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** Alice doesn't actually have magical powers but will pretend to in order to {{troll}} people.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mystical in some way due to their Native heritage.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mystical in some way due to their Native heritage.heritage of the Americas.
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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Exploited''': ???Alice uses her knowledge of Native Americans to quickly uncover her enemies.
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* '''Enforced''': Alice didn't originally have powers, but the editors wanted PositiveDiscrimination.

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* '''Enforced''': Alice didn't originally have powers, but the editors wanted PositiveDiscrimination.positive discrimination.

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Where Alice's powers come from, and whether she actually has powers at all, are ambiguous.

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''':
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Where Alice's powers come from, and whether she actually has powers at all, are ambiguous.



* '''Averted''': There is no in-story link between Native American heritage and magic powers.
** There is no magic nor are there Native Americans

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* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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There is no in-story link between Native American heritage and magic powers.
** There is no magic nor are there Native AmericansAmericans.

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** Alice's ancestry is full of witch doctors and tribal shamans whose powers have transfered to her.
** The magic rituals were from Pre-Columbian times, before the Europeans colonized the new world.
** Alice has always been interested in Native American mysticism, and has incorporated it into her preexisting powers.



** Native American tribes are shown to be very non-homogenous in their relationships to magic, even within groups of allied tribes such as the Iroquois or Sioux.

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** Native American tribes are shown to be very non-homogenous in their relationships to magic, even within groups of allied tribes such as the Iroquois or Sioux. The Lakota may be deeply tuned to magic, while the Navajo are not, etc.


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** There is no magic nor are there Native Americans

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* '''Subverted''': Alice's nature powers don't come from her Lakota mother, but from her Christian father.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice's nature powers don't come from her Lakota mother, but from her Christian father.father.
** The secret of Alice's healing is revealed to be hereditary herb lore [[ClarksThirdLaw that others take to be magical]].


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** Native American tribes are shown to be very non-homogenous in their relationships to magic, even within groups of allied tribes such as the Iroquois or Sioux.
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I think this is still a straight example, since the magicalness is still 100% ascribed to the "native" blood, just now it has Superpowerful Genetics


** Alice is half-Native American, so her powers are weaker than if she were full-blooded.
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** Alice is half-Native American, so her powers are weaker than if she were full-blooded.

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* '''Justified''': Alice's village sits on a wellspring of magic.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Alice's village sits on a wellspring of magic.magic.
** His father's culture rejects magic, while his mother's culture accepts it as part of everyday life.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice has god control over all things in nature, including animals... like humans.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice has god godlike control over all things in nature, including animals... like humans.

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* '''Inverted''': Alice is the only Native American character in the cast. She's also TheTeamNormal.

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Alice is the only Native American character in the cast. She's also TheTeamNormal.TheTeamNormal.
** In a team full of non-Native magical characters, Alice is instead [[MagicVersusScience highly technological and scientific.]]
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* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???Alice's village sits on a wellspring of magic.

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* '''Exaggerated''': alice is a god who can control all things in nature including all the worlds animals (including humans)
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is mundane, but is otherwise an excellent gardener. When asked what her secret is, she says that her family taught her how to sow the land.

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* '''Exaggerated''': alice is a Alice has god who can control over all things in nature nature, including all the worlds animals (including humans)
animals... like humans.
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Alice is mundane, but is otherwise an excellent gardener. When asked what her secret is, she says that her family taught her how to sow the land.land.
** Alice's inborn magical talent isn't intrinsically different from Bob the [[ThePaladin Paladin]] or Claire the LadyOfBlackMagic. Her [[TrainingTheGiftOfMagic training]] was highly traditional, however, so her skillset is focused on "nature" magic.



* '''played for horror''': alice is an unstoppable god who wants nothing more then to end humanity by any means
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* '''Straight''': Alice has nature powers passed down from her Lakota mother.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???

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* '''Straight''': Alice Wildflower has nature powers passed down from her Lakota mother.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???alice is a god who can control all things in nature including all the worlds animals (including humans)




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* '''played for horror''': alice is an unstoppable god who wants nothing more then to end humanity by any means
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'''Basic Trope''': A character is mystical in some way due to their Native heritage.
* '''Straight''': Alice has nature powers passed down from her Lakota mother.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is mundane, but is otherwise an excellent gardener. When asked what her secret is, she says that her family taught her how to sow the land.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': Alice is the only Native American character in the cast. She's also TheTeamNormal.
* '''Subverted''': Alice's nature powers don't come from her Lakota mother, but from her Christian father.
* '''Double Subverted''': But her Lakota grandmother later teaches her how to hone her SuperSenses.
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** Alice finds out she is half-Lakota, and instantly gains Native powers.
** When a baby is born, tribe elders throw darts to pick which vaguely nature-inclined power to bestow upon the baby.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Where Alice's powers come from, and whether she actually has powers at all, are ambiguous.
* '''Averted''': There is no in-story link between Native American heritage and magic powers.
* '''Enforced''': Alice didn't originally have powers, but the editors wanted PositiveDiscrimination.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Alice is InHarmonyWithNature? That's kind of typical..."
* '''Invoked''': The series is set in a world where people can choose superpowers. Alice chooses nature powers because her ancestors were InHarmonyWithNature.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice refuses to use her powers because she thinks they perpetuate stereotypes, and instead [[BadassNative relies on combat.]]
* '''Discussed''': "Alice is InHarmonyWithNature? That's just like all the Native shamans in movies..."
* '''Conversed''': Apropos of nothing, Bob asks, "Why is it that Native Americans in movies always have some mystical power?"
* '''Implied''': When asked where her powers come from, Alice merely touches her tribal jewelry.

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