History PlayingWith / TheOphelia

* '''Straight''': {{Alice|Allusion}} is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis psychotic]] but undiagnosed, has long MessyHair, DoesNotLikeShoes, and is quite pretty.

* '''Downplayed''': HystericalWoman

** Alice isn't crazy, she's just eccentric.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice falls more and more into madness, and it is thoroughly unromantic. [[ThereAreNoTherapists No one helps her]], and she is eventually DrivenToSuicide, or at least an attempt.

** Alice isn't crazy, she's just excentric.

* '''Subverted''': We hear Alice acts like an Ophelia. But when we see her, her condition is portrayed realistically.
* '''Doubly Subverted''': That was Claire. When we see Alice she acts like an Ophelia.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Averted''': Alice's condition is portrayed realistically

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is MsFanservice, despite being AxCrazy, sleeping in a RoomFullOfCrazy, [[HearingVoices and not having a good relationship with the voices in her head.]]

* '''Exaggerated''': Inexplicably, Alice begins going by Ophelia and quoting ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' constantly, and strews flowers on people at will.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice goes from periods of almost normalcy to TheOphelia to {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, and no one knows what side will surface.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice goes from periods of almost normalcy to TheOphelia to [=Cloudcuckoolander=], and no one knows what side will surface.

* '''Inverted''': Alice is UglyCute or HollywoodHomely, but is also the OnlySaneWoman.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice goes from periods of almost normalcy to TheOphelia to CloudCuckooLander, and no one knows what side will surface.

-->'''Bob''': Wait, you never told me your first name is "Ophelia"!\\
'''Alice''': Which is why I go by my middle name, "Alice". People think of the name "Ophelia" and they're immediately like "OhCrap, we better get out of here before she goes crazy on us!"

-->'''Bob''': Wait, you never told me your first name is "Ophelia"!
-->'''Alice''': Which is why I go by my middle name, "Alice". People think of the name "Ophelia" and they're immediately like "OhCrap, we better get out of here before she goes crazy on us!"
* '''Discussed''': "Oh, that chick's named Ophelia. Wait for it...Yup, there goes her sanity."

** -->'''Bob''': Wait, you never told me your first name is "Ophelia"!
** -->'''Alice''': Which is why I go by my middle name, "Alice". People think of the name "Ophelia" and they're immediately like "OhCrap, we better get out of here before she goes crazy on us!"

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

* '''Basic Trope''': An insane, but beautiful, young woman.

* '''Straight''': [[AliceAllusion Alice]] is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis psychotic]] but undiagnosed, has long MessyHair, DoesNotLikeShoes, and is quite pretty.
* '''Exaggerated''': Inexplicably, Alice begins going by Ophelia and quoting ''{{Hamlet}}'' constantly, and strews flowers on people at will.

* '''Inverted''': A crazy, [[{{Bishonen}} pretty young man.]]
** Alice is UglyCute or HollywoodHomely, but is also the OnlySaneWoman.
* '''Subverted''': We hear Aliuce acts like an Ophelia. But when we see her, her condition is portrayed realistically.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice falls more and more into madness, and it is thoroughly unromantic. [[ThereAreNoTherapists No one helps her]], and she is eventually DrivenToSuicide, or at least an attempt.
* '''Reconstructed''': Before Alice got help, she was a mess. It's only gotten a little better since then, and she still has to contend with her demons, but she's trying.

* '''Invoked''': "I know! I'll channel [[{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]] till he leaves me alone."

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* '''Subverted''': Alice is diagnosed with some mental disorder, and responds by taking her meds and listening to her therapist.
* '''Doubly Subverted''':...but she was misdiagnosed, and neither of those things help. Eventually, she takes on [[TheOphelia Ophelia]]-esque traits.

* '''Averted''': Alice has had this condition from the beginning. She takes her meds and is mostly typical.