History BreakTheCutie / WebOriginal

** Of all the characters on the server Egg gets closest to the DespairEventHorizon after she is nearly forced to [[HeroicSacrifice commit suicide to save her allies]] following several more minor [[HeroicBSOD BSOD moments]]. Her time away from the Crew and in Katton with her friend [[spoiler:or lover?]] Kube is healing her, however.

* Finn of ''Roleplay/{{AJCO}}'' suffered one before he even appeared in the AJCO storyline, having once been a perfectly normal human that was cursed, killed, turned into a man-eating demon and then accidentally summoned and bound-by-soul to a clueless witch. He does his best, but [[TheWoobie the poor guy]] has been through a lot.
** Three-eyed, foul-mouthed cactus alien Kube may not be a conventional 'cutie' but they become pretty upset when Vinnie gets [[spoiler: their throat ripped out by the above-mentioned demon]], snapping at people that tried to help them and fretting constantly. Seems to be getting better having made amends with Egg, though Vinnie's situation hasn't improved much.
** Of all the characters on the server Egg gets closest to the DespairEventHorizon after she is nearly forced to [[HeroicSacrifice commit suicide to save her allies]] following several more minor [[HeroicBSOD BSOD moments]]. Her time away from the Crew and in Katton with her friend [[spoiler: or lover?]] Kube is healing her, however.
* Blog/AskKingSombra has this happen to Coffee Talk [[spoiler:via her situation and Sombra's EnemyWithin giving her a BreakingLecture]] and Caribbean Splash [[spoiler:when his best friend Whistler is killed in the fight with the Crystal Wolves.]]
* WebVideo/BennettTheSage tries to break WebVideo/JesuOtaku twice ForTheEvulz, first by making her review ''{{Eiken}}'', then later on with ''MasterOfMartialHearts''. In the latter case, JO admits to being broken after seeing [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun the ending]], [[SubvertedTrope but quickly recovers]] once she realizes that it's just a bad work of fiction and that she has better things to do than let it get to her. She then skips out the door to enjoy a beautiful, productive day outside. Sage, on the other hand, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard quickly spirals into despair]] once he starts reflecting on what ''MasterOfMartialHearts''' existence says about [[HumansAreBastards the state of humanity]].
* This trope is not only performed brutally and horrifically in ''BrokenSaints'', it's part of [[spoiler: the BigBad's plan: Shandala is raised in paradise by a loving, nurturing family, then taken away from said paradise and had bad thing after bad thing happen to her, all so that her empathic abilities would become fully realized, and used to the BigBad's advantage.]]

** Actually, he was already long-since broken. All the way back to the [[VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}} second game he LP'd]]. And in particular, its BonusLevelOfHell.
* Want to see a cutie and TechnicalPacifist break onscreen? Watch the end of Act II of ''[[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'', an [[http://www.drhorrible.com/index.html online Supervillain Musical]] by JossWhedon. (Meet Dr. Horrible, struggling geeky gadgeteer supervillain, and his archnemesis Captain Hammer, corporate tool and JerkJock super"hero", who regularly and casually beats up Dr. Horrible and then steals his [[WideEyedIdealist girl]]. But when he finally [[VillainousBreakdown snaps]], Dr. Horrible learns that EvilFeelsGood.

** And then there's [[LoveInterests Penny]]. She starts the movie 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.
* [[VideoGame/YumeNikki Madotsuki]] was an already broken wreck before, but ''WebAnimation/TheFrolloShow'' traumatizes her to near-''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' levels of cutie-breaking.
** In ''Frollo Gets Flashed by a Gothic Lolita,'' she witnesses [[spoiler: numerous deaths of both allies and villains alike during the final battle. Later, she struggles against her fight against Wilford Brimley, while recalling those moments. Wilford then rubs salt in the wound by asking where her mother is, triggering flashbacks.]] After that flashback, she [[spoiler: summons an alternate dimension to kick Wilford's ass in... but the way she did it looks like she was going to [[DrivenToSuicide kill 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 [[Disney/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]]).]]
** {{VideoGame/Ib}} suffers in the same episode when she witnesses [[spoiler: [[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Batiatus]] killing [[BigBrotherInstinct Garry]]]]. This enrages her and prompts her to deliver a brutal beatdown on Batiatus, [[spoiler: only for Batiatus to kill her in the end]]. [[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Stocking]] and Madotsuki slaughter him in response, the former appalled at his actions.

