Basic Trope: A female Otaku or geek played for Wish-Fulfillment.
- Straight: Alice is a fan of Tropeville Girls a Fanservicey anime based off a Dating Sim targeted towards men. Much to Seamus O'Taku's delight.
- Exaggerated: Alice is a fellow fan of Oppai Warriors, a hardcore Hentai with gratuitous fanservice and tentacles galore.
- Downplayed:
- Alice enjoys Tropeville Girls as well as stuff geared more towards her demographic.
- Alice likes "Tropeville Girls", a Schoolgirl Series with lots of Moe
- Justified:
- Tropeville Girls has several factors that created a female Periphery Demographic that includes Alice.
- Alice originally thought the show was for girls at first, but kept watching it anyway.
- Alice is a Cosplay Otaku Girl.
- Alice is bisexual, and appreciates the fanservice in Tropeville Girls just as much as the male fans.
- Inverted: Seamus O'Taku is a fan of Tropeville Girls an American cartoon for little girls because it reminds him of the Moe anime he enjoys.
- Gender Inverted: Bob is a fan of Tropeville Boys, a Shoujo anime with a Cast Full of Pretty Boys and a heaping helping of Ho Yay, much to Shannon O'Tome's delight.
- Subverted: Alice seems to like Tropeville Girls at first, but in actuality, she only plays it to make fun of it.
- Double Subverted: ...Or rather that's what she says around her friends, as she's a Closet Geek.
- Parodied: In a sort of Take That, Audience!, Alice is an obvious Audience Surrogate who is so obsessively geeky that even Seamus wants nothing to do with her.
- Zig Zagged: Alice loves Troperville Girls on some times, but not others.
- Averted: Alice is presented as a love interest to Seamus, but she isn't geeky.
- Enforced: Alice is a character in a Schoolgirl Series with an Improbably Female Cast, so she acts as an Audience Surrogate.
- Lampshaded: "It's a match made in our parent's basements!"
- Invoked: A dating site exists specifically for Troperville Girls fans.
- Exploited: The Big Bad takes advantage of Alice's love of Troperville Girls by bribing her with media related to it.
- Defied: Alice refuses to date other Troperville Girls fans.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice is not interested in Seamus just because they like the same show. Seamus cannot accept this, and acts creepy and entitled.
- Reconstructed: Seamus accepts that Alice does not want to be in a relationship with him and decides the two are better as just friends. Alice then sets Seamus up on a date with Claire, her friend who also likes Troperville Girls and is much more compatible with Seamus.
- Implied: Seamus and Alice O'Taku are a married couple. When asked the story of how they met, Seamus says, "Well, it was at an Anime convention..." but is then cut off.
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