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Basic Trope: Although more of a vaguely defined opinion, it usually comes down to a helpless seeming character that drives you to protect them.

  • Straight: Alice-chan is a clumsy high school girl who's always late to her class despite trying hard to get there. She is however very sweet and polite to anyone she sees.
  • Exaggerated: Alice-chan is a constantly disadvantaged young girl who's life is misery, but she always stays positive in the face of it. She constantly follows the MC around like an older brother figure, making kawaii little sounds and all.
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice-chan is quite lazy and often doesn't do too well in school. Her niceness only happens occasionally.
    • Alice-chan is actually supposed to be the Butt-Monkey of the series, but her personality is so charming she ends up way more popular tham she is.
  • Justified:
    • Alice-chan is one of the character's younger siblings and is often more naive than the cast.
    • Rule of Empathy.
  • Subverted:
    • Alice-chan becomes a Broken Bird after the first few episodes.
    • Alice is actually supposed to be a villain and acts pretty mean, but the audience has latched onto her over time due to how bullied she is.
  • Double Subverted:
    • Alice-chan eventually lightens up in the second season.
    • In response, the creators of Alice-chan redeem her character and make her a part of the main cast.
  • Inverted: Alice-chan is a mean girl and will do anything to be better than the MC.
  • Parodied: Alice-chan is so helplessly cute that guys will utmost willingly help her sharpen her pencil. Despite attending high school, she has the intelligence of a newborn baby.
  • Averted: Alice-chan is clumsy, but never ptrayed as cute to the audience. That mainly goes to her dog, Tropey.
  • Defied: Alice-chan may be cute and helpless, but on the day aliens attack her school, she becomes a Hidden Badass.
  • Zig-Zagged: ???
  • Enforced: Alice-chan was designed to sell her figures directly to the otaku crowd.
  • Lampshaded: "Alice-chan seems so helpless... usually I hate it when people don't do it themselves, but she's so cute!"
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Invoked: Alice uses her cuteness to get others to notice her, as she has a history of lonliness.
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  • Played for Laughs: ???
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  • Played for Horror: ???
  • Implied: ???
  • Unparodied: ???
  • Untwisted: ???
  • Deconstructed: ???
  • Reconstructed: ???

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