Basic Trope: A girl (most likely a literal princess or some other high status) is talented at more things than a guy, who has no special status either.
- Straight: Princess Alice can dance, paint, and kick butt, while Bob has no unique skills.
- Exaggerated: Princess Alice has every talent imaginable, including skills she doesn't even need, while Bob can do basically nothing.
- Downplayed: Bob's pretty talented... It's just that Alice tends to be a bit better than him.
- Justified:
- Princess Alice has a team of tutors and instructors who taught her everything she knows, while Bob is a peasant and doesn't have access to, or can't afford, that kind of thing.
- Alice has lived a sheltered life and had to do something to entertain herself.
- Inverted: Bob is incredibly talented and Alice isn't.
- Subverted: Alice has been trained in artistic areas and is better than Bob in that respect, but once the Big Bad kidnaps her, she proves herself unskilled and incompetent, and it's up to Bob to save her.
- Double Subverted: But then Alice discovers skills she didn't know she had, and kicks the Big Bad's ass, outdoing Bob again.
- Parodied: Alice is a Physical God. Bob is literally her Pet Rock.
- Zig Zagged: Alice is a better singer than Bob, Bob is a better dancer than Alice, Alice is a better artist than Bob, etc.
- Averted: Bob and Alice are both equally talented or untalented.
- Enforced: The actress playing Alice insists on doing a lot of singing.
- Lampshaded: "You're such a showoff, Alice." "It's not my fault you don't have any talents, Bob."
- Invoked: Queen Dahlia trains Alice specifically to outperform any commoner because it wouldn't due for a princess to be one-upped by someone of a lower class.
- Exploited: While Bob isn't as talented as Alice, he has one skill that she doesn't: He's good at strategizing. Therefore, by combining her versatile skillset, and his sharp mind, Alice and Bob are able to accomplish goals and overcome obstacles that otherwise would be extremely difficult to deal without one another.
- Defied: Bob is in an Arranged Marriage with Princess Alice. When he hears how vastly talented she is, he immediately begins brushing up on his own skills to impress her.
- Discussed: "I hope all my skills don't make you feel inadequate, Bob." "Eh, it's whatever."
- Conversed: "Wow, Bob sure is pathetic compared to Alice."
- Deconstructed: The talented Princess Alice is engaged to the drab and untalented Bob. Charlie, who is just as talented as Alice, is jealous of Bob because he thinks he's much better for Alice.
- Reconstructed: It was revealed that Alice simply accepted Bob for who he is and is long willing to support him.
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