Tropescilloscope: Break the Cutie

A sweet, lovable character is put through hell. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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