Beauty Brains And Brawn / Live-Action TV

Beauty, Brains, and Brawn in Live-Action TV.

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• Arrow
  • Beauty: Thea (From a billionaire socialite family and runs a night club)
  • Brains: Felicity (Genius hacker and case of Nerds Are Sexy)
  • Brawn: Sara/Laurel (The resident Action Girl)
• The Big Bang Theory (As of Season 4)
  • Bernadette - Beauty; cute, lovable and pretty.
  • Amy - Brains; stoic Brainy Brunette, TV Genius.
  • Penny - Brawn; strong, capable of handling herself on a physical level.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine:
  • Gina - Beauty. She's the most feminine and cares a great deal about her looks.
  • Amy - Brains. She's highly intelligent and is enthusiastically nerdy about police work.
  • Rosa - Brawn. She's an intimidating badass who is the quickest to resort to violence.
• Charlie's Angels, particularly in the first season
  • Sabrina - Brains; usually acted as leader, put the clues together, and solved the crime.
  • Jill - Brawn; Somewhat surprisingly since the opening showed Kelly doing Judo, it was Jill who was portrayed as the athlete of the three.
  • Kelly - Beauty; Insomuch as they were all pretty much this, she was portrayed as the classic beauty.
• Charmed
  • The original trio:
    • Brains - Prue, the capable, level headed leader
    • Brawn - Piper, who is all fun and mellow until she starts blowing things up
    • Beauty - Phoebe, the flirtatious Phoebe
  • Season 4-onward
    • Brains - Piper, taking over Prue's position as the 'new' leader/oldest sister of the team.
    • Brawn - Phoebe, though this had more to do with physical training due to her being the weakest magically.
    • Beauty - Paige, with the ability to change her appearance partially aided by her Whitelighter lineage.
• Chucky
  • Brawn: Jake. Zackary Arthur put on a considerable amount of muscle by the third season. Even before then, he managed to kill Chucky with his bare hands, remarking “I've been doing push ups lately!
  • Brains: Devon. His knowledge of true crime comes in handy.
  • Beauty: Lexy. Uses her looks to her advantage in season three, such as charming the President's teenage son into letting them inside the White House.
• Community
  • Beauty: Britta (though she thinks she's Brains)
  • Brains: Annie (overachiever and actually wants to learn stuff)
  • Brawn: Shirley (Mama Bear extraordinaire)
• Downton Abbey has the Crawley sisters.
  • Beauty - Mary The Charmer, though she later regrets having nothing else to offer.
  • Brawn - Sybil learns to work. Her personality also hardens.
  • Brains - Edith becomes a master organizer since she's not as pretty or strong as her sisters.
• Firefly: Lots of overlap:
  • Brains: River and Kaylee are both smart and trade off. River isn’t always lucid, but is formidable when she is. Kaylee is the mechanical genius.
  • Brawn: Zoe, the strong, tough, warrior woman former career soldier. But River can also double as brawn when in Waif-Fu mode.
  • Beauty: Inara, the beautiful, graceful companion. Sometimes Kaylee, too, as she’s often seen as the heart of the group.
• Friends
  • Rachel - Beauty; attractive, trendy, fashionable.
  • Monica - Brains; level-headed, the one with most common sense.
  • Phoebe - Brawn; the badass who lived on the street, implied to be a capable fighter.
• Gilligan's Island:
  • Beauty - Ginger, the glamorous movie star who loves to flirt with men.
  • Brains - Mrs. Howell, the wisest and most formally educated of the women.
  • Brawn - Mary Ann, the farm girl who is the only one who does any real physical work.
• Genseishin Justiriser: The main female characters each fill one role.
  • Beauty - Mio, a cute and refined upper-class Japanese woman.
  • Brains - Yuka / Riser Kageri, an intelligent and responsible high school student.
  • Brawn - Reika, Mio's Badass Normal bodyguard.
• The Golden Girls
  • Blanche - Beauty; the aristocratic, southern belle.
  • Dorothy - Brains; the street smart, schoolteacher.
  • Rose - Brawn; the athletic farmer’s daughter.
• H₂O: Just Add Water
  • Season 1-2
    • Cleo - Beauty: Naïve, feminine, shy.
    • Emma - Brains: Responsible, perfectionist, Control Freak.
    • Rikki - Brawn: Rebellious, sarcastic tomboy.
  • Season 3
    • Bella - Beauty: Bubbly, naïve, Beautiful Singing Voice.
    • Cleo - Brains: She takes over Lewis's role as the team's scientist after his mid-season departure.
    • Rikki - Brawn: No change.
  • Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure
    • Sirena is the Beauty in the first two seasons, what with her kindness and her Beautiful Singing Voice. This role somehow falls to Ondina by default in the third season, because Mimmi and Weilan fit Brains and Brawn much better than Beauty.
    • Brawn is spread out over three characters; Nixie in the first season, Ondina, in the second, and Weilan in the third. Nixie and Ondina are both impulsive, paranoid, and quick to abuse their powers, but Weilan has actual combat experience.
    • Lyla is the Brains of the first season, though her practical experience is limited. Mimmi takes over the Brains from season two onwards, as she's Book Smart, the fastest learner, and is the best at brewing potions.
