Tropescilloscope: Broken Bird

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

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