Line #16 PlayingWith/UsedToBeATomboy


1	'''Basic Trope''': A GirlyGirl who used to be a {{Tomboy}} in the past.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob meets his old friend Alice, who was a {{Tomboy}} when they were younger. When Bob finally gets to see her, he's surprised to find out that Alice is now a GirlyGirl.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice was a TheLadette in the past, but is now one of the girliest women on the planet.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alice used to be strictly a {{Tomboy}}, but is now a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.
5	* '''Justified''': Most of Alice's childhood playmates were boys, but she now goes to an all-girls school. Alice changes her interest to fit in her new group of friends.
6	* '''Inverted''': TomboynessUpgrade
7	* '''Gender Inverted''':
8	** Bob was a boyish boy in the past, but is now InTouchWithHisFeminineSide.
9	** Bob was InTouchWithHisFeminineSide as a boy, but in high school he’s a ManlyMan.
10	* '''Subverted''':
11	** Bob later finds out that Alice [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak still has some of her tomboyish traits]].
12	** It turns out that Alice was only trying out girliness, but doesn’t like it.
13	** Alice actually wasn’t a girl at all, and is now transitioning into Alex.
14	* '''Double Subverted''': ???
15	* '''Parodied''': Alice's 180-degree transformation from {{Tomboy}} to GirlyGirl took place in the span of one day. Bob is shocked by the speed of her development, and wonders if Alice is a robot with an adjustable personality switch.
16	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice was a tomboy in elementary school, then a girly girl in middle school, THEN a tomboy again in high school, and now a feminine young woman in college.
17	* '''Averted''':
18	** Alice is a GirlyGirl and has always been that way.
19	** Alice is still a {{Tomboy}}.
20	* '''Enforced''': The CensorshipBureau determines that it’s somehow immoral to have a {{tomboy}} character, so they [[ExecutiveMeddling force the writers to make her more girly.]]
21	* '''Lampshaded''':
22	--> '''Bob''': I wasn't really expecting Alice, who was a {{Tomboy}} when we were younger, would grow up to be such a GirlyGirl.
23	* '''Invoked''': ???
24	* '''Exploited''': ???
25	* '''Defied''': Alice refuses to do anything girly so she can stay a {{Tomboy}}.
26	* '''Discussed''': ???
27	* '''Conversed''': ???
28	* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is still a tomboy, but forced herself into being girly when she grew up out of social expectations, and struggles with her expression.
29	* '''Reconstructed''':
30	** Alice realizes that the main reason she was a tomboy was because RealWomenDontWearDresses, and now decides that it’s fine for her to be both masculine and feminine in different ways.
31	** The story makes Alice realize that [[{{Glurge}} any hang ups girls have about femininity is really a waste and that]] [[StayInTheKitchen they need to be good wives and mothers.]]
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35	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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37	%%* '''Implied''': ???
38	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
39	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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