History Characters / AmericanGirlsCollection

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Nicki is the skateboarding tomboy to Isabel's fashionable girly girl.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Not only shares the name of 2014's Girl of the Year Isabelle, she has the same hair and eye color, as well as the same color scheme and interest in fashion and dance.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Z is usually tomboyish, due to her love of sporty and cool attitude and not wearing anything that's pink, but she wears her hair in cute pigtails, and enjoys making stop motion videos with her American Girl dolls.

* TenderTomboyishness, FoulFemininity: Felicity is tomboyish and active but actually very sweet and caring and tries very hard to be as ladylike as Elizabeth and Annabelle during Miss Manderly's tea and stitching lessons, while Annabelle is more proper and ladylike but more snobby and arrogant and always envies Felicity for many reasons.

* TenderTomboyishness,FoulFemininity: Felicity is tomboyish and active but actually very sweet and caring and tries very hard to be as ladylike as Elizabeth and Annabelle during Miss Manderly's tea and stitching lessons, while Annabelle is more proper and ladylike but more snobby and arrogant and always envies Felicity for many reasons.

* JerkWithAHeartofGold: Kira and Alexis had a lot of disagreements in her first story, and appear to be jealous of each other when Alexis insult Kira for not being able to go with the flow, which causes Kira to insult Alexis for not being family. However, the two girls apologize to each other at the end. Alexis tells Kira that she regrets what she said, and Kira apologizes to Alexis for what she said too. They both move on and continue to be best mates.

* TomboywithaGirlyStreak: Z is usually tomboyish, due to her love of sporty and cool attitude and not wearing anything that's pink, but she wears her hair in cute pigtails, and enjoys making stop motion videos with her American Girl dolls.

* TomboyandGirlyGirl: Kailey is a bit of a tomboy due to her sporty attitude and not a fan of shopping, while her best friend, Tess, is a huge fan of shopping.

* GirlyGirlWithaTomboyStreak: Samantha is usually very prim and proper, and has a love for fashion and dresses. However, she has an action side for climbing trees.

* JerkWithAHeartofGold: Kit can be very mean and bad tempered sometimes, but she feels very worried about her father not coming home, and she truly cares about people and doesn't like hearing about other people suffer. Also, Kit is going through a lot during the Great Depression, so we can forgive her and have sympathy for her.

* JerkwithaHeartofGold: Blaire can be very rude and get angry and lash out at times whenever she feels annoyed or stressed out, but then she immediately apologizes to whoever she hurts.

* TomboywithaGirlyStreak: Joss is usually very sporty and loves to surfboard, and enjoys getting dolled up in sparkles and pink for cheerleading.

* JerkwithaHeartofGold: Kira and Alexis had a lot of disagreements in her first story, and appear to be jealous of each other when Alexis insult Kira for not being able to go with the flow, which causes Kira to insult Alexis for not being family. However, the two girls apologize to each other at the end. Alexis tells Kira that she regrets what she said, and Kira apologizes to Alexis for what she said too. They both move on and continue to be best mates.

* JerkwithaHeartofGold: Molly can sometimes be mean and have jealousy issues of others, and she can be very whiny, but she truly misses her father and becomes more mature and sweet starting from the end of Happy Birthday, Molly.

* TomboyandGirlyGirl: Molly is the energetic tomboy to Emily sweet and gentle girly girl.
* TomboywithaGirlyStreak: Molly is usually very energetic and tomboyish. However, she doesn't mind getting dressed up for special occassions, such as a princess during her birthday that she shares with Emily, and as Miss Victory for a school performance on stage.

* TomboyandGirlyGirl: Emily is the sweet and gentle girly girl to Molly's energetic tomboy.

* TomboywithAGirlyStreak: Julie is ususally considered tomboyish in comparison to Ivy due to her love of basketball and hanging out with boys. However, she also enjoys baking with Ivy, making bracelets, and dressing up with Ivy for Chinese New Year.

* JerkwithaHeartofGold: Kit can be very mean and bad tempered sometimes, but she feels very worried about her father not coming home, and she truly cares about people and doesn't like hearing about other people suffer. Also, Kit is going through a lot during the Great Depression, so we can forgive her and have sympathy for her.

