1 | '''Basic Trope''': A lesbian who is insane, especially due to unrequited love for another female character. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice, a lesbian character, is mad about Stephanie. Literally. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice is completely out-of-control and will do [[MurderTheHypotenuse anything]] to get her hands on the women she desires. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Alice is only marginally less pleasant than the average people. |
6 | ** Alice Facebook-stalks Stephanie and keeps a pin that she saw fall out of Stephanie's hair. But really, she's mostly harmless, if a bit annoying. |
7 | ** Alice is a lesbian and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, but she doesn't try to hurt anyone. |
8 | ** Alice is a BloodKnight, HeroicComedicSociopath and/or TokenEvilTeammate nontheless on the heroes' side. |
9 | ** Alice is a LaughablyEvil HarmlessVillain. |
10 | ** Alice sexually harasses Stephanie and hits on her aggressively, but backs off after meeting her boyfriend/girlfriend. |
11 | * '''Justified''': |
12 | ** Alice's girlfriend was assaulted, [[BuryYourGays resulting in her death]], and Alice is now on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, which has been going on for so long that's it's had a considerable detrimental effect on her sanity. |
13 | ** Alice is a {{Yandere}} who happens to be a lesbian. |
14 | ** Being a lesbian doesn't make anyone less susceptible to TheDarkSide. |
15 | ** Alice has a DarkAndTroubledPast and Stephanie was the only one who always treated her kindly. |
16 | * '''Inverted''': |
17 | ** Alice is the OnlySaneMan in a cast of psychotic straight people. |
18 | ** Alice is a lesbian and about the [[NiceGirl nicest girl you could ever hope to meet.]] |
19 | ** The villains are a straight guy who thinks GirlOnGirlIsHot and a rabid YuriFan that creep out Alice with their unwelcome propositions. |
20 | ** Alice is persecuted by [[HeteronormativeCrusader deranged anti-gay bigots]]. |
21 | * '''GenderInverted''': DepravedHomosexual |
22 | * '''Subverted''': |
23 | ** Alice acts insane, but that's only because her girlfriend Stephanie is a NightmareFetishist. |
24 | ** Alice is insane... and so is her boyfriend. |
25 | ** Alice is a lesbian, but she's actually a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] of the highest calibre. She's just invoking ObfuscatingInsanity to ensure that nobody picks up on her true goals. |
26 | ** When Stephanie turns her down because [[IncompatibleOrientation she's straight]], Alice starts to shake in anger but takes a deep breathe and gracefully accepts it. |
27 | ** Alice says that she’s straight and loves Stephanie platonically. |
28 | ** Despite her behaviour, Alice doesn't actually harbour any romantic feelings towards Stephanie, she actually has feelings for Bob. |
29 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
30 | ** Alice is insane, but she is not a lesbian. Until she meet her ClosetKey, anyway. |
31 | ** Alice ends up [[KickTheMoralityPet Kicking The Morality Pet]] until she runs away/dies and goes back to just being a psychotic lesbian. |
32 | ** [[BecomingTheMask Alice's insane persona ultimately starts taking over and she snaps for real]]. |
33 | ** But when rejection after rejection after rejection starts to get to her, Alice becomes less "gracefully accepting" and more {{Yandere}}. |
34 | ** Alice is lying. |
35 | * '''Parodied''': |
36 | ** The lesbian villain Alice [[IncomingHam enters loudly the scene]], wearing a tampon costume and singing her VillainSong about munching carpets. |
37 | ** Lesbians in the show are all {{Straw Feminist}}s. |
38 | ** Alice comes out of the closet, and immediately turns into a harmless CloudCuckooLander, with [[TheDreaded everybody terrified of her.]] |
39 | ** Alice is revealed to be a lesbian, and nobody dares look at her, for fear they'll be hurt. |
40 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is actually trying to ''escape'' from Emperor Evulz and is constructing a plan with Stephanie, but before that can happen, she breaks from the stress and goes ''truly'' insane, then Stephanie reveals that ''she'' has been working for [[MeleeATrois Master of Destruction]] all along.. |
41 | * '''Averted''': |
42 | ** Lesbians are just as sane or insane as the rest of the cast. |
43 | ** There are no gay characters in the cast. |
44 | ** Alice is evil and/or insane, and she prefers women, but those aren't connected. She doesn't stalk or harass women who aren't interested in her, and her relationships are [[PetTheDog healthy and humanizing]] and/or [[UnholyMatrimony with women just as bloodthirsty as she is]]. |
45 | * '''Enforced''': |
46 | ** "''True'' lesbians are very efficient as scary opponents since women fear being raped by them and men just can't seduce them." |
47 | ** Alice is in an anime/videogame/name-your-medium-here that covers a lot of fetishes. |
48 | ** LesbianVampire |
49 | * '''Lampshaded''': "My dear Stephanie, you don't seem to understand. I want ''you'' and no is not an answer. Simple as that." |
50 | * '''Invoked''': Bob intentionally drives Alice insane because he's [[MindScrew working for a fourth evil mastermind...]] |
51 | * '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz hires an entire battalion of lesbians, promising that the most bloodthirsty and most psychotic one will be able to molest his daughter. |
52 | * '''Defied''': |
53 | ** "I'm not insane. I just happen not to want to suck your penis or anybody else's for that matter. Your genitals are not a recognized measure of female sanity, are they?" |
54 | ** Alice eventually calms down and realizes that she won't get ''anyone'' to like her through her behaviour and resolves to remain a lesbian but to be more reasonable about it. It's an ongoing process. |
55 | * '''Discussed''': "Gee, I hope Alice doesn't go insane. She took Stephanie's refusal ''hard''." |
56 | * '''Conversed''': "There's hardly any positive non-bisexual lesbian on screen these days..." |
57 | * '''Deconstructed''': Lesbians like Alice go insane because [[ThenLetMeBeEvil everyone assumes they will]], and because of homophobia. |
58 | * '''Reconstructed''': Many lesbians overcome the prejudice, and are especially motivated to stop the psychos. |
59 | * '''Played For Laughs''': A RomanticComedy series which casts are all {{Psycho Lesbian}}s. |
60 | * '''Played For Drama''': Alice has fallen in love with Stephanie, but [[IncompatibleOrientation Stephanie's straight]]. Stephanie is afraid of telling Alice she doesn't swing that way for fear of [[{{Yandere}} what her reaction]] [[IfICantHaveYou might be]]. |
61 | * '''Played For Horror''': Continuing the "played for drama" example, we find out [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what Alice's reaction would be]], and boy it ain't pretty. |
62 | * '''Implied''': |
63 | ** Alice the lesbian has something a little off about her. |
64 | ** Alice the BigBad occasionally has LesYay moments. |
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66 | Back to PsychoLesbian, my darling. You do know that no male will ever love you the way I do right? |
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