Basic Trope: A character has a habitual vice, but is still heroic nonetheless.
- Straight: Amazing Girl can be vain, wrathful, and greedy, but that will never outweigh her good deeds to others.
- Exaggerated: Amazing Girl contains all of the Seven Deadly Sins, yet she is still one of the purest heroines.
- Downplayed: It's harder for Amazing Girl to resist the temptation to grab something shiny when she sees it, but for the most part she can keep her greed in check.
- Justified:
- All her life, Amazing Girl has been told how great of a hero she was, allowing pride to take root.
- She has the unusual capability of 'reverse abusing', allowing her to use each of the vices when its appropriate and for rightful gain.
- Her vices are neither destructive nor fatal.
- Inverted:
- Evulz is undoubtedly evil, but has many Evil Virtues.
- Evulz is Straight Edge Evil who has no real vices.
- Subverted: Amazing Girl plans on overcoming her vices to become more of a virtuous heroine...
- Double Subverted: ...only to dwell in them again the next week. She's still a good person, though.
- Parodied: Amazing Girl is lauded as the greatest hero on Earth, despite being very likely to tear down whole cities in her rage every time someone says something impolite to her.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Amazing Girl is a hero with absolutely no vices.
- Enforced: The writer wants to make a point that not all heroes are completely upright.
- Lampshaded: "I think you might have some anger management issues there, Amazing Girl." "Yeah, but crime never learns, so I don't think I'll run out of people who deserve to be hit any time soon."
- Invoked: Feeling that she needs to be more decisive in order to more effectively fight crime, Amazing Girl intentionally gets riled up so she can channel her wrath.
- Exploited: Knowing that Amazing Girl struggles with greed, the villain will scatter precious metals or stones when he escapes in order to distract her.
- Defied: "I'm a hero, and real heroes don't dwell in their vices."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Whenever things don't go her way, Amazing Girl has to visibly restrain herself to avoid making a bad situation worse. Furthermore, her house is a smashed wreck and she spends an inordinate amount of time dealing with petty criminals, the type she can beat easily with minimal effort to help calm herself down.
- Deconstructed:
- Amazing Girl is heroic, yet many people love to Accentuate the Negative, view her as a supposedly toxic individual, and ignore the good she's done. Angst ensues.
- People find difficulty in supporting and relating to Amazing Girl because her vices suffer a case of values dissonance.
- Reconstructed: While Amazing Girl is unquestionably a good person, underneath it all, she's still only human. She has a stressful job, a psyche that isn't always compatible with it, and an inadequate support system to help her cope with it in a healthy way. Her vices help show how her life wears her down and provide a barometer for her internal conflict.
Back to Mr. Vice Guy.
