Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 227 - Manic Pixie Dream Girl

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

In the event of a tie between 4 or more nominations, a tiebreaker poll will be run the next day to determine a winner.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
Memetic Psychopath
Torch the Franchise and Run
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Wide-Eyed Idealist, was Papyrus (Undertale), who got 8 votes.

Previous winners: Day 201 onwards
Storming the Castle - Leeroy Jenkins
BFS - Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII)
Fat Bastard - Eric Cartman (South Park)
Mentor Occupational Hazard - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Oddball Doppelganger - Mimikyu (Pokemon)
Mood Whiplash - The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan)
Names to Run Away From Really Fast - Shelly DeKiller (Ace Attorney)
Hostile Show Takeover - Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
Lean and Mean - Voldemort (Harry Potter) / Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.) / Slenderman (Marble Hornets)
Identical Stranger - Guy Incognito (The Simpsons) / Kingsonn Dededoo (Brawl in the Family)
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You - Bowser (Super Mario Bros.)
Humiliation Conga - Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)
Shock and Awe - Pikachu (Pokemon)
Fat and Skinny - Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch)
Enemy Mine - Mario and Bowser (Mario RPGs)
Kindhearted Simpleton - Forrest Gump
Evil Costume Switch - Black Suit Spider-Man
Trauma Conga Line - Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) / Spider-Man
The Woobie - Butters (South Park) / Kate Marsh (Life is Strange)
Trash the Set - Raccoon City (Resident Evil)
Angst? What Angst? - Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room)
Knight in Sour Armour - Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) / Batman
Woobie Destroyer of Worlds - Carrie White (Carrie) / Mr Freeze (DC Comics)
Empty Shell - Shedinja (Pokemon)

Today's trope is Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManicPixieDreamGirl

Let's say you're a soulful, brooding male hero, living a sheltered, emotionless existence. If only someone could come along and open your heart to the great, wondrous adventure of life...

Have no fear, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is here to give new meaning to the male hero's life! She's stunningly attractive, energetic, high on life, full of wacky quirks and idiosyncrasies (generally including childlike playfulness), often with a touch of wild hair dye. She's inexplicably obsessed with our stuffed-shirt hero, on whom she will focus her kuh-razy antics until he learns to live freely and love madly.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl may be featured as the Second Love, in order to break the character out of The Mourning After. If he's a cynic, her goal may be to convince him that Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!. Finally, she may be presented as a cheerful variety of Threshold Guardians, all the way from less uptight to psychopomps happily welcoming their clients into "another adventure".

TL,DR: An upbeat young woman whose love gives the brooding male hero a new lease on life.

Nominations:
Amelie
Rinoa (Final Fantasy VIII)
Leslie (Bridge to Terabithia)

Rinoa
Anna (Frozen)
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Every Zooey Deschanel character ever

also Liz (Louie)

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Snake5555555555 posted...

Every Zooey Deschanel character ever

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Amelie (Amelie)
Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim)
Zan (How to Talk to Girls at Parties)

HM: Every Zooey Deschanel character, but especially Summer (500 Days of Summer)

I hate to admit it but I'm a total sucker for this trope.
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Johnbobb posted...

I hate to admit it but I'm a total sucker for this trope.

Same, but I had a hard time thinking of examples off the top of my head.
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Sam (Garden State)

Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim)
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Rankings so far:
Rinoa (Final Fantasy VIII) - 2 votes
Every Zooey Deschanel character ever - 2 votes
Amelie - 2 votes
Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim) - 2 votes
Leslie (Bridge to Terabithia)
Anna (Frozen)
Liz (Louie)
Zan (How to Talk to Girls at Parties)
Sam (Garden State)

Rinoa
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