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While the trope is sufficient to cover both, a character who is to [[Emo]] as this trope is to [[Goth]] would essentially be a "cupcake emo", which are notable for their pink/black stripes. This is technically a different subculture than emo, but they're closely related and scene can be summarized as "Perky Emo with a little bit of rave culture". Keep in mind that goth culture is reversed on this point just as in some countries the gothic color is white.
Long thought to be on the path to extinction, by the late 2010s bubbly goths have been massively [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/goth-gf idealized by memes] as unique women whose goth looks are a positive, being thought of as genuinely sexy and alluring.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Dny-s27Dk Irn Bru makes gloomy goths perky!] (Love the surfboard.)
** Alternately, it cures depression by turning it into a bipolar manic fit! (I do really want that surfboard, though...)
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7KXjM7VfSM What is it with goths and beaches?]
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* Misa Amane from ''[[Death Note]]'', who also qualifies as an [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] (if you ignore the words 'elegant' and 'lolita', that is).
** She ''does'' temporarily qualify as [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]], as she's wearing clothes like that when she sings {{spoiler|after Light picks her as Kira}}.
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* Sawyer the Cleaner, from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', qualifies. In one scene, {{spoiler|when she's explaining that the bad smell in a hotel room is from the ooze from rotting corpses she had to clean up in there earlier,}} she smiles happily, glad to have made things clear, while everybody around her is busy losing their lunch.
* Mirajane from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' isn't quite "perky" in her youth - she's completely [[Hot-Blooded]]. She basically had the same personality as [[Idiot Hero|Natsu]]. However, after {{spoiler|she loses her sister}} she becomes a [[Yamato Nadeshiko]].
* Stocking from ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', particularly when [[Sweet Tooth|eating sweets]]. Her odd outfit seems to combine both eastern and western Goth styles.
* Saki Hanajima from ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. She looks rather scary, what with wearing black to signify that she is a "sinner" and occasionally threatening people who try to hurt Tohru, but she's awfully nice.
* Sheliss elleness Zurbach of ''[[The Night When Evil Falls]]''.
* Santomi Kanahara from ''[[Godzilla Singular Point]]''. Something of a snarky [[Sassy Secretary]] for the main cast, with tattoos, leather clothes, piercings, typical Goth ensemble.
* More so than the video game, Celestia Ludenberg from ''[[Danganronpa]]''. She's a stereotype, yeah, but in this case, it works. She also seems to think she is a witch, her goal being to live in a castle with a harem of male vampires... Yeah, Perky [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Goth, and that's why the fans love her.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] of the Endless, from ''[[The Sandman]]'' [[Comic Book Tropes|comics]] by Neil Gaiman is described by her author as a Perky Goth. She is not just responsible for Death, though; she also gives the breath of life when someone is born. She's pretty much the person you'd most want to see at a stressful moment like that. Her brother, Dream, fills the Mopey Goth niche.
** Although in stories taking place in earlier eras (read: billions of years ago), Death was a bit of a wet blanket herself before she started spending a few days each century with mortals.
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* The Ghoulunatics from ''[[EC Comics]]'' are dark and morbid, but in a fun and gleeful way.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[The Return (fanfic)|The Return]]'' conversion into a succubus seems to be synonymous with becoming a Perky Goth. [[Those Two Guys]] Sam and Naoko choose to dress as perky goth too.
** Especially Yuki/Nabiki the "cute" succubus.
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** [[Creator Cameo|Felya]], a cheery Forsaken priestess, is perhaps another example.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/~mrevil Mr. Evil's] [[Original Character]] "Bloody" Mary Rogers is described as "''The most energetic goth girl you would ever meet''".
* Saga in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fic ''[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/877/Under-The-Northern-Lights Under The Northern Lights]'' is an example, though she claims that "Goths are posers!", so she presumably wouldn't use the phrase herself. She differs from most of the examples on this page by being a [[Civilized Animal|reindeer]].
