Line #14 PlayingWith/JadeColoredGlasses


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character becomes more cynical throughout the series due to horrible things happening to them and those around them.
2	* '''Straight''': [[MeaningfulName Jade]] starts as a KnightInShiningArmor, but during her adventures through the CrapsackWorld she lives in, she becomes much more cynical.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Jade starts out as ThePollyanna, but then something goes wrong and immediately becomes TheSnarkKnight or a StrawNihilist.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Jade becomes a KnightInSourArmor; no longer nice but still hanging onto core idealism.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Jade [[NaiveNewcomer has no idea what she's getting herself into]] at the beginning, so when she sees the horrible things she has to do and have happen to her and those around her, she becomes hardened.
7	** Jade becomes a StepfordSnarker as a defense mechanism, [[BecomingTheMask but she internalizes this and it becomes depression. She can't take the glasses off if she wants to]].
8	* '''Inverted''': Jade starts off as a SourSupporter but as time goes on [[TookALevelInIdealism she accepts that the world is far more idealistic than she gave it credit for]].
9	* '''Subverted''': Jade [[ThePollyanna remains idealistic]] despite the things she must do and must see.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': ...But, [[BeneathTheMask deep down]], she's a KnightInSourArmor.
11	* '''Parodied''': As Jade becomes more jaded and cynical, [[ExactWords the glasses she wears]] [[VisualPun become]] [[LiteralMetaphor greener and greener]].
12	* '''Zig Zagged''': Every episode sees Jade shifting from one end of the scale to the other. TheTeam calls her a MoodSwinger.
13	* '''Averted''': Jade remains a WideEyedIdealist throughout and/or the world gives her no reason to become cynical.
14	* '''Enforced''': TrueArtIsAngsty, CharacterDevelopment.
15	* '''Lampshaded''':
16	-->'''Alice:''' What happened to the young, idealistic girl I knew?\
17	'''Jade:''' [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids She grew up]].
18	* '''Invoked''': Ruby takes Jade along on her adventures in the first place to show her the harshness of the real world.
19	* '''Exploited''': Knowing what she's been through, [[BigBad Raven]] gives Jade a BreakingSpeech on how humans are bastards and thus not worth saving. His goal is to provoke a HeroicBSOD or FaceHeelTurn.
20	* '''Defied''': Jade refuses to give up her idealism, regardless of the horrors she must deal with.
21	* '''Discussed''': ???
22	* '''Conversed''': ???
23	* '''Deconstructed''': Jade's newfound cynicism ultimately make her [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves think her world is not worth saving]], causing her to leave it to its fate.
24	* '''Reconstructed''':
25	** Jade fights evil so long she loses faith that she will ever win but an idealistic MoralityChain reminds her that there are indeed reasons to try to save her world.
26	** Jade's newly acquired cynicism doesn't change her ideals. Instead, it allows her to see her previously naive ways, and how they limited her. She becomes a PragmaticHero and [[{{Determinator}} pulls out all the evils around her by the roots, with any means necessary]]. In the end, her actions change the world around her, [[EarnYourHappyEnding allowing for idealism to flourish]].
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32	%%* '''Implied''': ???
33	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
34	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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