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| 6 | ->''"Well her clothes are blacker than the blackest cloth\ |
| 7 | And her face is whiter than the snows of Hoth\ |
| 8 | She wears Doctor Martens and a heavy cross\ |
| 9 | But on the inside, she's a happy goth."'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Music/TheDivineComedy''', "The Happy Goth" |
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| 12 | The stereotypical {{Goth}} character, especially in teen television shows, is frequently a [[TheSnarkKnight Snark Knight]] or a DeadpanSnarker, someone whose dark clothes and grooming reflect a pessimistic mentality. Contrariwise, the Perky Goth, 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. |
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| 14 | She wears the clothes, but [[FreakyFashionMildMind her personality is always cheerful and amiable]] (occasionally approaching GenkiGirl territory). Appropriately, this is a SisterTrope to ElegantGothicLolita (referring to an actual subculture mainly popular in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}). If she's supposed to be attractive, she has a strong chance of being RavenHairIvorySkin. |
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| 16 | While the trope is sufficient to cover both, a character who is to {{Emo}} as this trope is to {{Goth}} would essentially be a "scene kid" or "cupcake emo", which are notable for their pink/black stripes. This is technically a different subculture than emo, but they're closely related and scene can be summarized as "Perky Emo with a little bit of rave culture". |
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| 18 | And to emphasize: perky goth ''is'' an acknowledged part of the goth subculture, not just something made up by media. |
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| 20 | See also ManicPixieDreamGirl. Contrast GothsHaveItHard. |
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| 22 | !!Examples: |
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| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 26 | * GenkiGirl Ako Udagawa from ''Anime/BangDream''. Her wardrobe consists almost entirely of blacks and reds, she accessorizes with chains and leather, and her {{Chuunibyou}} moments involve a lot of flowery talk about "the darkness" and such, yet she's one of the most chipper and upbeat characters in the cast, especially in contrast with her bandmates. |
| 27 | * The disturbingly cheerful Undertaker in ''Manga/BlackButler''. |
| 28 | * Sawyer the Cleaner, from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', qualifies. In one scene, [[spoiler: when she's explaining that the bad smell in a hotel room is from the ooze from rotting corpses she had to clean up in there earlier,]] she smiles happily, glad to have made things clear, while everybody around her is busy losing their lunch. |
| 29 | * Road Kamelot of ''Manga/DGrayMan''. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/DNAngel'': Towa looks like an ElegantGothicLolita, but has the personality of a hyperactive GenkiGirl. |
| 31 | * Misa Amane from ''Manga/DeathNote'', who wears lots of black, crosses, etc. but is always upbeat and cheery. Played with, in that she's a StepfordSmiler who beneath her cheeriness is traumatized, obsessive, and insane. There's also the cheery shinigami Ryuk. |
| 32 | * Reiko, the first ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko'' villain. In spite of her dark nature, she seems to smile a lot. |
| 33 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 34 | ** Mirajane isn't quite "perky" in her youth - she's HotBlooded. She basically had the same personality as [[IdiotHero Natsu]]. However, after [[spoiler: she loses her sister Lisanna]] she becomes a ProperLady. |
| 35 | ** Juvia Lockser easily breaks her gloomy facade, [[SugarandIcePersonality only to become perky and the complete opposite to her usual personality]] (but mostly to Gray though). |
| 36 | * [[TheGrimReaper Death]] in the anime ''Anime/{{Kamichu}}'' has a short scene with the god of poverty. She's a bit beyond perky and well into [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kamichudeath.jpg total bonkers]]. Or maybe she just knows something we don't. That's one hell of a SlasherSmile she has got there... |
| 37 | * Riho Yamazaki, Detective Shido's ditzy secretary, becomes this in ''Anime/{{Nightwalker}}''. Being a NightmareFetishist helps too. |
| 38 | * TJ from ''Anime/OccultAcademy'' is an oddball goth boy who is obsessed with the occult. He has half of his hair dyed red, wears eyeliner, and wears lipstick. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 40 | ** Nico Robin. She sort of has a taste for the macabre. To name a few examples, she suggested "Being of Darkness" as a name for the Thousand Sunny and even called the Cerberus on Thriller Bark "cute". |
| 41 | ** The "ghost-princess" Perona in the pre-time skip version. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': |
| 43 | ** Another male example: Nekozawa. He's the president of the Black Magic Club, is obsessed with curses, and has plenty of fun being generally creepy. Not even the fact that he's ''allergic to light'' seems to bother him all that much. Having an adoring younger sister helps. |
| 44 | ** Also a girl from Ouran named Reiko, [[spoiler: who marries Honey.]] |
| 45 | * Stocking from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', particularly when [[SweetTooth eating sweets]]. |
| 46 | * Tomoe Hotaru/Sailor Saturn from ''Anime/SailorMoon''. Despite tending to wear dark clothes, keeping a dimly-lit (and somewhat creepy-looking) room, and wielding the element of ''death and destruction'', Hotaru is a very kind and even joyful girl when she can be, especially when Chibi-Usa is around. |
| 47 | * 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]] (while also keeping cards like [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Kuriboh]] or [[MagicalGirl Dark Magician Girl]]) and he is regularly possessed by a spirit that's at the very least EXTREMELY ruthless. None of this stops him from being a pacifistic, friendship-obsessed sweetheart. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gameideas/images/c/cd/Yugi_Mutou.png/revision/latest?cb=20200705082215 And also cute.]] |
| 48 | ** The spirit is confirmed NOT to be influencing Yugi's goth stylings, in fact [[https://ryoubakvra.tumblr.com/post/161941518366/thiefkingbeyonce-goes-pop-you-guys-the-dog he dislikes the look himself]]. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/BocchiTheRock'' has the unnamed PA-san. Despite her pale-skinned and dark-haired looks with piercings, and her black clothes, which make her come across as a little creepy and scare Hitori the first time they meet, she is a genuinely kind, sweet, friendly, cheerful and easygoing young woman. |
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| 52 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 53 | * Comedian Iliza Shlesinger is a GenkiGirl and MotorMouth who tends to dress in a darker fashion at times, with dyed hair and healthy amounts of black clothing. She herself pokes fun at this, referring to herself in one routine as looking like a "nineteen-year old lesbian manager of a Hot Topic." |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 57 | * [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]'s [[DaddysLittleVillain niece]] Nasthalthia in ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman''. Not exactly ''perky'' so much as very laid-back and quite fine with her life of villainy as opposed to depressed or moody. |
| 58 | * Betty Cooper of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' actually went goth in one issue (really!), and was still generally rather cheerful. Her two goth friends were even more cheerful than she was. |
| 59 | * Asta from ''ComicBook/ResidentAlien'' is a goth, but she remains cheerful and friendly rather than dark and gloomy. |
| 60 | * Death from the old Joe Kelly run of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' was pretty much a Perky Goth. That or just a plain old death-obsessed, somehow corporeal, skeleton of some sort. |
| 61 | * The [[DontFearTheReaper not-so-grim reaper]] of ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'' may dress in a BlackCloak and has her skin and hair bleached, but she is a kind and spirited lady who acts as a mother to the members of the Vigil. |
| 62 | * The Ghoulunatics from ''Creator/ECComics'' are dark and morbid but in a fun and gleeful way. |
| 63 | * ''Franchise/EmilyTheStrange'' routinely dresses in black clothing and likes scary things, but she also [[KindHeartedCatLover loves cats]] and [[GenkiGirl communicates her excitement through exclamation points]]. |
| 64 | * Lex from ''ComicBook/GloomCookie'', on occasion. |
| 65 | * The Bride of Nine Spiders from ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'' is sometimes like this. |
| 66 | * The goddess Persephone (formerly Kore) as portrayed by George [=O'Connor=] in ''Olympians: Hades, Lord of the Dead''. |
| 67 | * [[GothGirlsKnowMagic Nico Minoru]], a.k.a. Sister Grimm, in ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. In the beginning, at least. |
| 68 | * [[TheGrimReaper Death]] of the Endless, from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', is described by Creator/NeilGaiman 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. Although in stories taking place in earlier eras (read: billions of years ago), Death was a bit of a wet blanket herself before she started spending a few days each century with mortals. |
| 69 | * Black Betty from ''ComicBook/StormwatchPHD''. |
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| 72 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 73 | * Liō from, well ''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}''. He's mute, but his joyous grins and gleeful attitude speak for themselves. He frequently breaks out into hysterical laughter, usually at the outcome of a prank he just pulled. As for the "Goth" part of the equation... read the comic, but [[http://lio-comic.livejournal.com/294909.html this is a pretty good demonstration.]] |
| 74 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Nemi}}'' is a snarky, Sarky Goth. Sort of a Garfield Goth, in fact. |
