Basic Trope: A female character is clumsy, and this is considered adorable.
- Straight: Alice is an attractive woman who often trips over her own feet, leading to many men offering to help her up.
- Exaggerated: Alice doesn't go a single day without falling down, and it always results in men falling in love with her.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is just a bit clumsy, and she is attractive and romantically successful.
- Alice is nervous around her crush Bob, which makes her clumsy.
- Justified: This is a real psychological phenomenon.
- Inverted:
- Alice is clumsy, leading to her messing things up all the time. She's treating as an annoyance and is constantly embarrassed.
- Alice is impossibly graceful, winning her many admirers.
- Gender Inverted: Charles is a Pretty Boy with many admirers who can't walk 10 feet without tripping over his feet. This makes him endearing.
- Subverted:
- Alice falls into the arms of an attractive guy at a bar — who is very annoyed by her clumsiness.
- Alice trips and falls in the hallway at school, and all the other kids laugh at her.
- Double Subverted:
- And then Charles gets beat up by some other guys for being mean to her.
- Bob helps her up and becomes her Love Interest.
- Parodied: Alice is The Klutz of the town, but she attracts many people and befriends lots of guys, such to the point of being a Morality Pet for one of those friends she's made.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice's clumsiness is sometimes endearing and sometimes a genuine problem.
- Averted:
- Alice is not at all clumsy.
- Alice's clumsiness is a neutral trait and not especially endearing.
- Enforced:
- The producers need to make the female lead approachable and relatable even though she looks like a model, so they make her clumsy as her obligatory "flaw".
- Meet Cute
- Common Mary Sue Traits
- All of the Other Reindeer
- Lampshaded: "Oh, it's just like a romantic comedy. She falls down, he falls in love."
- Invoked: Single women are advised to act clumsy to get dates.
- Exploited: Alice manipulates men into doing what she wants by acting clumsy and interested in them.
- Defied: Alice doesn't like being clumsy or being considered "cute", so she does gymnastics to be less clumsy, whether this works or doesn't.
- Discussed: "Alice stumbling everywhere and her poor coordination seems to attract others a lot."
- Conversed:"There goes Alice tripping over something again after befriending someone, how cute!"
- Deconstructed:
- Alice's clumsiness may be endearing, but it's still dangerous. Her first dates often end with trips to the emergency room.
- Alice's clumsiness holds her back, or makes her really bad at what she does, as well as making her an active liability.
- Reconstructed: And this just leads to adorable rescues and bedside waiting.
- Played for Laughs: Alice doesn't really mind about the fact that she's clumsy and adorable because of her cheerfully oblivious, Cloudcuckoolander tendencies that allow her to act like this, and is the Plucky Comic Relief towards many because of this.
- Played for Horror: Alice trips and falls in the middle of a chemistry lab, splashing acid all over her lab partner Bob and giving him hideous chemical burns.
- Implied: Jimmy usually tells Frederick about how a certain girl he knows that would usually stumble around him when he is reading by himself and she'd usually apologize like she's naive, when she seems to like Alex a lot because of this, she'd then ramble to him when rationalizing about her clumsiness before he'd say that its ok and there was nothing to worry about.
I think I dropped the main page...Oh wait, here's Cute Clumsy Girl! Sorry!
