Genki Girl/Playing With

Basic Trope: A girl or woman who's incredibly hyper.

• Straight: Alice is almost always running around and talking quickly.
• Exaggerated: Alice is always running and talking quickly... even in her Sleep.
• Justified:
  • Alice is holding an artifact that grants its bearer massive amounts of energy.
  • Alice is a coffee addict.
  • Alice suffers from ADHD.
  • Alice is very excited about life.
• Inverted: Alice is an Emotionless Girl
• Subverted: Alice's genkiness is just a facade. She's nowhere near as cheerful as she seems.
• Double Subverted: After going through Character Development, she becomes a genuine Genki Girl.
• Parodied: A physiologist is determined to discover the source of Alice's genkiness and the result revolutionizes the human existence.
• Deconstructed:
  • Alice's genkiness causes her to destroy several valuable artifacts. As a result, she is shunned or jailed.
  • Alice is actually addicted to crystal meth -- other characters assume she's just genki.
  • Alice's genetic disposition to manic depression is showing.
• Reconstructed: Alice's genkiness allows her to drive Emperor Evulz crazy, destroying his evil plan.
  • Alice is Immune to Drugs. Crystal meth is to her what ice cream is to everyone else; i.e. its not the root cause of her energy.
  • In a fit of extreme mania, Alice creates an artistic masterpiece.
• Zig Zagged: Depending on who she's with, she's either really Genki, emotionless, or something near normal.
• Averted: Alice is not Genki at all.
• Enforced: "Alice's actress seems really hyper. Why don't we write her character around that?"
• Lampshaded:
  • "Alright, who introduced Alice to coffee?"
  • "Alice, if you don't hold still for five seconds, I'm going to glue your feet to the floor!" "Onetwothreefourfive! ZOOM!"
  • "I'M SO FREAKING HYPER" - Alice
• Invoked: Alice drinks coffee and other drinks with high caffeine so she will always be on the go.
• Defied: Alice tries to calm down her large bursts of energy, whether taking medication or doing a sport.
• Double Defied/Exploited: Someone needs Alice to run really fast someplace...so they give her caffeine.
• Discussed: "You know, Alice's hyperness would be perfect for this. She'd probably be able to kill the mooks without their ever being able to lift a finger."
• Conversed: "Alice needs to lay off the Coffee, seriously."

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The link back to Genki Girl is right he- and there she goes again...