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* KidAppealCharacter: InUniverse, Annie wants her superhero persona to be a role model for children and be appealing to them, which is shown in several occasions such a little girl asking an autograph from her or teen girls cosplaying as Starlight. When she is forced to adopts her hypersexualized new costume, she is displeased because it stands against the image she tries to build.
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* KidAppealCharacter: InUniverse, Annie wants her superhero persona to be a role model for children and be appealing to them, which is shown in several occasions such a as the little girl asking an autograph from her or teen girls cosplaying as Starlight. When she is forced to adopts her hypersexualized new costume, she is displeased because it stands against the image she tries to build.
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** She is hit again with this again in Season 3. She tries her best to reform Vought from the inside-out, only to love important people in the process to Homelander. The massacre that happens at the Herogasm party finally makes her completely give up on trying to reform Vought.
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** She is hit again with this again in Season 3. She tries her best to reform Vought from the inside-out, only to love lose important people in the process to Homelander. The massacre that happens at the Herogasm party finally makes her completely give up on trying to reform Vought.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: When Starlight utilizes her powers, her eyes transform from brown to a bright yellow, matching her light blond hair.
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* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Starlight is the most prominent blond character after Homelander. She is wildly popular with the masses, and Vought tries to monetize this and force Starlight in the typical role of the blonde woman being the main source of fanservice in a cast ensemble.
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* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Starlight is the most prominent blond character after Homelander. She is wildly popular with the masses, and Vought tries to monetize this and force Starlight in the typical stereotypical role of the blonde woman being the main source of fanservice in a cast ensemble.
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* BigDamnHeroes: In the final of Season One, Starlight saves Hughie, Frenchie, Kimiko and Mother's Milk from Vought's armed forces that kept them captive. Hughie asks her about her change of heart, and she answers that he simply reminded her that she is "fucking superhero".
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* ElementalAbsorption: Annie needs to absorb electricity from her surroundings in order to fuel her powers and release light.
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* AllForNothing: In Season 2, Annie feels everything she fought for meant nothing on the grand scheme of things because no matter how hard she tries, the bad guys just win and she cannot do anything to change the status quo.
* DrowningMySorrows: After learning that she was pumped with V-compound as a baby, Annie spends the whole Vought evening party drinking and flirting with a guy.
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* TheFettered: According to Erin Moriarty, in season 3, the more Hughie and the other characters become more morally corrupted, willing to leave casualties to accomplish their goals, the more Starlight is determined to keep her morality intact, not willing to cross the line like the others just for the greater good. This ends up being {{Deconstructed|Trope}} because the reason everyone else is getting more corrupted is that her methods are losing their strength--Vought has rigged the system so that they have plenty of loopholes to escape justice, and her efforts to reign in Homelander by threatening his image fall apart once Homelander decides that he's perfectly willing to take that loss if it means putting Annie in "her place".
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* TheFettered: According to Erin Moriarty, in season 3, the more Hughie and the other characters become more morally corrupted, willing to leave casualties to accomplish their goals, the more Starlight is determined to keep her morality intact, not longer willing to cross the line like the others just for the greater good. This ends up being {{Deconstructed|Trope}} because the reason everyone else is getting more corrupted is that her methods are losing their strength--Vought has rigged the system so that they have plenty of loopholes to escape justice, and her efforts to reign in Homelander by threatening his image fall apart once Homelander decides that he's perfectly willing to take that loss if it means putting Annie in "her place".
* AHeroToHisHometown: Annie is know in her hometown as "The Defender of Des Moines". While is never shown what she did, is hinted several times she acted like a vigilante in her city.
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* InSeriesNickname: She is referred by various characters as "America's sweetheart", for her pristine reputation and huge popularity for her sweet behavior.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: In season 3, Starlight evolves into this role. She is no longer willing to ignore her moral boundaries and do whatever it takes for the greater good like in the last season. When Victoria Neuman searches for hersweet behavior.to propose an alliance against Vought which could protect her from Homelander and have actual agency in the Seven, Annie refuses her and angrily rants to her that she is tired of hearing that she has to be shitty in order to win.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: In season 3, Starlight evolves into this role. She is no longer willing to ignore her moral boundaries and do whatever it takes for the greater good like in the last season. When Victoria Neuman searches for her
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* SadisticChoice: In Season 2, Homelander gives her the choice to wither kills Hughie with her own hands, or he will kill them both. Luckily, Butcher distracts him in time, and Kenji drops a whole train on him with his telekinesis.
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* AffirmativeActionGirl: She is welcomed into the Seven as the second female member besides Queen Maeve following Lamplighter's retirement.
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* AuthorityInNameOnly: Stan Edgar names Starlight as co-captain of the Seven, but in reality she doesn't have any real authority because of Homelander. He constantly threatens her and jeopardizes any change she wants to bring.
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* ContagiousHeroism: She serves as a source of inspiration for Maeve, who lost all the hope until Annie. Maeve even lampshades how Annie saved her from her self destructives ways in the day she met her throwing up in the bathroom.
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* DrinkBasedCharacterization: She consumes various alcohol drinks, but has a thing for whiskey.
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: Not her, but the people around her. [[spoiler:Homelander kills Alex and threatens to kill Hughie too if Starlight doesn't comply.]]
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* AccidentalMurder: She accidentally kills an innocent bystander who got a gun at her and Butcher upon seeing Hughie hurt, thinking they are thugs. The real tragedy is that she can't even bring herself to care.
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* AscendedFanboy: As a child, Annie was a huge fan of the Seven, especially the Deep (on whom she had a celebrity crush) and Queen Maeve (her role model growing up). She gets her wish granted, but God, at what cost given what is awaiting Annie.
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* CassandraTruth: At Herogasm, she tries unsuccessfully to convince Blue Hawk to help her evacuate the place because Soldier Boy will be there and a lot of people are going to die. He dismisses her worries because he fully believed Homelander saying there is no real danger and that everything is just propaganda to keep the Americans in their houses. Soldier Boy does makes an appearance and he accidentally kills a lot of people after being triggered by hearing Russian music.
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* ElementalPowers: A variation. It's electricity, because she needs electric devices to power up and use her light powers.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Annie is very preoccupied to have a heroic image that is appealing mainly at children, of course also genuinely carrying for their well-being. She is visibly disturbed by the brainwashing done at them at [=EXPO=], she is shown to be very close to her underage fans and get upset when a man asks her to show him her tits in front of her little girl. She also started a foundation for homeless youth.
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* YellowLightningBlueLightning: Sort of, her light powers are yellow in color, but still fueled by electricity from electric devices, and she uses them against Stormfront, who has blue lightning.
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* HighHeelPower: While not only female supe with heels, she certainly wore the highest and most impractical heels in season 2.
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* TheConfidant: To Mother's Milk. Through her, the audience learns more about his past such as why he hates Soldier Boy so much.
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* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: On her first date with Hughie, she tells him this story about a guy she used to crush on really hard in high school. He invited her at a party where she defended him from an older man and got repaid by being ghosted.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: When Hughie met Annie for the first time, she in her civilian attire. Second time he meets her, she is in her leotard gear and is shocked to see Annie dressed as such. He points out how big is the contrast.
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* HollywoodThin: As a child star, Annie had to follow a strict diet on her mother's orders to fit the "Hollywood standard" for how famous women should look.
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* HollywoodThin: As a child star, Annie had to follow a strict diet on her mother's orders to fit the "Hollywood standard" for how famous women should look. She was implied to be even bulimic.
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* IdentityBreakdown: Annie experiences a mental breakdown upon discovering the truth about the source of her powers, the revelation that she, along with other people, was secretly administered Compound V as babies and her own parents agreed to it. She confronts her mother for not only lying but actively manipulating her whole life. The betrayal and the realization that her entire existence was predetermined for someone else's benefit leaves Annie questioning who she truly is.
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* TragicKeepsake: After her father left her and her mother when she was a child, Annie kept his pipe hidden under a floorboard from her room, hoping he will come back one day.
