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Basic Trope: A supremely good person who has unlimited kindness and compassion for others.

  • Straight: Alice is sweet, kind and forgiving of everyone.
  • Exaggerated: Alice loves everyone and everything, even the Big Bad, and the resident God of Evil.
  • Downplayed: Alice is a nice girl.
  • Justified:
    • Alice is part of an Always Lawful Good race, thus she is taught to be this since childhood.
    • The story takes place on a White-and-Grey Morality setting, so Alice not only cares for everyone she meets; she also wants to bring the best in others.
    • Being Good Sucks adds to her virtue and other times Good Feels Good.
    • Being kind and forgiving allows her to build a large support base.
    • Alice loves everyone because she's physically incapable of experiencing emotions beyond love.
    • Alice has been on the receiving end of widespread hatred and discrimination, and doesn't want to see anyone else experience that pain.
    • Alice's parents are also this and did their best to teach their daughter to be just as kind as them.
    • Alice looks up to someone who practices the values of kindness, compassion and love, and she wants to be like that person.
    • Alice lives in a Crapsack World, but she refuses to let that world break her like it's broken other people like her.
    • Alice is a follower of a religion that encourages people to be this.
    • Alice is an Artificial Human who was designed to be this.
    • Alice is actually Made of Good, and couldn't possibly be anything other than this.
  • Inverted:
  • Subverted:
  • Double Subverted:
    • Alice is a Byronic Heroine.
    • Whatever her past misdeed was, it still made her into a genuinely good person today who has learned how to be able to love anyone and everyone. This includes Alice herself - the process became complete once she was able to forgive herself for her past long after her friends had stopped holding it against her.
    • The bitchiness was just a nasty rumour her enemies spread.
    • Alice suffers bad dreams as a result of her choice because she did care about the people of the city. She wanted to Take a Third Option and save them both but couldn't think of it in time. In the end she put on a brave face for her friend but inside, she thought, "I Should Have Been Better".
    • Alice experiences Character Development and performs an Act of True Love for one of four subjects.
  • Parodied: Alice has Fertile Feet and flowers spring up wherever she walks. Heavenly harp music plays everywhere she goes. She can make the most vicious person repent and become The Atoner with nothing but a "Now now, behave yourself."
  • Zig Zagged: Alice is revealed to act like an All-Loving Hero because she's atoning for past wrongdoings, but it turns out to be just a rumour. Then she starts being a Manipulative Bitch towards her friends, so they assume she's not so nice after all, until they find out it's actually one of her enemies impersonating her to ruin her reputation. Her enemies' treatment of her causes her to become cynical, but she remains a kind and caring person deep down.
  • Averted: Alice is a decent person, but does not love everyone and holds grudges.
  • Enforced:
    • The creators want the protagonist to be someone whose easy to root for. What better then a guy who is all forgiving and all loving?
    • The creators are worried that if the protagonist is too much of an Anti-Hero, Moral Guardians will complain about the show.
  • Lampshaded:
  • Invoked: Alice becomes this to prove that Good Is Not Dumb.
  • Exploited:
  • Defied: Alice thinks Good Is Dumb and refuses to become like this.
  • Discussed: "You ever met Alice?" "She seems like a nice girl, though I think a little too nice for her own good. Unsavory sorts would try to get into her good graces for protection."
  • Conversed: "I find the idea of an all loving hero pretty weird. I mean, how could a person be that kind?" "Well, I figure they're more of an ideal, and that people should follow their example to become better individuals."
  • Implied: Towns that the Healer Alice visited speak highly of her to travelers, and those that know how her healing works can spot faint rose marks on the people she healed which varies from those with nicks to people who lost entire body parts, with the people healed themselves varying in morality.
  • Deconstructed:
  • Reconstructed:
    • Even though she's unable to move past bad blood with some people, she remains friendly to them.
    • Whether it was a case of Alice finally gaining a sense of self-worth or her friend Beth just asking her "Does that include you?", Alice comes to realize that "everyone" should include herself as well. Alice adjusts her approach so that she as well as everyone around her can be happy.
    • Though Alice may love everyone, she isn't stupid and only protects the villains she honestly believes can be redeemed. When faced with very dangerous and irredeemably evil villains, she won't hesitate to fight or even kill them.
    • Alice loves and forgives the villains who can't be redeemed, but still defeats them and sends them to prison and/or rehab as they deserve.
    • Despite being completely defenseless to her supposedly reformed enemies, a few among them have a Heel–Face Turn and defend her while their former allies go for the kill. The actually reformed enemies die, and her expression of grief over their deaths make her supposedly reformed enemies realize they are wrong to try to harm her. They then begin to actually reform.
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