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** Alice is BookSmart, but lacks experience and screws things up whenever she tries to put her knowledge to practical use.

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** Alternatively, Alice was spoiled and indulged throughout her childhood, giving her an enormous ego and the belief that she's always right.

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** Alternatively, Alice was spoiled and indulged throughout her childhood, giving her an enormous ego and the belief that she's always right.right.
** Alice is SurrondedByIdoits, being the marginally smarter one of the group, she can wow her friends with outrageous claims.

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* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's know-it-all attitude makes her LethallyStupid.

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Alice's know-it-all attitude makes her LethallyStupid.LethallyStupid.
** Alice's BerserkButton is to be deemed wrong on anything. She kills anybody who pushes that button. The fact that she doesn't even knows two plus two equals four means that a lot of people tend to push it.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Alice's know-it-all attitude makes her LethallyStupid.

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* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice is an arrogant, spoiled AlphaBitch who thinks she is always right, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student who has a rudimentary understanding of the English language.

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Alice is an arrogant, spoiled AlphaBitch who thinks she is always right, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student who has a rudimentary understanding of the English language.language.
** Alice is relentlessly incompetent in every meaningful way while also thinking that the apparent authority conferred upon her by her title (really just KickedUpstairs, as her "managerial" position is little more than a sinecure) was due to merit rather than just a mix of office politics and outright pity (as she is practically unemployable otherwise), and she doesn't know that her greatest skill is providing tons of schadenfreude and derisive laughs at her expense whenever she tries to exercise the authority that she doesn't really have, and is ignored or has some stuff moved around to make it look like she got something done while people have a good chuckle.
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** Alice will sometimes get things wrong, but will too stubborn to admit it.

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** Alice will sometimes get things wrong, but will is too stubborn to admit it.
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** Alice is actually fairly knowledgeable about the topic, but is nowhere near as good as she thinks she is.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a humble soft-spoken girl [[Creator/{{Socrates}} who claims that the only thing she knows is that she knows nothing]], but is actually much smarter than she thinks she is; she's actually a genius, but lacks enough confidence in herself to speak up.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a humble soft-spoken girl [[Creator/{{Socrates}} who claims that the only thing she knows is that she knows nothing]], but is actually [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre much smarter than she thinks she is; is]]; she's actually a genius, but [[ShrinkingViolet lacks enough confidence in herself to speak up.up]].



* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's overestimation of her intellect comes back to bite her when she refuses to study for an important test on the information, assuming she'll breeze through it. She doesn't. In fact, she fails horribly and flunks the whole class, something which leaves her confidence severely shaken.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's overestimation of her intellect comes back to bite her when she refuses to study for an important test on the information, assuming she'll breeze through it. [[RealityEnsues She doesn't. doesn't.]] In fact, she fails horribly [[EpicFail fails]] [[FMinusMinus horribly]] and flunks the whole class, [[ShockingDefeatLegacy something which leaves her confidence severely shaken.shaken]].

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* '''Downplayed''': Alice will sometimes get things wrong, but will too stubborn to admit it.

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Alice will sometimes get things wrong, but will too stubborn to admit it.it.
** Alice has some fields of genuine competence. She just overestimates her skill in all the others.

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* '''Played For Drama:''' Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism, however she can barely fuction in the society, having no friends and has a great deal of trouble in holding a job.

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Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism, however she can barely fuction function in the society, having no friends and has a great deal of trouble in holding a job.job.
** Alice is not just wrong, but ''dangerously'' wrong, and maintains, through nepotism or ThePeterPrinciple, a position where she can do real harm. Safety protocols get ignored, and when things go wrong, the very people who suffer the greatest risk also get the blame from on high because Alice ''seems'' like she's competent.

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* '''Justified''': Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism.mechanism.
** Alternatively, Alice was spoiled and indulged throughout her childhood, giving her an enormous ego and the belief that she's always right.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Downplayed''': ???Alice will sometimes get things wrong, but will too stubborn to admit it.

