Basic Trope: We're told a character has a problem of some kind, but it never seems to have a true impact in the story.
- Straight: Alice is said to have too much Pride for her own good, but survives many scrapes with the law through basic humility.
- Exaggerated: Alice allegedly flaunts every one of her accomplishments — however minor — in everyone else's face, but seems perfectly well-adjusted.
- Downplayed:
- Alice often sneezes into the air without covering her nose.
- Princess Alice is a Lethal Chef in a story where everyone is royalty and thus has maids who cook delicious food for them anyway.
- Justified:
- Alice's pride was stated by another character and is a lie.
- The narrator of the story tells the reader(s) of the story that Alice is extremely prideful. However, the narrator is an Unreliable Narrator.
- Alice isn't sure of herself and has poor self esteem.
- Time Marches On. This is after the fall that pride comes before of.
- Alice is a minor character with about thirty seconds of screen time. Her personality has to be told and not shown because she's simply not present.
- Inverted:
- We hear Alice knows an awesome technique, but we never see her using it.
- Alice's exceedingly proud attitude gets her in trouble a lot but she is often described as humble.
- Subverted:
- Alice really can't do something that the audience has been told she can't do.
- Alice does, in fact, have a tendency to rub everything about her into someone.
- It's not our Alice they are talking about, but her unseen namesake. note
- FYI, Pride is a Trope Co. beverage… that Alice tends to overconsume.
- Double Subverted:
- Except her mind was elsewhere the first time we saw her try to carry out that task. Under normal circumstances, she could just as easily do it without looking.
- When we see her rattling off her Long List of accomplishments, she is doing so to rid herself of Dale, an Abhorrent Admirer who at least doesn't have a catastrophically high opinion of himself.
- The other Alice still isn't actually as prideful as people think she is.
- But even then, Alice isn't actually that much of a fan of Pride, she'd rather have a different drink instead.
- Parodied: Fiction Broadcasting Station airs a profile of "Proud" Alice and her highly successful charitable foundation, the Friends of Orphaned Trope Links.
- Zig Zagged: Dale complains about Alice's Awesome Ego for the first book and a half, until she wakes up realizing it was All Just a Dream. Then, the first time she runs into Dale while awake, he tricks her into showing off her lack of skill at Game X in front of an 80,000-strong crowd, but his target wasn't our Alice, but one Alessandra, who often goes by "Alice".
- Averted: We're told Alice's flaw, and we get to see firsthand instances of how it affects her.
- Lampshaded: "Dale, you can't call me proud. If anything, I'm too humble. If pride were really my Fatal Flaw, how come I've never had an axe in my eye for saying I could throw one when I couldn't?"
- Invoked:
- Alice is trying to infiltrate the inner circle of a Big Bad who takes great pleasure in indulging in all Seven Deadly Sins.
- A Villain with Good Publicity fabricates a story about Alice doing something heinous to discredit her.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Knowing that people think she's smug, Alice resolves to eliminate all traces of egotism from her outlook, to the point of asking her hyper-observant ex-boyfriend Mike to keep a constant eye on her and viciously rebuking her if she makes a mistake.
- Discussed: "Alice is a lot nicer in person than her lousy reputation implied."
- Conversed: "For all this talk of 'Proud' Alice, she was really not written to be that hubristic."
- Played for Laughs: The narrator is an Unreliable Narrator and tells us that Alice has a problem but we regularly see the opposite.
- Played for Drama: Alice is the Unreliable Narrator and, unsure of her own ability, constantly downplays it. She tells us that her Fatal Flaw (or a list of fatal flaws) are this, but in actuality, the characters can see that the Fatal Flaw is really Alice's self-esteem.
"Good thing you don't require troping skills to return to Informed Flaw, because I'm a certified consummate natterer, ZCE putter, gusher and complainer! True story, bro!"