Basic Trope: An evil (or morally dark-shaded grey) Action Girl.
- Straight: Alice decides to take her anger out on the heroes or the Action Girl of the group, and subjects them to a Curb-Stomp Battle.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice is a hybrid between Femme Fatale with Apocalypse Maiden and/or Omnicidal Maniac. She will remind you why she is the villain on a regular basis.
- Empress Alice Evulz' entire army is a massive Amazon Brigade of blood-thirsty warriors.
- Female villains are always much more dangerous and evil than their male counterparts.
- Downplayed: One of the Elite Mooks is a girl with a switchblade and a scary grin.
- Justified:
- Alice was probably just an Action Girl, but a Dark and Troubled Past probably drove her to the villain's side.
- Alice is a Blood Knight who happens to be female, and a career with the forces of darkness gives her a steady supply of asses to kick and names to take.
- Inverted: Alice is on the side of good and useless in a fight.
- Gender Inverted: An evil male fighter.
- Subverted:
- Alice seems like the Dark Action Girl for awhile, but the heroes soon find out that she is not as evil as she seems.
- Or, perhaps she is not as actiony as we were initially led to believe.
- Or we learn that "she" is a man.
- Double Subverted:
- Alice kicks ass and takes names as the Dark Action Girl, but decides she no longer wishes to be violent, so she does a Heel–Face Turn and becomes good, only to get closer to the heroes so she can catch them off-guard.
- Once the good guys back down, she says I Am Not Left-Handed and hands them their asses on a platter.
- Then we learn that she is a Voluntary Shape Shifter, whose Shape Shifter Default Form is female.
- She may seem to be turning into a Faux Action Girl, but it turns out her poor showings midway through were due to a case of Worf Had the Flu, and once the extenuating circumstances have passed, she's back on her A-game and spilling blood with the best of 'em again.
- Parodied: Alice is a dark palette-swap of the hero's Action Girl teammate, even down to the attitude.
- Zig Zagged: Alice flip-flops between Femme Fatale, Dark Action Girl, and Damsel in Distress to confuse and manipulate anyone and everyone.
- Averted:
- There are no female villains.
- The female villain isn't a fighter.
- Enforced:
- "You know what this show needs? A strong female character. Let's make her a villain, too."
- "There aren’t enough female villains in the world! I’m tired of all the stories and authors that think women are all innocent angels! Well, I’ll fix that!"
- Lampshaded:
- The villainess exclaims, "Who said all bad guys had to be male?"
- "She's not so much a heart-breaker as she is a bone-breaker".
- "Hi, I'm Alice. I'm here to kill you all just for shits 'n' giggles. Nothing personal, 'k?"
- Invoked: The Evil Overlord employs a female as one of her subjects to fight her heroes.
- Exploited:
- A local arena gives Alice a less-than-practical outfit, her choice of weapons, and 200 bucks a night, and sells tickets to watch her slaughter the competition and look good doing it.
- Knowing the heroes Wouldn't Hit a Girl, the villains sent Alice to take down the heroes.
- Defied: A mercenary Action Girl meets the heroes first rather than the villains, and decides that helping the heroes would be more beneficial to her.
- Discussed:"After destroying all of those villages, I'm assuming she's the bad guy...err...girl".
- Conversed: "The bad girls are usually the ones that kick the heroes' asses".
- Deconstructed: Alice is such a Manipulative Bitch that she is unable to cooperate with potential teammates or allies, and must fight all her fights alone, probably even attracting the attention of powers stronger than her and rendering her a Damsel in Distress.
- Reconstructed: Even though she intimidates or drives away those who could possibly help her, she subjects them to a beat-down and intimidates them into becoming her mooks. And anyone who is bigger and badder than her probably came to her for a reason, and she'll take pretty much any job they'll offer as long as she can get her hands nice and dirty while she's doing it.
- Played For Laughs:
- Alice is rather shallow and seems just a bit ditzy, but has a body count that would make Genghis Khan blush.
- Alice is a very efficient delivery system for Amusing Injuries.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice Used to Be a Sweet Kid, but went From Nobody to Nightmare after something horrible happened. What kind of world would something like this happen in? And how much worse will such a world get now that it's home to the bloodthirsty monster she's become?
- Alice hates the perception that Women Are Delicate and innocent, and decides to rebel by being as vicious and bloodthirsty as possible.
Go back to Dark Action Girl. If you make her come to you, she'll be in a bad mood, and we all know what that means...
