History Main / PerkyGoth

* Saga in the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fic ''FanFic/UnderTheNorthernLights'' is an example, though she claims that "Goths are posers!", so she presumably wouldn't use the phrase herself. She differs from most of the examples on this page by being a [[CivilizedAnimal reindeer]].

* Jack Skellington from ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' -- although he could also get pretty moody.

* Mavis in ''HotelTransylvania'', particularly when presented with the opportunity to leave her stifling castle and also whenever spending time around Jonathan.

* Yugi, the eponymous character of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' dresses either in all black or in absurdly cute outfits, has wild hair (that's ''natural'') and wears chains, LOTS of leather and dog-collars... Yeah, collars. His monster theme is [[DarkIsNotEvil darkness and black magic]] and he is regularly possessed by an admittedly evil spirit. None of this stops him from being a pacifist, unbearably cute, friendship-obsessed and a real sweetheart. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YugiMutou.PNG And cute.]]

* Elsa of ''Frankenweenie''.

* Angela in the''NightOfTheDemons'' series. She remains pretty perky even after going all evil and demonic.

* Tomoko Nozama from ''[[Series/KamenRiderFourze Kamen Rider Fourze]]'', after joining Kamen Rider Club.

** Sethra Lavode might be a better example, dressing all in black and having an unsettling pallor (she is an eons old undead), but is surprisingly friendly. She also has a disturbingly silly sense of humor. In one book, she passes sentence on one of her apprentices for attempting to kill several of her friends, influence the succession of the House of the Dragon, and start a war. The sentence is to strand her in an alternate, desert dimension with shelter, plenty of food and water and a stick, and instruct her to write "I will not interfere with the Dragon Council" in the sand 83,521 times.

* Raven Madison from ''VampireKisses'', she is a mixure of highly sterotyped goth who listens to Him, Marilyn Manson, and strangly enough The Cruxshadows (Strange not because she's goth, but because most music refences were ones that are what people think goths listen to), wears mostly black, is obsessive over vampires, and is disliked by most people, besides that she acts like any other teenager.
* ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th: Carnival Of Maniacs]]'' had an odd example. Pamela Voorhees possesses a teenage goth named Gloria Sowici (nicknamed Glo). So we end up with a woman with a borderline TastesLikeDiabetes attitude inhabiting the body of girl described as pretty dour and unpleasant to look at. Suffice to say, characters, such as the guy who picks up the hitchhiking Pam-Glo, remark on the contrast.

*** [[PrettyLittleLiars Aria Montgomery]] also played by LucyHale appears to have been there before the series.

* The subject of Kate Nash's ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvLFDRufGk Mariella]]'' is a misunderstood loner who likes to wear black, but she's also a cheerful little girl who always gets the crosswordpuzzle right.

* Baron Samedi from Voodoo mythology, God of death, dreses like an undertaker (the person around corpse, not the wrestler) and wanders the graveyards as Skeleton also he enjoys his "lifeH". His wife Maman Brigitte also counts

* ''L.A.W.L.S.'' comic got Autumn [[TheHunter The Furry Slayer]], who's ''not'' of "[[http://lawlscomic.com/bigmouth-strikes-again/ slitting her wrist to Morrisey's Morosity or something]]" sort. She's rather kind of fun, in her own [[GenkiGirl loudly and violently crazy way]].

** She has a CrowningMomentOfFunny when she, to answer someone's question if it's possible to bake someone's cremated remains into a chocolate cake (no, really, that was the question), she does precisely that with some fake remains (with "Sorry U Died" written in icing). The cake was apparently quite disgusting, and the whole thing was [[HilarityEnsues hilariously absurd]].

* Lex Luthor's [[DaddysLittleVillain niece]] Nastalathia in ''AllStarSuperman''. Not exactly ''perky'' so much as very laid-back and quite fine with her life of villainy as opposed to depressed or moody.

