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* The superheroine in ''[[Re Cutey Honey]]'' is this in her [[Secret Identity]].
* ''Hataraki Man'' focuses on the slice-of-life adventures of a [[Plucky Office Girl]] who works as a magazine editor.
* Riho from [[
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* [[The Mary Tyler Moore Show|Mary Richards]] basically starts out as one of these. She's got spunk, though.
** While Mary is given the seemingly-prestigious title of associate producer of the ''Six O'Clock News'' in the very first episode, it's initially established that the job itself is no great shakes, and actually pays less than the secretarial position she'd planned to apply for. In fact, when she eagerly accepts the alternate job offer, Lou even offers to make her a ''full'' producer in exchange for an additional pay cut; she declines, sheepishly admitting that she can barely afford being an associate. She does come to take on more responsibility as the show progresses.
* Kristy in the ''[[
* Peggy in ''[[Mad Men]]'', justified by it being the early Sixties.
** Although being gradually subverted as she pushes her way up the ladder.
* ''[[Ugly Betty]]''
* ''[[Spaced]]'': Daisy predicts she will end up something like this, but it doesn't happen.
* Kitty from ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' is sort of an insane one of these who has enough knowledge to manipulate everyone, but is crazy and all she really wants is George Sr. (and to have a baby with him).
* Liz Lemon from ''[[
** Except for the part about the low-ranking position. Liz is, after all, the head writer of a TV show and [[Only Sane Employee|her job is basically managing crazy people]]. But other than that, she fits this to a tee.
* Karen Billings, Pam Dawber's character in the ''New [[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "But Can She Type".
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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.
* ''[[
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