paired with both respectively in episodes 3 and 6.
 * Small Name, Big Ego: Ultimately became her Fatal Flaw.
 * Smug Snake: At her worst.
 * Smug Super
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * This Is a Competition: Her Jerk Justifications is this.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Bre, Kayla and Laura's Girly Girl.

Kayla Ferrel

"Kayla: "Am I doing my best? Yes. But am I standing out of the pack? I don't think so.""
 * Blond Brunette Redhead: She appeared with dark hair in episode 1. For those who haven't saw Cycle 15, Kayla is naturally blond but her hair was dyed red, thus donning all three colors in her two Cycle appearance. The makeover team bought her back to being a Red Headed Heroine starting episode 2.
 * Character Development
 * Chekhov's Boomerang: Free was actually a Call Back from her very first photoshoot in Cycle 15. It served as her power word from Queer.
 * Curse: Double Eliminations.
 * Graceful Loser
 * Humble Heroine
 * Lipstick Lesbian
 * Morality Pet: To Bianca.
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted. Not only did her ranking fall five notches, but she was eliminated in the same manner.
 * Odd Friendship: With Bianca.
 * Overshadowed by Awesome: She herself lampshaded this during one of her interviews.


 * The Quiet One: Most of the time.
 * Tagalong Kid: She is the youngest girl in the competition.
 * Token Lesbian
 * Unknown Rival: Briefly towards Allison.
 * Vomit Discretion Shot: In episode 4.
 * What Kind Of Lame Brand Is Free Anyway?: And she actually admitted being confused to it during her interview.

Bre Scullark


 * Being Good Sucks
 * Blue Oni: To Bianca's Red.
 * Character Development: She's no longer ill-tempered compared to her Cycle 5 self.
 * Cool Big Sis: Especially to Bianca.
 * Guttural Growler
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Bianca.
 * Jade-Colored Glasses: Unlike Camille, she got better.
 * Morality Pet: Also to Bianca.
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted.
 * Sassy Black Woman: Not like before, but it still shows.
 * Shocking Elimination
 * Straight Man: To Bianca.
 * Sudden Sequel Elimination Syndrome
 * Team Mom
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Bianca's Tomboy.
 * Traumatic Haircut: At first, but she gradually became comfortable with it.
 * What Kind Of Lame Brand Is Girlfriend Anyway?

Camille McDonald


 * Being Good Sucks
 * Brown Eyes
 * Character Development: Ditched her old Alpha Bitch self like most of the girls this Cycle.
 * Competence Zone: Discussed. See Jade-Colored Glasses below.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Graceful Loser
 * Hot Mom
 * Jade-Colored Glasses: Her interviews pretty much translates as Growing Up Sucks or/and how she doesn't have the same opportunity as the other girls in the house.
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted.
 * Redemption Equals Elimination
 * Reformed but Rejected: Majority of the other girls were unhappy when they realized she's also in the competition. Fortunately, they got better.
 * The Stoic
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky

Isis King


 * Attractive Bent Gender
 * Go Out with a Smile
 * Inspirational Is An Awesome Brand
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Double Subverted due to snagging the first best photo this Cycle, which is a Crowning Moment of Awesome on her part since she is the lowest ranking contestant (tenth) from her original Cycle compared to the other girls who finished between sixth to runner-up.
 * Took a Level In Badass
 * Transsexualism

Sheena Sakai


 * Alliterative Name
 * Celebrity Resemblance: To former judge Kimora Lee Simmons.
 * Genki Girl
 * Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her jumpsuits.
 * Go Out with a Smile
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted.
 * Shiny Midnight Black
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * Token Minority: Which in turn gave Unfortunate Implications to her Unexpected brand.
 * What Kind Of Lame Brand Is Unexpected Anyway?: Not to mention awkward.

Brittany Brower


 * Alliterative Name
 * Brown Eyes
 * Celebrity Resemblance: With former judge Janice Dickinson.
 * Character Development
 * Four Is Death: She's the fourth placer from the fourth Cycle... and this Cycle's first boot.
 * Fun Personified
 * Genki Girl
 * Go Out with a Smile
 * Large Ham
 * My Greatest Second Chance: Subverted BIG time.
 * One Steve Limit: Averted with Bre.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo