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[[No Examples Please]]. This page should be used as nothing except a listing of tropes which play with this in some way.
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▲==== [[Played Straight]] ====
* [[Acceptable Feminine Goals]]: She just wants a husband, kids and white picket fences. What's wrong with that?
** [[Career Versus Man]]: She will almost always choose love and family over a difficult, lonely career.
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* [[Broken Bird]]: Life has been harsh, and the delicate girl has been shattered.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Because women are delicate, they must be protected and rescued.
** [[Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me]]: A bad guy has his servants clean and pretty up a female captive, usually intending to seduce or ravish her once she's brought to his private chambers. For some villains this is their (admittedly twisted) idea of "romance," or the washing serves a somewhat more practical purpose (i.e., she somehow got really dirty and/or smelly before being captured).
** [[Beautiful Slave Girl]]: She's enslaved by evil, but she's beautiful enough to invoke [[The Hero]]'s (and the audience's) sympathy.
** [[Chickification]]: When the [[Action Girl]] becomes defanged just to become today's [[Damsel in Distress]].
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* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Serves the double purpose of letting you know something's wrong with her and making her seem more vulnerable as a result of her "condition".
* [[Fainting]]: The majority of uses for this trope are regarding the fairer gender and how they can't seem to take any sort of shock to the system.
* [[Females Are More Innocent]]: Every woman is more sensitive, wise, and pure than a man. If one or more of those qualities is missing, then it's because a man caused it. [[Discredited Trope | This trope has long since been done in by real life.]]
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: As long as a woman has more "feminine" traits, she'll be able to cook.
* [[Fragile Flower]]: The '''personification''' of this trope.
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* [[Action Girl]]: She isn't delicate at all, and can kick as much ass (or more) as some men.
** [[Action Girlfriend]]: The girlfriend is the more [[Badass]] person in the couple. Considered an aversion of this trope which juxtaposes traditional gender roles.
** [[Amazon Brigade]]: When you have an entire ''squad'' of [[Action Girl
** [[Badass Princess]]: An aversion of [[Princess Classic]].
** [[Battle Couple]]: When she's just as badass as her boyfriend.
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* [[Weakness Turns Her On]]: Being stronger than her man is her fetish.
==== Zig-zagged (neither plays it straight nor averts it) ====▼
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Because men have been portrayed as the stronger, more dominant sex, this trope is usually [[Played for Laughs]] because the role-reversal is ironic.▼
** [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: Same as the above, except regarding rape.▼
** [[Bastard Girlfriend]]: Same as the above, but with less rape. Maybe.▼
* [[Affirmative Action Girl]]: Deliberately subverts this trope, but only because it was played straight originally.
* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: She has the power to destroy the world, and more often than not, it's up to a male protagonist to prevent that from happening.
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* [[Dominatrix]]: A woman who dominates men for the erotic satisfaction.
** [[All Women are Doms, All Men are Subs]]: Because the image of a dominant woman is (usually) more attractive and invites less [[Unfortunate Implications]] than the inverse.
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▲** [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]: Same as the above, except regarding rape.
▲** [[Bastard Girlfriend]]: Same as the above, but with less rape. Maybe.
* [[Girls Need Role Models]]: In order to avert or subvert this trope, [[Media Watchdogs]] and [[The Powers That Be]] insert strong feminine characters into a story to act as role models, leading to any of the many tropes on this list.
* [[Good Bad Girl]]: Good girls don't do the things she does, but she's the exception to the rule.
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* [[Magical Girl]]: This genre of [[Anime]] zig-zags on the type of heroine which fits the style. In the 70s, [[Tomboy]] heroines began making an appearance specifically to avert this trope. The [[Magical Girl Warrior]] subgenre was then created to create a more combat-oriented version of this genre.
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: She's more powerful than her boyfriend, but is usually still subsservient to him.
* [[
* [[Mother Nature]]: Can be ferocious and deadly, but at the same time, takes care of her "children" (namely all living things).
* [[Muscle Angst]]: Women are not "supposed" to be muscular, so being an outlier tends to result in a lot of teasing and angsting.
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** [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]: She appears delicate, but only to hide her teeth.
** [[Decoy Damsel]]: When the [[Damsel in Distress]] is really just a trap.
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** [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: In this trope, a woman uses her delicacy (whether actual or feigned) to fool others.
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