Basic Trope: A Tomboy that actually hates being boyish.
- Straight: Alex complains why she isn't pretty and ladylike enough.
- Exaggerated:
- Alex will Driven to Suicide whenever she fails to behave womanly.
- Alex even hates other tomboys too.
- Downplayed:
- Alex is not actually too much of a tomboy and feels a little bit insecure for being "not as girly as everyone expect her to be", but otherwise she is quite fine of her boyish activities.
- Alex doesn't really have a problem with partaking in typically male activities or being into typically male stuff, but wishes she wouldn't get odd looks when doing ladylike activities.
- Justified:
- Alex's parents Wanted a Son Instead, so they raise her to fit in a masculine role or even raise her as a boy, and when Alex grow up, she struggle with identity crisis and the insecurity comes from her rebellious antic against them.
- Alex is rejected/criticized/bullied by feminine virtue(s) who she uses to look up to
- Alex's Love Interest prefers Girly Girl, and sees Alex as a platonic friend or a sister instead of a romantic option.
- Alex came from a poor family of farmers and/or manual workers, and doesn't have money to buy the latest fashion trends, or invest in the expensive makeup industry.
- Alex is tall, and there are only plain and masculine choices for her size in clothing stores, much to her dismay.
- Inverted:
- Unwillingly Girly Tomboy
- Alex is really proud to be a tomboy, and pressures the Girly Girl to behave more like a man.
- Gender Inverted: Alex is In Touch with His Feminine Side and he thinks he should behave more manly than he is.
- Subverted:
- Alex is boyish and unhappy, but it comes from her other issues.
- Alex is boyish and unhappy, because he is really dysphoric about how people still see him as a girl.
- Double Subverted: ...until she starts thinking about why she doesn't dress and act feminine enough.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alex hates being boyish, sometimes she is proud of it, and sometimes she feels indifferent about how her looks and acts.
- Averted: Alex clearly likes being a tomboy.
- Enforced: "We want a Tomboy character, but not too tomboyish to be pretty, let's add some insecurity for her!"
- Lampshaded: "WHY can't I be more like a real woman just like them?"
- Invoked: Alex's mother convinces Alex to behave more like a lady, and correct all of her masculine mannerism.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alex keeps being tomboy, no matter what people may or may not think.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why don't just the Tomboy of this show enjoys doing thing that she like, no matter what kinds of social pressure?, I hate it."
- Implied: Alex dresses quite masculine and appears as The Eeyore and/or Perpetual Frowner.
- Plotted A Good Waste: Alex's insecurity is created for An Aesop about Be Yourself.
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