Basic Trope: A Black woman with a serious attitude problem, usually Played for Laughs.
* Straight: LaTonya is a particularly petulant, cocky and upfront black girl.
* Exaggerated: LaTonya responds to everything with a flurry of hand gestures, circling her head and an offended facial expression.
* Downplayed: LaTonya is sassy and daring, sometimes even humorous, but never confrontational nor overbearing.
* Justified: LaTonya grew up in a setting where having an attitude was necessary to avoid getting trampled on and has now integrated this mindset to her daily behaviour.
* The show is a Jive Turkey making fun of stereotypes.
* Inverted: LaTonya is a Fragile Flower.
* Subverted: LaTonya only acts like this in the workplace or at school but it turns out she's a muc
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| - Basic Trope: A Black woman with a serious attitude problem, usually Played for Laughs.
* Straight: LaTonya is a particularly petulant, cocky and upfront black girl.
* Exaggerated: LaTonya responds to everything with a flurry of hand gestures, circling her head and an offended facial expression.
* Downplayed: LaTonya is sassy and daring, sometimes even humorous, but never confrontational nor overbearing.
* Justified: LaTonya grew up in a setting where having an attitude was necessary to avoid getting trampled on and has now integrated this mindset to her daily behaviour.
* The show is a Jive Turkey making fun of stereotypes.
* Inverted: LaTonya is a Fragile Flower.
* Subverted: LaTonya only acts like this in the workplace or at school but it turns out she's a muc
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| - Basic Trope: A Black woman with a serious attitude problem, usually Played for Laughs.
* Straight: LaTonya is a particularly petulant, cocky and upfront black girl.
* Exaggerated: LaTonya responds to everything with a flurry of hand gestures, circling her head and an offended facial expression.
* Downplayed: LaTonya is sassy and daring, sometimes even humorous, but never confrontational nor overbearing.
* Justified: LaTonya grew up in a setting where having an attitude was necessary to avoid getting trampled on and has now integrated this mindset to her daily behaviour.
* The show is a Jive Turkey making fun of stereotypes.
* Inverted: LaTonya is a Fragile Flower.
* Subverted: LaTonya only acts like this in the workplace or at school but it turns out she's a much warmer and considerate person in private...
* LaTonya meets Mei Lang, a petite Asian woman, who happens to be have an even bigger mouth than her and who can actually shut her up...
* Double Subverted:... that is, unless someone starts an argument, in which cas it's good ol' sass-ay LaTonya again!
* Deconstructed:???
* Reconstructed:???
* Parodied: ???
* Zig Zagged: ???
* Averted: LaTonya isn't necessarily more sassy than anybody else on the show.
* Enforced: "Everybody loves Black women with a nasty attitude. If we put a Black woman on the show, let's make her that way."
* Lampshaded: "OH NO!! Ya did NOT just tell me to do dat shit!! HUH-HUH!! I ain't acceptin' dat!"
* Invoked: ???
* Defied: "Just because I'm Black doesn't mean I have to be a clone of Mo'nique or Queen Latifah, thanks."
* Discussed: ???
* Conversed: ??? HUH-HUH!! I ain't gonna go back to da Main Page! Go there yourself!
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