Tropescilloscope: Broken Bird

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other B-Movie Face Death with Dignity And Starring Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pragmatic Adaptation Scenery Porn Gold Digger Drives Like Crazy Shell-Shocked Veteran Bloodless Carnage Book-Ends Heroic BSoD Back from the Dead Took a Level in Badass Bond One-Liner Blood from the Mouth The Stinger Happily Married Redemption Equals Death Creator Cameo Adults Are Useless There Is No Kill Like Overkill I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Brutal Honesty Gone Horribly Right Rule of Three Truth in Television Dogged Nice Guy Coming-of-Age Story Red Oni, Blue Oni Have a Gay Old Time Manly Tears Action Prologue Hollywood Darkness Roaring Rampage of Revenge Hollywood Law Comically Missing the Point Arc Words Hope Spot Exact Words Unspoken Plan Guarantee Match Cut "The Reason You Suck" Speech Nothing Is Scarier Music Stories Advertised Extra Cain and Abel Humans Are Bastards Our Vampires Are Different The Dragon She's Got Legs The Stoner Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Australian Movies Black Comedy Frame-Up Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Left the Background Music On Important Haircut Parental Neglect Interrupted Suicide Domestic Abuse Earn Your Happy Ending Instant Death Bullet Final Girl Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Betty and Veronica Rule of Cool Fan Disservice Bar Brawl Video Credits Crapsack World Babies Ever After Well-Intentioned Extremist Fake Shemp Retirony Guile Hero Kids Are Cruel Monumental Damage Neck Snap Together in Death Even Evil Has Standards Insult Backfire Animal Motifs Film Series Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bound and Gagged Never Found the Body Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dirty Coward Not So Stoic Alas, Poor Villain Gory Discretion Shot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Slasher Movie The Hero The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Storming the Castle Fatal Flaw The Stoic Trailers Always Spoil Facial Horror Smug Snake Jerkass Has a Point Depraved Bisexual Shut Up, Hannibal! One-Man Army Reasonable Authority Figure Bloodier and Gorier Bad "Bad Acting" Cool Old Guy The Brute Villain Protagonist Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Demoted to Extra Groin Attack Costume Porn Beauty Is Never Tarnished Toplessness from the Back The Lost Lenore Action Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Reckless Gun Usage The '80s All There in the Script Grey and Gray Morality Imagine Spot Evil Sounds Deep Camp Gay Fanservice Extra Fire-Forged Friends Red Herring Combat Pragmatist Death of a Child British Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome Chekhov's Gun NO INDOOR VOICE The Film of the Book Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Antagonist Title Villain Opening Scene The Ace From Bad to Worse Drugs Are Bad Big Fancy House Sanity Slippage Only Sane Man Femme Fatale Extreme Doormat Spell My Name with an "S" Eureka Moment Lampshade Hanging Eye Scream Adaptational Attractiveness Author Avatar Does This Remind You of Anything? Horror Films Butt-Monkey Rated M for Manly An Axe to Grind Camera Abuse Mundane Made Awesome Freeze-Frame Bonus Fiery Redhead Heroic Sacrifice Country Matters Get Out! 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