Line #36 PlayingWith/TheSmurfettePrinciple


1	'''Basic Trope''': There's only one (important) female main character, and she (usually) exists solely to appeal to the female demographic.
2	* '''Straight''': [[SomethingPerson Amy the Amazing Girl]] is the only female member of her SuperTeam.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Amy is the only female character in her respective medium, let alone her SuperTeam.
5	** The team decides they need more members and expands to 108 superheroes... but Amy is still the only female.
6	** The team has no female character at all and the show was thought to be a case of ChromosomeCasting, until it's revealed that [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]] [[SamusIsAGirl is a girl]].
7	** There's little to no female character at all, the only thing considered "female" on screen is an EldritchAbomination.
8	** Amy is the only female citizen in a whole OneGenderRace country.
9	* '''Downplayed''':
10	** Amy is the only female member of her SuperTeam, but there are lots of BadassNormal {{Recurring Character}}s who are female; they're just not official members of the team.
11	** TwoGirlsToATeam
12	** TwoGuysAndAGirl
13	* '''Justified''':
14	** The story takes place in a time period where women were considered less capable of being badass than men, so the team is [[FairForItsDay actually being very progressive]] by including Amazing Girl at all.
15	** Other girls were offered a place on the team, but only Amazing Girl accepted/qualified.
16	** Amy is the sole survivor of a {{gendercide}}.
17	** The story is set in a place that doesn't allow women and Amy is either a SweetPollyOliver or the first/only woman who is allowed to enter.
18	** Amy is transgender, and the team is her old circle of bros with whom she still hangs out.
19	* '''Inverted''': [[TheOneGuy Andrew the Awesome Man]] is the only male member of his [[AmazonBrigade Super Team]].
20	* '''Subverted''':
21	** Everyone ''thinks'' Amazing Girl is the only female, until [[NinetiesAntiHero the Slaughterinator]] turns out to be a [[SweetPollyOliver woman disguised as a man]].
22	** Amy starts off as the only female on the team, [[TwoGirlsToATeam but later on, Chica joins the group]].
23	** "Amy" takes off "her" dress and wig, revealing "herself" to be Adam, a guy.
24	* '''Doubly Subverted''':
25	** The Slaughterinator is actually [[GenderBender a man who was transformed into a woman]] via AppliedPhlebotinum.
26	** After the Slaughterinator is revealed to be a woman, Amazing Girl is revealed to be [[WholesomeCrossdresser a man]].
27	** But not long after Chica joins, Amazing Girl is KilledOffForReal.
28	** Amy is RecursiveCrossdressing, and she needed to pretend to be a guy for a mission.
29	** Alternately, [[GenderBlenderName Adam]] is a {{Tomboy}} who [[UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy unwillingly wears dress and wig.]]
30	* '''Parodied''': Every time it seems like another woman is going to join the team, they get literally StuffedIntoTheFridge by the end of the episode.
31	* '''Zig Zagged''': Amazing Girl is the only female member of her SuperTeam until she gets turned into Awesome Man. Then it's revealed that the Slaughterinator is a woman disguised as a man. Then [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor Killblood]] zaps the team with the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinumitizer 3000]], turning ''all'' of them into women, except for Awesome Man who is now the only man... at least until Doctor Killblood's son [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides]] and joins the team.
32	* '''Averted''':
33	** The SuperTeam has [[GenderEqualEnsemble an even gender ratio]].
34	** The SuperTeam is formed by either [[ChromosomeCasting entirely men]] or [[AmazonBrigade entirely women]].
35	** GenderIsNoObject, for a large-scale aversion.
36	** The team's gender is [[AmbiguousGender never revealed at all]] or neither male nor female.
37	* '''Enforced''':
38	** The show's TargetAudience is adult men, yet at the same time, the creators don't want to come under fire from feminist movements for having an all male cast, or they want to receive [[MultipleDemographicAppeal wider demographic]] further than adult men.
39	** [[CastFullofPrettyBoys The show's]] main TargetAudience is YaoiFangirl, but the creators add one female character because they want to receive MultipleDemographicAppeal and avoid the {{Girl\|ShowGhetto}} and QueerShowGhetto.
40	** The work was created in the days when there wasn't such great equality, so it didn't age well, ValuesDissonance and all.
41	** The work is an amateur no-budget production where all the characters are played by the author's friends, and he only has one female friend who agreed to participate.
42	* '''Lampshaded''': "Amy the Amazing? Yeah, she's our token chick."
43	* '''Invoked''':
44	** The team consists entirely of men, until they let Amazing Girl join them to avoid being criticized by {{Straw Feminist}}s.
45	** [[TerritorialSmurfette Amazing Girl prevents other female characters from joining the team and taking her position.]]
46	* '''Exploited''':
47	** Amazing Girl uses her status as the sole female character to hook up with whomever she likes.
48	** StarringSmurfette
49	* '''Defied''':
50	** The team gets Madam Mysterious and Professor {{Pink\|MeansFeminine}} to join them because Amazing Girl doesn't want to be the only female member in the team.
51	** Amazing Girl chooses to join the AmazonBrigade instead of an entirely male team.
52	* '''Discussed''':
53	--> '''Amazing Girl''': Being surrounded by men all the time SUCKS!\
54	'''Professor Pink''': Look on the bright side, [[ThisIsReality if this were a comic book there'd only be one of us]].
55	* '''Conversed''': "Have you ever noticed how in comics there's never more than one woman per SuperTeam?"
56	* '''Implied''': The team is made up by entirely men and one AmbiguousGender character.
57	* '''Played For Drama''':
58	** Amazing Girl's relationship with the Super Team is on the rocks due to Amazing Girl feeling alone in the team and her not having anyone to talk to about her issues.
59	** The [[AllMenArePerverts extra horny]] Super Team only took Amazing Girl on so they'd have something to ogle at.
60	* '''Deconstructed''': Everyone else on the team treats Amazing Girl [[StayInTheKitchen differently]] [[DoubleStandard because she's the only female]]. Eventually, she gets sick of it and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quits the team]], or even worse, [[WhosLaughingNow switches]] [[FaceHeelTurn sides]].
61	* '''Reconstructed''': The Super Team only lets in [[TrainingFromHell the badassest of the badass]] to maintain its BadassCrew status, and so far, they haven't found any women as badass as Amazing Girl.
62	* '''IntendedAudienceReaction''': The members of the Super Team turn out to [[NobleBigot have some (conscious or not) prejudice against girls]], and getting over it by accepting that times change and switching to gender-equality policy is a significant part of their CharacterDevelopment.
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64	Go back to TheSmurfettePrinciple... But don't bring more than one woman with you! GirlsHaveCooties, you know!
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