* Tomboy with a Girly Streak:Molly is usually very energetic and tomboyish. However, she doesn't mind getting dressed up for special occassions, such as a princess during her birthday that she shares with Emily, and as Miss Victory for a school performance on stage.

* TomboywithaGirlyStreak: Julie is ususally considered tomboyish in comparison to Ivy due to her love of basketball and hanging out with boys. However, she also enjoys baking with Ivy, making bracelets, and dressing up with Ivy for Chinese New Year.

* Tomboy: She is the most tomboyish out of all the other Girls of the Year.

* TomboywithaGirlyStreak: Joss is usually very sporty and loves to surfboard, and enjoys getting dolled up in sparkles and pink for cheerleading.

* GirlyGirlWithaTomboyStreak: Samantha is usually very prim and proper, and has a love for fashion adn dresses. However, she has an action side for climbing trees.

* Girly Girl With a Tomboy Streak: Samantha is usually very prim and proper, and has a love for fashion adn dresses. However, she has an action side for climbing trees.

* GirlyGirlWithaTomboyStreak: Samantha is usually very prim and proper, and has a love for fashion adn dresses. However, she has an action side for climbing trees.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Nicki's Tomboy to Isabel's Girly Girl.

* TomboyishPonytail: When she's baking.

* PerenniallyOvershadowedBirthday: Subverted, as her birthday falls on New Years and her family has a happy celebration every year.

* RunForTheBorder: Rebecca's cousins are forced to flee Russia due to a rise in antisemetism and the threat of Ana's older brother being drafted into the military.

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* AsianStoreOwner: Her grandparents own a Chinese Food Restaraunt. Ivy at first complains that they have to eat Chinese food so often when she'd rather have pizza, but she learns to appreciate it after spending time with her grandparents.

* AsianStoreOwner: Corinne's mom dreams of owning a Chinese Restaraunt, a dream she is able to achieve after marrying a well-off man.

* OffToBoardingSchool: Samantha fears this will happen to her in one of the paths of her My Journey book. [[spoiler:Actually, the conversation she overheard was about Agnes and Agatha going to boarding school]].

* CheckovsGun: In ''Danger at the Zoo,'' Kit's friend Stirling is leading a Zoo Guide tour and introduces the crowd to Rascal the baboon, who, [[FaceOfAThug despite his scary looks, is so fond of children]] that [[PapaWolf he throws things when he sees children being roughly handled]]. Later in the story, one of the zoo policemen grabs Kit, who he thinks is up to no good, preventing her from chasing the thieves who have been breaking into the zoo; as luck would have it, he does this in front of Rascal's cage and the baboon beans him in the head with a thrown ball, causing him to release Kit.

* BlandNameProduct: Some of her other favorite video games are "Gorilla Run" (highley likely to be VideoGame/DonkeyKong) and "Space Blaster", which could be any well known space shooting game but is likely ''VideoGame/Galaga.''

* HulaAndLuaus: An example where this is treated with respect as part of Nanea's culture and "Aloha" is more than a greeting, it is something that is a part of her cultural values.

* HulaAndLuaus: A lot of Kanani's collection was focused on her Hawai'ian heritage, including a hula set. Her hula dancing is also very important to her within the plot.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Only a few years before Nicki's debut, Canadian doll brand Maplelea debuted Taryn Brady, an Appalachian brunette girl with a Bernese Mountain Dog and an interest in art and nature. Funnily enough, fifteen years later Nicki would get her own suspiciously similar substitute in Corinne.

* InNameOnly: As mentioned above, almost everyone in Melody's cast was adapted out for her film. The film features some events in the book, such as the Birmingham bombings and shoplifting accusations, fused into a new storyline about Melody standing up to racism in her school. Melody is more outspoken and also now shows an interest in clothing design, and Frances is a StrugglingSingleMother. CanonForeigner characters include hear teacher Miss Abbot, bully Donald, and new best friend Tricia.

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Yvonne and Dwayne are college-aged while Melody is nine.