History Main / KillTheCutie

* In StephenKing's ''{{Cell}}'', [[spoiler:Alice is the only character that one can really love, due to her innocence and naiveté (and this troper did). She dies suddenly and with no foreshadowing or reason. StephenKing, you bastard.]]
** [[spoiler:Not only that, but the way she dies sounds incredibly painful.]]
*** [[spoiler:The killers die a much more excruciating death. And while Alice was unaware of the pain, they're fully aware of it as they bleed out.]]

** The anime even made it MORE heart-breaking. This troper is not afraid to admit tears were shed.
** [[PlayerPunch Ion, too.]]

** YourMileageMayVary on whether or not Marlena counts as TheCutie. ThisTroper considered her more of a royal bitch.

** Oh I beg to differ. YourMilageMayVary most certainly applies to Aeris. For every fanboy that loves her, there are just as many who hate her. Not to mention her death being pretty easy to spot.
** I'd also like to add poor DoomedByCanon Zack Fair to list. ...Excuse me while I move over to my crying corner. T_T

* JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell has [[spoiler: Arabella Strange]].

* On ''{{LOST}}'', {{AnyoneCanDie}}, so it's no surprise this applies. [[spoiler: Libby, Juliet, Charlotte, Daniel, Charlie and Shannon would qualify]]

* In StephenKing's ''{{Cell}}'', [[spoiler:Alice is the only character that one can really love, due to her innocence and naiveté (and this troper did). She dies suddenly and with no foreshadowing or reason. StephenKing, you bastard.]]
** [[spoiler:Not only that, but the way she dies sounds incredibly painful.]]
*** [[spoiler:The killers die a much more excruciating death. And while Alice was unaware of the pain, they're fully aware of it as they bleed out.]]

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* Played straight in ''TheDarkKnight''. The "cutie" aspect of the two actresses [[YourMileageMayVary are left in the eye of the beholder]].
** Well, to be fair, by the time they killed him, Aaron Eckhart wasn't as much of a cutie anymore.
* British indie actress Myanna Buring is naturally adorable, and this tends to carry across to her characters. She also has a tendency towards horror films and characters with suicidal tendencies, so this happens ''a lot''.
* ''The Condemned'' had a horrible scene of a woman being raped and killed (behind a tree, for what that's worth) while her husband was forced to listen. Wikipedia shows the character of Rosa (played by Dasi Ruz) to have "stood by her man during the duo's merciless killing spree, which landed her a seat next to her husband on death row. Charges of prostitution flesh out her mile long rap sheet." Nevertheless, it was one of the scenes which established ''TheDragon'' and this troper remembers being quite disgusted that any movie would actually go so far as to show something like that, even given the premise.
* Jamie Lloyd from the ''{{Halloween}}'' series, who winds up impaled on and ripped open by tractor harrows courtesy of [[EvilUncle uncle]] [[CompleteMonster Michael]].
* The main character's LoveInterest in the remake of ''TheAssaultOnPrecinct13'' is rather pointlessly executed after being kidnapped by the BigBad.
* Marlena in ''{{Cloverfield}}''. Especially [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel the way she dies]].
** YourMileageMayVary on whether or not Marlena counts as TheCutie. ThisTroper considered her more of a royal bitch.
* [[{{ptitle1d5irnza}} Poor, poor 5...]] It's just not enough that he ''dies,'' oh no, he has to have what fans call the most [[TearJerker TearJerking]], HighOctaneNightmareFuel deaths in the whole movie.
* Newt was killed off pretty quickly in ''{{Alien}}3'', and the audience is given an sickeneningly just-out-of-shot autopsy scene to confirm this. Probably for the best, though - she would have totally ruined the movie's tone if she were alive.

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* In the CrapsackWorld of ''ThereWillBeBrawl'', [[spoiler: Red]] is the only unequivocally ''good'' character throughout the entire series. So the TheMafia [[KickTheDog blows up his house.]]

