Basic Trope: A boy with girlish traits.
- Straight: Les prefers to be in the company of girls and prefers cooking, tapestry, sewing, caring for his hair, and fashion to playing sports, wrestling, action figures, and body building.
- Exaggerated:
- Les has no masculine interests.
- Camp Straight
- Camp Gay
- Downplayed:
- Agent Peacock
- Sensitive Guy with a Manly Streak.
- Justified:
- Les likes "girly" interests more than "boyish interests".
- Les was raised by feminine people and/or in a feminine enviroment.
- Les's traditionally masculine father was abusive, so he acts in the exact opposite manner of his father to avoid becoming abusive himself.
- Les is a (closeted) transgender girl.
- Inverted:
- Gender Inverted: Girly Girl
- Subverted: Les is revealed to be generally outwardly masculine despite any feminine interests he has.
- Or it's actually a girl impersonating a boy!
- Double Subverted:
- But he keeps this side of his personality notoriously private, even from his significant other, and passes them off as the male equivalent to Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak if anyone ever sees him doing them.
- Going off the subversion where the "girl impersonates the boy" it's a straight example combined with Lady Looks Like a Dude.
- Parodied: Les is by far the most "girly" one of the cast - compared to him, the male characters are manly men. Bonus points if Les has boobs.
- Zig Zagged: Les's interests alternate between "boyish" and "girly".
- Averted:
- Les has the same interests as any other boy.
- Alternatively, Les has a gender-neutral personality.
- Enforced: The author doesn't want "stereotypical" boys.
- Lampshaded: "Gentlemen, we now know what this Girly Girl would have been like if she were born male. Apparently, absolutely nothing else would have been different".
- Invoked: Les was encouraged to be feminine by the people in his life, whether they be family, friends, enemies and/or environment.
- Exploited: The boys use Les to do the girly things they won't do such as talk to the girls they have a crush on or buy a girl's toy as a present.
- Defied: Les refuses to have "girlsh" interests.
- Discussed: "Say Les, why aren't you like other boys?" "Because I genuinely enjoy being feminine."
- Conversed: "A 'tomgirl'? This should play a good foil for the tomboy."
- Implied: Most of Les friends are girls and even though we never see Les doing anything feminine, said friends are feminine.
- Deconstructed: Les's girly interests cause people to view him as unmasculine. He dies alone and unloved.
- Reconstructed:
- Les's girly interests make other people admire him more.
- Les's girly interests cause people to view him as unmasculine... and he's okay with that.
- Played For Laughs: Les is a Genius Ditz who can create the most intricate dresses and know everything there's to know about ponies, but can't defeat a simple videogame.
- Played For Drama:
- Les gets bullied by his peers. The boys think he's a wimp, the girls think he's a freak, and adults either don't help or alienate him like the kids.
- Les lives in a restrictive society, which punishes him for not acting as a man "should" there.
- Les struggles to be accepted as a tomgirl while living in a setting with very strict gender roles.
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