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* FlawlessToken: Annie is by far more heroic than almost every character, especially among the Seven. In season 3, she constantly tries to persuade Hughie from following Butcher, and she is shown unwilling to cross the line for the greater good, while everyone else is shown to resorting to increasingly immoral methods to deal with Homelander.
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* GrewASpine: While Annie always went against Homelander, she always did it behind his back, never having the courage to face him directly given the power imbalance between them.
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* GrewASpine: While Annie always went against Homelander, she always did it behind his back, never having the courage to face him directly given the power imbalance between them. \n After almost three full seasons, she finally grows a backbone and tells him she is not afraid anymore of him, joining Butcher and Stan Edgar as the people Homelander cannot frighten at all.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. Hughie is comely, but he is constantly referred as skinny and a twink, while Starlight is the most fanserviced female character in the show and has plenty of suitors. Maeve even makes fun of her for dating Hughie because he looks to her like someone asking to be the "dog rawed".
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. Hughie is comely, but he is constantly referred as skinny and a twink, while Starlight is the most fanserviced female character in the show and has plenty of suitors. Maeve even makes fun of her for dating Hughie because he looks to her like someone asking to be the "dog rawed".
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. Hughie is comely, but he is constantly referred as skinny and a twink, while Starlight is the most fanserviced female character in the show and has plenty of suitors. Maeve even makes fun of her for dating Hughie because he looks to her like someone asking to be the "dog rawed".
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* HeroWorshipper: Annie's favorite superhero was always Queen Maeve. According to her, she used to read her Maeve's autobiography in it was worn out because she wanted to be Maeve.
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* StarPower: Of the Aesthetic variety. Her name and costume have star motifs, but she can use the photons only from electric devices.
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* {{Stripperiffic}}: She has to wear a leotard of powers, for no other reasons than to be eye-candy. Stormfront uses the hyperbole of people even seeing inside of Annie's uterus to make a point how sexualized her costume is.
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* EmbodimentOfVirtue: Out of the Seven, Starlight is the only one depicted as being constantly heroic. She shows many times how committed she is to the idea of heroism, and taking all kinds of risks to make sure some sort of justice is done. She even inspired Maeve hope again for a better future.
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* TheGhost: She is briefly mentioned in ''Series/GenV'', where Indira Shetty tries to advertise Marie Monreau as black Starlight.
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* HealingFactor: Downplayed. She can recover within a day from being shot with high caliber bullets and having her skin penetrated by a diamond drill.
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* InnocenceLost: Starlight arrives at Vought completely unware that the Seven are one of the scummiest people in her life. She genuinely expected them to match the inspiring paragon of virtue image they project to the people, outright admiring them, until she discovers the Deep is nothing more than a rapist, Homelander is a sociopath, Queen Maeve is completely apathetic, Translucid to be an egocentric pervert and that none of them care about being heroes.
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* NotQuiteFlight: In Season's Three final, Annie levitates for a few seconds while she absorbs the electricity. Is yet to be seen if she can develop this into a proper ability.
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* NotQuiteFlight: In Season's Three final, Annie levitates for a few seconds while she absorbs the electricity. Is it yet to be seen if she can develop this into a proper ability.
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* NotQuiteFlight: In Season's Three final, Annie levitates for a few seconds while she absorbs the electricity. Is yet to be seen if she can develop this into a proper ability.
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* NotQuiteFlight: In Season's Three final, Annie levitates for a few seconds while she absorbs the electricity. Is it yet to be seen if she can develop this into a proper ability.
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* ActionGirlfriend: To Hughie. Annie is a Supe, while he is your average nerdy Joe with no powers. This gets both deconstructed and reconstructed in Season 3. Hughie starts to consume V-compound to gain temporary powers for both to protect Annie but also because he feels frustrated at his role as the boyfriend with no powers to a superheroine. He grows out if his own insecurities by the end of the Season and stops consuming V compound and choses instead to help Starlight fight Soldier Boy.
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* ActionGirlfriend: To Hughie. Annie is a Supe, while he is your average nerdy Joe with no powers. This gets both deconstructed and reconstructed in Season 3. Hughie starts to consume V-compound to gain temporary powers for both to protect Annie but also because he feels frustrated at his role as the boyfriend with no powers to a superheroine. He grows out if of his own insecurities by the end of the Season and stops consuming V compound and choses chooses instead to help Starlight fight Soldier Boy.
* 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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* MaleGaze: In Season 2 mostly after donning a LeotardOfPower to appeal the male audience. Many of the camera shots are done on her bust, legs, and backside. Stormfront even talks about how their costumes are clearly made to be fanservice-y and not practical.
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* MaleGaze: In Season 2 mostly after donning a LeotardOfPower LeotardOfPower, high heels and heavy make-up to appeal the male audience. Many of the camera shots are done on her bust, legs, and backside. Stormfront even talks about how their costumes are clearly made produced to rank up their sexual appeal rather than be fanservice-y and not practical.
