Basic Trope: The seemingly virginal and “pure” teenage girl is a secret Good Bad Girl.
- Straight: Ana is 15, head of the Abstinence Club, and thinks saying “darn” is a sin, but secretly she Really Gets Around.
- Exaggerated: Ana is 10 and pretends not to know about sex at all, but every night she goes out as a child streetwalker.
- Downplayed: Ana is 17 and occasionally curses, but never talks to anyone about sexuality. She doesn't have sex, but would really enjoy it.
- Justified: Ana lives in an extremely Catholic and conservative household, so her parents might kick her out if she came out about her sex life.
- Inverted: Ana, who wears revealing clothing and has a reputation as the school slut, is actually a naïve, virginal honor roll student.
- Subverted: Ana's father kicks her out of the house after finding out about her “sexual deviancy”...only for the viewer to find that she's a lesbian. Otherwise, she is the epitome of '50s teenage wholesomeness.
- Double Subverted: ...or so she wants you to think. In reality, she smokes, drinks, and has a new girlfriend every day of the week.
- Parodied: Ana is regularly caught doing drugs and dressing like a prostitute by her little brother, but their parents never believe him despite Ana's good girl persona being hilariously unconvincing.
- Zig-Zagged: Ana is the 15-year-old head of her school's Abstinence Club. Her classmates spread rumors that she sneaks out at night and meets up with other students who do hard drugs, and the rumors are true...except Ana never takes any drugs herself and is simply the Designated Driver for her friends because she owes them a favor. As it turns out, however, the “Abstinence Club” is really a harem of students who have orgies every Saturday.
- Averted:
- Ana doesn't bother hiding her hedonistic lifestyle.
- Ana doesn't live a double-life to begin with.
- The story doesn't take place in the '50s.
- Enforced: “We need to make this adaptation Hotter and Sexier. Let's give Ana a double-life as a hooker!”
- Lampshaded: “Ana, everybody knew you were a filthy whore the moment you said you took a purity pledge.”
- Invoked: Ana pretends to be a wholesome virgin in order to win over her Love Interest, who has a thing for good girls.
- Exploited: Ana's little brother blackmails her into buying him a new bike and lots of new toys under the threat of revealing her second life to their parents.
- Defied: Ana has fantasies of secretly having wild sex with strangers, but decides that the consequences of living that fantasy are too great and chooses to remain chaste.
- Discussed:Bill: Five bucks says that Ana's secretly a slut when her parents aren't looking.Charles: Ten bucks says that she still wouldn't sleep with you.
- Conversed:Dana: Finally, I found a movie with a positive female role model my daughters can look up to.Eve: When was the movie made?Dana: 1978.Eve: Prepare to be disappointed.
- Implied: Ana is surprisingly knowledgeable about sex and birth control despite being a teenager in a very conservative household and having no desire to be a doctor.
- Deconstructed: Since her parents don't know about Ana's double-life, they can't provide necessary guidance and keep her away from the dangers of her lifestyle. Before she knows it, Ana gets kicked out of the house because she's pregnant and addicted to alcohol.
- Reconstructed: Ana knows that her parents aren't going to be of any help, so she goes out of her way to research the potential risks of her activities and lives her secret life responsibly.
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