| 75 | * Dethany Dendrobia, in ''ComicStrip/OnTheFastrack'', is a classic example. She's as Goth as it gets, but cheerful, friendly, and a real asset to the company -- which is how she gets away with seriously non-corporate clothing and accessories under the reign of Ms. Trellis. |
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| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 79 | * ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'': Sola Mors of the [[DontFearTheReaper Trimortidae]]. Despite her preference for Goth fashion, Sola Mors is rather joyful, carefree, and fun-loving, if a bit eccentric and emotional. And despite embodying the aspect of Lonely Deaths - or perhaps because of it - she's very kind and warm-hearted, and reaches out to those who have fallen into loneliness and despair. She was also this as a mortal teenager, but constant bullying for being "weird" as well as non-interference from her school gradually wore away at her psyche until she [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]]. |
| 80 | * Played very weirdly in ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'', where the main characters are mostly depressed but have pretty much the personality of the preps they hate so much. |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'' has Viera, who is a Goth and also a pretty nice person, in sharp contrast to [[EnfantTerrible Gaz]]. |
| 82 | * Quinn's half-sister Charlie from the Series/{{Glee}} fanfic ''Not the Same'' and its sequel ''Never the Same'', though being around balls of sunshine like Marley and Sam all the time is bound to make anyone perky. Just like Jenny from Gossip Girl (see below) this has much to do with being played by Taylor Momsen. |
| 83 | * In ''FanFic/TheReturn'', conversion into a succubus seems to be synonymous with becoming a Perky Goth. See especially Yuki/Nabiki the "cute" succubus. ThoseTwoGuys Sam and Naoko choose to dress as perky goth too. |
| 84 | * Hayden from ''Fanfic/RidingTheWaves'' has a few [[http://jeychen5.deviantart.com/art/Ask-Kai-and-Hayden-2-525920122?q=gallery%3Ajeychen5%2F51453322&qo=3 shades]] [[http://jeychen5.deviantart.com/art/HayDayDen-537529718?q=gallery%3Ajeychen5%2F51453322&qo=1 of]] [[http://jeychen5.deviantart.com/art/Kai-and-Hayden-487076164?q=gallery%3Ajeychen5%2F51453322&qo=8 this]]. |
| 85 | * As a college student Shego was a goth in ''Fanfic/TheTouchOfGreenFire'' because the fashion hid her green skin well. While not as sarcastic as she is current time, she was rather perky. |
| 86 | * ''FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland'' has the narrator meet a draenei named Vasalyan, who loves looking at dark and gloomy landscapes. Nonetheless, he's still as joyous as most every other draenei. [[CreatorCameo Felya]], a cheery Forsaken priestess, is perhaps another example. |
| 87 | * [[TheHeart Anzu]] [[DeadpanSnarker Chino]] of ''FanFic/TwilightPrettyCure'' counts as this, even though she doesn't identify as a goth per se. She just happens to wear a lot of black, and she's one of the most kind and understanding members of the ensemble. Her classmates, however, are convinced she's not only a goth, but that she's an EmoTeen who cuts her wrists, which isn't true. |
| 88 | * ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'': Saga is a NightmareFetishist with a love for dark heavy makeup and macabre jewelry who works as a temple maiden in a temple to a goddess of night and darkness. She is also chirpy, happy and carefree most of the time. However, 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]]. |
| 89 | * [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~mrevil Mr. Evil's]] OriginalCharacter "Bloody" Mary Rogers is described as "''The most energetic goth girl you would ever meet''". |
| 90 | * Thor fan Creator/Savu0211 portrays [[http://savu0211.deviantart.com/art/Hel-comission-376143884 Hel]], the Norse goddess of death, as being one of the perkiest members of her family in stark contrast to her pessimistic father, Loki. |
| 91 | * Downplayed in ''Fanfic/OSMUFanfictionFriction'' with Oswald. At the end of Chapter 5, he appears in front of Opal, Omar and Orla wearing dark clothing, including a shirt with a blazing skull on it and black leather wristbands, but it's just to go see the bands Alien Open Autopsy and Coprolite, and isn't what he wears as everyday attire. |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 95 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', [[spoiler:Isabela becomes this after shedding her persona as TheAce, trading in her perfect pastels for a dark, artfully disheveled dress and hair "dyed" with multi-colored pollen.]] She's much happier as a result. |
| 96 | * Mavis in ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'', particularly when presented with the opportunity to leave her stifling castle, and also spending time around Jonathan. |
| 97 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' is a CardCarryingVillain whose aesthetic is all dark muted colors, [[SpikesOfVillainy spikes]] on everything that his inventive genius touches and heavy metal, but he is also friendly, chipper and ([[StepfordSmiler outwardly]]) full of joie-de-vivre, especially when dancing down the city streets to the aforementioned heavy metal. |
| 98 | * Jack Skellington from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' is rather eager and excitable — although he could also get pretty moody. |
| 99 | -->"... Why does nothing ever turn out like it should? Well, what the heck, I went and did my best. And by God, I really tasted something swell..." |
| 100 | * Bliss from ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' is one, due to her having dark clothes and dark makeover, though initially lacking the black hair at the start of the film with her hair dyed a dark green, she fully switches to black [[spoiler:in time for the big Prom dance and witnessing the battle between Nerissa and Ruby]]. She also has a penchant for "catastrophizing", as in predicting bad things that happen, but most of it never happens. |
| 101 | [[/folder]] |
| 102 | |
| 103 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 104 | * ''Film/LakePlacidVsAnaconda'': Margo has several tattoos, wears all black clothing, and is a SnarkKnight extraordinaire, but the people she snarks at have it coming, she's a decent friend to Bethany, and she spends most of her screen time smiling before the monsters attack. |
| 105 | * Creator/TimBurton's films, when not being plain-old-gothic (the ''Film/BatmanFilmSeries'' or ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''), are this in terms of overall tone (''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}, ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'', etc.). It's even the caption on his creator page. |
| 106 | * ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' has a male example in the form of Gary King, a cheerful, lively middle-aged fan of classic Goth band Music/TheSistersOfMercy who wears a black trench coat and fingerless gloves. The character of Gary King is actually a parody of the way an older Perky Goth would be perceived by the rest of the world outside of the Goth subculture: as irresponsible and immature, with an adolescent attitude well into adulthood. He's also a {{Deconstruction}}, as his manic attitude is eventually shown to be covering for a deep depression at never having achieved anything in his life. [[spoiler:It is also revealed that he has been hospitalized for attempting suicide at least once.]] |
| 107 | * ''Film/WeAreTheNight''. Nora is perhaps the archetype. While sporting a goth haircut and dress style, she's also a very cheerful, energetic vampire. |
| 108 | * Almost any goth character in ''Gap''. |
| 109 | * Raven in ''Film/CecilBDemented'' combines Perky Goth, BadassAdorable, and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} in a most intoxicating way. |
| 110 | * Angela in ''Film/NightOfTheDemons1988'' and its sequels. She remains pretty perky even after going all evil and demonic. |
| 111 | * Morgana from ''Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies'' was presumably this, until her boyfriend died in the intro. |
| 112 | * Due to the apparent fetishes/artistic style of the directors, most every character from ''Film/TheMatrix'' dress in a goth-like manner, but none act the part. |
| 113 | * Jill from ''Film/TheDeadMatter'', who loves nothing more than a good seance, and calls dead spirits with a smile! She's also the most level-headed of the entire group when it comes to logically dealing with the ZombieApocalypse. |
| 114 | * A 1950s example: the title character in ''Film/CryBaby'', who has a tattoo of a black teardrop dripping from his eye. He's not exactly "perky," but he's generally optimistic despite his surly attitude. |
| 115 | * In ''Film/GodBlessAmerica'' It's exaggerated in both how Roxy is Gothic to the point of being psycho and how she's perky to the point of Genki Girl. She's always talking and smiling while planning to kill people. Her clothes and hair are normal though. |
| 116 | * Alice in ''Literature/ThePerksOfBeingAWallflower'' counts as such with her clothes and liking for zombies. |
| 117 | * Hellabent from ''Film/OttoOrUpWithDeadPeople'' She is calmer than your average perky goth, but definitely has a good and happy attitude; her girlfriend Medea is more serious, but still likes to play as a little girl with her lover. |
| 118 | * Vexy of ''Film/TheSmurfs2'', even after she changes into a Smurf. |
| 119 | * In ''Film/QuantumApocalypse'', scientist Trish Zane dresses in Goth fashions and has a very cheerful personality. |
| 120 | * Reagan Hall in ''Film/AssassinationNation'' is a less heroic example. She dyes her hair blue and is usually seen in dark colors... and is also a CruelCheerleader and an AlphaBitch who expresses no sympathy when her classmates are the victims of a massive data hack, and even partakes in it by [[spoiler:sharing nude pictures of another girl with the rest of the school. Said girl responds by [[BatterUp bashing Reagan's head in with a baseball bat]].]] |
| 121 | * A straightforwardly villainous example is Sonya in ''Film/TheBabysitter2017''. Her clothes are all black and white, and of the cultists, she indulges in the creepiest behavior of all of them. She's not at all gloomy, though, and is having as much of a blast killing people as the rest of the cult, while also being [[TheFashionista very sharply dressed]] in her black-and-white clothes. |