* In ''[[LessThanThreeComics LessThanThree Comics]]''' Brat Pack, resident Cutie, Pixel, tries to take on the psychopathic villain with a grudge, Gauss, all alone, while her teammates go home to change into their uniforms. Naturally, when they find out who she's fighting (the team's precog only knew something big was about to happen), they rush back, but are too late, Gauss and his own teammate Helix, a sadistic psychic, had already done their worst to Pixel, leaving her a sobbing mess.
* [[http://narutofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Hibiki_Ōtori Hibiki Outori]] from a Naruto RP. Similarly to Sasuke Uchiha from the canon, Hibiki was a sweet, naive child, loved by his parents and just wanted to do his best. After witnessing his parents murder, he not only killed the murderers, but now flashes back to it from time to time, and, aside from his teammates and his adoptive mother, he can be quite cold and heartless, which he certainly was not as a child.
* Sparadrap gets a couple such moments in ''Series/Noob''.

** Its happens again to a lesser extent in Season 4 finale during [[spoiler: Arthéon's "Reason You Suck" Speech about the guild]].

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic. Apparently he was a sweet enough kid to get into boy-scouts but his [[AbusiveParents parents were abusive enough]] to be drawn as monsters, his eighth grade classmates pitied him for being a brat and he hid in the cupboard whenever he got scared. He once broke up with someone three times and they went [[StalkerWithACrush psycho-stalker]] on him and he got date-raped (and it would have to be similar to how Spoony acted on ''Spooning With Spoony 2'' so... ouch) on his prom night. With all that, wouldn't you be cynical and not doing so well on sanity?

* Before Season 9 of ''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.
* Himei from ''SailorNothing'' is a "[[WideEyedIdealist cutie]] that already has been broken".
* Poor Maion from TheSalvationWar series gets hit with this trope bad, she's a young angel who when we first see her, has been addicted to heroin and forced to beg for more, then she gets forced into exotic dancing and later prostitution, then [[spoiler: she ends up in a concentration camp where she gets tortured to the brink of death and she and her mate have to flee to Earth to seek medical treatment from humans, oh and then it turns out her shattered wings are never going to heal properly and they have to be cut off, fortunately for her, angels have a HealingFactor in this 'verse and they grow back]]
* This viral video by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ-IoHfimQ Save the Children UK]] showing the effect of war on a little girl, through a year's worth of single-second clips.
* Parodied in WebVideo/SupernaturalTheAnimationAbridged when Dean realizes [[Series/{{Supernatural}} his show's]] tendency towards this, remarking "I can already taste the guilt".
* SurvivalOfTheFittest may as well be titled "BreakTheCutie: THE ROLEPLAY", for obvious reasons due to the site's premise.
* The CerebusSyndrome laden fourth step of ThereSheIs just devotes itself to breaking poor Doki. As if getting harassed for dating Nabi wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler: she gets beaten to a pulp by an angry mob, who (whether it was an accident or not is never made clear) kill her pet hedgehog, and just to top it off, Nabi dumps her for her own safety.]]
* 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.
* Many, many innocent people in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' undergo [[CrapsackWorld life-changing traumas]], but the nearest thing to this trope is probably [[spoiler:Parian]].
* Toki's past and if they are to be believed started are these, particularly so when she tried to runaway 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. Lets 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]], soemthing 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 can get 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 eve since.

*** 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 Disproportionate Retribution, compared to what Toki did to her (abused her and then, sometime afterward, she sent 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 per stated, in [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Frailine#/d5ha37q Diary of a Borderline Schizophrenic]], driving Toki into more self-hate because of it.

** [[YourMileageMayVary Opinions may vary]] as to whether the three-eyed, foul-mouthed cactus alien Kube qualifies as a 'cutie' but they become pretty upset when Vinnie gets [[spoiler: their throat ripped out by the above-mentioned demon]], snapping at people that tried to help them and fretting constantly. Seems to be getting better having made amends with Egg, though Vinnie's situation hasn't improved much.

* WebVideo/BennettTheSage tries to break WebVideo/JesuOtaku twice ForTheEvulz, first by making her review ''{{Eiken}}'', then later on with ''MasterOfMartialHearts''. In the latter case, JO admits to being broken after seeing [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun the ending]], [[SubvertedTrope but quickly recovers]] once she realizes that it's just a bad work of fiction and that she has better things to do than let it get to her. She then skips out the door to enjoy a beautiful, productive day outside. Sage, on the other hand, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard quickly spirals into despair]] once he starts reflecting on what ''MasterOfMartialHearts''' existence says about [[HumansAreBastards the state of humanity]].

