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** Erika Polina originally was just called Polina before she got her actual name, in reference to /pol/.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Vivian's personality has strong shades of this.
* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: It's in the realm of possibility that few in that [[4chan]] thread in 2014 really expected her to take off the way she has.
* [[Gamer Chick]]: Vivian in spades, and is sometimes shown holding a video game controller.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: Sort of. Vivian takes quite a bit after her father, /v/ though isn't quite as cynical or bitter as him. While Erika Polina is basically a female version of her dad, /pol/.
* [[Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs]]: Subversion, Vivian's is actually there to identify either her origins on [[4chan]] or her transplanting to [[8chan]], depending on whether the hair dec in question depicts a 4 leaf clover or an infinity symbol respectively.
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* [[Hot Librarian]]: Danielle Frost gives this impression, given her much more modest outfit and intellectual mindset compared to her sister Freya.
* [[Hot Scoop]]/[[Intrepid Reporter]]: The DeepFreeze sisters in general, which is based on the actual DeepFreeze's purpose as a media ethics watchdog.
** The ''XCOM 2'' mod Dragonpunk suggests that a somewhat older Vivian James eventually became one herself.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Lillian is usually shown to be this. Given her tendency to flaunt her supposed moral superiority and sanctimony against Vivian, while proving herself to have much lower standards.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Lillian Woods was originally created as a Vivian James knock-off by anti-GG to both mock [[Gamergate]] supporters and create a "proper" representation of female gamers. Not only did it ironically result in Lillian looking very much like a [[Unfortunate Implications|veritable Aryan girl, blond hair, blue eyes and all]], but she was ultimately embraced by pro-GG as both Vivian's "rival" and a caricature of anti-GG.
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* [[Memetic Mutation]]: One of the reasons why she really took off.
* [[Moral Guardians]]: Lillian acts like a self appointed version. Both "Uncle /pol/" and Polina assume this role in their own interpretation of this, often to Vivian's apathetic indifference.
* [[One of the Boys]]: How Vivian tends to be depicted, though she doesn't really care either way about how boyish or feminine she is.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Her default appearance has her frowning, either out of apathy, intense concentration, or annoyance.
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: Vivian was created in part as a response to this.
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** The peculiar diamond the DeepFreeze siblings have is a reference to DeepFreeze's actual logo, itself a nod to Ramiel from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]].''
** [http://vinnythecake.deviantart.com/art/Time-For-Ethics-532290245?ga_submit_new=10%253A1431297176 This image of Vivian] in particular is a direct homage to Kotaku's original mascot, and a sly [[Take That]] to Kotaku's (and Gawker's) hypocrisy.<ref>Another version of that picture appears rather prominently on the KotakuInAction subreddit.</ref>
** In some pictures, Vivian is shown riding a motorcycle not too dissimilar from the one Takeda uses in ''[[Akira]].''
* [[Straw Character]]: How some anti-GG critics and certain others view Vivian, though such opinions tend to be more projection and hypocrisy than anything else.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Lillian Woods, whose views tend to be based on social justice warriors and radical feminists. Though it's somewhat subverted, given how even she starts realising how she might not be as superior or enlightened as she likes to believe.
* [[Streisand Effect]]: Another reason why Vivian really took off. With the attempts by some to either co-opt her to suit their agenda or paint her as being symptomatic of all that's problematic or reactionary in modern gaming or gamers at large failing.
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