History BreakTheCutie / WebOriginal

* ''Literature/EntirelyPresentingYou'': It seems to be a major theme of the story.

* The ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', being a CrapsackWorld, has absolutely no shortage of these, to the point that ''if'' there is someone who can arguably be TheCutie, they ''will'' be broken down to be an IronWoobie in a best-case scenario, and a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in a worst-case scenario... and occurrences of the best-case scenario appear to be few and far in between.
** Wilbur initially believed in pacifism and fighting with words as opposed to violence. After [[RebelliousRebel Eret's betrayal]], though, his naivety as the leader of the L'Manburgian revolution [[CynicismCatalyst became shattered]], triggering the beginning of his [[SanitySlippage mental spiral and paranoia]], and him to [[spoiler:become an outright DeathSeeker who ended up begging his father to end his life by the end of the [[TheExile Pogtopia arc]]. And even then, after spending what felt like [[AndIMustScream thirteen and a half years]] in the Afterlife (taking the form of a train station platform that he couldn't leave), he was brought BackFromTheDead... and although he evidently does ''not'' want to return to the Afterlife, he still retains his [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity delusional worldview about good and evil]].]]

** Quackity started out as an aspiring, [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic]] politician who believed that RousseauWasRight and preferred words to weapons ([[NotSoDifferentRemark much like his former political rival, Wilbur]]), but [[spoiler:ends up jaded to the point of having many of his beliefs turned around entirely after going through a trainwreck of a TraumaCongaLine over the course of seven months, including and not limited to a toxic relationship, several wars, and severe injuries to the point of disability, as well as the resultant psychological effects]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{Sodor}}''Bill and Ben. The mischievous, childlike little twins endure some major trauma in the first episode, and it's all downhill from there. Bill, being the one that crashed, is especially put through the wringer; the now jaded and bitter engine not only [[spoiler: resents his brother, but is also destined for scrap]].

* Before Season 9 of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', few would guess that [[TheComicallySerious Agent Washington]] was anything but a stone-cold, die-hard badass. The more we see of him pre-[[spoiler:Epsilon unit]], though, the more it seems like he was a WideEyedIdealist he was broken beyond repair between seasons. Then one realizes the breaking kept going even after the Epsilon breakdown and he hid every bit of it. For the rest of his Freelancer career he was hated by most every other Agent in the Project, was forced to harvest equipment/AI Fragments from their corpses after they died along with [[NotEnoughToBury destroying both their body and armor so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands]], and kept working for a Project he hated more than anything. Then, he had to brutally fight his former best friend on multiple occasions (eventually leading to that friend's death), randomly found a dead friend--who he thought died many years before in a completely different place, and is constantly betrayed by nearly everyone he knows. If there's one thing that goes with Wash, it's tragedy.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R7HCAXFBQY This animation.]]

* The ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', being a CrapsackWorld, has absolutely no shortage of these, to the point that ''if'' there is someone who can arguably be TheCutie, they ''will'' be broken down to be an IronWoobie in a best-case scenario, and a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in a worst-case scenario... and occurrences of the best-case scenario appear to be few and far in between.

* In the ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' "Tale of Woe" plot, Sophie the Swamp Witch started out as a sweet and innocent child, but TookALevelInCynicism when her hometown was cursed and she was forced to flee into the woods. She was separated from her family for years afterward. Sophie is now a GrumpyBear SolitarySorceress.

** And then there's [[LoveInterests Penny]]. She starts as a WideEyedIdealist who tries to makes up for her bad life by improving others' lives. Then, in act III, she finds out that [[HeroAntagonist Captain]] [[JerkAss Hammer]] is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who carries a speech/song about how much he is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech better than anyone else]] (especially the homeless) and telling everyone she slept with him, with nobody in the crowd calling on his jerkish behavior (even joining the song), the place being attacked by a [[VillainProtagonist supervillain]], and THEN the villain is revealed to be her [[DoggedNiceGuy cute]], [[ShrinkingViolet shy]], [[{{Nerd}} nerdy]] [[LaundromatLiaisons laundry buddy]] Billy. Really, after all that, "Captain Hammer will save us" sounds more like she's trying to comfort herself.

* Before Season 9 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', few would guess that [[TheComicallySerious Agent Washington]] was anything but a stone-cold, die-hard badass. The more we see of him pre-[[spoiler:Epsilon unit]], though, the more it seems like he was a WideEyedIdealist he was broken beyond repair between seasons. Then one realizes the breaking kept going even after the Epsilon breakdown and he hid every bit of it. For the rest of his Freelancer career he was hated by most every other Agent in the Project, was forced to harvest equipment/AI Fragments from their corpses after they died along with [[NotEnoughToBury destroying both their body and armor so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands]], and kept working for a Project he hated more than anything. Then, he had to brutally fight his former best friend on multiple occasions (eventually leading to that friend's death), randomly found a dead friend--who he thought died many years before in a completely different place, and is constantly betrayed by nearly everyone he knows. If there's one thing that goes with Wash, it's tragedy.