* Blog/AskKingSobra has this happen to Coffee Talk [[spoiler:via her situation and Sombra's EnemyWithin giving her a BreakingLecture]] and Caribbean Splash [[spoiler:when his best friend Whistler is killed in the fight with the Crystal Wolves.]]

* This viral video by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ-IoHfimQ Save the Children UK]] showing the effect of war on a little girl, through single-second clips.

* Poor Maion from TheSalvationWar series gets hit with this trope bad, she's a young angel who when we first see her, has been addicted to heroin and forced to beg for more, then she gets forced into exotic dancing and later prostitution, then [[spoiler: she ends up in a concentration camp where she gets tortured to the brink of death and she and her mate have to flee to Earth to seek medical treatment from humans, oh and then it turns out her shattered wings are never going to heal properly and they have to be cut off, fortunately for her, angels have a HealingFactor in this 'verse and they grow back]]

* Parodied in WebVideo/SupernaturalTheAnimationAbridged when Dean realizes [[Series/{{Supernatural}} his show's]] tendency towards this, remarking "I can already taste the guilt".

* Himei from ''SailorNothing'' is a "[[WideEyedIdealist cutie]] that already has been broken".

* For a LetsPlay example: LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qcTBp8gpNM&feature=channel_page playthrough]] of ''{{Eversion}}'' slowly [[DarthWiki/{{Eversion}} but surely]] traumatizes the normally happy-go-lucky [=LPer=].
** Actually, he was already long-since broken. All the way back to the [[VideoGame/{{La-Mulana}} second game he LP'd]]. And in particular, its BonusLevelOfHell.

* SurvivalOfTheFittest may as well be titled "BreakTheCutie: THE ROLEPLAY", for obvious reasons due to the site's premise.

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick was a sweet kid too, with friends, a love for honorable men and wanted a huge wedding when she was six. But due to a lot of disappointments, she's now a lonely alcoholic who needs to abuse people to make herself feel better.

* The CerebusSyndrome laden fourth step of ThereSheIs just devotes itself to breaking poor Doki. As if getting harassed for dating Nabi wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler: she gets beaten to a pulp by an angry mob, who (whether it was an accident or not is never made clear) kill her pet hedgehog, and just to top it off, Nabi dumps her for her own safety.]]
* [[http://narutofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Hibiki_Ōtori Hibiki Outori]] from a Naruto RP. Similarly to Sasuke Uchiha from the canon, Hibiki was a sweet, naive child, loved by his parents and just wanted to do his best. After witnessing his parents murder, he not only killed the murderers, but now flashes back to it from time to time, and, aside from his teammates and his adoptive mother, he can be quite cold and heartless, which he certainly was not as a child.
* Before Season 9 of ''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.
* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', Marya Aurelac is a kind character but after her husband [[AntiVillain Kagetsu I]]'s sealing she is forced to live her life as a wandering prostitute. Things get better for her for a while when she is reunited with Kagetsu but then the warlock Arawn kidnaps and rapes her both for pleasure and to keep Kagetsu from rebelling against him. Marya is saved but only gets to spend a little while with Kagetsu who is later killed in battle. Marya is an immortal but her beloved Kagetsu is now dead so she realizes that she has to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever live her life without him for all eternity]]. This finally makes her snap, and she turns into a cold, ruthless individual who later kidnaps and corrupts Prince [[EvilPrince Geraden Aurelac]] of Maar Sul, her descendant, going even so far as to [[{{Ephebophile}} boink]] him in order to control him. Once she's made sure Geraden can take over Maar Sul without needing her to guide him any longer, Marya suffers from guilt of all the nasty things she's done and finds a way to properly commit suicide with poison which bypasses her curse of immortality in order to finally be reunited with Kagetsu in the afterlife.
* WebVideo/BennettTheSage tries to break WebVideo/JesuOtaku twice ForTheEvulz, first by making her review ''{{Eiken}}'', then later on with ''MasterOfMartialHearts''. In the latter case, JO admits to being broken after seeing [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun the ending]], [[SubvertedTrope but quickly recovers]] once she realizes that it's just a bad work of fiction and that she has better things to do than let it get to her. She then skips out the door to enjoy a beautiful, productive day outside. Sage, on the other hand, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard quickly spirals into despair]] once he starts reflecting on what ''MasterOfMartialHearts''' existence says about [[HumansAreBastards the state of humanity]].

