'''Basic Trope''': Female Mooks are more likely to betray the BigBad.
* '''Straight''': Alice, the female mook of [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]], betrays him for Charlie, TheHero.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** ''Every'' female mook betrays Evulz for Charlie.
** Alice has ChronicBackstabbingDisorder; she's known for betraying multiple {{Big Bad}}s in her career.
** Alice, TheDragon of [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]], betrays him for Charlie, TheHero.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice remains loyal to Evulz and helps to capture Charlie -- but she pleads with Evulz to spare Charlie's life, because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou "We can't kill him, we still need him!"]]
** Alice falls for Charlie, and does a HeelFaceTurn. However, Alice convinces her former villainous comrade, Bob, to do a HeelFaceTurn as well.
* '''Justified''':
** [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain The villains are]] very [[StrawMisogynist misogynistic]], and the female mooks want to be on a side where they're treated better.
** Alice is an AffablyEvil NobleDemon AntiVillain and/or MinionWithAnFInEvil who after talking with Charlie realizes she's a good person who has some issues and petty grievances she needs to work out.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice, TheSmurfettePrinciple, betrays Charlie, TheHero, for BigBad Emperor Evulz.
** Alice is the only one who [[UndyingLoyalty remains on Evulz' side toward the end]].
* '''Gender Inverted''':
** Bob, the male mook of the BigBad, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Alice]], betrays her for TheHero Charlotte.
** Bob, TheOneGuy of BigBad Queen Alice's AmazonBrigade, betrays her for TheHero Charlie.
** All the male mooks turn against Evulz, with only Alice remaining loyal.
* '''Subverted''':
** Alice, TheVamp, pretends to betray Evulz, so she can seduce TheHero, Charlie.
** Alice, a DragonAscendant, takes up the BigBad mantle after [[TheStarscream betraying Evulz]].
** Alice was [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan puppeteering Evulz all along]].
** Alice ''is'' the only one of Evulz's minions to undergo a HeelFaceTurn. In the original work, that is. [[EvilGenius Bob]] reforms in the sequel.
* '''Double Subverted'''
** [[BecomingTheMask But she winds up falling for him for real]], [[LoveRedeems and when it comes time to betray Charlie, she can't.]]
** But she turns out to be a villain in name only, who [[GoodRepublicEvilEmpire reforms the empire into a republic]] because she genuinely wants to save Charlie and set things right.
** [[GoodAllAlong But she manipulated him so she could set up his defeat and the fall of his empire.]]
* '''Parodied''':
** Alice is extremely shallow and falls for Charlie for [[BiggerIsBetterInBed superficial reasons]], having only been with Evulz until someone more badass and [[BiggerIsBetterInBed better "equipped"]] came along.
** Alice is in Evulz’s service because [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she wants to meet a heroic man]].
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Alice, the female mook of Evulz, is a HeelFaceRevolvingDoor.
* '''Averted''': All evil characters stay evil, and all good characters stay good, or male and female characters turn evil and good at equal rates.
* '''Enforced''':
** "We planned for the villains to die, but we don't want TheHero Charlie [[WouldntHitAGirl to have to kill a woman]]."
** "It's a HaremGenre and we want to expand Charlie's group of suitors, how about adding the villainess to the team?"
** "We want some BelligerentSexualTension side plot, let's make the villainess becomes Charlie's girlfriend!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Figures Alice is helping us. WomenAreWiser, after all."
* '''Invoked''': Charlie seduces the female mook Alice to get her to betray Evulz.
* '''Exploited''':
** When looking for a mook to subvert to his side, Charlie immediately homes in on Alice.
** [[TheDragon General Drake]] is planning to betray Evulz, but he's a DirtyCoward, so he [[FrameUp blames Alice for the betrayal]].
** Alice defects to Charlie’s side [[TheStarscream to use him to overthrow Evulz so she can take the throne]].
** Alice [[FakeDefector only pretends to defect to Charlie’s side]].
* '''Defied''':
** Alice decides she isn't into goodie-two-shoes types.
** Evulz decides "If I'm to be an evil overlord, my mooks will be all-male."
** Evulz decides "If I'm to have female mooks, in order to make them generic, [[AmazonBrigade my mooks will be all-female]]."
** Evulz decided not to hire mooks and went OneManArmy.
** Evulz [[HeelFaceDoorSlam shot Alice from behind]] to prevent her from turning her blade on him.
* '''Discussed''': "You know, [[ThisIsReality if this were fiction]], Alice would be helping us now."
* '''Conversed''': Why do the women on these shows always seem to [[HeelFaceTurn turn good]]?
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Alice secretly betrays Evulz by rescuing Charlie from death, but she makes to clear that she's TrueNeutral and if she ever sees Charlie, she'll kill him. Then she leaves and is never seen again.
** The second Arc comes, showing that she used Charlie to kill Evulz, [[DragonAscendant so she gains his fallen empire]], becoming the new BigBad.
** Evulz denies all women applying for his organization because of this trope, so he ends up with the reputation of a sexist, while his mooks make jokes thinking he's a homosexual and complain about the lack of women around. Evulz himself dies as a virgin.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** The new Arc comes along, [[DragonAscendant General Drake]] has Charlie right where he wants him, but Alice makes a BigDamnHeroes moment, claiming that she'll hang around him for a while for entertainment. She becomes the one to kill off Drake.
** Alice is the bad guy in name only, as she proceeds to use Evulz’s old resources to do good deeds.
** Evulz is alright with being thought of as a misogynist, is actually gay (so those minions laughing at him merely puzzle him) and allows minions to freely interact with civilian women (or, alternatively, only recruits male minions that are similarly aware of this trope).
* '''Played For Laughs''': All the male mooks hate their job, but none want to change sides because they think they'll look feminine.
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