I see the Awesomeness.
I vote cut the RL section.
Fight smart, not fair.
Zzzzzzzzzz
Cut it.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Huh? I wasn't suggesting to CUT it, I was just wondering why there were only a few specific examples. Why should it be cut?
Lost in Space
Because we're about tropes in media. Real Life is only allowed on sufferance - if it gets nattery, we kill it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Fair enough, then. I've scrapped it.
The reason I brought up that remark wasn't so much for its semi-nattery tone so much as to question to notion that a Genki Girl personality is something to conceal in the first place. I can only speak for myself here, but I tend to think of it as endearing. Well, unless it's of the Jerkass variety of Genki Girl, of course.
Maybe this kind of conversation belongs in On Topic?
Lost in Space
Well, if you want to talk about the endearing nature of the Genki Girl archetype in Real Life, then yes, On-Topic would probably be a good place. However, as applied to media, it's just a Characterization Trope that may or may not provoke the same response in any given viewer. Some may find it endearing, some annoying, some may treat such characters as The Scrappy... just like any other character archetype.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
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There seem not to be many real life examples here, despite the abundance of them in the troper tales page; and even then, the sincerety with which these anecdotes are expressed is uncertain. This only makes the "we've all met" part more ironic.
The only specifically cited ones are Lights, Lady Gaga, and Kary Byron; are these implied to be considered the Most Triumphant Examples in real life? Also...
"◦All-girls schools. Chock full of them. It's amazing how bizarrely girls act when there is no male presence to fight over/impress/be judged by."
... what?