Basic Trope:
- Straight: Alice is a beautiful woman and a skilled violinist.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice can play every instrument perfectly and is the world's most beautiful woman.
- Alice is a Shameless Fanservice Girl nudist who conducts all her performances nude.
- Downplayed: Alice is a brilliant musician.
- Justified: Alice is a celebrity violinist, and she has to take good care of her appearance to maintain her fame.
- Gender-Inverted: James is a Tall, Dark, and Handsome man who plays the piano exquisitely.
- Inverted:
- Alice is an absolutely awful musician but drop-dead beautiful.
- Alice is an awful musician and a Gonk.
- Alice is horrifically ugly but plays the most beautiful music anyone can ever hear. She conducts all her performances with a mask over her face.
- Subverted:
- Alice is talked of as beautiful, but turns out to be a plain-looking, though still a great musician.
- Alice is beautiful and talked of as a great musician, but is a horrible musician.
- Double Subverted:
- Until she cleans herself up.
- She was only faking it.
- Parodied:
- Zig Zagged:
- Averted: Alice is a skilled violinist, and her appearance isn't really notable.
- Enforced:
- "Everyone says our Ms. Fanservice is too bland. Could we give her a hobby?" "Hmmm...How about playing the violin? Pretty music for a pretty girl."
- "How do we make a show about classical music appealing to teens?" "Just make the musicians hot. That'll do wonders."
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked: Alice got tired of being considered a Brainless Beauty, so she decided to learn to play the violin to show she had Hidden Depths.
- Exploited: Alice uses her supernatural musical powers to seduce and marry a wealthy tycoon.
- Defied: Alice undergoes a Beauty Inversion to make her fans focus on the music.
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Implied: Alice is a beautiful woman who owns a violin, but isn't seen playing it.
- Deconstructed: Alice's beauty makes others believe she got gigs through looks rather than talent.
- Reconstructed: Alice proves her detractors wrong with her skills and encourages more women and men to be musicians.
- Played For Laughs:
- Played For Drama:
- Alice is harassed by a conductor.
- Alice is murdered by a jealous rival.
- Played For Horror:
- Alice is a beautiful woman, a fantastic musician and a Femme Fatale Black Widow.
- Alice uses her hypnotic looks and music to becomes a criminal.
