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WarJay77 (Troper Knight)
2020-08-30 18:04:33

Always Female (or Always Male) isn't a literal statement- it doesn't exclude the Rare Male Example from existing, but the stereotype is a feminine one and thus the trope is about girls 99% of the time.

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crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2020-08-30 19:11:13

Quote from Always Female: An index of character archetypes that are female at least 90% of the time.

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WhirlRX Since: Jan, 2015
2020-08-30 19:19:56

So it should be Almost Always Female

Edited by WhirlRX
wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
2020-08-30 20:02:38

Frequently Female, Mainly Male? :p

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
mightymewtron Since: Oct, 2012
2020-08-30 21:47:08

Alpha Bastard is a redirect to Alpha Bitch. Isn't linking a trope in the description of that trope a no-no?

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Twiddler MOD (On A Trope Odyssey)
2020-08-31 01:35:50

Yeah, that's a circular link. Removed it.

SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
2020-08-31 01:57:27

In general, this looks like a question for Trope Talk.

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Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
2020-08-31 11:25:57

I'll definitely use Trope Talk in future (I wasn't sure whether to ask here or there this time), but it looks like my question has been answered so I won't start one on this topic.

Thanks for the responses, everyone.

Edited by Wyldchyld If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
CyokieRevott Since: Jun, 2017
2020-08-31 14:53:45

Apologies for opening this back up, but I'm a little confused about what the general consensus is here. Have we decided that Alpha Bitch can indeed be applicable to males (thus the existence of Alpha Bastard)? Because I've wanted to include a male example with this trope before but didn't know Alpha Bastard existed.

And another thing—if Alpha Bastard exists, should there also be Academic Alpha Bastard? The description of Academic Alpha Bitch actually says that in rare cases males fulfill the role, but as you can see, there's no redirect.

Edited by CyokieRevott
crazysamaritan MOD Since: Apr, 2010
2020-08-31 16:15:37

The indexes Always Male and Always Female are for tropes that are strongly gendered. However, one way a creator can play with a trope is to make them a Distaff Counterpart or Spear Counterpart, which means that tropes that are male-gendered (or female-gendered) can apply to characters of the opposite gender, as well as other genders or even no gender at all.

Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
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