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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Nemesister is a supervillainess imaginary friend based around femininity to contrast with Imaginary Man's masculinity. As such, she has a motif of hearts, flowers (which are Imaginary Man's weakness), and the color pink, and her crimes revolve around [[PokeThePoodle forcing a feminine touch on traditionally masculine settings through vandalism]]. Subverted in [[spoiler:that she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold engaged in a friendly SiblingRivalry]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Nemesister is a supervillainess imaginary friend based around femininity to contrast with Imaginary Man's masculinity. As such, she has a motif of hearts, flowers (which are Imaginary Man's weakness), and the color pink, and her crimes revolve around [[PokeThePoodle forcing a feminine touch on traditionally masculine settings through vandalism]]. Subverted in [[spoiler:that she's that [[spoiler:she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold engaged in a friendly SiblingRivalry]].
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* Lola in ''Film/TheLovedOnes'' is DaddysLittleVillain: an insane {{yandere}} in a bright pink dress whose overly-invested father makes a "prom" for her every year where they kidnap a teenage guy, torture him, and force him to go along with their sadistic games before drilling a hole in his head and locking him in their basement to be tortured even more and starve.

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* Lola in ''Film/TheLovedOnes'' (pictured above) is DaddysLittleVillain: an insane {{yandere}} in a bright pink dress whose overly-invested father makes a "prom" for her every year where they kidnap a teenage guy, torture him, and force him to go along with their sadistic games before drilling a hole in his head and locking him in their basement to be tortured even more and starve.



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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Nemesis is a supervillainess imaginary friend based around femininity to contrast with Imaginary Man's masculinity. As such, she has a motif of hearts, flowers (which are Imaginary Man's weakness), and the color pink, and her crimes revolve around [[PokeThePoodle forcing a feminine touch on traditionally masculine settings through vandalism]]. [[spoiler:Subverted in that she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold engaged in a friendly SiblingRivalry.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Nemesis Nemesister is a supervillainess imaginary friend based around femininity to contrast with Imaginary Man's masculinity. As such, she has a motif of hearts, flowers (which are Imaginary Man's weakness), and the color pink, and her crimes revolve around [[PokeThePoodle forcing a feminine touch on traditionally masculine settings through vandalism]]. [[spoiler:Subverted Subverted in that [[spoiler:that she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold engaged in a friendly SiblingRivalry.]]SiblingRivalry]].
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': Just Girly Things, [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4319 SCP-4319]], is a dangerous website focused on girly things because it [[spoiler:warps the minds of its viewers and gives them powers to make people and things, girly]].

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': Just Girly Things, [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4319 SCP-4319]], is a dangerous website focused on girly things because it [[spoiler:warps the minds of its viewers and gives them powers to make people and things, girly]].girly. Which becomes especially dangerous when the woman running the charge is [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain viciously bigoted towards trans women and lesbians]] and is forcing people to conform to her own standards]].
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This trope is AlwaysFemale. The DistaffCounterpart to SissyVillain, where male villains dress or behave effeminately.

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This trope is AlwaysFemale.AlwaysFemale and sometimes a Foil in a TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity dynamic. The DistaffCounterpart to SissyVillain, where male villains dress or behave effeminately.
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This trope is AlwaysFemale. TheDistaffCounterpart to SissyVillain, where male villains dress or behave effeminately.

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This trope is AlwaysFemale. TheDistaffCounterpart The DistaffCounterpart to SissyVillain, where male villains dress or behave effeminately.
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A woman or girl is MoreDeadlyThanTheMale. Well, gone are the days where these women are restricted by MenAreStrongWomenArePretty and RealWomenDontWearDresses. This woman wears dresses (the girlier, the better), loves [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]], [[FlowersOfFemininity flowers]], and [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes]], keeps [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals cuddly things around]], is very image-conscious, ThinksLikeARomanceNovel... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and is out for blood]].

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A woman or girl is MoreDeadlyThanTheMale. Well, gone are the days where these women are restricted by MenAreStrongWomenArePretty and RealWomenDontWearDresses. This woman wears dresses (the girlier, the better), loves [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]], [[FlowersOfFemininity flowers]], and [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes]], keeps [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals cuddly things around]], is very image-conscious, ThinksLikeARomanceNovel... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and is out for blood]].



