History BreakTheCutie / Fanworks

* ''Fanfic/PredatorAndPrey'': In ''World Tour'', a lonely and vulnerable Bridgette is raped by Alejandro during the flight to Egypt, causing her to develop StockholmSyndrome as she becomes confused and scared by her growing feelings for Alejandro. And after her elimination, Geoff refuses to help Bridgette get over her unwanted feelings for Alejandro and instead breaks up with her despite Bridgette begging him to accept her apologies for cheating on him and to understand that the situation was far more complex than what was shown on TV.

** Prime!Lyra to a lesser extent. Not only does Marcus' account of what's happening to his world as well as finding out [[DeadAlternateCounterpart her counterpart was killed]] shake her up, but there's also how, in "War March and Past Sins", she realizes [[spoiler: that she could have become an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom if she had gone on [[ForWantOfANail that scuba diving trip]] where her TCB counterpart uncovered a shipwreck that held the [[ArtifactOfDoom Bag of Tirek]] onboard]].

* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': Shinji was a pretty nice, considerate guy. However when he was a little kid his mother died and his father entrusted his care to another person and later sent him away to school. When the story begins he makes new friends and finds [[HeroesWantRedheads his life's love]]. And then her girlfriend's life -and his- went to Hell: Asuka's war plane [[spoiler:crashes and she falls into a coma for several months.]] He spends most that time [[UnbrokenVigil by her bedside]], praying for she waking up. When she does, she is so unstable and wrecked with survivor guilt that she abuses him and herself. When she can not stand it anymore [[spoiler:she tries to commit suicide.]] He stops her but she runs away straight after, intending to leave his life forever. Fortunately [[spoiler:things got better for both from that point onward.]]

* ''Fanfic/FallenAngel'':

* ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'' manages to break [[spoiler:River ''all over again'' after she started healing at the end of the movie]] by having [[spoiler:both River and Jayne captured and tortured by Niska, effectively undoing nearly a year's worth of mental healing for her.]]

* In ''Fanfic/JusticeLeagueOfEquestria'' Brainiac designs the SadisticChoice below in order to do this to Supermare, so that she's easier to assimilate into his storage machinery.

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* ''Fanfic/ForTomorrowWeDie'':
** [[spoiler:Gabby, learning of Ken's death.]]
** [[spoiler: Tali, after the attack on the ''Rayya'' and the realization that no one in the galaxy is going to help them.]]
* This happens to [[spoiler:Tali]] in ''[[Fanfic/MassVexations Mass Vexations 3]]'' after [[spoiler: an implied [[RapeAsDrama rape]] by an exile that had been allowed back onto the fleet.]]

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%%* ''Fanfic/WorldAsMyth'': Happens to [[spoiler:Koga. She]] seems to be getting better.
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* ''Fanfic/LoadedMarch'': [[spoiler:Merlin and Kay when they get captured]].

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* ''Fanfic/UltimateSpiderWoman'':
** Kitty Pryde is getting this trope in spades after being publicly outed as a mutant.
** More generally, Mary Jane has been enduring this trope for pretty much all of her life. She's grown up in a broken home, suffered the stresses of being a TripleShifter, been the target of public hate campaigns, been sexually harassed by men old enough to be her father, [[spoiler:and nearly had her very identity shattered by Jack O' Lantern when he targeted her with a sophisticated revenge plan.]]

* The early ''Fanfic/HookerVerse'' does this to everyone, from the {{Original Character}}s to Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses people. With the existence of the club, however, while things are still pretty bad, it's definitely a step up from the streets.
** Even if we don't count the ''Fanfic/HookerVerse'', Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses fandom is evidently composed primarily of sadist fangirls who take delight in breaking the characters as much as they possibly can. The most common victim tends to be WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, as per the whole 'everyone likes seeing him in pain' thing. One AU even managed to break GigglingVillain [[MadScientist Insano]] via gratuitous amounts of MoreThanMindControl, Linkara as the RivalTurnedEvil, rape, and killing his son. Lets put it this way- the more the TGWTG fans like you, the more they will probably torture you.

