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Cloning Blues renamed to Clone Angst as per TRS, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone.


* CloningBlues: The story "Battle of the Wills ", where the heroine clones herself in order to continue with her gymnastics while her double is forced to do ballet, only for her clone to start gaining its own identity.
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As with most Fleetway publications, the title is currently owned by Rebellion, who used it for the ''Tammy & Jinty Summer Special'' in 2019 and 2020. The two specials were collected as ''Tammy & Jinty: Remixed'' in 2021.
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* CinderellaCircumstances: Many of the heroines suffer this, either from AbusiveParents or guardians, or people who are holding them and several other children prisoner and forcing them to slave away.
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* FalseFriend: Kat Morgan of "The Kat and Mouse Game" pretends to befriend shy new girl Letitia, but is only using her as a personal handmaid.
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* WholePlotReference: "The Birds" is inspired by the [[Film/TheBirds Alfred Hitchcock film]].
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* CrapsackWorld: "Land of No Tears" a future world where people who are less than utterly perfect are treated as second-class citizens called Gammas. The heroine (who is lame) ends up in a children's home where the Gammas girls are slaves who do the cleaning, wear shabby clothes, eat nothing but scraps left by the perfect Alphas and forced to share a cold, grim dormitory.

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* CrapsackWorld: "Land of No Tears" is set in a future world where people who are less than utterly perfect are treated as second-class citizens called Gammas. The heroine (who is lame) ends up in a children's home where the Gammas girls are slaves who do the cleaning, wear shabby clothes, eat nothing but scraps left by the perfect Alphas and forced to share a cold, grim dormitory.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Hetty of "Go on, Hate Me!" believes that her friend Carol's death i her fault because she drove Carol too hard in her training.

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* ItsAllMyFault: Hetty of "Go on, Hate Me!" believes that her friend Carol's death i is her fault because she drove Carol too hard in her training.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Hetty of "Go on, Hate Me!" believes that her friend Carol's death i her fault because she drove Carol too hard in her training.

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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Especially when the heroine IS a princess, although there are exceptions.


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* PrincessProtagonist: A few heroines are princesses.
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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her X]]: Many of the stories had this for a concept.

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* OnOneCondition: "Race for a Fortune" - Katie McNab and her cousins must reach the village of Yuckiemuckle under their own steam and starting without any money, and the first one who does will inherit their uncle's fortune.

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* OnOneCondition: "Race for a Fortune" - Katie McNab [=McNab=] and her cousins must reach the village of Yuckiemuckle under their own steam and starting without any money, and the first one who does will inherit their uncle's fortune.
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TRS (Jerk Ass Facade clean-up) — this trope is either Hidden Heart Of Gold or Jerk With A Heart Of Gold


* JerkAssFacade: Stefa of "Stefa's Heart of Stone" is so upset by the death of her best friend that she vows to turn her heart into stone to avoid being hurt again.
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''Jinty'' was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates ComicBook/{{Tammy}} and ComicBook/{{Misty}}, each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories.

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''Jinty'' was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy. While there were similarities with its Fleetway Creator/{{Fleetway}} stablemates ComicBook/{{Tammy}} and ComicBook/{{Misty}}, each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories.
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* WorldWarTwo: Several stories were set in this time period.

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* VoodooDoll: "Paula's Puppets" could be used as such.
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Jinty was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates ComicBook/{{Tammy}} and ComicBook/{{Misty}}, each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories.

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Jinty ''Jinty'' was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates ComicBook/{{Tammy}} and ComicBook/{{Misty}}, each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories.
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* ParentWithNewParamour: Several stories involve the heroine having to get used to their parent wither dating or remarrying.

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* ParentWithNewParamour: Several stories involve the heroine having to get used to their parent wither either dating or remarrying.
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Jinty was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates Tammy and Misty, each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories.

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Jinty was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates Tammy ComicBook/{{Tammy}} and Misty, ComicBook/{{Misty}}, each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories.
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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: "Worlds Apart" - six schoolgirls find themselves in a series of strange worlds governed by their main characteristics - and he only release from these worlds is for its respective creator to die.

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* TrappedInAnotherWorld: "Worlds Apart" - six schoolgirls find themselves in a series of strange worlds governed by their main characteristics - and he the only release from these worlds is for its respective creator to die.
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* RidiculousHumanRobot: "The Robot Who Cried".

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* RidiculousHumanRobot: RidiculouslyHumanRobot: "The Robot Who Cried".

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* GildedCage: "Prisoners of Paradise Island" - a hockey team is taken to a luxury island and over-indulged so that they don't win a championship.



* GuildedCage: "Prisoners of Paradise Island" - a hockey team is taken to a luxury island and over-indulged so that they don't win a championship.

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* BreakTheHaughty: The fate of any SpoiledBrat heroines.



* BreakTheHaughty: The fate of any SpoiledBrat heroines.
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* CloningBlues: The story "Battle of the Wills ", where the heroine clones duplicating machine that enables her to continue with her gymnastics while her double is forced to do ballet, only for her clone to start gaining its own identity.