** And then there's [[LoveInterests Penny]]. She starts as a WideEyedIdealist who tries to makes up for her bad life by [[NeutralGood improving others' lives]]. Then, in act III, she finds out that [[HeroAntagonist Captain]] [[JerkAss Hammer]] is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who carries a speech/song about how much he is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech better than anyone else]] (especially the homeless) and telling everyone she slept with him, with nobody in the crowd calling on his jerkish behavior (even joining the song), the place being attacked by a [[VillainProtagonist supervillain]], and THEN the villain is revealed to be her [[DoggedNiceGuy cute]], [[ShrinkingViolet shy]], [[{{Nerd}} nerdy]] [[LaundromatLiaisons laundry buddy]] Billy. Really, after all that, "Captain Hammer will save us" sounds more like she's trying to comfort herself.

** And then there's [[LoveInterests Penny]]. She starts as a WideEyedIdealist who tries to makes up for her bad life by [[NeutralGood improving others' lives]]. Then, in act III, she finds out that [[HeroAntagonist Captain]] [[JerkAss Hammer]] is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who carries a speech/song about how much he is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech better than anyone else]] (especially the homeless) and telling everyone she slept with him, with nobody in the crowd calling on his jerkish behavior (even joining the song), the place being attacked by a [[VillainProtagonist supervillain]], and THEN the villain is revealed to be her [[DoggedNiceGuy cute]], [[ShrinkingViolet shy]], [[HollywoodNerd nerdy]] [[LaundromatLiaisons laundry buddy]] Billy. Really, after all that, "Captain Hammer will save us" sounds more like she's trying to comfort herself.

*** It gets worse for her later on. The next episode, [[spoiler:Wilford had created an entire dimension after absorbing her sorrows, and the only way for [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]] and his allies to find him is to break her even more, sometimes by accident or forcefully (the latter giving a WhatTheHellHero moment to Frollo from [[EvenEvilHasStandards even the villains]])]].

** Quackity started out as an aspiring, [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic]] politician who believed that RousseauWasRight and preferred words to weapons ([[NotSoDifferent much like his former political rival, Wilbur]]), but [[spoiler:ends up jaded to the point of having many of his beliefs turned around entirely after going through a trainwreck of a TraumaCongaLine over the course of seven months, including and not limited to a toxic relationship, several wars, and severe injuries to the point of disability, as well as the resultant psychological effects]].

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* ''WebAnimation/ViridianDreamsQuests--Vampire Quest'' is basically one long string of heartbreak with the player character we, in our foolishness, made a lovely, normal girl trying to bring a little happiness to the CrapsackWorld setting. Surrounded by pre-broken cuties and heading that way herself very quickly.

* [[{{Creator/Amoridere Toki}}'s past, if they are to be believed, started as this, particularly when she tried to run away from them and, as Brownie put it, [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=rose#/d4n5qoy she was once sweet]] and only wanted to be loved. Let's see. Here they are:
** She was abused and then neglected, causing her to almost die of leukemia during the events of "[[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=flashbacks#/d5j8gg1 Flashbacks I]]", something that caused something in her to drive her insane in the next incident (see below).
** She returned to the place where she was once abused so she could get a hold of the inheritance money, but went insane during the events of "[[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Insanity#/d4z8cib Insanity and Resentment]]" and has had issues ever since.
** Frailine (the one Toki abused) is also an example as per these statements:
*** She was imprisoned for being criminally insane after the events of "[[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=little+girl Little Girl's Revenge]]" when she almost killed Toki and damaged the border between this world and the next. Kind of a DisproportionateRetribution, compared to what Toki did to her (abused her and then, sometime afterward, sent her to Alaska attached to a bus by a magnet with no means of getting home).
*** Sometime after being imprisoned, she almost kills herself twice and is never seen again, as stated in "[[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Frailine#/d5ha37q Diary of a Borderline Schizophrenic]]", driving Toki into more self-hate because of it.

* Elena in ''Literature/TwistedCogs'' goes though ''a lot'' of stuff, though she is still a {{Pollyanna}} through it all! creating a {{subversion}}.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R7HCAXFBQY This animation.]]

