If I may be so bold to point this out, the Playing With subpage of Action Girl lists the basic trope as a female action hero. If that is the basic Action Girl trope, then why is Action Girl not the Distaff Counterpart to Action Hero.
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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Any suggestions on how to gather examples for this trope, which has been heavily restructured last year as part of a TRS effort?
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Copy-paste the draft into YKTTW and add a "needs examples" tag, and then update this page when there are plenty.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Does Action Hero have to always conform to all the listed traits (e.g. "Nationality: American")?
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No. I deleted that part. That's a completely ridiculous requirement since most action heroes don't even pretend to be American.
See you in the discussion pages.
Okay, but why is it that the example list has only examples of roles/films by Hollywood actors? It gives the impression that this trope is restricted to Western media/Hollywood.
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Um, hello? Maybe I should take this to Trope Talk?
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This page suffers some other problems too. It says on the main that Action Girl is not this trope's Distaff Counterpart, but that the former is "a female Badass". Never mind that the page for that trope states specifically that she actively fights, and also that a badass need not necessarily be of the "action" variety. I think we should really try to edit that part.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Split old description, rewrite to better fit current name
, started by MarqFJA on Jul 16th 2011 at 3:10:04 AM
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