• Kamen Rider Gotchard has this for the Three Dark Sisters.
  • Beauty - Lachesis, as the most conventionally attractive and Femme Fatale of the three.
  • Brains - Atropos, as the apparent leader and planner of the three.
  • Brawn - Clotho, as the Blood Knight who prefers to get up close and personal.
• Last Man Standing - Mike and Vanessa's daughters.
  • Beauty - Mandy, the middle daughter, The Fashionista and Proud Beauty with a Hidden Heart of Gold.
  • Brains - Kristin, the eldest, who despite her teen pregnancy has worked hard to achieve a management position and is very well-read and intelligent.
  • Brawn - Eve, the youngest, Mike's tomboy who has always dreamed of and worked toward a military career.
• Orphan Black
  • The main three clones.
    • Beauty - Alison, a neat and uptight soccer mom.
    • Brains - Cosima, a nerdy science student.
    • Brawn - Sarah, a tough, abrasive former hustler.
  • The three main prominent additional Clone Club members.
    • Beauty - Krystal, a fashionable Valley Girl.
    • Brains - M.K., a brilliant but elusive hacker.
    • Brawn - Helena, Tyke-Bomb Action Girl.
• Power Rangers:
  • Power Rangers Lost Galaxy:
    • Beauty- Karone (2nd Pink Ranger): Reformed Criminal Ms. Fanservice and a Friend to All Children.
    • Brains- Kendrix (1st Pink Ranger): Science officer of Terra Venture.
    • Brawn- Maya (Yellow Ranger): A jungle girl and Nature Hero.
  • Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue:
    • Beauty- Dana: The Captain's Combat Medic daughter.
    • Brains- Ms Fairweather: The head of R&D at Lightspeed Rescue, who built the weapons, Zords and morphers.
    • Brawn- Kelsey: An extreme sports enthusiast and tomboy.
  • Power Rangers Wild Force:
    • Beauty- Princess Shayla: The Rangers' mentor who often acts as the Team Mom
    • Brains- Alyssa: A collage student, training to be a teacher, often seen reading books.
    • Brawn- Taylor: The most expereince ranger in the current group as well as a trained military officer.
  • Power Rangers S.P.D.:
    • Beauty- Sydney: A materialistic Lovable Alpha Bitch.
    • Brains- Kat: SPD's head scientist.
    • Brawn- Z: A sassy former delinquent who Jumped at the Call.
  • Power Rangers Mystic Force:
    • Beauty- Madison: The nicest ranger and somthing of a Shrinking Violet.
    • Brains- Udona: The team's mentor and a veteran of the Great War, very wise and experienced.
    • Brawn- Vida: The most aggressive ranger (including the boys).
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch (seasons 5-7)
  • Morgan - Beauty; shallow, attractive and popular.
  • Sabrina - Brains; book smart, aspiring journalist.
  • Roxie - Brawn; very strong and tough.
• Smallville
  • Lana Lang - Beauty (comes to hate being the Damsel in Distress)
  • Chloe Sullivan - Brains (TV Genius)
  • Lois Lane - Brawn (Military Brat)
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (first season)
    • Counselor Deanna Troi - Beauty (shrink)
    • Dr. Beverly Crusher - Brains (infirmary leader)
    • Lt. Tasha Yar - Brawn (head of security... no wonder she didn't last)
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The three regular females from the series.
    • Jadzia Dax - Brains. Capt. Sisko's closest colleague and confidante.
    • Kira Nerys - Brawn. Former resistance fighter.
    • Ezri Dax - Beauty. A Naïve Newcomer during the final season.
• Step by Step
  • Dana- Brains; smart, academic, sarcastic.
  • Karen- Beauty; beautiful, vain and ditzy.
  • Al- Brawn; sporty and tomboyish.
• Survivor used a mixed-gender example, as it themed the Cagayan and Kaôh Rōng seasons after the dynamic; each with a tribe of strong people, a tribe of smart people, and a tribe of pretty people. "Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty" was even a tagline for the seasons. A straighter example would be in Kaoh Rong, with the trio of Cydney, Aubry, and Michele:
  • Beauty - Michele Fitzgerald, a pretty bartender from the Beauty Tribe
  • Brains - Aubry Bracco, a smart social media marketer from the Brains Tribe
  • Brawn - Cydney Gillon, a beefy bodybuilder from the Brawn Tribe
• Teen Wolf
  • Beauty - Erica, the Femme Fatale who's not ashamed to use her looks and sexuality to get stuff done
  • Brains - Lydia, the brilliant and sarcastic Teen Genius.
  • Brawn - Allison, the Action Girl who's a skilled archer who won't hesitate to kick your ass.
• The Mandalorian (excluding Ahsoka Tano)
  • Beauty - Fennec Shand, the shrewd, reliable Assassin. Who later becomes The Dragon to Boba Fett.
  • Brains - Bo-Katan, the tactical, experienced fallen warrior. Who leads what's left of the mainland Mandalorians.
  • Brawn - Cara Dune, the tanky Action Girl with the biggest gun. Who once served the Republic, until she found work with the New Republic.
• The Vampire Diaries
  • Elena - Beauty; the beautiful, desirable one.
  • Bonnie - Brains; Hypercompetent Sidekick.
  • Caroline - Brawn; strongest Action Girl, capable fighter.
• Victorious:
  • Beauty - Cat, adorable and dresses the most stereotypically girly of the group.
  • Brains - Tori, often the voice of reason in the group.
  • Brawn - Jade, easily the toughest girl of the group.

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