They also have equally uncomfortable relationships to being MsFanservice and CuteButPsycho. There will always be an effort to look cute, but how successful it is depends on individual portrayals. If they are a {{yandere}} - one of the more common types, although not all of them are - they will often use DistractedByTheSexy intentionally. However, it's just a common for these women to try and perfect a highly sexualized image to such a degree that it's actually portrayed as downright scary and FanDisservice. Some portrayals will exploit this to suggest that MakeupIsEvil or VanityIsFeminine.

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They also have equally uncomfortable relationships to being MsFanservice and CuteButPsycho. There will always be an effort to look cute, but how successful it is depends on individual portrayals. If they are a {{yandere}} - one of the more common types, although not all of them are - they will often use DistractedByTheSexy intentionally. However, it's just a common for these women to try and perfect a highly sexualized image to such a degree that it's actually portrayed as downright scary and FanDisservice. Some portrayals will exploit this to suggest that MakeupIsEvil or VanityIsFeminine.



This trope is AlwaysFemale. AgentPeacock and SissyVillain covers male villains/antagonists/dark characters who dress or behave flamboyantly but are deadly.

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This trope is AlwaysFemale. AgentPeacock and SissyVillain covers TheDistaffCounterpart to SissyVillain, where male villains/antagonists/dark characters who villains dress or behave flamboyantly but are deadly.effeminately.
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* In this infamous fanfic ''Fanfic/PinkiePie'' is a serial killer and cannibal who not only uses pieces of her victims in her cupcake recipe but also takes cutie marks, pegasus wings and unicorn horns and adds them to the dress she wears when torturing somebody.

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* In this infamous fanfic ''Fanfic/PinkiePie'' ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'', Pinkie Pie is a serial killer and cannibal who not only uses pieces of her victims in her cupcake recipe but also takes cutie marks, pegasus wings and unicorn horns and adds them to the dress she wears when torturing somebody.
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* In this infamous fanfic ''Fanfic/PinkiePie'' is a serial killer and cannibal who not only uses pieces of her victims in her cupcake recipe but also takes cutie marks, pegasus wings and unicorn horns and adds them to the dress she wears when torturing somebody.

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* The "insane" Jackie in ''Film/TheHouseOfYes'' permanently dresses as Jackie Kennedy in the famous pink suit and forces people to call her Jackie, while trying to persuade her [[{{Twincest}} twin brother]] to restart their sexual relationship, despite him being engaged to Leslie [[spoiler:and eventually kills him rather than let him leave her.]]

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* The "insane" Jackie in ''Film/TheHouseOfYes'' permanently dresses as Jackie Kennedy in the famous pink suit and forces people to call her Jackie, Jackie-O, while trying to persuade her [[{{Twincest}} twin brother]] to restart their sexual relationship, despite him being engaged to Leslie [[spoiler:and eventually kills him rather than let him leave her.]]
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* Helen Narbon of ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' is a super-girly MadScientist. She is heavily associated with the color pink and heart icons, wear pink glasses and loves cutesy things like kittens and gerbils- particularly when she's able to mutate them into adorable abominations of mad science to take over the world and destroy her enemies.
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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': Dahlia Hawthorne is a delicate-looking and very feminine young woman (she wears a pink dress and a matching parasol and [[DisneyCreaturesOftheFarce summons pink butterflies]] as a sign of her purity. She's actually [[spoiler:a serial murderer and master manipulator who uses her feminine charms and skill at poison to commit crimes.]]


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* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': Dahlia Hawthorne is a delicate-looking and very feminine young woman (she wears a pink dress and a matching parasol and [[DisneyCreaturesOftheFarce summons pink butterflies]] as a sign of her purity. She's actually [[spoiler:a serial murderer and master manipulator who uses her feminine charms and skill at poison to commit crimes.]]
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* Dolores Umbridge of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is fond of wearing pink clothes and an Alice band in her hairs. She also loves making pupils [[WritingLines write lines]] with their own blood and persecute [[FantasticRacism hybrids]] and [[MageBornOfMuggles Muggle-borns]].

