Basic Trope: A character, usually female, has a stepmother who is cruel to her.
* Straight: Alice's new stepmother, Nastina, is mean to her and treats her like an unpaid servant.
* Exaggerated: Nastina beats Alice nearly to death every morning, then makes her live in the stables and wear leftover napkins for clothing.
* Justified: Her actions are for the ultimate good of the stepchildren.
* Her husband favors her stepdaughter blindly, and the stepmother can't take it out on him.
* Times are hard, money is short, and Nastina wants her own children to survive and prosper, which means nothing for Alice.
* Inverted: Nastina is kinder to Alice than her original mother had been.
* Alternatively, Alice is needlessly, pointlessly cruel to Nastina, who's done nothing to
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| - Basic Trope: A character, usually female, has a stepmother who is cruel to her.
* Straight: Alice's new stepmother, Nastina, is mean to her and treats her like an unpaid servant.
* Exaggerated: Nastina beats Alice nearly to death every morning, then makes her live in the stables and wear leftover napkins for clothing.
* Justified: Her actions are for the ultimate good of the stepchildren.
* Her husband favors her stepdaughter blindly, and the stepmother can't take it out on him.
* Times are hard, money is short, and Nastina wants her own children to survive and prosper, which means nothing for Alice.
* Inverted: Nastina is kinder to Alice than her original mother had been.
* Alternatively, Alice is needlessly, pointlessly cruel to Nastina, who's done nothing to
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| - Basic Trope: A character, usually female, has a stepmother who is cruel to her.
* Straight: Alice's new stepmother, Nastina, is mean to her and treats her like an unpaid servant.
* Exaggerated: Nastina beats Alice nearly to death every morning, then makes her live in the stables and wear leftover napkins for clothing.
* Justified: Her actions are for the ultimate good of the stepchildren.
* Her husband favors her stepdaughter blindly, and the stepmother can't take it out on him.
* Times are hard, money is short, and Nastina wants her own children to survive and prosper, which means nothing for Alice.
* Inverted: Nastina is kinder to Alice than her original mother had been.
* Alternatively, Alice is needlessly, pointlessly cruel to Nastina, who's done nothing to provoke her.
* Or Nastina is kinder to Alice than to her own children.
* Subverted: Alice describes her stepmother thus, but she's also an Unreliable Narrator.
* Double Subverted: ....Nastina is actually much worse than described.
* Parodied: Like Exaggerated, but Played for Laughs.
* Deconstructed: The stepmother's continued mistreatment of Alice alienates Alice's father, who divorces her.
* Reconstructed: But because he was himself abused, he marries another woman who is equally bad.
* Zig Zagged: Nastina's treatment of Alice varies from reasonable to hostile.
* Averted: Nastina is generally supportive of Alice.
* Enforced: "You can't write a fairy tale where the stepmother is kind and generous! Why would Alice ever leave home?"
* Lampshaded: Nastina's real name is Wilma Smithe, or W.S. for short.
* Invoked: Alice's father wants her to leave home, so he marries a cruel woman.
* Defied: Nastina is careful to treat her stepdaughter fairly so that she doesn't become one of these.
* Discussed: "And that is my stepmother." "Evil?" "But of course."
* Conversed: "You notice there are never any good stepmothers in these stories?" Back to Wicked Stepmother
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