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* '''Reconstructed''': It turns out the teacher was romantically involved with a student in the class; he's fired/arrested, the student is expelled and the rest of the class receives a passing grade. Alice assumes her poor performance was somehow due to the teacher's machinations and she regains her self-admiring style.

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* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
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It turns out the teacher was romantically involved with a student in the class; he's fired/arrested, the student is expelled and the rest of the class receives a passing grade. Alice assumes her poor performance was somehow due to the teacher's machinations and she regains her self-admiring style.style.
** Alice is too self-absorbed to remain shaken for long. Two minutes later she concludes that [[InsaneTrollLogic she is so intelligent that even the teacher can't comprehend her superior mindset.]] She immediately regains her confidence.
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a humble soft-spoken girl [[{{Socrates}} who claims that the only thing she knows is that she knows nothing]], but is actually much smarter than she thinks she is; she's actually a genius, but lacks enough confidence in herself to speak up.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a humble soft-spoken girl [[{{Socrates}} [[Creator/{{Socrates}} who claims that the only thing she knows is that she knows nothing]], but is actually much smarter than she thinks she is; she's actually a genius, but lacks enough confidence in herself to speak up.
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* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???Alice is the First Lady to the President-For-Life of Tropesylvania, who gets very angry when someone makes her upset. People very quickly learned not to make Alice upset by agreeing to whatever nonsense she claimed to be true.

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* '''Justified''': Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism.

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* '''Justified''': Alice was criticized and belittled for most of her childhood and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism.



* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's overestimation of her intellect comes back to bite her when she refuses to study for an important test on the information, assuming she'll breeze through it. She doesn't. In fact, she fails horribly and flunks the whole class, something which leaves her confidence severely shaken.
* '''Reconstructed''': It turns out the teacher was romantically involved with a student in the class; he's fired/arrested, the student is expelled and the rest of the class receives a passing grade. Alice assumes her poor performance was somehow due to the teacher's machinations and she regains her self-admiring style.



* '''Enforced''': We want Alice to be annoying, and InsufferableGenius is not bad enough. Lets make her smart in her own head.

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* '''Enforced''': We want Alice to be annoying, and InsufferableGenius is not bad enough. Lets make her smart in her own head.



** "Alice Is just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong."
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** "Alice Is just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong."
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* '''Conversed''': "And that is the character who is a idiot that thinks that knows more than everyone else"

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* '''Conversed''': "And that is the character who is a idiot that thinks that knows more than everyone else"else".
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice's overestimation of her intellect comes back to bite her when she refuses to study for an important test on the information, assuming she'll breeze through it. She doesn't. In fact, she fails horribly and flunks the whole class, something which leaves her confidence severely shaken.
* '''Reconstructed''': It turns out the teacher was romantically involved with a student in the class; he's fired/arrested, the student is expelled and the rest of the class receives a passing grade. Alice assumes her poor performance was somehow due to the teacher's machinations and she regains her self-admiring style.



You idiot! The KnowNothingKnowItAll page is this way! I'm sure of it!.
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You idiot! The KnowNothingKnowItAll page is this way! I'm sure of it!.
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* '''Subverted''':
** Alice regularly makes claims that sound absurd. It turns out that this universe operates under different laws than they're used to.

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'''Subverted''': Alice regularly makes claims that sound absurd. It turns out that this universe operates under different laws than they're used to.
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** InsufferableGenius

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* '''Subverted''': Alice regularly makes claims that sound absurd. It turns out that this universe operates under different laws than they're used to.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice regularly makes claims that sound absurd. It turns out that this universe operates under different laws than they're used to.



* '''Lampshaded''': After hearing one of Alice's obviously absurd claims, Bob calls her crazy. Alice answers "Like a fox!"
** " Alice Is just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong"

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* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':
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After hearing one of Alice's obviously absurd claims, Bob calls her crazy. Alice answers "Like a fox!"
** " Alice "Alice Is just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong"wrong."
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* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice is an arrogant, spoiled [[TheLibby Libby]] who thinks she is always right, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student who has a rudimentary understanding of the English language.

