Basic Trope: A Girly Girl character becomes a Tomboy.
- Straight: Tina started as a Girly Girl who loves wearing skirts, doing her nails, and talking about boys. Later on, she trades in the makeup for baggy jeans, a t-shirt, and a baseball cap, and she starts playing sports as well as hanging out with the boys at the bar.
- Exaggerated:
- Tina started as a full-fledged girly girl with interests remotely traditionally feminine things. She loves getting her nails done, goes to the hairdresser every other day, wears pretty-pretty dresses, likes make-up, and takes up sewing, crocheting, and knitting. But later on, she becomes a crude beer-chugging Ladette who wears boyish clothing, likes sports, racing, swearing, fighting, and gets dirty.
- Every female character in the show starts off as girly, then they become tomboys.
- Downplayed:
- Tina started as a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, but later her tomboy streak takes over her personality.
- Tina started as an average girl with an androgyny look and interests, but later she becomes more boyish but she still maintains some of her girly sides.
- Tina started as an Outdoorsy Gal or Passionate Sports Girl as a child, although she still had Long Hair and used some girly stuff back then, later she cuts her hair and completely abandons girly things.
- Adrenaline Makeover
- Justified:
- Tina grew up in a family that Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child and she discovered her boyish nature later.
- Tina got bored of her girly nature and needed some change.
- Tina is a Butch Lesbian, her girly past self was for a closeted purpose.
- Tina lives in a society or community where prefers masculine women over feminine ones.
- Tina was one of the Girl Posse, but she lost her status and was rejected by the girls for some reason, and situationally put herself into One of the Boys.
- Inverted: Girliness Upgrade
- Gender Inverted:
- Bob who was the sensitive guy became a Manly Man overtime.
- Bob started as a boyish boy who engages himself in fighting and martial arts and always wears baggy I's and T's. But as he gets older, he's now an art-loving sensitive guy who participates in some feminine activities and now wears fairly feminine and form-fitting style clothing.
- Subverted:
- Tina dresses like a boy because she's going to a costume party. Otherwise, she still prefers to wear a dress.
- It turns out that boyish "Tina" is an imposter or her Tomboy Polar Opposite Twins sister, Toni.
- Tina isn't just boyish, but he is actually Timmy.
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Tina keeps switching between being boyish and girly, day by day.
- Averted: Tina remains a girly girl, or she is already a tomboy since her younger years.
- Enforced: The author tries to subvert gender roles with maturity, which is the reason Tina's Character Development includes getting more masculine.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked:
- Tina was a girly girl when she was young, but she grows up to have mannish physical appearances, rather than letting herself remain girly and displeased with her mannish traits, she embraces it.
- Tina was a girly girl, but since she is One of the Boys, she decided to be boyish to avoid unwanted attention from men.
- Exploited: Another lesbian thinks Tina is out of the closet and asks her for a date.
- Defied: "Just because I am a nonconformist doesn't mean I'm going to suddenly like boyish clothing, violent games, and sports"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Suddenly or Involuntarily turning herself into a tomboy causes Tina to hate herself and have an identity crisis.
- People start accusing Tina of being "too" masculine, claiming that they prefer cute girly Tina over boyish Tina and don't see the reason why she wouldn't want to be pretty and feminine anymore, they also gaslight her to hate herself. As a result, Tina loses her self-confidence and delves into Tomboy Angst.
- Reconstructed: In the end, Tina embraces her masculine looks and lifestyle, and instead of pushing herself to be more feminine, she decides to go the Bifauxnen or Tomboy with a Girly Streak route.
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