Basic Trope: A short girl who bosses around and terrifies people who are bigger than her.
- Played Straight: Alice is an eight-year-old who can successfully demand everyone do as she says or else she will harass them nonstop.
- Exaggerated: Alice is a toddler who demands everyone do exactly as she says or she will beat them up and lie to her parents they've been mean to her.
- Downplayed: Alice is a teen who can occasionally be bossy.
- Justified:
- Alice has been spoiled rotten and is used to getting her way.
- Alice is copying the behavior of her Abusive Parents.
- Inverted:
- Alice is 6'6 yet is very meek and a total pushover.
- Big Sister Bully
- Alice is shorter than most, but is polite and stoic.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Gender Inverted: Bob is an eight-year-old who can successfully demand everyone do as he says or else he will harass them nonstop.
- Parodied: Alice decides to pick on Flash Young. People already suspect that this is a losing battle for Alice, but then the actual results of Alice's bullying of Flash is shown: Alice has Flash at her very beck and call while looking like he suffered some rather Amusing Injuries from even daring to resist.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bob gets what he wants by threatening to tell his younger sister about it.
- Defied:
- Alice's parents punish her every time she acts like this, making it clear no one likes a bossy boots and that she can't expect to always get her way all the time.
Charles: "Cut that bad behavior out, young lady, or you're grounded! You think anyone can bear to be around you when you scream and yell at them? You think its acceptable to be such a horrid brat? Well guess what: The world doesn't revolve around you!"- Alice decides to take a more low-key route to get what she wants by being seemingly kind and agreeable.
- Conversed: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: When Alice is on the receiving end of such behaviour, she complains about how annoying it feels to be bossed around by someone so small is.
- Played for Drama: Alice ends up driving everyone away, even the people who do love her.