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* Jack Skellington from ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''—although he could also get pretty moody.
* Nora, from "[[We Are the Night]]". A happy vampire chick, enjoying her powers.
* Almost any goth character on ''[[Gap]]''.
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* A 1950s example: the title character in ''[[Cry-Baby]]'', who has a tattoo of a black teardrop dripping from his eye. He's not exactly "perky," but he's generally optimistic despite his surly attitude.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Eve Rosser from [[Morganville Vampires]]. She dresses Goth to the hilt, but is almost always cheerful and, when excited, jumps about 'like a demented, goth bunny'.
* In the [[Christopher Moore]] novels ''[[Bloodsucking Fiends|You Suck]]'' and ''Bite Me'', Abby Normal is determined not to show her perky side to the vampires she meets or to other Goths, but she does let the reader in on her secret.
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* Zanna from ''[[The Fire Within]]'' has pale skin, wears black make-up and black clothes, but is relatively happy and has fun a lot more than normal stereotypical goths.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Abby Sciuto, [[The Lab Rat]] on ''[[NCIS]]'', pictured above. As Tony DiNozzo put it, she's "A paradox wrapped in an oxymoron, smothered in contradictions in terms. Sleeps in a coffin. Really, the happiest goth you'll ever meet." [[Beware the Nice Ones|Unless you try something funny on her or her team.]]
* Coreen Fennel on ''[[Blood Ties]]''. Vicki Nelson, the acerbic heroine, comments, "No one likes a perky goth."
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* Kenzi from ''[[Lost Girl]]'', who doubles as a [[Deadpan Snarker]] and acts as the protagonist's sidekick and best friend.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* The subject of Kate Nash's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvLFDRufGk Mariella]'' is a misunderstood loner who likes to wear black, but she's also a cheerful little girl who always gets the crosswordpuzzle right.
** "She marched to her wardrobe and threw away the colour, because wearing black looks mysterious, but it didn't impress her mother...But Mariella just smiled as she skipped down the road because she knew all the secrets in her world."
* [[The Birthday Massacre]]. They even have a song, "Horror Show", that pokes fun at the other kind of goth.
{{quote|''They're getting ugly;''
''They're a horror show.''
''And now we're laughing''
''Because they'll never know''
''That they have everything.''
''We give them all of our own''
''And they tell us they're sick and they're all alone.'' }}
* Canadian singer [[Lights]], Her appearance and love for metal music would make up the 'Goth' part of this trope, while her own music and personality make up the 'Perky' part. Go figure.
* [[Creature Feature]]. They only ''sound'' dark and depressing, but take one listen to any of their songs and tell me they're not having a grand old time trying to top themselves on the What-the-Fuck-o-meter.
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* [[Type O Negative]]. They look extremely intimidating and popularized a "doom" sound in music, and they sing tunes about having sweet girlfriends and about silly goth girls with too much black hair dye.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Dethany Dendrobia, in ''[[On the Fastrack]]'', is a classic example. She's as Goth as it gets, but cheerful, friendly and a real asset to the company---which is how she gets away with seriously non-corporate clothing and accessories under the reign of Ms. Trellis.
* Lio from, well ''[[Lio]]''. He's mute, but his joyous grins and gleeful attitude speak for themselves. He frequently breaks out into hysterical laughter, usually at the outcome of a prank he just pulled. As for the "Goth" part of the equation ... read the comic, but [http://lio-comic.livejournal.com/294909.html this is a pretty good demonstration.]
* Gilly Woods from John Kovalic's gamer comic ''[[Dork Tower]]'' is the quintessential Perky Goth and [[Trope Namer]]; along with all of the typical goth mannerisms, she smiles all the time, collects plush animals, enjoys cookies and ice cream, and is [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|perpetually optimistic]]. This greatly annoys her brother Walden, who is a stereotypical Mopey [[Goth]].
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
* The Count from ''[[Sesame Street]]''. ("Ahh ah ah ah ah ah!")
