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** Candy believes in the [[UnfortunateImplications underlying harmful messages]] inherent to a lot of glurge. She claims positive thinking is enough to cure any disease or overcome any disability, tells people to stay in toxic relationships because she thinks [[LoveMartyr love martyrs]] are admirable and can change their abusers, and massively spoils her children right down to gifting a [[PetsAsAPresent puppy as a present]] "like in the movies", only for said puppy to end up neglected. In short, her oversentimentality [[LackOfEmpathy deprives her of any real empathy]], making her unpleasant and bigoted.
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** Candy believes in the [[UnfortunateImplications underlying harmful messages]] messages inherent to a lot of glurge. She claims positive thinking is enough to cure any disease or overcome any disability, tells people to stay in toxic relationships because she thinks [[LoveMartyr love martyrs]] are admirable and can change their abusers, and massively spoils her children right down to gifting a [[PetsAsAPresent puppy as a present]] "like in the movies", only for said puppy to end up neglected. In short, her oversentimentality [[LackOfEmpathy deprives her of any real empathy]], making her unpleasant and bigoted.
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* '''Deconstructed:''' Nobody takes Candy seriously because of her interests.
* '''Reconstructed:''' People find her relentless positivity has a certain charm, and it helps that her love of all things sugary makes her [[SupremeChef the best baker in town]] (although only those who can get past the garish pink of the frosting find this out).
* '''Reconstructed:''' People find her relentless positivity has a certain charm, and it helps that her love of all things sugary makes her [[SupremeChef the best baker in town]] (although only those who can get past the garish pink of the frosting find this out).
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* '''Deconstructed:''' '''Deconstructed:'''
** Nobody takes Candy seriously because of her interests.
** Candy believes in the [[UnfortunateImplications underlying harmful messages]] inherent to a lot of glurge. She claims positive thinking is enough to cure any disease or overcome any disability, tells people to stay in toxic relationships because she thinks [[LoveMartyr love martyrs]] are admirable and can change their abusers, and massively spoils her children right down to gifting a [[PetsAsAPresent puppy as a present]] "like in the movies", only for said puppy to end up neglected. In short, her oversentimentality [[LackOfEmpathy deprives her of any real empathy]], making her unpleasant and bigoted.
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** People find her relentless positivity has a certain charm, and it helps that her love of all things sugary makes her [[SupremeChef the best baker in town]] (although only those who can get past the garish pink of the frosting find thisout).out).
** Candy knows that glurge is often problematic, but [[GuiltyPleasures enjoys it anyway]] without taking its messages to heart.
** Nobody takes Candy seriously because of her interests.
** Candy believes in the [[UnfortunateImplications underlying harmful messages]] inherent to a lot of glurge. She claims positive thinking is enough to cure any disease or overcome any disability, tells people to stay in toxic relationships because she thinks [[LoveMartyr love martyrs]] are admirable and can change their abusers, and massively spoils her children right down to gifting a [[PetsAsAPresent puppy as a present]] "like in the movies", only for said puppy to end up neglected. In short, her oversentimentality [[LackOfEmpathy deprives her of any real empathy]], making her unpleasant and bigoted.
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** People find her relentless positivity has a certain charm, and it helps that her love of all things sugary makes her [[SupremeChef the best baker in town]] (although only those who can get past the garish pink of the frosting find this
** Candy knows that glurge is often problematic, but [[GuiltyPleasures enjoys it anyway]] without taking its messages to heart.
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* '''Exploited:'''
** Someone easily scams Candy with a fake sad story that moves her to tears.
** An enemy blackmails her by threatening to destroy her KitschCollection.
** Someone easily scams Candy with a fake sad story that moves her to tears.
** An enemy blackmails her by threatening to destroy her KitschCollection.
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'''Basic Trope:''' A character who loves all things [[{{Glurge}} oversentimental and faux-inspirational]].
* '''Straight:''' Candy has a collection of motivational kitten posters, movies about orphans, sappy romance novels, and [[KitschCollection figurines so cutesy as to be tasteless]].
* '''Exaggerated:''' Every single surface in Candy's (pink and sparkly) home is covered in said figurines, and she speaks to them in baby talk.
* '''Downplayed:''' Candy enjoys one glurgey movie as a GuiltyPleasure.
* '''Justified:''' Candy lives in a world so [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] that even the "cheerful" stuff is cynically made, and it's the closest to anything positive she can find.
