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Basic Trope: A stepmother who is a genuinely caring and polite individual.

  • Straight: Bob's stepmother, Alice, loves and cares about him. She also sees him as equal to her actual children.
  • Exaggerated:
    • It's barely even mentioned that Alice is Bob's stepmother due to how much they care about each other, and Bob views her as his real mom.
    • Everyone has loving stepparents.
  • Downplayed:
  • Justified:
    • Alice is a nice person who shares the interests of Charlie, so they decided to get married.
    • Alice and Denise, Bob's birth mother, were besties, so she sees raising Bob as honoring her late friend instead of being a chore.
  • Inverted:
  • Gender Inverted: Bob's stepfather Alex is a Nice Guy.
  • Subverted: Alice reveals herself to be Evil All Along or pulls a Faceā€“Heel Turn.
  • Double Subverted:
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig-Zagged: Whether or not Alice is a nice person seems to differ.
  • Averted:
    • Nobody has any stepparents.
    • Stepparents aren't necessarily portrayed as good.
  • Enforced:
    • The writer of the story had a good stepparent growing up, so they wanted to add some Write What You Know.
    • "Stepparents are almost always evil and/or perverted in fiction, let's have a genuinely nice one."
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Charlie refuses to marry Alice.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: "I wish I had a good stepparent like Alice..."

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