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* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice is an arrogant, spoiled [[TheLibby Libby]] AlphaBitch who thinks she is always right, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student who has a rudimentary understanding of the English language.

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* '''Enforced''': Alice is the First Lady to the President-For-Life of Tropesylvania, who gets very angry when someone makes her upset. People very quickly learned not to make Alice upset by agreeing to whatever nonsense she claimed to be true.

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* '''Enforced''': We want Alice is the First Lady to the President-For-Life of Tropesylvania, who gets very angry when someone makes her upset. People very quickly learned not to make Alice upset by agreeing to whatever nonsense she claimed to be true.annoying, and InsufferableGenius is not bad enough. Lets make her smart in her own head.



* '''Invoked''': "Sometimes I wish Alice was just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong"

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* '''Invoked''': "Sometimes I wish ** " Alice was Is just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong"wrong"
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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a soft-spoken girl who's much smarter than she thinks she is; she's actually a genius, but lacks enough confidence in herself to speak up.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is a humble soft-spoken girl who's [[{{Socrates}} who claims that the only thing she knows is that she knows nothing]], but is actually much smarter than she thinks she is; she's actually a genius, but lacks enough confidence in herself to speak up.
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* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice is arrogant spoiled Libby who thinks she is always rights, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student.

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* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice is arrogant an arrogant, spoiled Libby [[TheLibby Libby]] who thinks she is always rights, right, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student.student who has a rudimentary understanding of the English language.
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* '''Invoked''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???"Sometimes I wish Alice was just one of those self-proclamed smart idiots that don't know they are wrong"
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* '''Discussed''': ???
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"Ever noticed how Alice speaks like a crazy person?"
* '''Conversed''': ???"And that is the character who is a idiot that thinks that knows more than everyone else"
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* '''Played For Drama:''' Alice is a strange girl who believes in monsters and things that are obviously wrong, it turns out that she saw her childhood best friend being killed while wearing a monster costume and the only way for her to deal with it was to believe that it was actual monster and the constant defying of her believes makes her create a "I always right" atitude so she won't deal with the truth.

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* '''Played For Drama:''' Alice is a strange girl who believes in monsters was criticized and things that are obviously wrong, it turns out that she saw belittled for most of her childhood best friend being killed while wearing a monster costume and as a result developed this as a defense mechanism, however she can barely fuction in the only way for her to society, having no friends and has a great deal with it was to believe that it was actual monster and the constant defying of her believes makes her create trouble in holding a "I always right" atitude so she won't deal with the truth.job.
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* '''Played For Drama:''' Alice is a strange girl who believes in monsters and other impossible things, it turns out that she saw her childhood best friend being killed while wearing a monster costume and the only way for her to deal with it was to believe that it was actual monster.

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* '''Played For Drama:''' Alice is a strange girl who believes in monsters and other impossible things, things that are obviously wrong, it turns out that she saw her childhood best friend being killed while wearing a monster costume and the only way for her to deal with it was to believe that it was actual monster.monster and the constant defying of her believes makes her create a "I always right" atitude so she won't deal with the truth.
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* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice is arrogant Libby who thins she is always rights only to be humiliated by the new transfer student.

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* '''Played For Laughs:''' Alice is arrogant spoiled Libby who thins thinks she is always rights rights, only to be humiliated by the new transfer student.
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* '''Played For Laughs:''' ???
* '''Played For Drama:''' ???

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* '''Played For Laughs:''' ???
Alice is arrogant Libby who thins she is always rights only to be humiliated by the new transfer student.
* '''Played For Drama:''' ???
Alice is a strange girl who believes in monsters and other impossible things, it turns out that she saw her childhood best friend being killed while wearing a monster costume and the only way for her to deal with it was to believe that it was actual monster.

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