*** Sometime after being imprisoned, she almost kills herself twice and is never seen again, as per stated, in [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Frailine#/d5ha37q Diary of a Borderline Schizophrenic]], driving Toki into more self-hate because of it.
* Many, many innocent people in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' undergo [[CrapsackWorld life-changing traumas]], but the nearest thing to this trope is probably [[spoiler:Parian]].
* Sparadrap gets a couple such moments in ''Series/Noob''.
** The first is Season 3 finale when [[spoiler:Roxana kills his pets in front of them]].
** Its happens again to a lesser extent in Season 4 finale during [[spoiler: Arthéon's "Reason You Suck" Speech about the guild]].
* WebOriginal/FluffyPony has this as the goal of many abusers. The horrors of life as a feral fluffy can easily break a foal, especially if it's born during a peaceful time.
* Blog/AskKingSobra has this happen to Coffee Talk [[spoiler:via her situation and Sombra's EnemyWithin giving her a BreakingLecture]] and Caribbean Splash [[spoiler:when his best friend Whistler is killed in the fight with the Crystal Wolves.]]

* Given her life when we first meet her, it is incredible that [[{{Literature/Worm}} Taylor]] can be broken any more. Let alone as much as [[FromBadToWorse she is]].

* WebOriginal/FluffyPony has this as the goal of many abusers. The horrors of life as a feral fluffy can easily break a foal, especially if it's born during a peaceful time.

** Its happens again to a lesser extent in Season 4 finale during [[spoiler: Arthéon's "Reason You Suck" Speech about the guild]].

* Many, many innocent people in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' undergo [[CrapsackWorld life-changing traumas]], but the nearest thing to this trope is probably [[spoiler:Parian]].

** 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]], soemthing 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 can get 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 eve 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 Disproportionate Retribution, compared to what Toki did to her (abused her and then, sometime afterward, she sent 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 per stated, in [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Frailine#/d5ha37q Diary of a Borderline Schizophrenic]], driving Toki into more self-hate because of it.

** Sometime after being imprisoned, she almost kills herself twice and is never seen again, as per stated, in [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Frailine#/d5ha37q Diary of a Borderline Schizophrenic]], driving Toki into more self-hate because of it.

* This trope is not only performed [[NightmareFuel brutally and horrifically]] in ''BrokenSaints'', it's part of [[spoiler: the BigBad's plan: Shandala is raised in paradise by a loving, nurturing family, then taken away from said paradise and had bad thing after bad thing happen to her, all so that her empathic abilities would become fully realized, and used to the BigBad's advantage.]]

* Parodied in WebVideo/SupernaturalTheAnimationAbridged when Dean realizes [[{{Supernatural}} his show's]] tendency towards this, remarking "I can already taste the guilt".

* Want to see a cutie and TechnicalPacifist break onscreen? Watch the end of Act II of ''[[DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'', an [[http://www.drhorrible.com/index.html online Supervillain Musical]] by JossWhedon. (Meet Dr. Horrible, struggling geeky gadgeteer supervillain, and his archnemesis Captain Hammer, corporate tool and JerkJock super"hero", who regularly and casually beats up Dr. Horrible and then steals his [[WideEyedIdealist girl]]. But when he finally [[VillainousBreakdown snaps]], Dr. Horrible learns that EvilFeelsGood.

* Parodied in WebVideo/SupernaturalTheAbridgedAnimation when Dean realizes [[{{Supernatural}} his show's]] tendency towards this, remarking "I can already taste the guilt".

* Parodied in WebAnimation/SupernaturalTheAbridgedAnimation when Dean realizes [[{{Supernatural}} his show's]] tendency towards this, remarking "I can already taste the guilt".

* Given her life when we first meet her, it is incredible that [[{{Literature/Worm}} Taylor]] can be broken any more. Let alone as much as [[ItGotWorse she is]].

** Sometime after being imprisoned, she almost kills herself twice and is never seen again, as per stated, in [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Frailine#/d5ha37qDiary of a Borderline Schizophrenic]], driving Toki into more self-hate because of it.