| 122 | * The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' films portray Bellatrix Lestrange as a villainous example of this. She wears worn, tattered-looking black dresses with tight leather corsets and black high-heeled boots,a necklace in the shape of a bird's skull and has thick, dark hair and dark undereye circles. She's also very much a PerkyFemaleMinion to Voldemort, with very childlike mannerisms- to the point of excitedly cheering and jumping up and down after ''lighting a house on fire.'' |
| 123 | * ''Film/SafetyPatrol:'' Most of Hannah's clothing is black (even part of her cheerleading uniform) and she wears dark lipstick and eyeshadow, but she's a pretty nice person who only gets mopey when there's something to be mopey about. |
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| 125 | |
| 126 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 127 | * ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'': Most of Aiden's fellow {{Goth}}s are artistic, approachable, and mellow for most of the book (until being told malicious lies about Vivian), and she refers to some of them as "the gigglers." |
| 128 | * In the ''Literature/BloodsuckingFiends'' trilogy, Abby Normal is determined not to show her perky side to the vampires she meets or to other Goths, but she does let the reader in on her secret. |
| 129 | * In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'', Molly is more or less this, allowing for the fact that she's twelve and her relentlessly normal parents and sister have veto powers over her clothing preferences. |
| 130 | * Akura Mercy from the ''Literature/CradleSeries'' has black hair and clothing and [[CastingAShadow creepy shadow powers]], but she's one of the kindest and most cheerful people in the series. |
| 131 | * ''Literature/ADogsWayHome'': Lucas' girlfriend, [[spoiler:and later his fiancee]], Olivia is described as "kind of Goth". She's a snarky but otherwise nice woman. |
| 132 | * The ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series has two examples: |
| 133 | ** Telnan, introduced in ''Dzur'', thinks like most Dzur warriors (as Vlad sarcastically notes) that black-on-black is a wonderful color combination, but acts like TheDitz. |
| 134 | ** Sethra Lavode might be a better example, dressing all in black and having an unsettling pallor (she is an eons old undead), but being 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. Wherein hangs the tale: Sethra IS [[TimeAbyss eons old]]. Having seen so much, there's really only two ways to go, and the other way would either have destroyed her or the world, one way or the other. If there's anyone entitled to live and advocate the sentiment of "Live Here Now", it is certainly Sethra Lavode! |
| 135 | * Molly Carpenter from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has shades of perky goth, 80's Brit-punk, and BDSM fetish going. |
| 136 | * A rare male example occurs with Corey in the ''Literature/EthanBanning'' novel ''Undertow''. He's not really a Goth, though, he just thinks the look is appropriate for an apprentice necromancer. |
| 137 | * ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': |
| 138 | ** ''Friday the 13th: Carnival of Maniacs'' has an odd example. Pamela Voorhees possesses a teenage goth named Gloria Sowici (nicknamed Glo), so we end up with a woman with a SickeninglySweet attitude inhabiting the body of a 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. |
| 139 | ** Bella Morte (real surname Morrison) from ''Film/JasonX: Planet of the Beast'' is a Perky Goth [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]. |
| 140 | * Becky, a.k.a. Dharma, fills this role from beyond the grave in ''Literature/TheInfected''. Ironic, considering that in life she was clinically depressed and suicidal. However, her spectre is firmly committed to supporting her friends, having fun and getting everyone to lighten up. |
| 141 | * Jez from ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'' has pale skin and dresses like a stereotypical goth, yet acts more flirty than you'd expect. This could be because [[spoiler:she's really being {{brainwashed}} by Maleficent to spy on Finn]]. |
| 142 | * Yamie from ''Literature/{{Kurenai}}'', who is at her perkiest when interacting with Murasaki. |
| 143 | * Zanna from the ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'' has pale skin, and wears black make-up and black clothes, but is relatively happy and has fun a lot more than normal stereotypical goths, though she has reformed into more {{Hipster}} territory by the time The Fire Eternal kicks off. |
| 144 | * Eve Rosser from ''Literature/MorganvilleVampires''. She dresses Goth to the hilt, but is almost always cheerful and, when excited, jumps about 'like a demented, goth bunny'. |
| 145 | * Lucy Danvers, the "Q" of the titular ''Literature/RedRoom'' division is basically an {{Expy}} for [[Series/{{NCIS}} Abby]]. It's just that she's also gay and works for the equivalent of the TheIlluminati and TheMenInBlack. |
| 146 | * ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Violet's character design changes from a rather innocent '50s girl style to a lolita-style goth. |
| 147 | * Sephie Beller from ''Literature/TransformersShatteredGlass'' is often depicted as being into Gothy clothing, hairstyle, and music, but she's not typically gloomy or depressed in the slightest (or at least no more often than a typical 20-something would be), and seems to be a pretty cheerful technophile. Of course, since this is a MirrorUniverse, it's entirely possible that it's the Perky Goth stereotype that's the "norm", and it's gloomy Goths that would be unusual. |
| 148 | * Raven Madison from ''Literature/VampireKisses'' is a mixture of highly stereotyped goth who listens to Him, Marilyn Manson, and strangely enough The Cruxshadows (strange not because she's goth, but because most music references were ones that are what people think goths listen to), wears mostly black, is obsessive over vampires, and is disliked by most people, but besides that she acts like any other teenager. |
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| 151 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 152 | * The entire ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family]]'' are perky goths. However, the perkiest character by far (in the film and television versions at least) is Gomez Addams, possibly the first male Perky Goth in popular culture -- if you equate "manic" with "perky". |
| 153 | * One of the teams on ''Series/TheAmazingRace'''s 12th season was a pair of dating, incredibly Perky Goths. [[spoiler:They got 5th place.]] |
| 154 | * Merton Dingle from ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'', a chess club nerd turned Perky Goth. |
| 155 | * Coreen Fennel on ''Series/BloodTies2007''. Vicki Nelson, the acerbic heroine, comments, "No one likes a perky goth." |
| 156 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Anne used to be a regular at The Sunset Club, a gothic night club for vampire poseurs and wannabes. However, most members had never actually seen a real vampire, and thus they naively believed them to be gentle, misunderstood beings, referring to them as the "Lonely Ones". |
| 157 | * ''Series/BurkesLaw'': Downplayed with Leona Barnett in "Who Killed the Movie Mogul." She's a dark-clad woman who owns a horror movie memorabilia shop and is obsessed with the dark side of life. However, she shows a more friendly and cheerful side during the few moments where she isn't interacting with her emotionally distant father or being accused of his murder by the police (both of which provide some justification for an unhappy attitude). |
| 158 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 159 | ** A couple incarnations of the Doctor have slipped into this; particularly the {{Retcon}}ned-out [[WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka Ninth Doctor]] played by Creator/RichardEGrant. The Fourth Doctor also fits, but it's a played-with example — he doesn't really dress the part (or at least his garish, oversized scarf ruins the effect of his dark Victorian coats, red ascots and poet shirts), but his character was inspired by [[PerpetualPoverty starving]] Victorian gothic poets and he acted like a GothicHorror hero — albeit the cheeriest, cutest one you could ever imagine. In other words, he's a "goth" in the Victorian sense. |
| 160 | ** Heck, even the actual canon [[Creator/ChristopherEccleston Ninth Doctor]] could be considered to fit. His outfit (leather jacket, black pants, navy undershirt) was practically Gothic compared to previous Doctors. And he certainly had his perky moments. But then again, he had enough dark moments that we may just have to call him [[TakeAThirdOption Bipolar Goth]]. |
| 161 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]]: Jethro Cane wears leather cuffs and black nail polish, but while a typical moody and rebellious teen, is ''much'' nicer and more reasonable than his {{jerkass}} parents. He's notably the least vocal about the idea of killing Sky and is visibly uneasy about the other passengers turning on the Doctor, although he's too fearful to do anything about it (again, typical of a teenager; peer pressure is a problem for a reason, and Jethro's own father is the one trying to drag the Doctor to his doom). |
| 162 | * Cassandra "[[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]]" Peterson built an entire career out of being cheerful, sexy and dark. The character she was an {{Expy}} for, Vampira, was also sexy, but otherwise a more "traditional" style of {{Goth}}. |
| 163 | * Tina on ''Series/{{Glee}}''. "Even though I'm painfully shy and obsessed with death, I'm a really effervescent person!" |
| 164 | %%* Jenny Humphrey from ''Series/GossipGirl'' starts out as perky before taking on a goth wardrobe as the series progresses. |
| 165 | * Creator/NoelFielding on the Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff as he frequently dresses and describes himself as goth, yet is very helpful and encouraging to the bakers and maintains a goofy, optimistic demeanor and smile. |
