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'''Basic Trope:''' A MagicalGirl work showing the problems that would arise with tropes common to the genre.
* '''Straight''': [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kimiko]] becomes a MagicalGirlWarrior, and thinks it's going to be all sunshine and roses at first, but it quickly becomes obvious that magical girls are just ChildSoldiers in pretty clothes. [[AnyoneCanDie The death toll is high]], and most of the survivors end up with PTSD.
* '''Exaggerated''': Magical girls are drafted into the military, used as [[LivingWeapon living]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction nukes]], and end up destroying the world.
* '''Downplayed''': Kimiko gets seriously injured at times, but for the most part it's a typical magical girl show.
* '''Justified''': Kimiko got transported from a SugarBowl dimension to Earth, where things work very differently.
* '''Inverted''': The show is a {{Reconstruction}} of the magical girl genre from the get-go. There's a support system in place, the girls' outfits are StylishProtectionGear that significantly lowers their chance of sustaining serious harm, and the challenges are tough but [[EarnYourHappyEnding can be overcome]].
* '''Subverted''': It turns out the show is a DeconReconSwitch; for all the hardship and sacrifice, the war is winnable, and Kimiko decides being a magical girl is WorthIt.
* '''Double Subverted''': After the war is won, the sequel explores the consequences of magical girls [[NoPlaceForMeThere having nothing more to do]], and some of them [[HeroismAddict create monsters to fight just to have a sense of purpose again]].
* '''Parodied''': Magical girls all look and act like [[NinetiesAntiHero nineties anti-heroes]], complete with guns, scars and [[HeroicComedicSociopath over-the-top violent tendencies]]. Instead of FrillsOfJustice, they get [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoats]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': The show deconstructs magical girl tropes or plays them straight DependingOnTheWriter.
* '''Averted''':
** No magical girl tropes are deconstructed.
** There are no magical girls.
* '''Enforced''': The author likes the magical girl aesthetic, but thinks the tropes typical to the genre are [[SweetnessAversion too saccharine]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Being a magical girl [[BlessedWithSuck isn't all it's cracked up to be]]."
* '''Invoked''': Queen Evulz of the magic dimension Troperia, unable to defeat the magical girls, sends them to Earth in the hope that the laws of reality there will destroy them.
* '''Defied''': "I don't care how trendy it is to rip these shows a new one, they're ''supposed'' to be idealised, dammit."
* '''Discussed''': "What did you expect when you signed up? That ThePowerOfFriendship would always save the day?" "Well, yes..."
* '''Conversed''': "Why do writers keep shitting on kids' fantasies these days? It's getting more pointlessly edgy and mean-spirited than clever." "Well, if it's done right, it can be a good way of looking at the genre from a new angle, and it doesn't even have to be dark. That said, we could use more [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructions]]."
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* '''Straight''': [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kimiko]] becomes a MagicalGirlWarrior, and thinks it's going to be all sunshine and roses at first, but it quickly becomes obvious that magical girls are just ChildSoldiers in pretty clothes. [[AnyoneCanDie The death toll is high]], and most of the survivors end up with PTSD.
* '''Exaggerated''': Magical girls are drafted into the military, used as [[LivingWeapon living]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction nukes]], and end up destroying the world.
* '''Downplayed''': Kimiko gets seriously injured at times, but for the most part it's a typical magical girl show.
* '''Justified''': Kimiko got transported from a SugarBowl dimension to Earth, where things work very differently.
* '''Inverted''': The show is a {{Reconstruction}} of the magical girl genre from the get-go. There's a support system in place, the girls' outfits are StylishProtectionGear that significantly lowers their chance of sustaining serious harm, and the challenges are tough but [[EarnYourHappyEnding can be overcome]].
* '''Subverted''': It turns out the show is a DeconReconSwitch; for all the hardship and sacrifice, the war is winnable, and Kimiko decides being a magical girl is WorthIt.
* '''Double Subverted''': After the war is won, the sequel explores the consequences of magical girls [[NoPlaceForMeThere having nothing more to do]], and some of them [[HeroismAddict create monsters to fight just to have a sense of purpose again]].
* '''Parodied''': Magical girls all look and act like [[NinetiesAntiHero nineties anti-heroes]], complete with guns, scars and [[HeroicComedicSociopath over-the-top violent tendencies]]. Instead of FrillsOfJustice, they get [[BadassLongcoat trenchcoats]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': The show deconstructs magical girl tropes or plays them straight DependingOnTheWriter.
* '''Averted''':
** No magical girl tropes are deconstructed.
** There are no magical girls.
* '''Enforced''': The author likes the magical girl aesthetic, but thinks the tropes typical to the genre are [[SweetnessAversion too saccharine]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "Being a magical girl [[BlessedWithSuck isn't all it's cracked up to be]]."
* '''Invoked''': Queen Evulz of the magic dimension Troperia, unable to defeat the magical girls, sends them to Earth in the hope that the laws of reality there will destroy them.
* '''Defied''': "I don't care how trendy it is to rip these shows a new one, they're ''supposed'' to be idealised, dammit."
* '''Discussed''': "What did you expect when you signed up? That ThePowerOfFriendship would always save the day?" "Well, yes..."
* '''Conversed''': "Why do writers keep shitting on kids' fantasies these days? It's getting more pointlessly edgy and mean-spirited than clever." "Well, if it's done right, it can be a good way of looking at the genre from a new angle, and it doesn't even have to be dark. That said, we could use more [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructions]]."
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