Tropescilloscope: Broken Bird

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

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