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* '''Subverted''': Alice turns out to be [[StepfordSmiler faking her new cheerful disposition]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Initially, Alice was a StepfordSmiler, but through making a conscious effort to feign happiness, the companionship and goodwill it brings her cause her to genuinely feel less gloomy, and she ended up BecomingTheMask.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice turns out to be [[StepfordSmiler faking her new cheerful disposition]].
** It turns out Alice has gone over the DespairEventHorizon, and now she's completely insane.
* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
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Initially, Alice was a StepfordSmiler, but through making a conscious effort to feign happiness, the companionship and goodwill it brings her cause her to genuinely feel less gloomy, and she ended up BecomingTheMask.BecomingTheMask.
** But then she gets BoredWithInsanity and becomes a genuinely positive person.
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* '''Straight''': Initially, Alice was a sour girl. However, over time, she cheers herself up.

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* '''Straight''': Initially, Alice was a sour gloomy girl. However, over time, she cheers herself up.
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** Alice has been going to therapy.

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* '''Justified''': Alice makes friends that prove they'd do anything to help her out, and that [[YouAreNotAlone she isn't alone]] in this cruel world.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Alice makes friends that prove they'd do anything to help her out, and that [[YouAreNotAlone she isn't alone]] in this cruel world.world.
** Alice is (or at least was) recovering from learning, [[PostHumousCharacter through her Great Grandmother]], that people don't live forever.
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* '''Subverted''': StepfordSmiler.

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* '''Subverted''': StepfordSmiler.Alice turns out to be [[StepfordSmiler faking her new cheerful disposition]].
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* '''Discussed''': I wish Alice would just stop being so down all the time. [[SugarBowl This]] isn't exactly a CrapsackWorld.
* '''Conversed''': Fiction makes it seem like ThePowerOfFriendship[=/=][[ThePowerOfLove Love]] can heal almost any level of emotional damage, given time.

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* '''Discussed''': I "I wish Alice would just stop being so down all the time. [[SugarBowl This]] isn't exactly a CrapsackWorld.
CrapsackWorld."
* '''Conversed''': Fiction "Fiction makes it seem like ThePowerOfFriendship[=/=][[ThePowerOfLove Love]] can heal almost any level of emotional damage, given time."
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* '''Double Subverted''': Initially, Alice was a StepfordSmiler, but through making a conscious effort to feign happiness, the companionship and goodwill it brings her cause her to genuinely feel less gloomy.

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* '''Double Subverted''': Initially, Alice was a StepfordSmiler, but through making a conscious effort to feign happiness, the companionship and goodwill it brings her cause her to genuinely feel less gloomy.gloomy, and she ended up BecomingTheMask.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice goes from a antisocial, brooding, [[TheStoic stoic]] BrokenBird to a 24/7 GenkiGirl LargeHam.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice used to be quiet, withdrawn and somewhat robotic. Over time, she smiles occasionally when in the company of her TrueCompanions[=/=]LoveInterest, and TookALevelInKindness.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice goes from a antisocial, brooding, [[TheStoic stoic]] {{stoic}} BrokenBird to a 24/7 GenkiGirl LargeHam.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice used to be quiet, withdrawn and somewhat robotic. Over time, she smiles occasionally when in the company of her TrueCompanions[=/=]LoveInterest, TrueCompanions and/or LoveInterest, and TookALevelInKindness.



* '''Inverted''': TookALevelInCynic
* '''Subverted''': StepfordSmiler

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* '''Inverted''': TookALevelInCynic
'''Inverted''':
** TookALevelInCynic.
** JadeColoredGlasses
* '''Subverted''': StepfordSmilerStepfordSmiler.



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* '''Invoked''': Alice takes happy pills.

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* '''Invoked''': Alice takes happy pills.pills, or decides to undergo therapy.

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice has never looked happier before."

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* '''Lampshaded''': '''Lampshaded''':
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"Alice has never looked happier before."
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* '''Enforced''': The setting is a SugarBowl. Alice, being her gloomy self, would look out of place, ergo, events will have to shape her into becoming a more positively-minded character.

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* '''Enforced''': The setting is a SugarBowl. Alice, being her gloomy somber self, would look out of place, ergo, events will have to shape her into becoming a more positively-minded character.



* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Invoked''': ???
Alice takes happy pills.
* '''Exploited''': ???
Carla, a therapist, uses a cheerier Alice as a testimonial for her services.
* '''Defied''': ???
Alice tries her damnedest to maintain a pessimistic world view, and any glimpses of merriment are immediately repressed by her reminding herself of how bad things are.
* '''Discussed''': ???
I wish Alice would just stop being so down all the time. [[SugarBowl This]] isn't exactly a CrapsackWorld.
* '''Conversed''': ???Fiction makes it seem like ThePowerOfFriendship[=/=][[ThePowerOfLove Love]] can heal almost any level of emotional damage, given time.

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* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': ???
Alice goes from a antisocial, brooding, [[TheStoic stoic]] BrokenBird to a 24/7 GenkiGirl LargeHam.
* '''Downplayed''': ???
Alice used to be quiet, withdrawn and somewhat robotic. Over time, she smiles occasionally when in the company of her TrueCompanions[=/=]LoveInterest, and TookALevelInKindness.
* '''Justified''': ???
Alice makes friends that prove they'd do anything to help her out, and that [[YouAreNotAlone she isn't alone]] in this cruel world.
* '''Inverted''': ???TookALevelInCynic



* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???

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* '''Double Subverted''': ???
Initially, Alice was a StepfordSmiler, but through making a conscious effort to feign happiness, the companionship and goodwill it brings her cause her to genuinely feel less gloomy.
* '''Parodied''': ???
See Exaggerated, which happens at the drop of a hat, and for a select person/group of people.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
Alice is a heavy MoodSwinger, going from content to embittered and morose consistently.
* '''Averted''': ???
Alice was never sullen to begin with, or she never becomes more lighthearted.
* '''Enforced''': ???
The setting is a SugarBowl. Alice, being her gloomy self, would look out of place, ergo, events will have to shape her into becoming a more positively-minded character.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???"Alice has never looked happier before."
** "Not your usual gloomy self today, I see."
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* '''Subverted''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': ???StepfordSmiler
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* '''Straight''': ???

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* '''Straight''': ???Initially, Alice was a sour girl. However, over time, she cheers herself up.
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'''Basic Trope''': Character becomes more lively over time.

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'''Basic Trope''': Character A character becomes more lively over time.

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* '''Invoked''': ??.

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* '''Discussed''': "???"

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* '''Inverted''': BreakTheCutie

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* '''Inverted''': BreakTheCutie???



* '''Averted''': Bob never becomes cheerful.

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* '''Averted''': Bob never becomes cheerful.???
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'''Basic Trope''': Character becomes more lively over time.
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': ???
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* '''Inverted''': BreakTheCutie
* '''Subverted''': ???
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* '''Averted''': Bob never becomes cheerful.
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* '''Invoked''': ??.
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* '''Discussed''': "???"
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