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* '''Downplayed''': Alice is slightly eccentric but can otherwise fit in easily. She is a trader working by herself and regularly finds herself able to think up different ideas that don't make sense until those around her stop to think about them.
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** Alice is slightly eccentric but can otherwise fit in easily. She is a trader working by herself and regularly finds herself able to think up different ideas that don't make sense until those around her stop to think aboutthem.them.
** Alice isn't at the top of the company, but she is a high-powered executive who is very respected despite her eccentricity.
** Alice is slightly eccentric but can otherwise fit in easily. She is a trader working by herself and regularly finds herself able to think up different ideas that don't make sense until those around her stop to think about
** Alice isn't at the top of the company, but she is a high-powered executive who is very respected despite her eccentricity.
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* '''Enforced''': The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up to avoid having her being boring.
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** The writers are worried their comic relief characters will become annoying, so they make sure their weird eccentric is useful and competent.
** The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up to avoid having her being
** The writers are worried their comic relief characters will become annoying, so they make sure their weird eccentric is useful and competent.
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* '''Invoked''': Alice decides to try ignoring all conventions unless they are actually proven useful in some way. Her outside the box thinking repeatably pays off.
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* '''Invoked''': Alice decides to try ignoring all conventions unless they are actually proven useful in some way. Her outside the box thinking repeatably repeatedly pays off.
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** Alice the executive is not given much characterization, but her dress sense is very strange.
** Alice the CloudCuckoolander mysteriously has many admirers and lots of money.
* '''Deconstructed''': Beneath her superficial charm, Alice is in fact a CorruptCorporateExecutive who harms her workers and customers by spending money and resources on her eccentric obsessions.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice operates her company according to a consistent code of BlueAndOrangeMorality, and once her workers decipher it, they enjoy working under her.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice was an outcast when she was younger and she made her money so she could be considered "eccentric" instead of "weird." For the most part, it worked, but she still has lingering trauma from the bullying.
** Alice the executive is not given much characterization, but her dress sense is very strange.
** Alice the CloudCuckoolander mysteriously has many admirers and lots of money.
* '''Deconstructed''': Beneath her superficial charm, Alice is in fact a CorruptCorporateExecutive who harms her workers and customers by spending money and resources on her eccentric obsessions.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice operates her company according to a consistent code of BlueAndOrangeMorality, and once her workers decipher it, they enjoy working under her.
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice was an outcast when she was younger and she made her money so she could be considered "eccentric" instead of "weird." For the most part, it worked, but she still has lingering trauma from the bullying.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice's ideas are so numerous and varied that the company keeps quickly rising and falling.
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** Alice's ideas are so numerous and varied that the company keeps quickly rising andfalling.falling.
** Alice is a PointyHairedBoss but the previous management had such toxic mentalities that she improved things largely by accident since her incompetence isn't nearly as bad as the horrible 'conventional wisdom'.
** Alice's ideas are so numerous and varied that the company keeps quickly rising and
** Alice is a PointyHairedBoss but the previous management had such toxic mentalities that she improved things largely by accident since her incompetence isn't nearly as bad as the horrible 'conventional wisdom'.
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** Alice's "madness" is actually knowing counterintuitive truths and arrived at very logically. Shrinking the shovel sizes and shortening shifts while expanding the work targets sounds insane but it turns out that she did the math on efficiency and found that the smaller shovel load is made up for by the increased number and better rested workers perform better.
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* '''Straight''': Alice has odd behavior and dresses eccentrically, thus confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades because unique way of thinking enables her to come up with ideas others don't have.
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* '''Straight''': Alice has odd behavior and dresses eccentrically, thus confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades because her unique way of thinking enables her to come up with ideas others don't have.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge quite let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge quite to let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
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** The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up to avoid having her being boring.
** The character is an expy of [[{{Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory}} Willy Wonka]], or the work references him in some other manner.
** The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up to avoid having her being boring.
** The character is an expy of [[{{Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory}} Willy Wonka]], or the work references him in some other manner.
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**'''Enforced''': The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up to avoid having her being boring.
** The character is an expy of [[{{Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory}} Willy Wonka]], or the work references him in some other manner.boring.
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** The character is an expy of [[{{Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory}} Willy Wonka]], or the work references him in some other manner.
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* '''Exploited''': Someone steals the companies secrets just by dressing up ridiculously (like Alice), since people just ignore anyone out of place, assuming they must have something to do with Alice's eccentricity.
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* '''Exploited''': Someone steals infiltrates the companies secrets just by dressing up ridiculously (like Alice), since people just ignore anyone out of place, assuming they place. They assume it must have something to do with Alice's eccentricity.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is likened to a mad artist that defies social expectations all the time. [[{{Fiction 500}} She's also the head of one of the biggest companies that exists and made it with her own hands.]]
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is likened to a mad artist that defies social expectations all the time. [[{{Fiction 500}} She's also the head of one of the biggest companies that exists exists]] and [[SelfMadeMan made it with her own hands.]]
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'''Basic Trope''': A character at the top of the business and successful because their own weird form of logic.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character at the top of the business and successful because of their own weird form of logic.
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* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Am I the only one who finds it strange that having a crazy person in charge of the company is useful?"
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* '''Defied''': ???Alice decides she has to be mature and think straight instead of mucking around like she used to.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character at the top of the business, successful for their own weird form of logic from their madness.
