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** Each realized they were gay during their PrincessPhase, when the had a lot of trouble finding a SaveThePrincess story, where the PrincessClassic {{damsel| in distress}} gets saved by another {{princess}}.

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** Each realized they were gay during their PrincessPhase, when the they had a lot of trouble finding a SaveThePrincess story, where the PrincessClassic {{damsel| in distress}} gets saved by another {{princess}}.

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That's actually an inversion. This is playing it straight, but in a comical fashion.


'''Basic Trope''': A lesbian character who sports an attractive-to-straight-men appearance, typically pairing with another.
* '''[[AccidentalPun Straight]]''': Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.

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'''Basic Trope''': A Any lesbian character who sports an attractive-to-straight-men appearance, typically pairing with another.
* '''[[AccidentalPun Straight]]''': Straight]]''':
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Alice and Betty are lovers, and both have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.FashionMagazine.
** Alice is the feminine one, and Betty is the butch one. Betty still buys Alice pretty dresses and [[EverythingSparklyWithJewelry jewels]], since that's what the woman she loves likes.



* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian.

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* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian.'''Inverted''':
** ButchLesbian.
** Wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like {{Butch Lesbian}}s.



* '''Double Subverted''': ...because she didn't like said event. She then puts it on again.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...because she didn't like said event. She then puts it on again.makeup suitable for home.



* '''Lampshaded''': "Well, ''excuse me'' for liking to look ''pretty''!"

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** The gay wedding market is growing, and the wedding industry wants even those to still look feminine in media, given that a) wedding dresses cost more than tuxes, and b) they can sell two engagement rings.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Well, "I love you, Alice, but ''excuse me'' for liking to look ''pretty''!"



* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like {{Butch Lesbian}}s.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, Laughs''':
** Alice and Betty approach each other
wearing makeup [[PrettyInMink fur coats]], and dresses both do SexyCoatFlashing to each other.
** Each realized they were gay during their PrincessPhase, when the had a lot of trouble finding a SaveThePrincess story, where the PrincessClassic {{damsel| in distress}} gets saved by another {{princess}}.
** Their CampGay friend
is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like {{Butch Lesbian}}s.really bothered that they know more about showtunes than he does (not because he's gay, but because he's a genuine Broadway fanboy).
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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's femininity causes [[CassandraTruth no one to believe]] she's really lesbian, causing her [[{{Gayngst}} much angst]] and making it hard to get a girlfriend.

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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's femininity causes [[CassandraTruth no one to believe]] she's really a lesbian, causing her [[{{Gayngst}} much angst]] and making it hard to get a girlfriend.
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** Alice lives in a country where lesbianism is persecuted and [[FlyingUnderTheGaydar has to at least appear straight to avoid imprisonment.]]
* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian
* '''GenderInverted''': ManlyGay or StraightGay

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** Alice lives in a country where lesbianism is persecuted and [[FlyingUnderTheGaydar has to at least appear straight to avoid imprisonment.]]
imprisonment]].
* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian
ButchLesbian.
* '''GenderInverted''': ManlyGay or StraightGayStraightGay.



** [[StuntCasting They've signed a bombshell actress for the part.]]

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** [[StuntCasting They've signed a bombshell actress for the part.]]part]].



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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's desires to conform and be 'normal' conflict with her 'alternative' sexuality, causing her [[{{Gayngst}} much angst]].

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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's desires femininity causes [[CassandraTruth no one to conform and be 'normal' conflict with her 'alternative' sexuality, believe]] she's really lesbian, causing her [[{{Gayngst}} much angst]].angst]] and making it hard to get a girlfriend.

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* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian or ManlyGay

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* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian ButchLesbian
* '''GenderInverted''': ManlyGay
or ManlyGayStraightGay
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* '''Straight''': Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.

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* '''Straight''': '''[[AccidentalPun Straight]]''': Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.



* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Betty are glammed up the first time we see them...at a formal event. In the next episode, they're in flannel and hiking boots...for a camping trip in the mountains. ''Neither'' style turns out to be typical of either; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical GranolaGirl, while Betty is a PerkyGoth.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Betty are glammed up the first time we see them...them… at a formal event. In the next episode, they're in flannel and hiking boots...boots… for a camping trip in the mountains. ''Neither'' style turns out to be typical of either; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical GranolaGirl, while Betty is a PerkyGoth.



* '''Discussed''': "Why can't any of the lesbians we know be all Creator/RitaHayworth smoking hot instead of always wearing flannel?" "... why am I friends with you?"

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* '''Discussed''': "Why can't any of the lesbians we know be all Creator/RitaHayworth smoking hot instead of always wearing flannel?" "... why "…why am I friends with you?"
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* '''Discussed''': "Why can't any of the lesbians we know be all Rita Hayworth smoking hot instead of always wearing flannel?" "... why am I friends with you?"

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* '''Discussed''': "Why can't any of the lesbians we know be all Rita Hayworth Creator/RitaHayworth smoking hot instead of always wearing flannel?" "... why am I friends with you?"
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** The writer wishes to provides FanService, and believes that GirlOnGirlIsHot as long as the girls look pretty.

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** The writer wishes to provides FanService, {{Fanservice}}, and believes that GirlOnGirlIsHot as long as the girls look pretty.



* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Betty are deeply closeted, because the [[StepfordSuburbia deceptively sleepy little town]] where they live would turn nasty if anyone found out that they were a couple.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Betty are deeply closeted, because the [[StepfordSuburbia deceptively sleepy little town]] where they live their lives would turn nasty if anyone found out that they were a couple.
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** Alice likes the style.

