Tropescilloscope: Break the Cutie

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

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