Tropescilloscope: Break the Cutie

A sweet, lovable character is put through hell. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Cat Fight Title Drop Lock and Load Montage Posthumous Character Dramatic Irony Funny Background Event Trailers Always Spoil Bald of Evil Take That! Ragtag Bunch of Misfits For Want of a Nail The '90s Motor Mouth Sequel Hook And the Adventure Continues Love Triangle The Hero Dies Black Best Friend Break the Haughty Decoy Protagonist An Arm and a Leg Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Vitriolic Best Buds Chiaroscuro All There in the Script Took a Level in Badass Sanity Slippage Death Glare Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Red Right Hand No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Auto Erotica Retcon Aside Glance The Dragon Anti-Villain Anyone Can Die Documentary Mighty Whitey Final Girl Rich Bitch An Aesop Bare Your Midriff Hollywood Law Action Prologue Everyone Has Standards Politically Incorrect Villain Bullying a Dragon I Have Your Wife Bait-and-Switch Villain with Good Publicity Man on Fire Dull Surprise Badass Grandpa Older Than They Look A Minor Kidroduction Suspiciously Similar Substitute Improbable Weapon User Shipper on Deck Dirty Old Man Scenery Porn Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Reality Is Unrealistic Daddy's Girl Betty and Veronica timeperiod Every Car Is a Pinto Heroes Want Redheads Frame-Up Manly Tears Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! One-Word Title From Bad to Worse Evil Laugh Bi the Way Ominous Latin Chanting Asshole Victim Product Placement Shown Their Work Early Installment Weirdness Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fate Worse than Death Villain Ball Gilligan Cut Badass in a Nice Suit Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Death by Adaptation Disney Death Moment Killer Psychopathic Manchild May–December Romance Historical Villain Upgrade Establishing Character Moment Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Abusive Parents Book-Ends Papa Wolf Deconstruction Death by Irony The Power of Love Based on a True Story Hero of Another Story Cold-Blooded Torture Fanservice Extra The Bad Guy Wins Unresolved Sexual Tension Big Bad Jerk Jock You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Darkest Hour The Quiet One Cat Scare Shirtless Scene Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Heel Realization Instant Death Bullet Refuge in Audacity Big Applesauce Bring My Brown Pants In Name Only German Films Properly Paranoid Took a Level in Jerkass Stepford Smiler N-Word Privileges The Faceless Mama Bear Non-Indicative Name Scare Chord Jerkass Has a Point Anachronic Order Chekhov's Gunman Kick the Son of a Bitch Ripped from the Headlines Mooks The Atoner Shower Scene Japanese Films Training Montage Daylight Horror Christmas Movies Index Cruel and Unusual Death Star-Crossed Lovers As Himself Exactly What It Says on the Tin Spiteful Spit No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Ditz Badass Normal Unwitting Instigator of Doom Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Back from the Dead Epic Movie Madness Mantra Eureka Moment Damsel in Distress Whole Plot Reference Children Are Innocent Stuff Blowing Up Due to the Dead Determinator aka: The Determinator The Bully Awesome, but Impractical The Alcoholic Pay Evil unto Evil Dropped a Bridge on Him Stock Footage The '60s Sports Stories Celebrity Paradox Kick the Dog Death of a Child Rule of Cool Crazy-Prepared Does This Remind You of Anything? Bittersweet Ending Throwing Your Sword Always Works Freeze-Frame Bonus Faking the Dead The Film of the Book "Well Done, Son!" Guy Framing Device Artistic License – Biology Rape as Drama Fun with Acronyms Boom, Headshot! Blatant Lies Pet the Dog Adaptational Villainy It Can Think Playing Gertrude Evil Sounds Deep Major Injury Underreaction Setting Update More Dakka Dark Action Girl Five-Man Band Together in Death Soft Glass O.O.C. Is Serious Business Chase Scene Dark Reprise The Chessmaster Hollywood Darkness Kill 'em All Token Minority Bound and Gagged Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Pretty in Mink Determinator A Father to His Men The X of Y Apocalypse How Taking You with Me Market-Based Title Those Wacky Nazis What the Hell, Hero? Deal with the Devil Rule of Three "The Reason You Suck" Speech Gone Horribly Right The Dog Bites Back Big Damn Heroes You Killed My Father Smug Snake Punny Name Karmic Death Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fake Shemp Big Eater Creator Cameo Mr. Exposition Genre Savvy Protagonist