Basic Trope: A female character who is overly emotional.
- Straight: Alice is rather neurotic, always crying or worrying.
- Exaggerated: Alice does nothing the whole time but scream or having panic attacks whenever she has to do something.
- Downplayed: Alice is not the only one to be visibly frightened or upset, it's just Alice's reactions are more notable then everyone else's.
- Justified:
- Alice has a diagnosed mental disorder.
- The Big Bad is trying to break her spirit through various methods of torture and rape, and it's working.
- Something really bad has just happened, is happening, or is about to happen. Alice is unable to do anything, or even communicate what's going on to someone who can help.
- Alice has low EQ.
- Inverted:
- Alice shows very little emotion.
- Alice is generally more sensible than others.
- Gender Inverted: Bob Screams Like a Little Girl and cries pitifully.
- Subverted:
- Alice is actually an actress playing as a screaming heroine in a melodrama.
- Alice and Bob are really a Battle Couple of Cold Snipers. Alice screams to distract the bad guys while Bob is taking aim.
- Alice is squealing with excitement because she just won the lottery.
- Alice is just a Drama Queen and an Attention Whore who acts hysterical and neurotic just to have people worry about her.
- Double Subverted:
- The director criticizes Alice's acting technique, and then she loses her cool for real.
- But then Bob is killed, and Alice crosses the Despair Event Horizon.
- She won $5 off a scratch ticket, not the millions or billions that would (to most people) be worth Squeeing over.
- ...Except she'e also suffering from actual mental problems that make her act this way.
- Parodied:
- Alice screams bloody murder upon receiving a paper cut.
- Alice is literally crying over spilled milk.
- Bob hears Alice screaming, only to find she's not hurt, but he caught her mid-Squee
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alice doesn't react at all, sometimes she reacts normally/realistically, and sometimes her reaction is so over-the-top as to be unbelievable, depending on the situation or the writer
- Averted: Alice usually remains calm and sane.
- Enforced: Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits
- Lampshaded: "Oh Alice, you're getting hysterical again...Here." *slap!* *slap!* "Now get a hold of yourself, woman!"
- Invoked: Evil Elliott tortures Alice, hoping to either lure Bob to his lair, or get information from Alice.
- Exploited: Charlie, a misogynistic business owner, gives Alice a job so he can prove that "women are too weak to be working".
- Defied: Alice doesn't want to look weak or risk the team, so she keeps a stiff upper lip.
- Discussed: "There goes Alice again, crying and screaming." "Yeah, what a womanchild."
- Conversed: "Another crazy screaming woman character? What a Cliché Storm." "Well, this is a melodrama, what do you expect?"
- Implied: Alice is The Ghost, and she is mentioned making these screams.
- Deconstructed:
- Alice suffers from actual mental and/or physical aliments which end up not diagnosed and treated, because everyone thinks the symptoms are just "crazy woman" behavior, or that she's exaggerating for attention.
- It takes Alice years to get a proper diagnosis and treatment, because doctors just write her off as being overly dramatic, or write off her problems as "all in her head."
- People dislike Alice not because she's a woman, but because her behaviour is wangsty, hence annoying and off-putting.
- Reconstructed: Bob takes Alice to the doctor just to "calm her down" and the doctor treats her actual mental problems.
- Played For Laughs:
- Alice's crying and laughing are all humorous and over-the-top funny, to the point where she becomes a Memetic Molester by fans. As always, Hilarity Ensues.
- One of Alice's friends carry a pacifier and put it in her mouth whenever she gets slightly emotional.
- Played For Drama: Alice is struggling with a serious mental disorder.
- Played For Horror: The work is a Period Piece and Alice is diagnosed with hysteria, and given all sorts of horrific treatments: solitary confinement, genital mutilation, rape, Lobotomy, and being sent to a Bedlam House.
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