Tropescilloscope: Break the Cutie

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

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