Title Karma Houdini Credits Gag Ascended Extra The Ace Twist Ending Downer Ending Mercy Kill Deus ex Machina Villain Song Artistic License – Law Dramatic Gun Cock Taking the Bullet Closed Circle Breaking the Fourth Wall Flashback Catch-Phrase Costume Porn Shout-Out Hate Sink Dramedy Break the Cutie Cassandra Truth Very Loosely Based on a True Story Distracted by the Sexy Abhorrent Admirer Demonic Possession Not Even Bothering with the Accent Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy An Axe to Grind Fatal Flaw Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Irony Dumb Blonde Precision F-Strike Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Chick Slashed Throat Camera Abuse folderlabel Plot Hole Hidden Depths Canadian Movies Rule of Funny Knife Nut Slasher Smile Rated M for Manly Expository Hairstyle Change Zombie Stories Those Two Bad Guys Domestic Abuse Loophole Abuse Up to Eleven Getting Crap Past the Radar I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Adaptation Distillation Your Head A-Splode Worthy Opponent It's All About Me Slasher Movie Evil-Detecting Dog La Résistance Killed Mid-Sentence Parental Substitute Half the Man He Used to Be "Shaggy Dog" Story In the Back Pyrrhic Victory Made of Explodium Gory Discretion Shot Alpha Bitch Better to Die than Be Killed BFG Disproportionate Retribution It Will Never Catch On Dwindling Party Developing Doomed Characters Translation Convention Femme Fatale Affectionate Parody Chewing the Scenery The Musical Accidental Murder Coming-of-Age Story Drugs Are Bad Mythology Gag Sealed Evil in a Can Exact Words Alas, Poor Villain Wham Line Large Ham Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Genre Shift Mad Scientist Alliterative Name Not What It Looks Like Eagleland Covers Always Lie Parental Incest Bowdlerise Toplessness from the Back Wrong Genre Savvy Woman Scorned Woman in White '80s Hair World of Ham The Great Depression Humiliation Conga Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Unusual Euphemism Big-Bad Ensemble Double Entendre Improvised Weapon What Happened to the Mouse? Cloudcuckoolander Big Bad Duumvirate Dark Is Not Evil Captain Obvious Badass Longcoat Hell Is That Noise Wretched Hive Four-Temperament Ensemble Honor Before Reason Obfuscating Stupidity Sole Survivor Gender Flip Silent Movie Disguised in Drag Punch-Clock Villain Defrosting Ice Queen Adapted Out Department of Redundancy Department Outrun the Fireball For the Evulz Beard of Evil Gold Digger Henpecked Husband Humans Are Bastards Nice Guy Really Gets Around Broken Aesop Fainting Martial Arts Movie Author Appeal Cowboy Cop Random Events Plot No Name Given B-Movie Age Lift All There in the Manual Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Here We Go Again! Guns Akimbo Nothing Is Scarier Deliberately Monochrome Red Oni, Blue Oni Face–Heel Turn Red Herring Recycled IN SPACE! Deliberate Values Dissonance Handicapped Badass The Mole The Load Authority Equals Asskicking Adaptational Heroism Call-Back Happily Married Adaptational Attractiveness Only One Name Anti-Hero Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Darker and Edgier Plucky Comic Relief Sequel Escalation Animal Motifs Dutch Angle Historical Hero Upgrade Advertised Extra Car Fu Informed Ability Narrator Failed a Spot Check Arc Words No-Sell Extreme Doormat Gorn She Cleans Up Nicely Scenery Gorn Villainous Breakdown Film Series Redemption Equals Death Fat Bastard Good Is Not Nice Drowning My Sorrows Not Using the "Z" Word Offscreen Teleportation After the End The Place Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Dogged Nice Guy Actor Allusion You Have Failed Me Never Found the Body Imagine Spot Does Not Like Shoes Storming the Castle Almost Kiss Blood from the Mouth Blackmail Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Not So Different Dressing as the Enemy Meet Cute Serious Business Dies Wide Open Contrived Coincidence Even Evil Has Loved Ones Parental Abandonment Sacrificial Lion The '70s Would Hurt a Child Disappeared Dad Did Not Get the Girl No Celebrities Were Harmed Morality Pet Mood Whiplash Call-Forward Black Comedy Rape Wicked Cultured Animal Title Index Men Are the Expendable Gender There Is No Kill Like Overkill Bond One-Liner Fish out of Water Animated Credits Opening Obviously Evil Italian Films Big Brother Instinct Artistic License – Geography Male Frontal Nudity Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hoist by His Own Petard Have a Gay Old Time The Alleged Car Bolivian Army Ending Leave the Camera Running Gainax Ending Leitmotif Suddenly SHOUTING! Brainless