CHYRON

Give your girl ten points to start with, 10

** APPEARANCE **

Girl is shaped like a fireplug, radish, prune, or beachball, -10
Girl is clearly pushing forty, -2
Girl changes shape, +2
     ... involuntarily, -4

** INTELLIGENCE **

Girl is *supposed* to be intelligent and creative, but never demonstrates
     it except through technobabble, weird science, and/or computer 
     skills, -4
          ... and she wears glasses, additional -1
          ... and she doesn't date, additional -4

** ATTIRE AND FASHION **

Attire is ugly, -4

** PERSONALITY **

Girl is kind to animals, +2
Girl is kind to people, +4
Girl is kind to machines, -1
Girl is obsessed with her own cuteness or lack thereof, -6

Girl reacts violently to minor insults and slights, -7

** RESPONDS TO DANGER **

by crying, clutching, whining, and being generally counterproductive, -7

** ROMANTIC SITUATION **

Girl is secondary participant in love triangle, -2

** GIRL DIES **

For no damn reason, -5
And it solves a love triangle, -4
But she gets better, -10.

** SKILLS, POWERS, AND OTHERS **

Girl has magical or psionic powers, +4
Girl calls out exactly what she's doing when she uses her skills or
powers, -6
     ... but she's allowed to whisper, regain +2

Girl is gainfully employed, +8

Girl can cook, +4
 
Girl's Japanese is poor, -2
Girl speaks English +2
     ... badly, -1

(Well, if this were anime, she would... -_-;;)

Total: -42 (down from 24 in 1997)