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* The early ''Fanfic/HookerVerse'' does this to everyone, from the {{Original Character}}s to Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses people. With the existence of the club, however, while things are still pretty bad, it's definitely a step up from the streets.
** Even if we don't count the ''Fanfic/HookerVerse'', Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses fandom is evidently composed primarily of sadist fangirls who take delight in breaking the characters as much as they possibly can. The most common victim tends to be WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, as per the whole 'everyone likes seeing him in pain' thing. One AU even managed to break GigglingVillain [[MadScientist Insano]] via gratuitous amounts of MoreThanMindControl, Linkara as the RivalTurnedEvil, rape, and killing his son. Lets put it this way- the more the TGWTG fans like you, the more they will probably torture you.
* The [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]] team in the AU ''Fanfic/ThatGuyWithTheGlassesInSpace'' were essentially broken by the beginning of the fic. It's prequel, though, explores this breakage in much more detail.
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** Morgan herself is a [[TeensAreShort diminutive]] NiceGirl who tried to stop a girl from being kidnapped. All it earned her was being [[MiscarriageOfJustice framed for stalking and assault]], a GlasgowGrin, being branded as a psycho, and spending six months under house arrest.

%%* ''Fanfic/CrusadePaladins'':
%%** Empress Love.
%%** Gretchen Faust in the first sequel's Good End Route.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41164092 An Unpleasant Surprise]]'', Molly goes through this after talking to her old friend Ashley Harris from Dayton, Ohio. What started out as a friendly chat between two old friends turned sour once Molly revealed she was dating Libby and Ashley starts spouting homophobic reteric about it causing Molly to break it off between them. This causes her to break down sobbing once the weight of the situation finally hit her.

* ''Fanfic/AllAmericanGirl'': The [[spoiler: Foalnapping Incident and misinterpreted "attempted rape"]] gave DJ [[HeroicBSOD PTSD]]; the subsequent custody trial a few months later shattered her psyche, pushing her over the DespairEventHorizon, giving her further grief and permanently changing her personality from cheerful and outgoing to jaded and sullen.

* ''[[http://www.robomod.net/pipermail/rec-arts-anime-creative/2005-May/000117.html Chiyobreak]]'' plays this straight with [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Chiyo]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin hence the name]]. [[spoiler: [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou Literally]], in the [[DownerEnding downer]] [[IncrediblyLamePun ending]].]]

%%* ''Fanfic/{{Strings}}'': Poor, poor Korra.

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* [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella]] in ''Fanfic/FaceTheStrange''. She gets [[RapeAsDrama raped]], [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization blamed for the whole thing]], and then [[DieForOurShip murdered]]. Keep in mind that Bella actually acts pretty kind from what little we see of her in this story.

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-->It felt like the world was suddenly thrust upon her frail shoulders, crushing her with the weight of expectation and dire consequences should she fail to keep it balanced. In the blink of an eye, [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask she could no longer afford to be]] [[BlitheSpirit an endearingly naive young girl who ran about barefoot, going wherever the wind took her]]. Now, she had to be the one who protected these people from a dangerous usurper who no one wanted, and if she pushed [[spoiler: Cassandra]] too hard or fell out of her favor, there was no telling what sort of disaster might befall her and her home.

** Jasmine. Mozenrath’s [[spoiler:false]] warnings push her to a HeroicBSOD trying to figure out his plan, to the point she starts alienating and lying to her friends in case Mozenrath has a way of watching what she’s doing. She then ends up [[spoiler:losing her memories of Aladdin while delving into the Mirror of Fiereve]], [[spoiler:watching her father nearly die of poison]], and finally [[spoiler:is brutally [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by Mirage for a week]]. And yet despite all this, she ''[[PluckyGirl keeps]]'' ''[[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask going]]''.

* In the second season of ''Fanfic/HalkegeniaOnline'', the endgame is absolutely brutal to [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero Louise]] pictures that [=TriggerHappy=] uses as inspiration state that Louise never smiled again.