Basic Trope: A character who is virginal and stupid. Usually a Naïve Everygirl or an Unlucky Everydude, and sometimes a Purity Sue.
- Straight: Virginia may have Virgin Power, and she may be sweet and beautiful, but she is often handed the Idiot Ball.
- Exaggerated: Virginia is Too Dumb to Live.
- Downplayed: Virginia is implied to be a virgin and has somewhat below-average intelligence.
- Justified: Virginia has led a sheltered existence, either as an Ordinary High-School Student in Suburbia or as a Barrier Maiden locked away in a temple, and thus is rather naive.
- Inverted:
- Virginia is a virgin, but she's highly intelligent and Wise Beyond Her Years, and portrayed as
perfect, or darn near perfect. She may even serve as a Magical Girlfriend or Team Mom. - Virginia's a virgin because she's always been unlucky at love, leaving her jaded, bitter, and cynical. She's also quite possibly too smart for her own good.
- Virginia has had dozens of lovers, and is dumb as a post.
- Virginia is promiscuous and smart.
- Virginia has a lot of sex and is not dumb, but naive.
- Virginia is a virgin, but she's highly intelligent and Wise Beyond Her Years, and portrayed as
- Subverted:
- Virginia made a mistake but she learned from it.
- Virginia is Obfuscating Stupidity.
- Virginia was too dumb to realize she wasn't actually a virgin.
- Double Subverted: Only to suffer Aesop Amnesia and make the same (or a similar) mistake, causing Disaster Dominoes.
- Parodied: Virginia is Chaotic Stupid.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Virginia holds the Idiot Ball, sometimes she holds the Smart Ball.
- Averted:
- Virginia is a virgin, but she's also very smart.
- Virginia is portrayed as neither overly smart or overly stupid, just a generic human being (who happens to be a virgin).
- Enforced: Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!.
- Lampshaded:
- "Now, I know you've never done this before, but..."
- "Why should I listen to you? You're a virgin who can't drive!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: The Big Bad hears about Virginia's Virgin Power, and immediately pegs her as a Naïve Everygirl whom he (or his minions) can easily seduce, thus causing her to lose her power and her status.
- Defied:
- Virginia is very Genre Savvy, and learns her role quickly. It's sink or swim, after all.
- After find out that Virginia "isn't the sharpest knife in the place where they keep the knives", her mentor starts teaching her useful knowledge, both academic and world-savvy, so that she becomes a cultured and wise person.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Virginia doesn't mean to be stupid. In fact, she's not stupid, just naïve due to a sheltered environment or some kind of duty that involved Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training. Being outside this environment or duty makes her nervous and/or Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance, and thus the stupid mistakes.
- Reconstructed: Virginia knows how to handle herself when outside of her comfort zone but is still Oblivious to Love or innuendo.
- Played For Laughs: The wielder of the Virgin Power is male, and tries (and fails) desperately to prove his manhood, even at the cost of his powers. Hilarity ensues.
Go back to Virginity Makes You Stupid, but this time, use the freaking doorknob.