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* Dolores Umbridge of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is fond of wearing pink clothes and an Alice band in her hairs.hair. She also loves making pupils [[WritingLines write lines]] with their own blood and persecute [[FantasticRacism hybrids]] and [[MageBornOfMuggles Muggle-borns]].
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* Jill Wolcott in the ''Literature/WaywardChildren'' series wears elaborate frilly dresses, strives to behave like a refined lady, and is willing to deceive and kill without compunction to get what she wants. She spent her adolescent years as the adopted daughter of a vampire lord and adopted both the ladylike mannerisms and the ruthless amorality to please him.
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DecoyDamsel and UncannyValleyGirl usually a SubTrope. See also FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon.

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DecoyDamsel is and UncannyValleyGirl usually a SubTrope. See also FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon.
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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': The Fatui Agents are one of the enemies the player has to defeat along with the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Hilichurls]], [[RapePillageAndBurn Treasure Hoarders]] and [[EnemyToAllLivingThings Abyss Mages]]. They're mostly males ''and'' [[MenAreTough very tough]], but the female ones (the [[GoddamnBats Cicin]] Mages) are very feminine in comparison and so dangerous and tough to beat as their male counterparts. There're two types of Cicin Mages that are differentiated for the elements and colors ([[ShockAndAwe Electro]]/{{purple|IsPowerful}} and [[AnIcePerson Cryo]]/[[BlueMeansCold light blue]]), but both of them wear spandex clothes, fur coats with big hoods with bunny ears, being the MsFanservice of all enemies of the game.

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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': The Fatui Agents are one of the enemies the player has to defeat along with the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Hilichurls]], [[RapePillageAndBurn Treasure Hoarders]] and [[EnemyToAllLivingThings Abyss Mages]]. They're mostly males ''and'' [[MenAreTough very tough]], but the female ones (the [[GoddamnBats Cicin]] Cicin Mages) are very feminine in comparison and so dangerous and tough to beat as their male counterparts. There're two types of Cicin Mages that are differentiated for the elements and colors ([[ShockAndAwe Electro]]/{{purple|IsPowerful}} and [[AnIcePerson Cryo]]/[[BlueMeansCold light blue]]), but both of them wear spandex clothes, fur coats with big hoods with bunny ears, being the MsFanservice of all enemies of the game.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'': Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire is a cheerleader with a love of romance and the color pink, has a supervillain outfit that consists of a frilly pink dress and a tiara, and has love-based powers that manifest in hearts and [[GracefulLadiesLikePurple purple constructs.]] She's also a PsychoExGirlfriend to Hal who is hellbent on getting revenge on him and murdering anyone who she thinks he might be dating.
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* ''Series/FargoSeasonFour: Averted by Zelmare Roulette and Swanee Capps, two AxCrazy outlaw lovers. Swanee dresses in masculine cowboy clothes while Zelmare is the more feminine one in a dress and fur coat; however, over the season her clothes get progressively rattier as she has no interest in maintaining them. In one episode they enter an enemy house disguised as prostitutes, but since neither is particularly good at playing feminine they start shooting up the place immediately.

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* ''Series/FargoSeasonFour: Averted ''Series/FargoSeasonFour'': Subverted by Zelmare Roulette and Swanee Capps, two AxCrazy outlaw lovers. Swanee dresses in masculine cowboy clothes while Zelmare is the more feminine one in a dress and fur coat; however, over the season her clothes get progressively rattier as she has no interest in maintaining them. In one episode they enter an enemy house disguised as prostitutes, but since neither is particularly good at playing feminine they start shooting up the place immediately.
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* ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' Season Four: Averted by Zelmare Roulette and Swanee Capps, two AxCrazy outlaw lovers. Swanee dresses in masculine cowboy clothes while Zelmare is the more feminine one in a dress and fur coat; however, over the season her clothes get progressively rattier as she has no interest in maintaining them. In one episode they enter an enemy house disguised as prostitutes, but since neither is particularly good at playing feminine they start shooting up the place immediately.

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* ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' Season Four: ''Series/FargoSeasonFour: Averted by Zelmare Roulette and Swanee Capps, two AxCrazy outlaw lovers. Swanee dresses in masculine cowboy clothes while Zelmare is the more feminine one in a dress and fur coat; however, over the season her clothes get progressively rattier as she has no interest in maintaining them. In one episode they enter an enemy house disguised as prostitutes, but since neither is particularly good at playing feminine they start shooting up the place immediately.
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* A rare AntiVillain, or AntiHero depending on how you look at it, version: Cassie in ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'' always wears highly feminine clothes (always pink or another bright color) and lots of makeup, while she's pretending to be drunk so that men will take her home and she can punish them for trying to rape her. And she's trying to get revenge on the people who drove her best friend to suicide, even if that means making an ex-friend think she was raped and [[spoiler:pretending to]] set a teenage girl up to be raped.