** And then there's [[LoveInterests Penny]]. She starts as a WideEyedIdealist who tries to makes up for her bad life by [[NeutralGood improving others' lives]]. Then, in act III, she finds out that [[HeroAntagonist Captain]] [[JerkAss Hammer]] is actually a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who carries a speech/song about how much he is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech better than anyone else]] (especially the homeless) and telling everyone she slept with him, with nobody in the crowd calling on his jerkish behavior (even joining the song), the place being attacked by a [[VillainProtagonist supervillain]], and THEN the villain is revealed to be her [[DoggedNiceGuy cute]], [[ShrinkingViolet shy]], [[HollywoodNerd nerdy]] [[LaundromatLiaisons laundry buddy]] Billy. Really, after all that, "[[FamousLastWords Captain Hammer will save us]]" sounds more like she's trying to comfort herself.

** Tubbo also used to be one of the more peaceful members of the server, but between [[spoiler:being publicly executed, [[AChildShallLeadThem dragged into a leadership position]] that he was woefully unprepared for, and having his country blown to bits three times, it's no surprise that he's a StepfordSmiler who ended up developing [[NuclearOption nuclear missiles]] for protection.

* The UglyCute and adorably innocent Yellow Guy of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'' goes through absolute '''hell''' in Episode 6. For starters, he's completely alone now that both of his friends are gone (keep in mind, he was ''forced to eat one of them'' in the preceding episode), and he's left to endure yet another song from a crazy teacher by himself. Throughout the number, it's clear that he desperately wants to escape, fully aware that it isn't going to end well, and once the nightmares kick in, he ends up drowning in oil ''twice''. If that wasn't enough, he's then subject to [[spoiler:endure every single previous teacher (excluding the Notepad) along with several new ones, and it's so overwhelming that the poor guy can do nothing but scream and cry, slowly falling into insanity until Red Guy saves him by pulling the plug]]

* Before Season 9 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', few would guess that [[TheComicallySerious Agent Washington]] was anything but a stone-cold, die-hard badass. The more we see of him pre-[[spoiler:Epsilon unit]], though, the more it seems like he was a WideEyedIdealist he was broken beyond repair between seasons. Then one realizes the breaking kept going even after the Epsilon breakdown and he hid every bit of it. For the rest of his Freelancer career he was hated by most every other Agent in the Project, was forced to harvest equipment/AI Fragments from their corpses after they died along with [[NotEnoughToBury destroying both their body and armor so that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands]], and kept working for a project he hated more than anything. Then, he had to brutally fight his former best friend on multiple occasions (eventually leading to that friend's death), randomly found a dead friend--who he thought died many years before in a completely different place, and is constantly betrayed by nearly everyone he knows. If there's one thing that goes with Wash, it's tragedy.

* Before Season 9 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', few would guess that [[TheComicallySerious Agent Washington]] was anything but a stone-cold, die-hard badass. The more we see of him pre-[[spoiler:Epsilon unit]], though, the more it seems like he was a WideEyedIdealist he was broken beyond repair between seasons. Then one realizes the breaking kept going even after the Epsilon breakdown and he hid every bit of it. For the rest of his freelancer career he was hated by most every other agent in the project, was forced to harvest equipment from their corpses after they died, and kept working for a project he hated more than anything. Then, he had to brutally fight his former best friend on multiple occasions (eventually leading to that friend's death), randomly found a dead friend--who he thought died many years before in a completely different place, and is constantly betrayed by nearly everyone he knows. If there's one thing that goes with Wash, it's tragedy.

* ''{{Literature/Touch}}'' seems to live and die off of heavily subverting this trope. In the story thus far, we have seen instances of rape, familial violence, and battlefield trauma, and that's just the characters young enough to automatically qualify as cute. And yet the story has yet to make a single [[TheWoobie woobie]] from any of them. While horrible things happen to a number of cute people throughout a large portion of the story, they remain definitively unbroken.

* Before Season 9 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', few would guess that [[TheComicallySerious Agent Washington]] was anything but a stone-cold, die-hard badass. The more we see of him pre-[[spoiler:Epsilon unit]], though, the more it seems like he was a WideEyedIdealist who was even kind of {{Adorkable}} before he was broken beyond repair between seasons. Then one realizes the breaking kept going even after the Epsilon breakdown and he hid every bit of it. For the rest of his freelancer career he was hated by most every other agent in the project, was forced to harvest equipment from their corpses after they died, and kept working for a project he hated more than anything. Then, he had to brutally fight his former best friend on multiple occasions (eventually leading to that friend's death), randomly found a dead friend--who he thought died many years before in a completely different place, and is constantly betrayed by nearly everyone he knows. If there's one thing that goes with Wash, it's tragedy.