Girls Need Role Models/Playing With

Basic Trope: Creators intentionally write strong and interesting female characters into their show.
 * Straight: Alice puts strong female characters in her TV show.
 * Exaggerated: Alice only puts strong female characters in her TV show.
 * Downplayed: Alice writes one strong female character in her TV show.
 * Justified: Alice grew up with boys' TV shows because there were no TV shows with girls that she liked.
 * Inverted:
 * Alice puts strong male characters in her TV show.
 * Alice puts weak, flawed female characters into her TV show.
 * Subverted: Alice puts in Betty and Cindy, two girls with Elemental Powers (Betty has Air, Cindy has Fire.) Betty's a bit of a Jerkass, while Cindy is an Extreme Doormat.
 * Double Subverted: These flaws are fixed by the next episode.
 * Parodied: Poking fun at feminists Danny creates a Butch Lesbian Straw Feminist, who makes a Show Within a Show where every character is her Author Avatar. There are no males.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: ???
 * Enforced: The creators want the show to appeal to a female audience.
 * Lampshaded: "Betty and Cindy are much cooler than then other female characters!"
 * Invoked: To impress her feminist friend Ellie, Alice changes the TV show she was writing so it could have strong female characters.
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: "I am a strong proud modern woman but I will not put strong female characters into my show for anyone other than me, but especially not because guys don't need role models!"
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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