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* IconicOutfit: While Starlight prefers her skirt InUniverse, her leotard is more famous and cosplayed by people.
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** Even their childhoods are somewhat similar. Both of them were pumped V-compound as babies by their {{Stage Paren}}s and forced to participate in all kinds of competitions and perform in pageants.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: She is the resident pretty blondie who happens to be the only genuinely heroic member of The Seven. Downplayed in that the rest of the Seven are conventionally attractive as well while Maeve is good hearted too deep down, she just simply completly gave up stopping Homelander and the corruption of Vought.
* {{Blackmail}}: She's helping Hughie pull this off on Supes. She manages to do this to A-Train on her own.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: She is the resident pretty blondie who happens to be the only genuinely heroic member of The Seven. Downplayed in that the rest of the Seven are conventionally attractive as well while Maeve is good hearted too good-hearted too, deep down, she just simply completly completely gave up stopping Homelander and the corruption of Vought.
* {{Blackmail}}:She's helping Hughie pull this In Season 2, she secretly records in a hotel room letting someone hack his arm off in exchange for money, and later uses the video to blackmail him into going in the labs on Supes. 67th to steal for her a sample of Compound V. She manages to do this to A-Train on her own.too.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: While Annie is in general carries herself in a quite dignified way and is morally upstanding, she is not above drinking for fun from time to time. Before her, Kimiko never touched an ounce of alcohol in her life.
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* CantHoldHerLiquor: Annie is shown whenever she consumes high amounts of alcohol to get heavily intoxicated and throw up. This puts her in contrast with queen Maeve who is shown having a high alcohol tolerance as a constantly drunken woman.
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* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Annie is known for her sweetness and traditionally feminine attire, sporting a skirt or a leotard as part of her superhero costume. However, she also enjoys more masculine activities like kickboxing and heavy drinking for fun.
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* GrewASpine: While Annie always went against Homelander, she always did it behind his back, never having the courage to face him directly given the power imbalance between them.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:After Herogasm, she completely diches Vought and the Seven and joins the Boys.]]
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* BadassInDistress: In Season 2, Annie is knocked out by Black Noir for unknown reasons while meeting at a coffee bar with her mom. She later wakes up in a locked room somewhat dimly lit with glowing green lights reminiscent to glow sticks. She discovers that they're not electrical-based, and the door is too solid for her to destroyed and evadate. She is later rescued by Hughie and Lamp Lighter.
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* FrameUp: At the end of Season 3, Annie is framed by Vought and Homelander as the mastermind behind a pedophile ring for terrorists through her Starlight foundation, a charity for orphaned children. This elaborate deception serves the purpose of deflecting the public outrage from Herogasm and to maintain control of the narrative.
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** In Season 2, Homelander utilizes a press conference to publicly brand Starlight as a traitor and a mole who conspired to kill Translucid. He announces her capture, effectively destroying her reputation and painting her as a villain. Luckily, her reputation is restored in the next episode.
** Happens again at the end of Season3, 3 with even stronger accusations. Annie is framed by Vought and Homelander as the mastermind behind a pedophile ring for terrorists through her Starlight foundation, a charity for orphaned children. This elaborate deception serves the purpose of deflecting the public outrage from Herogasm and to maintain control of the narrative.
** In Season 2, Homelander utilizes a press conference to publicly brand Starlight as a traitor and a mole who conspired to kill Translucid. He announces her capture, effectively destroying her reputation and painting her as a villain. Luckily, her reputation is restored in the next episode.
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* AwkwardKiss: In Season Three, Homelander forces Annie to fake a romantic relationship with him. She takes the reign by initiating a kiss, taking Homelander by surprise. Annie is not pleased that she has to kiss him at all, and she clenches her fist strongly to cope with making out with him. Even the Deep and Drummer Boy are weirded out by the kiss, and the fact a young Starlight can be heard singing ''Baby One More Time'' in the background makes the entire scene even more disturbing.
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* FrameUp: At the end of Season 3, Annie is framed by Vought and Homelander as the mastermind behind a pedophile ring for terrorists through her Starlight foundation, a charity for orphaned children. This elaborate deception serves the purpose of deflecting the public outrage from Herogasm and to maintain control of the narrative.
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* FrameUp: At the end of Season 3, Annie is framed by Vought and Homelander as the mastermind behind a pedophile ring through her Starlight foundation, a charity for orphaned children. This elaborate deception serves the purpose of deflecting the public outrage from Herogasm and to maintain control of the narrative.
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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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* MinnesotaNice: Starlight is native to Des Moines, a city from the state of Iowa, which borders Minnesota and is part of the Midwest region. She exhibits the stereotypical niceness, standing out in a show with cynical take on the superhero genre as one of the most moral characters and TheCape among all of its superpowered characters. Stan Edgar does mistakes her as a farm girl for Kansas.
