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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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* 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 Flipped]] variant. He's secretly a dangerous volcano of angst, at least at first, but nobody cares enough to notice as long as he keeps [[You! Get Me Coffee!|bringing them coffee]], and before he gets to know him, Jack appreciates him more for his [[Sharp-Dressed Man|dress sense]] than his talents and personality. {{spoiler|Sadly, he dies too.}}
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[[Category:Always Female]]
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[[Category:I Need an Index by Monday]]
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