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Alice is a hard-working engineer from the '' Dilbert '' comic strip. She is one of Dilbert 's co-workers in the department. She has long curly hair, which transformed into a large and distinctive triangular hairstyle when the character became a regular. Her character was based on a former colleague of cartoonist Scott Adams ', who apparently made two grown men cry in one day. Alice is rarely rewarded for her hard work, although she was for a time the highest paid engineer in the company. She stands in contrast with Wally, who does no work and is rewarded nearly the same. Alice also suffers all the problems of being a female engineer. She has no tolerance for the discrimination she experiences. Alice has a short temper. Her anger is frequently expressed in physical violence, most often manifested in the form of her "fist of death". In the past she has, among other things, kicked an Elbonian into his own hat, stuffed Asok into his shirt sleeve, and once slapped a man so hard he Travelled Forward In Time . Alice has also thrown the Pointy-Haired Boss a fairly long distance as a result of her annual performance review; Dilbert and Wally have noted that her distance improves every year. She occasionally claims to have superpowers. Alice is fractionally more successful in her social life than fellow employees. She has dated numerous times, and she used to date a one-eyed carpenter. She was ''almost'' into a committed relationship with an emotionally supportive man but turned him down at the last minute, as it was more cost advantageous to train monkeys to do similar work for Alice. The women in the strip, in general, tend to be aggressive and sometimes violent, whereas the men are mostly meek and mild. Some observers might see this as a modern incarnation of the ancient Sitcom staple of the henpecked husband. However, it may also be that it is politically safer to let women do violence. Adams is one of many cartoonists who admired Charles Schulz . In the '' Peanuts '' comic strip, Lucy was often violent, either "slugging" Linus or threatening to. As Schulz once explained, "Girls hitting boys is funny. Boys hitting girls is ''not'' funny". That same philosophy seems to apply in ''Dilbert''. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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