| 166 | * Emma Zoole from ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' is a sweet-natured, cheerful woman who just so happens to be a NightmareFetishist obsessed with death and serial killers. |
| 167 | * Richmond from ''Series/TheITCrowd'', who listens to Cradle of Filth and is mistaken for a vampire on his first appearance, but who is generally cheery despite being severely demoted and spending most of his time supervising equipment he can't even identify. Although he almost seems completely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKH0Ic-vOQ8 oblivious]] to the fact that he is a Goth... or at least [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMZ0L409lzw oblivious]] to other people's reaction to him or the stereotype associated with being a Goth. [[IgnoranceIsBliss Maybe it makes sense for him to be happy]]. |
| 168 | * {{God}} would sometimes appear in the form of a male Perky Goth in the TV series ''Series/JoanOfArcadia''. |
| 169 | %%* Tomoko Nozama from ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', after joining Kamen Rider Club. |
| 170 | %%* Male example: Ryan from ''Series/KidsIncorporated'' (only seasons 2-4). |
| 171 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderOrganizedCrime'': Det. Jet Slootmaekers, who will wear checkered pants, Doc Marten-style boots, and leather jackets. |
| 172 | * Roald from ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}''. He tries to be moody, but just can't help himself. Is surprisingly good at breakdancing. |
| 173 | * Renaldo on ''Series/LosEspookys'' is a huge horror and gore fan dresses like a typical goth, but he is very upbeat, optimistic and full of enthusiasm. |
| 174 | %%* Kenzi from ''Series/LostGirl'', who doubles as a DeadpanSnarker and acts as the protagonist's sidekick and best friend. |
| 175 | * Abby Sciuto, TheLabRat in ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. 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. |
| 176 | * The (never actually SEEN) Perky Goths from ''Once a Thief'', Episode 10. |
| 177 | %%* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Although he's technically a punk Felix otherwise fits this trope perfectly. |
| 178 | * Piper Gray of ''Series/SomeAssemblyRequired'' dresses in dark clothing and hair, enjoys scaring people who annoy her, but is almost always smiling, and has an incredibly outgoing personality. |
| 179 | * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': |
| 180 | ** Miranda is never seen not smiling, yet is constantly referred to as "scary" and says such gems as "I hate corporate America!". The perky part is probably to keep her safe and acceptable. |
| 181 | ** [[Series/PrettyLittleLiars Aria Montgomery]], also played by Creator/LucyHale, appears to have been there before the series. |
| 182 | ** In the later episodes, Alex actually qualifies except for having a fashion plate taste in wardrobe. |
| 183 | --->'''Harper:''' ''(after having had her mind fused with Alex's)'' You've got some scary thoughts in there.\ |
| 184 | '''Alex:''' Thank you. ''(giggles)'' |
| 185 | * ''Series/YoureSkittingMe'' features a rare male example in a set of sketches that features a trio of emo kids, and a fourth one who doesn't quite get it and irritates the others by being continually upbeat. |
| 186 | [[/folder]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 189 | * Many early-2000s PostHardcore and EmoMusic bands had this aesthetic, such as Music/MyChemicalRomance, Music/{{AFI}}, and Music/TheUsed. |
| 190 | * The subject of Kate Nash's ''[[https://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 crossword puzzle right. |
| 191 | -->"She marched to her wardrobe and threw away the colour, because wearing black looks mysterious, but it didn't impress her mother...But Mariella just smiled as she skipped down the road because she knew all the secrets in her world." |
| 192 | * AJ [=McLean=] of Music/BackstreetBoys started out as the group's "Bad Boy", but his on-stage style has evolved into a more goth-like look (his Twitter and Instagram handles even have "skull" in them), and his cheerful personality, it's a little odd to see him performing songs like "I Want It That Way" alongside his bandmates. |
| 193 | * Music/TheBirthdayMassacre. They even have a song, "Horror Show", that pokes fun at the other kind of goth. |
| 194 | -->''They're getting ugly;\ |
| 195 | They're a horror show.\ |
| 196 | And now we're laughing\ |
| 197 | Because they'll never know\ |
| 198 | That they have everything.\ |
| 199 | We give them all of our own\ |
| 200 | And they tell us they're sick and they're all alone.'' |
| 201 | * Canadian singer Music/{{Lights}}, Her appearance and love for metal music would make up the 'Goth' part of this trope, while her own music and personality make up the 'Perky' part. Go figure. |
| 202 | * Music/CreatureFeature. They only ''sound'' dark and depressing, but take one listen to any of their songs and tell me they're not having a grand old time trying to top themselves on the What-the-Fuck-o-meter. |
| 203 | * Music/EmilieAutumn's music tends towards melancholic and angsty, but there's also a great deal of caprice and whimsy which reflects her perky side. The trope is more evident still in her live shows and interviews. |
| 204 | * Jennifer Parkin of Music/{{Ayria}} is pretty much this, and it shows through her music. Well, except for the sadder songs. Ditto for Helalyn Flowers, also on the Alfa Matrix label. They dress gothically, and often have gothic subjects in their lyrics such as psychic {{lesbian vampire}}s and tentacle hentai, but their musical style is mainly upbeat synth-rock. |
| 205 | * Ditto Music/ZombinaAndTheSkeletones. They don't take the goth part terribly seriously as their name would suggest, primarily writing energetic PopPunk songs about their love of B-movies, mad science, pulp fiction, and retro science. Though from time to time they'll throw out a few surprisingly [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] and [[SurprisinglyGentleSong melancholic]] songs just to shake things up. |
| 206 | * Music/TheDivineMadness |
| 207 | * Amy Lee of Music/{{Evanescence}}. Cheerful and brooding, [[FourTemperamentEnsemble sanguine and melancholic]], she is darkness ''and'' light personified. |
| 208 | * Music/TypeONegative. They look extremely intimidating and popularized a "doom" sound in music, and they sing tunes about having sweet girlfriends and about silly goth girls with too much black hair dye. Although they do have quite a few sad songs. |
| 209 | * Wednesday 13. |
| 210 | * Music/NataliaKills. |
| 211 | * The Welsh SynthPop / {{darkwave}} group Future Perfect. Along with singer Rebecca Morgan's gothic dress style, they can be angsty and depressing in some songs (e.g. "Poisoned Love", "Not in Control", and "Complicated Machine"), but other times they're peppy and upbeat ("Paradise", "Light", and "Saint Perfect"). |
| 212 | * The Break Up, another goth-influenced Nu-Wave band, has their share of depressing songs, often about [[BreakupSong failed relationships]] as their name suggests, but also a good number of perky songs such as "Ninja", "Lightning", "Trapeze", and "Synthesis". |
| 213 | * Music/{{Kerli}}, who has dubbed her style "bubble goth". As time progressed, she has become more "perky" than "goth". |
| 214 | * Music/{{Voltaire}} who is possibly the most successful gothic comedian in history. |
| 215 | * Donna Lynch and Steven Archer of Music/EgoLikeness are this in person. However, their music certainly [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters isn't]]. |
| 216 | * The Crüxshadows. |
| 217 | * John Entwistle of Music/TheWho. Famously TheQuietOne in the band, he put his lighter side on display via Halloween-like imagery, such as the skull costume he often wore and his self-penned, darkly comedic StepUpToTheMicrophone moments like "Boris the Spider" and "My Wife". |
| 218 | * Music/AliceCooper. |
| 219 | * Music/DannyElfman: The red hair contrasts with the Goth image, but the SlasherSmile and cheerfully upbeat songs like "No One Lives Forever" certainly doesn't. There's a reason he's Creator/TimBurton's go-to guy for soundtracks and Jack Skellington's singing voice. |
| 220 | * Music/TheDivineComedy's "The Happy Goth" is happy on the inside; she's just finding her comfort zone. The lyrics speak for her father, who's apparently coming to realize that he doesn't have as much to worry about as he feared. |
| 221 | * Music/{{Grimes}}'s [[FreakyFashionMildMind fashion sense]], [[SurrealMusicVideo music videos]], and [[LyricalDissonance lyrical content]] can be very dark, but her general demeanor and music style is fairly cheerful. |
| 222 | * The music video for Music/{{Chvrches}}'s "Empty Threat" features a group of goth teens happily enjoying themselves at the local water park after a few drinks and cigarettes. One of the teens looks slightly like singer Lauren Mayberry, who was a self-confessed Perky Goth when she was a teen. |
| 223 | * The short-lived Scottish synthpop duo Strawberry Switchblade was signed to Korova, the same label as Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen and other post punk acts. Yet, their light bubblegum pop sound, coupled with their flamboyant style - frilly black outfits studded in polka dots - set them apart from their labelmates. Strawberry Switchblade were a one hit wonder with their song "Since Yesterday" in most of the world, but they were also [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff incredibly popular in Japan]], possibly making them an UrExample to a [[ElegantGothicLolita sister trope]]. |
| 224 | * Music/{{The Cure|Band}} are a band mostly known for their dark, gloomy songs and equally gloomy image and are regarded as one the most iconic GothRock bands out there. But this is of course the same band that wrote [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcUza_wWCfA "The Lovecats"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mGgMZpGYiy8 "Friday I'm In Love"]]. |
| 225 | * Alessandro Cortini of Music/NineInchNails - all of his clothes and guitars must be black, makes eerie, noisy ambient synth tunes and synthpop tunes about isolation, but is a generally cheerful and pleasant person. |
| 226 | * Singer Heather Baron-Gracie and drummer Ciara Doran of Music/PaleWaves. |
