'''Basic Trope''': British characters are uptight and stuffy.
* '''Straight''': [[PreppyName Clarice Victoria Preston]] is the only British character on the show and is more uptight than any of the other characters.
* '''Exaggerated''': Clarice is a walking British stereotype who acts like it's still the Victorian age.
* '''Downplayed''': Clarice only hugs or kisses her friends and family if she won't see them again for a very long time, and sometimes speaks in intentional {{understatement}} to avoid sounding overemotional.
* '''Justified''': Clarice was raised in an upper-class, conservative household which encouraged emotional repression.
* '''Inverted''':
** Clarice is more open and free-spirited than any of the other characters.
** Alternatively, Bob (an American) [[StereotypeFlip is more uptight]] than any of the other characters (all British).
* '''Subverted''':
** Everyone assumes Clarice is uptight because she's British, but she actually has a FreudianExcuse.
** Clarice is constipated.
** Clarice is an American pretending to be British.
* '''Double Subverted''': But she only responded to her problem by becoming uptight because she was raised to keep a StiffUpperLip. By a distant British relative.
* '''Parodied''': Clarice combines several British stereotypes without any rhyme or reason, sometimes being overly posh and other times suddenly becoming Cockney.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Clarice's stuffiness varies DependingOnTheWriter.
* '''Averted''': Clarice is neither more uptight nor more free-spirited than the other characters.
* '''Enforced''': "We have to make Clarice act stuffy because that's what an American audience would expect."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Sorry I have trouble expressing my feelings. I'm British."
* '''Invoked''': Clarice deliberately acts the British steroytype because she feels her nationality makes her superior to the other characters.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Clarice doesn't act stuffy because she doesn't want to reinforce the steroytype.
* '''Discussed''': Clarice talks about being emotionally repressed with another character.
* '''Conversed''': "Why do they always make British characters act so stuffy on this show?"
* '''Deconstructed''': Clarice is unable to adjust to a more open culture. She dies alone and unloved.
* '''Reconstructed''': Clarice's StiffUpperLip helps her get through a life or death situation.
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