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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33 | Back to UsedToBeATomboy. |
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35 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
36 | %% |
37 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
38 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
39 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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