* Former [[
▲== Pro Wrestling ==
▲* Former [[WCW]] and now [[TNA]] wrestler Sting is essentially this, as he kept the costume inspired by ''[[The Crow]]'' he adopted during the nWo angle, but has gone back to his former upbeat showman persona.
* Jeff Hardy, too, has played up this angle in both [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] and [[TNA]]. He wears [[Looks Like Cesare|corpse paint]] and his fans are known as "Creatures of the Night," but he's otherwise fun-loving and full of spirit.
* Daffney, from both WCW and TNA, was known for deliriously screaming and laughing during her own matches and those of her friends.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Geist: The Sin Eaters]]'': It's implied a ''lot'' of Sin-Eaters are like this. They were given the chance to come back from the dead and gladly accepted, so why ''shouldn't'' they be happy? Their general culture is one of celebrations and gatherings in the vein of the Day of the Dead and New Orleans funerals.
* Penny Dreadful from ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'' lives and breathes this trope. It's also implied that just as many of the Hollow Ones are perky goths as are traditional ones.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In the stage version of ''[[The Addams Family (musical)|The Addams Family]]'', Wednesday fits the Trope better, portrayed as a teenager who has become less deadpan and more emotional, having met a boy whom she'd fallen in love with.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Lash from ''[[Advance Wars]]'' is a Perky Goth villain. In the "defeat" conversation at one point in the third game, she even growls, "No more miss nice perkygoth!"
* Jennifer "Jen" Tate, [http://www.womengamers.com/articles/digital-women/jen-primal/ main character] of [[Primal]].
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* Deconstructed by Morinth from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', She seems like one of these but is obsessed with dominance, violence and death.
* Cube from ''[[Jet Set Radio]]'' counts, though only since the localization of the first game. The Japanese original had her in more traditional skater-punk style.
* 2B from ''[[Nier Automata]]'' has [https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/nier/images/3/38/YoRHa_No.2_Type_B.png/revision/latest?cb=20170322051325 the right outfit], although she only becomes "perky" later in the story when she starts to develop emotion.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
▲== Web Comics ==
* The main character of ''[[Buttercup Festival]]'' is a perky goth, and embodies perhaps the more whimsical side of the trope.
* Miho from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' has been defined by Fred Gallagher as a "perky goth", though she's more of a [[Little Miss Badass]].
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* {{spoiler|Death}} in the webcomic ''[[Finder's Keepers]]'' seems to be this.
* Subversion: On the outside, Alisin in ''[[Fans]]!'' is cheerful, fun-loving, and free-spirited, and it's only when you look closely that it's revealed that [[Stepford Smiler|underneath the perky exterior]] she's a neurotic, self-loathing and nihilistic mess.
** In more recent arcs, Aly ([[That Man Is Dead|she's no longer Alisin]]) was able to shed her self-loathing, due in large part to the unconditional love of her husband Rikk, and later Rumy when she joined them in a [[Tenchi Solution|triad marriage]], plus finding fulfillment in her job as a nurse in a juvenile cancer ward. She also grew her hair out and dropped most of her goth fashions. In one recent arc, she was held hostage by [[Complete Monster|Keith Feddyg]], who told the young patients about her past life, and then killed one [[Littlest Cancer Patient|eight-year-old who defended her]]. Aly, bolstered by Rikk and Rumy, was able to say the one thing Keith couldn't bear to hear
* Happy Goth from ''[[The Devil's Panties]]''.
* [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=406 Vanity Thorn] from the webcomic ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]''.
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** Chapter 49 has even more goth-y [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1384 Jenny], Jack's new girfriend. While not a [[Cuddle Bug]], she began addressing Annie "my love" on seeing her the second time, and generally is upbeat to the point that upon sudden transportation into Zimmy's warped world, instead of being scared (like ''everyone'' else we have seen), she immediately appreciated the beauty of some elements. Jenny evidently practices [[Ritual Magic|formal magic]] with diagrams and spells, unlike more free-form power use of magical creatures, but claims that she's not a witch, "just an apprentice". She has an extra bit of mystery attached, as Zimmy's supposedly [[Identical Stranger]].
