Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 171 - Even the Girls Want Her

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Guys Want Him
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Evil Cripple
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
Mighty Glacier
Big Bad Friend
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome, was Marie (The Bourne Supremacy), who got 3 votes.

Previous Winners: Day 141 Onwards
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)
Poisonous Person - Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
That One Boss - Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
B***h in Sheep's Clothing - Matt Engarde and Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Blue-Collar Warlock - John Constantine (Constantine)
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)
Me's a Crowd - Naruto / Multiple Man (X-Men)
A Taste of Power - Samus (Metroid Series)
Shrinking Violet - Violet (The Incredibles)
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)

Today's trope is Even the Girls Want Her. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvenTheGirlsWantHer

When a guy is so studly and great that he inspires worship and desire in both women and men, it's Even the Guys Want Him. But when a female character's female fan club matches or exceeds her male fan club, you've stumbled upon the slightly rarer but still prominent Distaff Counterpart: Even The Girls Want Her.

The "her" in question is often an aloof-seeming, athletic high school student who is pursued by every sports club in school, and has the guys crooning "So hot!" as she goes past, and the girls squealing "So cool!" as she goes past (none of these are a hard-and-fast requirement, but most of the examples will pick and choose at least one or two items off the "menu" of aloofness, athletic ability, and "cool" beauty).

This illustrates the major difference between the gender versions of this trope. The male "admirers" in the case of Even the Guys Want Him often mingle equal amounts jealousy, anger, or frustration into their admiration, often due to Stupid Sexy Flanders. But perhaps due to the concept of the Romantic Two-Girl Friendship, the female admirers in the case of Even The Girls Want Her rarely display any negative connotations to their admiration (or attraction). They'll follow the cool girl around like a pack of lovesick puppies, and never think twice about it. The Love Interest of said girl (be male or female) might be more likely to elicit said reactions, though, but that's a case-by-base scenario. Sometimes, though, said love interest becomes the focus of ire of the fan club as they're not worthy.

This refers specifically to otherwise straight women and girls falling for a woman; if her admirers already liked the ladies, it doesn't count.

TL,DR: "I'm not a lesbian but she's damn hot!"

Nominations:
Regina George (Mean Girls)
Lana (Archer)
Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim VS The World)

wait so are we voting for the girl being admired or the girl doing the admiring
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Lily and Robin (How I Met Your Mother)
Lana (Archer)
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Kashima (Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun)
Sakaki (Azumanga Daioh)
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Tahani Al-Jamil (The Good Place)
Lana Kane (Archer)
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Regina George (Mean Girls)
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Envy Adams (Scott Pilgrim vs The World)
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Johnbobb posted...

wait so are we voting for the girl being admired or the girl doing the admiring

The girl being admired

Rankings so far:
Lana Kane (Archer) - 3 votes
Regina George (Mean Girls) - 2 votes
Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim VS The World)
Lily and Robin (How I Met Your Mother)
Kashima (Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun)
Sakaki (Azumanga Daioh)
Envy Adams (Scott Pilgrim vs The World)

Yurika - Yurika's Campus Life
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All these anime noms and no one nominates the OG?

Utena Tenjou (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
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Oscar Francois de Jarjayes (The Rose of Versailles)
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