Basic Trope: A Girly Girl who used to be a Tomboy in the past.
- Straight: Bob meets his old friend Alice, who was a Tomboy when they were younger. When Bob finally gets to see her, he's surprised to find out that Alice is now a Girly Girl.
- Exaggerated: Alice was a The Lad-ette in the past, but is now one of the girliest women on the planet.
- Downplayed: Alice used to be strictly a Tomboy, but is now a Tomboy with a Girly Streak.
- Justified: Most of Alice's childhood playmates were boys, but she now goes to an all-girls school. Alice changes her interest to fit in her new group of friends.
- Inverted: Tomboyness Upgrade
- Gender Inverted:
- Bob was a boyish boy in the past, but is now In Touch with His Feminine Side.
- Bob was In Touch with His Feminine Side as a boy, but in high school he’s a Manly Man.
- Subverted:
- Bob later finds out that Alice still has some of her tomboyish traits.
- It turns out that Alice was only trying out girliness, but doesn’t like it.
- Alice actually wasn’t a girl at all, and is now transitioning into Alex.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Alice's 180-degree transformation from Tomboy to Girly Girl took place in the span of one day. Bob is shocked by the speed of her development, and wonders if Alice is a robot with an adjustable personality switch.
- Zig Zagged: Alice was a tomboy in elementary school, then a girly girl in middle school, THEN a tomboy again in high school, and now a feminine young woman in college.
- Averted:
- Alice is a Girly Girl and has always been that way.
- Alice is still a Tomboy.
- Enforced: The Censorship Bureau determines that it’s somehow immoral to have a tomboy character, so they force the writers to make her more girly.
- Lampshaded:Bob: I wasn't really expecting Alice, who was a Tomboy when we were younger, would grow up to be such a Girly Girl.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice refuses to do anything girly so she can stay a Tomboy.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice is still a tomboy, but forced herself into being girly when she grew up out of social expectations, and struggles with her expression.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice realizes that the main reason she was a tomboy was because Real Women Don't Wear Dresses, and now decides that it’s fine for her to be both masculine and feminine in different ways.
- The story makes Alice realize that any hang ups girls have about femininity is really a waste and that they need to be good wives and mothers.
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