* Gilly from ''[[Dork Tower]]'', as mentioned in the Comics section.
* Layla and Nina from ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' are two more examples of teenage vampires who fit the trope by association, although most of Layla's "perky" moments occur by accident.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* "1-800-Tech support" has Erica who, while into black makeup, mummifying her dead cats and so on, is generally fairly chirpy...unless it's [[Menstrual Menace|that time of the month]].
* At least one of the hosts from the podcast ''Lime and Violet'' alludes to having been one of these in the past, after a teenage stint as a more typical Mopey Goth.
* The website [http://suicidegirls.com/ Suicide Girls] (NSFW!) exists to document these women in their natural habitat. And naked.
* Moria from ''[[Gaia Online]]'' kind of drifts between this and Regular Punk depending on her characterization. (Though she was a vampire for about a week once, which ranks pretty high on the goth scale.)
* The writer of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130703015008/http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Repo__The_Genetic_Opera_2008.aspx?Page=7 this] [[The Agony Booth|Agony Booth]] recap declares that most Goths actually are like this, and that ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' gives them a bad name for this reason.
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has Anna Chase of v4 and Keira MacDonald of the spinoff Evolution. Anna's a little more downplayed on the perky part, and while not a [[Shrinking Violet]], can come off as seemingly rather meek at times. However, she still definitely fits the description. Keira, however, is played completely straight; her "power" is that she coughs up smoke at irregular intervals, for crying out loud!
* Sara Waite of [[Whateley Universe]] appears to be a goth due to her natural coloring, and, as a lust demon, she's rather perky.
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* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': As mentioned above, Sam Manson is very clearly one of these. By outward appearance, she's your stereotypical Goth girl. But she's actually quite happy with the way life is! It generally appears as though Sam considers herself a Goth because she likes the style... or because she wanted to rebel against her parents.
* ''[[Carl Squared]]'': Ironically not Carl Crashman's sister, Chloe, but her boyfriend Damien.
* The 1999 direct-to-video ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movie, ''Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost'',
* ''[[Count Duckula]]'', on his own show at least.
** He's mostly this in [[Danger Mouse]] as well, being a [[Harmless Villain]] who only wants to make it big in show business rather than a genuine threat.
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* Princess Luna from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', although it should be noted that she is neither "perky" nor "subdued" in her communications style at first. Instead she is a [[Large Ham]].
* In a ''[[Totally Spies]]'' episode, Alex tries to go goth to impress her date, who's an [[Emo Teen]] [[Beatnik]]. Trouble is, she's ''too'' perky, and they break up when her happiness starts ruining his image.
* Yumi from ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' pretty much shows this Trope when someone criticizes her style and she responds by saying, "Black is my color. Black, like your eye will be if you don't back off!"
* Mavis from ''[[Hotel Transylvania]]''. She's a vampire teenager - kind of fits.
* Marceline, ''[[Adventure Time]]''. Vampire Queen and rock musician, often described as a "a radical dame who likes to play games", she's pretty energetic for a goth.
* Shego, from ''[[Kim Possible]]'', one of many reasons [[Evil Is Cool|the fans love her so much.]]
* In ''[[Helluva Boss]]'', Loona isn't usually this, but her human disguise certainly is.
== Other Media ==▼
* In the [[Monster High]] toy line, young vampiress Draculaura fits this trope to a T. Her new (really new, 15-days-old new) friend Frankie Stein really belongs here too.▼
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Arguably [[Avril Lavigne]], she's more punk than goth but definitely fits the perky part.
* And, of course, just like her NCIS character, Pauley Perrette (pictured above).
▲== Other ==
▲* In the [[Monster High]] toy line, young vampiress Draculaura fits this trope to a T. Her new (really new, 15-days-old new) friend Frankie Stein really belongs here too.
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