Tropescilloscope: Broken Bird

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

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