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* In ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius]]'', [[Fantastic Racism]] between humans and the shapeshifting beast-men races called the Laguz are a major theme. While there are many senselessly evil or stupid human characters, in the first installment of the verse there was not a single evil Laguz. They were either outright heroic, brutally tortured and crazily brainwashed into attacking the heroes, or had a [[Anti-Villain|very good reason]] for opposing the good guys<ref>Yes, this includes Naesala and his ravens, considering that all the piracy and mercenary work they do is for the sake of feeding their people at home.</ref>. It got a bit better in the sequel, with a few Laguz bandits, some Laguz too big on the whole [[Blood Knight]] thing etc., but not exceptionally either.

 

** Furthermore, in later seasons, Lois is increasingly portrayed as a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] only [[Jerkass|slightly less callous than Peter]], and Meg is increasingly going insane from the abuse.

** In Joe's case, his competence in the earlier seasons is at least in part a result of the relatively two-dimensional role he fulfilled in his initial one-off appearance. When he became a permanent cast member, he developed a string of personality flaws and behavioral defects just as deep, if not always as obvious, as most of his neighbors.

* In ''[[The Goode Family]]'' this was lampshaded with the quote "We can't hire minorities! That's racist! [[Hypocritical Humor|It's whites only at the Goode house.]]"

* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]:'' Every time the female league members are shown sparring with the male league members, the female members win, despite their individual powers, strengths, any invulnerability, their level of training, and basic logic.

* Princess Sally Acorn of the ''[[Sonic Sat AM|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' animated series seemed to gradually get hit by this trope. While [[Closer to Earth]] compared to Sonic in early episodes, she was still capable of being flawed in judgement or acting equally childish or arrogant. However, in the second season she is increasingly emphasized as the most competent member of the team, with a lot of [[Idiot Ball|follies and screw-ups]] made by others such as Sonic being due to not [[Canon Sue|listening to her advice earlier]]. Bunnie and Dulcy were ditzier in personality, but still less prone to [[Idiot Ball|Idiot Balls]] of the same scale as Sonic and Antoine.

** In [[Archie Sonic|the comic]], Sally (especially in the beginning) was not only the smartest, bravest, most sensible, and overall best Freedom Fighter (yes, despite Sonic's name being on the series), but she actually expected everyone else to be [[Genre Savvy]] enough about this trope to ''know that she was''. She once berated Sonic for saving her from a roboticizer... because she had a gizmo (that was of course never mentioned or brought up again) in her boots that not only would have protected her, but analyzed how the machine worked so they could reverse it. Keep in mind, she ''didn't tell Sonic about this'', she just naturally expected him to know she was perfectly in control and everything was going according to her plan, even though it just looked like another situation where he needed to save her, like every other issue.

* Sandy Cheeks of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' played this to such extremes early on she almost comes off as a [[Parody Sue|parody]] of the trope. Compared to the more flawed males cast, Sandy was much [[Closer to Earth]] and often acted as the [[Canon Sue|unfallable voice of reason]] as well as being extremely talented in both intellectual and brawn levels, suggested to be [[God Mode Sue|both the strongest and smartest member of Bikini Bottom]]. Following the second season, Sandy was arguably swayed from this trope, being granted her [[Cloudcuckoolander|own]] [[Large Ham|set]] [[Ted Baxter|of]] [[Jerk Jock|flaws]] and often having her overboard positive aspects parodied or Lampshaded. However this came to be played straight again in later post-movie episodes, where the rest of the cast were Flanderized to extreme levels and Sandy arguably ending up the only main character not to have her [[Jerkass|callous]] or [[Too Dumb to Live|idiotic]] traits exagerrated.

* Subverted in ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'', which has [[Action Girl]] Kitty Katswell as [[The Chew Toy]].