Beauty Funny Foreigner Earn Your Happy Ending Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies As You Know All Girls Want Bad Boys Dying Moment of Awesome Guile Hero Fatal Family Photo Adaptation Expansion The Stoic Fiery Redhead Parental Neglect Arranged Marriage The Casanova Ms. Fanservice Red Shirt Mystery and Detective Films Nice Hat Real Life Ungrateful Bastard Central Theme Evil Is Petty Stalker with a Crush Interrupted Suicide Australian Movies Logo Joke Roaring Rampage of Revenge Offscreen Moment of Awesome I'm a Humanitarian Reasonable Authority Figure Antagonist Title The Stoner Calling the Old Man Out Stylistic Suck Biopic Historical-Domain Character Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Kill It with Fire Creepy Child Corrupt Corporate Executive Brick Joke Yandere Police are Useless Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Tranquil Fury Bond Villain Stupidity Kubrick Stare Action Survivor I Just Shot Marvin in the Face One-Man Army He Knows Too Much Composite Character Historical In-Joke Race Against the Clock It's Personal Bloodless Carnage Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Smurfette Principle Actually Pretty Funny Facial Horror Made of Iron Soundtrack Dissonance Brother–Sister Incest Sir Swears-a-Lot Fantastic Racism Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Reality Ensues The Voiceless Mistaken for Gay Aluminum Christmas Trees Cool Car Silence Is Golden Leaning on the Fourth Wall Intrepid Reporter Laser-Guided Karma Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? A God Am I Sadistic Choice Video Credits Black and Gray Morality Pre-Mortem One-Liner Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Noodle Incident Adults Are Useless Small Name, Big Ego Time Skip Film Noir Ironic Echo Undying Loyalty Action Girl How We Got Here Artistic License – Physics Green-Eyed Monster I Did What I Had to Do Empathic Environment Wounded Gazelle Gambit Vacation Films "Awesome McCool" Name Arch-Enemy Combat Pragmatist Manchild Demoted to Extra Expy Curse Cut Short Bavarian Fire Drill Eldritch Abomination Despair Event Horizon Evil Is Hammy Manipulative Bastard Spiritual Successor Danny Peary Cult Movies List Grievous Bottley Harm Cool Old Guy As the Good Book Says... The Oner Loads and Loads of Characters Paper-Thin Disguise Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hooker with a Heart of Gold Mundane Made Awesome No Antagonist The Vamp Fire-Forged Friends Meaningful Name Chekhov's Skill Hypocritical Humor Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Meaningful Echo This Is Gonna Suck Bottomless Magazines Dissonant Serenity Jitter Cam Drives Like Crazy She's Got Legs Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Sociopath Not Quite Dead Police Brutality Friend to All Children The Big Guy Annoying Younger Sibling Meaningful Background Event Match Cut The Hero Unusually Uninteresting Sight My God, What Have I Done? Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Music Stories Reality Has No Subtitles Hero Antagonist Crapsack World Action Genre Driven to Suicide 20 Minutes into the Future A.I. Is a Crapshoot Jump Scare Eiffel Tower Effect Your Cheating Heart Pragmatic Villainy Put on a Bus Idiot Ball Rule of Symbolism Groin Attack Freudian Excuse War Is Hell Only in It for the Money Creative Closing Credits Last-Name Basis Bar Brawl The Dreaded Fourth Date Marriage Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Even Evil Has Standards The Remake Armor-Piercing Question The Starscream Maybe Ever After Index of Film Westerns Riddle for the Ages You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Spared by the Adaptation Lighter and Softer French Films Kids Are Cruel Blood Knight Heterosexual Life-Partners The Brute Dual Wielding Line-of-Sight Name Bunny-Ears Lawyer Evil Plan Mr. Fanservice Unreliable Narrator Russian Films Death Seeker Agony of the Feet Gratuitous English Foregone Conclusion Show Within a Show Adaptational Badass A Date with Rosie Palms Anachronism Stew From Nobody to Nightmare Butt-Monkey Double-Meaning Title Works Set in World War II Word of God Monumental Damage The Ghost Only a Flesh Wound Casting Gag Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Comically Missing the Point Retired Badass Anguished Declaration of Love Dark and Troubled Past Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Oh, Crap! Evil Counterpart Not So Above It All Beauty Is Never Tarnished Grey and Gray Morality Off with His Head! Stealth Hi/Bye The End... Or Is It? Accidental Misnaming Pimped-Out Dress Fan Disservice