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** Alice likes the style. It has nothing to do with her sexual orientation.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Alice and Betty aren't particularly stunning, but still act too conventionally feminine to count as {{Butch Lesbian}}s.

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* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Betty are deeply closeted, because the [[StepfordSuburbia deceptively sleepy little town]] where they live would turn nasty if anyone found out that they were a couple.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice thinks the butch angle is stereotypical and played-out, deciding she can still be gay and feminine.



** Neither Alice nor Betty is a lesbian.
** Alice is TheLadette, whether or not she is a lesbian.

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** Neither Alice nor Betty is a lesbian.
lesbian.
** Alice is TheLadette, whether or not she is a lesbian.



* '''Exploited''': ???



* '''Conversed''': "I have to wonder if the writers designed Alice and Betty to be ultra-feminine as {{Fanservice}} or as a legitimate attempt to avoid the ButchLesbian stereotype."
* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like {{Butch Lesbian}}s.

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* '''Conversed''': "I have to wonder if the writers designed Alice and Betty to be ultra-feminine as {{Fanservice}} or as a legitimate attempt to avoid the ButchLesbian stereotype."
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Betty are deeply closeted, because the [[StepfordSuburbia deceptively sleepy little town]] where they live would turn nasty if anyone found out that they were a couple.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice thinks the butch angle is stereotypical and played-out, deciding she can still be gay and feminine.
* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like {{Butch Lesbian}}s.



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Example Indentation, removing a really predictable joke.


* '''Straight''' ([[IncrediblyLamePun not in THAT way]]): Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.
* '''Exaggerated''': Lesbians are the only feminine women in the world.

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* '''Straight''' ([[IncrediblyLamePun not in THAT way]]): '''Straight''': Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.
* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Lesbians are the only feminine women in the world.



* '''Justified''': Alice likes the style.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
**
Alice likes the style.



* '''Parodied''': Alice reads the magazine tips on "how to impress your man!".

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
**
Alice reads the magazine tips on "how to impress your man!".



* '''Averted''': Neither Alice nor Betty is a lesbian.

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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Neither Alice nor Betty is a lesbian.



* '''Enforced''': [[StuntCasting They've signed a bombshell actress for the part.]]

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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[[StuntCasting They've signed a bombshell actress for the part.]]
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** Alice is neither particularly masculine nor feminine.
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* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian or StraightGay

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* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian or StraightGayManlyGay
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* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbian

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* '''Inverted''': ButchLesbianButchLesbian or StraightGay
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* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like {{Butch Lesbians}}.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like {{Butch Lesbians}}.Lesbian}}s.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like ButchLesbian s.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like ButchLesbian s.{{Butch Lesbians}}.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': Other men flirt with Alice and she doesn't mind that much.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Other men flirt with Alice In-universe, wearing makeup and she doesn't mind that much.dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like ButchLesbian s.
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** Lipstick lesbians are portrayed as even more attractive than straight women, because GirlOnGirlIsHot.


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** Alice reads men's magazine tips on "how to impress women!"
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* '''Inverted''': Charles is a HardGay.
** ButchLesbian

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* '''Inverted''': Charles is a HardGay.
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ButchLesbian

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** TheLadette



* '''Averted''': HideYourLesbians
** Alice looks like any other woman; no more or less stylish.

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* '''Averted''': HideYourLesbians
Neither Alice nor Betty is a lesbian.
** Alice looks like any other woman; no more is TheLadette, whether or less stylish.not she is a lesbian.
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If she\'s bisexual, then she doesn\'t fit here. :)


** Alice is actually [[AnythingThatMoves bisexual]] and tries to appeal to men as much as (or ''more'' than) she does to women.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': ????

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* '''Played For Laughs''': ????Other men flirt with Alice and she doesn't mind that much.
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** Alice is actually [[AnythingThatMoves bisexual]] and tries to appeal to men as much as (or ''more'' than) she does to women.

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Making the Incredibly Lame Pun a bit more obvious.


* '''Straight''': Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.
** [[IncrediblyLamePun They're not.]]

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* '''Straight''': '''Straight''' ([[IncrediblyLamePun not in THAT way]]): Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.
** [[IncrediblyLamePun They're not.]]
fashion-magazine.
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** The writer wishes to provides FanService, and believes that GirlOnGirlIsHot as long as the girls look pretty.
** The writer wishes to avoid UnfortunateImplications or stereotypes associated with typical depictions of the ButchLesbian, instead going to the other extreme.


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* '''Played For Laughs''': ????
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's desires to conform and be 'normal' conflict with her 'alternative' sexuality, causing her [[{{Gayngst}} much angst]].

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** [[IncrediblyLamePun They're not.]]

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** [[IncrediblyLamePun **[[IncrediblyLamePun They're not.]]



* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Betty are glammed up the first time we see them...at a formal event. In the next episode, they're in flannel and hiking boots...for a camping trip in the mountains. ''Neither'' style turns out to be typical of either; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical GranolaGirl, while Betty is a PerkyGoth.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Betty are glammed up the first time we see them...at a formal event. In the next episode, they're in flannel and hiking boots...for a camping trip in the mountains. ''Neither'' style turns out to be typical of either; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical GranolaGirl, while Betty is a PerkyGoth.



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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
LipstickLesbian
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Betty are glammed up the first time we see them. In the next episode, they're in flannel and hiking boots...for a camping trip in the mountains. ''Neither'' style turns out to be typical of either; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical GranolaGirl, while Betty is a PerkyGoth.

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* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Betty are glammed up the first time we see them.them...at a formal event. In the next episode, they're in flannel and hiking boots...for a camping trip in the mountains. ''Neither'' style turns out to be typical of either; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical GranolaGirl, while Betty is a PerkyGoth.

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