Line #44 PlayingWith/PsychoLesbian


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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