Tropescilloscope: Broken Bird

Troubled, but Cute person (often female) with a Dark and Troubled Past. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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