Barbie/Characters

Tropes related to the Mainline Barbie dolls, Fashionistas examples go here.

Barbie

 * Blue Eyes
 * Celebrity Star: She’s a famous actress in-universe.
 * Cool Big Sis: To Skipper, Stacie, Kelly, and Krissy.
 * Genius Ditz: In Life In The Dreamhouse.
 * Hair of Gold:
 * The Heroine
 * Hidden Depths: A Fashion Fairytale shows that she’s just as human as the rest of us (But Plastic).
 * Hot Scientist: Computer Engineer Barbie.
 * Ms. Imagination: Quite the story teller.
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Fairytale Wedding Dress
 * "Happy Holidays" Dress: Trope namer
 * Spoiled Sweet
 * Unlimited Wardrobe: It's literally small country sized in Life In The Dreamhouse.

Teresa
""I love Barbie, She's fun, generous and exactly my size.""


 * Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
 * Celebrity Star: A famous fashion designer.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Since ‘A Mermaid's Tale’
 * Conspiracy Theorist
 * The Fashionista
 * Genius Ditz
 * Hidden Depths: See The Smart Girl.
 * The Smart Girl: May be a Cloudcuckoolander, but she has a lot of intelligence hidden under that.
 * Spoiled Sweet

Nikki
""Thats not a closet, it's a planet called fashion!""


 * Celebrity Star: Of her own 'in the know' Vlog.
 * Sassy Black Woman

Raquelle

 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
 * Poke the Poodle: Her evil plan is to... 'catch [Barbie] in a fashion fail and post pics on the internet'.
 * Rich Bitch
 * The Rival: But not the Alpha Bitch.

Ken

 * Butt Monkey: In A Fashion Fairytale and onward.
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * Perma-Shave: Usually, but "Cool Shaving Ken" from the 90's had a beard that could be removed with warm water and would eventually grow back.
 * Averted in Life In The Dreamhouse, where after waiting all day for Barbie he's grown some stubble overnight.
 * Prince Charming
 * Real Men Wear Pink: The one of the Ken Fashionistas.
 * Surfer Dude: Professional.
 * Understanding Boyfriend

Ryan

 * Half-Identical Twins: With Raquelle
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome

Grace

 * Cool Big Sis: Fits the archetype for Barbie and Teresa.
 * The Lancer: To Barbie and Teresa’s three man band.
 * Replacement Goldfish: Might be to Barbie.
 * Sassy Black Woman: Averted.
 * Spoiled Sweet

Midge Sherwood (formerly Hadley)

 * Green Eyes
 * Happily Married: To Allan.
 * Hot Mom
 * Team Mom: Being an actual mother helps.

Allan Sherwood

 * Happily Married
 * Hot Dad
 * The Smart Guy
 * Team Dad: Being an actual Dad helps.

Steven

 * The Big Guy: To Barbie’s five man band.
 * Black Best Friend: For Ken.
 * Mr. Fanservice
 * Token Minority Couple: With Christie and currently Nikki.

Skipper

 * Bookworm
 * Brainy Brunette
 * Brilliant but Lazy

Chelsea

 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Generic Cuteness
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals
 * Girly Girl: To Stacie's tomboy.
 * Retcon: She may or may not be Kelly in disguise.

Stacie
"Stacey: Barbie, you log in each gift, who it's from and Chelsea's emotional response."
 * Super OCD: Stacey, with birthday parties.


 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: To Chelsea's girly girl.

Grace

 * The Heroine
 * Sassy Black Woman
 * Stripperiffic: Her first outfit.

Courtney

 * Cheerful Child

Trichelle

 * The Lancer
 * Sassy Black Woman

Janessa

 * Cheerful Child

Kara

 * Alliteration: Kara & Kianna.
 * Sassy Black Woman
 * The Smart Girl

Kianna

 * Cheerful Child
 * Child Prodigy

Chandra

 * The Chick
 * Sassy Black Woman

Zahara

 * Cheerful Child

Darren

 * The Big Guy
 * Expy: Of Steven.

Julian

 * Cheerful Child
 * Expy: Of Dajh Katzroy
 * Funny Afro