Tropescilloscope: Broken Bird

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

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Cool Guns Recycled IN SPACE! 20 Minutes into the Future "Awesome McCool" Name Funny Foreigner Missing Mom Wham Line Peek-a-Boo Corpse I Did What I Had to Do Author Appeal Broken Pedestal Becoming the Mask British Films Suspiciously Similar Substitute Freeze-Frame Bonus Nice Guy Red Shirt Redemption Equals Death Big Brother Instinct Curb-Stomp Battle Bait-and-Switch Blatant Lies Kick the Dog Reality Has No Subtitles Darker and Edgier Superhero Poor Communication Kills Jerkass Has a Point Silence Is Golden An Arm and a Leg Car Fu Humiliation Conga Double Entendre MacGuffin Adaptation Distillation Intergenerational Friendship Thriller Dark Is Not Evil Not So Stoic Madness Mantra Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Jitter Cam Word of God Interrupted Suicide No Ending Roaring Rampage of Revenge Nice Hat Villain Protagonist Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Retirony Ominous Latin Chanting Historical Hero Upgrade Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Downer Ending Christmas Movies Index Manly Tears Obfuscating Stupidity Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Running Gag Punctuated! 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Fourth Date Marriage Slap-Slap-Kiss Insane Troll Logic BFG Bilingual Bonus Belligerent Sexual Tension Femme Fatale Stock Footage Tap on the Head Real Life Writes the Plot Creator Cameo Flipping the Bird Handicapped Badass Title Drop Chekhov's Gunman Bowdlerise Villain Song Big-Bad Ensemble Science Fiction Films Asshole Victim Australian Movies My Greatest Failure Slashed Throat Mama Bear The Bully Fake Shemp Improbable Weapon User Canadian Movies Self-Deprecation Blood from the Mouth Pyrrhic Victory Bald of Evil Better to Die than Be Killed Disguised in Drag Black Best Friend Reality Is Unrealistic Russian Films The Brute Psychopathic Manchild Creepy Child Those Two Guys The Ghost The Power of Love Red Eyes, Take Warning Improbable Aiming Skills Bland-Name Product After the End Male Frontal Nudity Deal with the Devil Calling the Old Man Out Kill 'em All Scenery Gorn Obviously Evil Genre Throwback Room Full of Crazy Too Dumb to Live O.O.C. 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