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{{trope}}
Every successful person at the office wears crisp expensive suits and projects an air of unwavering confidence. The plucky office girl doesn't. She is very talented and clever, has great ideas, and wonderful potential but nobody notices. She is often the [[Butt Monkey|butt of jokes]], and the rest of the time is just invisible. So, she occupies a low ranking level at the company and seems to have no hope of a promotion despite her great potential. She is very sad and depressed, and often pretty complex but nobody is close enough to her to realize. Usually tasked with gopher (Go-For) jobs such as [[You! Get Me Coffee!|fetching coffee]] and notes, and so forth.
More cynical versions have the higher-ups profiting off her talent but never crediting it.
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This will go one of two ways. First, she will get noticed by someone higher up on the food chain, get a makeover and learn to show confidence which gets her noticed (and thus become a [[Romance Genre Heroines|Romance Genre Heroine]]). Or, second (and much more common these days), she'll forever remain the [[Plucky Comic Relief]], with only the occasional [[Day in The Limelight]] episode concentrating on her and her problems, wants, and dreams.
They're almost always [[Hollywood Homely]], too.
Overlaps with [[The Woobie]] if the
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* Linna Yamazaki in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis|Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040]]''.
* The superheroine in ''[[Re Cutey Honey]]'' is this in her [[Secret Identity]].
* ''Hataraki Man'' focuses on the slice-of-life adventures of a
* Riho from [[Nightwalker]].
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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
== Video Games ==
* Sachiko in the "Koi no Dance Site" level of [[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan|the first Ouendan Game]]. Whether she has the first or second kind of ending is whether you win or lose the level.
* [[Gaia Online]]'s Meredith is one. She mentions during Ian's trial that she graduated from college at the age of fifteen, proving that she has the intelligence and motivation to do greater things, but after all these years she's still just a half-forgotten bank teller. Much to the dismay of her [[Ensemble Darkhorse|multitude of fans]].
** When the bank had a store setup and Meredith was effectively a [[Shop Keeper]], she had a line indicating that carrying large amounts of gold around had given her [[Super Strength]]. This received a [[Call Back]] when...
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