* Initially Lilly Kane, the character who dies before the beginning of the first series of ''{{Veronica Mars}}'', would count as an example, since she was a young attractive teenager who got her head smashed in with [[spoiler: a ashtray]], though she becomes arguably less of a 'cutie' during some of the later flashbacks as her innocence level drops.

* [[spoiler: Rue]] in ''The Hunger Games''.

* ''{{Dreamkeepers}}'' has a rather disturbing version of this trope, [[spoiler:where a cute little kid is, for lack of a better term, ''butchered'']].

** Oh, the {{Dojikko}} secretary! I consider her to be the most sympathetic character in the series. Which is saying a lot, really.

* [[spoiler: Carly]] from {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}. ''Twice''.

* [[spoiler: Kotori]] from {{X1999}}, after a prolonged stretch of BreakTheCutie.
* Although it's a YourMileageMayVary example due to the extreme lunacy the cloneblades inflict on those whom use them for too long, pretty much every teenager used by the National Scientific Welfare Foundation in {{Witchblade}}, and Wadau's secretary he used to test the ultimate blade. Also, [[spoiler: the main character]] which resulted in a BreakTheCutie for [[spoiler: her daughter Rihoko.]] This series was pretty much ___TheCutie as a fetish towards the end. This troper felt the worst for pseudo BigBad Maria (if she hadn't killed her 'father' he definitely would be classified as such, or it would have shifted to Wadau), especially once Masane kills the only friend she ever had. It seems that up until that point she treated the power of the witchblade and fighting as a game, her only non-childish moment prior when she was driven mad with rage and killed her mother for rejecting her. (Lets just say she's had a similar upbringing to Shinji but responded to it as Asuka would have, to put it simply.) Once her friend dies, the flash of emotions over the next 60 seconds could only be described as a HeroicBSOD for the neutral anti-hero. Interestingly the truly evil parties have no physical involvement in the majority of the fights (aside from the Wadau mention above), leaving all the greys to fight it out through lack of direction in their lives I presume.

* YoshiyukiTomino's KillEmAll shows are overloaded with this. I'm talking to you here, [[SpaceRunawayIdeon Ideon]]

* Done brutally in RahXephon to [[spoiler: Hiroko Asahina.]] What makes it worse is that [[spoiler: Ayato Kamina, TheHero, does it to her while ''trying to protect her'', not knowing that she was linked to a golem he was fighting, thus every damage done to the golem was equalled to an injury in poor Hiroko's body.]] It's a TearJerker deluxe with pain flavored sprinkles.

* {{Bleach}} Chapter 392. About to happen to [[spoiler: poor Momo Hinamori]]. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It]], [[spoiler:Hitsugaya]]. Everyone except Ichigo, actually. Now, since [[spoiler:Hinamori]] ''is'' a protagonist, the likelihood that [[spoiler:she]] will die? Not ''that'' much. ([[MemeticMutation Nobody Dies In Bleach, anyway.]]) It's heartbreaking all the same. "[[spoiler:Shiro...chan...]]''why?''" [[spoiler: Aizen]] [[MoralEventHorizon is a bastard, sweetheart, that's why.]]

* {{Dreamkeepers}} has a rather disturbing version of this trope, [[spoiler:where a cute little kid is, for lack of a better term, ''butchered'']].

* [[spoiler: Rue]] in The Hunger Games.

* [[spoiler:Emilio]] in [=~J.C. Hutchins~=]' PersonalEffects/DarkArt is another rare male example.

* Erin Hunter's Warriors. if there is a cutie, she or he ends up broken, and then dead.

* The main character's LoveInterest in the remake of ''TheAssaultOnPrecinct13''is rather pointlessly executed after being kidnapped by the BigBad.

* Newt was killed off pretty quickly in {{Alien}}3, and the audience is given an sickeneningly just-out-of-shot autopsy scene to confirm this. Probably for the best, though - she would have totally ruined the movie's tone if she were alive.

* JossWhedon [[strike:loves]] is positively obsessed with this trope. Examples include [[spoiler:Jenny Calendar, Tara, Amanda, and arguably Jonathan]] in BuffyTheVampireSlayer; and [[spoiler:Cordelia Chase and Winifred Burkle]] in {{Angel}}. If there's one blessing in the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork short lifespan]] of {{Firefly}}, it's that Whedon didn't get a chance to do this to us.

