Basic Trope: A crossdressing character is portrayed positively.
- Straight: Charlie enjoys crossdressing and it is treated as just another aspect of his character.
- Exaggerated:
- Charlie is universally praised for crossdressing.
- Charlie is an extremely nice person and is always wearing a hyperfeminine outfit, to the point in which people very regularly mistake him for a girl.
- Everyone is crossdressing.
- Downplayed:
- Charlie occasionally wears a feminine article of clothing now and then.
- Crossdressing is just portrayed neutrally.
- Alice usually wears men's clothing because she's so tall that a lot of women's sizes don't fit her, and some of the size-fitting stuff online costs more than just buying men's clothing from nearby shops. She's either fine with or neutral about it.
- Justified:
- Charlie enjoys looking feminine.
- Charlie is going as a female character he likes for a con or Halloween just because he happens to like the character.
- Charlie's theater group has little to no female members and he portrays them in a respectable manner when needed.
- Charlie for whatever reason dislikes the feeling of pants and/or suits, so he wears dresses as a form of comfort and ease of movement.
- Alice is a Tomboy and just prefers looking masculine.
- Inverted:
- Sweet Polly Oliver
- Charlie is a Creepy Crossdresser.
- Subverted: Charlie turns out to be an actual woman, most likely a Bifauxnen or a transgender woman.
- Double Subverted: Charlie was lying for his own amusement.
- Parodied: Charlie is the most attractive crossdresser in the whole world. He even receives better reaction and treatment than actual women.
- Zig-Zagged: Charlie seems like a crossdresser, but he claims that he won't crossdress, but then he accepts his true self as an attractive crossdresser, but then Charlie is revealed to be a Recursive Crossdresser, but then he finds out that he is actually a transgender man and he starts receiving hormone therapy, but it makes him look more like a Creepy Crossdresser while crossdressing, so he starts shaving and wearing more makeup to looks prettier, but later he decides to stop crossdressing......
- Averted: Charlie doesn't crossdress.
- Enforced:
- The producer wanted a character that crossdressers could relate to.
- The author is trying to challenge gender stereotypes.
- Lampshaded: "Boys can like wearing dresses, too."
- Invoked:
- Exploited: Someone who strives for acceptance uses Charlie crossdressing as an example of why people should be allowed to crossdress.
- Defied: Charlie decides not to crossdress.
- Discussed: "Why's Charlie dressing like a woman?" "Because he looks nice with a dress and makeup."
- Conversed: "I'm glad to finally see a character that crossdresses who isn't portrayed as some creep!"
- Deconstructed: Charlie gets harassed by his disapproving heteronormative parents and many closed-minded jerkasses for the way that he dresses.
- Reconstructed: Charlie finds some true friends who accept him for who he is.
- Played for Laughs: Butt-Monkey Camp Straight crossdresser Charlie is a Foil of Bob, the Macho Camp Creepy Crossdresser and the only person who ever in love with Charlie.
- Played for Drama: Charlie goes outside dressed up, and gets beaten up, or maybe even murdered, by Heteronormative Crusaders.
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