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[[Tired Daria Fandom Tropes#Daria triumphs over all odds|Daria Triumphant]] (see also [[Tired Daria Fandom Tropes#Daria is omnicompetent and damn near omnipotent|here]]) is the Daria of seasons one and two, the Daria who always wins at the end of the episode or, at worst, breaks even. She is the one most in tune with what's really going on, the one best able to detect hypocrisy, duplicity, idiocy, pretension, and doomed enterprises—and avoid them. (Jane can do this 90% of the time, but her libido screws it up a little, as with Evan in "[[See Jane Run]].") Daria does all this while being a lazy, irritable, smart-mouthed teenager unencumbered by self-doubt or fear of authority. She is nobody's fool and is the master of her own ship. The third season drifted away from this characterization (in "[[Just Add Water]]" this trope never appears), and [[The Kiss]] and [[Tom_Sloane#The "Love_Triangle" Story Arc|The Triangle]] largely spelled the end of it. However, the trope reappeared once in a rare while (e.g., "[[Fizz Ed]]"), though Daria had to struggle harder to win out in the end, or at least break even.