| 227 | * Music/TeganAndSara certainly have had the goth look going on at various points in their career, but they have plenty of upbeat songs in their discography, most notably "Everything Is Awesome" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''. |
| 228 | * Music/{{Tribulation}}'s one of two guitarists, Jonathan Hultén. He dresses mostly in black even offstage, has a fascination with the dark and macabre that shows in his artwork, has referenced Music/{{Bauhaus}} on his Instagram, and comes off as very polite and happy in interviews. |
| 229 | * Dave Vanian of Music/{{The Damned|Band}}. A vampire who's not above exchanging some light hearted banter wth the fans and his band mates. |
| 230 | * Music/MotleyCrue guitarist Mick Mars generally wears far more gothic looking attire than his bandmates, usually donning a black coat, sunglasses and hat. He also comes across as a very nice and down to earth man in interviews. |
| 231 | * The Frozen Autumn are well-noted for their gloomy "frozen wave" brand of DarkWave, but lately have been moving in the perky direction. |
| 232 | * The main premise of Music/TheGothsicles which describes itself as "oddball {{EBM}}". In a genre defined by angsty and dark music, Gothsicles go for "fun, loud and entertaining". Most songs are affectionate love letters to gaming, Lovecraft and the 1980s sung by someone who sounds like the Squeaky Voiced Teen from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Meanwhile, the music videos are [[StylisticSuck decidedly and deliberately uncool]]. |
| 233 | * Music/LacunaCoil: |
| 234 | ** Much of their music belongs to the GothicMetal genre, and their scene shows and videos are quite dark, but the band's off-stage image is much perkier and more positive. |
| 235 | ** Lead singer Cristina Scabbia's public image as a vlogger and Twitch streamer is quite positive, enthusiastic and happy, at the same time as she obviously likes Goth paraphernalia and clothes even off-stage. |
| 236 | ** In the [[https://youtu.be/Gtft6LqgFSA official video]] for "Nothing Stands In Our Way", the entire band shows this attitude in the behind-the-stage footage. |
| 237 | * Laura Bienz of St. Griselda and Lorelei Dreaming is a textbook lolli-goth in the same league as the aforementioned Ayria, as exhibited on the cover of ''[[https://loreleidreaming.bandcamp.com/album/future-fables Future Fables]]''. |
| 238 | * ''Music/{{Voltaire}}''. No, no, not the [[Creator/{{Voltaire}} eighteenth century French author]]; Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez, the twenty-first century songwriter, author of humorous perspectives on being a Goth, and occasional stand-up comedian. ''That'' Voltaire. He also does music for the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, so that makes him doubly cool. |
| 239 | * Apoptygma Berzerk, originally rooted in dark [[{{Industrial}} EBM]], made a LighterAndSofter turn with ''Welcome To Earth'' and ''Harmonizer'', then turned the perkiness up further with their {{New Sound Album}}s ''You And Me Against The World'' and ''Rocket Science''. Piston Damp, the spinoff band founded by Stephen Groth's brother Jonas, also embraces this trope. |
| 240 | [[/folder]] |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 243 | * Baron Samedi from UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}}. God of death, dresses like an undertaker, wanders the graveyards as a skeleton, and enjoys his "life" to the fullest. His wife Maman Brigitte also counts. |
| 244 | * Photophobia didn't bother the late Church of Satan founder Anton Le Vey, either. After he got rolling, the witty religious rebel played off and played jokes on, off, and with his own image and reputation to a level you'd expect out of (irony noted) the Devil. This was even noted in a interview with him prior to his death undertaken by the pornographic publication High Society magazine. |
| 245 | [[/folder]] |
| 246 | |
| 247 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 248 | * The ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Creepy Town'' has Dianne "Di" Harris, who enjoys all manner of dark and occult things, and gets very giddy when she sees them. |
| 249 | * Sid from ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' is one in both her civilian and magical girl forms, since she's themed after Autumn and Halloween. |
| 250 | * ''Podcast/BrimstoneValleyMall'': |
| 251 | ** Asmoraius is a demon who likes to dress in dark lipstick and eye shadow, Victorian-style clothing, and proudly boasts that he's "goth as fuck." He's also incredibly outgoing and personable, and one of the friendlier demons in the series. |
| 252 | ** Trainee is a cheerful, happy-go-lucky teenage girl who wears pentagram jewlery and whose interests include witchcraft and trying to summon demons. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 256 | * The Count from ''Series/SesameStreet''. ("Ahh ah ah ah ah ah!") |
| 257 | [[/folder]] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 260 | * Wrestling/{{Sting}} is essentially this, as he kept the costume inspired by ''Film/TheCrow1994'' he adopted during the Wrestling/{{n|ewWorldorder}}Wo angle, but has gone back to his former upbeat showman persona during his early Wrestling/{{WCW}} days. |
| 261 | * Wrestling/JeffHardy, too, has played up this angle in both Wrestling/{{WWE}} and Wrestling/{{TNA}}. He wears [[LooksLikeCesare corpse paint]] and his fans are known as "Creatures of the Night," but he's otherwise fun-loving and full of spirit. |
| 262 | * Wrestling/DaffneyUnger, from both WCW and TNA, was known for deliriously screaming and laughing during her own matches and those of her friends. |
| 263 | [[/folder]] |
| 264 | |
| 265 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 266 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition has the Shadar-kai, who were changed from their original selves (gloomy-goth fae trapped in the Plane of Shadow who hate everyone not them) into this. Shadar-kai in 4e were originally humans who migrated to the Shadowfell in pursuit of immortality. They got their wish- sort of. Shadar-kai don't age and can theoretically live forever, but if they ever succumb to ennui, they start to fade away. The Shadar-kai thus have an active and vibrant culture, devoted to exploration, self-expression, and a general 'carpe diem' attitude. These guys consider bragging contests a sport. |
| 267 | * It's implied a ''lot'' of [[TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters Sin-Eaters]] are like this. They were given the chance to come back from the dead and gladly accepted, so why ''shouldn't'' they be happy? Their general culture is one of celebrations and gatherings in the vein of the Day of the Dead and New Orleans funerals. |
| 268 | * Penny Dreadful from ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'' lives and breathes this trope. It's also implied that just as many of the Hollow Ones are perky goths as are traditional ones. |
| 269 | * ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has the newscaster Momo von Satan, the host of a comedy news program. Imagine ''Series/TheDailyShow'' if Creator/JonStewart was a tiny Japanese woman who continually argued with a giant grey CGI penis wearing a horned Viking helmet about journalistic ethics, and who filled the show with cracked-out one-frame {{Easter Egg}}s, and you'll pretty much have the idea. |
| 270 | * There's a Perky Goth card in the ''TabletopGame/ChezGeek'' expansion ''Chez Goth''. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 274 | * Storm E. Sky in the 2017 incarnation of ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' has a storm/rain motif, wears black and white, and loves rock music. She is also daring and does care for others. |
| 275 | * Pluto from ''Toys/MilkyWayAndTheGalaxyGirls'' dresses in all black and loves death metal but is [[HotBlooded very passionate]]. |
| 276 | * In ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' the young vampiress Draculaura fits this trope to a T. Her friend Frankie Stein really belongs here too. |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 280 | * ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' has Muffy, a sheep with black wool, pale white skin, black lipstick, and striped purple horns. ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons New Horizons]]'' also makes her default outfit a dark purple Ruffled Dress. Her gothic appearance is contrasted with her CoolBigSis personality type, making her a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak who will become very protective of the player once they get close. Her birthday also happens to fall on Valentine’s Day, an overlap she enjoys for effectively giving her a double party. |
| 281 | ** Lottie usually wears a business suit in her job as a home decorator, but in ''Pocket Camp'', she shows up wearing ElegantGothicLolita fashion as part of "Lottie's Gothic Rose Festival", talking about her favorite goth band. |
| 282 | * TokenEvilTeammate Shadowheart from ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''. Her raven hair, penchant for dark clothes, and worship of a [[GodOfEvil malevolent]] GodOfDarkness definitely marks her as a goth, but while she's [[DefrostingIceQueen quite haughty at first]] she's [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold ultimately quite a friendly and easygoing woman]] [[DeadpanSnarker with a penchant for snark]]. As part of her CharacterDevelopment, she actually becomes much more perky, but with it potentially far less goth, even dying her hair silver-blonde. |
| 283 | * ''VideoGame/BangDreamGirlsBandParty'' has Ako Udagawa, the drummer for the goth J-Rock band Roselia. Her wardrobe consists almost entirely of blacks and reds, she accessorizes with chains and leather, and her {{Chuunibyou}} moments involve a lot of flowery talk about "the darkness" and such. She's also one of the most chipper and upbeat characters in the cast, especially in contrast with her bandmates. |
| 284 | %%* [[TheDragon Misery]] from ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' -- most of the time. |
| 285 | * Nina Cortex from ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''. She's paler than mayonaise, dark and cynical, yet loves animals and laughs. She has times when she's moody and aggressive, but that's because of her evil MadScientist uncle. |