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* CloningBlues: The story "Battle of the Wills ", where the heroine clones duplicating machine that enables her herself in order to continue with her gymnastics while her double is forced to do ballet, only for her clone to start gaining its own identity.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Played with - while several stories, like "Last Chance for Laura", "The Secret Sister" and "Second Best Babs", involve identical twins (and in the case of the first two examples, the twins being identical is what motivates the plot,) a few stories have non-identical twins.
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* BubbleBoy: "Girl in a Bubble" was ExacltyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

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* BubbleBoy: "Girl in a Bubble" was ExacltyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
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* [[ABoyAndHisX A Girl And Her X]]: Many of the stories had this for a concept.
* ActionGirl: This IS a girl's comic, after all.
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Played with - while several stories, like "Last Chance for Laura", "The Secret Sister" and "Second Best Babs", involve identical twins (and in the case of the first two examples, the twins being identical is what motivates the plot,) a few stories have non-identical twins.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: TheRival usually had this sort of personality. Sometimes, the heroine was the "supposedly sweet but really poisonous" one.
* {{Blackmail}}: Several stories revolved around the heroine or someone close to them being blackmailed.
* BoardingSchool: Many of their stories were set in one.
** BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Some of the stories took place in one.
* BubbleBoy: "Girl in a Bubble" was ExacltyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* BreakTheHaughty: The fate of any SpoiledBrat heroines.
* CinderellaCircumstances: Many of the heroines suffer this, either from AbusiveParents or guardians, or people who are holding them and several other children prisoner and forcing them to slave away.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: "Waves of Fear".
* CloningBlues: The story "Battle of the Wills ", where the heroine clones duplicating machine that enables her to continue with her gymnastics while her double is forced to do ballet, only for her clone to start gaining its own identity.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Played with - sometimes being an orphan is a good thing in the stories, sometimes it's a bad thing.
* CrapsackWorld: "Land of No Tears" a future world where people who are less than utterly perfect are treated as second-class citizens called Gammas. The heroine (who is lame) ends up in a children's home where the Gammas girls are slaves who do the cleaning, wear shabby clothes, eat nothing but scraps left by the perfect Alphas and forced to share a cold, grim dormitory.
** "The Forbidden Garden" - pollution has killed all plant life.
** "Fran of the Floods" was set in a flooded world.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Especially when the heroine IS a princess, although there are exceptions.
* GreenAesop: A few stories had one.
* GuildedCage: "Prisoners of Paradise Island" - a hockey team is taken to a luxury island and over-indulged so that they don't win a championship.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The heroine of "Combing Her Golden Hair" turns out to be half-mermaid.
* HappilyAdopted: Several of the heroines.
* HumanAlien: Xenia of "Almost Human" (except that her alien life-force is too strong for earth life, so anything she touches will die)
* HumanPopsicle: "Gelda- The Girl From The Glacier", "The Great Victoria".
* IdenticalStranger: If the heroine wasn't one, she would have to expose one.
* InspirationallyDisadvantaged: "Willa on Wheels", "Blind Ballerina", "Clancy on Trial".
* JerkAssFacade: Stefa of "Stefa's Heart of Stone" is so upset by the death of her best friend that she vows to turn her heart into stone to avoid being hurt again.
* MissingMom / DisappearedDad: Several heroines suffered from this, if it wasn't complete ParentalAbandonment.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "Tricia's Tragedy", where Tricia believes that she caused her cousin to go blind.
* OnOneCondition: "Race for a Fortune" - Katie McNab and her cousins must reach the village of Yuckiemuckle under their own steam and starting without any money, and the first one who does will inherit their uncle's fortune.
* OneGenderSchool: Several stories were set in a girls-only school.
* OrphanageOfFear: Quite a few stories were set in one.
* ParentalFavoritism: Whenever this trope appeared, the heroine was always TheUnfavorite.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Several stories involve the heroine having to get used to their parent wither dating or remarrying.
* PonyTale: Many of the stories were focused on this trope.
* PrinceAndPauper: "Daisy Drudge and Milady Maud" - The former is a lady mistaken for a servant, and the latter is a servant mistaken for a lady.
* ProphecyTwist: "Cursed to be a Coward!" - A gypsy predicts that Marnie will "end up in blue water". Marnie takes this to mean she will drown someday - but it turns out that "Blue Water" is the name of a houseboat that was given to her mother.
* PsychicPowers: "Destiny Brown" develops powers of precognition.
* RagsToRiches: As well as RichesToRags.
* {{Revenge}}: Drove the plot of several stories.
* RidiculousHumanRobot: "The Robot Who Cried".
* TheRival: Many of the stories involved at least one girl who was always trying to defeat the heroine.
* SculleryMaid: Any story set in Victorian times usually had the heroine play this role.
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: In "The Winning Loser", Alice decides to become a tennis player in order to win the second prize of a vase for her comatose grandmother.
* SpoiledBrat: Two varieties - 1. the heroine is the brat and becomes subjected to BreakTheHaughty. 2. - the heroine works for such a brat, but is unable to quit as her family needs the money the job offers.
* SweetPollyOliver / DisguisedInDrag: The story "Steamboat Jo", which revolves around the heroine disguising herself as a boy in order to find her father.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: "Worlds Apart" - six schoolgirls find themselves in a series of strange worlds governed by their main characteristics - and he only release from these worlds is for its respective creator to die.
* WickedStepmother: Or aunt, or stepfather, or adoptive family, etc.
* WitchHunt: The story "Mark of the Witch!", where the heroine is persecuted because of the "black streak" that has made her family the village outcasts for generations. She finally snaps when [[RageBreakingPoint her mother is injured]], and decides to be the bad person the villagers claim she is.
** Wenna of "Wenna the Witch" is persecuted in a village that still believes in witches.
** "Spell of Fog" – a strange fog causes a village to revert to a 17th century pattern, and the heroine becomes a target of mob attacks and people calling her a witch.
* WorldWarTwo: Several stories were set in this time period.
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Jinty was a weekly British comic for girls published by Fleetway in London from 1974 to 1981, at which point it merged with Tammy. While there were similarities with its Fleetway stablemates Tammy and Misty, each comic had its own focus, with Jinty concentrating on science fiction or otherwise fantastical stories.

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