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{{quote|''Everybody knew you as the wife of a famous man,
''Everybody who knew said, "There goes Dixon's girl again."''
|Dessa, ''Dixon's Girl''.}}
This is a subtrope of [[The Smurfette Principle]]:
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the first anime version of ''[[Hellsing]]'', part of Integra's backstory was that she had to fight the stigmas that she was a woman doing a man's job, and that she more or less fell into the role after her father died and was forced to kill her uncle in self defense when he tried to usurp control. In the manga and second anime there was no such stigma and she was recognized as the legitimate heir of the organization... except for the usurping uncle.
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== Webcomics ==
* Deconstructed and then reconstructed in [[The Order of the Stick]]. Haley Starshine essentially has her father to thank and to blame for everything in her life; he taught her to be a fantastic thief by teaching her to mistrust everyone, and the only reason she joined an adventuring party in the first place was to raise money to pay his ransom. By the time she resolves her issues with her father, {{spoiler|by realizing that Ian's paranoia and trust issues were poisonous and that she needed to move on, because it made it impossible to open up to the man she loves,}} she's already in a relationship with Elan, and now her personal issues revolve around learning to open up to people (naturally, with Elan's help). That said, Roy and Elan also have parental and familial relationships that define why they became who they are (Roy takes after his Fighter grandfather, Elan gets his love of stories from his father and Chaotic Good nature from his mother.)
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