Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gamine" in English language version.
To be quite honest, it was pretty ridiculous to declare the MPDG trope dead in the first place. The trope has always had remarkable staying power – adapting time and time again. Arguably, she's simply a modern incarnation of the damsel in distress, or perhaps the gamine: a slim, elegant, and sexually mischievous woman – who has her roots in the early 19th century.