* '''Straight''': Alice has some very odd behavior and dresses very eccentrically, quite often confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades simply for how her form of logic allows her to come up with ideas others don't have.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is often likened to a mad artist that should never be able to succeed, and will regularly do things that is thought people should never be allowed to do, defying social expectations all the time. [[{{Fiction 500}} She's also the head of one of the biggest companies that exists, having made it with her own hands.]]
* '''Straight''': Alice has some very odd behavior and dresses very eccentrically, quite often confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades simply for how her form of logic allows her to come up with ideas others don't have.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is often likened to a mad artist that should never be able to succeed, and will regularly do things that is thought people should never be allowed to do, defying social expectations all the time. [[{{Fiction 500}} She's also the head of one of the biggest companies that exists, having made it with her own hands.]]
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'''Basic Trope''': A character at the top of the business, business and successful for because their own weird form of logic from their madness.
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* '''Straight''': Alice hassome very odd behavior and dresses very eccentrically, quite often thus confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades simply for how her form because unique way of logic allows thinking enables her to come up with ideas others don't have.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice isoften likened to a mad artist that should never be able to succeed, and will regularly do things that is thought people should never be allowed to do, defying defies social expectations all the time. [[{{Fiction 500}} She's also the head of one of the biggest companies that exists, having exists and made it with her own hands.]]
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* '''Justified''': Alice's odd form of logic is what lets her see others don't - ideas you can't think of until you think along her lines.
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* '''Justified''': Alice's odd form of logic is what lets her see what others don't - ideas you can't think of until you think along her lines.
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** Alice isn't really the boss of the company... the executives regard her as an office pet, keeping her around for what she amusement she may provide.
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** Alice isn't really the boss of the company... the executives regard her as an office pet, keeping her around for what she amusement she may provide.
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** Or so they say. She actually IS the boss, claiming she's an office pet is to see how others will react to her at first, as they're aware that her ideas at the top make her quite different, but also allow them to judge newcomers.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge quite a bit to let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge quite a bit to let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge quitea bit to let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
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** The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up a little, to avoid having her being boring.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is often likened to a mad artist that should never be able to succeed, and will regularly do things that is thought people should never be allowed to do, defying social expectations all the time. [[{{Fiction 500}} She's also the head of one of the biggest companies that exists, having made it with her own hands.]]
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is often likened to a mad artist that should never be able to succeed, and will regularly do things that is thought people should never be allowed to do, defying social expectations all the time. She's also the head of one of the [[biggest biggest companies that exists, having made it with her own hands. Fiction500]]hands.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character at the top of the business, successful for their own weird form of logic.
* '''Straight''': Alice has some very odd behavior and dresses very eccentrically, quite often confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades simply for how her form of logic allows her to come up with ideas others don't have.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is often likened to a mad artist that should never be able to succeed, and will regularly do things that is thought people should never be allowed to do, defying social expectations all the time. She's also the head of one of the [[biggest companies that exists, having made it with her own hands. Fiction500]]
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is slightly eccentric but can otherwise fit in easily. She is a trader working by herself and regularly finds herself able to think up different ideas that don't make sense until those around her stop to think about them.
* '''Justified''': Alice's odd form of logic is what lets her see others don't - ideas you can't think of until you think along her lines.
* '''Inverted''':
** OnlySaneMan, where one character is sane and everybody else is mad, making them successful at that moment in time.
** TheCaligula, whose insanity makes them a danger to others while they are at the top.
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice has a few bad ideas... which bring down the company, in the process.
** Alice isn't really the boss of the company... the executives regard her as an office pet, keeping her around for what she amusement she may provide.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ... But Alice has other ideas which allow her to rise again.
** Or so they say. She actually IS the boss, claiming she's an office pet is to see how others will react to her at first, as they're aware that her ideas at the top make her quite different, but also allow them to judge newcomers.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge quite a bit to let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
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* '''Averted''': ???
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** The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up a little, to avoid having her being boring.
** The character is an expy of [[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka], or the work references him in some other manner.
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* '''Straight''': Alice has some very odd behavior and dresses very eccentrically, quite often confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades simply for how her form of logic allows her to come up with ideas others don't have.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is often likened to a mad artist that should never be able to succeed, and will regularly do things that is thought people should never be allowed to do, defying social expectations all the time. She's also the head of one of the [[biggest companies that exists, having made it with her own hands. Fiction500]]
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is slightly eccentric but can otherwise fit in easily. She is a trader working by herself and regularly finds herself able to think up different ideas that don't make sense until those around her stop to think about them.
* '''Justified''': Alice's odd form of logic is what lets her see others don't - ideas you can't think of until you think along her lines.
* '''Inverted''':
** OnlySaneMan, where one character is sane and everybody else is mad, making them successful at that moment in time.
** TheCaligula, whose insanity makes them a danger to others while they are at the top.
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice has a few bad ideas... which bring down the company, in the process.
** Alice isn't really the boss of the company... the executives regard her as an office pet, keeping her around for what she amusement she may provide.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** ... But Alice has other ideas which allow her to rise again.
** Or so they say. She actually IS the boss, claiming she's an office pet is to see how others will react to her at first, as they're aware that her ideas at the top make her quite different, but also allow them to judge newcomers.
* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge quite a bit to let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
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* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''':
** The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up a little, to avoid having her being boring.
** The character is an expy of [[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka], or the work references him in some other manner.
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