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''[[Fool's Gold (manga)|Fool's Gold]]'' is an [[OEL Manga]] series written and illustrated by Amy Reeder Hadley and published by [[Tokyo Pop]].
The story follows Penny, a sophomore in high school who has come to the conclusion that [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]], and [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|she wants to fix this]].
She proposes that the reason girls are attracted to jerks is because the jerks are pyrite, or fool's gold: [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|they look nice on the outside,]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk|but they're not really worth any girl's attention]]. Penny starts a club dedicated to identifying the pyrite in her school and then shunning them by having all club members swear not to date or associate with them. But when she labels a boy a pyrite a little too quickly, she's caused a lot of confusion as it starts to seem that [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|he might not be so bad.]]

The series spans three volumes, the first two of which have already been published. [[Word of God|Hadley has stated]] that the third volume is finished, but [[Tokyo Pop]] has no plans to release it at this time.

Hadley's official site can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20060819193128/http://www.tentopet.com/ here].

[[I Thought It Meant|No relation to]] [[Fool's Gold (film)|the movie]] starring [[Matthew McConnaughey]] and [[Kate Hudson]].

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* [[Animesque]]: Doesn't embrace the manga style as overtly as some other OELs, but it's still noticeable. 
* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Blake. 
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Penny makes it her mission to defy this trope and help other girls to do the same.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Hannah has all the makings of a traditional Libby, but is treated fairly sympathetically and is arguably a subversion. 
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Orion is Betty and Blake is Veronica.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Orion, who appears in the background of every chapter of the first volume but doesn't become important until the end of it. 
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Severely insecure Orion becomes a Clingy Jealous [[Gender Flip|Boy]] once he and Penny start dating. 
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Penny's aunt, Nicole.
* [[Education Mama]]: Penny's dad is a male example.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Hannah. When Penny continues to assume the worst of her despite her loyalty to the club, she decides to become the bad guy Penny insists on making her out to be. 
* [[Grammar Nazi]]: Blake.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Penny. 
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Hannah and Blake seem to be this. 
* [[Love Triangle]]: Seeing as the series has pretty strong [[Shoujo]] influences, this was guaranteed to show up. 
* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: Blake has one after Orion tries to start a fight with him. Orion only manages to give him a small scrape before Penny breaks it up, but Blake curls into a ball and worries he might faint. 
* [[Missing Mom]]: Penny's mom died when she was seven.
* [[No Name Given]]: There is a curious lack of last names in this series. 
* [[Not Good with People]]: Orion loves plants and animals but is cripplingly shy, so he's a fairly harmless type 1 ([[Clingy Jealous Girl|mostly]]). 
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Hannah.
* [[Tell Me About My Father]]: Doesn't actually happen, but Penny wishes her father would talk more about her dead mother because she never got the chance to know her. 
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Orion.
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: The point of Penny's club. 
* [[Super OCD]]: Possibly averted as Blake is described [[All There in the Manual|in his Tokyopop bio]] as only "borderline OCD". 
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: In a more mudane example, Blake is so obsessed with proper grammar that he  {{spoiler|defaces signs that contain sentence fragments to make them grammatically correct}}. Penny is arguably this with her club.

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[[Category:OEL Manga]]
[[Category:Fool's Gold (manga)]]