Superhero No Ending Heroic Sacrifice Eyepatch of Power Cain and Abel Truth in Television Disney Villain Death Conspicuous CG Spell My Name with an "S" Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bland-Name Product Totally Radical Air-Vent Passageway Re-Cut Ambiguously Gay Evil vs. Evil Bad Boss Naïve Newcomer Let's Get Dangerous! Card-Carrying Villain Horror Comedy Horror Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Corpsing Eye Scream Heel–Face Turn Character Development Overprotective Dad Pretty Little Headshots Cool Guns The Cameo Running Gag Affably Evil Black Comedy Retirony One Steve Limit Rasputinian Death Thriller Villain Opening Scene Straight Gay Naked People Are Funny Well-Intentioned Extremist The Un-Reveal Babies Ever After What You Are in the Dark Foil Ass Shove Villain Protagonist Deadpan Snarker Death by Sex And Starring Implacable Man Left the Background Music On Obstructive Bureaucrat Psycho for Hire True Companions Improbable Aiming Skills Intergenerational Friendship Missing Mom Revenge Attempted Rape Reckless Gun Usage The Lancer Shut Up, Hannibal! Stealth Pun Our Zombies Are Different Easily Forgiven Amoral Attorney My Greatest Failure NO INDOOR VOICE Body Horror The Stinger Bloodier and Gorier Rewatch Bonus Sexy Discretion Shot Make It Look Like an Accident Victoria's Secret Compartment Captain Ersatz Award-Bait Song Malevolent Masked Men Foreshadowing Crazy Jealous Guy In Medias Res No OSHA Compliance The Reveal Destination Defenestration As Long as It Sounds Foreign Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Vampire Fiction Neck Lift Get Out! The Lost Lenore Fanservice Once More, with Clarity! Red Eyes, Take Warning Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Bloody Hilarious Insult Backfire Only Sane Man Unspoken Plan Guarantee Those Two Guys Mind Screw Heroic BSoD Beta Couple Visual Pun Mexican Standoff Face Death with Dignity Evil Brit Suspiciously Specific Denial Didn't Think This Through Genre Throwback Race Lift The Mafia Poor Communication Kills Canon Foreigner Pragmatic Adaptation Too Dumb to Live Television Movie Index Badass Bookworm Needs Wiki Magic Love Bad "Bad Acting" Drill Sergeant Nasty Bury Your Gays Dirty Cop Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Fantasy Films Brutal Honesty Broken Pedestal Broken Bird Never Trust a Trailer Beware the Nice Ones The '50s Ghost Fiction Country Matters Rousing Speech MacGuffin Enemy Mine Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Camp Gay The Cavalry Adult Fear Artistic License – History Jerkass Room Full of Crazy The '80s Hypocrite Important Haircut Knight Templar Public Domain Feature Films Greater-Scope Villain Wham Shot Neck Snap Skewed Priorities Famous Last Words Sinister Minister Flipping the Bird I Need a Freaking Drink Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Belligerent Sexual Tension Tagline Film Noir Index Sci-Fi Horror Spanner in the Works Catapult Nightmare Take a Third Option Crucified Hero Shot All Just a Dream My Beloved Smother Insane Troll Logic Hair-Trigger Temper Early-Bird Cameo Faux Affably Evil Slap-Slap-Kiss Insistent Terminology Not So Stoic Jerk with a Heart of Gold Ax-Crazy Shell-Shocked Veteran Romantic Comedy Serial Killer "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Same Language Dub Scary Black Man Sassy Black Woman Defiant to the End Be Careful What You Wish For Adaptation Dye-Job Amusing Injuries Extremely Short Timespan Novelization Cluster F-Bomb Continuity Nod Self-Deprecation Adaptation Name Change Lampshade Hanging Vomit Indiscretion Shot Artistic License – Gun Safety The Smart Guy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bilingual Bonus Love at First Sight Dirty Coward Tempting Fate Science Fiction Films Laughing Mad Mugging the Monster Depraved Bisexual British Films Adorkable Married to the Job Real Life Writes the Plot Big "NO!" Big Fancy House Diabolus ex Machina Redshirt Army Cool Old Lady Becoming the Mask Vomit Discretion Shot Our Vampires Are Different Berserk Button Smoking Is Cool Would Hit a Girl Light Is Not Good Super Strength All Men Are Perverts Black Dude Dies First Hope Spot Batman Gambit And I Must Scream Artistic License – Military Homage Romantic False Lead Fingore Male Gaze Author Avatar Never My Fault Badass Boast Cool Shades Chekhov's Gun Say My Name Military and Warfare Films Psychological Thriller All for Nothing He Who Fights Monsters Only Known by Their Nickname Curb-Stomp Battle Immune to Bullets Hong Kong Films Tap on the Head Ambiguous Ending Ambiguous Disorder Ship Tease Overly Long Gag Epic Fail