| 286 | * Sigrun from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'' is a member of the Legion of the Dead, dwarves who have symbolically died and consider themselves dead to the world. Their normal mindset is quite gloomy, but Sigrun manages to subvert the expectations despite her dark, tattooed exterior. This is even {{lampshaded|Trope}} by Nathaniel who thinks she ought to be a bit more grim to suit the image. |
| 287 | * Noctis in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' is themed around darkness powers and has a gothic appearance, with black clothes and hair. Fans assumed he'd be dark and brooding and were surprised when they bought the game and he turned out to be a chill young man whose primary interests are junk food, fishing and cute animals. |
| 288 | * Hu Tao from ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' runs a funeral parlor in Liyue, wears dark clothes[[labelnote:*]]Though in real life, the color of death in Chinese culture is white[[/labelnote]], is pale-skinned, and speaks about death and your eventual demise a lot... But she's also cheerful, [[GenkiGirl energetic]], and a BunnyEarsLawyer. |
| 289 | * ''VideoGame/GianaSisters'': In ''VideoGame/GianaSistersDS'' and ''VideoGame/GianaSistersTwistedDreams'', Punk Giana is a cheerful kid, despite her ferocious appearance and gothic-style clothes. Cute Giana is perky as well, as the [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/project-giana/project-giana Kickstarter Web site]] describes her as liking things spooky (even gaining more powers as the dream she's in gets more morbid.) |
| 290 | * Cube from ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' counts, though only since the localization of the first game. The Japanese original had her in more traditional skater-punk style. |
| 291 | * Sora of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' gets a goth makeover to blend in whenever he visits [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloween Town]], but is no less relentlessly cheery for it. |
| 292 | * Subverted by Morinth from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. She seems like one of these when you first meet her, but she's a SerialKiller obsessed with dominance, violence and death. |
| 293 | * Neon White of ''VideoGame/NeonWhite'' refers to Neon Violet as an "alt girl". She wears a black jacket, skirt, and collar, and is incessantly cheerful and enthusiastic. |
| 294 | * ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'': Lash from ''Advance Wars'' is a Perky Goth villain. It's not to say she isn't evil, but she's a chipper and cheerful {{Manchild}} of an EvilGenius, with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd3241fSRos theme that absolutely slaps]], and easily the ''most'' cheerful of all the villains. In the "defeat" conversation at one point in the third game, she even growls, "No more miss nice perky goth!" |
| 295 | * Shoka Sakurane from ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou''. She's pale, has bags under her eyes, and she wears a black hoodie with cat ears based off Mr. Mew. She also snarks a lot, with her catchphrase being "Later, losers." |
| 296 | * Marnie from ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' is a downplayed version. Her fashion style has elements of this, as she wears a pink dress with pink ribbons in her hair, accented by a studded black (fake) leather jacket, a spiked necklace, and black nail polish. In terms of personality, while she's good-natured and her dialogue doesn't hide when she's happy, she's generally very [[TheStoic stoic]] like a stereotypical {{Goth}} would be. |
| 297 | * Jennifer "Jen" Tate, main character of ''VideoGame/{{Primal}}'', dresses in a crimson, midriff-baring shirt with black pants and lots of leather belts all about, on top of having pale skin, black eyeshadow, and a spiky-looking back tattoo. She also spends much of the game [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforming]] into various creepy monstrous humanoids. She's nonetheless surprisingly cheerful and quippy overall. |
| 298 | %%* Luste Teuber from ''{{VideoGame/Rosenkreuzstilette}}''; she also gets {{Stripperific}} and TokenMiniMoe bonus points. |
| 299 | %%* [[RobotGirl Ashlotte]] from ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur IV''. |
| 300 | * Abigail from ''VideoGame/StardewValley'' wears dark clothes and dyes her hair purple, and her mother often bemoans her interest in the occult, but she's otherwise a friendly, well-adjusted young woman. |
| 301 | * In ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'', Odette is a pretty standard [[BigBreastPride big-breasted goth girl]] with a knack for partying. To a lesser extent, Eve and Grace qualify, as well. |
| 302 | * Lilia Vanrouge from ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' is a vampire-like ElegantGothicLolita who belongs to a dorm full of dark, gothic and BDSM-esque aesthetics, but is a childish {{Keet}}. |
| 303 | * Fay from ''VisualNovel/WitchesXWarlocks'' dresses all in black and has spooky cobweb decorations in their design. They’re also very excitable and enthusiastic and wants nothing more than to help the world find love. |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 307 | * ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'': Kuromi's personality in the series. She dresses in black, has a skull motif on her outfit and house, and is obsessed with Halloween, to the point that even though it's her birthday, that takes a backseat to the holiday for her. That being said, she's cheerful, friendly, and will participate in various activities with her friends without complaint. |
| 308 | [[/folder]] |
| 309 | |
| 310 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 311 | * Gilly Woods the Perky Goth of ''Webcomic/DorkTower'' is the trope namer. Along with all of the typical goth mannerisms, she smiles all the time, collects plush animals, enjoys cookies and ice cream, and is [[WideEyedIdealist perpetually optimistic]]. She embarrasses her brother Walden, who is a stereotypical Mopey {{Goth}} and Dark Lord of the Mud Bay Goth community.[[note]]while the Goths in town were all meeting at an all-night pancake house, and the Dark Lord was going on like a cult leader, she actually ordered some pancakes. Agenda item 1: spread fear and darkness and general chaos. Then all back to Gilly's house for cookies and ice cream![[/note]] Over the years, she's traveled to London to study pre-med in England, came out as bisexual, and has become romantically linked to her roommate -- all while still remaining [[http://www.dorktower.com/2023/03/17/erin-go-blarg-dork-tower-17-03-23/ perky and goth-y.]] |
| 312 | * The main character of ''Webcomic/ButtercupFestival'' is a perky goth, and embodies perhaps the more whimsical side of the trope. |
| 313 | * Miho from ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' has been defined by Fred Gallagher as a "perky goth", though she's more of a LittleMissBadass. |
| 314 | * Crystal from ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl''. She starts out completely bubbly from the get-go, and one day decides to go goth on a lark, without actually changing her personality in any way. |
| 315 | * Blossom from ''Webcomic/{{Rhapsodies}}'' (though she's more Industrial Punk than most examples). |
| 316 | * Amy Fang from ''[[http://deadmetaphor.comicdish.com/ Dead Metaphor]]'' is a good example. Though she wears death-metal shirts and seems to have an obsession with horror/zombies, she is perpetually perky, energetic and somewhat childish. In the more recent webcomic ''Webcomic/WooHoo'', where Amy reappears, she seems a bit more grown-up, but she's still definitely a pun-loving perky goth. |
| 317 | * Dora from ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. Her transition from "mopey" to "perky" allegedly came before her first appearance, and she's called out on it in an early strip by a member of her former "coven". This same member (Raven) shows up a few weeks later with a job application as a non-gothic GenkiGirl. |
| 318 | * [[spoiler:Death]] in the webcomic ''Webcomic/FindersKeepers2008'' seems to be this. |
| 319 | * On the outside, Alisin in ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' is cheerful, fun-loving, and free-spirited, and it's only when you look closely that it's revealed that [[StepfordSmiler underneath the perky exterior]] she's a neurotic, self-loathing and nihilistic mess. |
| 320 | ** In later arcs, Aly ([[ThatManIsDead she's no longer Alisin]]) was able to shed her self-loathing, due in large part to the unconditional love of her husband Rikk, and later Rumy when she joined them in a [[MarryThemAll triad marriage]], plus finding fulfillment in her job as a nurse in a juvenile cancer ward. She also grew her hair out and dropped most of her goth fashions. In one recent arc, she was held hostage by Keith Feddyg, who told the young patients about her past life, and then killed one [[LittlestCancerPatient 8-year-old who defended her]]. Aly, bolstered by Rikk and Rumy, was able to say the one thing Keith couldn't bear to hear; "I forgive you." |
| 321 | * Happy Goth from ''Webcomic/TheDevilsPanties''. |
| 322 | * [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=406 Vanity Thorn]] from the webcomic ''Webcomic/SequentialArt''. |
| 323 | * Esther from ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound.'' Her friend Sarah has also become much perkier throughout the comic. |
| 324 | ** ''SGR'' actually plays with Goth stereotypes quite a bit overall -- Sarah goes a bit {{Tsundere}} for and winds up dating the much older Ryan, while Esther and Sarah's friend Big Lindsay is less goth and more of a Class 3 TheBigGuy (who is eventually PutOnABus by getting pregnant). And then there's the odd case of Roxy Postlethwaite, who is supernaturally Changed into a "White Goth" -- part banshee, CloudCuckooLander, all NightmareFuel. |
| 325 | * Marius, Mordred, and Sarah from ''Webcomic/MyLifeInBlue''. |
| 326 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'''s Tsukiko. Evil mystic theurge, but she loves what she does. |
| 327 | * Cassie from ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' is a goth and proud of it. Oh, and she always wanted to see a unicorn. Despite her dark fashion sense and outlook, she can almost always be seen fawning over her crush, Robin. |