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* MinnesotaNice: Starlight is native to Des Moines, a city from the state of Iowa, which borders Minnesota and is part of the Midwest region. She exhibits the stereotypical niceness, standing out in a show with cynical take on the superhero genre as one of the most moral characters and TheCape among all of its superpowered characters. Stan Edgar does mistakes mistake her as a farm girl for from Kansas.
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* KnightInSourArmor: In Season two, she becomes almost as cynical as Maeve about heroism, which is shown when she complains to her mother about her inability to do anything about the Seven and Vought. She even gives up her faith at seeing that no matter what anyone tries, Vought just cannot be defeated. She still tries to do something about it only because of Hughie. But even then, the immoral methods that she uses to help the Boys, are in stark contrast with the ethical superhero she was in Season One. She looses her cynicism at the end of the Season, once Stormfront is defeated and Homelander is finally kept in check.
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* AdaptationalSeriousness: In the comics, Starlight is something of a ButtMonkey who endures more humiliating things than in the show and has less agency in the Vought. She is mouth-raped by all male members of the Seven except for the Deep, [[spoiler:her period comes while being pleased by Hughie]], and is forced to wear a hero gear that is basically just strings barely covering her nipples, among other things. She never goes through all that stuff in the show, and she is a far more dignified and assertive character.
* GoodRunningEvil: PlayedWith. She is named co-captain of the Seven by Stan Edgar in Season 3, and he personally gives her a pep talk to take this as a real opportunity to reform the Seven. She tries her hardest to reform the team through the season, but with every try, there is Homelander humiliating her at every opportunity for "invading his space".
* LongHairIsFeminine: While Annie is already feminine, Vought forces her to wear a wig, which is longer than her actual haircut, with her new {{Striperiffic}} costume, all to maximize her image as a sexy heroine.
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* WomenPreferStrongMen: Inverted. Annie loves Hughie the way he is, scrawny and dorky, but Hughie considers that a Hughie with super powers, even if temporary, is more desirable and better for Annie, even when she tells him is enough if he is just there for her.
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* ArchEnemy: While her enmity with Homelander is not as personal as Butcher's, Starlight is the second person Homelander goes the most after. In Season 2, he constantly threatens her and sadistically makes her chose between killing Hughie or lose her own life at his hands. In Season 3, after getting pushed too far by everyone, Homelander decides to tightens his grip on The Seven and Vought, and uses his power to systematically dismantle Starlight's life and crush any dissent. He returns back to his threats, forces Starlight to accept The Deep, her rapist, back onto the team, and to further humiliate and control her, he coerces her into a fake romantic relationship with him. When he discovers Starlight's involvement in a potential coup with Maeve, he brutally murders her friend, Supersonic, and warns her that if she doesn't comply, Hughie will share his fate, making it abundantly clear that her defiance will have deadly consequences. She hates him almost as much as Butcher.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: When a drunk Maeve accuses Starlight in episode 6 of faking her goodie two-shows persona for popularity and money, Annie counters by revealing her past idolization of Maeve. She describes how Maeve's heroic acts once inspired her, with Annie re-reading stories of Maeve's bravery. Annie ends her speech by telling Maeve that she now believes that all those acts of heroism were probably fabricated by Vought's [=PR=] team. Maeve feels so humiliated about Annie questioning her heroism, that she cannot utter a single word back to Starlight.
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* IdealHero: While Starlight zigzags this trope because of the challenges she faces through the seasons, she is the closest thing the show has to this. She embodies many classic ideal hero traits: courage, kindness, mercy, and humility. She actively fights crime and is a role model for children and the public. However, the show deconstructs this trope by subjecting Starlight to immense challenges that force her to compromise her ideals. Heck, despite everything she endured in the first seasons, she still tries to reform Vought in season 3, believing she can still undo some of its corruptibility and keep in check Homelander. She only gives up after witnessing the massacre of the Herogasm. The teaser trailer for season 4 indicates that despite her giving up her heroic persona, Starlight still has an active loyal fanbase that believes in her noble goals.
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* BeautyContest: When she was a young child, Annie won the "little miss hero pageant" in Des Moines.
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* JuniorCounterpart: To Maeve. In Season One, Annie is the bright-eyed newly arrived idealist who wants nothing more than to be a genuine hero, which is why she applied to be part of the Seven. Unfortunately, Annie is hit by the harsh reality when she discovers that Vought is just a corrupt MegaCorp that fabrics fake heroes, the Seven being no exception. Broken by the humiliating events she endures since joining the Seven, Annie reaches a point where Vought burns all of her heroics, transform slowly in an apathetic woman who just does what she is told, and starts to consume alcohol to cope with her life at Vought. Maeve is no slow to observe the remarkable similarities between her and Annie. In fact, she talks to Annie about the similarities between them -- how she was once a 23 years old young woman who wanted to be a hero until she started to gave away pieces of herself -- trying to save what was left of Annie's idealism and stop her from taking same self-destructive path as her.
