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* Maryellen Larkin (1954): The first character to be released after the BeForever reboot, hailing from Daytona Beach, Florida. A polio survivor (thus making her the first character to have a disability, though it isn't explicitly shown in her doll) and the middle child in a large family, she tries to make herself heard.
* Julie Albright (1974): Lives in [[San Francisco]] in [[The Seventies]]. She learns how to deal with the changes her parents' divorce caused to her life while navigating social upheavals like [[You Go, Girl!|second-wave feminism]], the environmentalist movement, and the changing rights of racial minorities (explored through her relationship with her Chinese best friend).
* Courtney Moore (1986): Hailing from Orange Valley, California, Courtney is into video games such as ''[[Pac-Man]]'' and STEM subjects. Has two best friends whom she hangs out with at the local video game arcade, and dreams about a video game character whose name is "Crystal Starshooter".
There is also a set of dolls, called "My American Girl", which offers multiple dolls of varying looks to make into a personal character. This can lead to [[Mary Sue|some unusual characters]].
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* [[Proper Lady]]: Elizabeth. This is also how Grandmary is trying to raise Samantha.
* [[Raised by Grandparents]]: Samantha
* [[Recursive Canon]]: Courtney Moore was given a Molly doll by her father during the year American Girl was founded. Assuming that the characters do have a shared universe, it could be implied that Molly and the rest of the cast were real people in the ''American Girl'' mythos, and that their toys and stories were based on their lives.
* [[Retcon]]: This is dramatically seen with Elizabeth Cole -- Felicity's best friend -- being changed from a brown-eyed brunette to a blue-eyed blonde. All the images and text of Felicity's stories were updated to make it like she'd always been blonde.
** A more minor example is Emily. She was originally portrayed as having a bob-like hairstyle,
* [[Rule of Three]]: The first three girls were released together: Samantha, Kirsten, and Molly.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]:
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* [[Take That]]: The racist class bully in ''Melody 1963: Love Has to Win'' is a thinly-veiled pot shot at [[Donald Trump]]. [[Word of God]] has it that the Donald character was to be named Douglas, only for someone misreading the script, and the name stuck. Given how Trump's political ambitions were all over the headlines in 2016, not to mention the rise of neo-fascist and racist movements in the United States along with Trump's connections to them have drawn the ire of many, this isn't surprising.
* [[Title Drop]]: Occurs in the last line of ''Really, Truly Ruthie''.
* [[Token Minority]]: Josefina, Ivy, and Kaya all have unique
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Felicity and Elizabeth, Kit and Ruthie, Julie and Ivy. Note that [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|the tomboy is always the star of the series]].
** Molly's friends Linda and Susan, with Molly as [[The Kirk]].
* [[We Interrupt This Program]]: The NBC broadcast of ''Saige Paints The Sky'' was interrupted at the last minute by the George Zimmerman verdict. The parental outrage ensuing from the sudden interruption may have accounted for why ''Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight'' was aired on the Disney Channel as it would be far less likely to be disrupted by a broadcast interruption if it were aired on a niche children's network.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Lindsey stops Blair from tormenting April, so Blair pretends that Lindsey attacked her on the way to school. It only partially works.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: Up until they created Kaya, each of the American Girl characters had a Christmas story as a part of her book series. Since Kaya obviously wouldn't have celebrated Christmas, living before the Nez Perce had much contact with Europeans, they gave her a story about "giving" as her obligatory "holiday" book.
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