* And of course, there's always [[spoiler:"The Doctor's Daughter"]] in DoctorWho to consider. [[spoiler:Thankfully, she got better.]]

* On {{LOST}}, {{AnyoneCanDie}}, so it's no surprise this applies. [[spoiler: Libby, Juliet, Charlotte, Daniel, Charlie and Shannon would qualify]]

* [[spoiler: Chidori's death]] in {{Persona 3}} exemplifies this, [[spoiler:dying to revive Junpei from the dead,]] causing him to enter an UnstoppableRage...you can revive her in FES, but she does not remember anything. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Chidori's]] death is [[WordOfGod canonical]].

* After all you go through to find your sister in FatalFrame 2, if you get the bad ending, [[spoiler: Mio strangles her twin sister Mayu.]] The more tragic thing? This is the ''canon'' ending.

* Maria's death in the SonicTheHedgehog series caused much of Shadow's emotional trauma and had the trademark RoaringRampageOfRevenge reaction.

* In the bad ending of {{Disgaea3}}, [[spoiler: Raspberyl's murder at the hands of Super Hero Aurum]] triggers Mao's SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum.

* In {{Limbo}} you are the cutie. And you WILL die.... often. After the first death though, the mindset you have while playing completely changes, as you turn {{properly paranoid}} about everything you see in the environment.
* Security guards in The Getaway: Black Monday will feel no guilt about killing Samantha, a petite, nineteen year old woman who cannot defend herself at all. If you get the bad ending, [[spoiler: Skobel does it himself]].
* No idea how this one has been overlooked...major, major spoilers here. {{Valkyria Chronicles}} [[spoiler:Isara Gunther, younger sister by adoption to Squad 7's Commander, spends most of the game trying to overcome the prejudice of others against her due to her being of Darcsen descent. She goes out of her way to be helpful and kind despite the response and prejudice of other squad members against her because of this, especially the hostility of Rosie. However she perseveres and, being a brilliant engineer and tank pilot, proves to be a huge asset to the squad and overcomes the prejudices of her squadmates. Following a victory made possible by smoke shells invented by Isara, Rosie approaches her intending to apologise for her previous attitude...Isara promptly gets shot and killed by a sniper. Words cannot express how devastating this scene is after all the build up of her character throughout.]] To make things even worse, it is possible to complete Valkyria Chronicles without losing a single other member of your squad, making it arguably even harder-hitting. And because it is part of the storyline rather than gameplay (unlike other potential deaths) it is impossible to prevent. Without playing through the rest of the game you don't get the same impact, but for those curious, link to the death scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzancAU4cRQ The funeral scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmnzrGRxnE4

* ''[[{{Redwall}} Martin the Warrior]] has Laterose die at the end of the book, causing Martin to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* ''{{Kurshitsuji}} II'': YourMileageMayVary but many fans seem to hold this opinion in regards to [[spoiler: Alois/Jim]].

* [[spoiler:Aqua]] from ''{{MAR}}'' is [[spoiler: impaled by Girom after she ties with Nanashi and beats his sister in rock paper scissors]]...bastard.

*In {{Planetarian}}, the heroine very depressingly dies at the end of the game. Symbolically, all hope for the world is lost.

*Arguably, "SuperMetroid" of all things. Samus's surrogate child gets kidnapped and treated in a somewhat Woobie manner, [[spoiler: and then killed off by Mother Brain.]] Every time the player dies in this game, he/she is treated to an image of the metroid still calling out to Samus in its little shrieks, too..

*Saya from ''Black Cat', when Creed [[spoiler: finds out Train doesn't want to live a life of assassin and wants to be free, and finds out its because of her.]]

** Aizen wants to do this to [[spoiler: Tatsuki, Keigo, Mizuiro, Don Kanonji, and Chizuru]], but since [[MemeticMutation Nobody Dies In Bleach]] they'll be fine.