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* Pam on ''[[The Office]]''. She begins the series as the epitome of this trope, a tired woman who has long ago given up her dream to be an artist and engaged to her high school boyfriend who doesn't appreciate her. She basically has to be a receptionist, take care of her boss Michael and put up with the craziest co-workers ever. However season 3 gave her major [[Character Development]] and a confidence boost. In season 5 she asserts herself and ends up going to art school and later gets promoted to a salesman. In season 7, when it becomes obvious that sales just aren't for her, she successfully uses a [[Batman Gambit]] to get herself promoted to Office Administrator, a job she (so far) seems to love. Oh, and she ends up [[Happily Married]] and [[Babies Ever After]].
* When Lucy Coe first appeared on ''[[General Hospital]]'', she was a plucky librarian girl. After a run-in with bad boy Kevin O'Connor, she [[Beautiful All Along|ditched the mousy trappings]] and became one of the more celebrated bad girls in the show's history.
* ''[[Torchwood]]'''s Toshiko, to a certain extent, who often seems to be having a lot less fun than the rest of the team. Rather than going out into the field and doing thrilling things, she's the [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]. Rather than [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex|having lots of sex]], she has a [[Cartwright Curse]]. And when she gets some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that allows her to [[A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read|read minds, she's shocked and hurt to discover that she's everybody's]] [[Butt Monkey]]. Still, she's extremely clever. {{spoiler|Sadly, she dies.}} Ianto is a bit of a [[Gender
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