* '''Inverted:''' Candy loves things that try too hard to be dark and horrifying, only to be laughably edgy instead.
* '''Subverted:''' Judging by her interests, Candy seems to be one of these, but it's really just a case of BileFascination.
* '''Double Subverted:''' The tackily sentimental stuff grows on her.
* '''Parodied:''' Candy's collection is literally made of sugar. She has a tendency to cry over its sheer sentimentality and accidentally dissolve it.
* '''Zig Zagged:''' Candy seems to have glurgey interests, but it's just BileFascination. The interests grow on her for real, until she watches a movie that's way too nauseating even for her and swears off of glurge for good. Except for the one "hang in there" kitten poster.
* '''Averted:'''
** Candy has no interest in cutesy stuff.
** Candy ''does'' like cute things, but only if they're actually tasteful and uplifting, instead of just trying to be such.
* '''Enforced:''' "We need to show Candy is a WideEyedIdealist. Let's make her addicted to sentimental stuff."
* '''Invoked:''' Candy is raised in a cult, grows up internalising seemingly positive but actually toxic beliefs, and is discouraged from ever questioning them.
* '''Defied:''' "No way. I'd go into a sugar coma if I touched that stuff with a ten foot pole."
* '''Lampshaded:''' "I swear you could get diabetes just from stepping into Candy's home."
* '''Discussed:''' "How can you think a picture of a kitten ''hanging on for dear life'' is cute?" "How can I not? Just look at its wittle face!"
* '''Conversed:''' "Does anyone really love that stuff as much as Candy does?" "Oh, my next door neighbour certainly seems to, he's always quoting pseudo-inspirational lines from terrible movies."
* '''Deconstructed:''' Nobody takes Candy seriously because of her interests.
* '''Reconstructed:''' People find her relentless positivity has a certain charm, and it helps that her love of all things sugary makes her [[SupremeChef the best baker in town]] (although only those who can get past the garish pink of the frosting find this out).
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* '''Straight:''' Candy has a collection of motivational kitten posters, movies about orphans, sappy romance novels, and [[KitschCollection figurines so cutesy as to be tasteless]].
* '''Exaggerated:''' Every single surface in Candy's (pink and sparkly) home is covered in said figurines, and she speaks to them in baby talk.
* '''Downplayed:''' Candy enjoys one glurgey movie as a GuiltyPleasure.
* '''Justified:''' Candy lives in a world so [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] that even the "cheerful" stuff is cynically made, and it's the closest to anything positive she can find.
* '''Inverted:''' Candy loves things that try too hard to be dark and horrifying, only to be laughably edgy instead.
* '''Subverted:''' Judging by her interests, Candy seems to be one of these, but it's really just a case of BileFascination.
* '''Double Subverted:''' The tackily sentimental stuff grows on her.
* '''Parodied:''' Candy's collection is literally made of sugar. She has a tendency to cry over its sheer sentimentality and accidentally dissolve it.
* '''Zig Zagged:''' Candy seems to have glurgey interests, but it's just BileFascination. The interests grow on her for real, until she watches a movie that's way too nauseating even for her and swears off of glurge for good. Except for the one "hang in there" kitten poster.
* '''Averted:'''
** Candy has no interest in cutesy stuff.
** Candy ''does'' like cute things, but only if they're actually tasteful and uplifting, instead of just trying to be such.
* '''Enforced:''' "We need to show Candy is a WideEyedIdealist. Let's make her addicted to sentimental stuff."
* '''Invoked:''' Candy is raised in a cult, grows up internalising seemingly positive but actually toxic beliefs, and is discouraged from ever questioning them.
* '''Defied:''' "No way. I'd go into a sugar coma if I touched that stuff with a ten foot pole."
* '''Lampshaded:''' "I swear you could get diabetes just from stepping into Candy's home."
* '''Discussed:''' "How can you think a picture of a kitten ''hanging on for dear life'' is cute?" "How can I not? Just look at its wittle face!"
* '''Conversed:''' "Does anyone really love that stuff as much as Candy does?" "Oh, my next door neighbour certainly seems to, he's always quoting pseudo-inspirational lines from terrible movies."
* '''Deconstructed:''' Nobody takes Candy seriously because of her interests.
* '''Reconstructed:''' People find her relentless positivity has a certain charm, and it helps that her love of all things sugary makes her [[SupremeChef the best baker in town]] (although only those who can get past the garish pink of the frosting find this out).
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