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* A rare AntiVillain, or AntiHero depending on how you look at it, version: Cassie in ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'' always wears highly feminine clothes (always pink or another bright color) and lots of makeup, while she's pretending to be drunk so that men will take her home and she can punish them for trying to rape her. And she's trying to get revenge on the people who drove her best friend to suicide, even if that means making an ex-friend think she was raped and [[spoiler:pretending to]] set a teenage girl up to be raped.
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This trope is AlwaysFemale. AgentPeacock and SissyVillain covers male villains/antagonists/dark characters who dress or behave flamboyantly, but are deadly.

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** ''Literature/GoneGirl'': Amy has always played the role of a specific form of GirlyGirl for her boyfriends and even her friends. Desi in particular is a huge fan of her always dressing in pastel shades and she [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuses both Nick and her own father]] of brutal physical and sexual abuse to get sympathy and attention from him. Nick's version of Amy is cooler, more hipster and "modern" but still girly in a way that appeals to Nick (hairless, sexy).
** Amma and Adora in ''Literature/SharpObjects'' are both generation-specific versions. EvilMatriarch Adora is TheMunchausen, and enjoys making all her daughters sick and being viewed as the perfect mother even if it meant killing her youngest, Marion. Amma, on the other hand, is viewed as an innocent little girl while [[spoiler:murdering rivals for her mother's and Camille's attention and putting their teeth in her CreepyDollhouse.]]


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** ''Literature/GoneGirl'': Amy has always played the role of a specific form of GirlyGirl for her boyfriends and even her friends. Desi in particular is a huge fan of her always dressing in pastel shades and she [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuses both Nick and her own father]] of brutal physical and sexual abuse to get sympathy and attention from him. Nick's version of Amy is cooler, more hipster hipster, and "modern" but still girly in a way that appeals to Nick (hairless, sexy).
** Amma and Adora in ''Literature/SharpObjects'' are both generation-specific versions. EvilMatriarch Adora is TheMunchausen, TheMunchausen and enjoys making all her daughters sick and being viewed as the perfect mother even if it meant killing her youngest, Marion. Amma, on the other hand, is viewed as an innocent little girl while [[spoiler:murdering rivals for her mother's and Camille's attention and putting their teeth in her CreepyDollhouse.]]

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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': the evil trio of teenage girls in 'Mean.' They torture everybody in their school and then, when the AlphaBitch senses a rival for her (adult) boyfriend, they kidnap and physically torture their own friend before setting her on fire to kill her. They even take her rings and wear them in court.

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\n* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': the evil trio of teenage girls in 'Mean.' They torture everybody in their school and then, then when the AlphaBitch senses a rival for her (adult) boyfriend, they kidnap and physically torture their own friend before setting her on fire to kill her. They even take her rings and wear them in court. \n




* Angelica Bain, the killer of "The Mermaids Singing", in ''Series/WireInTheBlood'' who is a pre-op transwoman and [[ValuesDissonance regarded uncritically]] as a CreepyCrossdresser and DepravedHomosexual. Everything in her house is horrifically pink, she wears lots of makeup, and dresses in extreme fetish wear. Then she seduces men by posing as an erotic caller, and savagely tortures them to death.


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\n* Angelica Bain, the killer of "The Mermaids Singing", in ''Series/WireInTheBlood'' who is a pre-op transwoman and [[ValuesDissonance regarded uncritically]] as a CreepyCrossdresser and DepravedHomosexual. Everything in her house is horrifically pink, she wears lots of makeup, makeup and dresses in extreme fetish wear. Then she seduces men by posing as an erotic caller, and savagely tortures them to death. \n\n




* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': The Fatui Agents are one of the enemies the player has to defeat along with the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Hilichurls]], [[RapePillageAndBurn Treasure Hoarders]] and [[EnemyToAllLivingThings Abyss Mages]]. They're mostly males ''and'' [[MenAreTough very tough]], but the females ones (the [[GoddamnBats Cicin]] Mages) are very feminine in comparision and so dangerous and tough to beat as their male counterparts. There're two types of Cicin Mages which are differenciated for the elements and colors ([[ShockAndAwe Electro]]/{{purple|IsPowerful}} and [[AnIcePerson Cryo]]/[[BlueMeansCold light blue]]), but both of them wear spandex clothes, fur coats with big hoods with bunny ears, being the MsFanservice of all enemies of the game.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': Just Girly Things, [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4319 SCP-4319]], is a dangerous website focused on girly things, because it [[spoiler:warps the minds of its viewers and gives them powers to make people and things, girly]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Nemesis is a super villainess imaginary friend based around femininity to contrast with Imaginary Man's masculinity. As such, she has a motif of hearts, flowers (which are Imaginary Man's weakness) and the color pink, and her crimes revolve around [[PokeThePoodle forcing a feminine touch on traditionally masculine settings through vandalism]]. [[spoiler:Subverted in that she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold engaged in a friendly sibling rivalry.]]

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A woman or girl is MoreDeadlyThanTheMale. Well, gone are the days where these women are restricted by MenAreStrongWomenArePretty and RealWomenDontWearDresses. This woman wears dresses (the girlier, the better), loves [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]], [[FlowersOfFemininity flowers]], and [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoes]], keeps [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals cuddly things around]], is very image-conscious, ThinksLikeARomanceNovel... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and is out for blood]].

Unlike her sisters the GirlyBruiser or the LadyOfWar, this woman is an invariably dark character, usually a PsychopathicWomanchild. She lacks scruples. For this reason, the trope mostly applies to female villains, although the odd very dark AntiHero or AntiVillain may be found somewhere. If she's a supervillain, she might have SuperCuteSuperpowers such as a HeartBeatdown. She may be genuinely AffablyEvil or a heroic character who is driven to commit cruelty. Whatever their stated goal, they will get down and dirty in fighting; they can be a DarkActionGirl, but they don't need to be. They'll kill. A simple AlphaBitch doesn't qualify here, but a particularly clever, violent, or [[ManipulativeBitch manipulative]] one might. They use their girlishness and/or traditional femininity to disarm those around them, but their femininity isn't a façade. It will often increase, rather than disappear, when they are committing murderous or evil acts. Their favorite tactics will be WoundedGazelleGambit and ObfuscatingStupidity. Some examples are SilkHidingSteel, but in general, most of the examples here are more like pink fur/velvet covered in steel. Also, they usually don't hide their cores of steel very well - at least, not to the audience. Whatever girlish hallmarks around them will soon appear very sinister.

A SisterTrope to SugaryMalice, although this extends to costume, appearances, and props, and is specifically ''feminine''. Also, these characters are defined by being dangerous - not merely malicious. This woman uses WomanlinessAsPathos.

SoundtrackDissonance follows them around, as they'll usually be big fans of pop (especially boy bands), RetailTherapy, and other traditionally feminine media such as the ChickFlick. But they will also be ready to fight, to stalk, and to plot revenge. If there's a particular sinister scene of them smearing makeup over their face, it can almost be guaranteed that they qualify. When they're not wearing pink, they might be seen in an EtherealWhiteDress, but whatever they wear, they follow LightIsNotGood and BrightIsNotGood.

They also have equally uncomfortable relationships to being MsFanservice and CuteButPsycho. There will always be an effort to look cute, but how successful it is depends on individual portrayals. If they are a {{yandere}} - one of the more common types, although not all of them are - they will often use DistractedByTheSexy intentionally. However, it's just a common for these women to try and perfect a highly sexualized image to such a degree that it's actually portrayed as downright scary and FanDisservice. Some portrayals will exploit this to suggest that MakeupIsEvil or VanityIsFeminine.

DecoyDamsel is usually a SubTrope.

This trope is AlwaysFemale. AgentPeacock and SissyVillain covers male villains/antagonists/dark characters who dress or behave flamboyantly, but are deadly.

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* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', Nui Harime is the Grand Courtier of REVOCS and an out of control, psychotic [[TheDragon Dragon]] to the main villain. A {{Kawaiiko}} dressed in a frilly pink dress and GirlishPigtails, she dances and giggles around the battlefield while murdering people and presenting one of the most formidable challenges to the heroes. [[spoiler: She also murdered Ryuko's father, which she gleefully gloats about]].

