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Usually a [[Tomboy]], and often subject to a [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] in a [[Beautiful All Along]] plot, but unlike other girls she protests and is very upset about the event, considering herself a victim as being forced to [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|wear a dress is humiliating]], and she probably [[Unkempt Beauty|looks pretty nice already]]. Not to mention it undermines all the work she put into getting the boys to accept her as one of them. Often following such an event she has to beat one of the boys up all over again.
In a strange twist, [[Chickification]] is often seen as an ''improvement'' for this character. The boys she hangs with often find the development of feminine attributes in their best friend a positive development as they now have an approachable girl. Other times her Tomboyish ways backfire on her when her friends who are boys get to a dating age, and all come to her expecting advice on how court their latest crush. She might feel left out by this development. Other times one of her friends will be unable to find a date for the dance, and suddenly turn to her and say: "Hey! You're a girl!" and suggest she become his date for the
An [[Action Girl]] is sometimes portrayed as being someone who is still "one of the guys" at age 15-30. Possibly a form of subtle [[Fan Service]] (or not so subtle, depending on the character).
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* Anybodys in ''[[West Side Story]]'' would like to be this trope, but the guys don't accept her for the majority of the play.
* Watts from ''[[Some Kind of Wonderful]]''. She hooks up with her male friend at the end, but doesn't undergo any [[Chickification]], and her "[[She Cleans Up Nicely]]" moment sees her turn into a [[Bifauxnen]].
* Reporter Amy Archer in ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'' is a fast-talking career gal and one of the boys on the job, though not [[
* A lot of females in superhero movies fit this trope. A good example is Alicia Silverstone's Batgirl in 'Batman and Robin' acted as if she had something to prove to Robin and her character was seen doing such things as participating in a motorcycle race.
* Saga in ''Mitt liv som hund'' (My Life as a Dog).
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* Elaine from ''[[Seinfeld]]''. In one episode the fact that she only hangs out with guys becomes a plot point.
* Similar to Elaine, CJ from ''[[The West Wing]]''. Her male coworkers completely accept her as part of the staff's boy's club (her best friend is a man), and treat her feminine characteristics as extensions of her personality rather than a divide between themselves and her. In an added layer, the only things she has that resemble female friends are Abbey and Donna, who are her boss's wife and a much younger underling respectively, and either never gets close to or outright dislikes the women on the same level as her.
* Of the most, if not ''the'' most frequent subject of MTV's ''MADE'' is a burping, swearing, and [[Required Secondary Powers|usually athletic]] tomboy who wants to become a girly-girl of some caliber (usually a beauty pageant queen, but some of them just settle for just the femininity lessons) to make boys stop seeing her as
* In ''[[NCIS]]'', Ziva is very much this. She takes pride in "boy" things such as the [[A Real Man Is a Killer|many ways she knows how to kill people]].
* Djaq, from ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. At one point, a fellow outlaw says: "Apart from being a girl, Djaq is one of the lads."
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== Music ==
* [[David Bowie]] plays with this trope in his song "Rebel Rebel", which is about an extravagant drag queen who the narrator sees as
* [[Katy Perry]]'s "One of the Boys", played straight with [[Chickification]] being a good thing. Balanced out when she snubs the guy she originally chickified for - who is totally oblivious to her crush since he thought of their relationship as [[Like Brother and Sister]].
* [[Ke$ha]]'s stage persona and lyrics are more or less this, [[Or So I Heard|at least according to her entry...]]
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