| 328 | * Angelica from ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'' has somewhat morbid interests and usually wears punky black clothes and black makeup, despite being TheDitz. |
| 329 | * Katie and Abby from ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}'', especially [[GenkiGirl Abby]]. |
| 330 | * Silverblue from ''Webcomic/{{Jack|DavidHopkins}}'', based on the character of a friend of the author (who herself is a Perky Goth in real life), is very much this by the time [[spoiler: she realizes that everything that happens to her in hell is her own self punishment, and no, she does NOT have to [[GroundhogDayLoop watch the same round of musical holes every day]] if she really doesn't want to.]] |
| 331 | * The Dark Lordess [[MyNaymeIs Tyfnee]] from ''Dumnestor's Heroes'', as exemplified by [[http://www.moderntales.com//comics/dumnestor.php?view=archive&chapter=14714#strip5 this strip]]. |
| 332 | * Cherri Creeper, the protagonist of ''Webcomic/SchoolBites''. |
| 333 | * [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Kanaya]] from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' is an inversion. On her home planet, most residents stay indoors during the day for fear of the blistering sun (and the undead who rise in the morning), and wear nothing but black and gray. Kanaya, on the other hand, comes out during the day (and keeps actual plants in her home) and wears a variety of bright colors... so, for all intents and purposes, she's the goth of her planet. |
| 334 | ** [[spoiler:Aradia]], post-resurrection, is a more straight example. While she ''also'' doesn't wear black or grey, she's an extreme NightmareFetishist who is ''incredibly'' cheery and enthusiastic about the chance to throw someone a "[[TheFunInFuneral corpse party]]". She somehow manages to be so sweet and likeable about it that it ''almost'' isn't creepy. |
| 335 | * Elliot from ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has a goth female form with its own personality as a part of his cover identity spell. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-15 When he assumed it the first time]], he was [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy too impressed to be angsty]]: [[spoiler:though later still morphed into its imitation without enforced supernatural angst attached]] |
| 336 | -->'''goth female Elliot''' (ogling the mirror): The world is cold, [[DistractedByMyOwnSexy but this form is ''hot''.]] |
| 337 | * [[http://www.200-20.com/ Runie]] from 200:20 could be considered an excellent example of this as well. The many, many outfits in which she is seen wearing normally involve black colors or fishnets (she is most often seen wearing a something that looks a cross of a Chinese dress with panty hose and knee high boots). Although her attitude might also qualify her to be considered as TheCutie as well. |
| 338 | * ''L.A.W.L.S.'' has Autumn [[HunterOfMonsters The Furry Slayer]], who's ''not'' of the "[[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]]. |
| 339 | * In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' Parley's [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=952 classmate]] Lily Cooke (or "Cookie Monster") fits the type, between her love of dark colours, visible ex-[[TheFairFolk fairies]]' influences and cat smile. |
| 340 | ** [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1404 Jenny in a later chapter]] is another example. She's a bit less perky but she's still very friendly. As a bonus she's an actual witch. |
| 341 | * Vicious Whisper from ''Webcomic/SerenityRose'' is a textbook example, with bright pink hair, a very positive (and vocal) outlook on life and all while following strong Goth Aesthetics. |
| 342 | * ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}'' has Famine, who, despite the evil sounding name, is rather cheerful in her [[CloudCuckooLander own weird way]]. |
| 343 | * Happens to Felicia near the end of ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'', as she becomes Goth, but the circle of Goths she tries to hang out with snubs her because she's "too happy" so she quickly abandons that. |
| 344 | * Pretty much all the main and many minor characters in ''Webcomic/BetweenTheLines2006'' are gothic, though not everyone dresses in stereotypical completely black. They have the range of personalities you'd expect from a group of people. |
| 345 | * Dot of ''Webcomic/GothOz'' is a SpiritedYoungLady wearing more pink and purple than she does black. |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 349 | * 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 sites as NSFW!) exist to document these women in their natural habitat. And naked. |
| 350 | * The ImageBoards have [[MemeticMutation memetically]] described this as a "Big Tiddy Goth GF". |
| 351 | * "1-800-Tech support" has Erica who, while into black makeup, mummifying her dead cats and so on, is generally fairly chirpy...unless it's [[AllPeriodsArePMS that time of the month]]. |
| 352 | * At least one of the hosts from the podcast ''Lime and Violet'' alludes to having been one of these in the past, after a teenage stint as a more typical Mopey Goth. |
| 353 | * Moria from ''Website/GaiaOnline'' kind of drifts between this and Regular Punk depending on her characterization. (Though she was a vampire for about a week once, which ranks pretty high on the goth scale.) |
| 354 | * The writer of [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Repo__The_Genetic_Opera_2008.aspx?Page=7 this]] [[Website/TheAgonyBooth Agony Booth]] recap declares that most Goths actually are like this, and that ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' gives them a bad name for this reason. |
| 355 | * ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' has Anna Chase of v4 and Keira [=MacDonald=] of the spinoff Evolution. Anna's a little more downplayed on the perky part, and while not a ShrinkingViolet, can come off as seemingly rather meek at times. However, she still definitely fits the description. Keira, however, is played completely straight; her "power" is that she coughs up smoke at irregular intervals, for crying out loud! |
| 356 | * Sara Waite of Literature/WhateleyUniverse appears to be a goth due to her natural coloring, and, as a lust demon, she's rather perky. |
| 357 | * [[http://asquidcalledzelda.deviantart.com/ A Squid Called Zelda]], especially since she started wearing black makeup in [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ASCZPictures?feature=mhum her movie reviews]]. |
| 358 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/user/WaysideCreations#p/c/5/_BwOyK38FN0 Ralis Kahn]] of Wayside Creation's "Mad Monster Lab". |
| 359 | * Bones Cloud from ''Roleplay/EquestriaChronicles''. Your friendly neighborhood mortician pony. |
| 360 | * Youtube vlogger Miss Hannah Minx is probably the most gratuitously perky goth in the whole world, especially in her Jinx and Elvira personas. [[https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http://wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/NfQfhfLHlDg Example.]] |
| 361 | * WebVideo/AskAMortician, a [[https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath Youtube webseries]] where Caitlin Doughty, a licensed mortician, cheerfully answers people's questions about death, burial, cremation, and other such things. 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOk5Bfp_TpU 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]]. |
| 362 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has Ruby Rose, whose [[http://images.wikia.com/rwby/images/4/4d/Ruby_Rose_-_Full_Portrait4.jpg character design]] is best described as "goth meets LittleRedFightingHood", even fighting with a giant scythe. The initial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYW2GmHB5xs "Red" trailer]] had fans presuming that she would have a more muted personality, but as more material about the series came out, it [[https://twitter.com/montyoum/status/285275420872560642/photo/1 became clear]] that she was more upbeat. She has statues of [[AnimalisticAbomination creatures of Grimm]] in her room and is both fascinated by the monsters and utterly determined to annhilate them all. |
| 363 | * Inverted with Creator/ShanaFesta of Website/TheBookieMonster and author of the ''Literature/TimeOfDeath'' novels. She looks like someone's perky neighbor yet runs one of the biggest horror book review sites around. |
| 364 | * In ''{{Literature/Moonflowers}}'', [[Myth/GreekMythology Persephone]] is ''very much'' this. Apart from being blonde, she's the queen of the dead who dresses in a muted color scheme (blues and grays, with black jewelry), but is quite sociable and friendly. |
| 365 | * ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Well, Killdra's not quite the friendliest example, but she isn't a Debbie Downer like her brother is. |
| 366 | * ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' has the host wearing black nail polish, skull hats, black clothing (with a skull tank top in season four) and cracks jokes constantly at the videos she's watching. Taken further with her twitch [[https://www.twitch.tv/kiarastrings streams.]] |
| 367 | * ''WebVideo/RegularCarReviews'': Mr. Regular basically describes the [[https://youtu.be/6u8xlg-q5Xc Buick Regal Grand National]] (which famously only came in black) as one of these: |
| 368 | -->"A real life Dark Knight... A sinister rolling reminder to any passing oligarch that death claims all... ''[{{Beat}}]'' Nah! If you want to know the truth, this is the happiest car in the world. |
| 369 | * The ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'' sketch "Goth [[Music/DaveMatthewsBand Dave Matthews]] Fan" is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 370 | -->His nails may be black, but his heart is [tie]-dye. |
| 371 | * ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}} EN'': |