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* ''Film/{{Audition}}'': Asami appears to be the perfect woman: a soft-spoken, badly abused ballet dancer who always [[EtherealWhiteDress wears white]] and [[IJustWantToBeLoved just wants to be loved.]] However, if she senses she has any competition - regardless of what it is - she will [[spoiler:drug, torture, and slowly, sadistically dismember them...while retaining her soft voice and childlike manner.]]

* Invoked in ''Film/BlackSwan''. Nina sees Lily like this for being overly sexual and liberated, and begins to imagine that Lily is out to sabotage the more traditional 'good girl' Nina. [[spoiler:But played with. Lily never seemed to have any particular ill will towards Nina and it was Nina herself who ended up losing her mind and stabbing herself, not attacking or harming Lily in any way.]]

* ''Film/GoneGirl'': Amy wears a lot of angelic white, uses fluffy gel pens, a master of the FalseRapeAccusation, and is a huge fan of Creator/JaneAusten and love stories. She's also plotting to frame her husband for her own murder, and gets dressed up in a lacy slip in order to murder her ex-boyfriend while they have sex.

* The "insane" Jackie in ''Film/TheHouseOfYes'' permanently dresses as Jackie Kennedy in the famous pink suit and forces people to call her Jackie, while trying to persuade her [[{{Twincest}} twin brother]] to restart their sexual relationship, despite him being engaged to Leslie [[spoiler:and eventually kills him rather than let him leave her.]]

* Lola in ''Film/TheLovedOnes'' is DaddysLittleVillain: an insane {{yandere}} in a bright pink dress whose overly-invested father makes a "prom" for her every year where they kidnap a teenage guy, torture him, and force him to go along with their sadistic games before drilling a hole in his head and locking him in their basement to be tortured even more and starve.

* Adopted daughter Esther in ''Film/{{Orphan}}'' is a DeliberatelyCuteChild in little Victorian dresses and pigtails - and she's also a [[spoiler:grown woman who's plotting to massacre her new family so she can have the father all to herself.]]

* Played with in ''Film/{{Midsommar}}''. Dani is a makeup-free tomboy for most of the film, but her GirlinessUpgrade including wearing a huge floral dress marks [[spoiler:her induction into a murderous cult and agreement for Christian to be ritually sacrificed.]]

* A rare AntiVillain, or AntiHero depending on how you look at it, version: Cassie in ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'' always wears highly feminine clothes (always pink or another bright color) and lots of makeup, while she's pretending to be drunk so that men will take her home and she can punish them for trying to rape her. And she's trying to get revenge on the people who drove her best friend to suicide, even if that means making an ex-friend think she was raped and [[spoiler:pretending to]] set a teenage girl up to be raped.

* ''Film/{{Stoker}}'': India Stoker is a [[LonersAreFreaks solitary]] teenage girl who always wears old fashioned dresses or modest shirt-skirt combinations, often in silk, is attracted to her murderous uncle, and stabs her would-be rapist with a pencil when he tries to attack her. [[spoiler:She also kills her uncle Charlie and the film ends with her accepting the family creed of murder and killing a police officer, while dressed in the same way.]]

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* Dolores Umbridge of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is fond of wearing pink clothes and an Alice band in her hairs. She also loves making pupils [[WritingLines write lines]] with their own blood and persecute [[FantasticRacism hybrids]] and [[MageBornOfMuggles Muggle-borns]].

* Creator/GillianFlynn is a big fan of this trope:
** Kristi in ''Literature/DarkPlaces'' is a more sympathetic version. She was an extremely cute, gossipy, peak-80s tween when she tried to seduce Ben (who was eighteen), and then [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accused him of sexual abuse]], getting him sent to prison. When Libby catches up with her, she's a stripper with a terrible breast enlargement who, while she admits to lying about Ben, still expects Libby to feel sorry for her.
** ''Literature/GoneGirl'': Amy has always played the role of a specific form of GirlyGirl for her boyfriends and even her friends. Desi in particular is a huge fan of her always dressing in pastel shades and she [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accuses both Nick and her own father]] of brutal physical and sexual abuse to get sympathy and attention from him. Nick's version of Amy is cooler, more hipster and "modern" but still girly in a way that appeals to Nick (hairless, sexy).
** Amma and Adora in ''Literature/SharpObjects'' are both generation-specific versions. EvilMatriarch Adora is TheMunchausen, and enjoys making all her daughters sick and being viewed as the perfect mother even if it meant killing her youngest, Marion. Amma, on the other hand, is viewed as an innocent little girl while [[spoiler:murdering rivals for her mother's and Camille's attention and putting their teeth in her CreepyDollhouse.]]


* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' and [[Film/TheHungerGames the film]], all of the female winners seen - especially Johanna and Katniss - are tomboys. However, although she appears to be a FauxActionGirl judging by how she can't use a bow and arrow, Glimmer is the District One tribute and she is blonde, bouncy, and is either completely naked or [[AdaptationalModesty wears a fluffy pink dress]] for her public displays before the Games. Judging from Katniss's reactions, this is a very common image for a Tribute.


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* Serena Joy in ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'', especially the flashbacks [[spoiler:but coming out more after she left Gilead.]] She was one of Gilead's main architects and their impeccably dressed public face before the Sons of Jacob took over, and could be found espousing sexist rhetoric while wanting to be treated differently. Her motif is a ballerina (although she herself doesn't do ballet). her hair is always perfectly curled, and she wears pink and white.

* ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' Season Four: Averted by Zelmare Roulette and Swanee Capps, two AxCrazy outlaw lovers. Swanee dresses in masculine cowboy clothes while Zelmare is the more feminine one in a dress and fur coat; however, over the season her clothes get progressively rattier as she has no interest in maintaining them. In one episode they enter an enemy house disguised as prostitutes, but since neither is particularly good at playing feminine they start shooting up the place immediately.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': the evil trio of teenage girls in 'Mean.' They torture everybody in their school and then, when the AlphaBitch senses a rival for her (adult) boyfriend, they kidnap and physically torture their own friend before setting her on fire to kill her. They even take her rings and wear them in court.

* Villanelle in ''Series/KillingEve''. A highly trained assassin, she is also a huge Francophile, has an extremely feminine dress sense, including wearing couture gowns to her therapy sessions, and she's a psychopath with almost no empathy who enjoys killing people.

* Angelica Bain, the killer of "The Mermaids Singing", in ''Series/WireInTheBlood'' who is a pre-op transwoman and [[ValuesDissonance regarded uncritically]] as a CreepyCrossdresser and DepravedHomosexual. Everything in her house is horrifically pink, she wears lots of makeup, and dresses in extreme fetish wear. Then she seduces men by posing as an erotic caller, and savagely tortures them to death.


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* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': The Fatui Agents are one of the enemies the player has to defeat along with the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Hilichurls]], [[RapePillageAndBurn Treasure Hoarders]] and [[EnemyToAllLivingThings Abyss Mages]]. They're mostly males ''and'' [[MenAreTough very tough]], but the females ones (the [[GoddamnBats Cicin]] Mages) are very feminine in comparision and so dangerous and tough to beat as their male counterparts. There're two types of Cicin Mages which are differenciated for the elements and colors ([[ShockAndAwe Electro]]/{{purple|IsPowerful}} and [[AnIcePerson Cryo]]/[[BlueMeansCold light blue]]), but both of them wear spandex clothes, fur coats with big hoods with bunny ears, being the MsFanservice of all enemies of the game.

* In the ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' level "You Better Watch Out", a woman wearing a SexySantaDress can kill 47 if he doesn't take care of her beforehand.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Bad Girl is a young woman who wears a pink frilly dress and high heels. She's also an AxCrazy maniac who beats people to death with a baseball bat.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'': Dahlia Hawthorne is a delicate-looking and very feminine young woman (she wears a pink dress and a matching parasol and [[DisneyCreaturesOftheFarce summons pink butterflies]] as a sign of her purity. She's actually [[spoiler:a serial murderer and master manipulator who uses her feminine charms and skill at poison to commit crimes.]]


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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': Just Girly Things, [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-4319 SCP-4319]], is a dangerous website focused on girly things, because it [[spoiler:warps the minds of its viewers and gives them powers to make people and things, girly]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Nemesis is a super villainess imaginary friend based around femininity to contrast with Imaginary Man's masculinity. As such, she has a motif of hearts, flowers (which are Imaginary Man's weakness) and the color pink, and her crimes revolve around [[PokeThePoodle forcing a feminine touch on traditionally masculine settings through vandalism]]. [[spoiler:Subverted in that she's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold engaged in a friendly sibling rivalry.]]

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