* Abby Sciuto, TheLabRat on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', pictured above. As Tony [=DiNozzo=] put it, she's "A paradox wrapped in an oxymoron, smothered in contradictions in terms. Sleeps in a coffin. Really, the happiest goth you'll ever meet." [[BewareTheNiceOnes Unless you try something funny on her or her team.]] Or sneak a pantie peep.

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* The websites [[http://suicidegirls.com/ Suicide Girls]] (NSFW!) and [[http://www.godsgirls.com/ Gods Girls]] (NSFW!) (as well as their Tumblr pages, just google either one with the word tumblr also, Tumblr sitses as NSFW!) exist to document these women in their natural habitat. And naked.

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* [[TheGrimReaper Death]] of the Endless, from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' [[ComicBookTropes comics]] by Neil Gaiman is described by her author as a Perky Goth. She is not just responsible for Death, though; she also gives the breath of life when someone is born. She's pretty much the person you'd most want to see at a stressful moment like that. Her brother, Dream, fills the Mopey Goth niche.

The stereotypical {{Goth}} character, especially in teen shows, is frequently a SnarkKnight or a DeadpanSnarker, someone whose dark clothes and grooming reflect a pessimistic mentality. Contrariwise, the PerkyGoth, who is almost always female, operates on the principle that [[DarkIsNotEvil dark does not always]] mean [[EmoTeen depressing.]] Sometimes a singular Goth takes on both personalities.

* [[TheGrimReaper Death]] of the Endless, from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' [[ComicBookTropes comics]] by Neil Gaiman is described by her author as a PerkyGoth. She is not just responsible for Death, though; she also gives the breath of life when someone is born. She's pretty much the person you'd most want to see at a stressful moment like that. Her brother, Dream, fills the Mopey Goth niche.

* In ''FanFic/TheReturn'' conversion into a succubus seems to be synonymous with becoming a PerkyGoth. ThoseTwoGuys Sam and Naoko choose to dress as perky goth too.

* Raven in ''CecilBDemented'' combines PerkyGoth, BadassAdorable, and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} in a most intoxicating way.

* Merton Dingle from ''BigWolfOnCampus'', a chess club nerd turned PerkyGoth.
* {{God}} would sometimes appear in the form of a male PerkyGoth in the TV series ''JoanOfArcadia''.

* Lash from ''AdvanceWars'' is a PerkyGoth villain. In the "defeat" conversation at one point in the third game, she even growls, "No more miss nice perkygoth!"

** For the sake of completeness, the creator of the character, who uses Silverblue as her FurryFandom persona, also self-identifies as a PerkyGoth.

* Molly Carpenter from ''TheDresdenFiles'' has shades of perky goth, 80's Brit-punk, and BDSM fetish going.

* ''FridayThe13thCarnivalOfManiacs'' had an odd example. Pamela Voorhees possesses a teenage goth named Gloria Sowici (nicknamed Glo). So we end up with a woman with a borderline TastesLikeDiabetes attitude inhabiting the body of girl described as pretty dour and unpleasant to look at. Suffice to say, characters, such as the guy who picks up the hitchhiking Pam-Glo, remark on the contrast.

* Shareena from [[TooGoodToLast the shortlived]] animated series ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}''.

* The Bride of Nine Spiders from ''ImmortalIronFist'' is sometimes like this.

* Music/JessieJ.

* Morgana from ''{{Wishmaster}} 2: Evil Never Dies'' was presumably this, until her boyfriend died in the intro.

* John Entwistle of TheWho. Famously TheQuietOne in the band, he put his lighter side on display via Halloween-like imagery, such as the skull costume he sometimes wore and his self-penned, darkly comedic StepUpToTheMicrophone moments like "Boris the Spider".

* Baron Samedi from Voodoo mythology, God of death, dreses like an undertaker (the person around corpse, not the wrestler) and wanders the graveyards as Skeleton also he enjoys his "life". His wife Maman Brigitte also counts

* The (never actually SEEN) Perky Goths from ''Main/OnceAThief'', Episode 10, would seem to be the [[TropeNamer]].