| 372 | ** Calliope "Calli" Mori is a ''literal'' grimm reaper (and first apprentice to ''the'' Grimm Reaper), who dresses like a cross between a stereotypical evil queen and an ElegantGothicLolita, is seldom seen without her massive SinisterScythe on her back, and raps about her love of death and murder. She's also an incredibly sweet, friendly, and funny girl prone to blushing. The exception is when she's around [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend Kiara]], who brings out her [[{{Tsundere}} Tsun]] side. Her song ''Deadbeats'' is half about her love of murder, and half about her love of her fans (who are called "Deadbeats"). |
| 373 | ** EN's third generation introduces Shiori Novella, who flat-out describes herself as "your hot goth girlfriend, question mark?" and admits to liking Hot Topic. She's also a huge nerd who squees on stream over obscure facerig technology and science facts. |
| 374 | %% * The Lady of the Manners, webmistress of the [[http://www.gothic-charm-school.com/ Gothic Charm School]]. |
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| 376 | |
| 377 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 378 | * The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfFigaroPho'' is a timid boy who wears lots of black and lives in a gothic mansion. However, he built a RobotDog who he loves to play with, and has very childlike enthusiasm at times. |
| 379 | * Debbie of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' seems to have an obsession with death and the dark side, but for the most part seems very friendly and well-adjusted. |
| 380 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': OneShotCharacter Joshua wears dark clothing and has a poetic soul. He's happy and expressive while he and his girlfriend Tricia are in a relationship but gets much more gloomy during their brief breakup. |
| 381 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo:'' In "American Goth," Shaggy's childhood friend Amelia is a goth girl with an unfailingly kind and sunny disposition. The same is true of her parents. For the most part, her friends are {{Large Ham}}s who only pretend to be stereotypical goths. |
| 382 | * Lydia, from the AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}''. (''Not'' the near-suicidal {{emo}} kid from [[Film/{{Beetlejuice}} the movie]], although she ''did'' lighten up at the end of the movie and new wardrobes are expensive.) |
| 383 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/CarlSquared'': Ironically not Carl Crashman's sister, Chloe, but her boyfriend Damien. |
| 384 | * ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'', on his own show at least. |
| 385 | ** He's mostly this in ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' as well, being a HarmlessVillain who only wants to make it big in show business rather than a genuine threat. |
| 386 | * ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' has Tabitha and Courtney, two teenage goth girls who are dubbed "The Witches of the Creek" by the elementary school aged main characters. The two (particularly Tabitha) are amused by the intimidating witchy image the kids have of them and enjoy messing with them, but they're very playful and even end up helping the kids a few times. |
| 387 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Sam Manson is very clearly one of these. By outward appearance, she's your stereotypical Goth girl. But she's actually quite happy with the way life is! She often tries to be a stereotypical edgy, brooding goth, but it never lasts long. It generally appears as though Sam considers herself a Goth because she likes the style... or because she wanted to rebel against her parents. During the Christmas season, she becomes so [[GenkiGirl cheery and full of holiday spirit]] that it unnerves everyone around her! |
| 388 | %%* Shareena from animated series, ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}''. |
| 389 | * Ingrid Third in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' is pale, raven-haired, dresses only in black most of the time and cracks wise ''all the time''. |
| 390 | %%* Creepie Creecher from ''WesternAnimation/GrowingUpCreepie''. |
| 391 | * Vanessa Doofenshmirtz of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', whenever her dad's not around to embarrass her. |
| 392 | ** Actually addressed in one episode, where Vanessa informed her father that she and her friends were [[InsistentTerminology "Punks, not Goths."]] |
| 393 | * The 1999 direct-to-video ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' movie, ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'', features "The Hex Girls", a rock-band trio of friendly Goth girls. They identify themselves as "Eco-Goths", are deeply involved with environmental causes, and the lead singer's Wiccan background becomes key in dealing with the titular Witch's Ghost. They generally retained both aspects of this trope in subsequent appearances in the franchise (namely in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheLegendOfTheVampire'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''). |
| 394 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Jinx is this, serving as a [[PerkyFemaleMinion cheerful and perky villainess]] foil for the heroic, [[SugarAndIcePersonality gloomy goth]] Raven. |
| 395 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheModifyers'': Agent Xero uses a ring to change into her alter ego: Lacey Shadows. Except her personality doesn't change, so she's just as upbeat and playful as she normally is. The only differences are, [[BoyishShortHair her hair shortens]] and becomes multi-colored, she wears dark eyeshadow, and she gains a British accent. |
| 396 | * Triana Orpheus in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', in sharp contrast to the unrelenting weirdness surrounding her home life. Her dad, despite being a major contributor to the weirdness, is also as perky as his wardrobe is somber. And he's always offering homemade snacks to anyone who visits. |
| 397 | -->"''[cape flick, dramatic music]'' Who wants... PIZZA ROLLS?" |
| 398 | * ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'' is pretty much what happens when you make a show based around this trope, with the titular character being an incredibly cheerful girl who wears dark clothing and lives in a old Victorian mansion. This is hammered in by the show's theme song telling the audience that they're going "to show you the bright side of the dark side." |
| 399 | * ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' gives us Julian, an endearingly gothic {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who's apparently based on Noel Fielding. |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Inverted with Mandy. She may appears innocent with her pink flower dress, but she's actually so gloomy, cynical, and hostile that even creatures from the underworld fear messing with her. |
| 401 | * On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' the Goth Kids are decidedly ''not'' an example, but their [[FandomRivalry rivals]], the Vampire Kids, come a lot closer, largely consisting of popular kids who like ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' but dress in a dark clothes. |
| 402 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 403 | ** Gwen fits this bill pretty well when she's in a good mood. |
| 404 | ** Scary Girl from the 2023 reboot fits this bill even better, however, as her nickname would suggest, this peppiness serves to make her even more unnerving. |
| 405 | * ''WesternAnimation/MattsMonsters'': Manson toys with the trope, as although she is pretty gloomy and snarky, she does have a more cheerful side and it is not difficult for her to show it up. |
| 406 | * ''WesternAnimation/MonaTheVampire'' of course has the title character herself. The main theme song describes her as "a nice, normal girl" and, indeed, she is. She just has a bit of an overactive imagination that cause a bit of trouble on occasion. |
| 407 | * The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'' counts for this. As a vampire, she has a love for all things spooky and creepy. However, as a little girl, she also loves playing with dolls, and is very quirky and upbeat. |
| 408 | * Charlene from ''WesternAnimation/VictorAndValentino'' is a chipper CreepyChild who dresses in all black and likes the occult. |
| 409 | * Entrapta in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' was designed as a Perky ''Cyber''goth, with a purple-dominated colour palette, big, chunky steel-capped boots, long oddly-tinted hair, and a scary red-eyed mask, contrasting with an extremely upbeat and likeable demeanour. She even manages to [[OddFriendship make friends]] with BigBad Hordak, who is ''entirely'' devoid of perkiness. |
| 410 | * Juleka Couffaine from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' is too shy and reserved to really qualify as "perky", but is nonetheless a pleasant, amiable person with an archetypically goth look. |
| 411 | * ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'': During her investigation of Brett, Reagan discovers that he was both a goth ''and'' a jock at the same time in high school, which she uses as proof that his backstory is insane and possibly fabricated. Turns out it's simply a result of him being [[LoveHungry completely desperate for approval and willing to change everything about himself to get it]]. |
| 412 | * As ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has progressed, Amity has gradually made her way towards becoming this. By the time of "Enchanting Grom Fright", while she is certainly still prickly and abrasive, she has become significantly less volatile towards other people, especially [[spoiler:her newfound crush Luz. By the time of "Eclipse Lake", recent events including Amity finally [[CallingTheOldManOut defying her mother's will]] as well as [[RelationshipUpgrade her and Luz becoming girlfriends]] have made Amity significantly happier and more positive, with her frequently smiling and being far friendlier to everyone. It gets to a point where by the time of "Thanks to Them" Amity is the more joyful, optimistic, and positive partner in her romance with Luz, due to Luz's own spirits and optimism [[BreakTheCutie being ground into dust]] by all of the horrible things she has faced and experienced.]] |
| 413 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Lavanade is pale-skinned, wears all-black clothing, and talks to ghosts. She's also a cheerful and friendly young girl who loves jokes and hugs. |
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